Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Trifine The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper Wyoming. Publication offices. Tribune Building, oppo site postoffice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming), postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones ——— 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments By J. BE. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of al! news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Seger Bldg., Chi- cago, Ill.; 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Bidg., 65 New Mont- gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Coples uf the Datly 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. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year Sunday Only Six Months, Daily and Sunday Three Months Dally and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday Per Copy By Mall One Year, Dally and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only --—— Six Months, Daily and Sun Three Months, Dafly and Sunda; One Month, Daily and Sunday - All subscriptions must be paid in advance Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription becomes one month in arrears. The Frontier Disaster The mine explosion at Frontier, near Kemmerer, in which a hundred miners lost their lives, is the first disaster of any considerable consequence to occur in a number of years. While accidents can- not be forseen the development of safety programs and appliances by operators and the precautions required by law have gone a great way toward mak- ing a hazardous occupation comparatively safe. The disaster is one of horror to the entire state, and one from which the immediate district will be a long time recovering. Many of the men who had their lives snuffed out without even a fighting chance to save themselves were among the best ciitzens of Lincoln county, the heads of splendid families of boys and girls. . ite Compensation which is a godsend and a wise pro- vision of law is of little comfort at the moment, to the bereaved families, with husbands, fathers and brothers gone beyond recall. The people of Kemmerer and Frontier have the sympathy of the entire state in the great sorrow that has overtaken them. The exact cause of the explosion has not been de- termined, although several theories have been ad- vanced any one of which could have easily caused the disaster. Picking Him Early There is a whole lot of worrying being done, by a whole lot of folks, as to the identity of the condi- dates of the two major parties for the presidency next year. The death of Harding and elevation of Coolidge has precipitated quite a discussion and some considerable wild speculation. Had Mr. Harding recovered from his illness the nominee of the Republican party was settled. He would have been the party choice by acclamation. Now the one party is as much at sea as the other, until the Cool- idge administration either wins the Republican party’s approval or loses it. The Democratic party seems to rally to no par- ticular one of her numerous candidaes; and there are many in what is known as the receptive stage. There are numerous factions in that party as there are political blocs in the Republican party. These factions and blocks have talked third par- ty until they have worn the subject out and each day sees any real hope in this direction receding into the background where most such movements have regularly retired when action is called by the two big parties. The rank and file of the two parties is no doubt engaged as usual in discovering a favorite son somewhere in their midst that will bring prestige to the old home state. President makers are think- ing less and less of any other qualification in the candidate than the ability to bring back into work- ing harmony with their respective parties the var- jous factions and blocks which will go a long ways toward victory. While pre-conyention noise has something to do the fire never went out on the hearth of the living | room. And it was a living room literally. The old crane still hangs in the fireplace with a three-| legged iron kettle hanging from it. Beside it is the, the old fireplace which in recent years has been! covered with a metal screen, for it is disused. Wood is too scarce and too costly to feed such a! fireplace in a New England winter. Time was when men burned great quantities of wood in order to clear the land. But the situation has‘ long since changed. In the old days families made it a matter of prin- ciple and of pride to keep an undying fire on the hearth. There the food was cooked; and from it the candles were lighted. If fires were lighted in other fireplaces in the house coals for that purpose were taken from the ever-burning one. The life of the whole household centered around this fireplace. The family broke bread together in this room. Here the bible was read aloud and was not merely a source of heat and a means of preparing food, it was a symbol of the life of the household, It was not merely a physieal necessity; it was a spiritual reality. Net only was this fire- place one of the first essentials of material exist- ence; its ascending flames expressed the aspira- tions of that household for a higher citizenship and a nobler life. And wherever New Englanders later journeyed to the westward in the settlement of the country a big open fireplace was never overlooked when they built their homes. The old traditions were carried on and about it the family gathered and books were read and lessons learned and from out these family circles the great men and women of their period came. The undying fire upon the hearth, the sym- bol of the home, was the influence that guided and lighted the way. Mr. Secretary Slemp President Coolildge has selected ©. Bascom Slemp of Virginia to be his secretary. Mr. Slemp comes from a well known Virginia family which has been active in the industrial development and the public life of the state for many generations. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and of the University of Virginia Law school. The Slemp family have long been large land owners in the southwest portion of the state on the eastern slope of the Cumberland and Allegheny mountains next to the Kentucky and West Virginia borders. In the development of that section of the state the Slemps have taken a large part and enriched themselves through timber and coal. The Slemp Coal company is one of their holdings, said to be a model concern and always free from industrial tur- moil which marks other similar concerns in that and adjoining sections. The new secretary is the son of the late Campbell Slemp for many years member of congress from the ninth Virginia district and the only Republican member from that state in a generation or since the founding of the Republican party in 1856. The father died in office in 1907 and the son was chosen for the unexpired term and has continued to represent the ninth district to March, 1923. Mr. Slemp has had much political experience in his native state and through participation in nat- ional affairs; and is regarded as skillful and well- informed. He also has high standing in the legal profession. Is a gentleman of pleasing address and although fifty-three years of age has escaped matri mony. His selection will be pleasing to congressional circles and public men generally because of his thorough understanding of the public and official business. Gasoline Prices Tumble The country is in the throes of a gasoline war and prices have been shot to pieces. Some fifteen states have experienced price cuts by retailers sup- plied by rival producers. The benefits are all to the users of gasoline, to drivers of automibles and trucks ,and so far as they are concerned the war may continue forever. The price cuts are doubtless due to the overpro- duction concerning which oil operators have com- plained for some time past, rather than to the | belief, which seems to prevail in some states, that gasoline has been heretofore kept at a purely fic- titious high level and not in sympathy with the law of supply and demand, It is superfluous to state that oil stocks have experienced a slump in the market with the an- nounced cuts in gasoline products and crude prod brick oven. Hand-wrought andirons still stand in* prayer was made. The undying fire cn the hearth | be Casper Dally Cridune Marketing Ties BUFFALO.—The Cloud Peak Tim- ber company, Inc., made delivery of over three thousand railroad cross | ties to the purchasing agent of the | Wyoming North and South railroad ) Monday and Tuesday. |. Shipment of about five or six car- }loads will be made next Monday to the Burlington. About four hundred | tles are coming down by trucks and it 1s expected that the contractors | will be moving about one thousand | daily very soon. | \Game Growing Scarce SHERIDAN.—J. C. Logsdon of the | Sheridan Rod and Gun club says the | scarcity of game as compared with | Several years ago is noticeable now. | Sage fowl are the only game bird |left which seem to be as numerous as | formerly. |. Mr. Logsdon was hunting sage hens last week and found plenty of old fowls, but scarcely any young, he said. He thinks the young have been hidden by the hens. He said oe bunch was flushed in which there were more than 50 old roosters. The best fishing can now be found “on top” in the mountains, Mr. Logs- | aon thinks. Fish can be pulled jout of the lower streams, he said, {but the best sport can be had up in jthe mountains. ‘The trout now being pounds, he said. Spanish War Trophies SHERIDAN.—A valuable collection of pictures, relics and trophies of the Spanish-American war was exhibited Monday morning in the display win dows of the City Bakery by BE. G. Guyer, proprietor, who served as a sergeant in Company G, first bat- talion, Wyoming volunteer infantry, which played a prominent part in the ment in the Spanish-American war— fought just a quarter of a century ago Monday. The collection includes four group pictures of Company G, made up ex- clusively of Sheridan men, pictures of the battalion training at Cheyenne and San Francisco, the steamship “Ohio” which took the troop to the Philippines, and the transport “Grant,” which brought the boys home again, Trophies include four 25-year-old Manila cigars, a Spanish mess kit, haversack, water canteen, Spanish sword, Filipino razor strop, armor plate and bolt head from the Spanish flagship Reina Christina, and two copies of “The Bounding Billow,” a publication put out by the navy, which have detailed accounts of the \battle of Manila Bay and the fall of | Manila, 8O ago. ( It Happened in Wyoming Matters and Things of State-Wide Interest, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of it Purloined. Wired in, Telephoned, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923, ‘ing trom the Juvenile Shoe corpora- tion of Carthage, Mo.7* “Very important we firid C. F. Reith, president this corporation. Understand in your locality. Please co-operate and endeavor to locate.” semesesswale. PLENTY OF MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 16. —(United Press.)}—Martial music that quickens the pulse and makes feet step forward with the old-time mili- tary precision is an important ei ment in the success of any gatherin, of former service men. é San’ Francisco streets will resoum with the martial notes of 100 band and drum corps when membera o the American Legion gather here o; October 15 for their annual four day: national convention. Thousands of dollars in cash priza and many valuable gold and silva trophies wil be distributed among thy | teams daily at the present time, and, caught average one to one and a half, taking of Manila, the last engage-| The accurate meas Victim of Shooting LARAMIE.—G. ©. Cruzen of the Laramie Drug company was a victim of a hunting accident Sunday, being sprinkled heavily with shot from 12-gauge shotguns. Two shot lodged in Mr. Cruzen’s left cheek and chin, one penetrated his right ear, one| | narrowly missed his jugular vein and lodged in his breast, while the fifth penetrated his right arm. A party of Laramie hunters were after sage chickens on the Dave | West ranch, near Elk mountain, |when the accident occurred. A flock of chickens rose between two of the hunters on elther side of Mr. Cruzen, and from the way the shots hit him it is thought that both hunters fired into the flock, almost directly at Cruzen. Victim of Tick Fever LARAMIE.—Fire Lookout George| Howard was brought in from the Fox park district of the Medicine Bow National forest yesterday evening suf- fering from an attack of tick fever. He was taken to Ivinson hospital, | where he is being treated. PE rc I oe a {| Send your automobile news “Spark Plug’’—Care Tribune. pica More cass to Cost of building a first-class battle- | ship today is over six times that of BOULDER PASTOR WHOSE SON DROWNED IN FLOOD 15 SOUGHT IN WYOMING An urgent call has come to the Casper Chamber of Commerce for assistance in locating the Rev. Oliver Weaver of Boulder, Colo, who !s supposedly on his way along the Yel- lowstone highway bound for the park. All towns along the Yellowstone route are asked to co-operate in the attempt to find the pastor without de- lay since the word comes that his son was drowned in a recent cloudburst in Colorado. The following wire was recetved by the chamber of commerce this morn- BE SURE TO SEE Special Clearance Sale Ad PAGE TWO The Chas. E. Wells | 1914. we use in MUSIC CO. Common sense- This perfect flavored coffee sells for less becauss jive cartons. A trial will prove | the quality. Be sure to ask your Grocer for SomethingZI besides.Service has come to expect from the present-day service station were unknown but a decade or part in the success with GOLDEN GIFT COFFEE ; the atr“hose,; But there are other things that count.~ Uni- form high quality of the products sold and the ready availability of these products through- out the Rocky Mountain region have played an The Contin which ental Oil Company has served the needs of thousands of steady customers. DO YOU BUY PERFORMANCE OR DISCOUNTS? Prices” are always tempting the buyer of tires. But you never saw one of them save time or money when high-priced men are waiting for tools. You will find, as so many people in Casper can tell you, that the only true tireeconomy is the good reliability with which the Goodyear Tire goes on the job. There is long wear in the group-ply con- struction of Goodyear Cord Tires, freedom from trouble in the side walls of tough stock, and powerful traction in the thick, sharp blocks of the All-Weather Tread. The price of Goodyear Cord Tires is low, and their final cost is lower, because they pile up the values of their fine performance through thousands on thousands of miles. * s s As Goodyear Service Station Dealers we sell and recommend Goodyear Tires and back them wp with standard Goodyear Service Casper Buick Co. Schulte Hardware Co. Warehouse Space For Rent Room for Three to Four Carloads Loading Platforms on Railroad Yellow Cab Co., Inc. Phone 1234 Di Construing our rule to allow a discount of ten per cent on an electric bill, if it is paid within ten days after the date of the bill, to include checks mailed in envelopes showing a postmark date cancelling the stamp within the discount period, is surely fair to our cus- tomers. Any fair-minded perso ill with that. eae sh aon When you need gasoline or oil, you need some- thing besides service—make sure you are. buying the best you can get. Drive in at the ucts are altogether likely to have a similar exper- ience, Mr. A comes along and says he mailed his check on the last discount day, but the post mark cancelling the stamp is one day later. with results, this much can be relied upon—those who direct nominating conventions do their utmost to pick a winner and back of it all there are a lot ; nearest Continental Service Station. Since the rule is that the date of cancellation of voters who are not to be easily fooled. Their Representative Government NE A, <a Cree aD Suet ennteol Mes A_isinot en ae i 6 POLARINE itle e discount. at i “ A ‘ha nt Is to be relied upon. They are seldom) yo, do not make laws. , They do but discover ‘The Balanced Gescifine \_ J Phe Peclect Motar oft A might insist that the vole Beem conmened So if there are those who engage in the fascinat- ing game of picking presidents—and why, there is them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority .They must rest on the leternal foundation of righteousness. That state GARGOYLE MOBILOILS THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, as to give him the discount. It would be un- fair to do that, unless every customer who mailed his check and the post mark bore no harm in it, But to all such there is this admoni-|j, most fortunate in its form of government which (A Coloredo Corporation) the same date, was given the discount. Should tion offered—keep an eye on Calvin Coolidge. He|has the aptest instruments for the discovery of Marketing « complete line of the rule be construed to include the first day has had more real luck than any public man you|laws. The latest most modern and nearest perfect Blew Mexico, Utah, Idato and Montes after the discount day, some one would want can find in American history. system that statesmanship has devised is repre. % it further construed to include the next day sentative government. Its weakness is the weak- and so on until the matter of a discount for ness of us imperfect human beings who administer | prompt payment would become a by-word. aye U d . iN it. Its strength is that even such administration se- e¢ Undying Fire cures to the people more blessings than any other » In a remote section of New England a system ever produced. No nation has discarded it], Doesn't that look reasonable? J pete New England, an old farm| nq retained liberty. Representative government house stands on a little hill and looks across gent- ly undulating fields to the sea. Tides come and go in the life of the fields, and upon the great deep. The house is white, and in front it has fluted col must be preserved.—Calvin Coolidge. A World of Horrors FS] td a Cd umns like a Greek temple. Cinnamon roses grow! Either the public press is unusually active and beside the door; and a lilac hedge encloses an old| headliners are playing up the horrors of the daily Ses garden with phlox, hollyhocks and “London Pride.” ergo eiae ye WoRtne Tone anasiee ot the It is rpica P » i Qn B! . - very : is a rae aniege of the olden times, | siche come accounts of floods, fires, railroad and strong reminder of what New England once was./motor accidents, each with an accompanying loss This house has been in possession of one family |} of human life that is appalling to contemplate. since the years of the Revolution. The life that this} We are told such thin, S i rye) ¥ i I e the 5 are told suc gs come in cycles, We c Book WwW old place has seen from the forefathers who estab-|know they have occurred before and have often! time and trouble making change. Good at all Continental Service a ona 0 er 0. lished the home and cleared the acres for produce: jturned to the past for comparisons and figures. Stations and accepted by dealers generally tivity, down to the present day is most interest. Yet lt neems that the present Jor variety, ifre Ye sent day is quency and numbers, is exceeding anyt ing. For the first hundred years the house knew! of record, ceeding anything we have