Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. Che Casper Daily Cribune evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona 3. Publication Offices, Tribune Building — | Che Caspet Daily Cribune The Powerful Katrinka. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1923. the most acrimonious was the onoe| without restricting ofl concerns from that gave an undeserved notoriety to | ‘fair profit.’ a harmless and rather pretty and sen- 3. Lowering the cost of operation timental picture called “September | by amalgamation of many large gaso. by every conceivable means to get the United States into the league. Their argument has been that the league was the hope of the world, that it was the —Bv Fontaine Fox: eC ev County, W: 9 PHONES - Exchange C @ntered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class/ matter, November 22, 1916 | BARTON ------ _ President and Editor| CHARLES W. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS {ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of all news credited in this paper end) ews published herein. | only medium through which peace would come and remain, through which the nations of Europe could be stabilized and ctvilization guaranteed. These League of Nations partisans are now mak- ing every conceivable appeal for the present ad- ministration to intervene in the European contro- versy over reparations. They are filling the news- paper and magazine columns with statements to the effect that unless the United States becomes en- gaged in European affairs. Europe is going to rack and ruin. If this be so, what has become of the League of Morn.” It represented a pleasant looking | bath. She had nothing on but looked very modest about it anc’ seemed anx- fous to avoid observation. The official censors of such matters objected to the picture because the matd lacked a bathing suit. Somebody was arrest- ed and taken to court, and the pro- ceedings made September Morn” the | most famous of pictures. | The judicial decision was that the | maid wading into a lake to take a are in truth closely line and oil companies which are now separate legal enttities though they interwoven by mutual stock ho'd'ngs. It is claimed by legal authorities |that the present operations of large corporations may be strictly legal, that the. government cannot proceed in a judicial way to obtain a lower cost to the consumer of gasoline, and there is no way to re&ch the present situation unless congress moves to regulate prices and distribution. tising Representatives. Nations? It has been in existence now three years. picture was perfectiy inocuous, and} y 1 on Cesta 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago,|It maintains elaborate headquarters in Switzer- theveatian the ti Godiitey swoab TloGdait | Geis mee bedeh en rs ieee ‘Avenue, New York Cit ove Blds..| Jand, with a large staff of experts. It-has back of | with colored reproductions of it. |seuate betore fuze end of; Oe present Boston, Suite 494, Sharon Bldg. 65 Now Daity| it all of the power which was vested in it by the ———— fopomeaearetae ncn a lpabs ie AoA rd gomery an Francisco, Cal. _ Copies nicago, Boston| Paris treaty, a treaty which was ratified by a’ * ts though, to obtain any action on Tehune sre on Hie te tha New Tort. win we the signatory powers with the exception of the Government and the Oil and San Francisco offices and visitors are weicome- United States. Industry. propositions until the next session of congress. SUBSCRIPTION nar | Why is the United States called upon to dnter Hears EES By Carrier or By Mail | vene fo s Surope? Why does not the League o: SRR Si mem rrsece Pt Si pan Dafly and Suncay | Nations save Europe? It was created for that pur-| Minti taskeal miper rect ee | Mowing the t Lawn. Sunday - se the be paid in edvance and t tre delivery after subscription Member of the Assoclated Press Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) | 5 “Get Your Tribune. a tate aeee 6:20 and 8 o'clock p. m. : A paper will be Ge ger. Make it your duty to} vour carrier misses you, Kic Casper Tribune’s Program ion project west of Casper to be author- completed at once. and scientif! zoning system for the tion ehensive municipal and school recreati a swimming pools for the m, including children of Caspe Completion of th established Scenic Route boute- rose. ; Why does Italy offer to mediate between France| and England in the present reparations contro- versy? Why it not left to the League of Nations? | ype afraid of war as the result of the) French occupation of German territorry? Does | not the League of Nations make impossible another | European war? | Article XI of the Covenant of the League of Na-) tions says: “Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the members of the league or not, is hereby declared a matter of con- cern to the whole league, and the league shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations. * * * It is also declared to be the friendly right of each mem ber of the league to bring to the attention of the assembly or of the council any circumstance what- | ever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace, or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.” Article XV f the Covenant of the League of ould any member ‘of the league} resort to war in disregard of its covenant, it shall ipso facto be deemed to havé committed an act of | | war against all other members of the league, which vard as planned by the county commissioners 9°) ) 1. undertakes immediately to subject it to creck Pails ang re tounty and more high- || the severance of all trade or financial relations, | mines i | the prohibition of all intercourse between the na-| ble frelght ratse for shippers of thy Pl tivnais of the covenant-breaking state, and the pre- egion, and more frequent tain Y) ti of all financial, commercial or personal] will Montana Surrender? THAT, do you suppose has come over the spirit N of thé dreams of our neighbors over in Mon- tant? That they should throw down the sovereign ty of their state, wipe from the statute books of their commonwealth some seventy-five sections ©: Jaw relating to prohibition and its enforcement, and leave the whole question blank locally and pass the burden on to the federal government. This is the serious effort of a very considerable number of members of the legislature of that great state. 2 ; Thece are willing to admit failure on the part of] jt."Yuilures, ‘The League of Nations is a chrovié| Me Treaty of Versailles and so guaranteed by the) the terms of ihe Treaty of Versailles by taking] motoring on fine toads. ir state gove ent to enforce its laws, willing| ¢, re. It has failed f the beginning. a 3 + ‘oles remain in Vilna! Memel. to ayaninen of hardier fibre and placed in the or-| 4999, Within a month after it sct up headquar. yiolation of the Treaty of Versailles and in de-| It proves beyond a doubt the impotency of the Hotel Galves, a lax: and ganic law of thut proud state by other men who! tors with a pretentious staff, Poland, a member of | T'S Ut fie, reaine tf Nations. oa ene| eague of Nations. ‘Taking into consideration the luxurious hostelry. Its o: anic law Ss sf the people to administer} i ei i i i d xed by e| wellknown facts at in many 0! ese wars e re Vielieved in the rights of the people to the league, being dissatisfied with the boundaries! reaty of Versailles and with other conditions| larger powers of the Teague of Netions weve their domestie affairs. ‘ s the world to understand that popular govern- ment is a failure in the State.of Montana, that her people are willing to accept such insult to their intelligence. That her men and women no longer have the spirit to stand up and say what shall and what shall not be the order of things in their state. That sacred rights, expressly reserved by them in erecting their commonwealth, are to be yeturned to the federal government as of no value to them. Especially at a time when the federal ‘power is taxed to the utmost to enforce its au- thority against an evil Montana seems willing to dhave run riot within her borders. | intercourse between the nationa | now turn to the United States, which is not a mem- of the covenant- breaking state and the nationals of any other state, whether a member of the league or not.” In views of these broad powers to resort to drastic measures against any offending member of the league, why should members of the league in Europe and partisans of the league in this country ber of the league, and insist that it is the only power which can save Europe from destruction? There is no other* explanation than the very simple one that the League of Nations has utterly and ignominously failed. Its failure to reconcile the allies in the present reparations controversy is not the first, nor even the most conspicuous of fixed by the Treaty of Paris and guaranteed by the treaty and the league, invaded Russia. It did this without consulting the league or even registering a protest to the league aginst the existing bound- aries. Here was a clear violation of article XI of the covenant of the League of Nations, as quoted above. Notwithstanding this, the league utterly! ignored Poland's invasion of Russia, which carried Polish armies as far into Russian territory as Kieff. The sequence to this was the Russian invasion of Poland which resulted in such disaster to Poland that if it had not been for the assistance of the French troops and French munitions, the Russian try in some manner similar to the railroads may be recommended to| congress by the special committee, it is stated, now tnvest’gating gaso- line prices. * Some of the committee, it Is stated, believe that this wil! prove to be the only method by which congress can | legislatte against fluctuation of gaso-| | ne prices. However, such plans will not take any definitte form until the committee concludes ita hearings in about three weeks. The following three points are being considered: 1. Government supervision of gaso'ine and oil prices through fur- ther tariff restrictions. Absorption of the large divi- Men who shave themselves are apt to think that the longer they go un- Shaven the harder the operation on thelr razors. “I had always supposed," said a home shaver, “that 9” three-day growth would do more to dull the blade than three shaves on tho growth of a.single day. But a barber who studies things told me that the process of severing a halr with a ra- zor is exactly the same as that of cutting a sapling or amputating a twig from a tree or bush with a pock etknife. They are easier cut whe bended. ‘This barber sald the same } thing is true of a hair, The short, stubby growth of a single Cay docs not bend, but the longer growth be- dends now being declared by some of the ofl companies in lower prices comes bent at the slightest touch, and consequently cuts much more easily. headquarters of the League of Nations made a per- sonal appeal for the league to live up to its cove: nant and protect the territerial integrity of Georgia. The league paid no attention whatever to this appeal. Late in 1920 Poland and Lithuania engaged in war over their boundary line which was fixed by the Treaty of Versailles and guaranteed by the League of Nations. The league council asked both governments to stop hostilities, but its request was given no attention. The league then suggested a referendum, but neither country saw fit to comply with the suggestion. The Polish armies captured Vilna, which had been assigned to Lithuania by established in that treaty and guaranteed by the League of Nations, Greece started an invasion of Turkish territory in Asia Minor. Greece was a member of the League of Nations and under tle covenant should have submitted its case to the league. It did not do so. It opened hostilities in violation of the covenant of the League of Nations. It was then the duty of other members of the league under Article X of the covenant to bring the matter formally to the attention of the league, and for the league to take action in order to safe- guard the peace of nations. The league, however, took no action in the matter, with the result that after a brief season of victories by the Greek armies, the Turks became ascendant and precipi- tated all of the trouble which is now in the Near East. Still more recently the Lithuanians have violated really the instigators and stood behind the smaller combatants, furnishing them with funds, munitions and military equipment, it proves the hypocrisy and insincerity of the League of Nations. alittle trip over toHouston. fishing, sailing, Depends on Degree. Byer since the first modiste fash- joned a fig leaf Mapper kilt and got Adam to hook it up for her and tell her whether it hung straight behind, her descendants have been wrang- ling over the question of how much or how little clothing might, could, Garcen of Eden costumlcz of profes: sfonal beauties in a certain class of French theatrical production have aroused @ spirited defense of nuc‘ty by some of the most famous of the aforesaid beauties, One of these, Mile. Edmonde Guy. {proclaims that where beauty begins indecency necessarily ends, and she some recent exhibits and have left the theater in a huff. This ig alluded to by Mlle. Jane Myro, another expo- nent of Mother Eve costuming, who says that Americans who have ut- tered protests and taken thelr wives from the theater have been observed to occupy front seats at successive subsequent performances, fine hotels and over all <=" hovers the romance of old. Spanish days. Santa Fe ‘Would appreciate your Montana] armies would have wiped ont Poland as a national | ,,,, sy invokes the tradition of Phryne, the| Possibly the fair Jane is making a The seen oe ee eae tne of eect eeealetence, unity. While this was going on the League of| or sctore cone Che cane rr anit Greek beauty, whose performances | mistake about the Americans nustine Service Through standard sleeper daily from Jegislators, in s r= & ratter of high constitutional| Nations took no action. The war between Russia| ng’ beach. {in the sea were watched by thousands} their wives out. It she had been (Harvey Denver to Ft. Worth, Houston and Galves- 4f not cowardice, 3 a Seti aanit does the wel-| and Poland, initiated as it was by Poland, a mem-] Ang atill the old dispute wages /°f delighted spectators, and who was|more famillar with American domes- ton, leaving 8:45 a. m. privilege, and a: Stns Newed not only with sur.|ber of the League of Nations, was terminated not|back and forth. Only last week the|®¢duitted of @ charse of sacrilege] tic relations she might have devined course J.P. HALL, D. P. A. fare of her people, is viewe . by any act of the League of Nations, but by separ-|National Arts club gave the gate to When her lawyer dramatically un-|that it was the wives who were hus- 303 U. S. National Bank Bldg. prise but with shame by sister states. ate treaty between Poland and the soviet govern-|# nude painted by one of its members |Velled to her judges tho beauty of| ling their husbands out. But she ‘ Aj le ee ee ee ' aty a for @ club exhibition. Not because|her form. adds rather spitefully that women Why Bother Further? OPLE who take time to worry and seem hap- piest when thus engaged are fearing the utter collapse of European civilization. Why emotion should be expended upon a matter like that is strange, when there is opportunity to do some wor- rying with reference to the stability of civilization nearer home. If European civilization is bound and determined to go blooey, as all indications point, why worry? Are we not having the time of our life to keep our own civilization right side up and moving forward? These Europeans always did have the devil’s own time wiih their civilization. It has never been anything but a nuisance to them from the start. It has always been going to the dogs. They never knew tow to treat a civilization and don’t deserve to have a decent one. You only have to open up the handbook of chron- icles and cast a cursory glance over its pages to learn how shamefully they have maftreated so de- sirable an institution. Right from the jump they mishandled, manhandled and panhandled it until it bears no resemblance to respectability and has no ment. One of the creations of the Paris conference was tha independent nation of Armenia. Like other small, independent nations created by this con- ference with their boundaries guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, Armenia believed the covenant of the League of Na- tions meant what it said and it believed in the good faith of the nations which signed the League of Nations and which were maintaining League of Nations headquarters. Consequently, when in the summer of 1920 Turkish troops invaded Armenia for the purpose of destroying the newly set-up gov ernment, Armenia appealed to the League of Na- tions to protect her and maintain the integrity of her government and her boundaries. The League of Nations paid no attention to the appeal of Armenia until later the Turks had prac- tically exterminated the armed forces of Armenia and massacred untold thousands of defenseless women and children. Then the assembly of the League of Nations asked the Council of the League of Nations to come to the rescue of Armenia, The Council of the League of Nations, instead of in- voking the power of the league itself and calling upon its constituent members, which comprised all {t was @ nude, the embarrassed hang- ing committee hastened to explain, but because—vwell, if there were de- grees in nudity it might be inferred that the rejected canvas was a trifle too much so, At the same time news comes from Paris that American strictures on the The fair Edmonde defends the transparency or invisibility or non- existence of her stage costumes on ground that appearing as she does in antique or pastoral scenes, the total effect 1s harmonious and artistic. It seems that American piaygoers in Paris have been scandalized by who object to the spectacle of female beauty unadorned are themselves al- most always badiy built—mal fichus." Of the many battles that have been fought :n America over pictures or statues that represented the female form in all the frank innocence that belongs to a Pacific island, one of “The Public Servant” ANNOUN NOW IN OUR CEMENT servant. honesty and efficiency; ness and intelligence. Among: other wise statements contaired in the Bible is the one which sa‘ i Public utilities were placed under state commissions while Application of Some Ancient Laws BY DONALD McDONALD Vice President and General Manag. Louisville Gas and Electric Commer Whoever coined the expression “public servant” to descri ie ue ee: performed a real service both to the corapatleg zibe e public. than that of master and servant. The oldest code of written law is that of Hammura) vides amon, No relation of life is older or better understood » an ancient king of Babylon, which pro- other Gigs for the relation between master fad The law of Moses enjoins on the servant diligence, it enjoins on the master of justice, kind- “No man can serve two masters.” more backbone than an angleworm. of the great powers of Europe with the exception at the same time certain cities claimed and exercised the right After bringing millions of their folks over to] of Germany, to go to the defense of Armenia, called to regulate these same utilities. Recent enactments have wiped this side and doing our best to inject a little civil-| upon President Wilson to act as mediator between Peetaledae Vihar conflicts, but the fact is just as true as it was ization into them, and then journeying back across! the Turks and the Armenian nation. The Turks The TelaUOR ot tek eet nly s serve two masters. the ocean to save what they had left, their decrepit| refused to mediate. They contitnued their war ial enectimatiatoabrate Bsterdite (3 hates al Be. aerrant old civilization is not yet able to stand alone. The very moment we withdraw the final remnant of support, the old thing bogs down. Then the howl goes up from the emotional highbrows and interna- tional worrlers that we ought to do more saving, that we did not do a good job in previous efforts. Over on this side there are a lot of hard headed people who are not given much to cheap jobs of ing, who are of the opinion, that if the Euro people w their civilization saved, they better get busy and save it; and since they shown little or no inclination to salvage it, possibly don’t want it rescued or consider it orth the saving. If they have no great inter- it least, more than they have shown to ail to see any good reason why we should with the old hulk, They had far better let old one go by the board and start a new one if they can So far as we are concerned, with European civil- pean of extermination upon the Armenian people until Armenia was wiped out as an independent nation and its territory (the integrity of which had been guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles and the covenant of the League of Nations) divided between the soviet government of Russia and Turkey. In other words, it was the League of Nations that sat idly by and permitted the dismemberment of the -\rmenian nation and the extermination of the Armenian people, and not the United States gov- ernment under the present administration, as has been repeatedly falsely charged by the League of Nations partisans in this country In 1920, the forces of the soviet government in Russia invaded Persia. Persia was a member of the League of Nations. Like Armenia, it had faith in the sincerity of the great powers which com- posed the league, and it believed in Article X of the covenant of the League of Nations, which guar- anteed each member against territorial aggression. 328 South David. to take care of the smallest owners. 328 South David. In our new garage we have installed special equipment JOE E. MANSFIELD, Inc. Phone 346 detail in service to Packard Phone 346 derfed. The even when the master is somewhat unreasonable. lic servant will remember this. We also learn from Holy Writ that “the laborer is worthy of his hire,” and no man promotes his own comfort or interest by beating down that hire to Gey which is below the cost of decent living. People are prow are well housed, well them boast of how cheaply they bought goods, but I never heard a man boast of the fact that his servants were underpaid or un- A wise pub- of the fact that their servants il fed. well paid and contented. I have heard I have, however, heard men boast that in their city the street car fare was five cents, although thy knew that the actual cost of carrying them was more than that. role of public servant is an honorable role. Again we can quote scripture in saying, “‘He that would be greatest among you, let him be your servant.” thief nor an idler nor a beggar serves some one. least one master. a glance to be almost an autocrat. ‘Come’ and he cometh, and to another, ‘go,’ and he goeth.” but he can not with impunity violate the sense of fairness which is in the minds of all those that look to him for orders, he can not be arbitrary and he can not be unreasonable. Every man who is neither a He has at The head of a great corporation appears at “He sayeth unto this man More than this, ization in its present dilapidated condition, we are| Consequently, it appealed to the League of Nations he must him: take orders from his stockholders and from the strong for the purest and simplest isolation. Let's| to come to its rescue and protect it against the! representatives of the public. bolster up our own and try and keep it from slip-| assaults of the soviet armies. The League of Na- All that the public utilities have a right to ask is that the uing. In this we will find task enough to occupy all our energy and all our surplus worry. -dihaeesleacetahd ee What Has Become of League? Ww AT has become of the League of Nations? Th ¢ brought to the front by the of tho © of Nations partisans who, t to Paris, have been trying ele 6 Wilson tions utterly ignored this appeal, with the result that Persia was driven to make a separate treaty with the soviet government under the terms of which the bolsheviki obtained many valuable eco- nomic concessions. The soviet forces invaded the State of Georgia, an independent nation created by the Treaty of illes recognized by the members of the League of Nations. The Georgian delegation at the PACKARD CARS AND TRUCKS public matters the public speak with through an authority which is recognized by both sides, and that that authority informs itsclf of the facts before it issues orders. Nilva\iva iveXiva\live tively one voice, that they speak Natrona Power Company aN