Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1923, Page 16

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A paper will be Ce- Make it your duty Member of the / Kick If You Domt 1N THE UNION IN THE SQUAREST STATE An Appeal We Cannot Ignore WVRETHER its founders realized it or not at the time, whether their vision contemplated the vital needs of the future to the extent that the or- ganization has been aad is now useful to the world are questions we need not pause to consider. The Young Women’s Christian association has more than vindicated its existence and right to flourish in a world that has need of it. Had it been designed for no other purpose than! to direct womankind in the transition from a shel- tered and protected status that had marked her ex- istence for generations, to an equality with man with all the constitutional rights, privileges and responsibilities of citizenship before the law, the organization has been fully justified. So perfectly fitted for this need was it that all elso may be forgotten, if its good works in other directions are too burdensome to recount. What the Y. M. C. A. has done for the manhood of the nation, the Y. W. womanhood, only’ with greater difficulty. The old sheltered home of peace and security, and the cramptd hall room quarters in the great city with its dange: and temptations are two very different places, and two very different situations for a girl of almost any age. The Y. W. C. A. has undertaken to supply the home and the insurance of the home and its moral safeguards, insofar as it is possible to do so in the situation. There is no need to ask the father, mother or the girl herself of her trust and faith in the Y. W. C. A. Its reputation is too well established. Its rec- ord is too widely known and respected. We have the organization in Casper. It has had a struggle to exist and a harder struggle to ex- tend its work to its greatest usefulness. It is appreciated, of course. More by those coming into Casper than those whose homes are here. The things it does and the things it has done are not much in the public prints. They are useful things and human things , and necessary things and Christian things over which we would all complain if they were not done. Details like these are not us- ually exciting or appealing from a news stand- point. In the basement of the SmithTurner building the Y. W. has a plant to do only part of its work. A headquarters, a cafeteria, reading, music and sitting rooms. There is no dormitory but there is a list of rooming and boarding houses carefully in- vestigated and recommended that fills the needs of applicants. It would be much nicer and the work could be much more thorough if the Y had a complete plant of its own. This however is in the future. Present need is operating expenses for the work jt is undertaking to accomplish. There is no other source than the general public. Last year’s contributions fell short of the estimate by a thousand dollars. Still the work was carried on. This year the budget to be provided requires at least seven thousand dollars, and this amount is asked in the form of donations and subscriptions of Casper citizens. A drive for which will be in- stituted Tuesday. No difference how hard you have been rubbed heretofore by subscriptions for public benefit this is a cause t cannot be neglected nor disregarded. It is a Christian cause that has an appeal of ever; father and mother in the city. The good work can not languish for lack of mone It must be cared for even at the t of-personal sacrifice. It must be sustained, because it is good. aig Means Many Things ID YOU ever hear of a person who could sus- tain an argument against the building of a railroad, any time, any place and between any two points? If you did you know something no one else ever heard about. And when it comes to building a railroad north and south through the central portion of Wyoming through a rich country where railroads do not now reach nobody but a foolish person would think setting up an argument against the advisabil and desirability of constructing it. The benefits to Casper would be manifold. It would bring a new market territory for our prod ucts and goods, which we do not now have, right to our front door. It would have a great influence on lowering freight rates, which we all agree are at present too high It would inerease the value of property owned by the people. It would add to the tax rolls of the county a large lot of new property and thus in crease county revenues. It would provide labor an opportunity to’ earn. v ld tion therefore pep and ir d i " traff ilwa it would bring more capital for business and for development. It public would mean enlargement ind extension of facilities yuld wean the building of inany Another railroad is a public need. The terri-| | projected is all tributary to, Casper, What it all really means to Casper in the form of wealth alone! | is sufficient to set our people enthusiastically back | of the prdposition. Bound to Take a Crack [ OCTOR Royal 8, Copeland, the new Democratic! senator from New York who has been some kind of a health doctor down in that metropolis | and extremely fond of newspaper space, will take his seat in the senate on March fourth in place of |Senator Calder. The doctor can scarcely wait, so anxious is he, according to his own statement, to/ | take a crack at Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican | leader of that body. | If ,taking a crack at Henry Lodge, represents the | sole ambition of the doctor in going to the senate, |then we wish him joy, for Henry has been there | some time and has had many cracks taken at him, | and some of them by cracksmen far and away su | periors in the art to anything the doctor will be able to demonstrate. ‘ { The doctor will doubtless take his crack, those | who know him best, expect nothing less to occur. | | But there will be two cracks taken, and the one} {the doctor receives will be the most memorable | delivered in that body in moons without num@er.! The doctor will have no further interest in cracks and subsequent proceedings will occupy his atten- | tion no more for some time. Living in Manhattan for a long time one forgets «bout Nahant, Miss., and what comes from there, but se long as the doctor insists on pursuing the course he has marked out :nd widely announced, there is no use offering advice. Better would it be for the foolish doctor to go out and hire a good active mule to kick him to death than to take what. he is about to receive. Opposing Vital Reform I EFENDERS of states’ rights have rushed for- ward to oppose the proposed constitutional amendment designed to end the issuance of tax free securities. It was to be expected that the pro- posal would antoganize the spokesmen of local goy- ernmental bodies which now enjoy the privilege of tax exemption. It is not even certain that the ad- | ministration can mobilize enough strength in con- | gress to assure the passage of the resolution. A strong case against the issuance of tax-ex- empt bonds was made by Secretary Mellon. In his | annual report he asserted that “the most outstand: | | ing avenue of escape from the surtax exists in the |form of tax-exempt securities—the effect of the exemption is to provide a perfect means of escape | from federal surtaxes, which is, naturally most valuable to the wealthiest investor, and especially; fore, free to convert his investments into tax-ex-| empt securities and thus avoid paying the income | tax.” As the chief fiscal otficer of the nation, Secre- | tary Mellon has professional interest in the loss | of taxes. In the debate in congress, estimates were | quoted indicating that the national loss in taxes ;}may be somewhere between $120,000,000 and $300,- 000,000 a year. From the treasury standpoint this is serious enough to warrant a. constitutional amendment. There are, furthermore, still other) | considerations not less weighty. . Speaking Plain Truth {Ps NCREASING American tendency'is to write our prejudices upon our statute books, and to turn personal preferences, if we can, into law, We are | jeopardizing our ancient freedom more and more seriously. Legislatures and even the congress can | be momentarily frightened into doing almost any- thing. This is the unclean spirit of coercion, and it {ought to be exorcised. Organized fanaticism whether it make the law, or break it, is the enemy. Artistic and literary censorship is at once a joke, an imposition and a nuisance. Propaganda of many sorts is at work all the time, It may be that as the socialistic state is built up without acknowl- edging its origin “liberty” will become a great con- geries of prohibitions, but either the majority wants restrictions upon its liberty or isn’t clever and brave enough it resist ‘them. Action at the polls is needed, not lamentation about the imagin- ary throttling of fres speech and about the triumph of fanatics. Let us either smash zealotry or stop whining about it. | ‘To Serve Shippers NTERSTATE commerce decision for unification of control of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific lines of railway seems to be a victory for the shippers of the Pacific coast states. « The three’ great railroad syst¢ms o? the coast are to remain in the hands of the railroad men who un- | derstand western needs, and the’ Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Santa Fe are to be let alone. They are the biggest and most valuable railroad | properties in our country and they are by the rec- ords the best managed and most successful rail- roads in the world and operating in compliance with laws. The decision demonstrates the value and power |of the transportation act of 1920 to protect the | public interests, by preventing disruption of trans- portation ‘machinery and establishing equitable shipping relations. To have torn the Central Pacific to pieces and |to have left parts of it without terminal facilities and to have cut the Southern Pacific to pieces would have been a public calamity for large sec- tions of the west. = —o— “The Waste Places HE LEGISLATURES of five great western | states as large as all Europe are ratifying the | Colorado river program. Irrigation programs covering as large a territory 1 France in acres are to be carried into op eration. Six million units of water and irrigated farms with homes for three million farmers are to be} provided by the plan. Water, light, heat, power, enormous production |from the soil and countless industries are among| direct results. The nation wildest river to be tamed, har. nessed and utilized and the greatest of our deserts reclaimed, | Certainly orderly government, science and en-} | Sineering are to make a reality of the Bible proph ecles that the arid regions shall become productive aud the deserts Llvom with roses, 8 is | Hquor. |of their campaign—"Don't do this— did do (and this alone brought them | Men with purpose and clean, Casper Sunday wWorning Cribune |The Human Zoo. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1923. D. Batchelor|"This Is a Falsehood, a EADERS. ‘Well, Readers, the only things that fs sertain in this world is “death and taxes,” all right (Franklin, I think), but there is some question as to which {s Preferible, at that! I am hearing a report around town the other day that recent sciantists dis cover that Ali Baba’s band, is com- posed of Forty Infernal Revenue Col- lectors in the old daze, and that this is how it gets itself such a Bad Namo! “THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT” Prohibition’s Lesson The pacifist might well reflect ea | Prohibition. For well over seventy) years the Prohibitionists labored to persuade us to give up drinking That was the negative period give it up.” Did they persuade the individual man and woman to give it ©. A. has done for the to one who is not engaged in business and is, there-| UP? They did not. (If there is any Ingering doubt about this the boot-| legger and the homebrewer will: d'spel it.) What the Prohibittonists success) was to launch a positive campaign which in the end prevented the public and open manufacture and importation of liquor. No one doubts, that their negative campaign, their educational campa'gn on the evils of Mquor, was useful for a time. But} it did not carry the day. It only gave them a position from which they could launch their positive, aggres- sive campaign for legal inhibition and enforcement. That alone brought them success, such as it is. Now, the modern pacifist Is much better off than the Prohibition!st ever was. The world today is far more persuaded of the evils of war than is even dry America of the evils’ of drink. The pacifist already | holds a position, a willing world be-| hind him, from wh'ch he can make! @ positive drive. And yet, taken as a whole, he busies himself with his! negative campaign and his greaty and powerful peace societies refuse to commit themselves to any positive plans of attack.—Sherman Miles. Poetic nase akira In the Algebra Class Algebra, instead of being a fascl- nating subject opening the way to all sorts of interesting knowledge otherwise unattainable, has become a dreary round punctuated with fool- ish questions dealing with the ability of two wholly uninteresting char- acters named A and B to complete in x days a plece of work of unspecified nature. An inspection of a few of the algebra texts commonly used in high schools does not reveal more than one problem out of every ten whi, bus any conceivable relation to any question likely to arise in the practical affairs of life. Such a con- dition seems almost incredible in view of the ease of devising problems not only practical but also interesting and giving answers which can be judged by their reasonableness— problems dealing with such- impor- tant matters as the handicapping of running races, the dimensions of en gines, the rating of racing yachts, the distance that “Babe” Ruth can bat a ball, and the speed shown by an end in “getting down under a kick." ‘The average schoolboy’s chief interests Ne in sport and elementary mechanics, and his interest in his school work will increase in direct proportion to the strength of the bond established between such work and those engrossing subjects,—Ed- ward P. Warner, Ahceobih od End of the Wor Pressing onward goes the throng When the working day is o'er; Young and old, man and maid, Capitalist—and poor. king Day Youth with ardor in his face, And Age grown patient, showing Hard earned knowledge—which sure Youth Is Impatient to be knowing— square Jaw, And maids with eyes a-gleam— So trudging go the toilers on, A living, vibrant stream. pressing hard e man with the dinner pall. So when the working day {s over And the toller's work is done, They go hurrying eager homeward As they face the setting sun Alma Leggett Lo: Futility Let me go back, if just for a day, Though it cost me a lifetime of pain; I have wandered—in dreams through the gray yesterday, To the Land of Beginning Again. I have scen faces long saddened with care Smile into my own as I pa: I have heard footsteps trip on un- aware, As light as the wind on the grass. Here are the faces alight with the gleam Of the soul untouched by earth's scars; But oh the dear sweetness that hides in a dream, ‘That ts bright with the radiance of stars. The kind words we'd whisper (the harsh ones unspoken) ‘To make some dear one rejoice; Perhaps a poor heart which with sorrow had broken Would heal eat the sound of our voice. And I wish; oh I wish, for the little one’s hands That had rested in mine for awhile; I wonder sometimes if the Lord un derstands How much we would give for a smile. Oh, for the Port of Beginning Again, That lies at the rainbow’s end; And I'd give all I had; plus a life- time of pain, To meet with that long absent friend. CLARA 8. McCULLEY. ene eee The Isolation Silliness There has lately been a prodigious recrudescence of’ clamor about the policy of “isolation,” whatever that may mean. It seems to mean that if we adhere to the counsel of Wash- ington and Jefferson, to refrain from permanent and entangling alliances with foreign, Powers, and maintain the implied “pledge of the Monroe Doctrine not to meddle in foreign affairs which are none of our busl- ness, we are dooming ourselves to the status of a hermit nation, some- thing like old-time Corea and Japan before Perry's day. It would really seem that the most elementary ac- quaintance with the subject shouid teach men that Washington and Jef. ferson commended and urged the largest possible degree of social, com- mercial and all. other non-political intercourse with all nations, and that the Monroe Doctrine abjures nothing in the world but military and political aggression. Of ‘course, there may, under the dispensations of an Inscru- table Providence, be those who im- agine that social and commercial intercourse {s impossible without po- litical meddlings and ‘entanglements; and, equally of course, there is al- ways room for more in the mortar with the wheat.—Willis F. Johnson. What Causes Stuttering? Records show that fully 4 per cent of all the boys and girls born in this country are left-handed from birth. An English scientist bellevss that the ratio is much higher in his country and around 10 percent. The doctors are able to explain the phy- sical condition of nerves which makes it natural for a child to use its left hand in preference to the othor, but as to the cause of this condition they can only say, Nature willed it co. However, a most curfous result 1. been discovered whero attempt. are made to force a left-handed child to use its right hand in stead. Not in all cases, to be sure, but as far as the| investigation has gone, @ surprisingly large number of cases have been found, where parents or teachers used severe measures to force the use of the right hand, in which the child be came @ slutterer or had an impedi ment of speech. These varied in de- gree from a few years to life, and from acute stuttering to an impedi- ment quite slight and hardly notice- able in ordinary conversation, but greatly aggravated under excitement. It has been interesting to me, when coming ‘in contact with people having mpeded speech, to ask them if they were originally left-handed, and forced at home and in school to| use the right hand. So far no one has been offended at such a personal question, but all have shown great interest. In the instance of the most acute case of stuttering I have ever known, and whom I met daily for sev- eral months, the man could scarcely make himself understood and would appear at times almost to choke in the effort to articul Today he can shoot and throw a ne with unusual accuracy with his left arm, and very poorly with his right: He told me that during six or seven years, as a child, he was severely thrashed al- most every day, both at home and in school, as his father was determined to “break him of the habit of using the wrong hand.” In-this case I judge both father and son possessed — thi same unyielding spirit—the son cer- tainty has it now, and thinks, acts, and works with the speed of a hair trigger—but the father evidently dominated with his parental authority and strength. Thus far nearly four out of five cases of impeded speech I have tn- vestigated, turn out to have been left- handed in childhood. Several left- handed persons, on whom no special effort was made to change, show no evidence of retarded utterance. Scientists declare that it ts much better not to try to force a left-hand- ed child to become right-handed; that, if he does not readily and easily accept the change to let nature have its way, and that in reversing nature, ® mental-nervous clash arises which apparently in the majority of cases shows its disapproval of such outside interference by a greater or less dis: turbance of the speaking function. In these days we are becoming more en- lightened and considerate ‘n such matters as compared with 30 or more years ago, but it Is pitiful to reflect on the thousands of cases, probably hundreds of thousands, where thoughtless, though well-meaning Parents stifled and killed the natura) inclination and individuality of pro- mising budding ambition, God-im- planted. H. H. Windsor. | When— When the world has quite forgotten, That small scrap of paper torn; ‘When it ceases to remember, Holds your word no more in scorn— When the world’ has ceased | weeping; | When Night knows no more the| tears Of the widows, mothers, orphans, Facing barren, hopeless years— When the bi--*ened towns and ctties, Phoentx-like, arise once more; When upon the ruined hearthstones Fires of home burn as of yore— When the fields, torn with your! shrapnel, Once again grow green and fair; When the scarred and battered hill. sides Forests once more proudly bear— When Louvain, the seat of learning,! Rheims, where ages had adored, To “Kultur” our culture’s martyrs, In their glory stand restored— When the sunken ships come safe’ Sailing into port again When the dead beneath the lilles Walk the world of living men— When the future generations Tell the horrors of “The Day" No more to thetr shuddering children, you need net pay! ! lle Mercler Montgomery Well, I am figuring some time ago that I will never Speak any more Pleces about Prohibition dr Income Taxes again and that I will cut out all other Bad Habits and will read no more Histories of the World War; out I am around the offace the other day and I backslide on tho propos!- tion at that! A guy must get some relief off of his mind when he is sore and Distressed about things, hey? Well, of course I do not remember it 1s so near time to make out a In- come Tax Return until, Low, it is sud- denly Late In February, and there I am running around the offace utter. ing Piercing Moans and trying to find out how I must make out a State In come Tax Blank, for another State where I once Work Hard to Support the Iniquitous Government of. I for- get the Federal Income Tax until the day it is due, as usua!, and I am now going to take a Memory Course by Correspondence School or Something and see can I remember when the County Income Tax, the City Income ‘Tax and the North Burlington Income Tax come due. And I will like some- body to tell me what reason there is if any why we do not have City Block Income Taxes in this country! ‘Well, the City Editor ts around and he sees me Fluttering About and he says Come out from Behind that Pro- fanity, he says, so that I can see you. What are you doing, he says—any work for the offace, and when I te’: him No he begins to give me a terri- ble bawling out! You never do any- thing around here you should, the City Ed, says, and you are always running around attending to your own Bizness on the Offace Time. We do not employ you to run Outside Jobs, he says. Why do you not do as I do, and get your Outside and Per sonal Work all done when you are away from the offace, and be ready te go to work \#en you come in here, ha seys. Be like I am always on the Job, and Beforehended with Every- tning, is his preposition. Well, I tel! h'm Do Not Botaxr sae any more, because I am having enough trouble now with this Proml- nent Republic making out a incume tax for it, and I have not got any time to argue with City Editors. Then the City Editor says Oh My Gawd, and rushes back into his own room; and presently as I am passing the door I notace he ts Feverish'y mak- ing out a Income Tex Blank Well, Reader, I think perhaps the Federal Government is tho best at asking you Impudent Questions which is none of anybody's bizuess, like how many of your children ae Half Wit- ted and who are you Living Witn last year; but at that I will back some Stave Tax Questions against Washing: ton any time at Riddles. Tha State, of course, has got the Advantage, be- qtuse they come around to Take You later in the year, and they can suy Hew Much is your Net Income cn your Federal Return, and Why—and all such things at that; and nobody can remember the exact Lies he tells last month, and I loso my Copy cf! the Federal Tax, lke most people, 1! suppose— so there I am in. bad both! waze, That is not my only trouble, either, ! Reader. I do not ever Know what ts! the difference between a Not Income} and a Grosser one; and besides the; Whole Falsehood, And Not Anything But a Falsehood BY JOHN HANDSHAKER (Alias Weed Dickinson.) Special Casper Correspondent. 4 - items on a Income Tax Blank make me Dizzy and I get Verticoso Veins after studying them for a few tminnits and begin to see Red and go Bolxhe- vikit Am I a Mathametician or a Puzzle Maker I will not be in tho Newspaper Bizness, believa me—and {t seems to me that any Sensib’s State should know this. Well, I can not make it out, ena Tr am about in Dispair when a guy tells me that there Is a baby just Opers ao Uttle offace down the street which derstands the Income ‘Tax pertect!y He 1s right in there now, this guy says, and he will explain it all Easily! Well, that sounds fine, and I get this bird's address and go right down there—and believe me, I should k w better! A guy has got to rely on him self in this world! I do not know whether this bird\ that tips me is a Practicable Joker o. not, but anyway the guy which {s go ing to do the explaining fs tn all right in the Head but his Face must have Carbon in, or Something! I will you my words he Stutters somethir Terrible, Reader! \ Well, he is not explaining {t more than a couple of hours, and has got as far as the point where he says I Deduhduhduhdyhduhduh, I Deduhduh- duhduh duct the Net Tuhtuhtuhtuh- tuhtuh tax from Something or other when I am talking that way myself, Reader! Now I do not mean to tn- sult the bird, as he is a very nice guy but he sounds just like he is Singin Popu'ar Songs he does not know tho words for, and I am very Nervous and can not help it if he gets me Go- ing that way too, Well, we are soon Missing on all Six, the both of us, and this guy {s giving me a Dog Bye trying to find out am I kidding him—which {s the last thing in the world from my Mind, Reader; because I will serta! ly never do it Intentional, but I jus can’t make my Tongue Behave! So presently I figure I better say something Tackful so as to smooth over his feelings and leave; so I tell him I am very much obliged but I have not got time to stay any longer, owing to this being Late in February already and I must surely get the blank in in a few Daze or the Horse and Foot Guards of the Infernal Rev- enue Offace will probably be down and put me in the Hoosegow, or Something. I do not see, at that, why he makes a Pass at me, as I am leaving; but I do not hold it against him, because he Misses Me, and he js probably of a very Nervous Temperament anyway, hey? Well, I go back to the offace and guess it out, and I put down at the bottom, This is A Falsehood, a Whole Falsehood, and Nothing but A False- hood, to the Best of My Ability, so Help Me! And I let it go at that. That fs all a guy can do anyway, hey, with a Income Tax? —_—— NOTICE The annual meeting of the Stock- holders of the Capitol Stock of the Wyo. Bldg. and Apartment Co. for ee preps: of election of the board of directors will be held in the of- fice of the company at 668 CY ave- nue, Monday, March 6, 1923, at 10 o'clock a, m, C. A. GOODNIGHT, Publish Feb: Sea ae and ‘ublis] ‘ebruary Bi an March 7, 1923. NOTICE To all ladies new panel pleating from New York. Come and see. 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