Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIF Casper Daily Cubune Sunday at Caspér, Natrona Tribune Building. Coe m Offices, --15 and-16 All Departments ge Connect r (Wyomiz Posteffice as second class Nov | , 1916. ASSOCLATED PRE Editor Rcen City Advertising Manager wepreseniatives. 23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, e Bldg.; Bos on file Advertising in “SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier Press is exclusively entitled to the news credited in this paper and) hed herein. r Tribune. 4nd 8 o'clock p. ™m. A paper will be de- Make it your duty to SIMPLY TOO LATE. Along about January 28 The Tribune called the at-) mn of the American Book Company to the omis- jon, on a school calendar sent broadchst over the country, of all mention of Casper as a school center}, when in fact Casper district has the largest list of en- rolled pupils of any district in the state, has a greater number of teachers employed, more school buildings, spends more money for school purposes than the cities) ef Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Laramie and Sheridafi) combined, the only cities in Wyoming honored by the calendar publishers with mention in the publication. In addition to this we did not fail to show the as- sessed valuation of property in the Casper district to be $652,817,420, and to remark that it was some dis- trict ag school districts go. We then put it up to the book company to say why) the unjust discrimination was directed toward Casper and the prize district of Wyoming. The book company has done so. They prove through their western agent, Mr. A. N. Chamberlain of Denver, and a mass of cor- espondence and data that they are in no sense to| blame for the seeming discourtesy to Casper and had: ‘ho notion of exciting our peevishness. The reason Casper secured no representation in the publication ‘was a common one, and one that occurs all too often in other affairs than calendar publishing. Time, tide and calendar printers wait on no man. The Casper data was mailed, but it was received a week after the ‘work had been sent to the printer and it was then too late: Nothing can be done, of course, for 1922, but for 1923 we will be squared with the world at large and have the details of our school district duly set forth. This much Mr. Chamberlain assures the peo- ple of Casper. : So if we said anything mean about the American Book Company while whooping her up for the Casper school district, or used any unparliamentary language in connection therewith, we move that the same be ex- punged from the record, and that we all pursue our several courses—the Casper district’continue to be the most wonderful. district in Wyoming, the American Book Company the largest book publishing coneera i pa | H the United States of America, and The Tribune greatest newspaper on earth: That ought to be sa‘ factory to all of us. ped A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. If the Towner-Sterling bill is passeed by congress the United States will have a department of educa-| tion with a secretary in the cabinet. One of the first tesks such a department must undertake is the re- view and classification of textbooks. The necessity) for national information on bogks which teach na} ynal affairs is constantly being brought before the! lic, the most recent case being in the natioval capi- tal, where a certain textbook of history is under fire/ from citizens’ associations as being historically inac- ccrate and socialistic in its tendencies. Whether the book is good or bad is hardly a mat- ter for determination by citizens’ associations, no mat-) ter how patriotic. Only authority should be permitted| to say what is, and what is not, in a good school book. The trouble with the average school book selection au- therity is that it is biased by location and environ-| «ment, without a national viewpoint. A federal department of education would not be biased, and would either have a national viewpoint or} ke a complete failure. A list of adequate school books ch had been carefully reviewed and classified national government would go far toward secur- + that wniformity in education and accuracy in the teaching of history which are in themselves a national| hond and would be eagerly welcomed by local school boards everywhere. Obviously no such list of books would be issued as} anything else than suggestions. When the department| af agriculture tells farmers of a good fertilizer it does not require them to use it—only their brains and free| choice! So it would be with the list of books, and, in- deed, all the acts of the department of education— they would be advisory only, and valuable in propor- tion to their educational, not their mandatory, pro- houncements. the i 0 LESS IMMUNITY, LESS MURDERS. “Malice, premeditation, willfulness, deliber: sye have all those words in the several definitions of| that unlawful killing which is murder, and all those at- tributes in the modsman, the lyncher, who murders, States the San Antonio Express. \ “It is murder when the solitary hero arms himself) with pistol or knife or club’ to seek and kill his un-| armed enemy. “Tt is no less murder when eight or eight hundred heroes arm themselves with pistols, rope or fagots to Iynch. thei; ry enemy, whether criminal or merely ed men will take note that in Oklahoma after a negro strike-breaker was ies, five of the latter pleaded ‘~ of murder and were sentenced to state prison fet Anc nched by eight er quilt E efendants their conduct t on the recommenda nd Assistant Attor- di © ‘ing or reviving the precedent of executing lynch-mur- \ ficer who had exceeded his authority | thus: be Casper Daily Cribunc ney Genera} Short, sentenced the defendants to life imprisonment. - “Why? Were state’s attorneys fearful of establish- derers, as well as of murder in other forms? Is it not the pgoved fact of murder that mat- ters? Is not the unlawful killing with malice afore- thought the thing to be reckoned with above all other things? “Oklahoma City apd ¢very other city needs just such quick judicial procedure, and capital pun‘shment, | in murder ceases, whether murder by mob or .by in-}| dividual. g | “Oklahoma's governor and judges,-and every other) state's governor and judges, need to determine rigidly | that convicted murderers, whether mobsmen or soli- turies, are the worst possible subjects for the slightest degree of ‘mercy.’ Such mercy does not ‘temper’ jus- tice—it throttles justice. “Fewer escapes from the gallows—less murder.” —_ eee GROWTH OF CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. Every day during the last five years an average of | 2,173 persons joined ‘the various churches of Amer- ica, and three congregations were organized daily. The total religious constituency of the country is 5,858,096. The Protestants count 74,795,226; Ro- man Catholics, 17,385,846; Jewsy 1,120,000; Eastern Orthodex (Greek and Ruggian), 411.054; Latter Day s (Mormons), 1,646,170. The tata] active membership is 45,997,199, an in- ease of 4,070,345 over the 1916 census figures. The veral religious bodies report 233, 3,104 congregations manned by 200,000 ministers. Yor the first time in| s have pas ed the Methodists in| The Baptists, showing their great-| the south, now have 7,835,250 mem-| Methodist membership of 7,797,991. | ee Sa ae “HAVING HELL. Out in Massachusetts they have been having the usual trouble, noticeable everywhere’ else, of enforcing prehibition laws. Massachusetts has a la forei; population and this adds to the difficulty of suppress-|_ “ObSrYe Sood falth, and justice to; ing the drink habit. Not long ago an enforcing offi- W*'d al! nations. Cultivate peace cer pulled a political banquet in a public hotel and to 84 harmony with all. Religion and i his ven] searched the upper rooms of permanent ™orality enjoin this conduct. And cuests and captured the private supply of liquor be- can it be that good policy does not k nging to a citizen who had no connection with the equally enjoin it? It will be worthy henquet. It created quite a furore. The snes! a5 of a free, enlightened, and at no dis- ‘upplante: by one who better knows how to remain within the jragn che etn to eve law. Since that occurrence there has been much said coat cxampie of a poopie alwase ip reeamectiogs and in the press, Members of the guided by an. exalted justice and I delegation in congress have even taken tenevolonce. Who can doubt that in the question up and the Worcester Yelegram speaks |tho course of tine and things - the 3 fruits of such a plan would richly re- “The Hon. James A, Gallivan, who represents the pay any temporary advantages which twelfth Massachusetts district in the congress of the might be lost by steady adherence to United States, contemplates the eighteenth amend- !t? Can it be that Providence has not ment, the Volstead act and prohibition in general, Connected the permanent felicity of a whervafter he writhes and in a high, clear voice calls P®¥0" With its virtue? The experl- upon anybody—sincere prohibitionists included—to ™Cht, at least, is recommended | by deny unto him that the last two years ‘have been hel! “Hardly that. A large number of people seem to be well satisfied. Confirmed prohibitionists, of a vintage entedating the national legislation, insist we are in-, finitely better off. Sincere drinkers are perfectly con- Washington’s Farewell Address 17 every sentiment which ennobles hu- occasions of dispute occur.” Farmer’s View of Farmer's Plight a city of steeples and towers on the rim of a lake; a like whose waters tumble and rush and rush and tumble in white-crested waves : gainst a flower-lined shore, a shore that bends and curves and curves and bends in graceful lines ander the shadows of green trees— The Air is Sweet with the perfume of Flowers. My Canteen is Empty— My Lips are parched and Dry— My Tongue is Swollen— Imust Hurry: { wil Drink My Fil: . eee is No Clty! , is No Perfume of Flowers! Alas! is it rendered 1m-| phere are No Green Trees! There is No Lake! “fy Canteen is Empty! : Goa! There There man nature. Possible by its vices? ‘In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies}, 2 « © © e@ against particular nations end pas-| Gigwing Red Sands, sionate attaéhments for others should] miery Tine ‘Biles, be excluded, and that in place Of} mioashot Eyes, them just and amicable feelings to|piack Swollen ‘Tongue. ward all should be cultivated. The|r is” wee nation which ‘indulges toward anoth | wandering, er an habitu&l hatred or an habitua!| Circling, fondness is in some degree a slave.| staggering, es eR Ee WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921. The Efficiency of American Railways ; by @ process of trial and error, We have tried unregulated monopoly, and have tried gcvernment operation, ax found the Sextet tere, We still = rs have much to solve if wo are to main- tain our transportation. Much of this, solution depends upon the successful themselves servation .of government abroad, or with government operation of industry in the Cnited States, will contend that our railways could ever be operated. as intelligently or as ef- ficienJy by . the government as through the initiative of private in- dividuais. Moreover, the welfzre of its multitude of workers will be far worse undér government operation. We are struggling with the great problem of maintaining pubt!io con- trol of monopoly, at thi same time maintaining the initiative of private enterprise. 3 believe that we «rc steadily ppogressing to solution. Great social and economic prob- lems find their solution slowly and Straight at It There is no use of our,““beat- ing around the bush,” we' might as well out with it first as last, We want you to try Snowflake Bread the next time you buy bread or cakes ther is no reuson as far as we can see why you should net do so, This bread by » 1s remarkable taste has gained a world-wide reputation and peo: ple everywhere speak of it in highest terms of praise. It is for sale at Snow White Bakery ) LEST YOU FORGET. Leopold Godowsky, master pianists of classics, will appear for one night only at the Lyric theater, Wednesday, March 1, 1922. 2-14-13t ——_ It is a slave to its animosity or tol rating, its affections, either of which ts. suf | crawling, ficient to lead it,astray from its duty] motionless! and its interest. Antipathy in one]e e ¢ © © © nation against another disposes each| mack Wings ‘in the Fire Shot Skies!) the Carnegie Institufe is the first wom- more readily to: offer insult and in jury, to lay hold of slight causes of] pieaching Yellow Bones! umbrage, and to be haughty and in-|___ tractable when accidental or trifling] prifting Red Sands! —E. RICHARD SHIPP. Casper Landlords Goda! tent as to the continuance of opportunity, although it) has to be admitted they deprecate the increase in price| and the deterioration in quality. Tt seems the unanimous opinion of of peaches fer four or five days, got the farmers, the actual farmerg who more than all the labor that plowed. Bootleggers swiftly | .jrcauce crops, that only one thing {s pruned, harrowed, sprayed, Editor Tribune:—In September, 1919, picked |I came home from France thinking acquire the financial standing which means prominent) needed_—to be permitted to sell a crop and packed the crop, nearly a year’s|that the war was over. ‘Toda: citizenship. Social strugglers attain the desired posi- tion by achievement of the surreptitious cocktail and the synthetic highball. Folk who wish to drink drink as much as ever, and folk who wish to say that nobody shall drink have the pride ani pleasure of saying so. “The only seriously unhappy contingent seems to be represented by the prohibition enforcement crew. They braw! among themselves all the time. Mr. Wil- son has hardly stilled his outcries that Mr. Potter pre- vented him from turning Massachusetts into a land of milk and honey (unfermented honey) when Mr. Rob- erts leaps to the fore with loud shouts that Cgmmis- sioner Haynes thwarts justice and morality when he says Mr. Potter can’t have Mr. Keefe’s confiscated hootch. The prohibition people are so busy calling one another corrupt that even the: blind tigers can see; they haven’t much energy left for anything else. “But after all, this little disturbance is trifline. W: are as well off as either of the other nations which has plunged into prohibition. Russia was one of them. Russia put down vodka—or stopped putting it down, if you prefer it that way, and look at the place now! Then there is Turkey. Through religious conviction Turkey has been prohibition for a good many years it was, in fact, the first nation to display the merits of the theory. But nobody would deny we are better off than Turkey; not even Armenian residents who have enjoyed previous experience under Turkish morality. “The Honorable Gallivan goes too f: The past two yveara have not ‘been hell.’ Hell is yet to come. The Honorable Gallivan simply does hot understand the conviction—transitory, perhaps, but still the con- tion—of his country. you don’t.need public sentiment and public conscience to insure the maintenance of a moral law. Merely plenty of cops.” are 8 PENSION HISTORY. “The first pension act of the United States was passed in 1792,” notes the New York Tribune, “but its benefits were confined strictly to the crippled, the sick and the indigent. The maximum allowance to claimants was $8 a month. “In 1818 the principle of service pensions was in- troduced—all those who had served at least nine months in the War of Independence were given re- lief, but only if needy. But the law was so loosely worded that there was fraud, and in 1820 the law was | amended so ad to require all applicants to file a state- ment of property in proof of their alleged indigence. Our forefathers did not think any one capable of talé ing care of himself should be a public charge. Under the law of 1820 one-third of the names on the pen- sion roll were stricken from it. “In 1886 the practice of giving pensions to widows was introduced, but at first only to those who had mar- ried before the close of the war. But bombardment continued, and soon no account was taken of the date £ the marriage. The practice of young women mar-! ing old veterans became almost an industry, and al-' rsost to our day Revolutionary widows were in re- ceipt of regular relief. But not until after the Civil war were the pension floodgates fully opened. The first allowance was mere- ly to the disabied, to actual dependents and to minors. Not much change occurred until, over the opposition of President Hayes, the pensions were dated back to the date of the beginning of the alleged disability. Then payments quadrupled. Finally, in 1890, came @ ‘w under which incapacity to perform manual labor, |no matter from what cause arising, was basis for a nension. In the year 1913, nearly fifty years after Appomattox, the payments reached the maximum of $174.000,0Q0. “The story strongly suggests, if there is bonus legis- lation, that it should be a part of the contract that further payments be not made. Otherwise we are cer- r tain to have a pension lobby at Washington for half) a century, corruptly working to enlarge its fees, bring- ing all former soldiers under suspicion and constant- ly muddving the stream of politics. The country is a unit in favor of generous care of the disabled, the crippled and legitimate dependents, and a majority, if there is a fair distribution of the taxation burden, v d equalize compensation, but are we to have with n ore ag vated form the abuses that one of ill repute?” 4 ‘Which is to the effect that] ‘tor more than it costs to make it and haul it to market. | | Lending a farmer money to make |crop out of which he doesn’t get cost | does not benefit him. It merely post- pones bankruptcy, There can be no, recovery until cropm sell at a profit. | | ‘There can be no profit, so long as a law made agency ‘takes the major part of the farmer's crop, represent ing his year’s labor, and turns it over to the organized workers. for their few days’ work hauling it to market. This ts the crux of the situation. | The farmer wants no special legis- lation, no representation on the Re- serve board, no preferred jobs, he \merely wants the special legis'ation | favoring other workers removed, in other words, that every tub stand on its own bottom, and let each man jearn what he can. Nothing will save the farming in- dustry but a deep cut in freight rates. ‘We are all merely producing tonnage for the railroads, who merely collect from tho unorganized workers, and |turn it over to the organized work- ers. The latter punish when the poll- ticians fail to'do their bidding; we farmers don’t ‘When the Chicago labor board fixes | railroad ma¥'s pay at a higher: price than he ‘can earn in other pursuits, it is no largess of the tnbor board. It 1s a purely arithmetical “proposition. ‘The excess given to the railroad work- er is taken from what the farm work- er earns. The ‘impracticable humanitarian will say that the higher pay given the railroad laborer will put up to a “liv- ing wage” the pay of the laborer in other pursuits, but the reverse is true, for the more paid to the rail road labor, the less of the price there is left to pay the other Isbor. Tt is not a question between capital and labor, but it is between the dif- ferent classes of labor, as to which shall get its fair share, or more than {ts share. ~ Take Georgia's approximately ten | thousand cars of peaches, In even figures, of the proceeds of the sale of the fruit this year, selling got 8 per cent, transportation got ¢2 per cent and prodiction got 30 per cent, out of which to/pay all the labor that grew and picked and packed the fruit, as well as for a fow such items as crates, fertilizers, spray material, wagons, mules, etc. The labor alone that hauled a car TOMAC TROUBLES seldom fail to DISAPPEAR | ENTIRELY when you take nla It builds you up and helps you re- gain your normal weight. | Sold by all good druggists work. W. H. HARRIS. Fort Valley, Ga. Now in the Attic How men's fashions come and go! y I was informed by one of Casper's profiteering landlords who doesn’t know the sad news of the war's ending, that my rent had been raised from $75 per month to $90. I am moving tomorrow to a hotel. I've been paying ‘this amount of rent for a year with hopes of a drop— Full beards, goatees, sideburns, Dun-|then came a raise. drearies, the cup, up ustache. the mustache neckties, the diamond scarf pin silk hat for all day wear, frock coat Casper stores have come down in the stockfrilled shirt, ready made-| Prices, in fact most every one has done likewise except some landlords. ‘They, more than anything else pre- in office hours, tight trousers, loose|Vent Casper’s growth and give the trousers, custom made boots, blue | town a black ‘eye. coats with velvet collar and brass but- tons, the gold headed cane, the Malac- ED. C. NELSON. ca walking stick, the buffalo robe, the on the marble top center table in the colored and knitted Afghan, sleigh. bells, the Albany cutter, the shavinz] Alone,’ mug garlanded with pink roses and nscribed “From Ma to Pa,” the quill pen, sand shaker for a blotter, tin candle stick snuffers, coal ofl lamp, a turkey’s wing for a dust brush and a stick with long strips of tissue paper as a fly brush. A And black walnut bedsteads, a rick- ety washstand, rag carpet, patch quilt, boster, a “lambriquin,” pillow shams to keep the pillows from being seen, crochetted “tidies pinned with bows of ribbon to the back of a mo- hair chair, a worsted motto on the wall, “God Bless Our Home,” fire tongs fire dogs, a fender hearth, a powder horn or power flask, boxes of percussion caps, bbxes of “wads" cray- on portraits of grandpa with long whiskers and grahdma in a face cap. And kissing games, the polka, schot- tisehe, lancers and redowa, blind man's buff, puss wants a corner, old maid, ‘Byerlasting” and casino, verses in an autograph album, the family photo- raph album, wax flowers under glass This Is Good Weather for MICHELIN CORDS They Don’t Give You Any Trouble. R. M. MOSHER 316 West Yellowstone Highway Phone 309 “Meet Me by Moonlight, “Down Where the Daisies Grow, “Homeward the Swallows Fly,” “Kathleen Mavourneen,” and “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” And decanters, demijohns, juleps, sherry cobblers, mint beds and today tumblers, ‘That is not all, but ‘twill do! A few months ago there was the swagger stick. Almost’ gone! And here is tho wristwatch. 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