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

PAGE SIX, Che Casper Daily Tribune Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper Wyoming. Publication offices. Tribune Building, postoffice oppo- class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones —.-----------------------— 15 and 16 By J. B. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS pse for publication of al! news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-28 Steger Bldg., Chi- cago, Ill; 246 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bi Boston, Mass., Suite 404 ron Bldg., 55 New Mont- ® St., San Francisco, Copies of the Dauty Trib- une are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. 0.) ——$_<_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year, Daily and Sunda: One Year Sunday Only Six Months, Daily and 8 § Three Months Daily and Suncay One Month, Daily and Sunday - Per Copy By Mafl One Year, Daily and Sunday Whe Year, Sunday Only Bix Months, Daily and Sunday . Datly and Sunda: ne Month, Daily and Sunday . All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription becomes one month in arrears. The Point Overlooked It is both amazing and amusing that in all the current talk about the necessity of lessening the Increasing strain upon our president in the dis- charge of the duties of his office, the plain, pre- cise provision of the constitution for exactly that thing has not been borne in mind. Not a line of legislation is required. . Nothing except to give the correct construction to two small words “the same.” All that would have to be dons in case of the inability of the president, whether through absence or ill-health or pressure of multi- farious duties, whether permanent, temporary, or yiartial, to discharge his duties, is for the presi- dent to ask the vice president to discharge all or such portion of them as he may designate. True, the conception of the vice president as a stop-gap official, waiting for a dead man’s shoes and given the job of presiding over the senate for something to do meanwhile, is not in harmony with this proposition. That conception, however, has no foundation in the constitution. In common parlance, by common usage, a vice president, whether of a corporation or club or any other body, is an official who acts upon occasion in place of the president. And that is exactly the intention in the federal constitution. (Article IT, Section 1, Clause 6.) It reads: “In case of the removal of the president from office, or of his death, resignation or inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office, the same shall devolve on the vice president.” To what do these words “the same” refer, to tthe office or the duties? In the first three events it is immaterial. In the fourth it is very mater jal. In the 134 years of our history under this constitution there never has been any construc- tion of the meaning of those words. We have had no removal from office, nor resignation. We have had six deaths, Only one case of inability, and in that case no action was taken under the clause in question. The strain upon our presi- dent has now grown so great that something must be done to relieve him. It disabled President Wilson, It has killed President Harding. Bo the question must be answered. To what do the words “the same” refer, to the office or the duties? The answer is clear, for it is founded on the word “devolve.” An office passes from one man to another. It does not “devolve.” Now, if it is the duties which devolye, rather than the office, it is equally clear that the devolution ceases when the inability ce 8s. It is also clear that if the inability is only partial, the devolution is only par- tial. In short, the true conception of the vice president is that he is an official who acts as president in case of the removal or death or resig nation or of the total or partial inability of the president to discharge the duties of the office. This construction is borne out by the provision in the language following the quotation: “And the congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability both of 1 president and vice president, declaring what « er shall then act as president.” Note the words, not become president, but act as president. Under this last provision it would be compe tent, though not necessary, for Congress to pass a short act providing for action by the vice presi. dent in a case of inability for whatever cause. President Harding took a step in the right direc- tion of closer harmony between the President and Vice President in making Vice President Coolidge a _member of his cabinet. Another step would be for the president to call upon the vice president for his assistance in any case of total or partial inability to discharge any or a part of the dutics of his office. Such a conception of the vice presidential office, on the one’ hand, does not in the slightest degree derogate from the dignity of the office of president, and on the other hand, it enhances the dignity of the office of the vice president, It converts him from being a presidqt in posse into one in esse as occasion calls, Such is the true theory of the constitution. (The True American Sometimes we get at reality more surely by closing our eyes and allowing our dreams to shape themselves into living forms; and then comparing things as we wish they were with things as they Entered at Casper (Wyoming), postoffice as pecond | really are. For a moment let us restore the old American dream, and compare it with the haunt- ——___—___—_——— The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and|/ing forms of our present problems. To make this comparison, it is well to turn to expressions of pure idealism, both of the older time and of recent years. In the use of the words and the dreams of others our own ideals are more Franch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments) strectively clarified. Sometimbs the man. who puts his own thought into words is like a neighbor |who comes at twilight and lights a candle in our a |own house. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the) : t | It was a recent immigrant, from Russia, who ;penned these words of devotion to American ideals, |for which many native-born Americans are grate- ful: “What marks us out from other advanced na- |tions is the origin of our liberties in one supreme act of political innovation, prompted by a con- scious sense of the dignity of manhood. In other countries advances have been :nade by favor of hereditary rulers and aristocratic parliaments, each successive reform being grudgingly handed down to the people from above. Not so in Amer- ica. At one bold stroke we shattered the mon- .05|archial tradition, and installed the people in the seats of government, substituting the gospel of the sovereignty of the masses for the superstition of |the divine right of kings.” “Again and again we had respectfully petitioned |for redress of specific grievances, as the governed |from time immemorial, have petitioned their gov- ernors. But one day we abandoned our suit for petty damages ,and instituted a suit for the re covery of our entire human heritage of freedom; and by basing our claim on the fundamental prin- ciples of the brotherhood of man and the sovereignty of the masses, we assumed the championship of the oppressed against their oppressors wherever found.” It was thus that we emerged a distinct nation, with a unique mission in the world. It should be easy to pick out the true Americans—the spirit- ual heirs of the founders of our republic, by this simple test of loyalty to the principles of the dec- laration. Having set up a government on the declaration of the rights of man, it should be our first business to reaffirm that declaration every time we meet a case involving human rights. | Our Prize Draft Evader Over in Eberbach, Germany where Grover Berg: doll, the premier American draft evader lives in perfect comfort, an attempt was made a day or two since to kidnap him. The venture resulted disastrously to the kidnapers, some of them being killed and the rest jailed for the attempted crime. The town of Eberbach and its people seem to be partisans of Bergdoll. The kiduaping, of course, had no sanction or | authorization from the American government, and the persons, with a single exception, could by no stretch claim American citizenship. Neither, in any sense, did the American Legion have any con- cern in the transaction. All of which is set up by Bergdoll and his German friends and support- ers, | The American government wants this criminal jas a matter of course. He is wanted to complete a term of imprisonment for which he was -sen- |tenced by army court martial. No doubt, the Am- jerican Legion would derive some satisfaction in |seeing the deserter receive his just deserts. But neither the government nor the Legion would en- gage in any criminal act within the territory of a friendly power to secure the person of a fugitive from justice, If the German government, knowing the cir- cumstances from our own representations to it, is unfriendly to a proposal for extradition of the fugitive then let the German people keep him and this government will continue to hold his property, and always remember his crime, If he can find any satisfaction in his present hero role, and as a man without a country, then let him enjoy it while he may. The day will surely |come when he is certain to want things otherwise. Reverse the Operation It is a tough job enforcing the prohibition laws of the country when the citizens render no aid in the matter and at the same time seek new ways to suppiy liquor. Down along the Texas coast four miles without the Galveston harbor, an en- terprising mariner has anchored his ship which he has remodeled into a floating club house. Here he offers at pre-war prices Pilsener beer from Ger- many, whiskey, gin, champagne and ‘ull the liquors known in pre:Volstead daya, S Will he make a go of it? Sure Just because men are forbidden these things, they will have them. What will the United States do about it? Nothing. There is nothing that can be done legally for the rum palace is beyond the jurisdic. tion of the law’s enforcers. and will continue to have them, in its attempt to wet, (The Moral Power of America Have faith in the moral power of America. I¢ gave independence under Washington and free- dom under Lincoln. Here right never lost. Here wrong never won. However powerful the forces of evil may appear, somewhere there are more powerful forces of righteousness. Courage and confidence are onr heritage. Justice is our might. The outcome is in your hand, my fellow American; if you deserve to win the nation cannot lose.—Calvyin Coolidge, Surely the United States is having its troubles, | make dry folks out of folks who desire to remain} he Casper Dail lea contribute their Centennial celebration hospital home Atlantic City, Mrs. William Chester McDonald has spent five of his years strapped In sent Billy an autographed photograph and a message of cheer. Today Billy proposes y Cridune He Proposes a Children’s Memorial to His Friends pennies to build a Children’s Building as a memorial to his lamented friend at the Sesqul- at Philadelphia. Here ho is explaining his plan to Mrs. Winifred Stoner, author, at his Stoner started th ¢ fund with $1,000, PRES, OOLINGE PRESIDES OVER CHBINET. PARLEY Harding Councellors in} Administration Meet With New Chief WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Pres!- dent Coolldge Tuesday presided over the first cabinet meeting, taking his| Place at the head of the big cabinet| table at whose foot he had sat since the beginning of the Harding admin-| istration. All those who served as the coun- sellors of President Harding, except-| ing Secretaries Mellon and Den! met with the new chief executive, Mr. Mellon is in Europe and Mr. Denby at his home in Michigan. Secretary Davis who returned yes- terday from Europe, called at the executive offices prior to the cabinet sezsion to pay his respects to the new chief. Many problems incident to the change in administration leadership and policies needing immediate for-| mulation, including the anthracite! situation, were’ understood to be up for discussion when the cabinet mem: bers assembled. It was indicated | that important announcements of| policy might result. Poles Homesick for ‘America, Is Claim) WARSAW, July 22.—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Contrary to previous years, when 90 per cent of the eml- grants from Poland wre Jews, the quota of 1923 will be mostly com- posed of Poles who returned from America to Poland two years ago, but who are unable to get along with the conditions of Polish life, so entirely different from American, and are re- | Barney Pearson of St, Louis and F. NATIONAL FRATERNAL CONGRESS MEETS IN INDIANA THIS MONTH An important gathering of interna- tional importance will be that of the National Fraternal congress of Amer- iea whose annual convention takes place at French Lick Springs, Indi- ana, August 27 to 80. This congress is composed of all the leading fraternal societies of the con- tinent and represents a membership of nearly six million people who carry fraternal benefit protection. These socleties have local bod‘es in every part of the United States and Canada. Prominent speakers on the program for this convention are Hon, James J. Davis, Secretary of Lamor, Hon. James H. Watson, United States Sen- ator from Indiana, Hon, Samuel M. Ra'ston, United States Senator from Hopf, Management Engineer, C. Walpas of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The president of the National Fra- ternal congress, Mr. Harry Wade of Indianapolis, Indiana, will present a report on the work of. the fraternal benefit system this past year. T'! congress was organized twenty-fi years ago and has steadily pursued a course for sound legislation and sound principles of protection within its own ranks. “Adequate rates" has been its slogan and ideal and due to the per- sistency of the efforts of its founders bed. A Harding year President that the children of Amer- ance by government officials, ad- ditional privileges and benefits to the insured members, education and in- struction of field representatives of from ( nearly every fraternal benefit society doing business in this country today has its business regulated on an ade- quate basis. | The assets of these fraternal so- cleties are invested in bonds, the money from which has erected schoo! houses, built roads and streets, and other public improvements which | mean so much to the health and pros-| perity of our Nation. | | At the meeting of the congress ad- dresses will be made and discussions had upon all subjects pertaining to the welfare of the people of our coun-| try, the improvement of the condi-| tions of fraternal insurance societies turning to the New World. and their regulat‘on and superintend- | For Sale or Trade 400 ACRES TIMBER LAND With 8 million feet lumber, and saw mill with equip- ment. Call or Write C. C. 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