Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 6

ss SRO ctA erRAT Se EN eet PAGE SIX. be Casper Dailp Cribune Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923, which rooted up the track as. it went along; concrote factories and warehouses were mined and dyna- ape Caspet Dany wroune petra) They did not do it and could not do it 7 + if they tried. Republicans did it. So where does ME Figgins V8. Mrs. Figgins. the reward belong, provided it is a matter for re- * “ ty ty that is left — BY. Fontaine Fox to Beis eM chee mortgage on some of the German real estate | ward—which we hasten to say it is not. for example, in the industrial | mited. * °° Steel rollins milis BUSINESS TELEPHONES ---—---.--- -.- 18 and 16) The governor has a large opportunity to be a Fegion of the Ruhr. But Great | which had, stood intact through Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Pe alae eats ttn mse Se 5 real governor, but he will have to cut the Bourbon politics out of it if he succeeds, and earns the approval of the people interested in the public welfare. three years of bombardment were Cemolished in the last weeks of the war vy “heavily charged mines. Blast furnaces with hoists 130 feet high were reduced in one day to a mass of bricks and scrap tron, Gangs of men were sent through the machine shops, breaking and cutting, with sledge hammers and oxyacetylene blow torches, supple. mented with hand bombs, or graded charges of dynamite. Just. before evacuation, cases of dynamite and thousands of shells that could not be removed were lowered to the basements aroun foundations, connected by a network of electric wires, and exploded simultaneously or the day of departure. “Special attention was given to the Britain and America are very sure that such a mortgage would not be for their interests. There is noth- ing punitive or vengeful about bankers wanting a guarantee for @ loan, or farmers want- ing payment for wheat even from the hungry people in Germany; but somehow the impression has got abroad that in desiring a guaranty for the payment of what is justly due her, France is’ proving berself Entered at Casper (Wyoming), aa second class Postoffico matter, November 22, 191¢ eee. CHARLES W. BARTON ------— President and Baitor ee eee MEMBER THY ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press !s exalustvely entitled to the use for publication of all news sredited in thie paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives. ane Prudden, King & Frudden, 1120-23 Steger Bldg. sO, Ti; 286 Fifth ‘Avenue, New York City: Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Bldg. 55 New Mont- gomery St. San Franciso, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribunc are on file in the New York, Chicego, Boston ‘and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. \ Promptness in Punishment. | a ATSa we may think of the merits of capi- tal punishment, the execution in England of, Mrs. Thompson and Bywaters furnishes an ex- ample of prompt administration of justice that tS = tube in». vengetal Lie ogee : might well be emulated in this country. The mur- a Al Nie ee asta and der was committed on October 4th, and exactly. { bisa on teats and farmers to ninety-seven days later the murderers paid the feguire @ guaranty, and wicked for alty with their lives. In the meantime they had Frenchmen to do #0? A search een given every xigt that the law demands, They into his weals the fact that had been tried and found guilty by a jury. They had Neen jsshepbrabe sa that was in- SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier or By Mail 3 _---------$9.00} taken an @ and the appelate court had hea} vaded, efter all, but France. It | wrecking of the coal mines, It w: one year Datiy ang Guntay aS itis cabai affirmed che ladgmant of the tee Saat tories which were | found. by the | Geraanelseceeherece, Six Months, Daily and Sunday -———-----—-------- en! court. Then they had appealed to the British destroyed. It was French land | plans of the workings that there wero Three Months, Datly and Sunday -----------------~ “"7s| home office and finally to the king himeelf, all of that was devastated. Le —_ wetertensiiiy isan different tev One ‘eth Datly and Bunday ‘os} which action is permitted by the British law. French mines that were Ge! els. eam was lowered into the ately and maliciously flooded. “This is rather broa4 satire, but who will say that it is extravagant? The truth is that the hideous facts of the German invasion of France, upon which rests the whole repara- tions case, have been submerged for three years uncer an {nterminable flood of financial theorizing and eco- nomic disputation. It 4 genuine Public service, therefore, that the Literary Digest has performed in pub- Ushing @ concise and authoritative survey of the material damag which were methodically inflicted upon Frence by the invaders. What we have written and quoted hereto- fore may be questioned, beca' it ts largely opinion. What we take from the Literary Digest compriees only fact “The Cevastated lands of France cover 12,884 square miles, one-six- teenth of the area of the country. If the United States had suffered to the same degree, the proportionate area of ruin would be 237,652 square miles, corresponding to the . England states, New York, Peni pit with a charge of explosives fast ened to one end, and in this way holes were blown through the shat: lining where water was collected, “The work was carried out me thodically at various depths, guid. ed by the geological cross-sections found in the mine records. Open- ings were effeced in more than thirty pits within five days in No- vember, 1915, They were filled with weter up to the pit mouth, toa depth in some cases of 3,000 feet. During the following years of the war this work was completed in greater detail. Finally, just before evacuation, the pithead frames fans, winding engines and coal washers were dynamited into an interlaced mass of steel and stone about the flooded shafts. “Facts like these, one might say, are not less relevant to the repera- tions case than reports which reveal the fall of the German mark and the consternation of the German indus- trialists over the French occupation of the Ruhr region. A New York newspaper exults that the action na lo, West’ Vireinic, ‘Tndiaes| “means that Great Britain an@ Amer and part of Illinois. And this com.| ‘co are neutral _as between France ertlien ie aperernite, use | 2nd Germany.” This may be the cor- vee France's ingasteial recien that | Fect official attitude; yet not a few Was ind waste ‘The seven devastat.| Americans will find moral fustifica- Ba denartwents paid onetirth of the| tion for the words of the conserva- nation's taxes; in them were concen-| ve Outlook: trated 94 per cent of Its wool produe- We so Se tone 90 per cont of ite steel industre.| either in Justlee to other nations 70 per cent of its sugar industry; 65 | OF, Justice to ourselves, a neutral. per cent of {ts electric energy: 33 per| Te cannot assume’a lofty attitude. Rea ce Ves thn renoniten. as if we had never taken part in “Scores of populous cities ana| the conflict. We did take part, on 's were left in ruins. In ali,| the side of justice and liberty. Up- Sarees Cullcines were destroved ‘o¢| on US as weil As upon other nations made uninhabitable; 7,290 of these| Teste the duty of seeing that those ¢ schools, and 22.167 were {ac.| Whe were axgressors in that con: The culprits were granted every essential ri, ht that murderers have under the American law. The difference was that needless delays were elimi- nated, sentence was pronounced when the verdict was returned, and no action was permitted the effect of which would have been only to cause delay with no assurance that a greater degree of justice would be accorded the defendants. The punishment followed so promptly after the crime that the British public clearly saw the relation between the criminal act and its penalty, and the executions had their full effect as a deterrent tc others who might otherwise commit murder. There are two objects in administering punish: ment—the reform of the criminal so that he may be taught never to repeat the offense, and the ex- ample to others who may be similarly inclined. In the case of capital punishment the latter ob: ject is the only one, and that is lost and the pur-; pose of the law defeated, if too long a time is per mitted to elapse between the murder and the execu tion of the criminal. The public mind forgets the details of the crime, and sees only a helpless indi- vidual put to death by an inexorable and crue! law Too often in the United States criminal cases | are allowed to drag for months and even years, un- til the prisoner becomes an object of profound sym- pathy instead of a detested enemy of society. On the other hand, sometimes an innocent man is kept} in prison for months waiting his turn before the jury and the verdict that frees him. In the English case there were no eyewitnesses, which, of course, greatly handicap; the prosecution. Nevertheless, the entire pro ings consumed only three months. As a contrast, there was a young man hanged in the District of Columbia last spring for two mur- ders committed about two years and three months before, both of them in the presence of eye wit- nesses, It is such lax looseness of our a the ‘All subscriptions must be paid in advance an: Dally Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription becomes one month in arrears. Member of the Associated Press Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) Kick If You Don’t Get Your sehen, ag Call 15 or 16 any time bstween 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m- {€ you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be oo livered to you by special meseenger. Make it your duty to Jet The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. a The Casper Tribune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author ized and completed at once. "A complete and scientific zoning system for the city of Casper. re comprehensive municipal and schoo! recreation park system, including swimming pools for the children of Casper. 3 ‘Completion of the established Scenic Route boute- vard as planned by tee county commissioners to Garden Creek Falls. and return. Letter roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. ‘More equitable freight ratee for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. Ma“ Mrs FisGins Go ovT To See How *, THEIR NEW HOME 1S CemiING ALONG AND IT 'S 2” piscovereo “THAT THE STAIRWAY 15 BEING «ii pur wh THE WAY He WANTED IT INSTEAD OF THE um tt WAY SHE WANTED IT. ee Germany and revised from time to| “Germany has practiced ‘volun- time at France's expense. tary defauit’; this is the unantmous “Another false assertion is that| finding of the reparations ¢ommis- France has obdurately refused to|sion. The next step which France moderate her reparations demands| deems necessary and which certainly on Germany, and is sending an army) Icgal is to take possession of cer to force collection of a bill repudiated] tain negotiabie assets of Germany, by ‘the rest of the wor:d as beyond) which may produce funds to meet the Germany's capacity to pay. The truth/| defaulted payments and at the same is that at last week's conference the| time serve as security against further allies axreed on the stim to be exact-| defaults. The French advance into ed. The figure adoped was 50,000,-| the Ruhr valley may be designated in What France Is Doing. “The one positive statement that can be made concerning the repara- tons issue is that after three years and a half of incessant explenation, argument and interpretation, there is more confusion of thought about it today than at any other time since; the peace treaty was signed. The; prodigious publicity given to the sub- The Governor's Opportunity. wet an opportunity Governor Ross has before him if he can measure up to the expectations of his friends who promoted his candidacy and those who voted for him under the belief that he is a really big man. He has the chance to be a real governor of all the people or he can be a common- lure of our courts and the | ws that are responsible, more dinary contender for places for party | ject has only intensified misunder-| 000,000 gol) marks, approximately! several ways, but not as an act of| tories, which had employed hundreds| flict shall not shift their burdens ere cast “himself into the peanut class fase Ate ningye caule, eh rye Standings, “and eash development) $12,500,000,000. ‘This ts lesa than two-| war nor as a lawless procedure, Tt! of thousands of ‘workers, Three thous.| t© their victims.” i ; won . to harden preconceived errors. | fifths of thi Germany agreed un-| 5! 1 roves . , Sania easily and quickly. He is pretty close to the cross: responsible for the Ku-Klux-Klan and the outrages| seems to harden pi nceived eum ny a | signifies simply the pi of levy-|and miles of raflroad—one-tenth of This is the view teken by the Phila- that have apparently been committed in the name) deiphia North American, one of the| of that organization. The radical menace and) eblest and most thoroughly American other manifestations of 0; defiance of our laws! newspapora, published. would soon subside if the penalties in the statutes) “Unhappily, malicious propagénda could be promptly and effectively applied. Every|*"4 prejudiced assertion have obs- citizen ought to have fixed in his mind the idea that) cured not only the principles but also if he commits certain acts he must and will suffer| ‘he facts of the case. ae certain punishments. Until that impression is Peng: the present Ipanseaeeh (ot firmly ingrained, the crime record never be/ trance. Her plan is to take tempor- reduced to a minimum. ary possession of Germany's indus: - 0 | trial region in the Ruhr valley is de state and the members of that party far outnumber The Question of Child Labor. the members of the governor's party. And another ‘ stroying the peace of Europe by con- spolnt to be remembered, is that while Republicans Caz LABOR is a subject now receiving the} ducting a lawlees invasion; her ac- ‘ority would indicate, for there was a very consid-| tain, ‘The chief features of discussion now in against an innocent people, and it sorte number of members of the governor’s party| progress is the kind of amendment that shall be pal ip eanaleagancd irae yy elgteleiny a der the treaty to pay. It {s $2,500,-| 000,000 less than the total estimated as collectible by the American expert: at the peace conference four years! ago. It is the amount which Ger- many herself has declared her will ingness to pay. “The premiers divided, not on thi size of the bill, but on the terms of payment and the security to be) taken. France assented to reduction| which would hardly be classified as of the amount, and to a moratorium | an organ of militarism. recently put for Germany, provided the allies took the case with pungent force: control of the Ruhr valley so that! they would hold a guarantee for Ger-| many‘s fulfillment of the obligation. | Premier Poincare said bluntly that the question resolved itself to this: ‘Was there to be a moratorium with pleCges or without? France held that to accept a new German promise in roads and a few days or at farthest a few weeks xvill determine what calibre governor he proposes to be. here are a few things Governor Ross must bear in maine and if he is Trise he will consider them. His election to office is in no sense a Democratic party victory. From a party standpoint his elec- tion was an accident. The votes that put him over were Republican votes. He could not have been governor otherwise. Had the election been a strict party division he wuld have been left at the quarter post, for Wyoming is a Republican ing on the property of a delinquent debtor. “Americans who want to get a fair understanding of the issue need not succumb to the prejudiced propa- gande which represents France as a rapacious foe of peace and justice, for there are publications in this country that persist in stating the facts as they are. The Outlook, the country’s mileage—were torn up, 648 miles of canal wrecked, ard more than 82.000 miles of highway ruined. “A vital fact is that a vast propor- tion of this havoc was not due to the inevitable damage caused by war but DIEVERTOVHER to systematic destruction, ingeniously planned and ruthlessly carrieé out. ee ee ro , RYZON | mero no rn! $ BAKING POWDER uned to destroy townu; a machine | i you use /e was hitched behird a locomotive LAST CHANCE To Buy Tires at These Prices The Confederation of Jewish Work- era in Palestine plans to establish a daily labor newspaper in Jerusalem. nounced by some newspapers as an act of war. She is represented as de- ‘shed the votes that decided the election they special consideration of Congress and the sub- tion is called dangerously provoca- furnished a great many more than the slender ma-| mission of a constitutional amendment seems cer- tt an adventure of imperialism y ‘ pid 8 fore upation be with- of those defaulted, and at the Sho did not vote for him but gave their franchise] submitted. On this there are radically differing) grawn iemadeinees |, pect a oR ar RIFE EST. 5 to his Republican opponent. views: A number of amendments have been pro’ against the aggression. the treaty gave the right to exact. posed in each house. Probably the most extreme view of the proposal to bestow upon the federal government the control of child labor is that offered by Senator Walsh, of Montana, a Democrat, whose amendment would give Congress power to prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of the products of any em- ployer of child Jabor. Since a child includes per- sons under 21 years of age, if the Walsh amend: ment were adopted Congress would be authorized to enact legislation to bar from interstate com- So, to call it a Democratic victory "in the ordi- nary sense of the term is a misnomer, It was not a Democratic victory but a political protest grow- ing out of Republican domestic occurrences Governor Ross received the benefits. Now he can be the Governor of the Democratic party if he can make it work with every other state official and both branches of the legislature solidly Republican, many of them going into office with a greater vote of confidence than the governor re- ceived. “Now concerning the wisdom and efficacy of the French policy there is room for two opinions. Secretary Hughes in a recent speech expressed the judgment of many Americans and Europeans when he suggested that selzure of the Ruhr district “In- stead of producing reparations would threaten disaster.” It was upon this question of expediency that the con- ference of allied premiers finally dis: agreed a week ago today. “The would be to invite repudiation by| Germany. Great -Britain insisted, however, that there be a moratorium | without security. And on that iasue the premiers parted company, Bel-| gium and Italy. standing with France against Great Britain. | “The treaty of Versailles provided | an a matter of course for the action which France. supported actively by! Belgium and tacitly by Italy, has been impelled to take. It declare: It would seem to be a time to look where you are stepping and step lightly, algo leave all big sticks on the wood pile. Republicans ought not to embarrass or punish the governor for the sole reason that he is @ merce all the products of any employer who em- ployed a child under 21 years, even if the child did not work upon the particular commodity offered for shipment. Under the broad sco) of that amondment Congress could bar all the products of the Ford factory from commerce if the Ford es French proposals if carried into ef- fect, said Bonar Law, “would not only fail in obtaining the desired re. sults, but are likely to have @ grave and even disastrous effect upon the situation of Europe.” But only ma- “The measures which the allied and associated re shall have the right to take, in case of volun- tary default by Germany, and which Germany agrees not to re- gard es acts of war, may include | Buy Mason Tires Now Never in tire history such @ profitable invest- CORD PRICES HEAVY DUTY ‘ ° nomic and financial prohibitions ment as Masons at our prices. Demcrat. That is puerile and unworthy, but the) taplis! t employ in a At pet ice or profund ignorance will con: orn 1 ; F 1 Demir, ad bare the good sense to Tid himself) Lepuatsnent empleved 25 RAT ARRSE Tena a aiiene, Oey re Sis 2enee at a eee eee acc gael Not only lower than other standard tires, but 30x34 -_____$14.60 of the great raft of onehorse Democratic politi! Ong of the shortest amendments p: is that| the law, which Is the troaty of Ver- superior in quality, uniformity, and depend- 32x31, $20.40 cians and job hunters who are camping on his trail,| py Senator Townsend, of whose amend-| sailies an _sicned_by ti ability. 2 ------ .! ing to convince him that they put it over, and) went reads: “The congress shall have power to And backed by a guarantee which knows no 31x4 $24.35 thout them he would still be presiding over a regulate the employment and the hours of labor mileage limit. ‘This means protection until the ------ dusty law office in Cheyenne and have for his com’) png condition of employment of persons under 18 ” Rite Hetun lly senen Gn 32x4 $25 80 panions a lot of musty law reports. years of age.” It will be noted that this amend- P Y D A Y SPECIALS Hiving Minsaes 3 et 7 bite! ches ‘9 For the most part these valiant job hunters had! ment does not contain the word “prohibit,” but A With wiht asons now is buying tires right. 33x4 ati, $96 05 nothing more to do with the election results than| merely to regulate, and limits the period of child- it is goes a standard service we're sean a so many residents of Timbuctoo, and in many cases| hood to 18 years. \ AT THE proud of. Pha Saxe $26. 65 it is very doubtful if they eer more than 10 per} Senator McCormick of Illinois has an pruand seta mates A cent of the voters in the bailiwicks where they! ment which would give congress the power either to x: ie aes cdaim to have operated; and it is more than cer-| regulate or prohibit the labor of persons under B alow Groce and Market V3 ---$32.35 tain that they could not have influenced much| the age of 18 years, but expreasly reserving to the more than their own vote among those whom they do know. So much for that phase of the situation. Appointments to public office placed in the hands of the governor by the constitution and the statutes are not the governor's personal property, states the power to regulate or prohibit to any extent not already done by Congress. | Senator Lode has proposed an amendment be- stowing upon Congress power to prohibit or regu- late the hours of labor in mines, quarries, miils, Phones 22 and 23 JANUARY 19 AND 20 412 East Fifth St. 33x41; -..---$88.20 34x44 35x41 ______ $34.90 and in no sense rewards for personal service or| canneries, workshops, factories or manufacturing 33x5 hegre | otherwise. establishments of persons under 18 years of age Extra fancy Roman Beauty Apples........-. $2 65 $41.00 ‘These appointees are to perform public work for! and of women. The principal feature of this Extra fancy Stayman Winesap Apples... ° 35x5 pat bs sekee” i i hat i t to prohibit th 2 the people, not to draw salaries to keep from doing| #mendment is that it grants power to prot © @ xtra fancy Winesap Apples. een t" Bee Box ane. work elsewhere. These places are not sinecures. labor ¢ pom, ayesha of age, and does ae SUXS.. pan $44.25 Intelligence, ability, special training and fitness} ¢Pply to farm ‘abor. vO hres ig In the first place, a mistake wil] be made by| * P — e ‘i MASON MAXI- supplanting any official before the expiration of centered upon the features of amendments as in Fresh Eggs, per: dozen —_....— 45c I-MILE CORD the term fixed and the appointment made. In the second place, a worse mistake will be made by any attempt to clean out Republicans,! simply because they are Republicans and Demo crats want the jobs. In the third place, any attempt to make it a purely Democratic regime under the existing cir- cumstance would be next door to rank foolishness. ; His friends say the governor is big enough and’ wise enough to adjourn politics and do business, nd we hope they are true prophets, for the good ot the public business, which is the only important dicated, In this connection it is interesting to note that in the campaign of 1920 the Republican plat- form pledged the party to “seek means to enable Congress to prevent the evils of child labor.” The Democratic platform declared in favor of prohi- bition of child labor. It may fairly be assumed, therefore, that in the fight which is now pending, Democrats will line up in favor of prohibition of child labor entirely, while Republicans will center their efforts upon elimination of the “evils of child labor. The Democrats look upon child labor as an evil—the Republicans deem some child labor proper, but propose to eradicate its abuses. thing any of them have in hand. ‘Word comes in the press reports that various One of the early developments in the discussion has been a manifest opposition to national legis: Farina of Wheat (same as Cream of Wheat) POP. DUB vos escenes ccc ne comets octereeerereretremmnrn Farina of Wheat, 414-Ib. sack, per sac Oatmeal, large size, pkg... Oatmeal, small size, per pkg. Plush Flour, 48-lb. sack... Plush Flour, 24-lb, sack_....—...-—-— Fancy Red Potatoes, per cwt—...... No. 1 canned Jams, per can.-__..... Shoulder Beef Pot Roast, tb... Rib Beef Boil, per Ib___.._...._ Veal Shoulder Roast, per Ib. Average weight 18 to 22 lbs. Good Luck Brand Oleomargarine, lb. 35c, 3 Ib $1.00 ——~-12Yec and 15c 8 MASON CORDS We have already received our ad- vance price lists. But we give you the advantage of a few days at these prices. Wyoming Compression 30x31 __----$12.50 MASON MAXI-MILE FABRICS 30x3 -------$9.75 30x314 ------$11.15 Tube & Tire Co, + candidates aye certalr cf eclketion ‘and “among; lation that will prevent children from engaging-in | Whole Pork Shoulders (trimmed), Ib 426 East Second St. Phone 1125M them six, seven, or eight from Natrona county,| such work as berry-picking and other farm work fy Pork Butts, per Ib. vo 22c This is jbeaping too, many laurels upon Natrona | in vacation periods, This attitude of the farmers pore papas tag per Sy —— 2 county brows. hey cannot stan the strain.| is met by a recently announced war upon child Sudahy ‘an Hams, per , s. * 4 Bimpiy because Natrona county happened to tilt labor upon farms, the view being that. work oi Day by Day, in Every Way, Business Is Getting Better and Better the lid in the late election is no reason that Dem- perats of this county should be so liberally re. farms is as great an evil as work in factories’ since it interferes with attendance at school. a