Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. Che Caspet Daily Cribunc Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building ee Entered et Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 BUSINESS TELEPHONES - Branch Telephone BARTON 15 and 16 Departments President and Editor CHARLES W. MEMBER TUE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclu entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives. aden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 St&ger Bidg., Chicago, “M.; 286 Fifth ew York City: Globe Bldg.. Boston, Mass., haron Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St. Copies of the Dally Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are weicome. 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Completion of the established Scen!e Route boute- vard as planned by the county commissioners to Gerden Creek Falls and return. Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for ‘THE SQUAREST CITY z =] z 5 ae ra z IN THE SQUAREST STATE Speaking of 1924 QFECULATION as to presidential candidates, in advance of the season of announcement, is a favorite form of American sport. And just now the wise, as well as the wild, psycoanalyzers are busy with Mr. Harding, having fairly well ex- hausted subjects in the opposition party. Senator Watson of Indiana, but recently in- formed the senate that Mr. Harding not only would be a candidiate, but would be renominated and re- elected. The senator may be correct in his state- ment of fact as to Mr. Harding’s candidacy, pro- vided he makes the announcement with full auth- ority to speak from the president; but his prophecy of nomination and particularly of election this far fin advance of the actual occurrences is no more to be taken seriously than the mere wish or guess ef thousands of others. As to the senator's first prophecy, nomination, this is quite easy of fulfillment if deemed advis- able, and as a guess is not a bad one regardless of the intervening time and all the circumstances likely to be presented during it. An incumbent ident can always renominate himself or have is friends do it for him. The machinery operated by federal office holders joined with state ma- chines and other delegate securing apparatus, backed by friendly newspapers can encompass the result of renomination without great effort. Granting the forecast of nomination as having come to pass. This is but a step in the program, and at that may be the wrong one. Within our own time Harrison and Taft were renominated, by similar methods. They were both by far the abler men in comparison with their opponents, but they were defeated at the election. The methods of nomination were largely to blame. In both in- stances the Republican party had wandered so far away from what a Republican national convention was originally designed to be that the party was rebuked by its own members and the candidates suffered the humiliation of defeat. So, while it is comparatively easy to renomina’ ® president it is not always the wise political thing to do. ‘When Warren Harding came to the presidency by an unusual endorsement of the people of the country, it was not because of Warren Harding, personally, it was because of the abject failure of the ratic party in ils eight years of rule. The people understood and were ready to rebuke anything and everything wearing a Democratic label. In considering Mr. Harding as his own successor the landslide in his favor in 1920 may as well be forgotten, as all landslides should be for- gotten. They spell nothing beyond the one elec-| tion. Confronting Mr. Harding on March 4, 1921, was] a situation never parelleled-in our history from point of magnitude in ,reconstructio The prob-| lems after the Revolution and the Civil war were} simple in comparison. The government was in an| utter state of disorganization, due in a measure to the unfortunate illness of President Wilson. Pub lic expenditures were running into the millions daily, the business of the country was chaotic, the Democratic congress had passed much unwise leg islation; and absolutely no preparation had been made to transform the nation from a war to a peace basis. The people realized the dangers and| at the first opportunity they had for expressing their wishes they gave their confidence to Mr. te| every phase of its turmoil and intrigue. We have | lc has fulfilled every promise made in his behalf. | | He has within the first half of his term secured | ;the major portion of the legislation desired to place the affairs of government and of business on proper bases. He has reduced. federal taxation passed a protective tariff act, reduced the army and navy and placed the country on\a peace basis, restored the flag in the respect of the world, con- summated treaties that will remove cause for war and maintain peace in the Far East and in South and Central America, established an American pol- icy in foreign affairs and has done much in domes- tic matters to bring contentment to the people. It ‘has not all been accomplished because time is a |large factor in restoration of better conditions. But as has been said the president has done his part honestly and fearlessly. May be not brill-; iantly and with picturesqueness and theatricals, still substantial things have been accomplished. Mr. Harding has every right, upon the record he; has made to consult his countrymen as to their| wishes with reference to his further candidacy.) Che Casper Daily Cribune Neighborhood News. And if he and his friends and supporters have| the excellent sense to abide by the wishes of the people, and avoid the usual tactics of an admin-| istration in power, there is nothing to fear on his’ part either in the support or the confidence of} the people. H The people are still thinking well of Harding, and his honesty of purpose. They have forgiven | anything and everything real or imaginary in con- nection with his nomination and the circumstances surrounding it. They have set these things down | to the profits and losses of the political system under which we operate. to be called upon to go through it again. | Therefore, the setting up exercises, common in} previous years, in pre-convention periods, had bet-} ter be dispensed with, and federal office holders barred from delegateships in the 1924 convention. | Let the Republican party make the nomination in| ‘its own way. If the Republican party does not| want) Mr. Harding and believes he cannot: be,| elected upon the record he has made, let the party select a better man who can be elected, and as- | sume the responsibility, instead -of the politicians who raise heaven and earth to secure seats and yotes in the convention. At this time it looks like party government, par- ty methods and party behavior will have consider. able to do with the matter; and that whether the platform presented by the party eschews Europe and devotes its full attention to domestic welfare and the happiness and prosperity of our own people. These are the things that will have more to do with the presidential election in 1924 than the mere matter of picking the man to uphold such policies. A Cold Camp Fire. HEN Justice Clark resigned from the highest court of the land to devote his talents to the had particularly in mind the League of Nations. Tf it was the hope of the political party to which he belonged to provide in him a candidate for the presidency in 1924 who could lead the party back to power upon the League issue, that hope has van- ished. For all of Justice Clark’s efforts in the di- rection he chose have been received with a marked coldness and a total lack of enthusiasm. The further developments in Europe, the failure after failure of League conventions to function, the actual falling apart of the League structure at every test, the continuation of war in Europe, the final invasion of Germany by the French to com- pel the very things promised in the Treaty of Ver- sailles and the League Covenant, and the fulfill- ment of all and singular the prophesies forecast in the American senate’s refusal to ratify, have placed the League of Nations so deep in the discard of human documents as to shake the faith of men of greater strength of mind than Justice Clark. The moving events of the world have practically left Justice Clark without a cause to advocate. And while the march of time has done this thing to the Justice, it has brushed him aside as a pres- idential possibility and removed the League of Na- tions as a possible issue in 1924, or a vehicle by which any candidate might ride to power. Considering other faithful adherents of the League idea, James M. Cox has and is still stand- ing firm for the same dead issue. While the mental inferior of Justice Clark, still he is an up- standing and oytstanding leaguer, and in many res 's a better representative of Democratic habits of thought than is the Justice. Which of the two gentlemen is the most promis- ing exponent of the exploded Wilson idealistic school of international philosophy matters but little, since the school itself has blown up. Domestic questions will furnish the issues upon which the contest of 1924 will be waged and the best exponent of them will be the successful can- didate in that year. And the party directing its course to conform to the favorable winds of such an appealing policy cannot avoid the good fortune that will come to it. The American people are weary of Europe and a country and interests of our own to look after. We are not Europe’s keeper and do not aspire to be. Her affairs and her troubles are and should be only incidental to us, not paramount as some mighty poor Americans would have it. Europe will not be good, not even helpful to herself. The Amer- ican policy, under the circumstances, is to let her wallow in the bed she has made for herself, per- forming such Christian and humane acts only as the exigencies seem to demand, but for the main part devoting our time and attention, our brains and wisdom to the welfare and prosperity of our own people and our own institutions. A Rest Is Needed JT IS HOPED that early indications prove cor rect in the realization, that congress will not in session from March 4 to next December. be With no disrespect to congress and stating a simple fact known to everybody except congress itself—the country is fed up on congress. The nation is tired and weary of it. With a nine months rest it is altogether likely that respect for the legislative branch of the government will be restored, an item sadly lacking at the present time. For the past few years congress has been in Harding. practically constant session. The war and the ex- This great show of public confidence was not traordinary demands of turning from war to peace misplaced for while the president had a tremend-| Prevented the customary recesses. ous burden placed upon him, he has done as well) To take a long rest and give the country a rest, or even better than any man.that could have been| and then take a fresh start is exactly what is selected in 1920. That he has not satisfied the needed to rearrange the viewpoint of both con- people or met the expectations of the people in all gress and people. sa hig hn ak Neue tee be ieee Any surplus supply of wind remaining on hand Se ool ee zie has dent the he could and at the close, will not spoil by being kept over. May- poset for any Inunan to do. be it will improve with age like some other things. But they do not want | Renaissance of Adam and Eve It's a long time since Adam and Eve have been given such striking publicity as has just been bestowed upon them by a Massachusetts clergy- man, who says he doesn't believe they ever existed. The last previous bout advancement of the things in which he believed, he; of free advertising enjoyed by our \First Parents occurred when Mark Twain published what he said was Eve's diary, also extracts from that of Adam. Perhaps the best press agent they ever had was Charles Darwin, who made everybody talk. about them by the simple process of omitting them There were monkeys galore in that exciting tale, but no Adam end-ho Eve, and their absence made much more of a stir than, for instance, Eve's losing her diamonds, or Adam’s being invited to make an address from somebody's pulpit, or any other pub- Ueity stunt you can imagine. And the more the Darwinians searched for the “Missing Link” the more our First Parents loomed up in the public eye. One of the curiosities of literature relating to that period of storm and stress is an account by Mark Twain —himself one of the most pers: press agents our First Parents ever had—of a movement that he origt- nated toward the erection of a monu- ment to Adam. Mark Twain’ greatness as a prac: tical joker might even have over- shadowed his subsequent literary reputation fn the minds of many peo- ple if he had only succeeded in pull- ing off that stunt. And the thing went pretty far, for $25,000 was con- tributed toward it, and the claim of Adam to a monument in America came within an ace of being brought up in’ Congress. Mark Twain first broached the idea to the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira and somte of his friends, all of agitated over the impiety omission of Adam from the human family tree. “Then the unerpected happened,” he wrote in after years. “Two bank- ers cae forward and took hold of the matter, not for fun, not for senti- ment, but because they saw in the monument certain commercial advan- tages for the town. “The insane oddity of a monument set up in @ village to preserve a name that would outlast the hills and rocks would advertise Elmira to the ends of the earth—and draw custom. It ‘would be the only monument on the planet to Adam, and in the matter of interest and impressiveness could never have a rival until somebody should set up a monument to the Milky Way.” ‘The unterrified humorist went on to relate that plans were submitted, some of them from Paris. Early in the game, when it was only a joke in Mark's mind, he had penned a flam- buoyant petition to Congress begging the Government to erect a monument to Adam “as a testimony of the grati- tude of the great republic to the father ‘of the human race and as a token of her loyalty to him in this dark hour of his humilation.” This address he forwarded to a congreasman, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, who said he would present it to Con- gress. But he never did and the origi- nator of the joke concluded that the General, on reading the document more carefully, feared that its face- tious character might be etected. It was many years afterward that Mark Twain showed his intuitive grasp of Garden of Eden problems by writing the exracts from Adam's “Monday. ew creature with the long hair {s a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like this.’ I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals... . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. ... We? Where did get that word? —I remember now—the new creature uses it.” en ecicuepsiintinrans Haireut 40c — Becklinger Shop, basement. Barber PooR obn Henry Peck’s wire. MAKES HIM PUSH SHE FLIVVER our oF THE GARAGE AND HALF WAY DOWN THe BhOCK BEFORE HA 1S ALLOWED To START UP THAT OLD ENGINE IF THE BABY iS AShEEP ON “THE PoRcH. More German Lies “About this time” as the weather prediction in the old almanac used to say, look out for German propa- ganda,” notes the Boston Transcript. “That entry might indeed be mado on any and every date in the calendar. It is particularly timely whenever of nations. For Rice Pudding—Use RED CROSS EVAPORATED MILK Its pure, convenient, economical TRUCK CHASSIS New Price The Ford One-Ton Truck Chassis has proved its ability to reduce transportation costs ‘in practically every line of business where there is a hauling problem. It is eco- nomical, efficient, dependable. 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BOYLE Authorized Agent Ford and Lincoln Cars 125 to 137 North Center Phone 9 S| RED CROs —By Fontaine Fox is any pressure is being exerted upon Germany to compel her to fulfill her obligations and to observe the laws “We have already had a number of samples of manufactured propaganda in relation to the French occupation of the Ruhr region, intended to make it appear to the world that France is guilty of oppression accompanied with THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1923. atrocities. day a story to the effect that French army officers were flogging women telegraph operators with horsewhips, in driving them out of their offices, and of course another that France was sending a horde of uncivilized negro troops into the Ruhr. “We wonder how many times and how long German propagandists, in Europe or in America, suppose they can fool the intelligent public. At the very beginning of the World war they tried it, the German Emperor him- self putting forth the statement that the French had begun the war with a hostile airship invasion of German territory and attack upon German towns; a statement which thy author!- tles of the towns in question after- ward officially admitted to have bean false and entirely groundless. “In mid-war they tried it again, with the sworn testimony of an eye- | witness that he had seen guns mount- jed on the Lusitania just before she | began her last voyage. But later the | wretched miscreant admitted that he had perjured himself and that his story was sheer invention. | “Immediately after the war a storm of abominable stories was started about the “horrors of the Rhine.” We were told that the French had sent to German towns and cities | hordes of savage and even canni- bMistic negroes from the jungles of Africa, who were daily committing nameless outrages upon German wo- | men and girls. This propaganda was Presented in ‘newspaper articles, speeches at pubfic mass-meetings, and even moving picture films. But it was from beginning to end a pack | of lies; most of the time when the storm was raging there being not one negro soldier within a hundred miles | of the German frontier, and the “out: rages" being ninety-nine per cent sheer invention. “It was perfectly consistent with that mendacious record that as soon as France took practical measures for compelling Germany to quit welshing and to meet her obligations another torrent that of falsehoods MASONS MEAN MORE MILEAGE Wyo. Compression Tube & Tire Co. . 426 E,2nd Phone 1125M D. D., HIS GREAT Thus, there was the other, should be unloosened, about negro troops in the Ruhr, and French offi. cers flogging German wonien. The only strange thing about it is tha: Germans, and German sympathizers in America, should be so stupid ag +> expect their lies to be believed. “Nearly twenty centuries ago Caesar, who had much personal ex. perience with them, characterized tho Germans of his day as notoriously untruthful. In their public and goy- / ernmental capacities, they seem te,’ have changed little ulnce Caesar's time.” ——____ STAGE TO @ Starting Monday. February 12, there will be a seven-passenger car leave the Henning hotel Glenrock 1 for and the tank farm. The car will eave at 9 o'clock In the morning. For further information telephone 540-M. Lou Groves, driver. postienitc hd Bisbee Australia is the only country in the world ‘where cane sugar is raise¢ wholly by white labor. SEEDS —the farmer’s surest way to a profitable crop. Ask for our seed book— free. Te Rocny Sap & MounTan B2S-iSTSt DENVER. CAN YOU SEE as well as you should? Is your child handi- capped in school because of weak eyes? 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