Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIX Cpe Casyer Dailp Cribune sesuea every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona Publication Offices, Tribune Bullding- BUSINESS TELEPHONES ecee---15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departrsents County, Wye ne Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIAsHb PRESS . President and Editor Business Manager Associate Editor ., City Editor Advertising Manager 3. E, HANWAY ... EARL E. HANWAY W. H. HUNTLEY R. BE. EVANS THOMAS DALY Advertising Prudden, King & Prudden. m2; Representatives. 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, 286 Fifth avenue, New York City; Globe Bldg.; Bos- ton, Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in w York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors are welcome. Three Months One Month Per Copy .- Ono Year .. Six Months hree Months . "xo subscription 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 Burean of Circriation (A. B. C.) Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Kick if you Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:10 and 8 o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de- lvered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. xe CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED. Now that the Natrona county Democratic central bouse. -That is inconceivable. Out of 435 members of the house there are now 301 Republicans and 132 Democrats. The house is ‘tepublican by more than: two to ome. In the preceding ~ongress there were 230 Republicans and 190 Democrats ‘a the house, a ma- pp 40 as compared with the present majority | In the election of 1920 many districts went Repub-_ lican for the first ‘me in history, but by a narrow mar-/ gin. Quite likely we shell lose some of these if the/ Democrats put up candidates who are reasonably ac- ceptable. The Republicans do not and will not con- cede any particular district, but any man familiar with! the ups and downs of politics knows that districts car-! ried in such elections as that of 1920 cannot be held | indefinitely. M. ( Pew election da: { their wil: be sufficient to. change the result. It is the manifest purpose of the Democratic cam- paign managers to pave the, way for an assertion next November that a reduction of the Republican majority | in the house is a repudiation of the Republican admin-| istration. There will very likely be a reduction, put) it will not be a disapproval of the Republican admin-| istration. Prior to the election of 1918, the Demo- crats had 216 representatives and the Republicans 210,/ a Democratic majority of 6. In the campaign in 1918! President Wilson issued a strong personal appeal for the election of a Democratic majority as a vote of con- fidence in him as the spokesman of the nation. The result was a Republican victory with s majority of 48/ members in the house. That war a repudiation of the | Democratic party and could not be otherwise con- strued. There is, in fact, but one way to ascertain the ac- tual sentiment of the people of the country, and that is by computing the total popular vote, It is possible| but not probable, that one party might have a majority} in the ouse but the opposite party poll the largest popular vote. In general, however, the political com- plexion of the majority in the house may be taken as an accurate indication of the political preferences of | a majority of the people. It is our guess that the Re- publican majority will not fall below that of 1919-) 1920, when we had a lead of 48 members. } fBEI a A S, FUMIGATING THE MOVIES. Mary Minter, Mabel Normand and other stars of| the screen could with better erare seize a vacuum cleaner and help purify movieland than indulge in glycerine tears and stage emotion for purposes of pub-! lie sympathy. These former favorites will have to ‘get right in conduct and stay right if they hdpe to re-| } | the: Che Casper Caily Cribune Chatterton Condemns Primary Law ‘The Riverton Chronicle tm fts last issue publishes an interview with for- mer Governor Fentmore Chatterton, | affairs in which he condemns the Wyoming primary law generally and points out many specific fawa. ‘The governor’s| self, views will find sympathetic ears all “The tims is approaching when the people have the right and are pre- sumed to have the opportunity et the Primaries, to decide who the candi- dates of their respective political par- shall be to be voted for at the ty’ because it is merely a presump- tion, and @ fallacious pr-sumption at Ger the ‘direct primary’ method any Tom, Dick or Harry—any tent oz undesirable person--has,. af the very least a 75 per cent chance to nominate himself; for, if his is the only name on the primary ticket for @ particalar office, he hecomes the party nomines Secause there is not one chance in a bundred thousand that the voters will concentrate on any other person and cast enough votes by writing his name on the pri- mary ballot, to nominate him. “The record of this ‘direct pri- mary’ nomination method, since it was unfortunately adopted in 1911, shows that the people, as a whole. take little interest In primary nomi- nation voting, usually the number of votes cast at general election is three or four times the number cast at the time of primary ‘nominations.’ The ten year’s trial of this method has also shown, and it is a well known and acknowledged fact, that the best and most competent men will not seek office through this method, they will not go to the expense of two cam- paigns and also contend with a chim- ney sweep, and thay cannot be draft ed by the primary, So the incom- committee has formally endorsed John B. Kendrick| gain a place in public esteem. They have been brought petent, or worse. Tom, Dick or Harry for United States senator the matter ought to be set- tled and John B.’s banner hung on the outer wall. Settled, that is, so far as the Democratic nomination is concerned. The election—that is something else. Quite a number of very well informed people believe) the Kendrick luck is broken and that conditions that made it possible for his party to eleet him state sena- tor, governor and United States senator in rapid suc- cession have altogether changed; and now he is com- pelled to present a none too strong case to a very dis- criminating, solidly-united and militantly-active Re-| publican party, with the prestige of succers and pub- lic confidence in its present background and a deter- mination to carry good works farther afield. John Kendrick’s weakness will be discovered to be that he has been through past years part and parcel of the old Wilson party that brought wreck and ruin upon the country. He was proud of it during the time, but he is silent about it at the present. He would even now have it understood that he has re-| pented past errors of democracy and would willingly embrace certain well known highly-approved and very popular features of the Republican faith if it would do any good in his present struggle to overcome a sev- enteen, thousand Republican majority. Repudiating Democratic doctrine will searcely be sufficient to enroll Republicans in any great number, under the Kendrick banner. We fear John B. will have to bring more tangible proof than at present exists; and that while we welcome Democratic sin- ners, properly deloused, into \1e Republican fold, we also demand fruits meet for repentance and require a season of probationary service in the cause to test sincerity before we are willing to place converts in the seats of the mighty. ° ES ES = RAY! NOT INTERESTED. Somebody has been trying to drag former Judge \ Raymond of Newcastle into the congressional race, but it doesn’t seem to work. Mr. Raymond seems fair- ly well content to practice law, for which purpose he resigned a seat on the bench. In order to put an end to the unauthorized talk Mr. Raymond has authoriged the Newcastle News Letter to say that he absolutely has no intention of seeking political honors at this time or at any time in the future. That should be final enough to remove Judge Raymond from all future po- litical dreams. i ets Se ONS eg TOO GOOD TO WASTE. ‘We wonder whether the Hon. Patrick O’Connor of Casper and the Hon. Patrick Quealy of Kemmerer take too close to a series of very nasty incidents, as well as a foul crime, not te be tarnished by what has oc-| curred, The numerous immoral outbreaks in screen circles,’ east and west, hes weakened the faith of people in the entire profession and it is high time that the good wheat was separated from the chaff. Press opinion is strongly expressed on the subject of a moral cleanup. The Chicago Tribune feels moved to say: : “Vested interests in existing reputations naturally ore resisting publicity in the Hollywood affair. Vari- oug pundits of the movie world are busily explaining that virtue reigns supreme there and meanwhile we have an exhibition of official conYusion and helpless- ness In the investigation of the Taylor murder which speaks volumes. The authorities are like babes in the forest of rumor which sprang up so suddenly when | Taylor was found dead in the heart of the great movie colony.* In the hubbub, the most conspicuous of the suspects, Sands, seems to have disappeared as com~- pletely as if he were evaporated. No one knows any- thing of any value about Taylor and his friends whom everyone knew. It is the sort of situation which starts a detective story auspiciously, but it is doing the movie profession and industry no good. q “We should recommend less protesting of virtue and innocence and more candid confession of conditions which call for strong treatment. The trial of an in- dividual or individuals for the murder of Taylor might be costly to profit making reputations, but it would help clean house and in the long run it would enable the industry or profession to get out of the quicksand of vice and lawlessness, to a firm footing on hard work end clean living. Other and better founded populari- ties could be built up and such mishaps as have oc- curred in recent years among the favorite: of the screen could be diminished or avoided. Conditions re- vealed at Hollywood are impossible for any profession te survive and the quicker they are expelled from the world of moving picture art the better for all concern- ed. Bitter medicine will have to be taken, but it will have to take it.’ ot ee RESULTS APPARENT. Some of the advantages and bencAts of the budget system adopted by the Republican sdmin‘stration are readily apparent. One of the benefits is scen in the saving of costs of printing, Under an act of congress lishing any magazines or periodicals unless expressly approved by congress. Prior to that act, there had all government departments were prohibited fran pub-| . have found that by an early an- nouncement of thelr candidacy they are not at all liable to have any com- petition from men of higher name or the primary ballot for the off'ce sought. So the play for Tom, Dick _and Harry to make fa to get in the running early-“even as early as six months’ before the primary—and so secure sclf-nomination. Under the jconvention method Tom, Dick and Harry would not have one chance in one hundred of securing a nomjna- tion; so, I say, the present primary method ‘as resulted, in a mafority of cases, in re'f-nominatfon, and there- by, too often for the rood of the state | > and counties, too. many Toms, Dicks and Harries have boon nominated. “The primary method {s a waste of money. My recollection is that in Fremont county the cost of holding primaries {s about $2 per votg. If two or more candidates for the same “fico como out for a nomination if means the expense of two campaigns for the successful one—a campaign for nomination and a campaign for election. 2 “Our form of government necess!- tates political parties, but under the 4irect primary method—in reality largely self-nominated—a party name means little more than the desi¢na- tion of a ticket; the candidate, espe cially when self-nominated owes no allegiance to any party organization and so, too often, party principles, party alms for good government are not carried out, are lost sight of in the selfish desires of the individual elected; that seems to have been tho rule and consequent result, as ts well evidenced by the legislative record for wasteful extravagance, and numerous iN-advined statutory enactments as fs witnessed hy moro than two hundred amendments and repeals by the last lezis'atyre immediately folowing a new comn'tation of the statutes. the prior legislature of 1919 having amended 270 statutes. These 470 amendments are a sad comment upon legisiative ability derived through f-nomination. “Nominations by conventions are mate by tho authorized representa- tives of tho people, the great ma- the mention of their names in connection with the|STOWn up in the depgrtments a practice of publishing jority of such representatives are of Nemocratic nomination for governor of Wyoming, as an honor or otherwise. Not that either of the gen- tlemen would not make an excellent governor, but the idea of wanting them to head the Democratic ticket. These are two good men. Big men. Too good and to big for the Democratic party. They both ought to be Republicans. Then they would be perfect citizens. ‘They are pretty good as they are and each ha: done a big work for Wyoming and for his home town. Why not permit these two gentlemen to continue in their present capacity as upbuilders of Wyoming. They are doing fine. We cannot afford to waste them on 2 gov- crnorship contest. a The state has a million dollars in the treasury, the proceeds of the bond issue voted almost a year ago. If any speed limitations have been violated in making the turn, the public has not discovered them. If simi- lar energy is now displayed by the highway commis-: sion we are due to have a little highway activity about year after next. ————————___ WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD. There is a lot of boasting on the part of Democratic campaign chairmen and otherm more or less mixed up with Democratic politics as to just what they are about to do this year in the congressional elections. Among ether things they claim is the recapture of a number of seats they lost in 1920, This is altogether likely. The election of 1920 was an extraordinary uprising of the people against Mr. Wilson and the Democratic party. We had just gone through eight years of the worst extravagance and waste in the history of any na- tion. We had endured bureaucracy as it had never! been known before, We had witnessed the efforts of the Democratic party to foree this government to sub- ject itself to the mandates of a superstate—to make the “supreme sacrifice.” We had seen McAdoo try to pull this country into socialism, We had scen the policies of the government shaped by men who refused to prepare for war when war was impending or to pre- pare for peace when peace was certain. Naturally there were thousands of Democrats who refused to rive even a passive endorsement to such management c? the nation’s bneiness. Ié is impossible that the Democratic party will ever again go before the coun- try with as much ef a handicap as it had in 1920, and, therefore, it is not at all likely that as many Demo- crats will ever again vote the Republican ticket. But in no sense admilting that there is a zy of the Demoricis wianing a majority ef the FH EAR periodicals ostensibly for the purpose of conveying in-| formation to the public but largely as agencies for! propaganda, The discontinuance of these publications was in no way affected by the budget system but the budget bu- reau will ald very materially in keeping them discon- tinued. Without the budget bureau in fores, each of the departments desiring to revive its lodicals would start a movement for public demand for restoration of the publication. This demand, apparently originat- ing with the people of the country, would be pressure upon congress to permit the revival of each of the publications, With the budget system in force, any movement of this kind cannot be started {n the depart- ments without challenging the criticism of the director of the budget, whose chief duty {s to keep expenditures down to the lowest practicable level, By discontinuing scores of periodicals, the Repub- Jican administration will save not only the eost of pa- per and printing, but the cost of compilatian, the cost of editing, the cost of proof reading, and the cost of carrying free through the mails. BENEFITS AT ONCE. - The wconomie benefit of the naval reduction treaty are to be felt at once, While no scra: of ships is to be undertaken until all parties te the treaty have ratified it, President Harding has given orders that} work on eight superdreadnoughts and six big battle cruisers ba suspended, Payments for construction those ships $5,000,000 a month, Of course the eventusi on each ship will not be the difference between her cost to date and the sontract prise, as settiements with the contractors will have to be made with an allow. saving ance of profit to them which they otherwise would have received, There is, however, a present saving of $5,000,000 a month, with a future saving of at loust part of the cost of completion, and all of the cost of maintenance, personnel and operation. SONA ERE | BACON VERSUS FORD. NS Histories make men wise, declared Bacon. History is bunk, says Henry Ford. Take your choice. Men! have been reading history since there was anything) written, and they were hearing history for many ages! before that, when the story of the achievements and failures of men were handed down from generation to + ®eneration by word of mouth. So far as we recollect, Ford is the only man in all the world in all tims who ever declared history to be bunk, the Highest standing, they desire and will choose tho best timber for the respestive offices to be filled, they have time to consider, they know the records and ability of the candidate and being responsible to the people for the choice are careful to endeavor not to make mistakes. If nvowed candidates are not up to the mark, the esnvention can, through patriotic action and argument, draft Into serv- ice a capable man for the nominee. And when nominated and elected the new officer owes allegiance to the party} a government to be success- ful for the people must be operated by a party compored of faithful men of ability whe owe and render alle- giance to the party principles and aims as set out to the people in plat- form announcements, ‘hero is no party organisation and there are no party prineiples, or alma, announced Be Eased Quickly your 6c.a * Dr. King’s New Disc pat Pee ed? Here'sRelief!Cleanse the system, with Dr. King’s Pills, Prompt free bile flow, stir uw the ne aatligct-at tise root of Ge trouble, All druggists, 25c. Fitings Pills ~ will not agree te vote for such ac- tion.” Dig my grave there. “And the Klote will sing his song Lonesome! If you tung wrong. ‘When my end ts come Go not fall, % you're The Tribune’s Special “Dia you see the Casper Tribune’s big edition? inquired a subscriber of Tho Republican, as he entered the of- fice a few days ago. “It's the great- est thing that ever came off a print- ing press in Wyoming!" Ordinarily, the public isn't in the habit of going about bragging about any special edition of any newspaper, her livelihood as a railroad switch: but this. man's impression tsn’t to be man. Opposing Congressional Tax Program That the particular tax program|fect the further sales of automo: fixed by the house ways and means| biles, believing that the array of va- bonus! rious taxes a prospective purchaser committee to provide soldier tunds is not golng to be ratlroaded through congress as promptly as some ot its proponents desire is indicated vy the fact that already four huge rganizations have declared their em- phatic opposition to it and are now rocesding ‘to resist it with every >unce of strength and influence at n Farm Bureau Federation, tional Grange, the American Auto- le aswociation and the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. According to’ the American Auto- mobile association officials, this form- {dable array of opposition will be aus mented by three other big national organizations. Some of these organizations have announced opposition to the program in {ts entirety while others will con- ‘ine their efforts to defeating the pro- posed two additional forms of taxa- tfon to be put on the motor car, According to figures furnished by the A. A. A., motorists last year paid fn automobile taxes proximately $535,000,000, which, officials of the or- ganization assert, represents excess- ive and unfair taxation. The addi- tional tax program. if carried out. would add to this sum $120.000,000 an- nually for an uncertain ‘number of years and would tend to cripple a rreat American industry as well as deprive countless small business en- terprises of the use of an invaluable commercial utility. Officiais of the National Grange state that almost 50 per cent of this special taxation would fall on the farmers of the country who are al- cwady at the bottom of the income lad- der in respect to prices they receive for their products. National Automobile Chamber . of Commerce officials state that any more tax on the automobile would be the proverbial last straw for the in- dustry in that it would seriously af- ROR YF ae ero Ga pee ee | } i tht A at ec te gone, And how he saw the orchards of the dawn Lying beyond the green earth's bur- nished’ rim; Upon that golden wall walked) Cherubim Whose shadows were & snow-light on the lawn, And ere thelr gentle wonder was i} withdrawn, One pitying held a starry branch to- ward him. ‘The cowled monks listened, and at vesper bell ‘They left him im a quiet place to ream By garden-ways where grasees drift like fleece; But when they reached the central tvied cell, j Across the altar moved the crimson gleam Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace. —Thomas 8S. Jones, Jr. fit bec saa One woman in Kansas City earns would face would frighten him out of buying. Any further crippling of the automobile industry would, it is point- ed out, mean additional unemploy- ment. Highway bu‘lding would also be se riously retarded according to the A. A. A. for the reagon that those per- sons who already own cars would halle at all proposed local taxation for this purpgse, and a three-year slump fn road building now would require vast sums of money later and ten years of time for this important work to regain its present equilibrium. All interests feel that they should! be heard before the senate finance} and house ways and means commit: tees take any definite action upon so! drastic a measure. Héarings, C)>!r- man Fordney told representatives of the National Automobile Chamber of | Commerce and the A. A. A. after an-| nouncement of the program could not! be had. On this point the four named organizations Intend to take issue with those in charge of the program, claiming that the plan was developed practically over night and that eye~y legislative and technical expedient is being employed to railroad it through congress. | Special Weekly Rates $7.00 and Up. ‘Fine, large rooms, steam heat, baths, hot and cold water. American Hotel 244 S. Center St. Entrance American Cafe ~ Poor Judgment Of bad moonshine has cost many a man’s life—not quite so serious when judging poor tailoring in clothes, I Will Say That bpou are not taking chances, it’s a sure shot when ing clothes FROM TIM THE TAILOR because we are experienced journeymen tailors. cut, give you a correct fitting and make your suit ac- cording to the latest fashion RIGHT HERE IN And Because We don’t Jet you getaway with a suit unless you are orde: CASPER, perfectly pleased with it. 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