Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIX Ebe Casper Daily Cribune 3 iasued every evening except Sunday at Natrona Casper, County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Bufiding. BUSINESS TELEPHONES .- Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second clase matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President and Editor Business Manager ssociate Editor == . City Editor ‘Adverusing Manager Advertising om wae ee Prndden, King & Prudden, -23 Steger -. Chicago, ML; 286 Fifth avenue, New York City; Globe Bidg.; Bos- ton, Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION ERATES By Carrier All_subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Dafly Tribune will not insure deltvery after subscrip- tion es one month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Cireniation (A. B. ©) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tse for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Caf 15 or 16 any time between 6:20 and 8 o'clock p. m. Sf you'fail to receive your Trihune. A paper will be de- Ivered to you by special mexc<uger. Make it your duty to det The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. <> WHAT MAKFS IT HICK? It is often woadered just how wise the wise-guy $x. Whether it is not simply his presumption that he gets away with, and that the simpler guys who accept his judgments and dictums are not very simple in- deed to permit it. The Kansas City Star writes a story about what wise guys call a hick town. It is the difference in viewpoint, cnly, that makes the-hick town. As in the case of the Kansas town in question, everything is in favor of the hick town. The Star tells this story: “At a big religious meeting im Newton, Kas. re- eently, a stranger was impressed by the activity of the county officials in church work. The sheriff of the county conducted the devotional exercises. The probate judge presided at a public church meeting. ‘The county clerk is the superintendent of a Sunday ‘hool at Halstead in Harvey county. The county at- Reenay is an active Presbyterian and the district clerk is a pillar in one of the other churches. “What an old-fashioned community Newton, Bas., must be to elect men of that sort to office. ‘Why, in a county of that kind the underground work- jers have no standing at all. It is doubtfal if Harvey jeounty would countenance graft in its public admin- istration, and, as likely as not, it would defeat a man for office for boodling. “Harvey County has.had>no scandals fn the ad- «ministration of its business affairs, it is said, for many, many years, and it is of that peculiar turn of mind that it rejoices in the fact that it has had honest government. Indeed, the community appears to take it for granted that honesty in public administration is a normal condition, and the people do not seem to realize that they have missed anything worth while by not having a touch of underworld injected into their public life. s . Yet Newton, with-allits old-fashioned. views about decent government, has miles and miles of paved streets linked with white ways. Ornamental drinking fountains adorn its street corners. It is proud of its modern high schools and its ward schools, It has two ‘big hospitals with homes for the nurses, It main- tains public health nurses for its poor. It has a coun- try club with a clubhouse. It has extensive railroad shops of the Santa Fe railroad, employing hundreds of men—and the laboring men appear.to be amaz- ingly well pleased with the conditions af the municipal and county government. “There are so many motor cats owned by these old-fashioned people in Newton thet ordinances and rules are necessary to the convenience of traffic and ene gets the impression, from every angle and view- point, that for some reason the people who live in Newton are fairly well contented with a public policy that has kept lawlessness out of the government and has not winked at vice and wickedness and dishonor. “Possibly Newton doesn’t even know that it is what the wise guys of the big cities call a hick town —or else it doesn’t give a whoop for what the wise guys think of it.” The situation in Harvey County and the whole- some lessons taught may be embraced with profit all over the union. Even in Wyoming. It is no disgrace to be called a hick town or a hick county when) you are hicking in the right direction and especially when it happens that the fellow who calls you hick does so Ibecguse you don’t hick his way. SVL STE eee HIGH RANK STATE UNIVERSITIES. After a tour of State Universities in the south and west in which he came in contact with a quarter sf a million students, Professor Kent, professor of Biblical literature at Yale, has returned to his duties. He is giving the benefit of his experience and obser- vation in lectures to the Yale college body, and among other things has said: “The eighty-six State universities and colleges in [America, with three-quarters of a million students lind faculties aggregating more than 50,000 instruct- isrs, are among the most potent and impressive forces m modern education. Already they have won a po- ition of prestige and leadeship in each of their re- fective States. Hitherto this leadership has been biefly in the fields of intelectual and vocational train- ng, but recenily a new and significant movement has ppeared in these institutions that were once regarded S ‘godless.’ Its underlying motive is well voiced by ‘resident McKinley of the University of Illinois’ “There } no complete education without religion,’ and by resident Burton of the University of Michigan: ‘The Itimate test for the State University is the moral and tligious character of its gracuntes. “From many quarters comes the testimony that 1e religious life in some of the State universities and olleges is on the whole simpler, stronger, and more ynamic than even in many of the denominational ‘Ileges that were founded primarily to teach religion. he reason is obvious. The religious life in the State ‘stitutions is not forced but entirely spontaneous. broadest foundation—Biblical, scientific and experi- mental An increasmg number of their faculties are deeply interested in practical There aré still a few who define religion as a ghost fear or as simply the product of the human mind, but as an astute observer’ has recently remarked, “They « are rapidly being educated by contact with their well in- formed students.’ Many of the faculties in these in- stitutions are leaders of voluntary Bible and discus- sion classes. In Iowa State University, for example, there are. over 700 students enrolled in such classes. Some of the most effective teachers of religion are the professors of theoretical and applied science. Two State university presidents told me that the principles that guided them in the choice of instructors were, first, mastery of and ability to teach their subjects, and second, the power so to interpret them that they would strengthen rather than weaken the faith of the students. “In connection with ten or twelve of our leading: State universities there are also growing up union schools of religion which correlate the work of the Christian Association secretaries, the student iovs education for which in many State institutions full credit is given toward graduation. At certain universities, such as the University of Michigan, steps are also being taken to correlate the religious and social courses in the curriculum and to supplement them so as tc provide at least the equivalent of the first year’s work in the theological seminary or social training school. “From the bold and successful experiments in re- ligious education that are being tried in the great State universities of the West and South, Yale and the other universities in the East undoubtedly may| learn much. They, like the State institutions, are confronted by new problems, new types of students and a new and vastly broader conception of educa- tion and religion. Their lasting contribution to the needs of the new age will be largely determined by the way in which they meet these new problems, for the final test of every educational institution ‘is the moral and religious character of its students,’ ” $9 EUROPE’S DEBT TO AMERICA. » It is interesting to know the views of leading English and French journals on the American claim for maintaining her army of occupation on the Rhine since the close of the war. The Americans were there at the urgent'request of the Allies, who argued that the presence of American soldiers in Germany would produce less friction than the soldiers of any other nationality. Reviewing the subject of the American claims for reimbursement the Manchester Guardian, one of the ablest and fairest of English journais says: “The.Americans do not Inck a grim sense of hu- mor. They are owed by Europe more than there is the slightest chance of Europe's ever paying, and they choose the moment when an uncomfortable suspicion of this truth is beginning to sink in to enter an ad- ditional. claim for a share in reparations. But the sums demanded by the other Allies from Germany also exceed the maximum that can ever. be paid, so that the Iatest American claim seems to be at'two removes from the possible. Since the United States cid not ratify the Treaty cf Versailles her legal posi- tion is-obscure, but it seems to be generally agreed that she has rights which, if exercised in full, would make a considerable hole in the sums available for the other Ailies. She claims, at least, the right to re- imbursement for the costs of the Army of Occupa- ‘tion, which’ is more than the other Allies have yet been able to get for themselves. The idea at the back, of the United States’ demand is not altogether clear, But one can hardly suppose that it is the money so much as the recognition of her title to the money she wants. When that has been accorded she will have something further with which to bargain and with which to bring pressure on the Allies to pursue a policy towards Germany, and perhaps to- wards disarmament, more in accordance with Ameri- can ideas. . On the whole, that is likely to be a good| thing. Reparations and Europe’s debt to America! hang together, and no satisfactory settlement of either is possible which does not include America. This latest move will at least tend to make the Allies realize that American help is indispensable. They were willing to blink at the fact so-long as the Contil nent’s inability to pay the Amerfean debt could be conveniently ignored. -Now that the Americans are pressing for payment and showing that without their goodwill even the collection of reparations from Ger- many will be made more. difficult it becomes clear! fhat a general reconsideration of both stil he undertaken and the ferni red oni which n is discovered on which America would be willing to assist in their solution.” oo OBSOLETE FAIRY TALES. 4 omething must be done to stimulate the jaded imagination of the blase child of this day and genera- tion,” complains the New York Herald, “ ‘The Arabian Nights,’ the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm brothers and Jules Verne have been made ob- solete by modern inventions. The boy of today read- ing critically over the fairy tales that enthralled his Parents will say impatiently ‘Old Stuff! and turn to his radio telephone, his newspaper or the moying picture house around the corner for thrills the old ree moulnaier give him. what interest could the story of the ‘ League Boots’ or ‘The Magic Carpet’ be to the ben who has been taken in an airplane by an indulgent Parent from Palm Beach to Bimini and back? What charm had the mythical Princess Goldilocks that are not incarnated in Mary Pickford? Could Prince Charming of the fairy tale swing by chandeliers and vault tables while on his way to foil the ogre and| rescue the princess? Not according to the Grimms and to Hans Christian Andersen. Scenario writers have made these garrulous old peers graybeards seem Jull “The parent of the T modern boy can recall he shipped in fancy with Captain ‘Nemo onthe pote tilus. His son would have no appeite for such a cruise, Now the submarine is a reality. Tales of Planets talking to planets don’t arouse him when he can sit in his own nursery in New York and by twist- ing a knob on a wireless receiving set listen to all the voices from distant cities and from ships far out at sea, “Aladdin’s Wonderf: 1 Lay usefal'pasaees, ‘ul ‘mp would serve him no r for there is nothing Aladdin ever aeked the ‘Servant of the Lamp that modern invention ‘as not brought to the nursery of the modern child. _, You cannot make the modern girl child believe Little Red Ridinghood ever was in any serious danger from the wolf. The modern little girl has seen ‘The Perils of Pearl’ at the moving picture theater. She knows of more fascinating dangers that lurk in the paths beauty must travel. Why sympathize with a mythical heroine whose stepmother or cruel aunts for- bid her to go to the ball when your own rests not on a creedal nor sectarian but upon the obs Advertised On| Siinay morning. tridge Building By is icv z= ‘ommerce Chamber Following is the at the local office: company, elght fill its first order for iabords. Ap-|-work, to work on sants are requested to call at the|Powder River. Thi: chamber of commerce headquarters on the drive for new members to the or- ganization at present. “Wanted—By the Security Bridge /|is completed. Also want one male laborers, Che chamber of commerce free em-|ones who, have had experience yment bureau has been calleq upon |form building and cement bridge f Srerars take away your lipstick and say that 5 SRay ors iv you cannot have ably last three or four months, wages to start with from 45c to 50c an hour. Boaré will cost $1.25 day and appli- cants should have bed rolls and per- sonal baggage. Carfare will be al- lowed from Casper to Powder River }and return if laborers stay until job not before that force is busy in message received preferably | cook to cook for a camp of from ten in | to fifteen men. Apply at chamber of commerce headquarters. and j,state qualifications leaving address, tele- Bridge project at and local pastors, the university churches and the relig- | | From the earliest times the I The status of women in English speaking countries, whose laws are founded largely upon the old’ English common law, since the rights and privileges of the :wo sexes have been made more nearly equal, has brought about @ number of interesting~ legal situations, amoag them the testimony of wife or husband in criminal cases. The question is pertinent in England and 1s causing considerable discus- |aion. No doubt the same question will ‘arise in this country., The immunity feature and the legal fiction’ that re- gards the husband and wif one will |both have to be abandoned by 1 [lative action, The Jatter already ap- | pears ridiculous to both profession and laity. re The London Saturday Review pub- lishes a very interesting discussion of |the subject which is of equal value |on this side of the ocean. It follows: “The effect of modern legislation and the social changes brought about by the late war. make it opportune ‘per- haps to consider the present state’ of the law as to the criminal responsibil ity of married women, especially in view of the result of the Peel prose- cution at the Central criminal’ court: text- book writers assumed hus! and wife to be one person in the eye of the law, ‘unica persona ‘quia caro una et sanguis unus,’ and from this stand- point was deduced the legal fiction of the immunity of a wife from pun- ishment for crime committed in the presence and therefor under the pre- sumed coercion of her husband. ‘So great a favorite,’ says Blackstone, ‘is the female sex of the laws of England.’ “Regarding the mode in which such rules of law are formulated, Mr. Shel- don Amos says (‘Science of law,’ 49), ‘a spontaneous practice is first fo! lowed and, if good and useful, is gen- erally copied over and over again, the more so as habit and association al- ways render the imitation of an old and familiar practice easier than in- v@nting a new and untried one.’ But as Sir Henry Maine points out (‘Village ‘ommunities,’ p. 58) ‘if a tradition.be not kept steady by corresponding, prac- tice it may be warped by all sorts of extraneous influences.' Again, -Mr. Sheldon Amos observes (Ibid., -p. 129), ‘the same course of legislation must be pursued with respect to the legal dis- tinctions between men and women as between men and men. This ts not a question of policy but of moral necessi- ty, and it will, sooner or Tater, be rec- ognized to be so.” “Leaving the academic for the more practical side of the question, we would draw attention to the case of R. vs. Hughes, in which Baron Thom- son laid it down that if a wife commits a felony in the presence of her hus- band the law out of tenderness for the wife raises a presumption prima facie and prima facie only that the feloni- ous act was done: under the coercion of the husband, but it is absolutely necessary that the husband should, in such case be actually. present and tak- ing part in the transaction. This pre- sumption, however, may be rebutted as it actually was in the case last re- ferred to by evidence that in ‘commit- ting the felony the wife was the'more active party. “The authorities upon this question do not, unfortunately, provide ~ any. definite or reasoned classification of the the cases to which this-presump- tion applies. With regard to this Lord Halsbury. said in the’ case +of Brown vs. Attorney, General for New Zealand that the decisions on the’ sub- ject have not been entirely uniform. It is said by Blackstone that a married woman is responsible for all crimes which though committed in the pres- ence of her husband are, Ike murder, mala in se; but this dictum is obvi- ously too wide, for the presumption of coercion has been applied to such fel- onies as_burglary and larceny. “The law as to whether this, pre- sumption! of coercion maybe extended to offenses of misdemeanor seems to be no less nebulous. Blackstone's opinion was that in all ‘misdemeanors the wife may be found guilty with the husband, but here again -exceptions have been made. It was held (R. vs. Williams) that a wife was rightly con- victed with her husband of keeping .a brothel and ‘the ratio decidendi in that case was that the wife might probably is work will prob-| phone, etc” have as great, nay a greater share in ; ' ‘THESE.ARE THE DAYS Old Legal Fiction Must Go ewig: | his the criminal management of the house and that the offense was such as might ‘generally be presumed to be managed by the intrigues of the sex.’ “In another case; R. vs. Cruse, a woman was convicted with her hus- ‘band of assaulting their child on the the ground only that the presumption ‘of coercion was rebuteed by the active part taken by the wife on the ferecious ill treatment of her child. It was in this case that a dictum of Mr. Justice Berrougtis was quoted, “that if a wife was in company with her husband the law aiways presumed her to be under control, though. the jury, being married men, probably, knew that the contrary was often the fact.’ “A quite opposite view was taken in another case, R. vs. Price, in which a woman charged with her husband with uttering ‘counterfeit ‘coin was, by di- rection of the presiding judge, ac- quitted on the same presumption, and in the case of R.. vs. Torpey (assault) a simfIxr course was followed. "All this tends to show that. the decision of. cases in which the defense of ‘coercion has been raised rests largely upon the facts of the case,actually under con- sideration. “If this conclusion is accurate how far can the presumption of coercion properly be applied under present and probable future conditions? Having Tegard to the provisions of the repre- sentation of the people act, 1918, and of the sex disqualification (removal) act, 1919, can it reasonably be argued that a married woman must in com- mitting a criminal act jointly with ber husband be deemed to act under his coercion? “Supposing, that a wife is a parlia- mentary elector, and in that capacity {| capable of influencing legislation is it to be assumed that she is not responsi- ble to the laws which she has indirect- ly made? Again, consider the case of a wife who happens to be a peeress, a member of parliament, a doctor of medicine, or, as may shortly be the case, a barrister at law. Would any sensible person maintain that if a wife so qualified be charged with her hus- band with -a’ criminal . offensé she should ‘recelve the benefit of the fic- tion of ‘coercion’, and be: acquitted, when, as a matter of fact, the hus- band. devold of such’ qualifications, may even have teken counsel with his wife before they together embarked on thelr nefarious schemé? “It isa. truism that privileges and responsibilities of citizenship must go hand’ in “hand, and it is difficult to un- derstand why, in,these days a woman should, simply owing to-her married state, be legally frresponsible for her criminal acts. The present state of the-law-upon this subject 1s uncertain and anomalous and appears to be to @ great extent opportunist. “We suggest that the quéstion of the responsibility of married women ‘tor their criminal acts, whenever and however committed, should be ‘settled, once and for all, by Parliament.” Serene’ Discontent Serene content to me is not serene; I brook no measure for my bound- Limits are low'and averages mean: No portion suits one’ who Pursues a whole. Failure to grasp my visions ere they Delights me more than were’ no visions sent. A god oP heaven unknown or unat- tained ; Contents me better than mere dull ‘content. Nirvana's endless peace, was meant for drones; Me Unending effort ts unending joy. Atoms at rest are dead, like stocks and stones. ~ I want’ no Ithaca,’ but always Troy. Yet dear are all the daily tasks which 4m With serviceable toll my frustrate hours. I love this earth, if heaven's above me still; I choose a heaven which wil tax my powers. ~ Frederick Almy. hundred or more of them Brown. men's war as far east as of Columbia, I had left the wild -west country forever—had been in Hyder- abad, India, and was-in on “silver” matters. x left his house to lunch Lafayet! Blaine’s house there was within? shocking one i ever had, dated “Casper. A man had ridden at midnight from the K. C. ranch, and had safely through, about 120 miles I sup- pose. And this was the message, signed Toschemacher—I have got ‘it here now. “K. CG. rustlers; can possibly hol for three or four days bu’ A Springtime Picture Peace over all the land: a faint wind stirs Among the trees that jift their hands on high; Peace, amt the pealing of a vesper bell hang. There are twenty And starlight in the sky. Peace while the river sings its silver “song As it flows onward toward the dis tant sea, Peace, and the land lies waiting, wrapt in dream; Then night fades silently. 4 When breaks the dawn clear as a daf- fodil, Fresh as a new blown rose, one may behold The world transformed; each fair, ma- Jestic hill Is outlined as cf old. Against the far horizon; over all Spring’s mantle, like a velvet robe is flung; Amid the orchards hear the bluebirds call The apple boughs among! Down every winding lane the cattle stray To verdant pastures laden rich with dew, As sunlight fills the valley and the day AN bright and new. Begins in earnest; then the simple|I may be wrong, Take up their toll, yet take no heavy yoke; Their view ts wide. left it till too late, but you Not narrow, as the city dwellers think,/ any use you like of this For those who -live with mother earth a} bh Share with the Infinite communion, @rink From the Eternal Heart. —ELIZABETH SCOLLARD. since to Billings will find staying with me. deseiged in my old K, C, ranch at the North Fock ervesing of Powder River—some thirty of: them. They had shot a bunch of rustlers and there were a Creek under the leadership of one ‘We got stray echoes of this cattle with Sir Michael Herbert—a little Iat- er our ambassador and hppily I had Blaine, at that time secretary of state for Mr, Harrison, an@ who lived in Square. Aw I reached Mr. boy who inquired was Mr. Frewen “I am Mr. Frewen,” I said, and opened the telegram—the most ‘We are held here by the Meved then we shail) certainly all friends—can you |help us with the president? ‘Toschemacher.” 4 The message made me sick, and my first impulse was to go back to Her- bert’s dnd think it over; luckily 1 @id no such thing, but went upstairs and put the message into Mr, Blaine's hand. He saw how distressed I’ was, and he said. “We will do all that is humanly possible, Where are the near- “At ‘Fort. McKinney on I said: To make a long story short Mr. Blaine got a message through at the moment of time, or I suppose they would have hanged in the cottonwoods at the K. C. creas. ing. I wonder if the man still lives who got the message through to Cas- per? I think the only one of the besieged I ever saw after was a good fellow, Fred de Billier, and I met him some years later on. the steps at the senate end of the capitol. I asked him if he knew who saved them, and he said “A message from Mr. Blaine did it.” Then I told him the story. If | alive he must be near seventy now. If I am right my friend. Senator Warren was then in congress and was doing all possible to help the cattlemen, but no doubt the activity of “the man from Maine” was of great value, and time was the essence of the contract. I do not think that Wyoming was at that time admitted to statehood, but folk, And s0 you are at Casper, now a ‘Whose dwellings dot the greening| bustling, thriving town. I am very countryside, glad to hear it.-It has played in ‘The Wyoming’ of the West.’ I have tried to write my recollec- tions of those days, but I fear I have suppose a letter I wrote you not long Brown, the big rustler captain had @ fight at my “76” ranch with the Present Earl of Lonsdale who was Brown, Wt tiid 5g EF eel And the wind of tne night swept by; He spoke to the savage girl alone; She only heard him sigh— As she deigned with a wave of her sun. burned hand To make him know and to unden stand. The ‘maid. crept back tothe tight ef fire the District | Where tho warriors laughed aloud, And each one paused in his laugh te admire ‘This princess that walked so proud— But the lover went with the wind off the night And hid his face from his first love's ht. —GENE MARTIN. Casper, Wyo, Spring Has Wiles The robin piped a merry tune, The bluebird sang his song in glee, ‘The lark made plaintive melody, ‘Thinking that spring had kissed the lea. ‘Washington with Mr, @ telegraph and ft was happily got The sun laughed warmly in the noon, ‘The young lambs gamboled wil@ with joy, A blue-eyed violet peeping coy ‘Was found and pluckel by a romp ing boy. ld “them off it unless re- of your old At night the sad anq kindly moon Looked on a barren earth below, Enveloped in a sheet of snow, _ And dirges sounding to and tro. —William A. Kremer. eae Visit the Burgess Millinery and ‘on one of those Blue Bird Plecrne ~ STOMAGH UPSET? Get at the Real Cause —Take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That’s what thousands of stomach sufferers are doing Sed ineiren of ing tonics, or a Ey Seedy they Se atiackt ng the teal cause of the ailment—clogged liver and disordered bowels. eo is or G i foods? 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