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

PAGE EIGHT Che Caspet Daily Cribune } evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona) Publitation Offices, Tribune Building- cting Ail Departments Issued ¢ ounty change C at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second clase matter, November 6. {EMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Presidext and Editor business Manager Associate Editor .... City Editor | ‘Adverusing Marmger EARL E H. AL EVANS . AS DAILY WAY .... HANWAY - NT = Advertising Representatives. < ~ & Prudden. 720-2, teger Bidg., Chicage. . York City, Globe Bldg; Bos Daily Tribune are on file in Heston offices and visitors One Year Six Months e Mor Mo: Bix Months be paid in advance and the Insure delivery after subscrip-| n arrears. es ne mor Mrmber of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. O23 288. entitled to the} Don’t Get Your Tribune. time between 6:30 and § o'clock p. m © your Tribune. A paper will be de y special messenger. Make it your duty & know when your carrier misses you. ea _ Human Side of History ‘OMS change with the years, and to attempt; to impose the standards of today on the man- ner of life in past centuries is a childish and ignor- ant mistak remarks the Oma Bee. “What Senator V son of Georgia hoped to prove his statement that George Washington traded a for a barrel of West Indian rum no one can Perhaps he had no further aim than. to petrify public attention. { “Certainly no grown man would endeavor to maintain that merely because George Washington did a certain thing which was considered proper in his day a repetition of that deed would be justi- fied in the present age. Our first president drank his coffee out of a saucer, and in his mansion at Mount Vernon had not even the conveniences re- ite to a mede#n tenement, but that proves noth- except that life has changed. " It is due to a recognition of this fact, as much as to any desire to conceal the weakenesses of our national her t a strongly supported move: ment for the censorship of history text books is be-| ‘A committee of high school teach New York has recommended that several books be rewritten, replacing. such fasts as] am Adams was a smuggler with the hallowed. of our fathers. In Current History maga- W. L. Lincoln Adams, president of the Sons| the American Revolution, makes a plea for 2) hip of what the children are taught and motives of American his- by ing carried on. ers in of rigid censors the a too, is a mistaken attitude, for in the of time most Americans stumble on unflat- tering aspects of history in some such way as the senator from Georgia presents them, without in- ierpretation, and themselves almost innocent of the notion that these great men were human, after all, and not divine. ery Ry i “In the interests of advancing civilization, neith- er patriotism nor institutions should be risked on a foundation that is hidden or false. It is a great truth to be remembered that the right of one age may become the privilege of another and the wrong of the next.” Reunion of the Fighters T IS PLEASING to offer congratulations to Dr. A. B. Tonkin of Riverton on his selection as state commander of the American Legion. His election should be very gratifying to himself since it came about by the action of rival candidate to avoid a contest. The new commander is amply equipped to maintain the proud position the Le- gion holds in the hearts of its members and in the public’s esteem. He is broad, patient and a skill- ful diplomat, qualities required to command the lJoyalty and support of his fellow: It would be a superfluous prediction to forecast prosperty and increased prestige for the legion during Dr. Ton- kins’ administration. These things are certain as well as safe in the hands of the new commander. Of the retiring commander D. W. Ogilbee, of Cas- per, it may be said that his administration has been wise ard efficient. Duricg his term the loose ends were githered up end a compact organization prought into being. He hands on to his successor a perfectly working machine capable of performing great public and private good. A deserved honor, which fell to a Casper man the election which came at the close of #e con- | ment. Those who are helping along in this process | not rise above the low level of personal selfishnes: | aud repudiate to make a virtue of their own unwillingness to go along with their party when it comes to voting on public measures. “The greatest menace in public affairs today is the complete breaking down of political parties and with it the breaking down of responsible govern- of dissolution are not only demonstrating their) own ingratitude toward the party which made) their public service possible, but are contributing | toward the creation of chaotic conditions in politics and government. * “Party men and women of the rank and file must} begin to take note of the names of those who appeal to them as Republicans on election day, and the next day begin to try to work both sides of the po- from party trarimels. The motive of such men doe: and a greed for power which is willing to disregard 1 obligations. “Let the politicians who pride themselves on be- ing bigger and better than their political parties and who make a specialty of defying them, make the experiment of putting their names on the ballot hereafter without party designation. Then iet them wait and see how the populace will not rise up and elect them to anything. In the absence of a willing: litical street/with loud professions of their freedom | Che Casper Dailp Cribune THE BIG SHOW NOW GOING ON | i ness to do this let them, as beneficiaries and repre sentatives in public life of a political party, pay some attention to the obligations that go along with office getting and office holding Seca on - His Patent ming in Campbell county comes a story worthy the pen of an O. Henry. One skilled in the weaving of tales of human interest and pointing the moral , where virtue in rewarded. You would not seek this particular locality with the expectation of discovering romance. It is a land of hard work. er phases of life. Their struggle is to maks a lir- ng, pay their bills, clear their homesteads of in- Into this section of the state came Walter Hag- gerty, young, strong and intelligent. He filed on a efnment requirements to make the land his own. love for her flag put a temporary end to his per- sonal ambition to own a farm. He locked up his homestead shack and went to the nayy and served with honor, At the end of the first enlistment he re-entered the service for another term. It was early in his second enlistment that he was dishon- orably discharged. Returning to his homestead he settled down te work and to proving up on his land. This was ac- omplished to the satisfaction of the Buffalo Land oMce in January, 1921, and final certificate was issued. Late in September of the same year the com-| missioner of the general land office reviewing the} case held the proof for rejection on the ground ot insufficient residence. The facts in the Haggerty case came to the atten tion of Frank Mondell. He made thorough invest ion and reported his findings to the comm sioner, His statement read as follows: “Tt app s that young Haggerty was a fine sol- dier or sailor as the case may be and was highly ing his service he became acquainted with a very sweet young lady to whom he became engaged. Dur- ng his second enlistment and while his ship was in | port his wife-to-be visited his ship on visitors’ day and meeting Haggerty embraced him and. otherwise showed her affection as most young ladies would under the circumstances. Some ‘shave tail’ offi- cer observed this and presumably to show his im- portance roughly seized the young lady and took her away from Haggerty in a boorish and insult- ing manner, whereupon young Haggerty promptly knocked the officer down and gave him what he had coming, and for this he was discharged.” hands of young Haggerty. The commissioner was human and so was the sec- retary of the interior, for when the latter came into knowledge of the facts he remarked to this subord- inate™Served him (the naval officer) damned good ing to lose his land.” So Haggerty has his land and will shortly have the girl. ‘hat they will live happily ever afterward goes without the saying. The name of Frank Mondell will always be re- membered and honored in the vicinity of the Hag- gerty homestead. oie eye ut Lee Slams Republicans GENTLEMAN, due for an invitation to the woodshed and a little salutory attention with the old but dependable family holdback strap, is Gilbert Hitchcock, senator from the proud common- wealth of Nebraska and editor of the Democratic World-Herald. : In a recent issue of his newspaper the senator: editor says: “It is a fearsome thing, fellow citizens to be gov: erned by a political party that went to sleep on the day the war broke out and has never since waked up.” ntion, was the national executive committeeship. This distinction was bestowed upon Chiles P. Plum- mer and with due respect to all contesting candi- dates, there could not have been a better or more fitting selection. Captain Plummer by experience and training is perfectly qualified and the Wyo- ming organization will have highly reputable repre sentation in the national councils. It will be a great satisfaction to officers and members of the legion to know that the new com- mander will retain the services of Adjutant W. ‘I. Wehrli of Casper in the same office in which he made so splendid a record during the past year. The legion has put over its most sticcessful con- vention. It has brought itself into most favorable public notice. It has the good wishes of all Wyo- n oe gerated Egos IS BECOMING quite_a_fad these days for nen who haye come to public place through party support, to play to the galleries with declar- The Exag ey T ations of their own independence of party doctrine and organization, once their election has been brought about” this is the assertion of the Na- publican. ht of any man to be independent in pol} s is unquestioned, but the courageous and cor- public man will assert his freedom from party allegiance before an election as well as after “There is not a man in public life in this country ay who could get into office running on his own sonal merits without party endorsement of some Senator Hitchcock knows tliit his charge againgt the Republican party is not only untrue, but so given jor its publication. Every Republican and every Democrat in the country knows it is untrue. Moreover, the publication of such a gross slander will be resented not only by Republicans, but by honest Democrgts as well. The subject is scarcely a pertinent one in this campaign, but since Senator Hitchcock has seen fit to mtroduce it, he must ex- it to be discussed. , The fact is that when the wa? broke out, Repub- licans were the earliest and most aggressive advo- cates of preparedness—so insistent that they were rebuked by President Wilson. Republicans took the lead in the establishment and operation of the famous Plattsburg training camp. Even after the sinking of the Lusitania, when almost every prom- inent Republican in public life was urging prepara- tion for the inevitable, President Wilson delivered ‘his ignoble address in which he declared the Unit- ed States “too proud to fight.” That was the situation prior to the time the Unit- ed States became a party to the conflict. After the Uni States entered the war, Republicans were more active in support of war measures than were Democrats. In fact, President Wilson was com- pelled to rely upon the ranking Republican on the military affairs committee of the house, Julius Kahn, of California, to take charge of military measures, when the Democratic chairman refused to perform. This is a fact and the record shows it. Moreover, a tabulation of votes on war measures shows that in fie passing of those measures there was a larger proportion of Republican than of But it is not difficult for many politicians to into their heads, once elected, that what] them to Washington was ning personal popularity. Democratic votes, That is the truth of the matter while the Unit- Its people dally little with the soft-| cumbrance and establish for their children a,home| ; that shall belong to them. section of land and set about complying with gov-| War came and his loyalty to his country and his| }ROM the dry farm district of Northersr Wyo |. ysenate and Representative Madden in the house, ‘\wroposed a comprehensive plan for a reconstruction ycommission, .but this was defeated at the behest of the Democratic president. After the armistice, it was Republican insistence that compelled the Dem- ocratic administration to demobilize, to reduce war expenses and to return as rapidly as possible to peace conditions in the civil service. But in the face of all these facts, well-known to the American people, Senator Hitchcock has the YT TEN won't} . nerve to assert that the Republican party “went to sleep on the day the wax broke out and has never since waked up.” Let the Republican boys who went to war from Nebraska and let the Republicans generally of that state who gave loyal and prompt service to their country at the time Senator Hitchcock refers to; recall the war days and then deliver their answer to the Democratic senator who has slandered them on election day in November. T FOR LITTLE, FRIENDLY= FOLKS! WHO LIKE ADVENTURES ADVENTURE TRAILS Blazed for You by Lewis Allen Browne Ned and Ted gone to Marsh Is- land to pick high-bush blueberries. The island was well named. It was merely @ piece of marshland set in a cove of the lake, with a few dry stretches. but with no sandy shore, no rocks, nothing but grass and moss and march mud. ‘They had arrived early tn the morn- ing and filled their big baskets with the berries, which they were to ,sell. Just before sundown they tried their luck fishing and caught more than enough to eat. “I can't wait until I get home, I'm too hungry. here,” suggested Ted. They always carried a cooking kit in their boat, with frying pan, coffee and coffee pot, some bacon and salt. Not a rock to build a fire-pla with, and only dry sticks for wood,” he said in disgust. “And I don’t care about cooking a good fish on a stick over a smoky fire, Indian fashion, when I can fry him in bacon," added Ned. “Im sure I'll starve before I can row back to camp ‘and cook these tish—"* ‘Think of that four-mile row on ai empty stomach,” groaned Ned. “Oh,” he added, “I have it!" He got out an old dull hatchet kept in the boat and began to cut sods. “Are you going to cat ? Or do you think that wet sod will burn like Fent?" asked Ted sarcastically. “Making a fireplace,” said Ned “Help cut these sods.” Without fur- ther questioning, Ted did as he w told. “That's enough, I think,” said Ned. Ww you collect the dry sticks and all the fuel you can find.” ‘Ted began to get the wood together in a pile while Ned started to build @ sod fireplace. He packed the thick fireproof sods up until ho had two itregular-shaped piles as shown in the illustration at A and B. “Fine {fea!” commented Ted as he saw this. The boys put the sticks and bits of wood in at C, using the dry marsh grass for kindling. After they Na Ted looked about for a camp fire site. had secured a big bed jof coals and after they had also dressed the fish, Ned started to cook their isiand din- ner. “You see.” he said to Ted, “I make the opening narrow at one’end and wide at the other, and I do not close it at the narrow end for that would spoil the draft.” © ‘The coffee pot was placed at the na: jrow end as the dotted outlines indicate. The frying pan was set over Let's cook them right | | | | | a wider place as dotted outline at D shows us. By constantly feeding in the dry twigs they had a hot fire and soon had the fish nice and browned, with the crisp curling bacon, and the coffee was also made. Then the boys sat down on a dry hummock and de- youred their dinner with great relish. “ll remember your sod fireplace— {v's @ great scheme sometimes,’ com- Plimented Ted. ‘and wher we get through with it, we simply push it over on the coals to smother them and so make sure there jis no danger of fire,” laughed Ned as he kicised the sods over on to the coals, “Now I feel as if I could row a thousand miles;" said Ted as he began putting things into the boat. “Well, after picking berries all day, I think a four-mile row will be plenty for me,” laughed Ned as they set out for camp with several dollars worth ¢ berries, full stomachs, and the nowledge of how to make a fireplace out of ordinary sods. (Monday—"A Lazy Man's Fish Rod. thought of by his comrades and officers. That dur-| Sixty days later patent to his land was in the; and right; a fellow with that much spunk isn’t go-| grossly untrue and unjust that no excuse can be, The Best Invention A sage has told us if a man, devise A better mousetrap than was made before, Though in the woods remote his dwelling Hes, The world will wear a pathway to his door. Yet all inventions made of wire and 3 wood And hung with cheese to make a tempting goal Must yield the palm, are nothing lke as good As puss who patient watches by the hole, So pulpiteers, you need not wildly search For sermons that will draw on this and that; The people really ought to go to church R To seek the great Inventor of the cat. —McLandburgh Wilson. The Old Plainsmen Pioneers of the west.and early dat plainsmen are employing spare time writing to the newspapers and to each «ther, They have discussed the mut- | tev of arreunion of some sort hut have |made no particular headway. Robert ruce, now living in New~ York, clipped a paragraph out of a Kansas newspaper the other day and using it as a text wrote the following. a reunion of the to know.’ A good many of them are rot the fellows they used to be, and the ones that still are don't come. ‘The truth of it is illustrated among the survivors of life in the west be- tween the civil war and the great changes which followed the building of the first transcontinental railroads. Strange as it may seem, the largest | single group of them will proLably be found within a few miles of the New York City Hall; some are in Chicago, St. Louis and Washington. Those who still live in the west are separated by long distances, and seldom more than ‘one or two are found in a plac Here in New York a few of the old timers fave what they ca‘l The Plainsmen. an informal club -estricted to those who were actually a part of life in the west 60 or more years ago. Not one of them has lived beyond the Missisaipp! “or participated in westerr life for many years; but all cherish the traditions of the west, and their recol- Jections are remarkably keen. Occa sionally they have a meeting where their pet hobbies are brought out, dis- cussed and then put back again in memory's archives. Major A. B. Ostrander, probably the oldest of them all, who has been at different times a telegraph, railroad and government official, now holds a place in the bureau of weights and measures in the municipal building He has two leading hobbles—his recol- jections of Jim Bridger, the frontiers: man, scout and emigrant guide, and the correct spelling of the name of General Phil Kearney and hig special aversion ts the spelling of that name with an e in the last syllable. Major Ostrander has a tobacco pouch given to him by Bridger at Fort Phil Kear- ny in 1867 that money could not buy. ‘ Colonel George W. Stokes is as full of lore about the Black Hills of South Dakota as a cocoanut is full of meat and very naturally so, since he trans- ported the firet lot of ore out of that their own over-1ed States was at war, When time for peace ap-'section,. beginning the development hey then proceed preached, two Republicans, Senator Weeks in the which has made that the “ricliest hun- 7 dred square miles tn the ‘world,” and chabled a number cf men to acquire large fortunes. He slipped out a little too soon to make his pile with them, but keeps in touch with the. things out there just the same. Colonel Stokes’ ambition is to march in at ieast five more Memorial day parades along Riverside Drive. Albert H, Baisley, who is just now retiring after long public service in The Bronx, doffed his union soldier's uniform to drive in an ox train for a government contractor in the west within a year after the close of the sil war. His hobbies are the Grand Army of the Republic and Abraham Lincoln, and in 1913, when survivors of his company were présent at the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, he was called upon to re: peat the Gettysburg address on the spot where President Lincoln delivered the original on November 19, 1863. He knows both of the Lincoln inaug- tral addresses by heart. Edmund Scymour,.a banker at 45 Wall street, one ‘of the later genera- tion of ranchmen, probably keeps in as close touch with the lying old tim crs in the west as any other of The Piainomen now living in New York. On the wall of his office is the idepti- cal .45 Colt carried for more than 25 years by Clark B, Stocking, the last of the old guards. He also has a but- falo gun with a history and other relics whose value is principally in thelr as sociations. Mr. Seymour is president ot the American Bison soclety, in which Dr. William T. Hornaday and Professor Henty, Fairfield Osborn are interested. M. S. Garretson, who knows the plains from Texas to Montana, resides at Clifton, N. J. He 1s secretary of the American Bison society. His pet aversion is the inaccuracy of western life as portrayed on the film: William Francis Hooker is in active service as editor of the Erie Railroad Magazine, and writes .entertainingly about Ufe and transportation on the Plains from 1873 on, as the spirit moves—which is quite often. Hi brochure, “The Prairie Schoone: now out of print, is valued by every body, fortunate enough to possess a copy. His knowledge of driving oxen ond mules in the prairle country is un- excelled. Plainsmen living in the west have to swap their experiences by mail, Ellis T. (Doc) Peirce, who says that he can always figure his age by the fact that he was born on the day the Mexican ar began, is the best and most regu- iar correspondent, and any Plainsman you meet in New York, has one or more letters from Peirce tn hin pocket. Mr. Hooker has hundreds of them, and he says that they sometimes come two or three in a day. The two Plains- men still older, the Hon. John Hunton of Fort Laramie, Wyo.,.and Clark B. Stocking of Los Angeles, Cal., are oc- casionally heard from, but less often. —ROBERT BRUCE. New York. Ted a Song [© Love, if you were not so true, So kind, so sweet, so fair; If you had not those eyes of biue That haunt me everywhere— © love, if you were not my own, My very own for aye, My heart were but a heavy stone Within my breast today. —Charles G. Blanden. Chicago, Il. >. Jewelry and watcn repatring Dy ex pert workmen. All work guaranteed Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co., O-S Ridg. aoe - D . A Decade of Duplicity_ ae It seems incredible that voters will place reliance upon the statements of Democratic leaders upon economic subjects when previous statements of those leaders have been proven unde- pendable in the past. Just at the present time Democrats in congres: and in editorial sanctums are assur- ing American farmers that they will profit nothing by protection but will be its victima through higher cost of living. In 1912 when the Democrat! party was seeking control of the na- tional government similar statements were made, Subsequent records proved them to be untrue. The figures for a single month un- der Republican agricultural “tariffs and for\ the corresponding month under the Democratic law after it had come into full force, illustrate the effect of throwing our markets open to free foreign competition. In March, 1913, after the Democrats had won their victory at* the polls but while the Republican tariff was Still in effect, we importd, in round num- bers, $508,000 worth of cattle but in-/® creased those importations to $993,- 000 worth in March, 1914, when the protective duty had been removed. We imported no fresh meat in March, 1913, but 2,349,000 pounds in March, 1914. We imported 4,262,000 pounds of wool in March, 1913, and 8,000,000 pounds in March, 1914. The Democratic tariff law became effective in October, 1913, Under the previous Republicam law there was a duty of six cents per pound on butter. The Democratic tariff law ‘reduced that rate to two and a half cents per pound. During the first nine months under the Democratic law, prior to the outbreak of the war, we imported 7,890,000 pounds of butter as com- pared with less than 1,000,000 pounds during the corresponding period th| the Republican year. During the early period of the Democratic law our commercial rep-| resentatives in China were ‘reporting to the Democratic Department of Commerce large exports of eggs from China to the United States. Seventy-! five thousand dozen eggs daily were brought to Nanking for export.| ‘These eggs, according to our commer-! cial representative, cost about 42, cents per gross*or about three and a/ half cents per dozen. So serious was, the competition that Pacific coast) state endeavered to check the impor- tations by barring the eggs under! health regulations. At the same time that these large increases in importaticns of foreign food products were coming in, there, was no fulfillment of the Democratic promise of reduction of the cost of living. On the contrary, the records of the Democratic administration ad- mit that the cost of living advanced from the time that party’ came into| power. | Turning from consideration of spe-| cific articles in the agricultural sched- ule to & Brief view of totals, we find} hat in the ten months of the Demo- ratic Iaw, prior to the outbreak of the war in Europe, our tmports as compared with the previous period! under the Republican tariff, increased more than $100,000,000 while our ex-| ports decreased $160,000,000, making a difference against us of $260,000,000| In our balance of trade or a loss of, $26,000,000 a month to the industries of America. 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