Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1922, Page 6

PAXE SIK €be Ca rding unemployment were a_ terrific indict- ment of conditions. under the Wilson administra- tion. Men were unemployed in the numbers set ;\forth by Senator Pomerene not because of antic: ipation of future events but because of results of past events. The unemployment of 40 per cent of working men in the winter of 1921 was one of the legacies of the Democratic administration. But Senator Pomerene forgot to tell his Colum- bus audience this month that this army of unem- ployed had disappeared since the Republican party took charge of the government. He found it con- venient not to refer to the fact that under sper D ailp Cribune oe apeg President and Editor ” Advertising Representatives. ldg., Chicago, abe Bldg. basic requirement of sound government in this and levery country is two wrong and active political | parties—one party to run the government and the ‘other party to watch for and expose the weaknesses ‘of the party in power. “The result of the direct primary is that a great many senators are doing exactly what the founders of the republic planned that they should not do— they are allowing themselves to be swayed by the passing whims of the people or the passing whims of small and too often misguided groups of people. When a small—and often misguided—group brings ity FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922. By Mail : RIS Nos n by a for less period than AMT. eubee ™ be paid in advance and the a jelivery after subscrip ulation (A. B. C.) the Associated P ress. entitled to the paper and ed in th Tribune. and 8 o'clock p. m A paper will be de Make it your duty to ier misses you. Casper’s School Population YASPER SHOOL authorities are in a very con tented frame of mind at the conclusion of the second week of school and the figures on enroll- ment of pupils have been made available. This year the total reaches 4,106, Last year it was 3,596. The increase is 510. Rather a hand some gain and proof positive that the population of the city is steadily increasing and hovering around the mark claimed by, the best informed per. sons that the city has a census of over twenty thovsand. The Casper school district is amply abl¢ to care} for and educate the children it already has and as} ¥ more as come under its charge. The a: ed aluation of the property within the district is) in excess of $55,000,000. And while the district has steadily built school houses for several years it is| still: short of housing facilities and is compelled} to build additional rooms to some and new build- ing in other cases. There is one very satisfactory feature i con- nection with the difficult tasks confronting the school trustees—not one voice has been raised against any action the board has taken to provide facilities and teachers, and other necessary things to keep the children in school. The entire district recognies the difficulties con-} fronting the board and all are willing to assist| rather than hamper. It is an excellent indication. Pomerene’s Fautly Memory TLEEK POMERENE, Democratic senator from| Ohio delivered the keynote address at the state | convention of his party. It also formally opened his campaign for re-election. According to press} “reports of his speech he dwelt quite a bit upon the tariff measure, charging that it would increase the cost of living to the working man, and injure the farmer and destroy foreign markets. This is an old} familiar sound. During the discussion of the em- ergency tariff in the senate in January, 1921, Sen- ator Pomerene delivered several speeches in op- position and among other things said: 4 “Last week I was in the city of Cincinnati. Up- on inquiry I found that the shops there were only running about 40 per cent of their capacity. I ain advised that in the great iron and steel centers of Ohio the mills are running about 50 per cent of their capacity. I have in mind at the present time a great manufacturing plant which ordinarily em- ploys about 30,000 men, but which today is ,em- ploying about 7,000. I have in mind another plant which employes, ordinarily about 9,000 men; it is closed down now. I have in mind another plant that employs ordinarily, about 4,800 men, whereas now it is employing about 700 men. There is not} an industrial center in the te of Ohio or in| westeri: Pennsylvania or in New York or Illinois that is not more of less very seriously affected by non-employment. The other day, adding to._my d tress of mind, when-I picked up one of the Ohio} newspapers I found that in the city of Toledo al-| ready there had been formed a bread line of 2,000) men; and a day later I found on reading another newspaper that that morning the authorities had) to feed 1,200 men for breakfast and to give them} baskets of food to take home to their families.| Then, I turn to this bill, and I find a duty placed on wheat; I find eight cents a pound duty added to butter, and as much added to cheese, and in the| same relative proportion increased duty is pro- | posed to be levied upon nearly all the substantial food products of the country. What are we to do| for those who are now out of employment?” i On another occasion but on the same subject he gave utterance to these statements: “I sent out a questionnaire to every chamber of commerce and to every central labor union in the cities of 10,000 and over in my state, and word comes back from nearly everyone of these indus- trial centers that about 40 per cent of the work- ingmen, of the country are out of employment; and now ,with that situation confronting us, the con- gress of the United States seeks to place a heavy tax upon everything which goes on the working- man’s breakfast table. “The newspapers last week carried the informa- tion that in the industrial city of Toledo there was} a bread line of 2,000 men, and the civ uthorities not only gave them their breakfast but gave them} baskets to carry home to the famished ones there. | Yet the congress secks to put a duty ‘upon milk,} butter, bread, meat and eggs. “Mr. President, at the proper time I will not op- pose a vote on this | but I warn Republicans | ies outside of those affected by strikes, which were brought on not by the administraion but by enemies of the administration, close confidants of. former President Wilson. In January, 1921, Senator Pomerene painted a truthful but gloomy picture of conditions in the state of Ohio. Senator Pomerene could have point- ed out that the great steel industries of his state had not only resumed activities but had raised the wages of their working men; that in the great in- dustrial district surrounding Youngstown indus- tries were advertising for help. He could have told his Democratic audience that there had been an industrial transformation since the Republican ad- |ministration came into power; that while during |the last year of Democratic rule hundreds of taucs- jands of working men were walking the streets and }were standing in bread lines, now there is a job for every man who wants to work, at a wage that is profitable. “What are we to do for those who are now out tof employment?” exclaimed Senator Pomerene on the floor of the American senate January 25, 1921. The answer to this is that the Republican party has put them back to work, but Senator Pomerene conveniently forget to tell this to his Democratic jaudiewse at Columbus, Cote Sad Results of Primary N AN EXTENDED article in the Saturday Eve ning Post on “The Tribulations of the Senate,” Kenneth L. Roberts talks rather plainly to the American people with reference to their United States senate, its personnel and the quality thereof, the manner of transacting its business, together with many other matters and things to show changes that have occurred with the passing years and the general decline in character and ideals set by the fathers and founders in the beginning of the republic, One feature of Mr. Roberts’ article will attract more than passing attention from those who read it and digest what they read and that is his ref- erence to the sad influence the primary election system has exerted upon the senate membership since the passage of the seventeenth amendment to the constitution. Mr. Roberts does not deal gently and either con- sciously or unconsciously has given other writers, who are possibly more strongly opposed to the pri- ary system, strong argument for their position. Perhaps a few paragraphs from Mr. Roberts’ article will illustrate the point: “The seventeenth amendment to the constitution provided that senators should be directly elected by the people. In addition to this, senatorial can- didates were nominated at direct primaries, in- stead of being named at party coneventions. “Politics, instead of being lifted by the institu- tion of the direct primary to a high plane and an- chored there securely, was lifted about seven miles in the air, and left there to float around unhappily and helplessly. This was because the people, who became the selectors of candidates under the direct primary system, selected in many instances the gentlemen with the strongest lungs, the longest and prettiest hair and the most highly developed prom- isers. For a long time it seemed as if the voter would fall only for lungs and promises, mistaking them, in a manner peculiar to the bulk of voters of any country iinless they are ably led, for courage and ability but happily the direct primaries were used intelligently in several cases last spring. “The late Mr. Thomas Carlyle once described the inhabitants of his own country as “Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.” His characterization prob- ably wouldn't have included the political bosse: for a political boss, though he may be many un- pleasant and offensive things, is searcely a fool. When, therefore, the political bosses and the rep- resentative delegates to party conventions selected senatorial candidates they were seldom foolish enough to mistake lungs and promises for courage and ability. Being practical politicians, they us- ually selected men to run for senator who had made successes in some form of human endeavor. The caliber of too many of the men that the bosses se- lected for the senate was far higher than the cali: ber of those thut the people have since selected for the senate; and it is safe to say that the people, at many direct primaries, have allowed themselves to be bunked and hokused into selecting senatorial candidates that few old-time political bosses would have had the nerve to suggest. “Tt is gradually dawning on the country at large that the tendency of the American voters to cast his ballot for insincere politicians at the direct primary has been causing the standard of men in public life to take a slump. The direct primary alone cannot make a trimmer and coward out of a courageous man; but it is only by means of the di- rect primary that the people can break the control of corrupt political bosses over public offices. The fault, however, is not with the direct primary law, but with the great American boob. The direct pri- mary has given the great American boob a fine chance to throw his vote blithely for flannel- mouthed orators who are adepts at making people believe that noise is statesmanship. So long as the great American boob continues to behave in this manner, the direct primary is a handicap rather than a blessing to the country, and the American people as a whole deserves to lose its right to name candidates to high office. New York is returning this year to nominating senators at party conven- tions; Maine is on her way back to the party con- vention; and Minnese+a is about to take the same step. Thus do-x the boob voters discredit what is basically a good law. “At any rate, when so many voters hearkened to the campaign pleas of loud-mouthed, silvery- tongued, fluent-promiting candidates, they auto- matically put their dtamp of approval on dema- gogues. A demagogue, as one may find by consult- ing the best works of reference, is ‘an unprincipled popular orator or leader; one who endeavors to curry favor with the pedple or some particular por- tion of them by pandering to their prejudices or | } that if you fasten this bill upon the American peo- ple it will be ‘the handwriting on the wall’ for! you.” | It is of considerable political significance that Senator Pomerene in his Columbus speech failed| to refer to his predictions of over a year ago as to! What would happen in event a farmers tariff were! @nacted. The senator like practically every other Democratic politician spends a large part of his) from his own re-} public career in running aw cord. Democratic politicians in every campaign are very busy trying to forget what they said in the previous campaign. They spend their life mak ing direful predictions. Senator Pomerene's speeches in January, 1921, wishes, or by playing on their ignorance or pas- sions” “The senate includes men who answer exactly to that description. Day after day visitors to the senate listen with disgust to men whose eyéry word is calculated to curry favor with the people or some particular portion of them by pandering to their prejudices. Never in the history of the senate has |there been more demagoguery than exists in it to- \ dar. | “The connection between the direct primary and | the blocs that are making so many offensive messes in both houses of cong s is clearly apparent. The Repub-| pressure to bear on number of senators, then a Socis iministration all industries had resumed ac-|cluster of senators may disregard the best inter-' National Chi , ts of their party and of all the people and form| members: the Constitutional Work club, with eigh- teen members; the National Laborers’ Federatior, with fourteen members; the Townsmen’s Federa- tien with thirteen members; the Polish es themselves into » small separate with the avowed purpose of supporting the wishes of a minority. party, or bloc, | Socialistic bern ‘with thirty-five members; ian Laborers’ club, with thirty Popular “A little more loosening of party control in beth| Party of the Left, with twelve members; the Fed- the senate and the house, and a sl jght increase inj eration of Jewish D +he number and the determination of existing blocs,| Polish Catholic P; ities, with ten members; the fy, with five members; and would bring about a very similar condition to that)the German Popular Party, with two members. which existed in the Polish Diet. or Chamber of |The remaining seven members belonged to no party. Who's It, Where’s Where, What’s What And Why It Is Of course, if you were bound and determined to pull a biography and nothing but a biography, you could launch out in orthodox fashion and say “Honorable Alfred J. Mokler was born at Wilmington, Illinois, May 21, 1868, of poor but honest patents, and knew fulwell the joys of remaining afford his mother opportunity for setting a nice square black badge into the seat of his gray jeans trou- sers, in order that he be not late for the district school three miles distant, his anatomy covered by said badge from the rigors of the wintery blasts while enroute to said school.” Then you could continue still along orthodox lines, and tell your” dear readers, that the progenitor of your: subject was a blacksmith “and a good one too"; and at this point you could embellish your work with a fragment from that well remembered and “Under the shop, The village chestnut stood.” You could proceed interminably spreading blacksmith Mokler and wind up with a thousand soforths, and your patient reader would get no kick out of it, because hundreds of them know more about him than, you do yourself and many of them could tell it better. There fore we will not employ our elabor- ate historical style but talk about Mr. Mokler after the fashion of an old friend and admirer, who had fished with him, hunted with him, and done everything else except drink with him. To be very plain about it— just talk about Mokler in chunks, selecting the bright spots that appeal as you review his work on earth be- ginning with a certain. May morning back in 1863. Tt has already been reluted that Mr. Mokler's father was a black- smith but it has not been divulged that the son took a course of train- ing in the same useful trade. He did, however, and with design, for his life's ambition was to be a printer, a preserver of the “art preservative of all arts.” And any printe: will tell you that a preliminary tratnin< in blacksmithing is very essentin! to the boy about to embark in the printer's profession. Tt was on the Hiawatha, Kansas, World that our young friend was handed a stick and rule ‘and told kindly but firmly to learn the cases, sweep out the office once a month, split the kindling with the office towel. steriliee the office sponge and worship the overstuffed editor in bed of a cold winter morning to, and also to protect that portion of) thoroughly familiar poem beginning?) with the details of the life of Alfred J.) HE USED To ET Tet TRIBUNE and take him for a model in every- thing. Mokler performed ail and sing- jular these tasks, except the last, and got away with them. After pilgrimat- ing over fifty-seven states and four- teen territories and mastering’ the style in six thousand different news- {paper offices throughout our broad junion, his education was completed jand he was an expert. One of the |best printers in the world. And a |perfect fiend at eliminating the festive | typographical error from any rag that at the time most needed his valuable Services at the customary weekly stipend, Then he came to Casper and be- ing wise he concluded to remain and help build up the town, which was the thing the ‘town most’ needed at the time. To aiq@ in the great work he had in mind, Mr. Mokler bought ithe Tribune, (this was in 1897) and led. How well ‘he succeeded— | well, here's Casper! Can you beat it? Tt was a great weekly “Moke” put lover. It was known far and wide, and read by everybody. The good respected {t and the other kind feared it. “Moke” was absolutely fearless and absolutely fair, and owned and still owns the kindest heart ever in- stalled as part of the running-gears of aman. “Moke edited and published the ‘Tribune and continued to build up the town until October 15, 1914 when he lgave J. BE. Hanway a long pusli on the highway of prosperity. by selling |him the Tribune and telling him to | go to it, i Now, according to the rules of good. taste we are compelled to drop the familiar “Moke,” hfm in future as Mr, Mokler, for ‘he has descended from the tripod, laid aside the editorial pen and taken up the dignified quill of the people, and the progress of Natrona county. a work of this sort quite so well as Mr. Mokler, no one is quite ‘so well fitted to do it and it will be invalu- able to the people of the city and county. Scattered along through the life of Mr. Mokler are, many incidents of a rather personal nature, upon which che statute of limitations has run, but whict have not been widely adver- tised. Cla timers may know about some of thers but the newcomers are on a friendship coccing many years and refer to! No one could do} not informed, se we'll take a chance} building hides the skeleton closet ana >*veal just a few high crimes and misac- meanors, First, Alfred Ji Mokler isn. poet: jer Has written and published many beautiful verses. Correct as to, feet. and inches, musical as to rhyme, charming as to sentiment, free from poetic license, and worthy of place’ im anybody's anthology. This mery be labeled’ horror number one. Number two, is the fact that he county chaigman , state committeeman. be worse? “Number three, saddest of the lot. His friends and admirers tendered him the nomination for governor of the imperial common-wealth of Wyo- ming. And {f this was not enough other friends at another time used, every endeavor to induce him to a6- cept a nomination for mayor of Cas- per. He spurned both diadems. But the damaging fact that people even thought him to be-that kind of a man Goes not entirely exonerate him trom blame. Misdemeanor number four, not horrible but had enough. Alfred J. Mokler was for nine years a member of the board of regents 0% the Wyo- ming state university. He was on Could anything ADVENTURE TRAILS Biazed for You by Say Brother Adyenturer, if there!firmly into the soW under water. Tha are any camp or woodcraft stunts you want to know about—ask me! If you know of any that will help the other feilows—tell me! of the editor of this paper, “Trouble is, that by the time we fiddle here catch live bait enough for the “ay's fishing, the sun is away up and the best part of the “ishing Gay is gone,” complained Ted as he and Ned hunted along the shore with @ band net, trying to catch minnows, little frogs and the like. “Sure,” laughed Ned, “if we could only train them to come right out and hop in our pails when we whistied—" But he got no further. “Instead of trying to catch anything now, while the sun is so hot, I'm going to put in the day getting ready for tomorrow's fiching,” declared ‘Ted. “But the bait doesn't keep well all day and night in tin buckets,” com- pleined Ned. “I'l build a water Lungalow for the bait,” laughed Ted. He secured a box and reinforced it ‘with nails, cleated and ‘hinged the top for a cover and took out a wide trip jover the top and at each end. ‘;Fine,” exclaimed Ned, sarcastically, “perhaps a 20-pound fish couldn't get out of those holes, but—" , “Wait.” said Ted. He went ashore and managed to find some old wire window screen and brought it back Then he cut four stout stakes and hy this time Ned began to understand. ‘Ted covered the opening in the box with the wire screen as at F and G, put on the fiinges as at E and then w sane commen niente’ Or rant|nelected a spot in the edge of the . water, € Coun Miah echoes TRIN pe a{| With Ned's help, standing in the wa- rotten game of golf. Crime number six. He claims to be the champion pike fisherman of the Rocky Mountain region and gets that there are forty other superiors. the specifications. the sinful game of solo. hole up and write history after all this. Otherwise If you can find a better friend, better man, better citizen in all the world, than this same Alfred J. Mokler, please trot him out for ex- hibition and investigation. oneal et Keep the Air Moist ‘The atention of the public has oft- en been called to the importance of securing a proper amount of moisture In the alr of heated rooms in’ winter. Hitherto little attention ssems to have been paid to this subject by most per- sons. The fact that the water costs substantially nothing and that with its use it is possible to save some 25 per cent of the coe’ otherwise nects- sary for heating purposes did not seem to be an inducement to muke the little effort required to secure the desirable result. It is not proposed to culse the room humidity to a point even equal to that prevailing in the outside air, For healthful conditions the house tempor- ature should range from 65 to 68° de- grees with a ‘humidity of approxl- mately 60 degrees, For # dwelling house of moderate size this means the addition to the air of from two to four gallons of water in the form of vapor in each 24 hours, and in exceptionally cold weather as much as nine gallons. No one can well take exception to the recommended temperature limits and house humidity, for they aré pre- cisely the same as those of a mild day in May or June. This ought to be sufficient answer to those wiic sug-! gest that a soggy atmosphere is be- ing advocated. When the temperature outside drops below 50 degrees the heating of the outdoor air to a temperature of ap- proximately 72 degrees reduces the humidity %o less than 30 per cent. This does not mean that there is less water in the alr. It merely means that at a temperature of 72 degrees the atr is capable of holding much more water. It ought to be evident without argu- ment that it is trying to the alr pas- sag‘s of the lungs to pass constantly from a humidity of less than 30 per cent to one approximately 70 per cent. ‘There is another advantage in hav- ing moisture in the house air in that it does away with the, sensation of draft, giving amore uniform tempera: ture to all parts of a room, and with ‘& moderate degree of heat giving a sensation of greeter warmth. In very cold weather it is unneces- sary to force the heating apparatus to its ntmost ‘capacity, which Is a waste of time and coal. f In furnace heated houses a eufficient supply of water must be brought near enough to the firepot to evaporate the needed amount. It is worth while to run an outlet from the water supply into the hot air space, and this may, if it is desired, be arranged to supply the water automatically. However, there is little trouble in turning it on by hand whenever coal is added to the furnace. ~ In many cases the problem would of the historian, 'ne that of a tenant in a steam heated to write of the scenes, incidents, lives} F building in a single room or apartment under his control. Water containers can be had which fit closely to the pipes of radiators or moistened cioths placed on the radiator will supply the moisture necessary. In very cold weather the hotel dwell- er having a room and bath “quick- ly make Hvable a room which is a lit- tle too cold for comfort by drawing a rew inches of hot water into the bathtub. The change of temperature Will be negligible, but the difference in comfort will be amazing. One test of whether the alr of a is properly moistened’ is whether delicate plants will grow sat- and lift the_corner of the rereen that/isfactorily without being kept under glass. Another test is whether the windows tend to frést in frosty weath- T€ they do net the alr ix too dry. in prijste dwellinge it is customary away with it in the face of the fact Crime number seven, and last of He ts addicted to He ought to’ ter, he drove the four stakes, measur- ing the width and length of the box to find out just how far apart to drive the stakes, It was not at all difficult, A the water line and B the bottom. An end view is shown, and D anc D-D are the stakes at one end. C and C¢-C shows how these were driven to leave the care of a furnace wholly to a furnace man who calls at inter- vals. Jt is impossible for such a man }to know what tlie effect of his work is, as he ts never upstairs and having a number of such furnaces to attend to his work is necessarily wasteful of coal. A close supervision, with direc- tions from time to time by the house- holder, is absolutely necessary for sat- isfactory and economical results, So far as the amount of moisture in the air is concerned it is safe to say that it is unlikely that too much will the difference between a wot and a dry bulb thermometer should be about 8 degrees Fahrenheit, not less than 6 degrees nor more than 10 degrees. However, me may trust one's own sen- sations in the matter, and if the home has the feeling of a fine June day one may assume that both the tempera- ture and the humidity are about right. It is sometimes suggested that heat is absorbed in the changing of water into vapor. This is cf course true, but the amount of heat used in that way is, negligible compared with the sav- ing of coal in the lower temperatyre permitted by & proper amount moisture, —CHARLES MANIERRE. Address me in care} be secured. For house temperatures } Lewis Alien Browne bait box was fastened by driving long nails through from the inside of t): Bor Into the stakes and clinch! them—the nails should be long enoury to come through the stakes an Inch or \. more. Ned held the axe against the stake as Ted drove the nails. When all four posts were up and the box #ecured, they had a fairly light 1i1 ule trap, fish-proof even for the smal! st minnows. Then they put some sand and pebbles into the bottom of the box and some bits of wood to float on top, #> the little frogs could clim) up on them. By suneet they had a large quantit; of balt in the box, minnows, frogs, he gamites for bass and some sunfish for skipping fur pickerel. Next morning before sunrise the were up and having breakfast. Before the pink dawn was fairly upon them they went down to their bait box and with o little hand net, fished out their bait which was as lively as if just taken, By the time the sun was really com. ing up the boys were fishing, which as everyone knows or should know, is the very best time to fish. The sim ple little bat box made this possibia Tomorrow—Merry Makings. Copyright 1922, by George Matthey Adams, ; It Is ‘Sept. Goodby to the peach on the beach, and the clam; Googlby to the cherry, the berry, the yam: Goodby to balbriggans, and lobsters inept— It is Gept. | The geese flock in wedges and wing for the south; y The grape robed in purple prepares for the mouth; f ‘The football awaketh that long, long hath elept— . Tt is Sept. | t_ It fs Sept.t a tang in the alr, There's a-zip in the tub ‘That last week wasn’t there, You're no longer a dub Fit for only a chair— Now you leap where you ‘crept. You are fit, an adept— It is Sept.! —Maurice Morris. ‘The new Egyptian fiag is a whice crescent and three white stars on a green ground. One Ina exacting tests and mee! tell you.’ A perfected A in one LY a few of the thousands of offer- ’ ings from coffee plantations pass our We pay premiums for certain select ffees because of their 1. flavor, Body and pete ofsap. “Your coftee t taste will 0 e2)NSNE *\ Retainz its fresh flavor in this moisture-proof container, ‘Thousand t our strict i ts. mountain ‘-cleaned—no chaff or coffee satisfying. blend—air- dust—“hot roasted” freshness—rich, smooth, fe hte to serve. At your grocers Your Grocer Carries It Will read page 155 of the September Ladies’ Home Journal, and.the inside back cover of the September Vogue. THE FRANTZ SHOP *252 South Every Well Dressed Woman Center St.