Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1923, Page 6

Che Casper Daily Cribune Inmsueé every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice aa second class matter, November 22, 1916 BUSINESS TELEPHONES Branch Telephone Exchange C CHARLES W. BARTON MEMBER THD ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and aeo the local news published herein. Advertising Representa & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Avenue, New York Cit: Globe Bigg, Boston, 3 . Suite 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- fomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the , Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and rs are weicome. 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Completion of the established Scenic Route boute- vard as pl: by the county commissioners to Garden Creek Is and return. atrona county and more high- pal and school recreation swimming pools for the ‘htrates for shippers of tho nd more frequent train service for Pana iS —— ‘THE SQUAREST CITY IN THE UNION IN THE SQUAREST STATE Encourage, Not Hamper JT WOULD BE difficult to imagine one of our great western states without industries or to imagine what the people would do to encourage the establishment of them. This does not always enter the minds of legisla- tures and taxing bodies, when inventing new forms of taxation or regulation of our existing indus- trie: What would be the prosperity of our western states if it were made less difficult to invest money in payroll enterprises or less difficult to carry them on after they are established. Take the great western basic wageemploying industries like lumbering, mining, smelting, oil protfuction. With what do state and federal law- makers not undertake to hamper them? Why not reverse the attitude and allow the industries to flourish with as few obstacles and impediments thrown in their way as possible. Dependability of the Wheel Horse AuonG the final utterances of Uncle Joe Can- non, who has served his country a half cen- tury in congre: before taking his departure for his home at Danville, is found this: “Since I first came to congress, fifty years ago, there have been many changes, and great events have taken their places in the history of our coun- try and the world. One thing that impresses me as I look back over the years is how different things look in the light of time. “I am a confirmed optimist. I know we are moving forward all the time. But I have never been disturbed by being called a reactionary. It has been said that the American people are the most idealistic and the most practical people in the world, but sometimes their idealism runs very strong and is followed by stern practical demon- stration after they begin to realize the cost. “Idealism is an essential of civilization, but the professional idealists have their heads in the clouds and leave those who keep their feet on the ground to pay the freight. The great majority of us have to keep our feet on the ground and our thoughts more or less concentrated on the develop- ment of the materials that come from the ground and produce the wherewithal to develop idealism. This is as true of politics as it is of business and industry. “We talk about the leaders in congress and what they will do to restore normalcy, but leaders in congress are somewhat like the leaders in the old four-horse team. When I drove such a team many years ago I relied more on the wheel horses that wore heavy breeching and held back on the down grade, as well as pulled on the up grade.” si ee From John Adams’ Diary 2 DIARY of John Adams for November 1S, 1782 contains the following entry “You are afraid,’ says Mr. Oswald today, ‘of being made the tools of the powers of Europe. “Indeed I am,’ said I. ‘What powers,’ said he. ‘All of them,’ said I. It is obyious that all the powers of Europe will be continually maneuver- ing with us to work us into their rule or manda- tery plazis of power.” In the collection of letters written by John dams, the following written in 1809 is found: “Our form of government, inestimable as it is, ses us more than any other to the insidious in- trignes and pestilential influence of foreign na tions. othing but oud inflexible neutrality can preserve us. The public n tiations and secret mmtrigues of the English and French have been employed for centuries in every court and coun- try of Burope. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germ Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy Turkey for the last hundred yenrs. How m revolutions have been caused! | Wow many emperors and kings have fallen vietims to the alternate triumphs of parties, excited by iahmen or E'renchmeni And can woe expect to | Views stating the European problem would be | United States in maint: | widely circulated in the United States said the | territorial boundaries fis | tions whose boundaries were fixed by this treaty | to intervene in order to preserve the boundaries. j ed States to “do something to help escape the vigilant attention of politicians so ex- perienced, so keen sighted? If oe convince them that our attachment to neutrality is unchangeahle they will let us alone; but as Jong as a hope re- mains in either power of seducing us to in war on his side and against his enemy we shall be torn and convulsed by their maneuvers.” Times have not changed. Neither have the tac- tics of Euro) nations. In the last sentence aboye quoted had John Adams used the word “nro- paganda” instead of the word “maneuyer,” he couid not have more accurately described the situ- ation today. America and Americans should realize that the torrent of propaganda now flood- ing the country is not peculiar to the times, not something growing out of the war, that will pass away within a comparatively short period. As Adams stated, such methods are honored by cen- turies of practice in Europe. True, they never had the unusually happy mediums for their ex- pression in former generations that the cables, the newspapers, the syndicate writers, the highly paid platform and club speakers furnish them today— but they exhausted every device of propaganda known to their respective periods. _ Each European power today, quite as much as in Adams’ time, is trying to persuade America to engage in European affairs as its ally and finan- cier. Great Britain is bending every energy and exercising every art of propaganda to have the United States form an alliance with her in order to give her strength in her quarrels with the rest of Europe. She wants the United States to help solve the problems of Europe—in the way Creat Britain wants them solved. | Clemenceau came to this country asking the United States to join in righting affairs in Eu- rope by taking the side of France. Numerous German leaders have given out inter- solved if the United States were to notify the other European nations that Germany's position is right and Germany could count upon the backing of the! aining its position. Ex-Premier Nitti, of Italy, in a recent article duty of the United States is to go into Burope and tear up the Versailles treaty; that so long as the d by that treaty existed there would be war in Europe and that no power could wipe out these boundaries except the United States, On the other hand, every one of the small na- conceive it to be the duty of the United States Ifow would European nations have the United States do the thing which they believe it ought to do? They frankly state she should accomplish it by the exercise of force or by bribery—that is, by} buying results with promises of cancelled debts honestly due or issuance of new loans without ex-| pectation of their ever being paid. | The good advice of John Adams in 1809 is just as good and just as pertinent toda’ SESE. eta yee aed Still Purveying Bunk RECENT ADDRESS by Henry Morganthau a widely known Wilson Democrat and League) of Nations partisan, contained this statement: “If the United’ States had entered the League of Nations France would not be in the Ruhr today.” All European nations, with the exception of Germany are in the League of Nations. There- fore, My. Morganthau’s statement, if it means; anything, means that the United States would! have been able to accomplish what none of the| nations, or all of them together in the league were not able to accomplish. This checks it up to the United States. To say that had it been in the League of Nations, France would not now be in the Ruhr is to say that one of the following three things would have been done by the United States: (1) It would have guaranteed France the pay- ment of the indemnity she seeks from Germany. That is, the United States would have paid the indemnity itself by underwriting the German promise to pay. This would have necessitated raising money in this country by the issuance of bonds for which the American people would have been taxed and these bon or the money there- from, turned over to France in lieu of the money she was unable to collect from Germany. (2) France would have been guaranteed security from future attacks from Germany by a military alliance with the United States. This is what Pres- ident Wilson attempted to have done, going so far as to bring a treaty to that effect to this country and asking that it be ratified by the United States senate. (&) France would have been told by the United States that she had collected enough; that Ger many had paid alf that she could pay and ought to pay, and had France attempted to enter the Ruhr she would have been opposed by the military forces of the United States. These are the only three eventualities that could have kept France out of the Ruhr. Which one of these three solutions, if any, would the people of the United States stand for? The answer is ob- vious. They would have stood for none of them. Mr. Morganthau’s assertion is a sample of the silly talk that is going on continually. It is a sample of the vicious propaganda that is being circulated through the press and from the pulpit and platform; some of it shrewdly by those who haye full knowledge of its deception and mischiey- ous effect; some of it stupidly by those who, par- rot-like, repeat what some one else tells them with- our knowing what it means or what effect it will ave. Out of the flood of propaganda wu: ing the Unit- ‘urope” what concrete suggestion or plan has been offered other than ono which necessarily involves the employ- ment of our military and naval strength, the can- cellation of billions of dollars due this govern- ment and the loaning of billions more? Not any- thing. Yet either one or all three of these would mean the taxpayers of the United States shoulder- ing the financial burdens of Europe and maintain- ing at their expense sufficient military and naval forces to enforce the advice offered to Europe by this country. Talk about Europe needing our moral support is plain buncombe. Europe may need it, but Eu- rope does not want it. The plain truth is that repeatedly refused within the last two years En- rope has insultingly rejected our moral support. It has refused to give heed to our advice as to what should be done to correct the deplorable situation in which European countries find them- selves. What each European nation wants of this country is that we exercise our power to take the part of that nation in the perpetual embroilments that are going on in the Ruropean continent. There ean be no doubt of this. There is no rttempt upon the part of any European country to conceal the fact. Ak Went South's Manufacturing Increase URING the six years between 1914 and 20 manufactures in the south increased in value of output from $3,700,000,000 to $9,800,000,000, Mak- ing due allowance for difference in market prices, it is still evoident that the south has more than doubled the quantity of its manufactured products. No wonder the business men of the south are rap- idly coming around to the protective tariff view point. Che Casper Daily Cribune The Toonerville Trollev That Meets All the Trains. “iN 190% HET TR THe TRACKS Bur So THE SKIPPER Ee FELL ACRosT AoT “TOUCHIN? °EM PULLED THe RAILS, FROM UNDERNEATH AN? PuT ‘EM ON So Good THAT Manvadte Sreticate, Ine. ¥.¥ 13 LIVE NEWS from WYOMING Items and Articles About Men and Events Throughout the State Suicide of Banker GILLETTE—The city {s recovering from the shock of the suicide of Mark H. Shields, president of the Bank of Gillette. The only theory evolved by his friends for commis: sion of the rash act is worry over personal matters and ill health. That Shields intended to make a complete Job of it is evidenced by the fact that when he repaired to the country club near the city he left no word or letter of explanation, consumed a large Quantity of ether and then shot him- self through the head with a revol- ver. The sulclde todk place in the middle of the forenoon. and the body was not discovered until after 3 o'- clock im the afternoon. In addition to being president of the bank Shiels was mayor of Gillette and president and treasurer of the Peerless Coc! edmpany. The miners of the coal company went on strike last week, which was one cause of worry. Shelds was born in Johnson county 87 years ago, was tha son of Martin D., and Emma V. Shields the lattor the present wits of J. N. Churehell of Sheridan, He was twice married—the first wife and a grown daughter reside in Sheridan, The second wifo resided with him at Gillette. A brother, Hugh cashier of the bank. An examination of the bank's af- fairs bas been made since Shields’ suicide and found in good or¢er. The dank perfectly solvent and in no way involved by any act of the late presi- dent. Shields’ remains were taken to Sheridan for burial and the funeral occurreé yesterday, under the aus- pices of the Elks lodge, of which de- ceased was a member. Shields, is the To Improve Highway THERMOPOLIS—That portion of the highway between Thermopolis and Kirby, not already surfaced will be given the top Cressing this spring. The projected improvement has been surveyed and in the near future bids will bo asked. Tho road has been nearly impassable this past month eix miles will have to be surfaced Defore the road can be much used in the spring months. The traffic over this route from the mines to Thermopolis is very heayy and only a‘well surfaced highway, such as the state bullds will stand up. That Thermopolis loses a great deal of mino trade owing to the condition of the road is # known fact and the completing of this highway 1s badly needed. The commercial club fs do- ing all that can be done to influencé, the highway department to complete this road. Deaver Lights Up DEAVER—Blectric lights made their debut in Deaver Friday night, when the electricity was turned on in the homes and offices on Govern ment Row. On Monday night the street lights were turned on which ituminated everything within a block and the town assumed a citified air, Now the remainder of the population are anxiously awaiting favorable ac tion by the town board so they may | be supplied with the bright lights. | pe bh i sk 3) The sperm whale has a very long span of life. A great bull sperm} Kdlled off the coast of New Zealand) had, deep in its flesh, the remains of | a harpoon.from a whaler which had| been broken up seve years before| whale's capture A Very INTERESTING BIT OF EMERGENCY WoRK Done. ON. THE ROAD WHICH WAS coNnSIPERED Te STAND FoR IS ‘TEARS. IT. HAS BEEN ALLowep Get Additional Dollar LOVELL—Payment of another dol- lar per ton on the 1922 sugar beet crop in this district was announced by the Great Western Sugar company Saturday. Tho checks will be sent to the beet growers on April 2. This payment will bring the farm- ers’ returns per ton to a basis of $7.50. The initial payment on the 1922 crop was $5.50 per ton in this district, and an additional dollar yas pald by the Great Western Sugar company on December 23. It is be- Meved that the company is the first in the United States to announce two additional payments of $1 each on the 1922 beet crop. This is not intended as a final set- tlement for the 1922 crop, as the com- pany is hopet.) if the sugar market continues at or near present levels, that other additional payments may be made. The distribution on April 2 for the company will aggregate approxi- mately $2,000,000, gatas SRM ey Running the Lines SHERIDAN—Speeding up of the survey fcr the North and South rail- road from Casper to Miles City, via Sheridan an@ Tongue River, by the addition of one more locating party hae been announced by George M. Huss, engineer in charge of the sur- veys. ‘This new party, which has al- ready been organized with a full per- sonnel, will be in charge of W. B. Felton formerly connected with the Milwaukee railroad in’ Montana, who is on his way here from Sioux City. The party took the field today at the Wyoming state line, and will run the survey north toward Miles City. With the addition of this party, there will be five surveying parties in allactivly engaged in operations. One party is working south fram Miles City, another 1s working north near Salt Creek, a third fq running the survey over the divide two and a half miles east of Massacre Hill and a fourth {9 still engaged in mak- ing surveys inside of Sheridan. ‘Three tentative surveys have been made in Sheridan, Approval of a final survey in Sheridan is expected to receive official endorsement from C. S. Lake, transportation manager of the Haskell interests who is now in New York, after which the survey: ing party in Sheridan will proceed with the surveys of other links. Pac tne haat Li Sake 2. Realty Looking Up SHBRIDAN—An early indication of business revival due to the build ing of the North and South railroad is shown In real estate activity. The sale of the Captol Drug store prop. erty on North Main street by the Thad S. Cole estate to George H. Brown for $37,000 or $860 per front foot makes the largest transaction In business property in some time. ‘This property, with a frontage of 42 feet and two inches Is considered one of the best business locations in the city. It 1s occupied by the Capi- tol Drug company and the Bon Ton cafe. Mr. Brown contemplates ex- tensive imprevements to his pur chase, The present tenants will con- tinue to occuyy the byllding. As a result of the stimulated Dusiness activity by the announce ment of the new ratlroad, a num- ber of other real estate transfers of considerable magnitude are pend- ing. One of these Inoludes the purchase of nearly a balf block of the busl- ness sedtion of thd city and ithe erection of a new modern building. Plans are also being made for the erection of two new apartment houses to relieve the threatened house shortage. —By Fox Sheridan’s First Case SHERIDAN — Sheridan's first abatement Proceedings under the Ar- nold act of 1921 was launched when ® petition was filed in the district court by John Conger, county attor- ney, asking for an Injunction pro- hibiting gambling in the Mission pool hall, 122 North Main strect. Charles M. Bayless and George W. Downer, proprietors, were cited to appear, and answer charges alleged im the petition. before the district court. The petition for the injunction puts the pool hall under the jurisdic- tion of the court. Under the abate ment act it makes mandatory the closing af the place if gambling 1s found there again. With the clos- Ing of a place the court must order the sale of fixtures and stocks and declare the place closed for a year. 0, H. Pointer, chief of police, is the complainant im the affidavit on which Mr, Songer related the gam- Ding charges to the district court. | ‘The complaint was made after Bay- leas had declined to admit that he was guilty, of a gambling charge made by the polies, | When arraigned in the police court | Bayless declared that he was un- aware that gambling had been going on in his place of business, and when he was fined $75 and costs served no- ice, through his counsel, that he would appeal the case to the district court. He gave bond of $200 guar- anteeing the fine during the appeal, Process. { Subsequent td this action, the chief of police conducted @ raid on an! inner room in the pool hall and al- leges that he found behind two locked doors, the inner df which was equipped with a peep hole, a group of men gambling. These men were Heinie Kerr, who pleaded guilty and was fined on a gambling charge, and F. L. Miller, Tug Morrow, Ed Scott and Joe Munroe, who forfeltef bonds when they failed to appear in court. si A Ms “The Willwood Dam POWELL—With a large force of workmen going ahead rapidly in this moderate weather, reports come from the Willwaod dam site that the south section of the structure, comprising Nearly one-half of the mason work, has been completed to the crest leaving only the fifteen-foot piers to be constructed leading up to and supporting the bridge over head. This section completed arises 5214 feet from the base, but the bridge across the dam will run at a height of 63 feet. Excavation iq ust going on far the north half of the structure. This wili run the entire height of the 68 feet to the bridge floor, Work will be pushed rapidly on this north portion of the dam to avold interfer- ence with the flood waters that will come with warm summer weather. ee Suggests Inscription CODY--General Nelson A. Miles a close friend of the late William F. Cody in the scout's ifetime has sug. gested the inscription “Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its Way,” he chiseled upon the pedestal of the memortai to be erected in this city to the famous plainsman and pioneer. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New York the sculptress has com- pleted a working mode! in plaster which was recently exhibited in New York and has been pronounced by competent judges and old friends to! be perfect in Mkeness and form of Buffalo Bill, Wyoming knew so tn. timately and ‘so long. Unique Classroom LARAMIE—What will be perhaps one of the most unique law class rooms in the country is now belng in- stalled in the quarters of the law schoal at the University of Wyo- ming. Ono of tho large new rooms is to be completely fitted up as a mo ern®totirt rooms with all of the nec- essary furniture and fixtures. Plans for the new court room have been completed and approved by the unt Yersity, Worx Is to be started at once so that everything will be in readl- ness for the opening of the fall term next year. The plans call for a room large enough to accommodate about one hundred ani fifty people includ- ing spectators, a raised platform for the judge's desk, the clerk's desk and the witness chair. On the side cf the room will be provided a full jury box equipped with swivel chairs and sur- rounded by an artistic rafiing. Furnl- ture in the shape of counsel tables and other fixtures has been provid ed and altogether the room will present the appearance of a most up to date and completely furnished court room, All of the a'ass worl in pleading practice and procedure will be conducted in this court room in the atmosphere of an actual trial and with conditions as nearly approach- ing those of actual litigation as it is possible to make them. pee ernaes Sis Keenan’s Coal Mine SHERIDAN—Opening of a new 50 | foot vein in the Hotchkiss mine near Dietz was anounced today by R. A- Keenan, president of the Hotchkiss Coal company.” This coal, which will be placed on the market within a few days, has been tested and found to be of very high grade. A new tipple has been constructed and a steel and concrete bridge | erected to span Big Gaose apd con- nect the new mine with transporta- tion facilities. One hundred men will be employed |in the mine when it {s developed on a large scale next fall by R. F. Hotchkies, mine manager. Active de velopment of the mine on a smaller scale is to begin at once, however, and will be continued without inter- ruption. ‘The new mine is to be known as Hot Kiss No. 2. "The 50-foot veing of coal js an en- tirely new discovery, it is sald. > Masked Violence “Legisiation has been proposed and is likely to be pressed in the Illinois Assembly to meet the evil of vigilant- ism, night rding, and crimes com- mitted git ans: marauders,” says the Chicago Tribune. “Such legisla- tion exists in some other states. For example, Tennessee has had on its criminal code since 1870 an act in- flicting a penalty of from $100 to $500 and imprisonment in the county ail for any person or persons, masked or in disguise, who shall ‘prowl, or travel, or ride, or walk through the country or towns, to the disturbance of the peace or the alarming of the citizens.’ Another section declares that if any person, disguised or in mask, by day or by night, shall enter upon the premises of another or ds- mand entrance into a house or in- closure, it shall be considered prima facie that his intention is felonious and be deemed an assault with intent to_commit felony, and on conviction Y, MARCH 13, 1923. shall be punished by imprisonme:; jn the penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. A third section declares that any on: who, while masked or disguised, a. saults another with a deadly weapo), shall be deemed guilty “of assau): with intent to commit murder in th» first degree and on conviction sha) suffer death by hanging, provide: that the jury may substitute jn prisonment for not less than ten nor more than twenty-one years. “This is drastic law and it is said.“ to have kept Tennessee freé froin night riding and similar offenses, |: seems to us justifiable and, while tho evil has not been rampant fn Illinois as in some other states, we seo no reason why a severe law should not be enacted sto prevent the practice. Nothing could be more intolerabis than the infliction of private punis) ment, under cover of secrecy, Th mask {s inexcusable and cowardly It encourages irresponsible privat: action. If, as in the case of the ear) vigilants of frontier days, the law is not enforced, citizens should act in the open, assuming responsibility ¢ the community for their action. ‘The mask merely protects private law lessness and should be made unlaw ful. “Night riding 4s unctvilized and » self-respecting community will toler ate the assumption by self-appointe: private !ndiyiduals of the right to discipline others without authority or form of law. Secret societies ar numerous {fn this country and most of them have some form of uniforr or regalia for their own ceremonies That is legitimate. But masks ani disguises, which conceal the persor and invite irresponsible action, shoul: not be permitted {n public.” —— ‘ Jewelry and watch repairing by ex- pert watchman; all work guaranteed. Casper Jewelery Manufacturing Co. OS Buldg. 100 WAYS To Make Money By BILLY WINNER. If I Had Some Spare Office Space— F I had some spare space in my office which I could not use, and perhaps a desk and chair, I would soon set them to work and have them help pay my rent. IT could easily get this desk- space rented with a Tribune Want Ad. This is such a capital and perhaps unthought of idea that I would telephone right now and get my ad in tomorrow’s paper. Of course I would have to ad- vertise in the Tribune, because it is a progressive paper that takes an interest in building up its Classified Section. People who buy it have the Want Ad reading habit. Hay, Grain, Chicken and Rabbit Feeds Alfalfa, Native, Wheat Grass, Prairie Hay, Straw, Oats, Corn, Chop, Wheat, you money Barley, Rye, Bran, Oyster Shell. One sack or carload. We carloads of hay, and give you any kind you CASPER STORAGE COMPANY 313 MIDWEST AVE. TELEPHONE 63 NOTICE TO. 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