Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribun. Sudding- ~ — 16 BUSINESS TELEPHONES - 15 and Branch Telephone Exchange Cor ‘Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming). Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. “MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President and Editor . Business Manager! . Associate .. City Balter! rusing Manager 7, EB HANWAY ..... EARL E. HANWAY W. H. HUNTLEY &. E. EVANS ... THOMAS DAILY Ives. Bidg., Chicago, ee Globe Bide: Bos. file in Prodéen, King & Prudd Mil; 286 Firth avenue, ton, Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on the New York, Chicago and Boston offjces and visitors are welcome. eT SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year .. Six Months Three Months One Month Per Copy One Year Six Months Three Months . No subscription by mail accepted for less three months. 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Sa a An Inconsistent Policy ITS ATTITUDE toward the employment of : glia school teachers. the Casper district school board goes on record as opporing matrimony and thus defeating the very object for which school’ houses re built, boards of education created and entrusted with certain powers, and school teachers employed and ‘afl things else done for the public education of chil- dren. The board is inconsistent. Of what use, pray, fwould be the efforts now put forth in educational matters for the children if the institution of marriage swas discouraged all along the line as the school board desires to do with respect to woren instructors? It would seem that instead of placing stumbling blocks in the pathway to the altar, the board would do better to seatter primroses along that delightful route to bliss and encourage its hundreds of charm- ing and accomplished single teachers to make the journey and settle down in Casper permanently just like their sisters have done; and to place a premium ef steady employment upon the taking of so impor- tant and altogether desirable a step for the good of {he community and the welfare of the schools. Cannot the board realize that it is discriminating against its own citizens and in favor of temporary} Sesidents from other states who simply desire to speng ja season in Wyoming at attractive salary? Let us take cxre of our permanent residents first, and the marrie teachers are our permanent residents; then let us induce the temporary ones to become permanent among us by a broad policy, from the modern viewpoint, that a woman, married or single, stands upon her merits as an instructor and her constitutional rights and is entitled to earn her living regardless of board rules that hark back to the stone age of civilization. ‘ Searching and Impartial HE CALLING of a grand jury to investigate \4 alleged scandal in official circles in Natzona county ‘will be approved by all citizens who take an honest pride in the stewardship of public affairs. Charges of graft, co-partnership with bootleggers, whiskey run- mers, dope peddlers, prostitutes, pimps and underworld ‘characters generally have been laid at the door of ‘county and city bfficials and others in public life mntil the honest citizen is uncertain as to whether he %s residing ‘n Sodom or Casper. ) We are unwilling to believe that the rottenness is (as general as the street stories indicate. But with ithe openness and recklessness with which they are “ogndied about the public places it would seem that ithe only way to separate the pure from the tainted | fwould be to institute a searching invesigation and affix the labels in accordance with the results ob- tained. If an innocent officer is under snspicion, he, $f he is honest, ought to welcome, even insist upon, ‘the most unmerciful probing to establish his rectitude. There is little use in an investigation of alleged bad conditions and wrong doing unless it be sincere and thorough. If there i8 anything in the various ‘charges at all, there is too much to be covered with a coat of whitewash. And the public will not view patiently any attempt in that direction. While immediate results depend upon the character of the grand jury personnel, the final results as well as the guidance of the jury depend upon the character of men the court appoints as special prosecutors. The investigations undertaken must be of the most sweeping mature within the statute of limitations. Nohing short of this will be satisfying to the public. "The lid must be torn off agd the jury and the prose- cutors, charged with this public duty, must not only roll up their sleeves and delve into the slime; but they must go after so-called respectability, the higher- ups, in their search for corruption and wrong doing. There is but little danger in a grand jury affixing the stigma of indictment upon an innocent citizen, public or private. Indictments are not presented upon generai priciples. Therefore honest officials and upright citizéhs, victims of rumors, are in no danger ‘of suffering damage to character or reputation by any inquiry instituted by the jury. Rather are they ts be cleared of suspicion and awarded a clean bill ef health, morally and officially. When affairs reach the situation apparent in Casper} today, whether it is all smoke and very little fire, or all fire and no smoke at all there is just one thing to do—purify the situation by a relentless examina- tion of the causes that have brought it all about. The public will respectfully await the operation of the law. Democracy and Bureaucracy PROMINENT Democratic editor recently criticized +4 the extension of bureaucracy under the United States government, implying that the Republican party is largely responsible for that particular phase of our national activities. In his plea for simplicity and economy the editor S2ys: “To resist paternalism in government is democratic; to resist bureaucracy is democratic. The same tend- encies that are confiscating by oppressive taxation the rewards of toil and thrift are likewise conspiring} fo convert citizens into subjects; to enchain ‘the old- time freeman who glories in exercising his own ini-; tiative, his own enterprise, his own responsibility.” There are but few who will disagree with the sev- timents quoted above; brt a search of the records will disclose that it is mot the Republican but the Democratic party that is chiefly responsible for the| limitation of individual initiative and the oppressive | taxation which discourages enterprise. During the eight years of Democratic rule from 1913 to 1921 thers were twenty-five boards and com- missions established, not counting the innumerable bureaus created within departments already in exist- ence. Among these independent boards and com- missions is the United State “Railroad Labor Board, which tells the railroads upon what terms and rates of wages they must employ their yorkmen. There is the Federal Trade Commission, which tells the} businessmen of the country on what conditions they) may conduct their private business. There was the railroad administration, which is still technically in existence but gradually being dissolved by the Repub- lican administration. During its reign the railroad the United States treasury to pay deficits. Among the other boards 2ud commissions enumerated in the | official directory at the close of the Wilson admin- istration and not enumerated there at the close of the previous Republican administration are the Bureau of Efficiency; the Federal Reserve Board; the United States Shipping Board; the Emergency Fleet Corpor- ation; the Council of National Defense; ‘he ‘Joint Board; the Finance Corporation; the “uriff Com- mission; the Road Commissioners for Alaska; the Commission on Navy Yards and Naval stations; the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; the Board of Mediation and Conciliation; the United States Section of the Inter-American High Commission; the Pecun- iary Claims Arbitration Commission, and the United States Interdepartmental Social Hyiene Board. For the purposes of a necessarily brief article it is not the purpose to say that any one or all of these boards and commissions are undesirable. A discussion of the merits and demerits of each would require more space than can be allotted. The subject is merely presented in order to point out one thing—that a Democratic editor criticises the creation of boards and commissions for the extension of bureaucracy and paternalism with the inferential placing of tespon- sibility upon the Republican party, whereas the great- | est offender has been the party of his own affiliation. | missions are evils, whatever resentment is to be mani- fested by the citizen should be directed against the Democratic party which has created the greater number. A “Normal” Coal Strike | 4¢,7NITED MINE WORKERS announce that the coal strike is running along in normal fashion. That is true. That is the trouble,” says the Chicago Tribune. “At the end of the third week of the strike we are told by dealers that the market is dead.| There appears to be enough fuel on hand, or coming from ‘non-union mines, to see the country well into August. There is no great demand for coal, despite the closing down of all the union mines in the country. The fact that 20,000 or more railroad men have been thrown out of employment by reduction of car loading is accepted as merely incidental. The country refuses to see any forecast of future and more widespread unem- ployment in that. We go blindly and blandly along— doing nothing. “At the beginning of the fourth week the unions announce that they have induced 80,000 non-union men to join the walkout, and expect to have 25,000 more out by the end of the week. That will reduce , replacements and help to hurry the crisis. “These armouncements are the ‘normal’ develop- ment of the strike which the union approves. They ought to be a serious warning to the country. They are giving us time to act before we are involved in the “normal” settlement, which both the unions and the operators apparently expect. but which will leave the consumer entirely out of consideration. That is ‘normal.’ Ds “We want a settlement which is not ‘normal.’ We want one which will put a stop to the ever recurring strikes and bickerings which put such a heavy burden upon industry. We want one which will take the and miner. It is not impossible if work to that end is started at once. If congress wil! pass the Bland bill or some other measure providing for an adequate fact finding commission a great step will be faken. Information on which legislation, if needed, can ‘be formulated intelligently, and on which a fair and permanent settlement can be based can then be made public. Unless such provision is made speedily the ‘normal’ course of the strike will bring us to a crisis in which there will be a patched up and temporary peace, leading only to new troubles, and that after hundreds of thousands of men are thrown out of work and our present industrial restoration is set back indefinitely.” | A €atastrophe Boom IS RECOGNIZED even abroad that the present industrial boom in Germany, which constitutes a sharp contrast to the economic world crisis, is only ja “catastrophe boom.” ‘The niark depreciation caused present difficulties is artificially stimulat- ing the®German industries into feverish activity. These industries realize temporary profits at the ex- pense of the prosperity of competing countries. The conclusion is natural that if a recovery or stabilization of the mark were to take place in Ger- many, its people would in turn be forced to pass through a curative crisis and would suffer from an increase of unemployment precisely as Czecho-Slovakia is at present suffering, owing to the appreciation of the crown of that country. | Thawing Out Credits Ipae THAWING of frozen credits throughout the ' south and west has strengthened the reserve posi- tion of the Federal Reserve banks in these sections and made the ratio of total reserves for each of the twelve banks more nearly uniform. Another interest- ing comparison is afforded by the figures issued for the reporting member banks in the leading cities which show that total loans and discounts declined from $12,457,000,000 for 821 member banks on April 8, 1921, to $10,874,000,000 for 802 member banks on April 5, 1922, For the same period the accommoda- tion of these banks at the reserve banks decreased from 10.3 per cent to 1.8 per cent of their total loans and investments. Bank clearings for the first quarter declined in comparison with the corresponding months of 1921, from $88,249,000,000 to $87,689,000,000 for the country as a whole and from $38,465,000,000 to $56,333,000,000, with New York city excluded. While the aggregate March figures were an improvement over those of March, 1921, a slight decrease was recorded on the elimination of thy New York clearings. The lower price level which has prevailed this year would ordinarily justify the conclusion that an in- creased volume of business has been transacted in spite of the smaller aggregate clearings, were it not for the fact that the reports as a whole have included large security and other purely financial operations. administration boosted the expenses of the railroads| 3 | and held their incomes retatively low, digging into | Assuming that the Democratic editor is right in his| jcontention that these government boards and com-| consumer into consideration as well as the operator! April Showers {We are pleased to introduce to The ‘Tribune readers a new poet, Master Warren Winter, aged 11 years.] Ox, for the April showers That bring the sweet May flowers, The grass that gets so green By brooks that flow serene. I would that I were ‘here, | Out in the sparkling air ‘To pick the sweet May flowers, | Brought by the April showers, |It's all so bright and green | With everything so clean, — |No rubbish smokes the Lane, But all {s fresh with rain. Here little violets grow. Choose smoky city? No! I take the bloming field Where fiowers perfumes yield, —Warren Winter, Casper, Wyo, The Married School Teacher Editor Tribune: I note with con- siderable satisfaction your editorial in yesterday's issue of the Tribune en- utled “Scrapping Married Teachers.” The announcement has been made that the board of education will em- ploy no married women as teachers in the Casper schools next year; that no new teachers. who are married may be employed, and that those married women who are now teaching may not be re-employed. In arriving at this conclusion, it would seem that that board of educa- tion is losing sight of the real idea in.employing teachers. Under an up; to-date, broad-minded, fair adminis- tration, teachers are” ordinarily em- ployed Because of cneir qualifications which make them good, capable, effi- cient teachers, It matters not whether they be of light or dark complexion, tall or short of stature, or whether they happen to have been born in Massachusetts: or Texas. It matters not whether they be good cooks or poor dancers. These things have nothing to do with their qualifications essential to good teachers. Neither has the matter of whether they be marricd or single. No one can say that unmarried teachers as a class are better or poorer teachers than married teachers. ‘There are good, bad and indifferent in each class, just the same as there are good bad, and indifferent teachers. What we want in our Casper schools is,a good, efficent corps of teachers—teachers of academic pre- paration, teachers of experience, teachers of a natural aptitude for giv- ‘ing instruction, teachers of attractive personality and sterling personal character, teachers who ‘have demon- strated their ability to render satis- tory service. Along with the announcement that no married women are to be employ- ‘ed in the Casper schools another year comes the information that the prin- cipal of one of our grade schools, a married woman, has been assured that she will be employed in her same Position for next year. On this particular question the at- titude of the board *of education is something hard for the layman to understand, In the first place, what reason is there for the discrimination of the board against married women? What reason is there for disregarding essential teaching qualifications in a married woman, when those qualifi- cations of right ought to be funda- mental in the selection of any teach- er? And furthermore, if all married teachers are to come under the ban, why employ a married woman Principal of a grade school? If the board of education has any- thing to say on the subject, any ex- planation to make, any reasons to give, any account to render as to thé manner in which they administer school affairs entrusted to them, we fre sure’that the taxpayers of Cas- per and the fathers and mothers of children in Casper schools, would be interested to hear from them. And in the mean time, if the pres- ent board of education persists in side tracking their responsibility, then it as IT, !Dout & BLIEVE |GoT TIME To MAKE THAT NEW YORK TRIP A RIGHT Now is time for qualified school electors to see to it that the board of educa- tion is mado up of members who can and will make the welfare of our schools assume precedence over all immaterial considerations. ONE OF THE PUBLIC. Setircs rt Seale A Plea For Married Teachers Editor Tribune: Noting your edi- torial upon the subject of married teachers and their prospective elimi- nation from the Casper school sys- tem, I as the humble husband of one of these, desire to pause long enough to trs my kepi into the ring. 1 hope that these teachers wil be allowed to retain their positions for Know that my wife will, like 89 tinany of those otherwise capable hememakers, start in on card parties; sewing bees, ladies’ aids, art leagues, daneing classes, and what not, and I will be as neglocted (?) az ever. These teachers are now doing @ yeood and needed work in the community. Let them continue. e As to facts however, I fail to see the gain for the school system in let- ting these women go. They have spent time and money in perfecting themselves in their profession. Years of training an@ experience are theirs. I know of no greater field of endea- vor for women than education, no| matter what their status. Are men supposed to change their occupation sacrificing their years of schooling, training and experience, when they take upon themselves the cares and responsibilities of family Why is it any greater detriment to]. the social structure for a woman to teach, than engage in any other oc- cupation? Does the school board. en- tertain the same idea regarding the married women employed in the busi- ness institutions in which they are interested? All things being equal. I claim the teachers have as much right to furth-| er tneir profession and engage in it, as I. mine. Lots of gas is being expended of late regarding the conservation, of our economic assets. A teacher is certainely ono of these. Most towns have mourned the fact that capable, competent instructors are so hard to secure. I have heard the same story here. Why discard these assets, if the eC SEPA RES vaiiable service? Isn't this an eco: jmomic loss? Serap your navies, and other destructive agencies if you will, | but why take action against construc: | tive forces? With the present overcrowded sit- vation in the local schools, and the physicial condition of some of the so-called new school buildings. I doubt | the advisability of increasing tbe school population. These are ques- tions, which should occupy the atten- tion of the board, far more than that of wedded mentors. A HUSBAND. On a Lip Stick Oh, perfumed protective! Oh, carmine corrective! Oh, thwarter of love and devotion! ‘How now can fond passion Content with a fashion That's sweeping the land like an ocean! You plump down before her And swedr you adore her And pour out yeur love to Priscilla; But seek then to seal it, You merely congeal it With tallow and oil of vanilla! "Was ever a stupid The equal of Cupid ’ To let such a fad grip the lasses? He'll lose his position As master magician And have to start calcimine classes! | MAURICE MORRIS. | Quarrel, Not Tariff “It has become quite the fashion in Some quarters to attribute the loss of the compaign of 1912 by the Re-| Publican party to the dissatisfaction of the voters with the Payne-Aldrich tariff act. The man who makes that statement is a wilful, deliberate fal- sifier or else is too ignorant to dis- cuss any public question,” This is the opinion held by the Am- ericun Economist. “The loss to the Republican party of the campaign in 1912 was due to a quarrel within the party of the ad: Berea of two Republican aspirants for the presidency. Both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt desired to be president. 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