Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1923, Page 20

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Call 15 or 16 any e between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m tf you fail to receive Iiverea to you by special n let The Tribune ‘our carrier misses yt Homes and Citizenship UNDREDS of thousands of new homes have 18 and 16) ecting All Departments | (Wyoniing), Postoffice as second class| service to the community, with the idea of a central President and Editor) Bidg., Chicago, | cases helped by any organization is kept and the : Globe “Bidg.,) name of the organization giving the help. It was 65 New Mont- Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston} $9.00! Z$0| who has not done social work, it is difficult to| .25! comprehend the desirability of communication wit "15 the | tion | our Tribune. A paper will be Ce- nger. Make it your duty to; associated charity work but was a member of the national conference of social work as well. With the co-operation of the county commission- ers, the Red Cross office has offered real social | clearing house always in mind. | any size, where there In every city of is more than one organization | giving relief, it has been found necessary to estab- | lish a confidential exchange where a list of all } ) | | in order to avoid duplication of relief that the Red | | Cross has tried to secure the co-operation of ‘other | | organizatins. { | Through the division offices, the local office was | able to communicate with 3,800 different chapters besides all of the charity organization societies in| every city where such organization existed. To one, | outside agencies, but this is quite essential for pur- | ses of investigation. i Many of the people of Casper, however, have | ben unwilling to be convinced that the giving of | | charity is a business and have felt that all social | | work consists of giving relief spasmodically. | ‘A Responsibility of Citizenship SCUSSION of the large proportion of eligible, voters who do not actually cast ballots on elec- tion day has served to call attention once more tu | an evil that goes to the heart of our system of gov- ernment. The worst feature of the matter is that | | among the non-voters are some of the most intel-| ligent and supposedly most patriotic of our citi-| | zens. Too frequently when substantial citizens of | ® community are staying away from the polls, the iD? been built in the United States during the past! irresponsible enemies of good government are avail: | year. better citizenship, both in children and in adults. The house owner has a more direct interest than | Owning a home tends strongly to produce, ing themselves of the opportunity to endeavor to | place in positions of power and trust men of their own type. Too often they succeed. We are conducting in this country an “Amer-| has the flat renter in efficient and economical gov-| icanization” campaign, designed to prepare aliens ernment and in the improvement of his neighbor- hood and his city, since anything that improves! the community’s social or physical condition in- creases the value of the home owner’s property and makes his home a better place to live. for the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. | This is well, and yet it seems an anomaly to be | | doing this when we have so many native-born | Americans of character and intelligence who do | not exercise their right to participate in the most! | important functions of popular government. The | It used to be argued that property owners paid) Americanization movement is taking too narrow | all the taxes and that renters escaped. The fallacy of that view is now well understood. Indeed, rap- idly as taxes have gone up in the last few years, | states la the rents of flats and apartments have gono up) g prerequisi a scope. 4 | What remedy can be adopted with a hope of cur: ing the evil, it is difficult to determine. In some! require the payment of a poll tax as| te to the right to vote, and this has al still faster. The landlord has passed his tax bur-| doubtful effect. Presumably it withholds the right | den and more—on to his tenants, It is good for any community that the “own your own home” movement has made such progress, It were better if Casper put more steam back of its! movement in that direction and encouraged it in} all proper ways. 'A Ranking Industry ETROLEUM, as an industry has risen from a position of comparatively small importance to} one of leadership among the Industries of the na- tion, A survey of the remarkable expansion of the| oil business illustrates this rapid advancement. The whole fabric of the petroleum industry has, been carefully built up by the energy and ‘bound- less activitiy of many private interests at work under the application of sound economic principles. | Like the political exploitation of forestry from the east, the political exploitation of oil did not be gin until the production in the east began to fall} off. Then the eastern reformers and uplift citizens! began their crusade against oil production just as! they have against timber production. Three fourths of all oil production is in the west and the. want to regulate and govern from the east in th interest of the cast. e Some Sweet Day i ARKING cars on public business streets will} _ to vote from those who do not help support the gov- | BHSS*” | stitutional amendment that failure to vote for spe- | or illness, shall deprive the citizen of his electiye| ‘| growing overhead cost of government. And what is continue to grow more and more a problem. It) will not happen soon but it is certain to come with! ple in the community are taxed to keep them in time, that city streets, especially in business dis-! operation. tricts will be devoted entirely to cars on the move. While the regulations of cities remain so much a matter of politics and so little a matter of public convenience and comfort we will put up with the senseless congestion with what grace we may. Some time, let us hope away this side of the! millenium, nothing but moving vehicles will be per- mitted on city streets. It would be just as sensible for street car companies to ask permission to run| spurs from their main tracks to the curb so street cars could be parked conveniently when not in use, You would call a street car official crazy, for making such a request. But at the same time thousands of automobile owners claim, and get away with the privilege of parking all day on busy streets, thereby causing congestion and blocking of streets to the great inconvenience and even dan- ger to pergons and property. Some day this will not be allowed. The Great Work at Home gor one of the problems, thrust upon the peo- ple of the United States by the war was the withdrawal from the wage-earning ranks of more than four-million able bodied men. This economic problem had to be met. Who would care for these dependent wives, children, mothers and fathers? The Red Cross formerly known oly as an emer- gency organization, came to the front and offered its services to the nation, to give home service to the families of the enlisted and drafted men. These men felt much better to go away knowing that their families would not suffer in their absence, To be sure, the money was supplied by the citi- gens of the nation but it took trained workers to discover the problems of these families and to ad- minister the relief necessary in the best possible manner. Many trained workers were taken from charity organization societies but these could not supply the demand so the Red Cross started train- ing schools in the larger cities and many college graduates enlisted for this work. The Red Cross performed such a splendid piece of work and showed to so many communities the! advantage of trained social service that after the armistice many towns and cities pleaded for the work to be continued. An agreement therefore, with the American association, which is the head of all organized charity societies, for the Red Cross to extend home service to civilian families in communities where there was no super- vised charity society. In order for the Red Cross, therefore to successfully carry on this work in| the same splendid ner, as that of the charity| es, the Red Oross ex itives be ‘ than ever that their workers be especially equipped in education and training be fore placing them as executive secretarie For the past two years, Natrona County Chapter of the American Red Cross has had tho services was made,} | { | to pass the literacy test. | ernment, but there has often been evidence that it/ places the voting power in the hands of men who desire to use it in a corrupt manner. Payment of one man’s poll tax by another who wishes to con- trol his vote, is a practice generally understood to exist in many places. It has been suggested that states provide by cou cified time, unless excused on account of absence | franchise. A federal constitutional amendment to} the same effect has also been proposed. It is clear| enough that such a provision would be drastic} enough to cause most men who prized their voting| power to take care lest they lose it. Some such rem edy as that, or a fine or suspension of some other right of ¢ltizenship, might have the desired effect, Instead of charging a poll tax upon those who vote, it might be better to charge the tax upon those who fail to vote. The Burden of Exemption N THE DAY of growing taxation, ways and means inust be found to check inflation and true of public government is equally true of pri- vate business, Billions of dollars of property is at the p it time removed from our tax rolls duo to the fact that it is publicly owned. Municipally owned water, light, street car or gas systems pay no taxes, These plants usually erve only a limited number of people in the com- munity in which they are located but all the peo- Why should not this class of property be placed on the tax rolls and by law required to charge rates sufficient to cover all costs of operation including taxes and thus relieve the general public from the burden of maintaining property for the benefit of limited number of citizens. It is good business to consider progress which will reduce the public debt. Duplicating Our System NDER free institutions it seems we develop a very important. We have public schools and colleges and we have privately maintained schools and colleges that do just as good work. ‘We have state and national banks and we have private banks and the latter enjoy as much con- fidence as the public ones, ‘We have farm loans by state and nation and wo have private farm loans and large farm loan bank- ing corporatins all doing good work, ‘We have state and private casualty insurance departments and the Jatter in many cases have cheapened state accident insurance. It is only where we try to establish state monop- olies in these matters and relieve the state from the competition of private initiative that we make a socialistic mess of matters. The theory that the state or government can do anything better than private initiative in free and pen competition has fallen down in so many cases that people are losing faith in political adminis- tration. ‘aa preecapeiconieict Need of Common Labor DMITTING foreign immgration to this country| will be a subject frequently before the public during the coming months, Organized labor seems determined to retain the three per cent limitation and hopes even to reduce the percentage admiss- able in a given year . Other authoritios belfeve that unless an increas- ed supply a common labor is admitted to his coun- try that we will eventually find ourselyes unable to carry on our great primary operations in for- ests mines, factories, agricultural and general con’ struction work; and further that this condition will lessen the demand for skilled craftsmen and constantly increase all the underlying costs of pro- duction and transportation. All elements seem agreed, however, that some form of character test rather than a literacy test would better safeguard this nation from reds and other undesirables, No crook or bolshevist is barred by the literacy test, while many good strongbacked workers have never had a chance to fit themselves It is recommonded that an immigrant be looked of a worker, who not only had received training up in his home town and his character ascertained and bad experience in Red Cross work but also in before permission to sail is granted. double system of doing many things that are * Casper Sunday wBorning Cridune The Human Zoo : The Abandoned House. On the grey desert rim it stands, A woeful, bleaching skeleton, Its dead eyes stare across the sands That shimmer in the burning sun. The rusty hinges groan and whine When a breeze swings the sagging | doors. Sand, and dust white and alkaline, Lie in wind-blown drifts on the floors. In the Cooryard a rough-hewn atone, Quarding a narrow, oblong mound Tells the tale of a soul unknown Mutely waiting the Trumpet's sound. A tragedy of life Hes hid Behind the weather-beaten wa! For Happiness, by God forbid, Died here. The loneliness appals. —E. RICHARD SHIPP. Who Has the Easy Time? “You women certainly have an easy timo of it, in these cays of modern appliances,” said Mr. Miliburn one morning recently as Mrs. Millburn slipped @ couple of pieces of baker's bread into the electric toaster and then poured his coffee from the elec: tric pereolator which bubbled bustly beside her. Having finished his breakfast, -Mull- burn hopped into his coupe,arrived at the office some fifteen minutes later and glanced appratsingly at a corps of women whose lives were made easter by the use of typewrit: ers, adding machines and other mod- ern office appliances, Minburn glanced through the morn- ing mail, noted with approval that gross business was up to average, and that collections were gooc. The telephone rang presently. It was M‘l- ler, a salesman, of whom he bought quently. “How about lunch with me and a couple of frames of bowling after- ward?" asked Miller. This being ar- ranged satisfactorily, Mr. Millbourn left word as he went out that an im- portant conference would keep him after lunch until about 3. At 3, when he returned, ho glanced at his appointment book. “See J. at G. 8. he noted, with a shock of recollec- tion. Now, for the benefit of the un- initiated. J. meant Johnny a certain golf professional of local renown, and G, 8. meant golf school. Milburn glanced hastily, somewhat guiltily, at his office force busily di- gesting tho dally meal of business that had been dumped in raw by the postman, and told his secretary that & prospective customer whom he had to see would probably keep him for the remainder of the day. His ap- pointment with J, at G. 8. consumed most of the remainder of tho after- noon, #0 ‘he barely had time to drop in at the barber's for a shave and a massage before going home for din- ner. Now, Mrs. Millburn, going on the theory that a man I!kes to come home to a house in order, a quiet house to soothe his tired nerves after the| dally grind of business, had just man- aged after a hectic battle with the children to get them to bed anc: clear | up the lbrary, where they had been | playing with their trains The day had beer none too quiet. | The furnace frw had gone out, and} the house now owed {te unusual) warmth to the fact that there was a} fresh fire, bullt in feverish haste “be-| fore John gets home and finds it out.” There had been the usual strug: | glo with groceries, meat, laundry, ete. and with the very necessary articles of apparel without which I! Retty could not rly appear, e!ther in public or private. And to finish the day Johnny hed fallen down the front steps into a pool of thawed snow, got himself soaked through, and had to be given a hot bath before going hur-| riedly to bed. Mr, and Mrs. Millburn sat down, however, to an orderly and appet'z- ing dinner. As Mrs, Millburn poured | all the pretty things you used to Wih the aid of an air cushion little Willie takes his first lesson. hin coffee for the second time that dey from the busy electric percolator, the thought occurred to John for the second time “You women certainly have an easy timo of it, with al these modern conventences,"” but just as he was about to give utterance to this profound bit of philosophy, Mrs. lburn asked: Well, dear, what kin¢. of a day you have at the office?” Mr. Millburn replied. truthfully, “Pretty busy; haven't stopped a min e¢ since I left home this morning.” tut he didn't add anything about wo- men and the mewern conventences. picid oda “After all is said and done,” re- marked a woman who had made more or less of a study of folks and human relations, “there are just two kinds of men to marry.” friend, vigorously. The woman nodded her head with determined affirmation. “Just that, There are exactly two types of the sex when it comes to marrying them. Of course there are fat ones and lean ones, tall and short men, cave men and kind men, young and old, widowers, bachelors, good looking and plain, but they can all be sorted into two piles when it comes to choosing them for husbands.’ “I like being thrown into piles, like junk,” ventured the friend. “But go on; I’m interested.” “There are merely those of you who like women and those of you who do not. Those of you who like women ike all women. You are the type that can't help being nice to any- thing in petticoats from 10 years to 30, You are the {deal lover. You do wl the little fancy things we dreamed of our lovers doing, but—you do them for all women. “We need never flatter ourselves, {f we have married this type, that we are the only woman. It can’t be done with this kind of man. He didn’t learn all this perfect fintshed way of loving you from—just you. And he isn’t going to stop a lifelong habit of being, attentive to a'l women because of—just you. So don’t flatter your- self, don’t weep your eyes out with Jealousy, for he will avoid that mere- ly by being careful when you are about.” “And the other sort, please?” asked the man meekly. “Oh, that's simple, He's the man who asks you to marry him because he wants a home. He has an old fashioned conviction that the home is the thing, and that he must have o woman in it goes without saying. “He loves you—yes. But you don't, a8 a woman, matter mucn to him. He wil be perfectldy loyal to you, think a grent deal of you in his unromantic manner, and he will not the slightest attention to other women un less forced to do so for politeness’ sake. He will never shower attention on you, never wait upon you, do the little flattering, fancy things the oth- er man will do, but—he will belong to you. “If you marry him don’t try to make him show off in public, or he won't go. Be contented with the knowledge that he cares only for you, even if he does not show it. Forget think your lover would do and havo faith in the man you have chosen. That's my advice to the girl who mar- ries this sort cf man. Look your own sex over, Mister Man, and see !f this ins't nearly true. | In Role of Prospective Corpse; Hey, Reader? BY JOHN HANDSHAKER (Alias Weed D'ckinson) (Special Casper Correspondent Press Agent and does she obey In- Well, Readers, this Newspaper'structions she will be Famous or game is Sertainly the Old Work, do Someth'ng by morning. Well, she is you ask me, and sometimes I figure something, all right—but that is what I may just as well leave Journalism I am going to tell you! to the devices of guys like William} Randolph Hearse and other birds/ which write only w:th Yellow Pen-, cils; but then. I remember two |things—the first being some of the |trouble I have being Press Agent for | Actress before I Climb into this Re- porter Bizness, and the second being, some of the trouble Actresses I try, to work for have with me! So I fig- jure I will do myseif just as much good do I stay where I am and con- |tinue to put a Helping Hand under Flatfooted Literature. | Well, I do a lttte Praise-Agenting jat ono t'me and another, as I am sxy- jing, and one of the first jobs I tear loft for myself Is trying to get New York to notace a Dame called Jan- uary Summers. It {s really not so hard to notace her, at that, because |she {s a Wierd Looking bird if ever I see one. but she has got Ideas that jshe !s about to become a Actress, and she wants a | Agent to {ell the world about her, and keep her on the front pages of the! |papers by getting her robbed of |Jewelry and: all such Bunk. So I) Bust thou Art? finally take the job Huston! Good g'rls can EADERS: We'l, Reader, I. figure this would be a fine chance to plant a story about this beautiful little actress try- ing to kill herself by Gass because a Wealthy South American Fiancee de- serts her, see? So I cork tho room up tighter than a Bottle of Scotch, and put cotton in all the cracks, and pull down the shades and fasten the hose onto the gauss jett. Then I ta'l January to write a few notes which I dictate, and sprinkle a few drops of lwater on them to make Blots like tears, and leave them on the Bureau. I do not forget anyth'ng. including o sad little letter to the landlady saying © is sorry to cause trouble but she n not live without Count de Boodle (the wea'thy South American Fiancee, Reader’) I even get her to pick out the Epicac she wants carved on her tomb- stone. and I select that one by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow I think which goes: Life is real, Life can't be trusted! And the Grave is now my bent; Art can’t be not save a Cent! Woll, Reader, this January {s out) aa | Well, I get January all Laid out | { : jv Lauantdingerth osine her last eM iuike a Prospective Corpse on tho bed atmos oe in the ghorus, 284 Put the end of the garden hose alee teipertaat Heart Dine: Sheds ii" her mouth and tell her to He thero ress rehersal ry ae shoe at a Inopportune Moment while “M4 be au'et tl'l she hears pevtie 7 dancing and ne nite the Produces, |Kuock, on the door. I say I will senc which 4s down front, in the Hye, Well," CoP directly, and when he comes he says. Take Her Out, that he can/{2 She must yell and carry on ‘and The Age of Oil. ‘To call our time the Age of O!1," says the New York Sun, “would hard ly be the truth This most lquid/ and easily moved raw material | of) power has stirred many countries to) sock control of remote regions that) yield it. “Within ‘a decade ofl has become as important on sea as on land. It | worrted. ( istactor: drives vessels of peace and of war. In 1914 oniy 1,320,209 gross tons of shipping were propelled by ofl used as steam fuel. By 1921 the total had} Srown to 12 | proportionate increase hag raised the tonnage driven by Diesel engines! from some 60,000 tons in 1913 to 573,-{ 325 tons in 1921, Great liners are be-| ing equipped to burn oil, because of; the ease of handling it and the re- sulting economy in stokers’ wages.| Its cleanliness as compared to coal) increases the advantage it offers | “Automobiles make the chief use of off fuel on land. In the United! States n’one the total of motor ve- hicles has grown from, 1,260,000 in 1913 to more than 10,000,000 in 1922. With their number: grows the use of oil as a source of power. “Tho dominant position of America as an of! producing nation has lain in| her holding some 62 per cent of the/ world’s known supply In the ground. American security in oll js threaten-| ed by the fact that th!s nation is also| the greatest consumer of oil, Its sup- plies as lately reckened will cover con- sumption at the present rate only for about twenty five years. “Seldom has the world joined in so/ general a rivalry for a material of which so few years’ supply, and that | so widely scattored, 1s known to ex- ist.”" — The Sea Wolf. The fisherman say, when your catch is done And you're sculling In with the tide. You must take great care that the Sea Wolf's share Is tossed to him overside. They say that the Sea Wolf rides, by | day, Unseen on the crested waves, And the sea mists rise from his cold Breen eyes When he comes from his salt sea caves. ! The fishermen say, when {t storms ; at night And the great seas bellow and roar, That the Sea Wolf rides on the plung- ing tides, And you hear his how! at the door. And you must throw open your door at once, And fling your catch to the waves Till he drags his share to his cold sea ry Straight down to his salt sea caves. Then tho storm wil pass, and the still stars shine In peace—so the fishermen say— But the Sea Volf waits by the cold Sea Gates For the dawn of another day. —Violet McDougal. The Chickle Nuisance. | | Soda fountains, where hot drinks seem as popular in winter as cold drinks do in summer. are finding the chrontc gum chewer to be thelr worst menace. “We are seriously thinking of put ting small waste paper baskets at conventent places,” said the manager of one of the ‘arger soda water shops, “merely to take care of the gum chewers. When a gum chewer comes in for a hot chocolate he usually for- gets all about his gum until he fs at the fountain and has given his order, “Nine out of ten persons when they find themselves in this predicament surreptitiously drop the gum on the floor, And thus their problem is solved. But ours fs just begun. “How to remove that gum has: us ‘We have tried about every. thing, but no remover fs entirely sat For the gum usually has teen walked on a few times and ts well pressed into the floor. | “Manz of our porte:s quit their jobs simply because they had to work half the night trying to.get the gum oft the floor and then nut altogether succerding.”” ; Nee oes Moot me at the Smoke House, tf ,She can get the Cotton but no hose. not have Back-firing Chorus girls in|? 14d to be alowed to Diet jthis show and that does the time ever) come when he can put up Wire En- tanglements in the first three rows 796,633. Equally great Orchestra and Call:it Nomad's Lana W°rk. he will hire her back. He says, how- ever, that he can not afford to have Bald Headed Guys with scalp wounds Obstructing the show by coming back to the Box Offace and asking what !s the name of the dame which shakes the Wicked Shoe. So Miss Summers is discharged Fourthw!th. Well, I go over to this January's Place. to see what can I do for her and she is. complaining Bitter!y: about how hard life is. She says. even the ‘gass is off in the apartment because she has got no quarter to put In the moter, and I say well I will stake her to two bits on Account, and will put tt on my bill (which will probably do me no good, but it !s easy to Put It There, anyway.) I am just’about to Feed the Starving Meter this Snack of Currancy, as we Gourmands has it, and hoping it will not get Indiges- tion from being out of Monetary Meals and subject to Mal-Nutrimont for so long, when I get a idea. I put the two bits back in my pocket and tell January I have something much better than that! I say Lissen, here 4s a good chance for a Good Press Agent like me! I will make her % mous, I tell her, I ask January Summers !s their any Cotton Batting Around here and ® peace of rubber hose, and she says Well, while she {s getting the Former, I go down in the basement and final- ly find a peace of Garden hose which the janitor uses on his back garden in the summer I guess. January !s [auite Mistified by all this, but I am {quite Masterful and say I am her Well, I go out and get a drink or ;two and hang around a hour or so. 'T figure I have done a very fine daze I am very pleased with my- self, believe me; but I congeal my joy and finally notify a copy nearby I have just heard moans and prayers out of this apartment January has a ‘room ‘in, and think I smelf Gass Es- cap'ng. He beats it up there and'T take it on the Lam right back to the jofface. |. Well, Reader. I give you my word, ;Was I to stage the fight between |Dempsey and Wills I will bet the (World and his Wife wou!d get tool sick the night before and we ‘could not draw a Seargent’s Guard to see jit! Did I wager Sunday. night the inext day would be Monday, I will bet !t never comes off on time! The ;Rext thing I know a Hospital ts call- sing me up saying do I know January Well, I figure right then |maybe something Goes Wrong, and jWhen I say yes they say come right over because she has got Gass Poison- ing, or Asphedita, and while she will [ive she !s very in! Well, it seems the landlad: comes {im January's apartment while I am away and puts a quarter In the Gass Meter and starts in working again! January Falls asleep, of course, when |I leave, and by the time the cop gets there Gass is Escaping sure enough and most of it from January's eyes, |ncse and ears! And I give you my word, she {s sore as a bol! about all this, dispite the fact that my calling the cop prob- ably saves her life at that! Is not ‘Woman a Ungrateful Creature, hey Reader? However, I will say she fs very good in the role of a Prospective Corpse, and proves a better actress ithan usual In th's part! | Summers. FOR GRUEN WATCHES AND DIAMONDS OF WORTH I. SCHWARTZ THE QUALITY JEWELER IRIS THEATER BUILDING t an f