Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 1, 1921, Page 2

PAC M ; PAGE TWO €be Casper Dailp Cribune tegued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Nai County, Wyo, Publication Offices. Tribune Building. SUSINESS TELEPHONES 1b ana 36 Pranch Telephone Exchange Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. ionnecting ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER THE 3. E. HANWAY . EARL B. HANWAY side. A year ago when a contract between the gov- ne Evene < ; cue Balter ernment and the Hohenzollern family was presented THOMAS DAIL Avertising Manager Advertising Representatives, ‘2 Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger a 3 2 r New York City; Globe Bidg., Bos- TS Sines Coppice ‘of the Daily ‘Tribune ere on file in sibly have enough left to provide a plain tombstone at the head of the last resting place of his remains when his spirit passes to another world where accounts of deeds done in the flesh are liquidated. The Hohenzollern fortune is esti- anated at twenty-five million dollars, and it has as yet Femained exemp*’ from taxation of any kind. The ab- sent William is drawing many millions annually from his agricultural lands, forests and otner real estate without interference from present existing authorities in Germany. Nominally, the former kaiser has the law on his to the reichstag, the republican parties refused to en- dorse it, because much too large a share was awarded to the head of the family. Pending an adjustment of the property acquired during the centuries by one means and another including brute force, the family The, city is tl side of a regular iF rinke i A tat i i be eardeh! ti new she Chie ‘go and Boston offices and visitors} attorney smuggled a clause into the temporary agree- : ng ss Sh da ~~" are welcome. ment stipulating that taxes on the property should be lady to use our streets at t 45; suspended 1 final settlement of what was regarded out an escort and it is a was SUBSCRIPTION RATES as personal and what government property. weteees to attempt to follow out iter, ay, Sas .3780| Of course William is not piling up any taxes await- regulations in the 4 norte 3.99| ing the day when the collector comes around to settle. Three Months by Like all Hohenzollerns he takes and uses what comes One Mo’ ‘o5| to hand regardless of any considerations or rights of Per Cop: others. The matter of arrears in taxes in. bothering ‘@way from, the banks $7.80] William not a little bit. 2 enters and brick masons were One Your eneeee 3.00 ption by mail accepted for less period than three months. ‘All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not Insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A, B. ©) a Member of thr Associated Press / A ed Press # clusively entitled to te! publication of all news credited in this paper and e jocal news published herein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de ered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to The world has been none too well satisfied with the manner in which affairs respecting the arch-offender, have been permitted to drift and some day there will come a demand for a settlement othér than for taxes due and unpaid. Then William will have a less easy time. t THE EASY MARKS. “What is it that makes professional men and wom- en the peculiarly gullible victims of confidence artists and crooks with phony investments to promote?” i quires the Philadelphia Ledger. “Here’s one more melancholy case of a professor in a’ Pennsylvania college who somehow managed to Casper, it means that it costs every man, woman and child $15.00 each to maintain our city government, in other words it requires $300,000 to fur- nish us the class of service we have at present. The office of city engineer should be self-supporting, as no service is rendered charge for the same is made. The wa- ter department rates allowed by the public utilities commission should pay its own way and the police department should in a measure be self-supporting due to the taxpayer excepting a sth the increased. to remain in the Present condition of inefficiency or worsé, well and good, but if we wish to make Casper a/ city of moral and financial standing, a city that will hold forth inducements to business to locate with us in fact a city to be proud of, we will then give these mat- Standard Oil com- in the interests of pany (Indiana), Burton process to Caspe#, and force Wyoming crude to give up all its gaso- line content instead of only 16 or 20 percent as formerly. In that year finance and conseryation, to bring the} on rate of eight hundred yards per day, Pipe lines going in as fast as ground could be prepared, flat street taking recogn!zable water suppiy, and reclaiming building sifes from the Platte river, we were indeed in the midst of an industrial development whose perspective is as- REYNOLDS RADIO CO. Inc. Largest Wireless Supply Store in Middje Wes » DERYVER, shape, increasing FANCY DRY CLEANING AND PRESSENG Expert Alterations and Repairing t The Trivune know when your carrier misses you. put by in the course of his long and active academic * career the tidy sum of $24,000. “An investment broker in one year wheedled the en- tire amvunt away from him, piecemeal, for stock in a fines, etc. At the present time our city streets are in the worst condi- tion possible to place them, no work having been performed on them, sewer LADIES’ WORK A SPECIALTY Phone 1304-J tounding, ‘What will be the net result of all this moll, and toil into which our workers have been called, and to ters our very careful attention. And after careful investigation answer ourselves truthfully, has present con- ditions been worth the price? this company started and completed its initial plant lay-out of 20 pressure ‘stills, six cokes and six continuous stills, a bofler house, a mechanical WEARY OF COMMISSION GOVERNMENT. With sentiment in Cheyenne strongly in favor of abandonment of the commission form of government and a suit pending to test the constitutionality of the law in Sheridan, the popularity of the favorite pan- acea for municipal ills seems to be waning. Here are twe cases in the state where a change from the mayor and council form to the commission form have not proved satisfactory to the people. Cheyenne seems to be thoroughly disgusted and desires to re- turn to the old forma, while Sheridan attempted earlier in the present year to get away from her commission form and substitute the manager form but was pre- vented by a court decision, placing a shadow upon the enabling act of the last legislature permitting the adoption of the city manager plan. Casper was preparing to submit the manager plan to the voters when the court decision came and at once called the election off. West Virginia coal syndicate which nourished illusory hopes of amassing great wealth. The professor la- ments that the financier who induced him to part with his hoardings used occult or hypnotic influence. Even in the courtroom the plaintiff was unnerved utterly by the baleful glances of the defendant, and broke down while giving testimony. “When wildcat financiers want to sell a western gold mine that has no existence outride a glowing prospectus, or lots at the seashore that are .some- where beyond the three-mile limit, or oil wells that gush only in the salesman’s adjectives, they generally go for clergymen and teachers, assuming that in com- paratively sheltered lives the latter are comparatively ignorant of the sharp practices of the sheep-shearing industry, One of these gentry said to the late Dr. George H. Ferris of Philadelphia: ‘I am looking for a little financial succor.’ ‘You should have come to me when I first entered the ministry,’ replied the clergy- man. It will be a couple of years at least before the faults in the city manager law can be cured and by that time it is possible there will be no demand for a change in the present form of government. ‘There is a*+imes good sense in “bearing the ills we have instead of flying to those we know not of.” SER Ese TRE GIVE HIM THE HOOK. It was to be expected when Roscoe Arbuckle re- turned to Los Angeles from San Francisco, a lot of people could not be restrained from making asses of. themselves on the station platform. It was perfect- ly correct and in good form for friends of Arbuckle to greet him, even congratulate him on hig . escape from trial on the moré serious charge of murder to meet the lesser charge of manslaughter, but it cer- tainly was no time and no place for a demonstration, “A few years ago an eminent New York pastor con- fessed with streaming eyes to his congregation that his investment imprudences had involved him in a se- rious dilemma; and the men in his flock who were wise in money matters, by prompt and generous ac- tion extricated him from his plight. It would have been the wiser plan to use a preventive ounce of their wisdom when the lure was first spread for his un- wariness.”” TR SE SNe Sats HATS OFF TO THE CHEMIST. “The meeting that brought together the leading chemists cf Europe and America,” says the New Yoyk Herald, ‘was a notable gathering of men represénting) a.science which has accounted great achievements for humanity in every part of the world from the poles to the equator. s 4 however mild. Neither was it a time for foolish and impulsive women to rush into the scene with oscu- latory offerings and floral tributes. Such stuff is dis- gusting. The movie crowd has got a rotten’ reputation through just such birds as Arbuckle. The respectable element of the profession is called upon to bear it along with the immoral element. It must be lived down and the worthy ones are the only ones to re-establish the former high standing in public esteem. The quick- er the Arbuckle kind is kicked out of the movies the better for the movies. 0 INCREASING TAX BURDENS. From everywhere in the state comes complaint of tax burdens. The people are not complaining of taxes they deem just and fair but they find fault with ad- ministration that constantly increases the burden by extravagance and costs of government. The Powell Tribune has this to say on the subject: “At a time when the thought of everyone through- out the country is, or at least ought to be, in the di- rection of having expenditures of every description cut down and taxes thereby lowered, the Wyoming state board of equalization notifies the county offi- cials of Park county to raise the valuation of all first class land 50 per cent, and ‘also to raise the value of second class land 40 per cent. Naturally this raise in the valuation of lands on the Powell flat is not set- ting very smoothly on the minds of Powell valley land owners. No wonder they propose going today to Cody in, a body and there meet a certain member of the board of equalization in protest against such a raise. “Cheyenne, the state capital, is more than 500 miles from Powell, and the state board of equalization meet- ing down there is wholly out of touch with the Sho- shone project country. They have record of the transfer of our farm lands at higher figures than most anywhere else in the state. They feel that to be in- disputable evidence that the valuations should be raised. Of course the raise applies to Park county as a whole, but Powell farmers believe it to be espe- cially directed at the project, for here is found most of the first class land. “Regardless of what farms of the Shoshone pro- Ject sold for in war times, the fact is that lands are not selling for high values now. Real estate is not changing hands now and a burden of high taxation should not rest perpetually upon the shoulders of farm owners for the reason that some lands during the past have sold well. Those who did not sell reaped none of the benefits of these high prices, but are on the contrary compelled to suffer by paying taxes on a higber valuation. . “To pay taxes on an assessed valuation of $135 per acre on the farms about Powell is an outrage. It is just about double what the lands should be assessed at. The section of country about Powell is on the verge of being crippled in its progress by over-tuxa- tion. The war is over and the war prices must be these farming We can never build up the agricultural re- of Wyoming by taxing the farmers into bank- disregarded in fixing the values of lands. pa ae NO PRESENT TROUBLES. Although ‘he is no longer the center of things, Wil- liem Hohenzollern has nothing at present to worry about as things go in this old world. If he can recover only partially from extreme egotism, which in his case is a disease, all he has to do for the remainder of his days is to remain quiet, pray for forgiveness of the sins he has committed in the past and do the best he can with a conscience which has never appeared to be hitting on more than one cylinder at a time. “The epplication of chemistry to agriculture has practically doubled the food producing power of crop lands, and it has brought into productivity areas that hitherto have borne nothing but tares. Even those same tares in many instances have been made to yield gums, fibers and extractives of value to the world. “Chemistry has bared many of the secrets of nu- trition. Not only. has life been salvaged thereby, but the span of life itself has been lengthened; and the discovery of the vitamines has resulted in making dietetics as much of a science as is curative medicine. “Chemistry has lifted the practice of medicine from the plan of empiricism to that of a science. The tox- ins and antitoxins that have reduced typhoid and| = diphtheria from scourges to lurking skulkers are prod- ucts of the chemical laboratory. The employment of arsphenamine as a che.nical reagent rather-than as a medicine has revolutionized the treatment of the most horrible disease that for more than four thousand years has been the bane of humanity everywhere un- der the sun. It is a triumph of chemistry. “For five centuries or more the beautiful blue col- oring matter derived from a plant, Indigofera anil, has been employed as a textile dye. Half a century ago it was found that anil, or aniline, could be pre- pared commercially from coal tar. By_an improved process the industry was made profitable, and the gates were thrown wide open. Today a thousand or more substances necessary to modern civilization are coal tar products, They embrace about everything from street paving to a sugar substitute, from medi- cine to stove polish and from dyestuffs to the most destructive of explosives. “Next to brains, chemistry won the world war. It furntshed the arms, the ammunition, the deadly gases, the smoke screen: id the flammenwerfer. Still more, chemistry has promoted the arts éf peace. Steel in its various alloys of softness and extreme hardness, aluminum, invar, type metal radium, celluloid and bakelite are born of the chemical laboratory. Corn- cobs are convetted into acetic and lactic acids. Swamp detritus is metamorphosed into horse blankets. Saw- dust is made into syrup and silk fabric; and the proy- erbial silk purse has been made from a sow’s ear. “Within twenty-five years modern sanitation has reduced the death-rate from more than seventeen’ to less than twelve a thousand in the United States; for this chemical science is largely responsible. Let us therefore take off our hat to the chemist. His ways may be as inscrutable as his polytechnic smells are vile. But he gets us somewhere.” DEES EEA SHIPPING AMERICAN WHEAT. A new phase of our interstate commerce problems is presented in the news that Canadian railroads are carrying American wheat from Duluth or other lake points to Montreal for shipment to Europe. Canadian railroads are not subject to the regulation of our In- terstate Commerce Commission and can underbid our roads on those commodities which they can profitably take from us, The A ican roads have their costs of operation largely determined by a government board and their rates similarly fixed. How to meet the Canadian competition under such circumstances is a question to be solved. (Sa ees SENSIBLE MOVE. Southern banks are appealing to northern cattle|= where sales can be made to farmers who will raise more cattle and cattle feed and less cotton, thus check- ing the boll weevil and also avoiding a surplus pro- duction of cotton. The plan ought to work to the benefit of both north and south. —_-—__—__o—__—___. So far as finance is concerned, he will be able to keep the wolf from the door for quite awhile and pos- Is there no way by which we can get Ireland into limitation of armament convention? and water ditches being filled dry in Thirty-four years ago the writer, while on a trip of exploration, the good fortune to make a temporary camp within a few miles of the place where the City of Casper now stands. At that time nothing was \o be seen but a vast area of land covered with bunches of grass, sage brush, sand dunes, and an occasional band of ante- lope or elk. by day but the bark of the prairie dog, or the whir of the rattler. There was nothing to break the awful sil- ence of the night but the howl of the coyote, and the chirp of the night hawk, as they were gathering their means of sustenance. ‘Thirty-four years is but & short span in the reclamatk it has been Jong enough for the hand of man to divert the waters from the various streams and cause them to flow over the several valleys and ‘to make them blossom in expectant frult- ition, and to dot them with comfor- table and happy bomes. ‘Decome productive, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle began to make their appear- ance, and flock-masters Jocated thelr | Jo) homes here, prominent among whom were the. Hon. Patrick Sullivan,..the B. B. Brooks, Major Ormsby, F. B. Place, Hugh L. Patton, Peter Nicolaysen, McDonald, Eugene McCarthy, Samuel Conwell, C. H. Townsend, A. J. Cun- fhingham, Charles H. King, J. W. Price! and many others, It was then that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway builded its road Into this community, town of Casper was started as a sup- ply point for the ranchers and stock- men; pression, were not so numerous but the busiest Hon. breeders to ship some of their breeding stock south | == From Sagebrush to Industrial Center LEWIS J. PRICE, Timekeeper’s Office, Casper -in’ Stanolind Record. had might around, Ptradventure be Nothing greeted the ear ion of a vast desert but it.not luxurious And as the Valleys pensive to’ be permanent. Creek Robert Taylor, Kenneth and the little and, to use an idiomatic ex- it Was. “some burg.” We ever graced any com- mo TOTALLY DISGUSTED. munity; @id not even take time to sleep, in fact in Certain businesses the doors were opened and the key thrown away, and the clink of glasses and the rattle of chips, and the hum of the roulette wheels furnished music sufficient to break any monotony that And. this was Casper, and thus {t continued to be with a reason- ably normal growth and many thrill. ing Incidents until ebout 1909. Of course a long time prior to this jl was known to exist in commercial quantities in portions of Salt Creek, and as early as 1889 a well was drilled in what is known as the Shannon field in Salt Creek, and ‘in 1891 Dr. Freg Salathe built a small refinery where the Oil Well Supply company's] It is a perspective of which even the storehouse now stands. Oil hauled by team from the field to Cas- per, and there refined and manufac- tured into various lubricating ofls, but the transportation and other facilities were of necessity too crude and ex- For several years prior to this time, however, Cy Iba of Casper and Iver gon of Cheyenne, with map; 1 ad the greater. portion field: under Safe TLiME ‘or INFANTS & INVALIDS No Coffee Pot Waste— > If you use G. Washington’s Coffee! Each cup is made to order at the table. So coffee pot needed. Dissolves instantly. It ia estimated that twenty-five per cent. of all bean coffee made is wasted. Each can of G. Washington's Coffee is equivalent to ten times its weight in roasted bean cofies. Measure the cost by the cap—not by the size of the can Always delicious, bealthfa) and economical. + Recipe becklet free. Send 10 for special trial size. shop, and a few storage tanks. ‘The sites, of the Standard and Mid- west refineries, were they privileged to speak, might relate a history, in- terestg, romantic and more or less militant, for upon this ground Indians had established their camps, and this area, together with much of the neigh- boring country, was the scene of many bloody encounters before our early day plorpers were finally able to wrest the country from them, transform it to a safe range for thelr cattle and sheep. ‘These hardy nation builders, could they cast an eye over this oncé familiar bit of river bottom, IME} the valley of the Platte, where once they were wont to lead their herds to water and shade from the noon day sun, and where a fording of the river for entry into the town for supplies was a more or less hazardous task at most seasons of the year, would see an industrial perspective astounding in detail, and gigantic in size, the ac- complishment of which ‘has probably not been equaled between the Missis- sipp! river ‘and the Rocky Mountains. men who put thrqugh the initial plant layout treated as more or less of a fairy tale whenever the subject of ex- pansion came into conversation. ‘The old days of watering herds and seeking shade in the river bottom are Passed. Where once the pioneers ford: ed the stream on the old country road now stands a modern concrete arch oth-| bridge. On the downstream side of the}the new bridge may be seen the old - country bridge which stood for years was LA which every man has answered with whole hearted performance? boiler housés with 20,000 horse pow- er capacity will furnish steam for the operation of two hundred and seventy- five pressure stills, stills, sixteen tar reducing stills, elgh- teen light of] rerunning, six Stills, three pump -houses, a continu- out! pene srentite plant, and acid At the restoring lant, tan) ftici- ast loot te Sandie ah thecal toe’ fin so Winter Garden ee _ EVERY NIGHT your Chicago visit at the Introducing the For OUR Prices Two thirty-six coke eam Moonlight Syncopators DOES YOUR BANK GIVE YOU SERVICE? Wyoming National Bank What does your banker,do for you besides take in your money and pay it out when you call for it? Is he will- ing to help you in your business trans- actions when you need advice on something that is new to you? - Does he show an interest in your affairs and a desire to be of service? These qualities are among those of- fered by The Wyoming \ National Bank in what we term service. A cus- tomer’s interest is the big idea with this bank. What helps you helps us, and the officers of the bank are al- ways xeady and waiting for.a chance to be of service to you. There is an old tradition associ- ated with this bank. Ithas often been said of it that, “The officers are the easiest men to see.” Bring. us your account, large or small, and bea part of this Wonderful growing institution. ; We deal in high class investment securities, including Liberty Bonds. Casper’s Popular Bank Second Coming of Christ WHERE DO WE FIND OURSELVES TODAY? Come to the Moose Hall Sunday Evening and Hear the Evidence October 2 “THE SEVEN SEALS” This Prophecy Reveals History and Takes Us Down to the We aoe and Repair REBUILT MACHINES CASPER TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE . George J. Heiser, Prop. East Second Phone 856 Over White's 7:45 ls: