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

PAGE SIX) Che Casper Daily Tribune ———————_—_—_—— Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and ay Morning Tribune every Suncay, at Casper Publication offices. Tribune Building, oppo- postoffice. | ered at Casper (Wyoming), postoffice as second atter, November 22. 1916. — 15 and 16 11 Departments | iness Telephones ---- h Telephone Exchang: By J. BE. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the yse for publication of al! news credited in this paper 4 also tho local news published herein. Advertising Representatives be Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chi- ago, Til; 286 Fifth Ave. New York City: Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- , San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Trib- on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and isan Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier lone Year, Daily and Sunday lOne Year Sunday Ont six Months, Dally and Whree Months Da (Ons Month, Daily Per Copy --. unday nd Sun¢cay unday One Year, Dally and Sunday One Year. Sunday Only Months, Da and Sunday ‘Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Mont y and Sunday --. -- - ll subscriptions must be paid in advance and the ‘Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription omes one month in arrears. A Memory of Harding There are many citizens of the United States who will have just such remembrance of Warren Harding as that expressed in the following letter which was written since his death: “In the hills of Mnine, twenty-five miles north of Portland, is the little village of South Casco, on Lake Sebago. Hawthorne lived there as a boy; ‘Thoreou and Whittier visited there in their day. Now it has a winter population of less than 200 and a summer population of about 1,000. Tired men and women and tireless boys and girls spend their holidays in the pine woods around the lake. Tourists know the place as one of the way sta- tions on the Theodare Roosevelt trail over which they journey to the White Mountains. “One morning last summer neighborhood tele- phones notified the villages that President Hard- ing was ‘coming up from Portland.’ When the re: Hart reached us I walked across the fields with my wife and little daughter to see the distinguished guest go by. We had not long to wait. Out of the woods, at a point where the trail crosses Dingley Brook came the big car, followed by many other! motors, all in a cloud of yellow dust. I held the! baby in my arms, and she held a tiny flag. I could have touched the car as it passed. The president turned in his place and waved and smiled to us and Mrs. Harding waved through the window in the back of the machine. We waved in return until the whole party had passed out of sight. “My small daughter, who knows about monarchs because of the fairy stories we haye read to her, asked, ‘Is he the king?’ I explained the difference and for days she talked about the ‘kind president.’ “I have other memories of Mr. Harding. I met him and had some correspondence with him when he was a senator. I was present when he dedicated the Bolivar Monument in Central park. But 1 shall} always remember him as I saw him last, waving back to a little child.” { Do You Know Him? What have you got to say about a fellow like William F. Henning? Who a few years ago came to ?asper as\a journeyman plumber. And like all members of that honorable profession had to go back from whence he came to get his pipe wrench before he could stop the leak in the pipe, which was the first job brought to his attention by a Casper householder who was in dire need of his services. William Henning never spent his days and eve- nings sitting on goods boxes or standing about the streets talking bunk. He saw that there was work to do in Casper, Wyoming, and he went out and got it and what is more did it, and did it well. Directly he saw larger things than plumbing. He went after them and got them. Opportunities were all about, then, as well as now. He seized some of them by the forelock and dragged them into camp. William had foresight as well as other things in his equipment. He developed that while busily en- gaged in bring the bacon home. a As a final result you see William Henning today gs 2 successful business man, an owner of val- uable income property, a citizen of promirence and of value to the community. He is well enough fixed to ride in something better than a flivver and to make his Lome in any part of the country he might desire. What do you find him doing? Sure enough, set- tling right down in Casper and building one of the finest homes in all Wyoming. A monument to a citizen of enterprise and industry. Yes, and if you want to know one further fact about William Henning. He has that original pipe wrench, which he went back after. It has seen hard usage, but he has polished it all up nicely tied a ink ribbon on the handle, and it now hangs on is library wall as a memento of other days. If you look closely you can see the inscription— “In hoc signo et cetera.” Who ‘Are Capitalists? “Capitalism” is a word much used and consider ably abused in recent years. With some folks it has even attained the dignity of a slogan. It is very much the style in some quarters to refer to @ person who po: ses six bits more than another person as a capitalist. Implying by the very man- ner in which the word is uttered that he is unde sirable or totally bad. Giving a thougthless public| an impression that this “capitalist” individual oc-| cupies his whole time carrying sacks of money to the bank, shearing high rate interest coupons from highly ornate bonds, or collecting fabulous divi- ends upon green and gold printed stock certifi-| cates. Before you accept the difinition of a capitalist applied by some it might be polite if not wise to a ‘matter. | Street corner howling about a reapportionment of | th look into the thing and select your own definition according to your own light upon so important a Who knows, you might be wrongfully re- ferring to your next friend when you permit some one else do your thinking and defining for you. Somebody has said that “capitalism is based up- on individual thrift.” We take that as a sound statement. Somebody else has said that “capital is what the industrious man accummulates above his immediate necessities against the day when through age or infirmity he can no longer earn.” That seems an equally sound statement as well as! a desirable proceeding. It would be a very difficult matter to define ex- actly where “savings” end and “capital” begins.) And who can well dispute that any person who! saves and gets ahead is a capitalist. The person who sells peanuts or popcorn or newspapers on the), street corner and makes a success of it, as many do, is no whit less or more a capitalist than the person who puts his surplus into oil, or iron or railroads, or industries of any kind ‘or character. The laborer for day’s wages who saves them, or a share of them, and invests his savings in any venture for profit, whether he makes it or not has become a capitalist, while you are standing on the the wealth of the country. The $17,000,000,000 which the thrifty toilers of this land have to their credit in the savings banks, and upon which they annually draw more than 600,000,000 in interest is a considerable proportion) of America’s “capitalism.” Are all these toilers capitalists or what? They are doing the same things as other capitalists do. And please tell us whether or not any man, woman or child who saves is or is not a capitalist? You know, these socialistic ideas that have had some vogue, even in a country like this, have all been imported from other places where the gen- eral order of intelligence is low, and they have taken hold only with those among us who are of pretty much the same order. And that the best the advocates of “war” on capital can point to is} Russia where the experiment has utterly failed.! The American sympathizers with such theories,| however are not yet wise to the collapse and fail- ure. It is impossible to get rid of capital by destroy- ing it as was tried in Russia; because as soon as you have confiscated and dispersed it you are quite in the same fix as you were before it happened and you feel more than ever the same need for it. Trend of Wages Higher The most recent example of the widespread lack of knowledge of' economic laws and consequences is found in the generally accepted theory that com- modity prices cannot decline while wages remain high. This is a mischievous error, which cannot be supported by either logic or precedent. The fact is that the natural trend of wages is to a high- er and the natural trend of commodity prices to a lower level from year to year and from decade to decade. The phonomepon represents the gradual trend to- ward a more equal distribution of the total product of land and labor. Every machine which is invented every improved method of fabrication or distribu- tion, every increase in the uses of the free gifts of nature, such as steam, water power, every im- provement in the scientific division of labor, means that a larger amount of goods is available. As all but an infinitesimal portion of what is produced is promptly consumed, this can mean only that the per capita share for each member of so: ciety is increased. This is the eocnomic explanation of the fact that the laborer of today has ten times as much of the pocenenaee and luxuries of life as did his fore- fathers. Their Splendid Work The great press associations of the country, not one but all, rose magnificently to the situation of giving the anxious nation the particulars of the sickness, death and burial of President Harding. No detail, that the public should have, was omitted from the reports. Descriptions were masterpieces in English. The accounts of the sad journey of the funeral train from west to east, of the people who came to pay respect to their president, of the of- ficial ceremonies at the national capital and the last simple rites at Marion, were marvels in the use G7 language. In the homes throughout the na- tion, brocght into direct contact with the moving scene, through the telegraph, the people received the scrrowful story and made no pretense of hiding their grief. There are many occasions in the past where the press associations performed magnificent work; but these brilliant writers and news gathers ap- proached perfection in recording the nation’s be- reayement. Doing Our Best With the building program averaging better than a half million dollars a month since early spring you would naturally conclude that some day there would be houses enough in Casper, so that every- one would have a roof over himself and family. But no. The renting agencies will inform you that they canont begin to supply the demand for places to live and are driven to their wits’ ends. Casper must be growing faster than anyone im- agines if this be the case. It is a certain index if anything is certain, Who ever started “fifty thousand by 1925” will prove a prophet better than he knew. What to do with the people will be the next prob- lem to be solved. As long as the builders continue to build, we will one day overtake the demand that has been pound- ing at the door for several years. Will we catch up in time to house everybody before winter comes. That's the only present question. The fifty thous- and population is assured. Faith in the Public We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people—a faith that men desire to do right, that commonwealth is founded upon a righteousness which will endure a reconstrncted faith that the final approval of the people is given not to dema- gogues slavishly pandering to their selfishness, merchandising with the clamor of the hour, but to statesmen ministering to their welfare, represent- ing their deep, silent, abiding convictions.—Calvin Coolidge, 2 ‘ Descendant of Daniel Boone LARAMIE— Mrs. Alex Gillespie, who lives in the northern part of the county, was the gracious hostess to @ party of tourists from Laramie a night or two ago, the tourists being on @ combined business and pleasure trip in the north. Mrs. Gillespie, be- sides being an ideal hostess, is quite interesting, being a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, one of the pictur- esque characters of the earlier days of the settlement of the west. She tells some interesting stories of her ancestor, and on other subjects is [quite a good talker. She is a pioneer in that section of the county and knows everybody and is known of everybody. Old Resident Dies KEMMERER—After enjoying a lengthy automobile ride, during which sho appeared in the best of health, Mrs. Salina Roberts, wife of John Roberts, Sr., of Frontier, suddenly passed away Sunday night, an apop- lectic stroke being assigned as the im- mediate cause of death. Deceased was {Il some time ago, but it was be- leved she had entirely recovered. Mrs. Roberts was 60 years of age and was one of the first residents of Frontier when it was founded, Be- sides her husband she is survived by five sons and two daughters, Hugh, Thomas, John, Ted and Lwellyn; Jen nie and Nellie. New School House WORLAND—In order to meet the increasing student population, the school board of district 6 has pur chased a ready made wooden bullding twenty-five feet wide and seventy-twe feet long. This building will contafn two rooms and a hall and will be lo- cated on the lot just west of the grade school building. The parts are sawed and ready to erect and in a very short time will be redy for use. The sides are made of double board with a thick sheet of Johns Manville product between, Such structures have been used with success in Alaska as well as cli- mates where protection against heat is a factor as well as cold. With scarcity of labor at the pres- ent, this arrangement is the only so- starts. Dies In Wreck THERMOPOLIS—Colin J. Macken- zie one of the well and favorably known old timers of the upper Owl creek and Midwest sections, was in- stantly killed when his auto ran into Coal Draw on the state highway this side of Kirby where a bridge had been washed out, The accident oc- curred ‘Thursday night. mopolis and was on his way back to Midwest when the fatal accident oc: curred. Mrs, John Renner was re- turning about 11:45 p. m. from Kirby where she had taken Mr. Renner, and saw a wrecked car with the lights still burning in the bottom of the draw. Driving back to Kirby, she got her husband and some othr men and an investigation was made The car had gone through an obstruction that had been raised to stop traffic, had dropped over a 12-foot bank, alighting on its nose and turning com pletely over. ‘The tracks and the po- sition of the car showed that ft had been traveling slow dab + eal Tight per cent of London's school children are always absent thronah | Uiness. lution of the problem before school} Mr. Mackenzie had been at Ther-|) It Happened in Wyoming Matters and Things of State-Wide Interest, Wired in, Telephoned, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of it Purloined. Recovering Tools GUERNESY—One string of tools has been recovered with a good hold on the remaining string of tools and casing in the Guernsey test well, with the outlook for cleaning the hole the brightest it has been since the tools were lost. The hole was down 2150 feet when drilling was suspended a few weeks ago. John Viehmeyer, president of the Association arrived the first of the week from the east to look over pros- pects and attend to business matters of the Association, He is hopeful that the hole will be cleaned out and the tert completed. First Legion Delegates A meeting of Kemmerer Post No. 17, American Legion, was held Mon- day evening, which was well attended The matter of business was having the local post represented at the State Legion convention to be held at Lar- ore Monday and Tuesday, August 20-21. M.S Reynolds, H. H. Moyer, Piano Lessons 75c Phone 1633 N. J. Taylor and W. P. Whitcomb were named delegates, with R H. Embree and Jack Jones alternates. This will be the first year since ‘ts organiza- tion that the local post will be repre- sented at a state convention. The delegates will carry a resolution on “Better Conditions in Wyoming Sol- digr Hospitals” to be presented at the convention. Mrs. F. H. Taylor was named dele- to represent the Legion Auxiliary at the convention and Mrs, R. H. Em- bree alternate. Damage By Hail GILLETTE,—One of the most dev-! far ver geen in! astating hail MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923. Northeastern Wyoming struck the country Friday afternoon and laid waste to a large acrenge of crops. According to reports brought to Gil- Jette, hail stones five inches in dia- meter, fell in some places. So ter- riflc was the speed with which they fell that they went through the roots of dwellings, and in many places shat- tered the windows in the houses and other buildings. Mowed the small grain completely to the ground and riddled the corn. Most of the gardens being completely ruined, and in some places garden truck was washed from the ground. ‘The storm started as far west as Echeta, and zig zagged in a south- easterly direction past Rozet, and as can be learned was approxi- it miles wid Do You Gamble in Expense Accounts? Some business men do. They send a high- salaried salesman out on.the road, betting his railroad fare, his Pullman ticket, his salary and his hotel bill that the man he wants to see will be in when he arrives. That’s where the bulk of selling costs are. But there are lots more business men who telephone first. If the deal can’t be closed by Long Distance they at least know whether the salesman: will see his prospect. The high cost of personal interviews can be cut down by the use of the telephone. And the cost of the telephone can down by the use of the lower rates. e cut Refer to your directory or call information. Then use the lower rates to save money and make money. Others do. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and All Directed Toward Better Service The Alterer of Habits IRANK STOCKTON wrote a tale about a monarch who relied on an official called the “Discourager of Hesitancy.” This officer’s task was to prod folks who dallied over important decisions. Modern advertising likewise fosters prompt and judi- cious decisions. But advertising might better be called the “Alterer of Habits.” It brings many changes to pass. And these changes are for the better—ALWAYS. ‘Advertising has revolutionized the personal habits a8 well as the buying habits of the nation. It has elevated our standards of living. It has made us eat better, sleep better and dress better. It has added countless comforts and conveniences to the daily life of each one of us, ‘Advertising has taught us how to find the best buys in almost everything imaginable without indulging in the needless habit of “shopping around.” It tells us just where and when to go for what we want and how much to pay. It lets us compare prices and qualities without even stirring from our homes. It vouchsafes our money’s worth. Do you read the advertisements that appear daily in this paper? It’s a profitable habit