Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX,” Che Casper Daily Cribune ———— The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, oppo- site postoffice. pin Sie eee SES Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916, ——— Sees Business Telephones _----------------------' 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. —<—<—$—$——— — By J. EB. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Blds., chi- cago, Ill., 286 Fifth Ave., New York Citv; Globe Bidg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St,, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune 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. ©.) Must Help Himself Congressman Madden of Illinois, charman of the house committee on appropriations has laid down a very god rule for reduction of tax bur: dens, if he can only secure a successful enforce- ment of it. He desires taxes to be reduced but he knows fulwell nothing of this sort can really be accomplished so long as congress or the sev- eral departments advocate extensive building or other programs, involving large sums of money. Costly projects with the influence of members of congress back.of them, who in turn have the weight of organizations and important citizens back of the member urging the expenditures is not in the direction of either economy or the re- duction of taxes. Mr. Mudden is as sure of this as are the taxpayers back home. He is of the opinion that there should be a reversal of the policy of “ride your congressman for appropria- tions and get all you can,” and the adoption of a newer and more sensible and economic policy with greater consideration for the people who supply the money proposed to be spent. Mr. Madden’s idea is contained in an appeal to the taxpayers, themselves, to lighten the bur- den upon their own backs by bringing the pres- sure of public opinion to bear upon government officials and congressmen against the prevyail- ing system of excessive public expenditures ob- tained in the time honored way. If the people do not desist in their demands upon the public treasury and congress does not take a firm stand against these demands, the millions of people who pay the costs in taxes, direct and indirect, can expect no relicf from the burdens they are now bearing. A recess in government expenditures of the kind not absolutely needed, will in a season or two make a large difference in the tax payers outgo. And it is about time that the government was made to understand the necesity of further and rigid economy and denial found so absolute- ly unavoidable by the taxpayer. The money that provides the desirable public improvements and conveniences, must come from some source; the government has no royal road to wealth other than the one traveled by the tax- payer. The money must come from the very pockets of the taxpayer, himself. He must dig the coin and carry it to the tax office. In times of stress in his own affairs if it is good business for the taxpayer to urge the expenditure of money that he must turn about and sweat out, then he will continue to urge and encourage his congressman in lavish expenditures. If on the other hand it appears to be good business to re- frain, for a time, from piling up costs upon the country’s treasury, and at the same time enable himself to crawl out from under his own load of taxes, he will advise his servant at Washing- ton to oppose all ambitious schemes for money spending. He will go further. He will help de- velop healthy public opinion in consonance with his own and impress it upon congress and public officials. The taxpayer can expect no relief unless he is willing to help in the fight for economy and reduction in the cost of government. {The Language of the Law The constant users of the mother tongue in writing and speaking have often wondered why our legal friends have never seen the advisabil- ity of coming down to earth in the use of English in their pleadings and other matters they pre- sent to the courts? Apparently they feel compell- 2d to employ a jargon that has about as much meaning to the uninitiated as so much Siwash. The theory seems to be that to be exact they must be prolix, and that language, if it is to be precise must be redundant. In all other literary efforts the rule is the contrary. Glance over the very best effort of your favorite lawyer and you will catch the idea. If a person is refered to a second or third time it must perforce, be the “said” person; if a statement is repeated it is bound to be accompanied by the word “afore- said.” “Then and there” flow as tripplingly from the pen of the lawyers in indictments, especially, as does trills from the song bird. These are only casual examples but they give an idea of what the lawyer does to the language. He does it, how- ever only when he commits it to writing. In ordi- nary conversation he talks regular English and in addressing a jury he puts it just as straight and clear and understandable as the best of them. It is when he is engaged in making things “definite and certain” that he also makes it rid- iculous, to other writers and readers of the Eng- lish language. The layman, who understands and appreciates the spirit that guides the great legal profession, also understands and appreciates what preced- ent means to courts and lawyers, and why re- dundancy has crept into the language of the law and became a fixture and come to be regarded as essential and almost as sacred as the law itself. Adam Smith in his “Wealth of Nations,” ad- vances a theory that may explain in some degree, when he says: “It has been the custom In modern Europe to regulate upon most occasions the payment of the attorneys and clerks of court, according to the number of pages which they had occasion to write; the court, however, requiring that e: page should contain so many lines, and each ine so many words; In order to increase their payment, the attorneys and clerks have contrived to multiply words beyond all ne ity to the every court of justice in Europe.” F It would appear from this, then, that legal corruption of the law language of, I believe, luminaries of other days were conscienceless space writers; always and ever destructive to style. And it is this old influence ; 1d custom of payment, that have done their deadly work in — the “corruption of the law language” to which } our friend Adama Smith refers. j As further rubbing it in on our lagal friends, | a parody on the legal style, as applied in rhyme, | from the pen of Henry H. Brownell, is shown | in the following, “A Lawyer’s Inyocation to | Spring”— Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Now divers birds are heard to sing, And sundry flowers their heads upraise, Hail to the coming on of spring! { The songs of those said birds arouse The memory of our youthful hours, As green as those said sprays and boughs. As fresh and sweet as those said flowers. The birds aforesaid—happy pairs— Love, mid the aforesaid boughs, enshrines In freehold nests; themselves, their heirs, Administrators and assigns. Oh busiest term of Cupid’s court, Where tenderest plainiffs actions bring— Season of frolic and of sport, Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring! Then how sad it is to one who hears or reads the argument of a good lawyer,, clear, simple, direct and forcible, to turn to the complaint upon which it is based, and know that one and the same man produced the two marvels. The one is noble English, the other jargon. But since jargon has become the scientific language of the law, it is presumed there is no way of getting away from, and other users of English must content themselves with criticism and fun pok- ing. Truly the language of the mandarins is won- derful. The Myth of Buried Treasure There is nothing’ more appealing to the adven- turous and romantic spirit of the human race everywhere than the quest of buried treasure. Jason’s expedition for the golden fleece, the Knights of King Arthur's Court in their search for the Holy Grail, and to come down to other times, the attempts to discover Captain Kidd's cache. All are matters that excited the interest of many people and thrilled them with hope. ‘These are by no means all of the serious efforts put forth to come into possession of treasure said to be fabulous. There were many more ex- tending through time. Hunting treasure has a distinct flavor of “getting rich quick” that has proved irresistible to men of every age since gold and silver became things of value. That many of the tales, 1n connection with treasure, were fit only to be told bewteen the yellow covers of cheap literature, they are as potent today to arouse the old spirit as they were in the long ago. ‘Take for instance the myths that surround the name of that notorious slacker Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, once of Philadelphia, now of Germany. None has received such widespread circulation as those connected with his famous buried trea- sure in the hills of Pennsylvania or Maryland. Every now and then a new version comes to light, and it is reported that a workman digging with his pick, or a farmer plowing in his field, or someone delving in some remote corner, has hit upon the Bergdoll fortune. The story never fails to appeal to the suppressed buried-treasure complex of mankind and is generally told with enough vividness to be plausible. One reads of the pick striking a hard sub- stance, always a hard substance, and giving forth a hollow sound, and always a hollow sound. Stoopiag over to examine, the digger sees the play of the sun’s rays upon the doubloons or eagles as the case may be: All the rest is familiar including the intent of the United States gov- ernment to confiscate the treasure in the hands of the finder. How necessary it seems to have a villian to do the dirty work. That is Uncle Sam’s role. Then a dispatch from Germany telling what a happy time the hero owner of the gold is having in a far off land that we know is not en- joying the same kind of a time, The Bergdoll myths, like all treasure hunts, outside of their natural environment, story books invariably end in delusion. There is little to a treasure hunt. It costs more than its rewards bring. And there is as little to the “get rich quick” schemes that seem, even in this unromantic day, so attractive to so large a precentage of people. ‘Another Man of the Hour The New York Times is evidently on the ex- change list of the Buffalo Voice, for in a recent issue of the Times a Voice edito: is commented on in the following manner: “It is no trouble to show goods. On the presi- dential nomination counter this morning the spe- cialty of the day is the Hon. John B. Kendrick, a senator in congress from Wyoming since 1917, sometime governor, the man who beat Frank W. Mondell, Republican floor leader, and for twen- ty-five years Wyoming’s pride in the house of representatives. Wyoming is ordinarily a Re- publican state, but who can stand against the invincible vote collector, John B. Kendrick? He carried every county but one. If we may trust the roar emitted by the Buffalo Voice, the “old- est paper north of the Union Pacific in Wyo- ming,” he is already carrying every state in the union. “Mr. Kendrick has not yet consented to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, but he will be taken by right of emi- nent domain, by force majeure, drafted by the common people. He will step into the office with the common folk behind him, those same com- mon folk who came from the hills and the sage- brush prairies the towns and the cities of Wyo- ming, in the last election and elected him 10,000 strong to return and represent them again in the senate of the United States. “Fe is the ‘cowboy senator from Wyoming’ He fights for the ‘everyday folks.’ He is free from petty animosities and prejudices, will never be president of a class or faction. ‘Calm, cool, level-headed, he inspires the unwavering confi- dence of the people and he has hever failed them’ In short he has all the necessary quali- fications and a few more for good measure. The progressives and radicals must love him, because Judge Kenyon has called him ‘the kind of a man that we need,’ another ‘true American’ “Tn the high places of the land in the east and in the west, the common people are thinking of and calling for a Kendrick in which to repose their faith and lead them on to victory.’ So little do the politicians know the minds of the com- mon people they pretend to serve! Buffalo humps itself for John B, Kendrick, ‘the man of the hour” The Voice asks, with an unworthy note of doubt, ‘will the people have their say and nominate him?’ They will. They must. What other Democrat can hope to carry Wyoming? Without Wyomir three electrol votes what | ghost of a chance has the Democratic party?” fhe Casper Daily Cridune Happened In Wyomin Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired in, Telephoned, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined Tourists Have Grief RIVERTON.—M. J. Cornell, his sister and her daughter from Arl- zena had a narrow escape from drowning when they drove their Hupmobile into a cldudburst at Big Sand Draw above Bull Lake. They had crossed one gulch when a wall of water ten feet deep and 200 yards wide came down another gulch just ahead of them. Mr. Cornell got his sister and her ttle girl out of the car onto higher ground and at- tempted to save the car but it was swept down stream a quarter of a mile and most of their camp equip- ment was lost. W. G. Johnson found them stranded while on his way to town and took them to his ranch for the night, taking them to Lander the next day. They remained there and salvaged, the car which was apparently badly! wrecked, but was so covered with| sand and debris that they were un- able to extricate it without more help. The top was torn off and one wheel mashed as it was rolled over and over down the gulch. The members of the party all re- covered from their terrifying experi- ence and resumed thelr journey as soon as their car was repaired. The storm was very narrow, seem- ing to extend {ts entire force in the hills near Bull Lake. The roads were passable next day by detouring the two small bridges that were washed out. Another Car Thief SHERIDAN.—M. B. Parkins, a tourist said to be from California, was arrested, charged with stealing a Buick automobile belonging to P.| Peterson, Burlington railroad en- gineer, and is the first person to face the charge of automobile steal- ing in Sheridan county since the crime became a felony, punishable by a penitentiary sentence of not less than one year nor more than 10 years. Mr. Peterson's car, which had been parked on Main street in front of the Heald Jewelry store, disap- peared at about 5 o'clock in the evening. The loss was reported to the police and the sheriff and of- ficers of nearby towns were warned to be on the lookout for the ma- chine. Late the next afternoon the Buick was found in the timber 20 miles north of Sheridan. Parkins was ar- rested by Sheriff Toy and was placed in the Sheridan county jail to await arraignment. Grabs Car Thief GILLETTE.—A few nights ago Deputy Sheriff Ollle Sherrard was aroused by a party parking a Ford car in an alley. Jack He investigated Johnson for its and_ arrested theft, Johnson being unable to pro- duce e bill of sale, although he pro- tested his arrest claiming that he had bought it at Glenrock, and was not given a bill of sale. It Inter developed that the car be- longed to the Midwest Pipe Line jcompany, and had been taken from them at Glenrock. Deputy Sheriff Howard Jackson, of Glenrock, was over Monday and took the prisoner to Douglas, where he will be ar- raigned. In company with Jack Johnson was two other parties, a man and a woman whose reputation was not of the best. The occupants of the car were pretty well healed with fire arms, |having three guns concealed in the car, one of which was not found juntil the next morning. —_-—_. Sheriff’s House Robbed SHERIDAN. — Burglars early in \the morning, between the hours of |1 and 5 o'clock, raided the home of Deputy Sheriff, C. E. Richards at 42 Dow street and made away with ja gold watch valued at $86 owned by Jack Norrison, an employe of the Burlington raflroad, who ‘rooms at the Richards home, and about $30 in cash belonging to Mr. Rich- ard'’s two sons, Vern and Elmer | Richards. The two Richards brothers had attended the Eagle dance and on retiring had thrown their clothing across chairs by the bed. In the morning when they arose clothes were missing, but. rifled of the money, were found near the foot bridge at the junction of Big and | Little Goose creeks, 50 yards from }the house. The watch was taken |from the dresser in Mr, Norrison’s room across the hall. The thief apparently gained en- |trance through the hall door, which jhad been left unlocked. There are thieves. Old Timers’ Reunion BUFFALO.—On the afternoon of Labor Day, Sheridan and Johnson |county pioneers gathered at the |pavilion at Lodore. near Story near |the line between the two counties and reorganized the Old Settlers’ society which has of late years been jpermitted to iafiguish. | A reunion of old friends was held during the afternoon followed by a dance in the evening. ‘The party was attended by a large gathering from both counties. © It was decided to make the reunion an annual affair, under the name of the Old Settlers’ society. Send “Spark P!ug.”—Care your automobile news to ‘Tribune. their | no clues as to the identity of the| t To Build Bridge | RIVERTON.—It is reported that the only work that will be done this year in connection with the newly designated Federal Aid Road from Shoshont via Riverton to Dubois on ,the Park route, will be the building of the bridge over the big diversion |dam on the Riverton ‘project. ‘This | work, it {s understood, will be start- ed in the near future, gnd completed Re is a 100,000 FOR * MEMORIAL TO ~BANDITUICTIN | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Sept. 6.—(By The Associated Press. —A special fund of $100,000 to m: morialize the death of Dr. A. Shelton, who was slain by Tibetan Eandits, is announced in the report) of the United Christian Missionary society for the year ending June 30, 1923, presented to the international ‘convention of the Disciples Christ. The fund will establish a hospital in Tibet for training Tibetans to become their own physicians and will be source for that service. |. Total receipts for last year were | $2,912,157.18, a gain of $209,000 over the preceding year, the report showed. | Thirty-two new missionaries are jbeing sent out this fall, and 21 are |returning after furloughs. A total of $3,550,000 was added last year to the permanent funds of |28 colleges and schools co-operating under the direction of the Board of Education of the Church, according to the annual report of Dr. H. O. feet secretary of the board. ——_—— “DULG” CLOSES RUN | TODAY AT AMERICA A last opportunity to see Con- ‘stance Talmadge, the inimitable co- medienne, in her latest | “Duley,” is afforded at the America theater today. The attraction is one | which fastened Miss Talmadge's hold upon her admirers and won her new friends. Connle comedies are too | few and far between, and when one does come ‘round it proves a treat too rare to be missed. 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