Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX fhe Casper Daily Cridune individual investors who hare into railroad stocks, put their savings That Cherry Tree Stunt. —By Fontaine Fox THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923. Che Casper Daily Cribune An Adjective Contest Issuec every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona) crawling around on his hands anq knees on the sidewalk. County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 ‘ESS TE EPHON Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments W. BARTON President and Editor MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ation of all news credited in this paper and 1 news published herein. Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Stéger Bidg., Chicago, Ti; 286 Fifth Av ie, New York City: Globe Biig., Boston. Mas ulte 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St.. Francisco, Cal. 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A complete and scientific zoning system for the city of Caspor A comprehensive municipal and school recreation park system, including swimming pools for the children of Casper. Completion of the established Scenic Route boute- planned by the county commissioners to Creek Falls and return. trona county and more high- ightrates for shippers of tho Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. IN THE SQUAREST STATE ‘Thank Heaven It’s Over [J XQUESTIONABLY the people of Wyoming re- joice at the adjournment of the seventeenth leg- islature. Not because of the danger of making an ass of itself for it did that very thing from the beginning. The real danger was that it might do some positive damage to a state that deserves no such treatment. It was without question the very worst legisla- ture in Wyoming history. The entire session, after the first two weeks, which were frittered away in doing nothing, were devoted to the most amateurish game of politics ever witnessed. The sessiom was marked by an obvious and open sparring for political advantage that would have brought the blush of shame to a bowery caucus in the interest of the Tammany ma- chine. The majority Republicans were not alone to be blamed, the Democratic governor and the members of his minority party kept up their end to the ex- tent of their ability. If the attempted crime of consolidating the in- surance department with the state treasury was committed in the name of the Republican party, merely to remove the appointment of the commis- sioner from the jurisdiction of the governor, then honest Republicans should repudiated the action. This sort of thing is too small a matter for self- respecting Republicans to engage in; and never could be ‘construed as a question of party pol- ities. Rather is it a matter of petty spite and a mark of poor sportsmanship. The insurance: department is a large and im- portant department and in point of revenue too vital to be made an adjunct to any other branch of the state’s business. Any plea of economy in the transfer is puerile and cannot stand. The source from which the majority drew its inspiration or accepted its orders to do the many and varied utterly foolish things it did, was not a fount of Republican political wisdom, that is certain. For never has the Republican party of Wyoming had greater cause to hang its head in shame than over the forty days spent in mussing up the Jaws of Wyoming by some of its members. And if the Demox fort or take any pride in the performance of their members, they arc casily satisfied and have a very peculinr notion of public sernece. The Tribune is not alone in this view of the leg- islature just closed, it is shared by numerous mem- bers nd hundreds of citizens who have expressed equally harsh opinions of the work done or at- tempted to be done. As has so frequently been said, the state and the people would be the gainer if the legislature did not come in session for a period of ten or a dozen years. And we are sure that anyone who took the pains and possessed the patience to follow the pro ceedings will readily agree. —- Rank Patermalism RAvrcar antilrailroad legislation proposed by ) Senator Brookhart of Iowa is intended to be the prelude to a government ownership campaign in 1924. The Brookhart bill would repeal the transporta- tion act of 1920, would reduce the valuation of the railroads of the United States from 19 to 12 billion dollars, or 7 billions less than value estab- lished by the interstate commerce commission; would abolish the railroad labor board, would place greater power in the hands of the interstate commerce commission, and would restore to states control over intrasta freight rates and set aside the rate making designed to prevent discrim- ination between intersta id intrastate rates. _ The bill would ruin financial institutions which hold large amounts of railroad securities and the ° developing the great state in which they all live. the, It would make it impossible for railroads to |Secure any new capital whatesoever, for the pur- chase of new equipment or construction of new |lines or terminals. It would wipe out railroad stock ‘and railroad stockholders. It would wipe out rail- road corporations and transportation service. Rail- way receiverships would be common, and should come, Senator Brookhart believes. Once in a while wild ones like LaFollette and Brookhart get into congress, by some mistaken no- tion of theimconstituents that men with such ideas represent their own theories of economics and the various other questions usually resolved into laws governing the situation. We are certain Senator Brookhart does not reflect the hard common sense of Towa farmers and manufacturers, nor the bank- ers, nor the owners of railroads, nor the inves- tors generally in industrial and transportation enterprises which have done such a great work in To send a man of the attainments and views of Mr. Brookhart as the successor, to William S. Ken- yon, is rather a reflection upon the splendid rec- ord of Iowa, for furnishing in the past men of such outstanding quality of statesmanship, as the long list of able men who have represented her in the national congress. oO Prosperity and Protection HIE RESULT of the doctrine of protection is seen in the figures of the country’s develop- ment. A review of the past will readily disclose whether or not the country has prospered finan- cially since the nation celebrated its centennial, so graphically portrayed in the Philadelphia expo- | sition. to that historic date: When the population was 38,000,000 in 1870 the wealth was $24,000,000,000 or $630 per individual. When the population ‘vas 50,000,000 in 1880 the | wealth wns $43,000,000,000 or $860 per individual. When the population was 62,000,000 in 1890 the wealth was $65,000,000,090 or $1.050 per individual. | When the population was 76,000,000 in 1900 the! wealth was $88,000,000,000, or $1,160 per individual.! When the population was 81,000,000 in 1904 the wealth was $107,000,000,000 or $1,320 per individual. “ When the population was 95,000,000 in 1912 the} wealth was $187,000,000,000 or $1,990 per individual.) The figures for 1922 are not available as yet, but if the same rate of progress is conceded during the 10 years from i912 our national wealth cannot be far from $400,000,000,000. This amount is 20 per cent less than the supposed inflation value was in 1920. In arriving at this conclusion inflation and deflation were taken into account, as was also the fact that our national income in 1912 was § 000,0000,000. If the average profit of industry in general is only 1215 per cent instead of a higher figure, and the income for 1922 is860,000,000,000, as economists assert it was, we will not be far afield in estimat- ing the national wealth as very close to $500,000,- 000,000, and that is what the census figures will show when they are finally compiled. In the publication entitled “The Things that are Caesar's” the wealth of the world from the begin- ning of time down to 1780, as a surplus of produc- ‘tion over consumption in all the thousands of years since time began, is given as approximately only $100,000,000,000. The wealth of the world today is probably one thousand billions of dollars. What is true about ;}some countries having fared badly and _ others worse, in order to fairly estimate their yalue to get this grand total, is not in any sense applicable to the United States. Our prograss though tem- porarily arrested at times, has been foundament- ally sound and consistently progressive and en- during. The reason for this economic adyancement was the form of tariff policy in effect. For more than 70 years with few exceptions a protective tariff jwas in force. Under its beneficial provisions ‘American labor industry and commerce enjoyed unrivaled conditions. as a result our citizenship is of a higher standard because of the opportunities our public institutions were able to offer. What has benefited our people socially has in no lesser de- gree benefited them economically, Disturbing the Dead jet how much of sincerity is there in all we, hear about the “sacredness of the grave” “and “respect for the dead” in view of operations new going forward in the Valley of the Kings? The reality and strength of feeling is unques- The census of 1870 is as near as we can get) sé Fine wea! Now ers Ger iT CUT UP So THAT Go iN THE FURNACE The Original, Hatchet Story The first life of George Washington was written by Rev. Mason Locke! Weems. He was born at Dumfries, | » in 1760, and died at Beaufort, . in 1825. He studied theoology in London, and became a minister of the Protestant Episcopal church. | For a number of years he was rector of Pohick church, which is. known as Truro Parish. This church is not far from Mount Vernon, the homie of Washington. Washington was one of his leading parishioners during his ministry at that place. Weems’ “Life of George Washing- ton” was published in Philadelphia in 1800, and for many.years it w: most popular biography of the noted General and President. It was one of the first books read by Abraham Lincoln. To Weems goes the credit of being the first person to put the cherry tree tradition into print. There. is ® statement in his history of Wash- ington that the cherry tree story, as it’ appears in his book, was written in the exact words of a woman. who was a relative of. Washington and who was familiar with many of the incidents of his youth. The cherry story, as written by ‘Weems, runs thusly: “When George was about six years old he was made the wealthy master of a hatchet, of which, lke most little boys, he was immoderately fond, and was constantly going about chopping everything that came in his way. One day, in the garden, where| he often amused himself chopping his mother’s peasticks, he unluckily tried the edge of his hatchet on the body of a beautiful young Engli cherry tree, which he barked terribly that I don’t believe the tree ever got the’ better of it. ‘The next morning the old gentle- man, finding out what had befallen his tree, which, by the way, was a great favorite, came into the house tionable when it comes from the relations and friends of the recently deceased or in the case of personages of importance who, while alive, were held in reverence or admiration by many people still alive. In other instances, except in countries like China, where ancestors are worshipped and are credited with power to punish the disturb- ance of their bones, graves are “desecrated” for any one of a hundred practical or financial rea- sons with no real opposition and with hardly a word said about it. Railways are not expected, or at any rate are not. compelled to go around old cemeteries when to do so is inconvenient or expensive, and there are few growing cities in which one or more ancient graveyards have not been built over and forgotten —or remembered only by a few sentamentalists, who want to be held particularly sensitive and delicate. And no protests were heard the other day when the grave of a sailor in Brooklyn was opened be- cause some people said, and other thought that it was just possible that in the coffin were somé smuggled gems. Archaeologists never have respected graves that were old erought to be interesting to them, and their “desecration” always has been much more thoroughgoing than that of other grave robbers. Yet archacologists as a class think very well of themselves and their claims to be’ gentle: men as well as scholars rarely have been disputed. ss o- ae The Public Pays HE BILL which the taxpayers have had to pay / as a result of federal control of the railroads | for twenty-six months is at last being totalled and jit will reach approximately $1,760,000,000. A last- ing monument to Mr. Wilson and his son-in-law | Mr. McAdoo. The country’s first experience with government operation of railroads has been extremely expen- sive for all the taxpayers. And yet there are those who are advocating a repetition of the experiment. Government ownership and operation of the rai roads would build up the greatest political ma ; chine the world ever heard of, at the expense of the shipping und traveling public and the tax- payer. Political management of the roads during 1917-| 20 should be enough for this generation at least. | rodent’s ‘lin other and with much warmth asked for the mischievous author, declaring at the same time that he would not have taken five guineas for the tree. “Nobody could tell him anything about it. Presently George and his hatchet made their appearance. : “George,” said his father, ‘do you know who Killed that beautiful little cherry tree yonder In the garden?’ “This was a tough question and George staggered under it for a mo-| ment, but quickly recovered himself,’ and looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the charm of all-conquering truth,| he bravely cried out. “"T can't tell a 1 I can't tell a If my lttle hatchet.’ “Run to my arms, my dearest boy,’ cried his father, in transports— ‘run to my arms. Glad am I, George, that you killed my tree, for you have paid me for it a thousandfold. Such ‘an act of heroism in my son is worth more to me than a thousand trees, though blossomed with their fruits of purest gold.’ pa; you know aid cut it with) Pittsburgh and Stogies When four old men in Pittsburgh die, it is said, their demise is going) to be mourned by others than the! bereaving families, Many Pittaburgh:| ers prominent in business and aivice life will be greatly discommoded. These four old men, all upward of 65, are engaged in rolling a certain form of “smoke” known as the rat tail. For the benefit of those who are un- familiar with the rat tall, which ts often confused with the stogie, it ts a long thin, hand wrapped roll of té | bacco, similar in appearance to the| fl, These four ancients are! sald to have been trying to teach their ‘art to younger men and women with- jout success. They maintain that oung fo'ks 1-1 not devote the time n@ patience, the co-ordination of brain and hand necessary in the man- ufacture this particular brand of, “smoke. |_ The lowly stogie, also indigenous to Pittsburgh, differs in waist girth and respects from the rat tall. Rat talls are seven for a dime and Some HEAT ANDO WE CAN HAVE IN THE 2? TF IT HAD BEEN PULLED DURING “THIS WINTER ‘oF No CoAL stogies are three for a nickel. But this is not why they are preferred. Rat: tails are tightly wrapped, and stogies are more loosely rolled. The tobacco also differs. Pittsburgh men have been known to smoke cigars when offered by a gen‘al host out of deference to his hospitality, but in most cases the cigar is declined or pocketed with a “Have one of these. I'll smoke my own, if you don’t mind.” Then a thin case, containing a half dozen odd brown smoke pencils is produced, and there are no hard feelings. The cigars are offered only to conform to the canons of society. When tiie first Connestoga wagons rumbled their way over the Alle- ghenies the Indians who lived on the site of Fort Duquesne traded with the ploneers the rough outlines of what came later to be developed as stog'es. The name Connestoga became cor- rupted to stogie. Stogies are manufactured elsewhere than in Pittsburgh, but that Is the heart of the great brown stogie belt. The lush fields of Lancaster county and surrounding counties grow the to- Daceo that is used in their manufac- ture. Tobacco from neighboring states algo contributes to thelr manu- facture. Ohloans have come to adopt the habits of their nelghboring state and to make stogies. Funk & Wagnalls calls a stogie “a coarse o!gar.”” That is thelr error. A stogie is a stogie, and a cigar is o cigar. Ask any Pittsburgh business man. He will grow peevish at such ignorance. A stogie is as different from a cigar as “drammer” is from Durlesque, or terrapin from ‘corned willy.” A stogie Is a mild, pleasant bunch of weeds, dried together and passed off as something to smoke. A rat tail is a rat tail and a stogie is a stogle, and further classificat‘on is unnecessary and tmpossible. The smoke of Pittsburgh is made by the consumption of these. All the mills In the world could not give Pitts- burgh her,peculiar atmospheric flavor. That is shy they call It the Smoky city, « THAT WAS A BULLY eid 5 Presidents Born in Winter Did you ever stop’ to think that "most of our Presidents ‘were born in| winter? The most auspicious time of | year for the birthdays of Presidents is between October 4 and April 28.| Only three Presidents out of the total | of twenty-eight have been born out- side that cool weather period, and two of those, John Quincy Adams and Benjamin Harrison, descended from Presiential families. If you were born in May or Jun and get to be President, you'll b doing something no one else ever managed to do. Taft was the only man not of a Presidential family who ever celebrated his birthday in May, June, July, August or September. He was born on September 15. The only two real summer Presidents were Benjamin Harrison, with a birthday August 20, and John Quincy Adams, who was a July 11 baby. Console yourself if you have a sum- mer birthday with the fact that more of the great poets have been born in May than in any other month and that great painters and explorers, writers of best sellers and kings are as plentiful among summer bables as among those ‘that breathed their first ; in frostier weather. a ——— Haircut 40c — Becklinger 1 Barber | Shop, basement. t —The farmer's an- swer to his usual question: “I won- der.” Ge Rocky Mountan Sep & = Oks I525- IST St DENVER. | WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY — it is a popular supposition that the highest form of the extemporaneous using of adjectives is achieved by a man when he happens upon a golf ball sitting in a railroad track, but this ts a fallacious supposition. The Righest form of temporaneous using of adjectives {5 achieved by a woman walkin; in which is displayed clothing. One day tho editor of a thesaurus took his wife into the shopping dis- trict. This man, who was a veritable walking dictionary, had a notion that he was pretty well up on the subject of words, phrases and clauses. But this’ man had never before been out shopping with his wife, and so he can more or less pardon such things. ee ae Presently they came to a shi . dow full of wax works. The 2a works were showing off wedding gowns, and there were some stunning creations in silic and wool crepes; soft faille, tricotine, Polret twill and pop Un, with darling full blouses drawn in with rubber bands at the waistline; and the minute this woman laid ey on those womenkins—what do you want to call them mannikins for?— she went right up in the alr like a balloon and remained there for some minutes. Why she should be, thus elevated by wedding gowns when she had been married 18 years and had no children to put any of them on if she bought one, except a coup!e of sons, is something you will have to figure out for yourself. She went up into the alr, and, ac- cording to the habit of women in lke circumstances, she began to ask her husband questions about the beauty ef each and every article in the win- dow. And each of her sentences em- braced an adjective which the parent of thesaurus, standing at her side, aid not any more know the meaning of than if he had been a little child — “Isn't that perfectly so-and-so?" the woman would call out, and then, bo. fore he had. time to pull himself ;.. gether and get his brain going again after that shock, she would sing out “Look! Look! Look! Isn't that abso. lutely, simply so-and-so?” and the poor man’s brain would give a crings inside of him and he would start i past. store windows/SPell of coughing so as to shut her up for a minute and give himself timo “ to catch up with her. It was pitiful the way the poor sou! went down in his own estimation tn about two minutes and a half, stand. ing here before that window while wife chucked her adjectives at hi: But at least it can be said of him. that he died-game. His wife finally pointed to the last gown in the win dow, a dainty thing in purple rep with splffy ttle brown pompoms strung around the girdle lke pop. corn on @ Christmas tree and breathed, “Oh, look at it! Oh, look a: it! Is that, or {s it not, forty times more so-and-so than anything ever laid your two eyes on?” The poor man spread his feet wide apart on the sidewalk, so as to re move all possible strain from tho muscles in the upper part of his body, and made one grand, final effort to save himself. “My dear," sald ho. looking at that gown, “it Is superb It is enchanting. It is sublime. It Is—it js bonny. It—it—is dapper. It lis jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim itiny, neat, spruce, smart find tricks It is—!t {s the most aesthetic hab! ment in all creation. It is—it Is | ” | It {sa darn sight more than that,” said the woman. “It is just plain spiffy.” And the man answered, “You win.” and shut his mouth. It seemed to him in the bitter moments that followed as if he never again should be able to look a thesaurus in the face without blushing clear to his Adam's app'e. you . When Baking Bread—Use RED CR EVAPORATED OSS MILK Its pure,convenient, economical ui Sold and recommended by all : UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Has signed an agreement with the Cooks and Waiters’ Local, No. 842, and is worthy of the patronage of organized labor and its friends. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Pres. Casper Trades Assembly. ‘JOHN T. M’ GARRY, Pres. Culinary Workers Local 842. ON READING | METERS Ye Alfalfa, Native, Wheat Grass, Prairie Hay, Straw, Oa’ Whe: DANCE THE BON DURREE CLUB Invites you, one and all, to attend their Novelty Dance. CONFETTI AND SERPENTINE DANCE Don’t miss this one if you care for a good time and enjoy good dancing. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Arkeon Dancing Academy Hay, Grain, Chicken and Rabbit Feed ley, Rye, Bran, Oyster Shell. One sack or Corn, Chop, rload. We you money on carloads of hay, and give you any kind you want. 313 MIDWEST AVE. CASPER STORAGE COMPANY TELEPHONE 63 Some people seem to think there is some- thing mysterious about a water, gas or elec- tric meter; that the reading of the dials is intelligible only to the employes of the utility company. There is nothing complicated or difficult about reading a meter. It isas simple as tell- ing time with a clock. If you don’t know how to read your meter we will be pleased to show you any time you care to call at the office and suggest that we show you. There are many interesting things to learn from a meter. One can tell how much water it requires for a bath; how much gas to cook a meal, or how much electrYcity it requires to do the family wash and iron it. Let us show you how to read your meter the next time you come in the office. Qe NATRONA POWER COMPANY ERD SRCEID Ta