Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923, Che Casper Dailp Cribune Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Buflding Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 BUSINESS TELEPHONES -------~------ - 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments 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. Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Ml; 286 Fifth Avenue, New Zor city: Gee Hide, ton, Mass., Suite 494, Sharon S- - fomery Bt. ian Fr Copies of the Daily and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier or By One Year, Dafly and Suncay -. One Year, Sunday Only ~--. Six Months, Daily and Sunday "Three Months, Daily and Sunday ---. 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More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. ‘THE SQUAREST CITY IN THE UNION IN THE SQUAREST STATE You Can’t Crush It. ‘A LIE is the most despicable offense against the moral code, and a confirmed liar the most re- prehensible of the lesser criminals. You may find excuse and even charity in your heart for those who commit wrong when circumstance seem to be more to blame than the person, but who can have compassion for, or even patience with the delib- erate liar? He not only destroys himself, but he disturbs the faith we would otherwise have in others; and causes suspicion of those who do not deserve to be- come objects of it. Anannias little dreamed of the misery, suspicion, fraud and delusion he was introducing into the world when he listened to the Devil’s urging on that dark and stormy night. He dreamed less of the possibilities of the expansion and refinements of the invention which the Devil wished on him. Still less, that in spite of the alleged veneer, gild- ing and polish that subsequent civilization would add to the odious damned lie the crudeness and falseness of it would still remain its most conspic- uous characteristic. It speaks little for the advancement we are sup- «© made on the road to higher and nobler vement when we look over the liars and near liars of today. It is untrue that all men are liars, as some bookwriter or other maintains. For in spite of the number that lie when the truth would serve all concerned much better, the great majority are sticklers for truth and fact. If it were not so, this old world would be entangled in a hopeless mass of prevarication or lost in a chaos of misrepresentation. Along with the infliction of the accomplish- ments of Anannias came the assurance that though crushed to earth, beaten, maltreated and even as- sassinated, truth would rise again. It has been rising consistently ever since. And in this beau- tiful promise lives the hope of the world. Liars may obtain a temporary advantage, but they can never gain the popularity or the standing in any ity, not even in their future environment arrive, that is now. and always will be accorded the teller of plain unvarnished truth. Harmful or Beneficial, W hich? 2 QUESTION has arisen as to whether agita- tion and propaganda against an evil is harm- ful or beneficial? You have the effect in the situ- ation of two of the most distressing evils of the present—bootleg liquor and dope—to call them by their very proper names. Heaven knows there has been a wealth of agitation and propaganda with reference to each, and both. The evidence is before you every day of the week and we could only wish that accomplishment was more encouraging. As a result of the agitation of some ten years ago came the drastic Harrison narcotic law, but it did not stop the use of drugs as hoped and prom- ised. Those who have taken the pains to check up on the matter assert that the number of addicts has greatly increased with all the anti-drug agitation and publication. They say it is because of human curiosity to learn first hand if the stuff is as harny ful as represented. Everybody has read the dope exposures touch- ing Hollywood, and on top of the murders and other tragedies in that particular locality most, if not all attributable to dope, came the death of Wallace Reid, acknowledged to be the direct re- sult of the use of drugs. The whole question becomes pertinent at the time by reason of the fact that Dorothy Daven- port, the widow of the late screen star, contem- plates becoming the leading figure in a “great dope picture,” to carry a message to the world and drug terror. which it cer: arouse the public to the perils of the Aside from drawing big audiences, tainly will do, it may and may not be a good thing to bring to the further notice of the public. It may be recalled, and those’ who speak advised- ly on the subject do recall, a series of “dope pic- tures,” produced some years back during the pre- vious agitation. They were run and attracted large audiences. And then it is said hundreds went out and hunted up some underworld vendor to secure a test of the stuff that created the havoc in the pictures, Possibly the agitation and the publicity in these two evils have worked in the wrong way, to in- crease their use rather than to suppress it. We don’t know, but we do know that there is far too much of both bootleg liquor and dope used for the good of humanity. So as Se False Economy. [HE National Archives building is dead, so far as the present congress is concerned. For alt this congress will do about it, the most precious possessions of the government, its historic docn- ments, its records, its priceless papers, its patents, its great files, may rot or burn. Scattered throughout the earth, in our consu- lates and embassies, exists a vast amount of su- premely important Americana which ‘is now, at this moment, in the process of rotting, of being burned, when consulates are moved. No other gov- ernment in the world, of any size or importance, but has an archives building, no other government of any size or importance but conserves its historic papers, its correspondence between its great men and the rules of other countries, its records. It remains for us, youngest of the great coun- trie3, richest of all countries, to house our priceless records all over the world, instead of in Washing- | ton, and to keep what we do keep in Washington, ‘largely in rented buildings, fire-traps, basements, | wooden structures, anywhere, everywhere, rather than spend a couple of million dollars, needed to j house them properly, safely, wisely, permanently. This is not only false economy, it is crime. We are all directly concerned. This is our coun- try. If our concern with our country is merely to see that we support the least possible expensive government, that we may pay the least possible taxes, then this failure to provide oursclves with a safe and fireproof depository for that which is ours is understandable. But if we glory in our coun- try’s history, if we believe that her records are a/ priceless heritage to those Americans who will once build on the foundation we lay, not rest contented with this supine eall for “economy” which risks by fire and wat and vermin and carelessness, letters, documents, books and records of such vital importance that | then we can| elding to a not all our wealth can replace them if they are lost. So ee gee The Cost of It. B CK in the simpler days, before the curse of high cost, and the European disturbance, hu-} man unrest and the struggle for the unattainable all cz disturbing factors to the peace and | well-being of the world, it said that two could | yy as one. This was applied as an urge or inducement to the backward gentleman contemplating matrimony. In nine cases out of every ten the argument was effective, particular- ly where the affections were firmly fixed and the desire and nerve were not Jacking. That many a good man and true lived to discover the fallacy of any such statement, is neither here nor there, it is purely incidental. The dispelling of just one more illusion, along with others, when it comes to facing the stern realities and responsibil- ities in life's experience. The fact that two cannot exist as cheaply as one has nothing whatever to do with or has no bearing on the other situation, that it costs more than double to live the double life. Yes, much more than double. The financial item is infinitesimally smaller than the moral one, whatever it may mount to, before the end comes. And the end always comes. Usually with tragedy, leaving not alone unmasked faithlessness but, dis- grace, humiliation and sorrow in its wake, visited upon the innocent and defenseless. With the rising and setting of every sun come the disclosures of the high cost of double life. It} is written in the public prints for all to read. For all to take warning from the sordid and tawdry details. Returning to the old illusion, which at worst is.only a harmless pleasantry, an enthusiastic en- couragement to go forward to the highest duty of life; whatever the cost of keeping two, but keeping them in harmony, from the beginning to the end, is inconsequential when compared with the cost of keeping two separately and attempting to pay the guilty score. Why Soak ’Em? UST WHY? No one knows; and not even the ponderous mind of the justly famous Philadel- phia lawyer can so much as evolve a theory. Yet the fact stands out in bold relief every- where in the public view, that what we call poli- ticians, well-meaning, may be, and semi-intelligent, possibly, are always ready to soak a corporation, whether it needs it or mer . It matters little whether it is a bank, a mine, a smelter, a refinery, an oil well, a railroad or a utility. The rule, is, dropping into the expressive Latin—soc et tuum. For there is no other understandable reason. For May be they do it to spite the nose on their face. if they know anything, if they know the way in out of the rain, they must know that next to labor, taxes are the largest fixed charge in the basis of rate making. We have one- western railroad in mind and it! makes a good illustration of the point. Taxes on the operating property of this railroad in 1916 | were $087.178.84; taxes in 1921 were $1,187,345.22. Who does our friend Soc Et Tuum suppose pays this tax? If he possessed n thinking apparatus in his head or clsewhere in his system he would know mighty well and mig clearly. Is it not the producer in the first place, and then the consumer? Certainly, all the school boys in the fifth and sixth grades know that. | | So, when the legislatures set about soaking cor- porations they are soaking the farmer, the merch- ant, and the ultimate consumer in whatever way he may come in contact, with high freights, high | utility rates, and the high cost of everything soaked. Tax corporations? Why certainly. Tax them justly and equitably. But don’t soak them just be- cause they are corporations. The individuals who form them are men and women like you and me and all the rest of us. They are just as honest and square as other folks. Why punish them? And {why punish the whole people of a county or a Her Champion. Etiquette and Business Success Now, {t appears, an aspiring young man who wishes to succeed In bus!- ness must take a course in etiquette. After he has finished his daily dozen exercises, his study of correspondence courses on how to cultivate the mem- ory and how to attain a magnetic personality he must spend what re- mains of his evening poring over tomes on social usage. He must master the correct way to think, act, converse, write and. eat. Otherwise, he may make a great blun- cer such as spearing his olive with a fork or eating his biscuit Tortoni with the wrong implement and thereby spoil forever his chances in the busi- ness world, Or he may even go so as to murmur, “Pleased to meetchi upon being introduced, which alone, it seems, is enough to consign asman to a life of jgnominious failure and an old age of shame and penury. Nuwadays when whole sets and ser- {es and editions are devoted to laying down in precise and inexorable terms just what one should do under-all circumstances, the ambitious young man has years of study ahead of him. Some of the more timid, after debat- ing whether a black or white tie was Preferable with evening dress. have decided to abandon the field of busi- ness all together and take up farming Or missionary work. At least, the young wife of the credit manager of a corporation had become alarmed. For days she had been worrying for fear error that would mar his whole buy bread like it, most every town and tonight. state because their fool representative in a legis- lature or on some taxing board or other knows no better than to soak somebody or something? her George might make some so-! this full-fruited raisin bread. ) Just ’phoneand they’ll deliver it —all ready to surprise the family It comes from master bakers’ 64 “wer! mirpreo! 1 A COMIC VALENTIN AND ‘TUH DOA? Just SA'S TH? WoRD 0 fe. When he came home the other day with the news that his boss was going to Europe and had asked him up to his house to discuss some ur- gent affairs, her eleation immediate- ly gave way to grave concern. “Oh, George, you must be so care- ful,” she almost wept. “I was reading only yesterday thet a young man was discovered by his employer wearing @ Tuxedo when he should have been in full evening dress and was forced to resign on the spot. During the night the anxious wife awoke ber George from a sound slum- ber from time to time to caution him. “Dearest, remember not to cut up your salad with your knife, Use only your fork.” Or, ‘George, you mustn't forget to start using your silverware from the side nearest your plate and —By Fontaine Fox THATS E HE SENT YUH LIKE IT | same price. “Boss' all right. Good fel- | low, old boss {s, Told me I'd be office | manager inside of two months.” “Then you didn't make any mis- takes! You didn’t do anything the wrong way! she gasped with relief, don't know whether I did or he grinned cheerfully. “If I did, the Boss didn't realize it. I remember about the asparague, but | It lodked too limp to flip to my mouth | without losing some on the way, so I j Just ate it with my fork. And I no. ticed the boss ate his the same way.” “Did you George?” came a delight- ed exclamation. “I am so glad. Be- cause that is the correct way now. It used to be proper to eat it with one's fingers but that has been changed.” “Oh, it doesn't make much differ- ence what the old book says,” the contented George declaimed. “I no- not from the far side.” And, “Be care- ticed that the boss not only unfolded ul, heney, when you pick up your) napkin; there may be a hot roll Wrapped up in it. And don’t unfold it all the way.” To all of which the unresponsive George grunted, “Uh- huh.” B As he was leaving home the eve- ning, faultlessly attired in evening dress, she called out: ‘“When in doubt, dearest, remember ‘Ward McAllister’s dying words ‘Everything that can be eaten with a fork should be.’ " And then hurry- ing out after him, she amended: “Except asparague, George, that I beileve should be eaten with the fin- After uneasy hours spent in conjec- turing all the possible faux pas her George might make she greete: how did everything come out?” “Fine, fine,” he assured her with him! {on his return with an anxious, “Weil his napkin all the way, but he tucked it in his shirt front and he ate his ice with a spoon instead of a fork.” ao Dignity and Icy Pavement It has been snowing a little and the ice on the sidewalk is hidden, av that you cannot tell where it is safe to walk and where it is not. Here comes a very important man, walking rapidly, very erect, very proud of himself, shoulders far back, head farther back. He steps on the hid- den ice, all unaware of what he jy doing. Up go his heels and down comes ; his cerebellum, and there he is, flat as a turtle, lying there looking up at the stars in the wintry sky and talk- ing and talking as if he had a good —when you can ready baked?‘ OUNT the raisins—at least eight big, plump, tender fruit-meats to ‘Taste it—set how the raisin fla- vor permeates the bread. No need to bake at home when we've arranged with bakers in al- ¢ slice. it’s made wi city to bake and cookies. | prodigious surprise. | has got loose. he wasn't going to get time enough|of any other letter in the alphabet to say them in. By and by he gets up. He to walk. |tuly. He is bent away and lean on it. begine| ‘That is about all. No’ man can He walks exceedingly care-|stand on a plece of ice with his legs over, | crossed and nothing to hang to, witb. }scrootched all up, and he walks stiffjout rueing it. And no man who i, leggedly, with little mincing steps, so that he is going about a mile and a half an hour and doesn't look as though he were going to get home for a week. He 1s scared now—scared half to death. He has left his pride back there in the dent in the sidewalk. Now he is humble. More than hum- his hat {s pushed back on his head and his forehead is all wrinkled and worried looking. Then the end. He does a buck and wing slap so fast that you can hardly see him do it. Whack! His leg has gone up and down and you never saw {t go. He looks down at it with Was that his leg that just went by his ear? But there is more. Other things to think about. His other leg, which caught on the dead center while the first one was off there on that trip, It seems to be going off to the eastward. But it should This is not his east leg; it is his west leg. He perceives that something must be done in a considerable hurry, and he decides upon a reorganization of forces. Ho takes his east leg and crosses {t over In front of himself and not be going off to the eastward. | standing that way can uncress either of his legs, with the idea of getting back to normalcy, without rueing it jmore than- he would have rued 16. | maining as he was in the first Pisce = | He stands for a while, until he |so ashamed that he cannot do it any |longer; then he takes away one ¢¢ | his legs and tries to put the other in ble; he is cringing. He steps as if he| the place where the first had been lwere afraid the walk wouldn't hold But it is a mistake, He recognizes |: | him and he waves his arms back and | 8 a mistake almost immediately. | forth at his sides like paddles, and tries, then, to put the first leg back He where he had taken it from. But | when his first leg gets to that place, |i finds the second leg there already , Whereupon each of those legs goes away and leaves the place to the | other one, and the man Is thus left | without any legs at all, and his head |has to come down and support him |instead, and does, and gets consider. ably knicked in doing {t. Then that man gets up so mad that he can't see his hand in front of his nose, and goes hippering off dow: the street, lickety-toot, and never |slips an inch, as long as he is in sight, ‘The lesson ts this: When you start |to walk across a strip of Ice, bear two things in mind: First, to lean forward and not backward, and | second, to walk with a natural strids and not with a shortened, mincing one. Follow these two rules ant there ts some slight chance thet you | will get across that ice without lets it go westward. He now looks like the ‘letter X with an O on top of it and two capital I's slashing| _ z, around in the air trying to grab ho!d! 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