Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO “Che Casper Daily Cribune very n Sunday at Casper, Issued every evening exeept ee ee Natrona County, Wye, Publication Offices. con 5 16 BUSINESS TELEPHONES .......------+-+- 15 and Hrapeh Teiephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Presdent and Editor ¥ R. E. EVANS .. THOMAS DAILY Advertising Representatives < 2 ci Prudden, King & Prudden. 23 Steger Bidg.. Il,; 286 Fitth avenue, N City; Globe Bide... Bos: ton, Mass. Coppies i Daily Trifune are on the New York, Chiagv an@ Boston offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCHIPTION RATES By Carrier One Yerr Siz Months Three Months One Month» Per Copy .. One Your Bix Mouths Three Months No subecription three months. ; All_subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subsor tion becomes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Burean of Circuldtion (A. B. C2 tet etree dn tthe ae Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to ip for publication of all news credited in this paper and eo the local 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 recelve your Tribune. A paper will be de livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Trittune know when your carrier misses you. <p HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! When John J. Giblin, the unfrocked shepherd and emasculated oil stock operator, thanks his personal mudgun for keeping the campaign pure and holy it excites the risibil- ities of most people wise to the fact that about the only mud thus far fired has come from that pure and undefiled source, and was writ- ten by Mr. Giblin himself. He is the very lad who injected the mud into the campaign, first in his personal organ, next in his public harangues, next in his low insinuations and imnuendoes concerning others who have too much self-respect to ride on his political garbage w: “gignify with denial” jagon. wher sdlosaindibs, Mey, asicite aga the statements made throughout the city u the authority of the public records and the responsibility of honorable citizens, and takes refuge in sniveling about purity you get the measure of the man had would force him- self upon the people as their mayor. Like all men of his type he would slander his neighbor in one breath afd in the next thank God that he is not like other men. Any candidate for the office of mayor of this city who would make a political bedfel- low of Sheffner, the discredited and-disrep- utable police chief, and insult the sensibili- ties of the respectable people of the city by the statement that he “saw nothing wrong with Sheffner” and would continue him as chief, needs to take refuge in the “holier than thou” wail. Ss HIS CHARACTER WITNESS. In his extremity Giblin calls upon his boon companion Sheffner to sustain his vanishing political fortunes by appearing at his public meetings to bear testimony to the purity of purpose and patriotic attitude of his candi- dacy. Sheffner is the ideal character witness to certify to any Casper audiencé the new hope that will be presented in an administration in which Giblin is mayor and Sheffner is chief of police. If the people desire a continuance of the same old helpless and hopeless conditions of underworld control and extravagant and ir- ¥esponsible direction of public affairs then they want to place the city at the mercy of Giblin and Sheffner. —_——_o—————_ WHAT HE FEARS. One of the Giblin petitioners has said upon the streets of the city that the one thing he fears above all else in the Giblin case is that he (Giblin), who poses as the purity catedi- date, will be weak enough to-fall for the dis- reputable element and turn the city over to the control of those who have neither honor nor conscience, in administering the affairs of the people. It is this danger that The Tribune has warned the public, concerning; from the be- ginning of the campaign. Tha deeper you dig into the Giblin char- acter the more you find out. Ant 2 SS SOMETHING OMITTED The eastern insurance agency that pub- lishes such a glowing recommendation of efficiency for .their local agent, Gibliu, has overlooked the deal which Giblin, as a mem- ber of council, attempted to put over in viola- tion of the Wyoming statutes, in the matter of insuring officers in the city’s empléy, This was one of the rawest deals ever at- tempted by anyone ever connected with the city government, who had taken an oath to protect the public interest and enforce the laws. The attention of the internal revenue col- lector for Wyoming is called to the fact that John J. Giblin of Casper claims a ten thou- sand dollar income. The collector should see to it that proper tax is returned. SS MAKE SAVINGS WORK. Henry Ford advances the general proposition that railroad stockholders are parasites. Such a theory, if it gained any great amount of credence would result in economical misfortune and a cessation of a char- acter of thrift which has made possible the accumula- tion of capital necessary to the establishment of large enterprises. It is true that there are some exceptional cases, of » ¢ *| the reform candidate could not by any which the Ford factory is one, where one or two indi- viduals start in a small way and build up an enormous enterprise without calling to their assistance the smal! savings of large numbers of men who invest in stocks. But, on the whole the building of enterprises such as that is impracticable. Mr. Ford’s theory is that railroad operatives only should be permitted to invest in the stocks of rail- roads. The fact is that railroad employes have al- ways had an opportunity to invest in stocks. Their compensation has been large enough so that they could save money which could be thus invested, and yet a very small proportion of them put their money into railroad securities. \ There are men engaged in many lines of business who accumulated savings which they do not desire to leave idle. Their own occupations do not call for larger investments. The easy, the natural, and the de- sirable thing for them to do is to invest in some use- ful enterprise where their money can furnish employ- ment to others and at the same time leave them free to follow their usual avocations. Their purpose is not merely to save for their families but to have a source of income and means of support when old age forces them to discontinue active work. A doctor, for instance, may have an income of $10,- 000 a year, which we assume Mr. Ford will not con- tend is an exorbitant income, while his expenditures may be only $5,000 a year, leaving him $5,000 of sav- ings which he has no means of using in his own pro- fession. What would Mr. Ford have him do with it? I7 he loans it to a farmer and takes s mortgage on th farm he virtually becomes*a stockholder in the farm; his dividends are collected in the form of interest. Such a use of the money might not be desirable be- cause of the difficulty of regaining possession of the money at any time he might need it. The easier thing for him to do is to invest it in the stock of some large corporation where his money will help develop the concern, give a better transportation service to the nation and afford employment to a large number of men. Mr. Ford will hardly assert that a man who saves his money is not entitled to make a profit therefrom. For many years Mr. Ford has been making a profit on his invested capital at a far greater rate than 99 per cent of the people of the United States are able to realize on their savings. If the investment of savings is to be considered a near-cime, making a man an economic parasite, then the great majority of the people of the country must discontinue their habits of thrift and ‘spend their money as they earn it, or let it lie idle in banks, safe deposit boxes, old tin kettles, socks or other places less secure. re PUBLIC SERVANTS. The best stuff put out by editors of newspapers. is the stuff that is written close to the people. Matter that has not taken form in the minds of the people, but of which they have been hazily conscious for a long time. The art of the thing is in telling the read- ers what they have known but which has not yet reached the stage of expression. In a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post the subjoined article is found and it is recommended for the careful perusal of those interested in public affairs; “In the palmy days of that journalistic phase known as muckraking a.series of articles was published bear- ing the striking title of ‘The Shame of the Cities.’ It is probable that city government has improved in many respects since that time, and the abuses then declaimed against now appear Jess menacing. But: shame, like. other qualities and attributes of govern ment, may take on new forms with passing years, one evil following ard upon another. So to bring the story of the cities’ shame down to date account must be taken of that species of terrorism which prevents so many distinguished and competent citizens from entering public life. “In one of the great cities but recently in the throes of a mayoralty election an honest and competent re-|the “desire” of any company “to use|ffom one unit of the carbon plant, form or coalition candidate was pitted against a ma-|the farmers” as a camouflage, you|4nd requesting permission to oper- chine opponent, distasteful, to say the least, to most of what might be considered the better element. But stretch of imagination be described as a really eminent man, and when a stranger within the city’s gates asked one of the reform party managers why someone of great dis- tinction could not be found to run he received this cynical but no doubt literally truthful answer: “Tt is almost impossible to find a man who is dis- tinguished and eminent who is not in some way di- rectly or indirectly connected with business, and that is fatal. The yellow press will at once say he is con- nected with the money power, and that is the end of him. The man who should have been nominated, splendidly equipped in every way for the position and of delightful personality, married a niece or cousin or something of that sort of one of the country’s lead- ing bankers. He can’t be elected to any public posi- tion because the yellows will go after him.’ “Of course if the residents of our great cities want the gradual deterioration of public spirit and public service that is sure te follow the elimination of fit and able men from public life, they will get what they want. But the pity of it is that the fit and able men are eliminated not so much by the voters themselves at actual elections as by the preliminary terrorism of yellow newspapers, the owners of which apparently take the delightful position that all succéssful men other than themselves and their immediate associates are criminals. 2 “Certainly the average voter cannot be such 2 pin- head as to ignore the fact that business success, though not always, is usually a guaranty not only of|**rvation” law which you have kept| Waste. At all droggists, 2Sc. ability but of an even more important qualification, integrity. The head of a small banking firm recently ealled upon the head of one of the richest firms in the world.to inquire about a certain young man who had formerly worked there and had just applied for a position with the smaller house. The great banker spoke highly of the young man. ‘But I want to know,’ said the caller, ‘whether he is of partnership caliber. “ Yes,’ was the reply; ‘and the fact that he has money makes him more so. He will nat be tempted to go into any get-rich-quick enterprise. He will be above many other forms of temptation also.’ “Fortunately there are many poor men as well as rich whe are above temptation; but anyone who is fa- miliar with the lives and habits of those who have at- tained conspicuous success, who have arrived far yond the necessity of striving, know that more than 90 per cent of their time is devoted to nonprofit-mak- ing work, to straightening out tangles, charm. Accomplishment is the end in view. “The great boast of this country is its progress in indystry. Business men are the real leaders. of the clergy and teachers. But the very complaint that such is the case is eloquent proof of the caliber of those who go into business. “Now the greatest single interest in the country is the sum total of federal, state and local governments, what is called the public service, and it is starved more than any profession. The pull toward private busi- ness is strong enough in allconscience. To make it tificially stronger by preventing men whom success has put above the enticement of political graft from devoting their time and energies to the most impor- tant of all industries is worse than a shame to the cities. -It is unutterably silly.” to keeping things going right, to helping out. For most of them —there are always some misers—money has lost its Where formerly the brightest members of college graduating classes looked forward to teaching and the ministry, they now prepare for positions in banks and corpora- tions. This tendency may have gone too far, and it is said that no good can come from starving the ranks | Carey respecting matters of lecal im- portance is self explanatory and will be read wit considerable throughout the state: To His Exgetlency, the Governor, Hon. Robert D. Carey, Cheyenne, Wyoming- Dear Sir. Referring to recent between Mr. C. S. Vateriaus, of the Cowley Commercial club, and yourself volative to the desire of the farmers lot the Big Horn Basin to have the debydrating plant at Cowley com- mence operations to take care of this seasons potato crop, we desire to state that the Wyoming Dehydcrating company and its associates were in no way responsible for the letter written and sent you by the Cowley Commer- cial club, nor for any requests made therein, nor are they in any way re- sponsible for thie letter. Inasmuch as you deemed it wisdom to give publicity to this ence by furnishing copies to the press, we desire to make ourselves clear, and places us in. In a time of national stress like the present, when the farmer cannot real- ize enough from his crop to live and pay expenses, and the president of the United States is calling on mayors of cities and all commercial organiza- tions to lend every possible assistance to provide Iabor and help check a co! dition growing more acute as winter approaches, we, as citizens and tax- payers of this great state, hold our- selves within our constitutional rights to address our chief executive, ask- ing his co-operation and assistance in getting started any legitimate indus. try that helps the conditions spoken of. Knowing that yourself, as chief ex- ecutive, was fully acquainted with all the facts regarding the Wyoming De hydrating compans, how it came to be, and under what conditions it could operate, our letter perhaps did not fully state our case, though we be- Weve our meaning was clear to your excellency, and we resent very much the interpretation you have seen fit to give it, and we hold that our record as law-abiding citizens, and your own acquaintance with us, entitle us @ bet- ter interpretation than branding us as “asking permission to break a law,” oy as being “used by the Carbon com- pany that they might operate in de- fiance of the laws of the state.” Such inferences are both unfair to us, and belittling to a governor of a great You state, “It would appear that while they (The Wyoming ing company) probably intend to op- erate the dehyrating plant, the main purpose is to manufacture carbon black, and the dehyrating plant is more or less a side Mne or an effort to camouflage the real purpose for which the plant will be operated and it would seem that their real desire is not so much to help the farmers of your section by purchasing potatoes as to use the farmers in order that they may operate the carbon black Plant {n defiance of the laws of the state.” Read our letter again, Honorable governor, and kindly point out what paragraph the above answers, Sure- ly, when you presume to state the “main purpose” of any company, cr should at least Keach 5 yourself to the “company” referred to, and not to the Cowley Commercial club. The public is aware that the Mid- Jand Carbon company came to this state when gas was considered of very little value; that they ¢ ed a carbon factory at a cost of rox!- Tately $460,000. that they erected an absorption plant at a cost of $135,- 000.00, and also delivered gas and electricity to this city at a loss to themselves. It is a matter of history now, how, at the very close of the fifteenth les- islature, our present “gas conserva- tion law” was hastily introduced and passed, making it unlawful to manu- facture carbon black fgom any gas well when such well was within ten miles of any theorporated city or in- dustry, effectually closing the Mid- land Carbon company, leaving their investment a total loss. Everyone knows that thd dehydrat- ing plant was built 000 and connected with one unit of the carbon black plant, the idea be- ing to utilize the heat from the plant in the dehydrating of potatoes. Thus the company was in position to first, extract the gasoline from the gas, sec- ond, make carbon black, third, utilize the heat in the dehyrating of potatoes. The present wrongly termed “‘con- upon the statute books by your un- friendly attitude and the withholding of your approval to enrolled act No. is passed by thi The following letter from the Cow-;ture declares it unlewful to use gas ley Commercial club to Governerlfor manufacturing carbon black “un- correct the false position your letter, €dr Casper Daily Cribune |____Taking the Governor to Task toa boring state, anil iines from two other fields, including the Byron been surveyed to connect with the one taking gas from this state and industries are being lost to us by this gas being piped to more ad vantageous locations, a the only company that ever sh: any incli- nation to spend its money and build up our community is being forced out of the state by vicious legislation and |be done, it was a legal use of the gas| Kennan, \—was an application and utilization of the heat contained in it.” Now, the question arises,—can the idiand Corbon company, run one’ {third of its plant, utilize the heat In ) the dehy@rating plant, and come with- in the Wyoming statutes? Believing it could, we as citizens address our Hon- orable governor asking his consent time we donned marched away in ciple, forgetting sel principles. we were and How times do change when we look back a few short years to the that' we might vindicate American I imagine I see my friend the D. D. standing on the street and saying what a noble bunch of patriots yet today we are branded MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 192;. was here, and one unit of the carbon Md 4 plant was put in operation for a My Taking the Governor to Task Jose iseae: ce tie: etn woete gould Defer.ds His Party Ticket determine to what extent the heat . r would be utilized. Did Mr. White| Editor Tribune: — In the Sunday/as outlaws and antiAmericans be ever make a report of this findings| morning's Gimlet of October 23 ap-|cause we fail 2 support the han« here at this inspection, and if s0,| peared a letter above the signature of | picked ticket of the mighty seven, who ‘what became of it? Here we are with|J. M. Cromer setting forth a number fain would thrust their opinions down every farmer a few potatoes to scll/of allegations casting reflections on|the throats of the people of Casper. land needing every dollar possible, try.|the American party ticket and the/J ask my friend the D. D. to scan ing to have the Wyoming Dehydrating | men running for office thereon. Now| the platform of the American party ‘company operations, buy our|replying to my friend the worthy D./and point out to me-enythtng tha: culls and seconds and give employ-|D. I fail to find by what process of] borders on antf-American and uncon. ment to our unemployed. reasoning he arrives at a number/stitutional. Then again it ts supported ia t ot his conclusions. He states that a/by the workers, who ask for nothing ‘The dehydrating company UFR} second party ticket was put in the| but @ square deal. I would ask my states their case and requests er-| rela in opposition to Mr. Giblin, when| friend the D. D. to take the to to run. as matter of fact the American|look over the supporters of other ‘The State Of! and Gas inspector in-| ticket was the first filed and the plat-| tickets and tell me what he finds. pects the plant to see if it is withiniform thereof the first submitted to einen Fie ee the law, and returns to Cheyenne to/the voters of Casper. My friend,.the|et we Hn@ fasro of Ss rast erGen: japendthrift. However, we gain some| sport to his superior. D. D., charges that his ticket is antl-| s-=pevtere seo geuiktecs a8 @ Geuscn hope again from the United | artfers begin to|American and unconstitutional. Now| @s@ whe was removed Sram A comity Supreme court's decision in the oase|, 1D the metre. iaret anzious as|I May be a little denso buf I fail to|oftice om wecownt of meftoesay. Ver. of Walls versus Midland Carbon com-| SITS" wie of seconds and culls, |@lscern anything Anti-American or|ly the old proverb that “politics make pany, which says. td by the wildest flight of imagination| strange bed fellows again proves “As we have seen, many affidavits) We address our chief executive ask- approaching outlawery or savoring of. true. Were addressed to the impossibility of /ing him to look up Mr. Whites re-line KK. K. Mr. Giblin, I would say, complying with the statute; thet is,/port, and clear up the situation, and| “1 indeed seems strange to many of|that it is passing strange that we of uUlizing the heat of natural gas to|give us some assurance that we could/ ine men who are supporting this tick-| never heard his voice raised in protest thy extent of the words of the run at least for a little while unmo-| 6 that a charge of this nature should| against the extravagance and cor. because we think the statute lested, leaving the testing of the law | come from one of the ex-noted divines| ruption of the present construed with reference till the farmer got his money, and/or the city. It might be well to re-|until the platform of the American of nature and {ts possibilit he answers us as if we had asked| mind my friend that many men who|party was published in the aly that all that was intended lon to turn the entire plant/are supporting the American ticket | papers. words employed was to require into a moonshine still: = are world war veterans and quite a| Now my worthy D. D. if electing practical and possible use of the ‘When we realize that one of our/number are veterans of two wars, and|men who stand for the principles of las in other fuels, and by the existing Jgas fields is now being piped|one man running for alderman sent|tho American party brands us as out. instrumentalities, and if this should . three sons to France and one never|iaws we are proud such. Phe uniform and defense of a prin- if arf personal gain IN TWO WARS. and assistance in getting the dehy- Grating plant started, and will en- deavor to set forth in what way you could have helped. \ Realizing the unfriendly, not to say hostile, attitude our honorable gov- ernor has always taken towards this company, (as indicated in your let- ter of October 1ith), the dehydrating company could not be expected to buy|carbon-black fight, as we do not de. jarge quantities of potatoes unlessjsire to embarrass your excellency in they had some assurance that theyjattempting to harmonize your acts Were operating within the law, and/with your correspondence. would not be closed by injunction al-: still awaiting assurance from your lowing the potatoes bought to spoil [excellency that the dehydrating plant ‘in the bins. Qs afranged can be operated within We presume, of course, that the|the law, we remain. courts are the place to have the mat- respectful ter interpreted, but in ihe present uke i cipal Ape case, and under conditions we have Secretary Cowley Commercial mentioned, surely there is some one October 26, 1971 Club. at the state house having the author- a! x : ity or desire to act and to lend all forts in “aiding the farmarse” to at Jeast express an opinoion as to wheth- er the dehydrating plant can be op- erated under the present law, with the interpretation the supreme court ‘places thereon. In your letter to Mr. Brimmer you express your desire to “help the farmer.” We give you cred- hostile officials, can you blame us for trying to save the only portion of the industry there is a chance to save, vin, the Wyoming Dohydrating com- pany? ‘What we have said in defense of the id Carbon company has been m™ in answer to your tnferenca and not te bring up the old so-called { From our position on the ers,” we do not know all the facts, nor re we acquainted with all the corre- spondence concerning: it, though we do know that about August 10th the Wyoming Dehydrating company . ad- dressed a letter to the State Oil and Gas inspector, setting forth that the dehydrating plant was constructed With the idea of. utilizing the heat ate the one unft {n conjunction with the dehydrating plant—pointing out that if granted permission, they would firat extract the gasoline content. On ‘August 17th, 1921, Mr. White Notice this delicious , flavor when you —it’s sealed in by the toasting process $50 CORONA Weight 6 Pounds 4 New Disc : ROYAL STANDAKD Por Colds and Cou; hd Bobo All e8 REBUILT MACHINES ints if Desired CASPER TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE George J. Helser, Prop. Ovi way is the way of Dr. ‘a Pille— and te atest 12 Dr. King’s Pills . | The Music Says, LET’S GO NOTICE THE BABY HAS ARRIVED HALLOWEEN 10c DANCE Plenty of Hats, Noise Makers, Confetti and Streamers Free Arviistide Calibration Novernber 11 MOOSE WINTER GARDEN It’s a Grand TONIGHT After Every Meal A- = - 4 | IS WRIGLEY'’S2 © | auIcyY FRUD |]; I ascracey) 4 FLAVOR LA WRIGLEY’S has steadily kept to the pre-war price. @nd to the same high stend- ard of quality. to Sther goody lasts so fong—costs so littie or does so much for you. /7» Handy to carry—beneficial In effect—fall of fiavor—a solace and comfort for yOung and oid. THE FLAVOR LASTS A SOLDIER WHO CARRIED A GUN —__—_ SPOOK PARTY. Where? 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