Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 2

PAGGE TWO Che Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evenin < Sunday County, Wye 2 Offices, ¢ Butiding. BUSINES eee eeseeoe--15 and 16 Branch T necting All Departments Entered at Cai fice as second class ASSOCIATED ‘PRESS tent and Editor Business Manager Associate Editor : City Editor Advertising Manager ing Representatives. i 7 Steger Bidg., Chicago, New York City; Globe Bldg.; Bos SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier -$7.80 Natrona aking speed. As he turns the page, however, his; jeye is-caught by the headliné: ‘Church Bodies Gain| | Million Members.’ To the mass of readers there will| be satisfaction as well as significance in the fact that| the religious organizations of the country have added a million members to their lists during the year and | that they now’ boast a total of 46,000,000 persons. “One fact like this disposes of a good many facts| | regarding a night life or a movie life which affects a | negligible percentage of population. It is not a spectacular occurrence; it does not prick a jaded cu-| ‘riosity, but for sheer meaning it outweighs pages of} scandal. And it re-enforces a very old lesson, that everything is a matter of emphasis and that you find | what you look for. If you choose to place, the empha- sis upon the sordid, the flashy, and the vulgar, yr2| can make this out to be as sordid, as flashy, and as vul- gar a world as persons of that stripe could desire. If you choose to see the bestial and the gruesome, they are there for you to look at and gloat over. If, how- ever, your taste is for that which dignifies humanity rather than for that which debases it, if you prefer decency to debauchery and refinment to coarseness, you need not go out of your own street to verify it as |the normal existence. And what is exceptional where you live is exceptional where everybody else lives.” 6 IF IT HAD BEEN GRADUAL. Among reasonable and sensible views on prohibition \is that expressed by Mr. Westley Jones in discussing | One Year .. Py psa fot - 3.90| the question in the open forum of one of the metro- Tires Moe - 1.95} politan newspapers. His idea is no doubt the correct No subscr: pted for less period than} one and most of us believe it at this stage of enforcing three months be paid in advance ana the| Prohibition. Our hindsight in this case is better than All subscriptions must be paid ir ce 2 "| our foresight. But prohibition had been working for- Daarai Paes A) Ate eee SeTwery, after subscriD-| ward to the climax, which «*tually arrived, for a num- ber of years, and it is doubtfal if anyone could have been made to see any virtue in a postponement, for any reason, at the time. Mr. Jones del'vers his view in this fashion: “When in September, 1917, the federal Iav; vent into effect prohibiting the importation of foreiyn and the production of domestic liquors, there was a very large supply in bond here. The Eighteenth amend- ment should not have became effective unti] after these bonded liquors had been tax-peid, withdrawn and dis- tributed in the usual way. ‘That would have taken perhaps two or three years. The public mind would have been gradually prepared for the final complete exhaustion of domestic spirits for beverage purposes. Government would have collected an enormous sum in taxes, and licensed dealers would have had an op- portunity to liquidate in an orderly manner. “Too much was attempted to be accomplished in so short a time. A period of at least five years, from “—}lember of Andit Jurean of Circulation (A. B. ©) Member if 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 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. $f you fall to receive your Tribune, A paper will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to Jet The Tribune know w! your carrier misses you. MORAL BACK YARDS. “When Mayor Blackmore told the Chamber of Com- merce at its Monday noon luncheon that “the back Cde Casper Daily Cribune Public Roads and Common. Carriers ‘When s man buys a motor car ho gets more than physical possession of 2 piece of rolling stock, With the) cur comes the desire to use it for business and for picasure to the full- est possible extent. Maps will be scanned for new mackets, new oppor- tunities for business and new places to see. In the average community, however, the motorist scon finds that his use of his car fs curtailed acd lim-| ited by the lack of good roads In other words, the truth is impressed upon bim that for the fullest enjoy- ment of car ownership, paved roads ate & ‘acessity. And from the pri- vate need of t/se individual car own- er for paved raxds between his pcints of interest, the rapid extension of car cwnership has made it but a short step to the untveraal recessity of sood position to such carriers will mere ly waste its own resources and ef- fert—it mieht, much betce> take ad- vantage of ‘he situation ind get in the game with the intention of ren- ering service. It ts up to the motorbus operators to educate their patrons. The opera- tors have said they are willing to pay @ fair return for the use of the paved roads. Why not tell the patron what part of his fare goes to reimburse the public fund for the cost of the high- way and the privilege of using it? The railways, interurban lines and street car companies found it advis- ayle to inform the public about mat- ters of common interest, but not un- til after a lot of damage had been Other great industries have, by costly experience, learned the value of dealing fairly with the pub- le and now are earnestly telling the public about it. Some of the great labor unicns also show signs of ap- preciating the long arm of public opinion. Able highway officials see in motor- agement of cheerful courtesy on the part of employes who haye direct con- tact with motorbus patrons. Drivers and ticket-ecllers can do more and have reason to be apprehensive. The whole country is feeling its way. Mistakes are bound to be made, Con- trenes in combating competition. In the rpsh to make money, unwise proj- ects may be undertaken. The whole subject is one for careful study on which highway administrators, public service commissions, vehicle owners and the older transportation interests can co-operate. known that the public pays, coin or another, tur the condition of its roads when everybody wants to use them, it is really an economy as well as a convenience to have them paved. ¥ The extension of paved roads thtough well developed commmnities will confer a benefit not only on the motorists through the wider use of their cars, but on the general public as well, in that it makes possible a new form of trensportation—the mo- torbus. appear upon the completion of concrete paved roads with a snddenness that has already brought problems to the public offi- clals. But whatever problems they may bring with them, their popular. ity Is undeniabie. ‘The convenience of avtomobfle transportation is available to etery- body through the motorbus. No one knows how many motorbusses are in operation, but they have been o fix- ture in those fortunate communities which have good roads for ssveral years. In spite of imperfecttons, or- ganized opposition of competing in- terests and (sometimes) unwisely re- strictive laws, they have stayed on ‘Ways. It is safe to say that several coming years will see from ten to twenty thousand miles of highway Yaved each yeer. Common carriers for those highways are just as in’ —California for exampje—the infant has become a very husky youth in’ spite of all the opposition that com- peting interests could muster. Mo- torbusses—good ones—segwe nearly ey yards of Casper would be cleaned as well as the front yards,” the enthusiastic applause was not because the members took his remark to mean that the September, 1917, should have been allowed before con- stitutional prohibition went into effect. ‘The time had +, Each year the ranks of the abstainers were augmented The membership heard and unterstood SH90 1 stiousunde whol maw the folly of iddilgense and the ap- edvantages of sobriety, and yet it isn’t reasonable to expect the life-long habit of using aleoholic beverages to be suddenly or completely suppressed in all sections by federal or state laws. “The advantages of abstinence—not necessarily cf prohibition—are everywhere apparent. The deplor- able conditions that some of your corresponderts re- fer to are also in evidence. There are always sume weak ones, and these unfortunates in this generation at least must suffer. The next generation, perhaps, will be quite free from the urge to ‘Keep their spirits . They al-| UP by pouring spirits down.’ Incidentally two ounces Outbreaks—there are bound to be these wd of good whiskey in four ounces of water is m safer ee aaeeated ete ichten yenioney| tnd more wholesome drink than five or’six glasses of 4 fi beer. extended to accomplish a larger purpose. e ¥ If the residential districts can be cleared of unde-| “A greater mistake than any that has yet been made sirables in a period of four or five weeks that is fine would be to sanction the production and sale of beer. progress. The rest wil! come more rapidly and with! We would soon have a nation of puzzle-heads.”” , t ° equa] completeness. ‘ FORECASTING THE SENATE. It is a small matter to remove the man’s task to clean up the moral back yards. The plause of the Casper business men was an outburst of the confidences they have in the mayor to perform the job to which he referred. Quietly and systematically the work has been ge- ing on. There are always those impatient of results. ‘There are these impatient of the methods of others. ‘But until the enemy has been driven in from the out-| er entrenchments and surrounded there can be no complete surrender or capture. This plan of battle has been pursued for some time. the roads, This must be only be- cause they can render a needed serv- ice, or do tt better than previousty existing agencies. In those places where motorbusses have been in op eration longest, it is Mkely that any attempt to legislate them out of ex- istence would result in great unpopu- larity for the legistators. Probably the future tn the, motor- bus business will see the repetition of some trausportation history. There wih, no 4outt, develop combinations of smvll Iines, with resulting econ- omfes In operation. There will be tm- Provements tn the vehicles. So tong as individual enterprise is permitted to enjoy the reward of industry, with no mors regulation than fairness to the public and to the operators de- mands, improvements of the service will continue to develop. The opera- tors have the history of the railroads before them. . It is now easy to look back over railroad transportation his- tory and to see how many of the rail- Toads’ present troubles could have been avoided by a fairer policy tu- The mayor is not\a man to disregard his platform. He will give you a cleaner city both physically and| ‘The favorite pastime of Washington correspond- morzily. ents in these early campaign days before nominating contests have mussed everything up is to forecast the political complexion of the next congress. They specu- late little on the house except to concede it again to the Republicans with a number of normally Democratic districts returned to that party. They % ,Yreater delight An rearranging the sen- ate Lecause of its smaller membership and the better probabilities on which to guess. William E. Brigham, the star writer for the Boston Transcript, takes his pen in hand and in a couple of paragraphs fixes it all up in a manner easy to agree with, when he says: “It is mathematically possible for the Republicans te lose the United States senate in the elections of 1922. of all the Republican leaders after the election two years ago, and that opinion still holds good. three senate seats, 18 held by Republicans and 15 by Democrats, are to be filled at the forthcoming elec- ————_—. TO BECOME GOSHEN FARMER. ‘The latest issue of the Torrington Telegram con- tains this item of news concerning a gentleman who has lately come in for considerable publicity in Wyo ming: “HL M. Lux, state organizer for the Nonpartisan league, with headquarters at Cheyenne, has filed a homestead contest against Johannes Honse, on a tract of land in the Phillips community, some thirty miles south of Torrington. If Lox is successful he will be- come a resident of Goshen county. “As Lux has been preaching on the woes and vicis- situdes of the farmer, in his endeavor to further the Jeague in the state, + is hard to follow his line of rea- soning. Perhaps, if he becomes a citizen of our coun- ty, he will eventually become a good Republican, like a great majority of those already living here.” Mr. Lux simply must have both the money and the land of the farmers. He is not content with taking only their hard earned cash for membership in his dis- eredited.league. He ought to be a very popular fel- low among the agriculturists. pens Ey ANNOUNCING STUBBS. Kansas has had and is still having agricultural de- pression. It ia a great agricultural state and the peo- ple would like to have their difficulties solved and go ahead again in the direction of old time prosperity. In similar situations Kansas has turned to her strongest end wisest man and bid him dig them out of the slough. ‘They have lad to be dug out of a variety of political quvagmires, but the digger has always turned up at the proper time. The Emporia Gazette has found the Moses for the present occasion and thus rejoices: “The announcement that Walter R. Stubbs of Law- rence, former governor of Kansas, will run for gover-| nor in the Republican primaries, may be expected soon. It is a refreshing piece of news. Stubbs is a giant in the race. He brings to the situation the experience of the governo: who made the pioneer fight for the big things and good things »zhich gave Kansas leadership among the states of Ge nation. He comes out inde- pendent of any faction or clique or crowd in the Re- publican party. “He has just gone through a terrible business experience, in which as a cattleman he lost afl of his fortune. His experience has taught him mu¢h. Through no fault of his, but through the in- of the time to look after farming, he finds himself now a poor man, but rich in wisdem. He knows what should be done. And he has the capacity and/courage to do it. He among all the candidates is| therone best fitted for the work before the people of| Kansas. It is not a matter of penny pinching and cheese paring. It is a matter of statesman-like con- have and gain 12 seats more to make the overturn. sult would appear to be beyond the realm of possibil- ity. Indeed, in the flush of victory accompanying the returns of two years ago it was the confident predic- tion that the senate would remain Republican for at least ten years, making all reasonable allowances for Shifts in public opinion. Ordinarily one-third of the senate is elected every two years. This year the death of Senator Penrose, coming on top of that of Senator Knox, gives Pennsylvania two places to fill, and as only the term of Senator Knox would have expired next year, the candidacy of George Wharton Pepper ‘increases the total for the country to 338. The sen- ate now consists of 569 Republicans, 36 Democrats and one Republican and Progressive (Johnson of Cali. fornia), giving the Republicans a nominal majority of 22. The word ‘nominal’ is used advisedly, for while two or three senators elected as Republicans will vote with their party on organization, they appear to have very little use for it after they have been handed fat committee assignments or desirable chairmanships. “If it were possible to regard the political condi- tions of 1922 as approximately normal, one would say| that the Democrats in the forthcoming election stand to lose not less than seven seats and the Republicans not more than three,’ thus actually increasing the Re- publican majority. Obviously this rough estimate can de scaled down materially without greatly affecting Republican control. Still travelling along the line of! political normalcy, the Democrats might be expected) to lose Ashurst in Arizona, Gerry in Rhode Island, Kendrick in Wyoming, King in Utah, Myers in Mon- tana, Pomerene in Ohio and perhaps Reed in Missouri. Arizona sent a Republican in place of a Democrat two ‘years ago, and is expected t: repeat the experience. Thirty- | tion, and the Democrats would need hold all they now #f sideration of the great economic burden which the Kansas farmer is bearing. “Stubb- is the man of the hour. The old Roman still is a better man than the whole passe! of kids that are opposing him. He will make a campaign that will sound like a brass band going through a boiler factory when he gets started. Look out for your Fords; the torchlight proce: ing.” eee NEWS WHICH HAS MEANING. “With news plastered all over the papers,” notes the New York Post, “that night life in New York was never so shamele: now; with the equally confi- dent assuranc panied by chapter and verse, that moving pictures at their worst but faintly reflect the lives of moving picture actors and actresses; with a new divorce case rich in unprintable details for every one that fades from the boards, and with an ap psrentiy endless ply of other items of the same t is no wonder if, the reader con- is going te the devil at record- Rhode Island always has been a Republican state, and the friends of former Governor Beeckman believe he will win over Senator Gerry. In Wyoming Frank W. Mondell, the Republican leader of the house, whom i] ward the public. An important policy is the encour. sly, % My 7 yw ? 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