Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1922, Page 2

PAGE be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona sw Publication Offices, Tribune Building. Two 15 and 16 Departinents =LEPHONES : Exchange Connecting All Wyoming), Postoffice as second class ASSOCIA’ r > Zantor J. E HANWAY . President and = EARL E. HANWAY . Business Manager hn EY ely tone . City Editor | THOMA Adverusing Manager | ising Representatives. Pr aden, 1720-23 weer Bidg., Chicago, venue, New York City; Globe Bidg.: Bos) Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in fork, Chicago and Boston offices and: visitors} ome. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier t Mass. are wel Year fonths e Mont! Mon’ Copy One Yere fix M Thre> Months ° . No subecription by inail accepted for less period than must bo paid in advance and the insure delivery after subscrip- Uon becomes one Member of Andit Burean of Circulation (A. BL ©) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper also the local news published herein. Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Cal or 16 any time between 6:30 and § o'clock p. m. if you o receive your Tribune. A paper will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. ET The Circus Parade HERE HAS BEEN some criticism of the city ad- ministration because of the failure of a circus com- pany showing at the fair grounds to give a public parade through the downtown streets. ; The criticism is not justified. The facts in the business are these. The circus company refused to show within the city limits at any of the various con- venient sites, simply to avoid the payment of the city license fee of $150, which is cheap enough to permit an exploitation of the people of the city by a rather one-horse show or by any circus organization of what- ever magnitude and interest to the people. The ob- ject of the circus company was profit. They should pay for the privilege afforded them to make revenue just as others should pay. The people of Casper maintain a city with all modern improvements and conveniences out of their own pockets. Those who come from a distance to reap a benefit from these people should in all fairness contribute to the upkeep of the things provided for them. - It was unfortunate that the children of the city were denied the parade spectacle but the fault was upon the circus people, not upon the city authorities. An ordinance could not and should not be suspended or violated to permit a circus company, too cheap to pay the privilege tax required by the city of Casper, even, in order to gratify the children with a parade that would induce a flow of dollars to the circus treasury. , In the absence of Mayor Blackmore. Councilman ‘Whisenhunt was the acting mayor and his firm refusal to take action as urged is to be commended. It is difficult enough to secure the enforcement of Jaws without the city officials themselves setting an example in law violation. Child Labor Legislation THE DECISION of the United States Su- preme Court declaring unconstitutional the pre:- ent chi'd labor law, the whole subject of child labor’ legislation is reopened in congress, Sentiment among) Republican members of the senate and house runs strong for the initiation of a constitutional amend-| ment banning child labor. Leaders feel that the child labor law crusade has from the first been an essen- tially Republican fight, and there is no disposition to abandon it with the present setback. Impetus is given to the movement for a constitu- tienal amendment owing to the fact that the 1920 platform of the Republican party declared explicitly that in case “the present law is found unconstitu- tional or ineffective, we shall seek other means to enable congress to prevent the evils of child labor.” ‘The only difference of opinion now existing among Republican members of congress is the question of the most effective manner of re-enacting legislation which will stick. The fight for child labor legislation was originally initiated in congress by former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who has just been nominated in Indiana as the Republican candidate for United States senator. Success came slowly owing to the bitter opposition of southern cotton mill operators and their Democratic senators and congressmen. In- vestigations disclosed the fact that tots of 9 and 10 years were being worked long night shifts by southern mill owners. State authorities were either powerless or indifferent to cope with the evil, and it was felt that only by a mandatory federal law could the root | eight Republican states had laws forbidding the em- | Francisco. January 1, 1921, the re showed that: Twenty-eight Republican states had minimum age laws prohibiting the employment of childreh under 14 years; only 12 Democratic states prohibited it.! Twenty-one Republican states had laws. probibiting| children from working over eight hours per day: only ine Democratic states had this prohibition. Twenty- ployment of children under 16 in night work; only 12 Democratic states had such laws. Qr, to-take an- other angle, 32 Republican states had compulsoty ful! erm school laws, while only six Democratic states had such. Twenty-eight Republican states had night! or continuation school laws; only four Democratic states had such laws. Packers’ Act Aids Industry | [THE PACKERS and stockyards act recently up- held by the supreme court has given the agri- cultural department a free hand in enforcing the pro- visions. The decision as rendered by Chief Justice Taft stated “the object to be secured by this act is the free and unburdered flow of live stdétk from the ranches and farms * * * through the great stock yards and slaughtering centers * * * and thence in the form of meat products to the consuming cities.” It is for the purpose of assuring these results that the department of agriculture has been erecting ad- ministrative machinery for carrying out the provisions of the Packers and Stock Yards act. The magnitude of the task is indicated by the fact that under the Frovisions of the xct the department of agriculture has supervision over 69 yards which during the year| 1921 handled over 00,000 head of cattle and| other live stock. | For the purpose of administering the act the de-| partment of agriculture has divided the United States! into four divisions; each division will have one gen- eral supervisor and under him there will be local super-, visors at the various larger packing and marketing centers, Stock yards and marketing centers which are not large enough to justify a resident supervisor will be looked after by the district supervisor. Super- visors have already been located in Atlanta, Buffalo, New York City, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, In- dianapolis, Chicago, St. Paul, Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas City. Fort Worth, El Paso, Denver and San In speaking of these supervisors Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace says: “We wish farmers and stock men to go to the supervisors whenever they believe they have received unfair treatment and also to re- port any unfair practices which have come under their observation. Many matters of which shippers feel they have reason to complain can be settled on the spot if they are reported in person on the day the reason for the complaint has occurred, Whenever the two parties to a misunderstanding can be brought together by a third party whose sole purpose is to do the fair thing by both, there should not be very much trouble in adjusting matters to the satisfaction of evetyone. I hope, therefore, that shippers to these markets will help us enforce the law properly by reporting immediately any grievances,” Further it is stated by the secretary that tNe de- partment has had the most satisfactory co-operaion from the large pa¢kers and/the owners of stock yards. came from commission merchants and small traders and from marketing agents. Under the act such parties are forbidden from charging unreasonable rates and from engaging in discriminatory or decep- tive practices. In the opinion of the department of. agriculture the supreme court’s decision will be so The opposition to the act which occasioned the litiga-| tion that resulted in the supreme court’s decision! €be Casper Daily Cribune van church, “stay married.” then, says the church, divorce by al | bo What One of Us Says Returning from a recent trip east |E. Richard Shipp stopped in Daven- |port, Iowa, for a day. <A reporter for the Davenport Democrat-Leader spice the stranger with the large Stetson hat and general western air, tackled him and here is the result: “Wyoming is the squarest stcte in the Union,” said E, Richard Shipp, lawyer and literateur, author of aj number of so far unpublished vol- convincing to commission men, traders and marketing agencies that they will not attempt further opposition to the law or eyakion of it. , It is pointed out that while it is the intention of the deflartment rigidly to enforce the law, it does not intend to be arbitrary. “Every man,” says Secretary Wallace, ‘‘will have a fair hearing and everv oppor- tunity will be given him voluntarily to correct any practices which are in violation of the law.” The cepartment announces it has already been able to elim‘nate a number of abuses and bring about a de- cided improvement in several markets. In order to advise all supervisors regarding their powers and duties as well as obtain from them first hand infor- mation as to conditions in their markets, all super- visors were called to Washington for a meeting with the heads of the bureau having in charge the admin: istration of the Packers and Stock Yards act. Danger of Europeanization “[MHE NET RESULT of the war, insofar as that result worked for good,” states the Journal of Commerce, “was toward a destruction of class dis- tinctions abroad. True, in destroying royal distinc- tions there sprang up the bolsheviki; but France had to go through her revolution to win her republic. The process during the war, and following it. has been toward Americanizing - Europe—toward giving to European countries that freedom and responsibility which a republican form of government bestows upon the individual, regardless of the accidents of birth. “Events in America, meanwhile, seem to indicate a tendency toward the Europeanization of America in so far as the establishment of classes is concerned. The workingman is paying allegiance rather to his class through support of the union, right or wrong; tHe farmer is forming his bureaus through which he hopes to win advantages peculiar to himself; in con- ofthe condition be reached. The agitation finally culminated in the enactment of a first child labor law by congress on September 1,.1916. Although there was a strong Democratic majority in both houses of congress in that year, the records show that in the final vote in the house only two Republicans voted against the measure, as com- pared with 44 Democrats; in senate two Republicans und 10 Democrats are recorded against it. Of the members of committee on labor in the house, which reported oui the measure, every Republican member supported the bill, while three Democratic members opposed it and returned a minority report. This meas- ure attempted to end child labor by barring the prod- ucts of child labor from interstate commerce. Upon petition of North Carolina mill owners, the censtitutionality of this first law was thrown into court, and it was eventually declared unconstitutional by the supreme court after being in operation only 273 days. The second child labor law (which has just met a similar fate) was enacted on February 25. 1919, as an amendment to the revenue bill. It attempted to end child labor by means of a 10 per cent tax upon the net profits of any establishment employing chil- dren under conditions prohibited by the former law. Again this*measure was thrown into-the courts at the insistence of Democratic mill owners of North Caro- lina. In the meantime. the Republican party had been ecping with the child labor evil from another angle. During the Taft administration, 2 Republican con- gress established the federal children’s bureau, which has done much to awaken public opinion to the need for, action. This bureau, when its existence was threatened in 1915-16, by the failure of the Demo- cratic appropriations committee in the house to pro- vide funds for its continuance was saved by the ag- gressive fight which the Republican minority made on-the floor of the house, under the leadership of former Representative Good of Iowa. gress we have the “farmer bloc,” the representative of the public constituting himself the special repre- sentative of a peculiar class or group. “It is admitted by many, of course, that, when-the Declaration of Independence declares, ‘all men are created free and equal,’ the statement is erroneous; but read with vision, it can be accepted as true, to mean, that only when a nation is builded upon the theory of the welfare of the whole, can it give, to the parts that.make the whole, the best that life can hold. America’s greatness has been possible only because the government was a government of the people, by the people, for the people; and if today we are to tolerate class legislation, class economic theories, class battle aginst class, we are face to face with a Europeanization of American that will lead to demoralization and loss to all, no matter in what ‘class” the parts of that ‘all’ may fall.” _ One of the Matters ¢\HURCH AUTHORITIES, cevout church-goers, seri- ous minded laymen, ministers and many others, have asked “What is the matter with the church?” There are a thousand answers. One of them is brought forcibly to mind when the proceedings of a gathering of a certain church are read and it is found that emphasis is being placed upon the necessity for ministers strictly to “maintain the moral law,” by refusing to marry one who has been divorced for any other reason than infidility. That, brethren of the church, is one of the things the matter with it; the refusal to recognize that the human mind demands equity in its religion as well as its civic law. Marriage, a sacrament in the church, is made with mutual promises to love, to honor, to cherish, to be faithful. “But,” says the church, “if you break one of these you may be free ot marriage bonds, but if you keep that one and break all the rest, bound you must be!” A man may beat his wife, get drunk on umes of poems reguriding life in the west, and member 9{ the Book Fel- lows, ¢whose annual meeting in Chi-j ago he extended Saturday night, this being a society of authors and book: sovers. Mr. Shipp*dropped in at thie Democrat office Thursday afternoon for a visit. He is visiting friends here previous to. returning to his| home in Casper, Wyoming. the state, Natrona county,” he con- tinued, “named after the soda lakes| ot which there are,a great many in| that section, producing a soda which ‘s used as a boiler.compound. IWyo- ming has fewer than 300,000 inhabi-| tants, and in the town of Casper| where I Ivo there are about 25,000) people. It has developed from an old. fashioned cattle town of 700 since 1} came there 17 yeers ago from Wash-| ington, D. C., into an oil town where more gasoline is made than at any; other polut in the world. | “The Standard Oil company of In- diana turns out 25,000 barrels of gas- oline every 24 hours, refined from a ertide oil with 4 paraffine base, a crude comparsble to that found in Pennsyivania and said to be a higher grade than the midcontinent crudes The production of crude at present in; the Salt Creek ficld and other fields| in and about Casper is in the neigh-| borhood of 150,000 barrels a day, «t| which there is at present refining ca-| pacity for but 35,000 barrels only. — | “The Sinclair Oil company and the| departments of the navy and interior | have entered into a contract to de- velop naval reserve known as Teapot dome, which lies immediately north }of Casper and comprises.a vast area} of of land. It is said to be the in- tention of the Sinclair interests to spend from 50 to 75 millions in bring: ing Teapot dome into production, “21d 10@ millions will be spent upon the! construction of a pipeline to the Mis- souri tiver. The first oil discovered there was in Shannon field, about 50 miles north of Casper and five miles north of Salt Creek field. This dis was made by P, M. Shannon 25 or 30 years ago. This was a very heavy lubricating, ofl found at a shallow| depth — from 600 to 4,000 feet. The first well was drilled in Salt Creek only ten or twelve years ago. Most) of the wells there come in at about 11,800 feet. There is a well on a school} section which when it was drilled ten} years ago came in at 1,800 barrels a) day and gradually settled down in six! or seven years to about 500 a day; but when it was cleaned out two or! three years ago it came back to about| 1400 and is still flowing at about 1,200 barrels a day. This well never| had a pump on {t. Most of ths wells in this vicinity come in at about 1,800 feet. f “The resources of Wyoming in oil) and other minerals have barely been| scratched, and it may safely be said \that the devlopment -of the state in this respect is 50 years behind devel-) opment of resources in Colorado and | Montana. Wyoming's mountains: are| full of minerels. In fact, what is per-| haps the largest high-grade iron mine) in the country is located at Sunrise, 122 miles southeast of Casper, where | the Colorado Fuel and Iron company secures all its ore for the Pueblo| Iron works. No ore with a lower per-| home-made hooch and stay ont all night, go to prison At the rame time the Republican child labor pro- fram has been continually furthered in the states. for- felony, ) ony, be cruel to his children, bring disgrace’ On upon his family. ‘Never mind_all-that,” says-the-age of iron that is not shipped on ac-j every. other city, for it has its amuse- ° centage than 65 of pure iron is) hipped; hence there are millions of! tons of ore bearing a lower percent:| But a man may be all that is good and kind and upright and honorable and tem- perate in every other way; if he is once unfaithful,| treme cruelty, desertion, and felonies as just causes in most states; The innate sense of justice with which we are all| whole does also there will be less reason for rn protects against the idea tHat a helpless woman/| ask, “What is the matter that men venerate me less must. stay bound to a brute who maltreats her and|each year?” “I live in the squarest county in| jon y Ait axl My Lay ( jez ¥) ated La, Le. | } means! for divorce About the Rest of Us count of prohibitive freight rates. Lgter on, however, smelters will be erected in order that this ore may be utilized. Though so recently a cow town, Casper is now a modern city with 25 or 30 miles of street paving, Bitu- lithic is the name of the paving, wh'ch is cement with an asphalt cov- ering. the Chicago and Northwestern, the Wyoming and Northwestern and also Casper is a division point on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy gulf coast line. A peculiar thing is that thougy Casper’s popu lation is but 25,000, yet it pays to the Burlington railroad more freight than any, other station on that road, Chicago not excepted. This is due to the huge amount of oil shipments The general post-war slump af. fected Wyoming, of course, as it did all other sections of the country, but possibly to a much less degree by rea- son of its products, cattle, sheep, horses, oil—all necessities. Wyoming is graduelly becoming more and more of an agricultural state, although still a short grass or range country. Dry farming and irrigation projects have permitted the raising of as good crops as can be produced elsewhere—in fact every kind of crop is raised. Further- more, a few orchards have been start- 'ed with signal success, and some won- | dertut apples have been produced. And in the Lander section, at the |toot of the Rockies, the finest straw- berries in the world are raised. Mr. Shipp describes Wyoming as |® country with beautiful scenery and a dry, clear atmosphere. The days are exceedingly hot, but on account of the dryness of the cir, one is quick- ly cooled off upon stepping into a shady spot, and blankets are a nec- essity every night in the year. The promises of wealth have at- tracted many homesteaders to Wyo- ming from the east. Upon ariving there they consider it a barren prairie but after living there a while would- n't leave for the world. Iowa is per- haps the greatest agricultural state in the union,” Mr. Shipp said; “it has excellent agriculture schools and raises wonderful crops, but T would- n’t like to live there. Why? Well, the soda crackers get so damp there. In ‘Wyoming the crackers are always crisp. fs Wyoming is developing highway systems, although not as we do it in this section of the country, for there are no concrete roads. However, on account of the nature of the soil, which is somewhat sandy, ordinary dirt roads become passable a few hours after the most severe rain, for the moisture soaks into the ground immediately. After all, though is Casper like = vorus of the chilasew's bares Well! Well! He’s Been So Quiet, W e Almost Forgot He Was Around i Mt his children, merely because his lapses do not run toward the “other woman.” The law recognizes ex- when the church as a it to ments and all professions. Theresare $4 lawyers in this town of 25,000, where 4,000 men are employed in one refinery, There are six moving pio ture houses, one featuring vaudeville two nights a week, ard one giving vaudeville with pictures every day. Many road shows of high caliber stop on their coast-to-coast jump between Billings end Denver. There are eight- story buildings in Casper, as good a fire department as can be found in the country, with motor equipment! ;), fl of the most improved type, a first class sewerage system and water works, water being obtained from the Platte river and filtered; and natural ges is used for heating, this -gas ob- tained by pipeline from the Mahoney and then “ Biased for You by Lewis Allen Browne What sort of an island is this, any-;said Ned, “because that would be 1 asked Ted, even. on Ten-Mile Lake, so how | book of ‘description. “ve never been on it before, or we.do? Now what do “We change those descriptions into should T know?” answered Ned. “Ex- queer little marks that mean the cept,” he added, “that it seems like a same thing.” explained Ted. as he regular island with trees and hills got out a and water coming right up to the ping paper. i] shore all around it.” “But why not play that we really are explorers and that the people who | MAP frat as Ont Sree co See fen even the land we discovered?” “All right,” said Ned, beginning to show interest. “We'll remember all we see so we can deacribe it.” “But explorers make maps-—” “I always hated to draw maps in school,” interrupted Ned. “That's because you had to make them from memory. But here we are going to explore the island and make it as we go along. For instance, this little harbor here where the stream flows in—and that beach there, we make like this—" and Ted took a pad of paper and pencil and outlined it. Ned became enthusiastic at once. “Great! he exclaimed. “We will explore and map our island so that anyone who had never been here could take our map and know just aly about it and could come to it later with the man and locate everything.” ‘Ted nodded. Ned paused and shook his head: “But say, I don’t know how to draw well enough. I can’t make trees and things look like real “Thats easy,” said Ted, “We had a drawing teacher in school who knew all about such things, and when we got tired of drawing cubes and Pyramids and circles he would teach us how to draw maps. “Show me! Show m going to be great fun,” exclaimed Ned, who promptly forgot that he ever dreaded drawing maps in school. And so with pad and pencil they started out along the shore first and jtried to draw an outline of the island, but fv didn’t look right. “We've got all the coves and bays and ‘ings, but the island, has no. shape,” complained Ned, “We take these shore outlines—ex- plorers would call them ‘coast lines'— and then go up on those high hills and’ get a general idea of the shape of the isand,” explained Ted. “I read about that. Then we fit our coast Une around the shape of the !sland.” The boys did this and also noted woods, scattered trees, under- i 24 ” brush, hills, streams, swamps and all| te “roses,” as such places, which they wrote down, | Single trees. large piece of thick wrap. Together they first discussed the shore line and drew it as best they could. Then they examined their notes and discussed just where in their “empty island,” as they called the outline, they would put the things they saw, It was not long before they had drawn a map like the pic- ture here, except that the ‘letters on this picture, used for description, were not on‘ their map since they knew just what the queer little marks meant. “Points of compass” exclaimed Ted, getting his pocket compass and study- ing it. “All maps have that. And scale of miles, We have nothing to measure it with—" “Unele Ben says it's about 2 miles long and 1% miles wide,” eald Ned. ‘Ted measured their map. “Then our map is on a scale of a mile to the inch,” and he drew the points of com- pass and wrote the “scale.” This is what their little lines meant— Dotted line from A to B was an old path. The crossed lines of C meant thick woods, the curved lines meant mountains, only these were high hills as at D, Little round dots, E, indi- cated underbrush. Circles as at F and M meant low hills. Little tufted lines as at G indicated a marsh. The stream {is easy to see, but at H there is an arrow and the figure 5 which meant a five-foot waterfall. Foot- prints at I mark the nearest place where the stream can be waded. Lit- at each F, mean large The dots at K show a Their papers did not look at all like 827d bar, and the wavey lines at L maps when they returned to camp. They had written “a swamp here” ‘a round hill here” and "|mean a sandy beach, N is a cliff at the water edge and O is a cave, ‘These marks are used by explorers field, 90 miles distant and from the] this is a small stream’ and “an ‘old! and. once learned, any boy can map Poison Spider field, 27 miles away. ‘There is also a modern electric light plant. Horses? Yes, of course, but nearly evey kind of automobile manu- factured is operatcd upon the streets of Casper, and this town boasts two Rolls-Royces. Not bad! Oh -yes, there has been bootleg- ging out there, but state and feder- al authorities “have been making big cleanings, and the .officlals of the county and city now have things well under control. Why She Won Him She couldn't knit, She couldn't sew. She had no wit, is * Her mind was slow. She couldn't paint (Above her hair); Her voice was faint; ' She had no air. She couldn't dance, She couldn't sing, Nor throw a trance, Nor anything. INK-PENCIL Has 0 14 Kt. gold automatic ‘sel Makes 2 to 4 Carbon Coples 110 A Nassau Street, New York City FRUIT TREES SHADE TREES EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES HORSE RADISH RHUBARB Now Ready for Immediate Delivery. Phone 600 or Write Wm. Mosteller Box 1105, Casper, Wyo. path” and so on, writing out every- thing. % “Of course maps are not like that,” She couldn't bake, She couldn't stew, But mercy sake, How she could brew! —M. M. | out a district. (Friday—‘‘The Right ‘Way to Fell a Tree.) Monday—Merry Makings NOTICE. 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