Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 6

. ing steadily worse instead of better. PAGE SIX. Cbe Casper Daily Cribune Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building BUSINESS TELEPHONES 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 | _-. President and Editor | MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS _ | ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Advertising Representatives. on, 1720-28 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Prudden, King & Prudden dg... Chicago. CHARLES W. BARTON Til; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Glo Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont+/ gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Patly Tribuno are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. 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Completion of the established Boenic Route boute- ward as planned by the county commissioners to Garden Creek Falls and return. Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. Super Bosses. TELDING to the same impulse that has already induced baseball, movie and theatrical inter: | ests to appoint an overlord or super-director over their destinies and the judgment of their meth- ods, the makers of women’s dresses have delegated a like authority to a single person to control their business. The proceeding 1s dictinctly novel for although czars and dictators have been common enough in the past hitherto it has been customary for them to elect themselves to these positions, and their sub- jects have been obedient, not because they wanted to be so, but because they couldn’t help themselves. In these modern instances, submission is more than resigned—it is voluntary, and in seemingly confident expectation that thus happiness, safety and prosperity are to be secured. The surprising element in all these cases is the! humility shown by open confession that a master is| needed to prevent the servants from doing wicked or foolish things, to their own injury and that of} the people around them. The spirit may be a beautiful one, but how strange! In none of these} cases have. the persons who thus are giving up or restricting their individual liberty in the manage- ment of their own affairs been noted for lack of self-confidence—for eagerness to advice from} outsiders—for willingness to admit that any one) of themselves was wiser and more virtuous than} any one of the others. Yet just that is what they are doing now! Ap-} parently they are glad to lose a freedom which} they have come to consider too expensive in either, money or reputation, and they have lost what| used to be regarded as the natural desire of every man whose soul was not that of a slave—the desire to do what he would with his own to whatever ex: tent the law permitted. Is this progress or Is it retrogression? The Farce Growing. HE FAILURE of prohibition enforcement on Tind and the failure to stop the inflow of liquor by sea, the persistence of the local distiller throughout the land, the general joke that is made of prohibition by people who should have more re- gard for the law of the land, is getting under the skin of those who would have strict obedience on the part of everybody. Seaboard newspapers are filled with accounts of rum runners. In the form of feature articles and fully illustrated. Other newspapers have pages of magazine sec- tions telling of the activities of Booeogeers in and about the halls of congress and the hotels of Washington. The federal courts throughout the land are clogged with cases dealing with liquor violations. | State and federal enforcers are sleuthing their) jurisdictions, smelling out stills and illicit distil- lers. There is no end of activity and cost but it seems} to get no where. j It is believed that prohibition violation is grow-| | Governors of states, members of congress, of- ficials great and small rail about the matter, but no one apparently heeds them. And the flow of| hooch continues. | There is little difference {n communities. Vio- lations are more open and pronounced in the larger ones, while in the smaller ones the work is more guarded and discreet. It is difficult to accept the view of certain op-| timists that strict enticement will eventually, take place. At present there is not the slightest evidence to warrant snch a belief, and no encour-} agement whatever that violations will be brought under control. The people themselves have shown little or no regard for the whole prohibition scheme, and less concern for the enforcement of its provisions It is a sorry state of affairs in a great Christian! nation, but that's it with the veneer pealed off. Just what are you going to do about it? Brains, Judgement and Experience. B= FING BACK in bus ire doing it, but it low and tedi The year just closed has shov xl volun another thing has been prov lso the ness we have done—the necessity for business mien in Wusiness. During war time it was merely | miscuous snooting of husbands has got to stop. | the headlines, but they enough to get the gist of the world events that) ie offering a thing for sale, the price did not matter and the quality was not inquired into. The people for most part had money and they bought. That Was all there was to it. Salesmansizip fouk a vaca tion. it required but little business sense to secure a storervom, & stock of goods and start selling, 11 Wus NOL & question Of Auving to use experience in a way Uiat would make an effective appeal to the buying public in order to insure a good umount o1 wales. Now, times and conditions have changed in many ways. There is u difterent aspect upon the iuce of things compared with the old loose anu reckless days of the war period. The lines are beuug drawn tighter and there is more accounting of little things. ‘he times require greater care, anvre intelligence, more science, and experience to conduct business successfully, than even in the strenuous competition of pre-war days. Even with the very good business last year pro- duced, there were slack periods that presented problems, The experienced business man solved them, held his own and went ahead. The man who lacked business equipment is probably not in busi- ness today or if he is he will not remain long. It is so expensive to be in business today that it keeps many guessing, and without a thorough understanding of busimess principles, it is some- what of a case of heaven help the man in that situation. From this on it will require more brains, level- headed judgment and wealth of guiding experience than has ever been demanded in business before. We are approaching the most dangerous point in reconstrucuon. The Slaughter of Husbands. | USTODIANS of the law are having their grief | curtailing the rights of the ladies. Pronounce- ment has gone out irom yarious sources that pro Scarcely a day passes in the land of the free that some husband isn’t sent to his heavenly home by an enangered or jealous wife. It is really quite the mode to bump off a fractious mate in this fashion, and gives the self-made widow no end of publicity and endless offers of matrimony from other men who seem to hanker to offer themselyes as gun fodder, The comment is usually madé, when some fair criminal has laid her rival-low in the dust, that she showed poor judgment in not killing her husband instead. It is so very difficult to secure convic- tion against a woman for slaying a mere man, es- pecially a mere husband. The consensus of opin- ion is that he probably was not fit to live, any- way, and more power to the lady for ridding the state of an undesirable citizen. it is doubtful whether any of these killings are actuated by true love. Mostly they are caused by the deadly fear of seeing the meal ticket snatched away and the probability of having to go forth and toil eight hours a day to earn the requisite money for meat and crackers. A contributing ele-| ment is outraged vanity. When a younger and prettier woman caromes across a wife’s line of vi-| sion on her husband's arm her self-love is cut to the} core and primeval instincts of revenge well up in her heart. A better system than going in for heavy artillery! would be for the lady to secure a divorce and promptly marry some one else;/to prove to the recreant one what a.treasure he had lost. Reno is still operating, and there are other places almost} as convenient, where aggrieved wives may secure decrees which leaves small excuse for a woman to have recourse to murder. The argument is al- together in favor of divorce when domestic affairs have reached the breaking point with a Don Juan- ish husband. The cost is ahaa ier and less fraught with dangerous possibilities. Unless promiscuous murder of husbands ceases, it will be so shortly that no one except the nerviest of men will care to enter the blessed state. England woke up the other day and hung a hus- band poisoner and two hemispheres went wild over the matter. Then America convicted one of her red-handed sisters, but in all probability will carry the joke no farther. Yes, these female gumtoters ought to be sup- pressed. We all agree. But how are you going to do it, with public sentiment in its present con- dition? These reckless girls will not suppress themselves. That’s certain, because we are constantly asking them to do it. A request from a district attorney or a judge to park her sidearms on the back bar gets no result. She don’t do it. She retains them and what is more, uses them when the notion strikes her, Much as we hate to do it, guess we will have to resort to hanging, our lady killers like we do some of our reckless males who get gay. There seems no other w: (MERE AE Keep Abreast of the Times. PEOELS, that is the generality of them, possess one great fault. They do not know what is go-| ing on about them. They permit their affairs to so completely occupy their attention and absorb their interest, that it leaves them in ignorance of important matters that occur under their very| noses very day. Matters, too, of greater or less ad-| vantage to them. They do not seem to realize that} they are making a great mistake in allowing them-j selves to drift along in such a fashion. They live their lives, but they overlook the fact that they could be living them a whole lot better if they would inform themselves at least on the events that are happening every day around them. | There are a great many persons who do not seem to know the need of keeping abreast of events.| They glance at the newspapers, perhaps reading do not read carefully} eventually come home in a much more positive way| than the average man realizes. Then there is the} more serious reading of informative magazines. | There are certainly enough of them to go around and provide the kind of reading that will give val uable and enlightening comment on what is going on in this country or abroad. Reading of current periodicals should form a regular part of our school curricula. It is done to A great extent, and there cannot be too much stress! laid on this feature of education, Education may be considered as being something which should consist more in the formal instruction that is ob- tained from books, but when we consider that in-| struction in the future will include much that is happening now, there is no reason why we should not take advantage of the advancements of our, own age while we hre living among them. ae N RUSSIA, on Christmas day, the communists burned the deity in effigy. Having destroyed practically everything material, they now to destroy everything spiritual. Poor old Russia!) o TE *AYXLOUS inquirer” reall i to know the definition of a “jaywalker,” we are pleased to inform him that he is anyone who hasn't a car. Ask something Dig Cig at ‘ 8 Che Casnet Hallo Trihune Leann Pawo-frl Watetnea ‘GETTING BACK To THE ToP was AS MUCH FUN AS GOING DOWN UNTib ‘THAT oO Jones Woman’ CAMB OVER AND MADE. THE FowerFu- KATRINKA Stop, / plies Lebel flied 3h Jive “Meditation” As I sit thinking of life's great prec!- pice, I seem to distinguish two roads. Shall I travel the narrow and straight, Or the crooked, and banish all loads? I look to the right above me, I see the narrow slippery climb; Then thinking of the glor/éus summit I wonder “Shall it be m‘ne?” Turning, I see the down hill road Leading to crime and wrong. Shall I take the easy and carefree way Or push on to the right with a song? —Bernice Robinson. Casper, Wyo. Novelists’ Crime Wave. Many persons think novelists shou:d be required by law elther to put a happy ending on their future books or to keep, their manuscripts at home, where they won't do any harm. Folks are beginning to think that the penalty for killing off a hero and letting a heroine go mop. ing lonesomely down a dusty, dreary road into the sunset, ought to be something drastic, like some strung out form of death. Why is an unhappy ending. any- way? Because the novelists hold that it is realistic—true to life. And must a writer be realistic, true to Ufe? Many of them think so. Many a writer, when told by his publisher that he can either take the funer out of the end of the story or take his story and go ‘way back .and sit down with it, has a kino of nervous breakdown, right on the spot. Not all novelists are this way, but the number is growing rapid‘y, and as it grows so grows the sorrow of the world. Yes, the novels with unhappy end- ings are causing much trouble now- adays, Think of it! The best selling novel in America, to quote just one example, is being read by hundreds of thousands of people, and it is no more fun to read that sorry book than it is to see a hanging. One might as well read the obituaries in the newspapers and save money. Through. four hundred pages that book leads you to haye love and sym- pathy and hope for a squad of seven persons and then what? Why,then the author gets realistic. He begins to do his killing in a rea- sonable, merciful way; he doesn't get them together in the parlor and start an earthquake and shuffle them off in a hurry; not much! He strings things out. He takes those wretches one by one and he makes each of, them dle hard, and he leayes all the rest of them in good fiealth and standing around in close proximity while the preceding demise !s going nm. And finally, when the lagt beloved one of them has fallen Gown a well, and climbed half way out, and falleh down !n again for good, he cocks a sorry eye at the sky above the scene spends eleven funeral paragraphs ling how the biood red sun ts sink- {ng slowly into a rising storm and it looks Ike colder and rain for the morrow ‘This is one particular novel. There are many others. It is getting so that you have to buy the entire edt tion of an author to get a single ray of sunshine any more. Every day the daughter of some family comes to dinner looking as if she had lost all hope,. ‘Great Scott, what's the matter?” says her mother, fear'ng fllness. “Harold diefl™ quav- ers ughter, Ips trembling. Mother ‘Haro'd who? What dance were you going to with him?” And in the book,” daughter sobs: “F and adds; “Baw,w-w!" and begins to cry ber eyes out ie getting" folks are get stuck with massacre end to every one that leaves the characters still in healt! 1 trad. ually the world ts becc ns tear ful realistic noyels the as Doctrine of Confidence. Emil Coue is not a bird as some have suggested and certainly not a definite formula, —Bv Vontaine Fox Per cent, indicate the relative fac- tors in such cases. Coue is merely preaching the doctrine of confidence but he is the first man to give us a or weaving, anc rare one. It always happens that a/ hence something to work with. particular man wil) express a thought which 1s vaguely in the minds of other men of his time; in | words, the Cefinition applicable to many innovators in eyery linc—they synthesize the loose threads of their | environment into.a definite-and valu- able weave. We have all been prac- teing autosuggestion to some degree and in a vague way without most of us being able to realize it. How many have gratefully accepted the sugar pills of the doctor and left with a ecling of surety and satisfaction for having started on the road to future sealth? I dare say that they clung to thelr faith in the value of the pills until they (the pills) assumed he position of the one and only great cure. However, physicians will certainly agree with me that confi- ‘ence 9% per cent, plus pill value, 5 % $ : Bs Sa a a eS Re i i ie o. Xe os Me + , Rogedtoss Phone 1381 | other | —Douglas V. Kane. “You've Said It.” The many interesting references to the origination of the phrase, “You've sald it,” are no doubt due to re- ricted reading. Has it occurred to anyone that the phrase was first ut- tered in the days of Christ, and by Christ himself? I do not make this suggestion in anything but a rev- erent sense and then only as a mat- ter of educational interest. In the 23rd chapter of St. Luke's Gospel and the third verse, is written of Christ standing before Pilate who charges Him thus: “Art Thou the King of the Jews?” and He answered him and said, “Théu sayest it." Not only can many colloquial say- | Breatest captains of industry, mad THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1923. ings of our time be traced to Holy Writ, but indeed a close analysis will Prove that the entire fabric of our civilization is closely identified with and similar to the practice of the people of Biblical days. “Thou say- est it’ is undoubtedly the pure ex- pression whose corruption and equiv- , alent we utter as “You've said it!" —J. J. Healy. A German Explains. August Thyssen, a coal baron of the Ruhr and one of Germany's highly significant statement as he discussed the arrival at Essen of the French. “What can we do?" he moaned. “We are helpless. We have no cannon, We let ourselves be dis- armed.” Did they, indeed? The world “let” seems to be more than slightly inac- curate, for if ever a Cisarming was effected against the will of those thus bereft_it was the disarming of the Germans. It took more than four years of fighting, in which pretty nearly the whole wor:d participated, but the thing was done at last. And at what dreadful cost! Herr Thyssen shares the common German delusion that tho kaiser’s ar- mies were not beaten in the field. He prefers, for reasons incompre- hensible outside of Germany, to be- lieve that the defeat of the Germans was due to German treachery and weakness behind the battle line. This would be amusing if !t were not so irritating. It is not quite so amusing, however,-as are the fre- quent expressions of German horror over what they claim to be the viola- lation of a treaty by the French— OF OUR COMING SOMEWHERE between Denver, Colorado, and Casper, Wyoming in the hands of an expert driver, and coming nearer each hour, but no more rapidly than a new car should be driven, is the first STAR CAR to be re- ceived by this Organization in Casper. We believe that it will arrive here tonight, and after a good bath it will be on display at our tem- porary show room, 442 East Yellowstone. You are invited to come in and inspect this Star. SOMEWHERE between the factory in Michigan and Casper, Wyoming, are two carloads of Star cars, being the first direct from the factory shipment to be received by this organization. within the next two weeks. Several of these fine cars have been spoken for, and you who are contemplating the purchase of a car should not fail to inspect these cars before you decide. 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Long, long ago e’er white men came |The Indian roamed this rolling plain, They whipped our streams for silvery trout, And gathered berries ‘round about. ‘The sturdy buffalo were the game, |By their swift arrows often s‘aln; ‘Those arrow heads may still be found In many places the country round Those warriors bold have passed away, With painted faces and feathers gay But ere they left bequeathed to us Wyoming's flower, their own paint brush! LENNA LUPTON BONAR, FRIDAY IS THE LAST DAY ANNUAL $ $ ill arrive here ox 2, ? 2, < 3, 3, 2s a so ¢ AA ateo ee eoageage dinate see ec hoete eo ete toss x XY.