Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 8

3 -RAGE EIGHT Che Casper Daily Cribunce Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, V . Publication Offices. Tribune Building | HONES 15 change Connecting All Departments }RUSIN Branch TELE Telephone E: sEntered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 CHARLES W. BARTON President and Editor MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also-the local news published herein. amawscosnsnomesye: Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger {Il; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St., 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. 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That, however, would have elimi- mated our chief idea in the whole scheme—to share the profits with those at home who help build The ‘Tribune stronger. Instead of employing peo- ple from outside the state and paying them large commissions for their work, it is much more pre- ferable to bestow what benefits and profits that urise upon the people of our own state, whom we now, whom we constantly meet and are entitled to jour highest considerations. , In arranging the rewards, included in the six- teen thousand-dollar total, two objects only, have been in mind—to secure the best and deliver them fairly, squarely and with complete satisfaction to Gall parties concerned, ‘These things we guaran- gtee, and the entire Tribune works stands security for our word and our faithfulness. = are Misplaced Sympathy HE KEYSTONE TATE will have no cause to $4 blush for the manner in which she is repre sented in the s senate so long as men Bice David A. Reed are sent to Washington to peak for its people. His thorough and outspoken Americanism is refreshing in a day of searcity of Bvackbone in high public places. It is why, when, Ssuch men like Reed and Pepper of Pennsylvania, por of Idaho, Johnson of California, Reed of lissouri, Lodge and Walsh of Massachusetts, EMoses of New Mampshire and others like them, sepeak for America they not only have the atten n of the nation but its instant approval. Men nough to tell the people of our short el to point to our acts of righte| ) Men with fasth in our frai r nd our de tiny. hhambe heard xpressions of sympathy with one side or the other &: the present European crisis, We have heard Berhaps many more expressions of sympathy with he Germans than with the French. I think these questions ought to be looked at from the standpoint of the American; not the pro-French, not the pro- German, but the pro-American and I believe there is a distinct pro-American viewpoint and _pro- American policy which should be followed, not and 16| only in the debates here, but in the actions of our | administration. “There is a tendency these days, among a certain group of people, to take pains to show pity for the | criminal who has met with justice. ~We find peo- ple in America who are inclined to send flowers to murderers, and to forget the crimes and the vic- tims which brought the murderers to their present pass. They complain of the rudeness of the war- den to the imprisoned convict, and they never think of the victim of that convict’s original crime. That is what we are in danger of doing now in our dis- | cussion of this crisis on the Ruhr. We are for- getting what it was that brought Germany to her present pass. We are forgetting why the French have found it necessary to invade that district. We are forgetting what those Germans’ did to bring themselves into the predicament in which they find themselves today. “Why the sudden outbreak of sympathy for one of those two nations? Why was it that in 1914 we did not break out with a similar outburst of ympathy with the Belgians? Heaven knows their | country was invaded with fire and with sword, and not merely the threat of it. Their country was invaded in direct violation of a treaty to which country was a party, and, yet we did not raise our voices in this fashion to sympathize with the Belgians who were invaded. “Northern France was devastated, its churches, its homes, its fields and its orchards laid waste, but somehow our sympathy did not break into voice the way it has been doing here in recent days. “All the laws of nations were defied when the Germans let loose their poison gas at Ypres, and we sat quiet. We did not break into voice then, |as we are doing now at an invasion that is not attended by murder and disregard of international law. “The women and children at Lille were deported by the invader, and sent off in practical slavery | to work in German factories; but somehow the | senate of the United States remembered then that | it was American, and it managed then to control | its expressions of sympathy. | “When, in the spring of 1915, our German friends | —with whom we were at peace—saw fit to torpedo | the Lusitania, and hundreds of Americans had | , their shrieks of agony stifled with the gurgle of death as they sank into the Atlantic ocean, some- how we managed to stay neutral. Then why, in Gods name, can we not stay neutral today, when retribution is coming to those murderers of Bel- gians, and French, and Americans? “What is it that drags us to the front now to protest because Germany has to pay what she has promised to pay? Why should we suddenly grow maudlin in sympathy because the murderer is having to expatiate his crime? Why should America throw herself into this present difficulty in the Ruhr and take steps to show her pity for these people who are asked to pay only what they have promised to pay, who have been excused from | the payment of our war costs, who have been ex- jrecused for all the burdens of taxation they have thrown on the civilized nations of the world. “There is talk about the unborn children of Ger- many having to pay these reparations. There is not a man or a woman or a child who hears my voice at this minute who will not be dead long before the American people have ceased to pay excessive taxes as the result of German violation of international law. We will all be dead before American taxpayers have ceased to pay tribute to Germany's desire to control the world. Do not we forget that when we begin to wallow in sympathy | with German taxpayers? | “What Germany is asked-to pay now is the |mere cost of restoration of the damage she did ‘in Belgium and France and the mere cost of the | police force which hag had to stand guard along the Rhine. “T am not speaking alone my own sentiments, my own private views. I think Iam _ speaking as the Americans who fought in France would speak if they were here in the chamber; I think I am speaking as our men who died in France would | Speak if they could utter their thought today. I | tell you, we are forgetting our own dead when we | begin to waste sympathy because France has levied | execution for this reparations debt. clearly there is no inclination on the part of the Germans to pay those reparations. because he is beaten. he is beaten. Are we going to allow ourselves be deceived by that? | “What talk did we hear of unborn generations of French when in 1916 and 1917 the Germans thought out of this great nation of ours, which they so mightily envied? Did any of the Germans stop to think about the unborn generations of American children whom they then proposed to tax? If they no sympathy shown them in what they were doing and what they proposed to do to us, ‘per and the various arts of glass working that are dead and that have disappeared from civiliza- tion, there is no art that is so much missed as the art of minding one’s own business. “It has fallen into disuse. how to mind our own business. | icy. did not want reparations; therefore we are not a | creditor. We need not show a pro-French sympathy if for any reason we prefer not to, but for God's sake, let us not sympathize with the murderer. Let us stand off and let France collect her debt if she can. “We are told they are starving Germans in the tuhr district, but by whom are we told it? By a | German communique. If German official an- nouncements of current events are truthful tod: it is the first time since 1914 that they have been truthful, and we need not get excited about the ‘ench starving the Germans until we have some better evidence of it than a statement from Ber- |lin. Our policy should be—and again I say it—our policy should be to mind our own business, partic- | ularly when our ally and our comrade on the bat- tlefield is trying to get no more than has been | promised to her.” We WwW. ant the. Doctor’s Aid. (HE thought foundry within the polished dome of Nicholas Murray Butler is not turning out, in recent times, the standard product of other days. We would dislike to believe the professor's view pont is slipping. For in all his busy and useful life heretofore his public utterances have contained remarkable wisdom and have shown a keen analy- | six of truth. Two of his latest declarations will illustrate. He says “the Eighteenth amendment to the constitu- fhe Casner Daily Tribune Aunt Ennie Hore, the Fattest Woman in Three Counties. sé 1 WELL! ARE YOU cowARDS GoNNA COME OUT ON THIS Pole AND GIT ER ON* ER FEET OR AInTcHA ! ” ee tHe PoLE BROKE ments cannot be enforced by all the governments and armies in Christendom.” Both the amendment and the commandments are Aon Eprie FELL Se THAT THE ONLY WAY THEY CouhD FIX THE FoRKED Poe WAS WITH ONE END OUT OVER THE KiVER ChiFF, AND FIRE CHieF SIMS HAD A TOUGH TIME. GETTING steed Seta, nS EVEN MEN ON “THE POLE To RAISE HER. prospered by arbitrary government rule, nor by the power of murder machines, like armies. gavernor before election. This is a reduction by piling it on heavier, for every dolar taken out of that income fund the public must make up by a heavier special school tax. In God's name, when is this thing to end? Are the people of this state never to wake up and protect the rights of their children’ to these school lands, the magnificent gift cf the general government, or are we to continue to submit to this plunder- ing without a protest? Keeline, Wyo. FRANK KELLY. Pickles and Pulchritude. “Keats once wrote something to the effect that a thing of beauty is a joy forever, and added the scme- what dubious statement that its love- liness increases and shall never pass into nothingness,” says the Globe- Democrat. “But, having written this splendid advertisement of beau- ty, which immediately created a strong demand for it on the market, where women are the busiest bargain hunters, he proved that poets are hopelessiy impractical by failing to give any prescription for beauty. Many prescriptions have been for- mulated, however, and one of the most interesting of these was recent- ly recommenced by William Clende. nin, president of the Pickle Packers’ Association. “It 1s improbable that Keats tn his eulogy of beauty had had the slight- A Hot D and whole wheat is easily digested. It's easy ridge. Just in a si ‘water to cover 2 Be- AY, FEBRUARY 9, 1923. est intention of boosting the price of pickles. Yet this is likely to be the ultimate effect of his words; for Clendenin, further extending the ul- literation of the association he rep- resents, {. ¢,, the Pickle Packers, has let it be known that pulchritude is preserved and promoted by the con- sumption of pickies. Not only does he prescribe pickles, but for fear some jester might be tickled by his advice, or be led to the presumption that it was not wholly disinterested, he claims that historical records will verify the fact that the beauty of Catherine of Aragon, who won the heart of King Henry VIII., was due to her fondness for pickles. “It would be useless to deny with- out research that Catherine was fond of pickles, and that, indeed, is not so difficult to understand as her fond- ness for Henry. Yet, if we chose to insist upon fine points of logic, we might express doubt as to whether any relation of cause and effect ac- tually existed, in this instance, be- tween pickles and pulchritude. If 80, she must have lost her place in the king’s affection through a change of diet. The assertion of the presi dent of the Pickle Packers covers a point overlooked by most historians, at any rate; but it fs not entirely ¢ void of plausibility. The taste for Pickles is notoriously a feminine taste, and must be explained some- how, but {f pickles are not eaten to promote beauty, no one knows why they are eaten. for a cool morning There is nothing more bracing, these chilly mornings, than a hot nourishing cereal— all nourishment—yet to make a real whole-wheat por- it two Shredded Wheat Biscuits 3; add salt and enough e bottom of the pan; stir and boil until thick. Theri serve with milk or cream. Try it—then you'll know what a hot cereal really can be. moral propositions rather than legal ones. The outstanding fact in the case of each is that obsery- ance or accepted enforcement is true of the great majority of the‘American people. If this were not true there would be neither amendment nor com- mandments. The only task is, with this great start, for the majority leaven to leaven the minority lump. It can be done more quickly with the assist- ance of great men like Nicholas Murray Butler than it can with the discouagement of their oppo- cause of their inherent righteousness and desirabil- ity to the welfare of the human family, they are advanced by example and precept and by the per- suasiou and influence of those blest with under- standing. Had Nicholas Murray Butler declared that ‘the Highteenth amendment can be enforced and will, and must be enforced, for the people’s good; and that the Ten Commandments are the best guide to human conduct. ever devised and should be uni- versally adopted for general safety and happiness, sition. The success of strictly moral issues like “Thou shalt not drink” and “thou shalt not kill,” are not he would have done a better service for the sobriety and morality of the nation than he has done by the tieclarations made. School Laws and Taxes. Where does all the money go; This is a question often asked by settlers whose taxes are two or three times as much on a half section as the rental for 640 acres of schocl land adjoining. This writer will take a single school district in Niobrara county, not because it is especially import- ant, but because it is typical of thou- sands of others in the state of Wy- oming. School District No. 10 comprises a strip of land some eight miles wide on the west edge of Niobrara coun- ty. It is sparsely settled, most of the homesteaders who are there are heavily in debt and many have moveci away leaving scores of aban- doned farms. The people are hard working, intelligent and economical “There was a default—clearly there was a @e|and are making a herole struggle to fault—in the reparations payable by Germany; | establish homes and schools. ‘Dhe total 1922 tax paid by this dis- The bully who] trict up to December 31, 1922, was swaggered in 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917 now whines | *PProximately $13,000. These figures Every bully whines when |#*@ ot absolutely correct to a cent , vi to | #8 We are not figuring down to hun- dreths or thousands of a mill, are approximately correct. The special schoo! tax voted at the last school election, on which was but they were going to win, and their experts were| paid to the county treasurer up to busy calculating what was the utmost franc they| December 31 last year, the sum of. could make France pay, and what was the utmost | $3,759.24, all of which went. direct- pound that they could make Great Britain pay, and|1¥ to the support of the eight public what was the last dollar that they could squeeze | ®h0ols of the district, The county general school was 2.5 mills and took $2,850 out of the district. This money will lay in some bank several months when it will be apportioned out among the did their voices did not reach our ears. There was | several school districts accorcing to the number of persons of school age, between 6 and 21 years, in each dis- “Of all the lost arts of which civilization is|trict. As our district 1s sparsely set- deprived today, including the art of tempering cop-| ted @ g00d share af it is likely to go to districts with a more dense population, with towns like Manville and Lusk. Of this I have not the exact figures. ‘The library at Lusk, of no benefit We have forgotten | whatever to the people of this dis- But in that, if|trict, takes $93.98. we can revive that art, lies the true American pol-| without any benefit to the district This affair is not our concern. We said we | whatever. This is taxation The two county agents get $156.63. The county is bonded for $60,000, and this district was taxed $375.92 to pay the interest on that. ‘Tho county has been organized over ten years, and has been going into the hole at the rate of nearly $10,000 a year, the total debt being $101,387.67 on December 31 last. The county general funO tax was just the same as our special schcol tax, 6 mills, and took out of $3,759.24. This pays court expenses, county of- ficers’ salaries, roads, bridges, During the lest six months the coun: ty commissioners have received $1,- 221.88 for transportation. They get 10 cents a mile for each mile tray: “ask tor Horlicks The ORIGINAL Malted Milk For Infants, dnvalids & Children ‘The Original Food-Drink for All tion cannot be enfored” and “the Ten Command: 9%” Avoid Lmitations and Substitutes aerials Hens OR ene ichMilk, Malted Grain Extractin Pow- ert Tablet forms. Nourishing~Nocooking, tax With as they please. The members Hl This would show that they travelea| are Governor Ress, Secretary of State| 12,213 miles in six months from July| Lucas, Treasurer Snyder , Aucitor! 1 to December 31, 1922, or at the rate, Carter and State Superintendent of 24.426 miles in a How do} Morton. They have divided the land they do it. Ask them; they know. | into three c:asses, renting at 5 cents Now comes the state of Wyoming| an acre, 73 cents and 10 cents an and makes a levy of $1879.62 out of|acre per year respectively, This is this precinct, No. 10.. We probably| much less than deeded land of the get some benefit out of this, but just| same quality is taxed. But this was what it is I am unable to figure. not low enough, and the first thing There cre thirteen (unlucky num-| Governor Ross and the rest of the ber) districts in the county, Our is| commission did this year was to re- about an average. The county pays| duce the rent 215 cents an acre on! some tax, what? all school lands. This is a recuction Rye is the main money crop of the| of $16 on each section and reduces dry farmers’of this district, and fig-| the school land income fund hun- uring it at the present price of 60| dreds of thousands of dollars in this cents a bushel, let's see what this| state for the next two years. district pays. ‘The schools of Wyoming lose all Supposing on account of the scare-| this money and the taxpayers must ity of money Treasurer Roy said to| bear a heavier burden. | bring your taxes in to”Lusk in rye.| ‘Taxes must be reduced,” said the It would take 26,000 bushels and DO YOU KNOW THAT Shredded Wheat Alfalfa, Native, Wheat Grass, Prairie Ha Wheat, Barley, Rye, Bran, Oyster Shell. can save you mon want. 313 MIDWEST AVE. Shredded Wheat is 100% whole wheat, ready=cooked and ready-to-eat. A pm gare st ma food for any meal of the . Serve it ly with milk or or witli Beccles or fruits, Cone tains all the bran you need to stimulate bowel movement. It is salt-free and un- sweetened—you season it to your taste. Triscuit is the Shredded Wheat Cracker = a real whole-wheat toast. ta it with butter, soft cheese or Hay, Grain, Chicken and Rabbit Feeds Straw, Oats, Corn, Chop, One k or carload. We on carloads of hay, and give you any kind you CASPER STORAGE COMPANY TELEPHONE 63 would Ica 520 wagons with 60 bush: The conductors, brakemen, engi: els each. It would take 1,940 horses to haul it and 520 men to drive. In " neers and firemen of the Burlington a string the teams would make a ‘railroad are compelled to have the right time? procession three and quarter miles DO YOU KNOW THAT long and at 7 bushels to the acre the farmers would have to put in} -mhoy have to carry watches of STANDARD MAKE, that will not 3,714 acres to crop to pay the tax. The straw would be left to the} vary more than 15 seconds in a week either fast or slow? farmers. Did you ever stop to consider that! pO YOU KNOW THAT the school sections of 16 and 36 com-| “mney have to bring their watches prise one-elghteenth or over 5% per|ig AYRES JEWELRY Co. twice cent of all the land in the state? And| eyery month and have them ‘inspect: ed? WHY AYRES JEWELRY CO? yet all this vast domain has been turned over to a commission to do DO YOU THINK , ‘That the Burlington railroad guess who they want to be their official watch inspector? NO. They INVES- TIGATE FIRST. DO YOU THINK ‘That if our watch repairing meets with the exacting requirements of the Burlington railroad that we are the firm that you want to have do your watch work. AYRES JEWELRY CO. 133 S. Center Street. DanceTo-night Al your wants in high grade lumber and build- ers’ supplies. Rig timbers a specialty, Building Materials We are equipped with the stock to supply KEITH LUMBER CO. 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