Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1923, Page 16

PAGE SIX. Casper Sundap Morning Cribune BUSINESS TELEPHONES 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 CHARLES W. BARTON ..-. .-- President and Editor | Advertising Representatives. \ Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. Chicago, I; 286 Firth ‘Avenue, New York City: Globe Bidg.. Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Bldg.. 55 New Mont- gomery &t., San Francisco, Cal. Coples of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are we:come- By Carrier or By Mail One Year, Dally and Sumiay - One Year, Sunday Only - Six Months, Daily and Suni ‘Three Months, Dally and Su One Month Daily and Sund: Per Copy All subscriptions | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES | | | must be paid in a@dva: advance H Daily Tribune wi!l not insure delivery after subscription | becomes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. oC) Kick If You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time bstween 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be Ce livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. Sp The Casper Tnbune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author {zed and completed at once. ‘A complete and scientific zoning system for the “eity of Caspor. enh comprehensive municipal and school recreation park system, including swimming pools for the hildren of Casper. , “"Completion of the established Scen!c Route boute- vard as planned by the county commissioners to Garden Creek Falls and return. ‘Better roals 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. Too Drastic Femonsare Stephen Sibley of Laramie county | a senator in the Wyoming legislature has in-} troduced a child labor bill, which for drastic regu lation of employment of children sixteen years of age or under exceeds anything so far advanced by any law maker who has sought to pass a law upon the subject. That the proposed measure was drawn after the ideas of extremists of a child labor association seeking to enlarge the powers of some national Jend-a-hand society and engraft upon the govern- ment additional bureaucracy from which it is al- ready suffering and sick unto death, is a contri- buting factor to the undesirability of the measure becoming the law of Wyoming. No sensible and well-meaning citizen desires childhood exploited. No good citizen will stand for it. But no intelligent citizen wants to see upon’ the statutes of Wyoming a law which places in the hands of any appointee of the governor, any board, commission or bureau more power than that delogated to the governor. No one desires more pat- ernalism in the state than we already have. It is so much regulation of the daily lives of the peo- ple by nation and state, that we want ended, not increased. The Sibley bill places in the hands of the state labor commissioner the power to declare at any time, any occupation, trade, employment proceess or place, dangerous, injurious, hazardous, or pre- judicial to life, limb, health, safety, welfare or morals of any child sixteen or under. This is too much power for a labor commissioner or for any- body else, regardless of however well-intentioned the official may be. It is quite right and proper that children of six- teen should be employed, at no sacrifice to their education, at work which they are competent to perform. Work is a part of their general educa- tion. Public opinion in Wyoming is strictly op- posed to exploiting so-called child labor, and there is no occasion for so drastic a law as Senator Sib ley proposes. The national senate is just now considering a constitutional amendment on this subject and doubtless a proposal to the states will be evolved) and be accepted and then we wll have a permanent and uniform regulation of the whole matter, Much better than a law that is subject to change every} two years should the Sibley bill ever reach the dignity of law. A constitutional amendment to the national basic law is preferable to an act on the subject in the Wyoming statutes. ne The Change for Better. NEWSPAPERS and trade journals at the close of “" the old year were filled with reviews of the business and industrial conditions of 1922 and fore- casts of what may be expected in the next twelve months. Without exception, they set forth that all lines of business and industry had materially improved during the calendar year 1922, and that prospects were excellent for further improvement during the coming year. Every source of information bearing upon busi ness and industrial conditions contributed the same optimistic testimony. Deposits in national and savings banks increased during the year. Postal savings increased. In industry the improvement was most marked. Notwithstanding great strikes in three basic in dustries—mining, transportation and textiles—un- employment practically disappeared during the year 1922. It is not an exaggerated statement to assert that no man honestly in search of work at a living wage but can obtain the same today. The United States Labor Bureau, the reports from la bor union organizations, the reports from the Na- tional Industrial Conference Board, and reports from the clearing houses of the various industries all bear witness to the same end. There is an abundance of profitable employment for all labor. According to the reports of the Census Bureau, the average wage for common labor is 63 cents higher today than it was in 1916. Reports of retail business throughout the conn try are to the effect that the amount of business transacted in 1922 excceded the volume of business done in 1921 by 10 to 30 per nt. Some lines of business in some sections report smailer profits on the volume of busimess, whue others report a wide margin of profit. All are agreed, however, that the year 19z2 was far ahead or the year 1921 as a protitable business year. With but two or tnree exceptions, the key in | dustries of the country report vast improvement 4ron and steel, non-ferrous metals, motor vehicles, textiles, lumber, leather, rubber and building material increased their out- was tne Jargest year in building construction and in the of building construction material taat has n known in the United States, while tlie prospects justify the prediction that the year 1923 over the year 1921. put 20 to G0 per cent over 1921. The year 1 activity ever bi will exceed even the record made in 19: The only industry in which all is not well is that of agriculture. Although the farmer raised a tremendous crop in 1922 and received on an aver age 17 per cent more for fis products than he di dyzl, agriculture as a whole did not keep~ pace with the improvement of other lines of business. This is because the purchasing power of the, money he received was not as great as the purchasing power of the income of other industrie The dit- Terence is not so great as u year ago, but it still is great enough to handicap te purchasing power or the agricultural sections. ‘lo offset tus, how- ever, the farmer is able to imaimtam practically ulumuited credits to carry hun over, and there 15 not the least doubt but that there will be addi tional legisiation, both in the halls of Congress and im various state legislatures, looking to tne easement of conditions in agricultural sections. By and large, however, the year 1v23 1s usnered in under very optamistic conwtions. In this con- nection, it is ampossibie to retarim trom calling at- tention to the auresut and doleiul statements lude by Democratic opponents of the aduumistration during the last campaign, to tlie eliect that the ikepuviican party huu tuued to bring about goou lunes; that 1t Was no longer the purty o1 pious perily, that this aumimistrauon and Lis Congress uad aone notuing to assist industry, lubor, puoi ness, tinance anu agricuiture, toward a return to normiul, prosperous times. ‘Ihe universal reports ol all tines o1 business and industry, as set iortu in the columns of the press of the country and im the trade journals at tne close of the year, com pietely relute the small partisan charges mate ugaimst the admimistration during the recent cum puign. No one can soberly contemplate the cou dition of all kinds of business and industry toda) in comparison with what it was when tne Repuo- lican aaministration came into power, and nov know within his own mind that there has been a tremendous change for tne better. The best and most eifective answer to the Memocratic argu ments of the recent campaign are the economic facts set forth abov » East Approves Mondell pue PRESS of the east appears to be vieing with that of the west in its favorable support of Congressman Mndell as Secretary Fall's sue- cessor. With scarcely an exception, eastern pupers are highly complimentary and all concede his su perior fitness ior the place. As one of the large! _ eastern papers puts it: “Mondell would only need to walk into the Secretary’s office, take off his hat and go to work. He knows every pliase of it.” The Philadelphia Public Ledger, commending Mr. Mondell for the place, recenuy said; “Suoulu Mr. Mondell require references outside his own party, he would have to reier only to a letter sent to him by Franklin K. Lane wien the latter re- signed from the Wilson cabinet. Mr. Lane was és- pecially cordial to Mr. Mondell in expressions of gratitude for helpful co-operation in tue matter of oil and water power legisiation—he closed with the words: “I trust your career may be one of still greater usefulness and expanding opportunity.” In a long article, the heading of which sets forth that “Mondell May Succeed Him,” the New York Times says in part: “Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, Republican House leader, seriously considered as his successor, is particular- ly well qualified for the cabinet past, it is pointed out by his friends, as he hails from the west and from a section that comes into intimate touch with the inferior department. , “Mr, Mondell has spent his entire life in deal- ing with the problems of the west—he has helped frame much of the legislation dealing with irriga- tion, forest reserves and the development of coal, oil and gas on the public lands, “It is understood that Mr. Mondell will have the active support of the Republican leaders of the House, and that he is desirous of the appointment, chiefly for the reason that he believes he can be of great assistance to the people of the west, and do valuable work for the administration.” Paying the Penalty perst has existed in many American minds of the truth of reports of living conditions in Germany and the reality of the hardship the peo- people there are undergoing. There should be none, however, in regard to the classes that come between the manual workers on the one hand and the group who in one way or another—most of the ways dark—haye managed to prosper in spite of the war and what followed it. Low hard times are for the salaried and profes- sional folk. and for those who once lived comfort- ably on pensions or income from investments of one kind or another, is well illustrated in a letter just received from a woman who all her life, until the downfall of the monarchy had been a member of a family of large resources, moving in the very highest of t and army circles, Most significant perhaps of all she writes is her expression of evidently sincere gratitude for an American dollar that recently reached her by mail. That meant to her “almost 8,900 marks,” and en abled her to buy what was desperately neede though the amount of the purchases must have been desperately small in a market where, as she says, a loaf of bread costs 300 mark pound of butter 1,400 marks, a litre of milk 120 n pair of shoes for a child of eight marks, “the simplest chemise” from 3,000 to 4,000 marks, tea or coffee 5,000 to 6,000 marks, and onc egg from 8&5 to 100 marks. She tells of old people, friends of hers sitting in cold rooms wrapped blankets because they ¢ not buy fuel, and with no food except potatoes salt. “All the years since 1914,” she adds, “ha been nothing in comparison with this winter,” and she rejoices that her mother died before the family was reduced to its present extremities. So the letter goes on from one terrible exiguity to another, It is a truly pathetic picture of fallen fortunes, but, strangely enough, there is in it not one hint of remembrance of what reduced Germany and the Germans to their present state. It is all treated as a misfortune—as one of those “acts of “Providence” oftener mentioned in other days than now for which there is no human responsibility. Put also the letter contains no denunciations of the “nghsh—no putting of tho blame cn foreign en emies. That makes it easier to see in it only the Ja mentable picture of a woman enduring unaccus tomed deprivations with courage and something of resignation. Casper Sunday Worning Cribune THE HUMAN ZOO Amon ihe FREAKS , By C. D. Batchelor | The Bearded Lady—“It’s nice living down here. One isn’t noticed so much.” The President's Opportu- nity. United piates ougat never to Yo au coy Vaid EXCEL sy nee Mig anu es own, bays ine usu | Ae we One gi Gddd yon Wine We cal enter anio live ae Javvieuun Of ures 14s loduy— namey, our wurepean ueuors. our Freuuwon as Creunor Lo Phey owe us Oppiursuaciy LWeive buen avila. Waal are we willng to do in regard lo Loa Geos Cormuiy We are not as A Cervanmy ibs cancesuuon Wud nol away wurepes Wal ko cance: uouues. seu 1S THE KFeut ueesTENL aguuse wn Yuuer Huruvean war. “Lo cancel tuat Cebe WOU ve iu dave every One OF the Geolors ee to pie uy new cred- 418, Lhe proceeus ox wuica coulu be penacu in new wars, “Now is tae lume, as we belleve, for tue pres.aent to seek from con: gress tne autnority, if he does not aiready possess it, to say to eacn ot the debtor nations that tne United States 18 preparea, by reason of their emergency, to Lorego the couecuon of ali invecest on the aebs they owe us, say unt 192 that thereatter until the debt is paid the interest saall not exceed a certain very moderate per cent; and that the indeote ess shall then be funded over a period of years that \ould enab.c tne debtor nations by wor'ng and saving to pay and at the same ume recuperate from the war, “But this offer should be made contingent upon tho settlement of the reparations question within the next six months by the nations dl- rectly involvec, 1f six months is too short a time to bring about such a settlement an extension for another per.od of six months might well be granted. Meantime, ff the interested nations involved in the dispute unant- mously requested, Presicent Harding might well assure them of the readl- ness of the United States to give freely of its information and advice concerning the amount of repara- tions that can be collected from Ger- many. “such this critical time a open to the world “the door of hope’ and demonstrate to tho world the disposition of the United States to deal with Europe's jils upon a ground and in a way traditionally because truly American. By some such gen- erous act as this America might well raise for the world ‘a standard to which the wise and the honest can re) In America the world might well seek a firm and impartial jeader and an honest and a lenient credi- tor.” bor BuLupe s Ueut LO, Aluer- a course entered ‘upon at Should Rete From Within. Some {dea of what {s the matter | with Europe is furnished by informa tion contained in Assoc'ated Press dispatches regarding conditions in Austria, which is one of the coun- tries putting up a pitiful plea of pov- erty and claiming its Inability to feed omen and children. The Austran’ government is furn- ishing free wood and other fuel to hundreds of individuals and institu: tions. This graft dates back several generations. The records show that of the government Austria is maintaining @ tremendous mi'itary establishment. Debates in the Parliament recently disclosed the fact that there are two officers in the Austrian army for each private soldier, and it ad- mitted the Mnister of War that uid reduce th st of the army 21,000,000,000 ere year without injuring its effectiveness. ho Ministry of Railway also was foreed to admit that under the pres ent state owhership and control of the railways, by ns vould at least ho.d } | tor every kilometer of ‘vailroads in j Austra. A kilometer is five-eigaths of a mite. Another scandal disclosed was in connecuon with tue pr.nung of the government. The. head of the Aus- iran map and Lthogra ss dae Owner of six luenis. such die has c.osed down ail of his works and is hav.ng his private con- tract work done in the government bureau with government labor, and out of tie money taken from tne pub.” lte treasury. This is typleal of conditions throughout Lurope. Neariy every country is reeking with gratt and cor- rupuon, tremenuous overhead ex- penses due to profiugacy, and padded payrolls. America’s entering into muroptan comterences cuud have no) effect upon such conuitions, which are wholly matters of domestic policy to be settled trom within not by in- ternauona: pow-wo' | The Bayou Road {When you arive out from { town % |Along the Bayou Road jAs the sun drops down, jThe rich perfumes lof Magnolia blooms, juke incense from a golden censor, float through the alr. jIn the soft sweet breeze grey-whiskered trees [nod as you pass |Lke sleepy old men; |A roustabout’ sings jot Heavenly things las he trudges along; |You hear a banjo ring as the payer's fingers swing, twang, ng,, twng, twang, twing, twang, twing; | \Pickanninnys shout jas they play about \befors the cabin door; With the fading. light birds whisper goodnight Jas one by one the stars peep out and over all The rich perfumes of Magnolia blooms hike incense from a golden censor float through the alr as the sun drops down |when you drive out from N’O'Lenz } town $ | along the Bayou Road. —E. R.chard Shipp in New Orleans Item. The World’s Treasure. “Where did I come from, where did you pick me up?" the baby asked its mother, She answered, half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her bre: “You were bidien in my heart as its Aesire, my darling. “You were in the dolls of my child- hooa's games; and when with clay 1 made the imaze of my god every morning, I mado and unmade. you then. “You were enshrined with our household deity !n his worship I wor-| | shiped you. | ‘In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, fn the life of my mother | You have lived. “In the lap of the deathless spirit. | who rules our home, you have been nursed for ages. “When, in girlhood, my heart: was opening its petals, you hovered as a fragrance about it, “Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs like a glow in the sky before sunrise. “Heaven's first darling, twin born| with the morning Nght, you haye| floated “down the stream of the! world’s life, and at last you have stranded on my heart. “As I gaze on your face mystery overwhelms me; you who beiong +o all who have become mine “For fear of ‘losing you I hold you! tight to my breast. What magic \has/ snared the world’s tFeasure in. these slender arms of mine?’—Radindra- there are 19.4 employees nath Tagore. We Want No Blood ' Suckers. dn order to meer Wie alleged de- WAM LUE Coie WOU, & gical Ud Dri EADERS; Well, Reader, I am sertainly the ~eugnest luck urd tnat anus, and 1 ‘wai give you my wora was 1 a bard ot Paraase I am so Uniortunate 1 will grow Pinteathers,. provawy, of ustcoths on my agomeé ins.eud oF tne Beautiful -Kegrets and dlumes which 18 normanuy sportea by these wards! Z ; Ynat I am not as well Mashed as a 4rish Potatoe unaer a ple driver or & vin Wheel in a -Wyom.ng Wend 13 vily due to Quick thinking and rieet acess on my part, Ana ‘at tnat i nave sot @ spra.ned Limament in my ioot where J land on it too Suddemy and wom Too ur Ort. Weil, as a matter of fact I would be in some fHospitaple now having my Beams Cawxeu, as we! mafin “as it, Was L not or a very ‘Louga ssaterial and not ¢asily Duscouraged: and Une worst of it us, it 18 noc my waull, becuse Lam auag tue vest 4 wan for @ #'rend. of aune wnen 15) warred and nas many vier reaces we Hard Luck an Auuton, us Wwe AUUMUULCuS as Wont LO eApau, Well, this Baby works on a Big Jigaieauon of Wile he 48 perhays 2 beawug BOUse—UNd ths 8 no yi FYase, Veneve ine, In Uns Vue +asee Me 48 Weutucng ior) & LVangs cuwever, ne 48 & Very Good Guy sath, WAS BULGES Ne Ley in dis Cups Jinedis, 2 tank) ana wd UO DE ULE ULL by Lisitiereied sarues. : Uw.ng to prohibition, Reader, we apdily 19 recany & punt am tas VIUD WEA Ware geltug 2 mcikie ou 48 NOL Only Good surm, DUE a Un susred DMUFL” It us @e'tniek, Ke vung Mavis and Cucumivers ouc vs @ QUuFt aml, OF BuUuEF, On THe tage. LOULU eVeryvoay pun Bavuas Muu CUCUMWErS UL UL dus At WOuLK Ave Ue biuarl, OF much Of a Lick. it uM tne same HyouL Geums Bull tuese dase, and beng ~Lruak wal [Provauy soon be 4s waduputy Con- faucet wu Uns counu'y as 10 as consd- jerea everywnere & uunucea’ yedre ago, jbeLore FFOMuKoMsSs KuvcALA Lud [Puorais OGL OF Lie dsdul euures, Hey HOWEVER, Ui 8 Buy y deinen, BAU Woes Lue pul SUMO preyles Wie dauuss.on oc) We, Me 4 ur sayang, this guy Aeeuste Of UCD 10W yymde gg WO @ BOLUS: pose OF adil coud not be aauiie 10 eis At Saatchi ae ienry ere era a 2p," way stonhe ” acilverioknr aceon’: Duds teu, aid ws aways weLuns 1Uea as Chae Uney war PYMSEN AMG USaalig INE UY 4 shee BUuoe 4 aeCk Lue Lemuporary Ue mand and then return to Wer own cous “Wath such @ proposition we have nO sYWpauy. We aueduy nave Loo MANY UWwues.rAbie Loreguers an Las counuy, 50 any of iwem that tae wuulliry 48 B.cw 4 eolidequenee, Lue presence of so many of foreign birth AOOUEU LL Lue Gaupeed Uh Lue pire ent suvngent imin.grauon law, be- eause it W4S reduzed tuat We coud nol uss.muate Luem as rayaly as they were ccming into the country. Way Uieit “auyorc more toat can ever be assimuuced? W.th @ great inf.ux of suca uncesirables we would Decome ‘sick unto deatn,’* “put there is @ great economic reason Why we shoula notadmit tran: sient immugrant workers, Each and every) one would take bis earnings with him back to the ‘old country’ upon his return there. At the pres: cut time we are ‘bieeding ourse:ves wh.te’ and enriching tae biood of lialy by the emigrauon of Italians from this country back to tueir for mer home. Every outgoing Italian takes back to ltay what is to him e fortune in that country. The same is true of some ocner nationaliues. They come to this country to com- pete with American workmen, they lye on a loaf of black bread and a bottle of near beer a day, they ‘sleep’ twenty or thiry in a room and they save 90 per cent of what they earn. ‘Their savings go back home with them and the United States loses practigally al the wages paid to these, aliens. “It is not so long ago that thefi- nanciers. were dreacing the effects on the finances of this country of the vast withdrawals of gold which would follow the departure of the thous-, ands of the citizens of the southern nations of Europe who were daily lined up in the Néw York Customs House and the avenues leading there- | to, awaiting their turn to make ap- plication for passports to leave the country. If we remember rightly,| it was estimated that the average of such withdrawals was estimated at $2,000 per man. Do we want .to deliberately pian for a return of such condit:ons? fi “On the contrary, it seems to us that the only proper thing to do 1s to admit only such as will make de- sirable American citizens, and those that come with the declared intention of becoming such as speedily as our laws permit. We want no vampires which flit in, suck the gold which is the life-blood of ov? economic ar- terles, and flit out again leaving those arteries empty. Why should we submit to a transfusion of our economic lfe-blood into the arteries of Ita'y and Greece?” Breese ts 3 Experienced. There are ever so many go00d folks Who are ever bent on giving Their judgment of us young chaps And our harum-scarum living. | I laugh at all their ravings; To prove their facts I dare ‘em, For young chaps are too wise today To let a harem scare ‘em. —Edgar Daniel Kramer, The Greatest Gift. I do not ask at morning, That through the day to be } My path may follow ways of ease, Or friends may favor me. But this I asic most earnestly, That I may find within | heart and soul the courage brave ‘To work and fight and win. ¥ He BC ILB ISS 2 BU UY Lace B COUpie Of Lanes Waen 4 nave WO Low fam an Jon tue enu o: iny arin, de as a Gov [Waiker, 1 Wik say, and Heeus mosuy Guukuce and buck Wael suvoLuvEd Ay Boos; Anu Lue UNS Coup. OL Lines A FdOU Han dO! 1s COMpex 2 rac Gon, Or Wilt, dys Gouu wvening snr. duaHOso@ner. FUC Tad right sage Aud Wane Lvursen Al dade (udieu, PLOVIRE BUC is VOL 50 Bad aL Lice because st a8 not ‘venng vul- morn: ug woen 1 cume up tie Chana at Uns baby 8 Swering Gear!) Web, deader,” tuexe. two. Trips occurs some week or #0 ago, and a tew daze ago I agd.n -have occa.s.ons ;to Bring ths Bard -nto- Port, this {Side Up With Care. I do-not Notace that he only asks me home when Soused, not being’ a Susp:cious guy by nature myself; but 1'am thinking at the time of this Third V.sitat.on that this mug’s wife, or Driver, i not so Cordial as Formally to me, but I figure she is doing the best She can and let it go at that. Well, 1 stay all night, Sleeping. Across the Gran of @ Armchair in the dining SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1923. pint Aecsabeadasca st g Man Must Have Great Many Friends In These Daze, Hey Reader? BY JOHN HANDSHAKER (Alias Weed. Dickinson.) (Spec. al Casper Correspondent.) |Feom, and beat it out in the Morning with what I cons.der is D.p.omatic Relations Unimpa.red, as we umpassa- |dors has it! Well, it 1s only yesterday the Big ‘Blow Off comes. This guy calls me jup from downtown and says I am ‘Soused, Come on Home with Me, and {1 say do not offer Oblivious Infor- mation and that anybody can tell he is soused the way he talks and why hou.d I go home with him. Well, jhe says Ah Come On, that he Needs {me for Protection against his Old | Lady, or Frau, and that she will not Beat Him Up am I present! Well, I \will say she will not, Reader! Sho will be Too Busy! But of that anoa. The’ Kitten is out of the Bag about why this bird is so Hospitable to me, but I figure that I am just the kind |of a Friend which is a Reguiar Fellow \and does not mind being used as a ‘Domestic Bumper while Warp.ng nto the Matrimon.al Dock! So I say all right, and that th.s is the last time— and it Is, Reader, believe met Well, we get up to this Mug's house and I have no more than got this guy insde befcre the flow of Larva off of Mrs. Volcano beg-ns! I will give you my word, I do not think before any Woman can Exp.ode so Spontaneously! She scatters Death and‘ Destruction in all D.rect.ons! She says 1 am the cause of this bum’s Downialls, and she lights into me like @ Starving guy into a One Arm | Lunch, and watn sne begins to Inter- ‘pret w.th Brick-a-Brack and makes ervous Gestures. with the Crockery start out on the Lam. She says no you don't—standing in front of the door—so the best I can do is Try the Window, leaving Mine Host to I do not now What Fate—but he is around today, and better off than I am! | Mine Host {s too Slopped to Inter- | pose, as 1 say, and ths Dame is go- ing Great Guns as I Hop Out. It reminds me some us I take th.s Open Faced, Swiss Movement Leave, vf Kipling’s great lines, trom “The Re- ceptacie” I think, which go: :| “Bar Caled, 1 quickiy Melt Away, Iam a Sap to draw her Fire, Lo, was I Alug enough to siay, 1a soon‘ bo lying on a Pyre, Lord God of Hosis, (tunis Dame ts That She'd Knock me Flat! She'd knock me Fat!" (K pling) Weill, I come to conclus.on after thinking it over that probably Spouse and Souse is not as good friends as Formally. Furthermore I figure a guy like this has got to have Very Many Friends becaus? they do not do much. gocd for Bumpers atter the first few Visits Home! She géts to know them to Intimate and Acts According! Is a gly go.hg to be Drnk.ng and taking birds home to Ward off the Wife, He has gto to make New Friends rapidly, because the O!d Ones do not last any longer than. about four Trips—like a Shirt to the Laun- dry! One more than that and you can see their Domestic Finish very pla.n, Reauer! a Jewe’ry and watch repairing by ex- pert workman; all work guaranteed. Casper Jewelry Manufacturing Co. O-8 Builcing. 13. Special for men's. heavy tworpiecs “itcess arat underwear, $1.50 value at 75 per suit. JESSEN BROS. CO. 115 East Second, ua (le vb ive —Katherine Edelman. | We kick and we complain and we strike. We'fume about high rents, dear coal, the op- pressive living. We rebel against working moré than eight hours a day, and we fight for time-and-a-half pay for all overtime. We groan over local taxes, income taxes, corpora- tion taxes.’ Yet—well are we so terribly bad off? How do we fare as compared with, say, our parents and their generation? Is it not the truth that ‘the vast majority of us live more comfortably than the majority of the people did twénty, thirty, forty years ago? uppose we'sit down and calmly compare our lot with the lot of the last generation. Radio entertainment is rapidl: available for all. boas cin Electric lights are blessings now so com- monplace that we accept them with sense of gratitude. x out, ARY Electric trolleys.enable millions to live and bring up their children in healthy suburbs. Our newspapers, now available for all much better than they were, as also are Bae odicals catering to every variety of taste. Sanitation and hygiene hay: PO ia ygiene have spread over We have almost a billion harnessed horse- power to relieve the backs, hands, the muscles of manual Ain't it the truth? the arms, the toilers.