Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Caspet Dailp Cribune, Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, ‘Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Bullding. BUSINERS TELEPHONES soeesssee-36 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments because Fuiten rather overplayed the political game and ought to be punished for it. “Here is Joserm Waker, now and then mention- ing his own claims to distinction, but spending most of his time trying to convince the voters that Seria- Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class tor Lopce doesn't amount to anything and repre- matter, November 22, 1916. jsents @ great sinister influence which the Republi- MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS can party should cast off. | “Here is Col. Wnitam A. Gaston endedyoring to SPB. HANWAY «occ ccccseccee President and Editor < - & EARL E. HANWAY . Business Manager| prove his fitness for the senate by disproving the Rahal Associate Egor | fitness of Suexmax L. Wurrrte.. Here is Wx1rrLe R, E. EVANS City Editor) Acvertising Manager|Teturning the compliment, with something added jfor good measure. Here is sso Joun Jackson | Wats flaying both Gastox and Wnrrrrtz, and cit- TROMAS DAILY : Advertising Representatives. Prud King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Blég., Chicago, | ’ mt 6° Fifth New York city; Globe Bldg.,|ing figures calculated to show that he is a better Boston, Mass pf the Daily Tribune are on file vote getter than cither. “Eere and there are candidates for lesser offices, such as state senator, representative and district attorney, mounting soap boxes at factory gates, to in the New York 0 and Boston offices and visitors @ welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year 4 speak words of censure against their fellow-party Three Aon! 1.95 members who happen to be seeking nomination for) One Month -65 | the offices that they themselves covet. | S| “It is not an edifying spectacle, but generally it! 97.80 harms only those who indulge in the practice. The - §.90/ voters may be entertained, but seldom are they con- 1.95 | vinced that their path of duty lies in repudiating {I accepted for less period than) .o--hody who may be thus singled out for attack. They know, for instance, what manner of governor} | Cra: G Cox has been. They have formed a gen- erally good impression of his administration. The; |like the way he has attended to the state’s business. They rejoice that he is staying on the job, instead) of paying attention to undeserved onslaughts of his ambitious opponent. “They know the name and fame Senator Lonce has made for himself at Washington during the thirty years he has represented this commonwealth} in the senate, and they think none tlie less of hix because of anything Joseri Wauxer may do or say. “They know that the lieutenant governor, Mr. Fuuier, has functioned as efficienily and satisfac toriiy as is ordinarily the case with our lieutenant governors, and they do not wholly forget that Mr. Warner had at the time abundant opportunity to refute any unwarranted things Mr. Furier may have said of him during the last unpleasant politi- cai season. z “As for those who have not yet attained office! and who can be judged only by their utterances, the public entertains a good-natured tolerance and makes its own allowances. ‘he thing that does not pass unnoticed is that, generally speaking, our primary campaigns now have much the same unlovely characteristics as a By Mail Qne Year J Sige aul x Mont and the be paid el subscrip. in advance very a Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) Member of the Assoriated Press. The Associate exclusively entitled to the use for publication news credited in this paper and also the local news herein Kick Don't Get Your Tribune. time between 6:39 and & o'clock p.m. ve your Tribune. A paper will be de special messenger. Make it your duty to know when your carrier misses you. aE The Primary Curse NCE MORE and again and right while the thing is fresh in mind, what is your opinion of the Wyoming primary law? Are you still of the opinion that it affords you a fair and convenient means of expressing your choice * Do you still desire to operate 12 if You 16 any une of candidates? der it or would you like to change, or abolish it altogether? Of course, if you are in love with it and are able} to kid yourself into the belief that it does the things expected of a nominating system, stick to your idols, | backyard cat fight, and the peacefully-disposed and be happy in your ignorance. But you may a8! yoter sometimes has difficulty in restraining his well be told that the primary system is growing|impulse to hurl a bootjack in the direction of the more and more unpopular with each Successive | howlers.” spasm and that the people from one end of the! * country to the other are denouncing it from about nine hundred and forty-seven angles for the things it does and does not do. Every person who is man! és TUDGE enough to voice his complaint out loud, finds a few! & gponsibility for laxity oflaw enforcement in new flaws to add to the growing catalogue. And | the United States must rest upon the courts,” ac- believe us, the number who are declining to longer | cording to the Kansas City Star, “nevertheless in- suffer in silence is growing rapidly. | sist, and not unreasonably, that the public is itself The Wyoming legislature to date has lacked theja part of the judicial system and that the attitude nerve to abolish the primary. On one occasion it |of citizens toward jury service a very great fac- me near killing it, and even ordered grave clothes,,tor in the unsatisfactory results that attend the but some foolish person rushed in at the last mo j working of our j al machinery. ment and applied the pulmoter and we still have the; “Nobody will be disposed to deny the’ justness pesky varmint to unmoy the body politic. lof this conclusion. There is a yery general dis- A new legislature will come into being next Jan taste for jury service, and evasion of it wherever uars. There may be some regular fellows in it! possible is a practice too often resorted to by the who hate the primary as cordially as others who|men best qualified for it. But without defending will not be members. Let us pray that these legis-) this practice it may be suggested that our judicial lators will perform a Christian duty toward the | procedure itself furnishes, in its delays, trivialities people of Wyoming and relieve them of the pri-!and irrelevancies, the principal excuse busy and mary curse lock, stock and barrel. lresponsjble citizens have for declining their part in = = |its operation. + > “Business men who determine large issues every On the Solid Rock jday can see no reason for the many motions the (JET OF THE CONFUSION of thought produced |jaw goes through to settle small ones. A great by the direct primaries, with their blurring of} many civic cases that constantly cumber the courts party distinctions and clouding of party principles | seem to the average business man to belong to that by giving every crank and demagogue opportunity | class of issues which he settles as a mere matter of tq exploit his particular ism, stand out certain) pysiness routine, by writing a letter, or using the facts. Indiana, Pennsylvania and Minnesota have telephone for a few minutes. He very frankly con- declared for progressive Republicans who have been | siders it a loss of time for him to sit on a jury for sobered by experience since 1912 and who proclaim perhaps two days t& determine, say the damage their Joyalty in the party chief. Maine upholds the|qone to a motor car in a collision. He considers traditional New England Republicanism which was] that a question of fact that could be very easily never known to bolt. Ohio now declares for the| ascertained, but which the law and legal procedure sterling Republicanism which has always spelt prog-| make an unnecessary mountain of. He sees the ress, though not trumpeting the fact. Such states | whole machinery of the law employed upon it, a as these are the rocks that constitute the unshak- judge, a jury and any number of witnesses and able foundations of the party.—Portland Oregonian lawyers, rules of evidence and all the niceties of o-———— Better Juries who readily udmit that a share of re- ahaa judicial interpretation, and when the jury gets oye * ; through with it he too often finds that he has merely Political Cat Fights assisted in a preliminary formality to an appeal. ORMERLY and ‘under the much berated caucus “If this is his experience in civil cases it does and convention ‘system we did not have the rot- ten brand of political campaigns we now have. It is no different on the west coast from the east coast nor in the far north and the far south. The rough- neck campaigns of Wyoming are no whit rougher than they are in the midst of culture and refinement in Massachusetts. nd dignified Connecticut vies with California in vilification. Let the Springfield (Mass.) Union testify as to things political in Massachusetts, under the pri- mary system and it will be a fair account of the situation all over the union. Unless the parties rise in their wrath and act either separately or jointly to end the curse the day of party and party government and responsibility is at an end. The Union says: remedied and simplified. When that is done the “Whatever may be the virtues and the defects of | public’s present excuse for evading its jury obliga- the direct primary, it is unquestionably a very suc4 tions will not hold, and courts will be justified in cessful device to enable candidates to indulge in]a stricter insistence upon its recognition and. per- criminations and recriminations against one an-|formanc other. “Here is Attorney General Autex going about the state not so much, apparently, to establish his own superior qualifications as to disparage the can didacy of Governor Cox for renomination. “Here is Josern Warner, still smarting from his defeat two years ago at the hands of the present not dispose him to extend it in criminal processes, and here the public is a direct sufferer, for there are always plenty of jurors whose sentiment and sympathy make them perfect instruments for the purposes of a resourceful defense. Judges frequent- ly denounce from the bench verdicts in criminal cases monstrously contrary to all the law and the evidence, and here the breakdown of justice is easily traceable to its cause. The jury is not one of re- sponsible citizenship, and why? That question the courts and judicial» procedure must answer. Citi- zenship is at fault, yes; but the cause of its fault goes back to an anterior source. “The American Bar Association itself has admit- ted this and concedes that our procedure must be Her Platform LICE ROBERTSON, congresswoman from Okla homa and candidate for re-election, started out on her campaign by reading a selection from the scriptures and announcing that she is a Christian lieutenant governor, telling audiences why Futter|}and an American and never makes any pre-elec- should now be beaten for renomination, not for any|tion promises. That is a perfectly good platform shortcomings in the administration of his offfce, but 'to stand upon and one that ought to insure election. (hee ty ——<<—<—<$__$ $$$ —_—$_ $e Many a woman is'shy on birthdays}sent the following bit of verse to the who isn’t really behind the times. author in acknowledgment: Tt is easier to find fault with a hus- In Appreciation, band than to find a husband without] 7 received a dear gift last evening | fault, A_yolume of poems most rare, Vagaries of the Sex Men make money and women make them hand it over Some women want a husband to 3 sia “Gems of Tho'ts, word pictures,” lean on: others wan ne to sit on. Painted with a Master's art, in colors If; some! gists’ never aisles One Poet to Another bright and far, uid never get A woman of 4 er being romantic proud of he And as T read in its pages, of Wyo. ming's wonder-land, receiving an author's copy of|! felt, that the fires of the Author's Ree ee Richard Shipp's ‘Intermountain | genius sheer audac Songs of Their Days ana| Were kindled; by God's own hand Gacity. Ways,” Mrs. Lillian cene Elgin / —Lillian Lucene -Bigin. An Old Miner's Story ‘When I ¢rifted into Georgetown (Bo long age 1 hate to think) | She was the livest minin’ camp 1a hit, travelin' up an’ down— Why, I didn't have to buy « drink Ana me nothin’ more than a tramp. | This hotel, ‘twas Louie DuPuy's— | His name is there, over the door—! ‘Was fine as money could make it. Louie was French, but he was wi Bleep in bed. sleep on the floor, You pald—Loule always got his bit. swamped” for Loule, “Chink” Helpin’ me, for about a year } Cleanin’ spitoons an’ scrudfin’ floors For my sleepin’, eatin’ an’ drink, Then I quit him—quit clean an’| with a ’ clear— e Went prospectin’ an’ lived out} doors. ‘We staked « claim, me an’ the “Chink” — quit the drink. im—'twas share and) We sold the share— And bought Louie out that very night. - Them was the days when men played cards, | ‘They'd play all day an’ play all night They'd high: game? ‘sure—broke men don't hi a rda— san ‘em fast an’ play, ‘em) Hard An J tight; square, only damn Loule always had a lot of girls ‘Working’ in the Bar an’ Dance Hall— | Painted Lillies, poor things, low] necks, ‘ Powder, musk, short skirts, hair in! curis, Some short an’ fat, some slim an‘ tall, Miserabl¢ bold, brazen wrecks. Kate was boss of the girls an’ hall, Kept ‘em workin’, never a row, Good woman—worth her weight in. gold: Don't think a man’s got any call To say & woman's bad nohow, Most men is worse till they git old. / Red Tex. was the Devil's own son, His soul (if he ever had one) Was warped and twisted, burned’ black By the smoulderin® fires of Hell} Long Sandy was Scotch, unafraid Honest Highland Scotch, steel-blue eyes, ‘Tight-fisted, red beard an’ black hair; The kind of man who always made The best of life; whose future Jies In his dceams that see all things fair, ’ Red's girl was.s little half Mex. | (The way she loved him was a) You've beat her up for the last time!” We all took cover—that meant fight. Both guns flashed, shot, A fall, a scream and running feet, Then silence. The girl held his head; He lay there, a great red blood clot On his temple—he'd gone to meet The wrath of God—Red Tex, was dead. I head just one Face down on the floor, Sandy } A stilleto sticking in his side— Red's bullet had never touched) him— He wasn't dead an’ asked me to pray,| I didn’t know how, broke down an’ cried; The “Chink? School hymn, sang a Mission We dug one grave under the pines An’ put 'em both fn, side by side— ‘The Mex. girl hung herself that night, She's up there, just where the sun; shines. After that the camp lost its stride, The mines quit, the mills shut down tight. Kate an’ me got married that fall, Made things right for our girl an’ boy. I'm Gran’pap now an’ Gran'maw; The boys is clean an’ strait an’ tall, | An’ the girls—Lord they are a joy— Little darlings without a flaw. Kate's) Summer time they all come up here| An’ stay with us until snow flies. ‘We don't visit ‘em much in town, The air's choky, ain't sweet an’ clear, ‘Water aint pure, can’t see the skies, Then folks all just race up an’ down. | | Werlove these big hills that God made: | The sweet smell of the spruce an‘ pine An’ the hymn the creek sings all | day. “Chink'’—that's him down the shade— | He's been Kate's good ange! an’ mine, a. We'll miss him when away. there in he goes Soon folks begun to move away, The “Chink” an’ me an’ Kate tayed here— t We ain't sorry, though times is slow i For the Old Camp’ll come back some day, | ‘When she does we'll be in the clear, | Come back? It’s the surest thing T know! —E. Richard Shipp. Classifieé ads in the Tribune are winners and possibly the keys we give with every 50¢ pald at office will win you 2 big prize. 8-12-tf tit Che Caspet Daily Cribune Mrs. HARRIET TAYLOR URTON Cp leon Lecutive ormmnittee i If @ map could be made showing lthe development of poltical im- pulses here ang there would be ween tendencies fined as political goal. ed; the idea of welfare legisiation for the benefit of the mothers and babies of this country had become jmore than jcome | Today as f jot the mothers of this country has become a part of ths great job of governmegtai ‘ashington. Chiidren’s Wi 1 the yereated in (Taft's administration because of \the growing sentiment that child- jren would ernment would take a hand in jstudying and publishing the best methods of reports ever so struck home to the women of the United States as the jreports of the showing actual waste in the lives mothers | \*Maternity Bir The feller what won had to buy.| *h® Republican Congress in special of Intelligence Tests “There was |Session of the house of commons ovex the intelligence tests to which Brit- ish ex-soldiers and ex-sailors who week permanent posts in t rvice are subjected,” New York Herald. “Judging from tho questions / quoted Times’ report the tests are very much Uke those which become familiar to 5,000,000 Americans during the war and to which nephews and nieces of Uncle haye been subjected in educational in stitutions since. The members of parliament were provoked to hilarious laughter when they heard this examph it is, an whatever you have put |house, bean, sugar, paraffin, coffee, milk, eese.” “That is exactly the sort of thing |that hardbotled regular army coloneis seat down cross legged to decipher in cantonments while their outraged common sense was displayed in language known best to the army According during the discussion in’ the com- mons, the British test was so severe that out of 20,000 men who had been examined 16,000 were re- our army mule. recently jected. man who drew up the paper. the type of mind best fitted to achieve distinction in such tezts as this is thet of the profes- sional or semi-professional prize puz- zle contestant. with easy confidence and a superior manner the completton of such sen- ‘A public house {is to bar- “Probably tences a: man ag hotel heart as clock is to——'. minipe streaxs”. These streaks began ‘o apppar women first started ‘gs by Preside t ‘Maternity Bil!’ THE GOVERNMENT NURSERY _ ame sessions in November, 1931. This law is a (dfinite indication the mother part of the human) race is beginning to make its voice. heard. Credit should be given to the Republican party for its re- cognition of motherhood as a funds. amental concern of the nation. ' President Harding went ahead of his platform when on Women’s fei sight be de- whei ‘Before women vot- Day at in esa’ Serre | fe tobe an oat well defined line. be declared for a welfare depert~ the result of the sign- Harding of the the proper care ment having reference to women and children. As a result of the maternity law every state’ will have a fund to be used in saving the lives of its mothers and Davies. In order to get a good start immediately on this care of the nation’s youngest, Congras pro- vides $19,000 to be given eech' state the first year and $5,000 each year thereafter for a period of five years. I¢ also provides a fund of one million dollars annually of which $50,000 is to be used by the Children's Bureau in general dir- qetion of the work, $5,000 ts to| go to-each td be matched by, each state dolar. for dollar and the remainder {a to be divided among the states in propo: to thelr population. houmkeeping in Bureau was 1912 during President fare better ff the gov- caring for them. No Children’s Bureau nd babies. ‘The | was passed by | ure of real fntelligence tests of this kind have a value somewhere near that of Mr. Edison's well advertised questionnaire. “All examinations are unsatisfac tory in establishing ability, at bei even when they are applied in cial fields of knowledge, When they ™much mirth at a recent home civil observes the in memory th \are mere exercises in the Léndon them." thousands of other Pursuit Sam suit, it is, of the psy- Yellow teeth, thick lps hangin'|chologist’s cunning: ‘Write there —— from this, slack, the name of the first drink in the| How fairer seems the blossom than Shifty cat-green eyes, and mean,| following list, if it is only drink, but the fruit— well if it is net, put a cross instead, and} am perplexed and often stricken E under it. Underline patie The list is er bliss ‘The winged insect or the chrysalls .|—I'm Tommy Tortojse, the son of —THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. eee I thrust aside with unreluctant foot. DON’T SQUEEZE BLACK- to figures quoted] Squeezing and pinching out black become hard you canfiot them out. crime) “Thero were loud cheers in the}secretions from the skin and there i He was drunk and hit her one;commons when somebody suggested] only one safe and sure way and one night— that if anybody ought to be turned/that never fails to get» rid of them—a Long Sandy yelled: “Stop it, Text out of the civil service it was the|simple way, too—that is to dissolve He would approach will be left soft and the pores is to—— or ‘Body is to As a mean: oN “SS fF The Best—_ ~~ the Least Expensive WY KENNEDY MOTOR CQO. 236 W. Yellowstone—Phone 909 WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE ‘Motor, Cars OC. 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Pive j minutes before {t had been as sizzling hot as a newly flapped flapjack and Retty had been sitting under @ ragged jold Yucca tree telling fairy tales to rag doll Jenny Linn. And now she | Was wet as a pollywog, and hiding un- \der a ert boulder until the storm | passed me e “Gollymegumps! I wish I had an umbrella!” she sighed. “It you were built like I am you'd carry your umbrella with you ail the time,” said the Stone at her feet. Betty squeaked with surprise. Could even the stones squeak in this strange Hop! land? But was it a stone? Even as she watched, out ¢ame a wrin- kled black head, and four stubby légs ‘Oh, you're just a turtle!” cried Betty. a turtle doing way out on T’'m not ‘just a turtle,’ snorted the stranger. “I'm a Tortoise, which is @ very different matter. A desert tor- toise. Turtles have to live near water, the silly, muddy things. But we tor- toises Ilve on the land. My family Timothy Tortoise, Esq.—are built es- pecially for the desert. My legs are strong and tough lik HEADS—DISSOLVE THEM BREAKFAST CoFFE F| Tommy rieise an elephant’'s| A (j= Gift Coffee is packed in an inexpensive, moisture - proof double container to protect its flavor and freshness. Put it in a fruit jar which will maintain its quality and freshness and save you the cost of an expensive coffee container. Start to save to-day! OLDEN GIFT BREAKFAST COFFE and covered with hard scales to stan’ the burning heat, My shell is thick and in it Iam safm from rude visi “But do you live in it'alt the timer ked Betty. What a foolish question!” grunte: Tommy, who seemed somewhat rude himself. “Of course I stay in my shel! But i just as you stay in your skin. have a home too—a nice long burrow under the sand where I can eat my bark and seeds in peace. I'm going there now. Goodbye!” And with that he waddled away. If you wish, you can make 2 Tom my Tortoisa who won't waddle away Paste the picture on pasteboard, co! or him brown, and cut him out. Next cut a strip of bendy cardboard, the size of A, and cut two “wheels” from stiffer cardboard, like B. Bend A on the dotted lines, cut holes in it, and in the wheels as shown at 1, 2 and 3, and attach the wheels to A with paper fasteners, making a “wheel base” like Cc. Paste this under Tommy, fasten a string to his nose—and off you go! Tomorrow—Adventure Trail ‘Catch: ing Trout With Artificial Flies.” Copyright, 1922, by George Mas-aew dams. Fruit Jar and Save Money — “yi NOW Spanish War Vets’ Festival COURTHOUSE SQUARE LACHMAN EXPOSITION SHOWS “Cleanliness and Decency First” 20 BIG HIGH CLASS ATTRACTIONS FOR ALL THE FAMILY AND ALL THIS WEEK Tribune Waniads Bring Results