Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIA Che Casper Daily Crivune The Casper Dally 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 _ Branch Telephone Exchange Departments. ee By J. BE, 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., C cago, Il. 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bi 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. 0.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By, Carrier One Year, Datly and Sunday — One Year, Sunday Only Six Months, Daily and Sunday - Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Dally and Sunday - Per Copy $9.00 2.50 4.50 2.25 By Mall One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only —--. Six Month, Dally and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday All subscriptions must be pi in Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscr! > tion becomes one month In arrears. The Littlue Brush Fire A great many important things as well as a} great many disastrous things result from small beginnings. You cannot place too high an esti- qate upon the importance of small things. They | postively will not be ignored. Look what hap- pened at Berkeley. It was a “small brush fire” | that someone neglected or overlooked. That same | small brush fire made the whole country sit up} and take notice. That small brush fire entailed a loss of ten million dollars, burned a hundred blocks and rendered more than thirty-five hundred people homeless. It was a little thing but it seems to have fully impressed its importance. One newspaper said “they saved their chil- dren,” another publication remarked that too many houses are built of combustible material anyhow. We are all rejoiced that the children were saved. It is too bad that they should have been exposed, or that any child is exposed to the carelessness and thoughtlessness of persons | who disregard the small but important things/| of daily life. So far as combustile houses are concerned. The whole country faces the same danger, but back of the danger of living in a} frame house, is the greater danger from the per- son who overlooks the little brush fires. The Berkeley disaster can be repeated in al- most any city in the country any day. All that it requires is a thoughtless fellow with a little brush fire. City architects, city councils, fire departments and other city, county and state officials, have been and are now constantly warning the pub-| lic and educating it to reduce fire losses. This | effort, no doubt has borne good results, but so long as fire losses exceed the total taxes collect- ed it seems to be too high an exaction from the people. Does not the taxpayers see where the fire loss falls? Then, once more, the little things in every- day life are of tremendous importance once they get to asserting themselves, and the great point is that you can.never tell just what the result of a little brush fire, untended, will be. The Magnus Idea Magnus Johnson, senator-elect from the imper-| ial commonwealth of Minnesota, as reports of his | New York speech have it urges limitation of the| federal reserve board, in composition, to a manu- facturer, a wholesale dealer, a retailer and a farmer—the banker being excluded. This is novel even to those with knowledge of the vagaries of extremeism. The new Minnesota statesman has apparently permitted his distrust of bankers to becloud his judgment nd wreck his “horse| sense.” With ideas of finance born of loose rea soning from effect backward to cause, he would| deny this great banking institution the service | of bankers in its operation and would deliver it into the control of those neither trained nor! ownership at this time. Didn’t the people get enough of it or have they forgotten. The fact is that quack politicians are talking, it for no other purpose than to get the vote of lroad employes and the vote of others social- Jistically inclined. What occurred to rates and service during goy- ‘ernment operation counts for nothing with them. What they want is votes even if they have to run a vacuum cleaner through the people’s pockets to get them. Government ownership of the railroads would create a grave public menace, would be an eco- nomic mistake of the first magnitude. We can survive the rantings of its advocates but we cannot survive the affliction of their vagaries. Bankrupt and Hypocritical Artivel eighteen of the coyenant provides as Tollows: “Every treaty of international engagement en- tered into hereafter by any member of the league shall be forthwith registered with the secretar- |iat and shall as soon as possible be published by it. No such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered.” At Geneva, the special commission of the league on the reduction of armaments was ad- y Christian L, Lan of Norway. The subject mider consideration was an international ; {covenant of mutual assistance to supplement a scheme for the limitation of land armaments among the numbers of the league. Mr. Lange pro- posed two amendments to this covenant, one of which provided that all international treaties should be filed with the league for registration 5/and publication. After a lengthy discussion, the commission rejected this along with other amend- ments. We believe that this incident perfectly pre- sents the league as it is. The league of nations is an organization of which every member is oblig- ed by the express terms of the covenant to sub- mit ry international engagement into which it enters to the secretariat for publication. This is plain, definite and complete. The fact that Mr. Lange should think it important to propose an exact repetition of this provision for inclusion in a new agreement among the members of that same league is astonishing. It discloses the meas- ure of confidence which the weaker members of the league extend to their more powerful col- leagues which is no confidence at all. The con- clusion must be that the member for Norway looks upon the covenant as a mere piece of in- ternational buncombe, and we daresay he has complete justification for his view. Why, if the covenant is worth the paper upon which it is tten, should any member of the league con- sider it important to suggest an engagement of this nature? Mr. Lange knew whereof he spoke. His pro- posal was in itself amazing. But the reaction of the commission to it was even more amazing. The commission had the unexampled cynicism and shamelessness actually to reject the proposal. If confession were needed from the members of the league that they regard it as no more than a badge of respectability resting upon a scrap of paper which they do not and do not intend to respect unless it suits their convenience to do so, this was the confession. The league is abso- lutely bankrupt. It was to be the agent of the new era. Secret diplomacy, agression and im- perialism, balance of power, international an- archism—all these were to disappear in the san- ity and idealism of the league. Needless to say, secret diplomacy, balance of power and all the rest of it have not disappeared, but are stronger than ever. The disgrace is that the powers which are responsible for this state of affairs pretend to virtue in the league. The old diplomacy was at least frankly cynical; the new is thoroughly hyprocritical. The old diplomacy never had the effrontery to do openly what the commission of the league did to confess in so many words its own dishonesty. By Our Peers a time in this republic when the trial by jury was held to be the palladium of our liberties, metimes we feel like asking if that time has gone? It has not, and yet there is to- day much thoughtful discontent respecting the Americ jury. An institution that at all times should func- tion for the greater good of the people shows now and again a tendency toward decay. A su- preme court justice who speaks with a full knowledge of the facts when he declares that the failure of jurors to regard their oaths is undermining law enforcement in the country. Often the jury will not convict when evidence of guilt is plain, is self-apparent, and when the state clearly has won its case for the people. There v equipped for conducting its business affairs. If this is good reasoning the new school sen-| ator should direct his attention to other federal | agencies that have been supposed to call for| specially equipped directors and incumbents, | He should not overlook the possibilities of reor. ganizing the federal health service by excluding physicians and surgeons and scientific experts generally. He should demand that the United, States military establishment should be placed in control of those wholly ignorant of and with out training in military affairs. His stern chal-| lenge should be that farmers and other land lub bers should be put in command of the battleships of the navy and that all lawyers should be ban ished from the department of justice. Last but not least he should insist that all sovereign states of the union should follow Min nesota’s example and send to the United States senate, not statesmen with conception of public duties, but persons of his own limitations, to keep him company, and assist in making the pub: lic business ridiculous, and representative goy ernment a joke. Echoes of the Past After the sore and costly experience with gov ernment operation of the railroads it is strange | that any sane person would Jend a listening ear to the advocates of government ownership at this time. During government operation freight and pas-| senger rates were increased to a point higher than any railroad management had ever dared| to ask. So large was the increase in operating ex- penses that with the highest rates ever known there was a deficit in the stipulated income of most roads which had to be paid by the govern ment by taxes upon the people Neither is it so long ago that shippers and the traveling public should forget how during gov- ernment operaion they were denied the right to route their shipments and were deprived of con- yeniences in tr rights or privileges, which-| ever you may choose to call them, which they al-| wars had enjoyed The net result poorer at in ler private operation overnment operation service pase cost Why, then should there be talk of government |they were, then the nation is in peril. [must be that these men and women were incom. | jtu free {him liberty, Such verdicts as these are making | ly was |V The: there a panel of average American cit s, and to the bystanders the nature of their verdict seems a foregone conclusion. The de- fendant himself is downcast. Counsel for the de- fense knows that the fight is lost. The jury| gravely retires, and presently emerges to report that it has found the defendant not guilty, The | court knows that this is a travesty on justice, | the defendant knows it, so does the public—and | the jury as well. Since*it is unthinkable that this sort of jury representative of sound American citi- ve been mistaken in the lief that the jurors were average c) If petents, that they were unabl to grasp the re. sponsibility gf their station or to realize the na- e of the oath. They did not deliberate upon the gnilt or the innocence of the defendant, but up- on a much more elemental matter. They debated whether they wished to punish him or set him and not wishing to punish him they gaye} ery of our laws and of the trial by jury. The Basis : “The foundation of all progress, all govern ment and all civilization is religion.” The quotation is from President Coolidge’s let- ter on the consecration of an Episcopal bishop. Still it rings with the identical fervor of a Paul jaddressing the early Christians. It is true, however, that the country had come at least to the dangerous frontier of irreligion. It is no less true that the country has faced out, and with firm step and head held high is pressing back to the faith of the fathers. It is powerful lay sermon the president has preach- worthy that it came from a layman. nt religious revival comes largely from 1. In many respects it is less the masses ple of all demoninations answering the call 13 of pe of the church than it is a call for the church sent out by the people. This time the flocks are seeking the shepherd. If as he said very truly the “strength of the country lies in its religious con ictions,” we should he at the dawn of a brighter ind more heart-warming era than we have ever known. ~ + = TO SUPPLY FUEL The St. Louis Globe Democrat Says the league of nations’ hose should be turned on Italy, but what's the use when the pressure on the league of nations boiler is so low?—Detroit Free Press. pestis FARMERS REMEDY ‘The farmers last year produced an immense crop of potatoes, far in ex- cess of what the country was able to absorb. Result, prices below the cost of production. Crop estimates indicate that they have not repeated that error this year. Why should not the wheat farmers be as sensible? Why continue to produce more wheat than the market will absorb?—Sioux City Journal. pec ste Aiea 1920 VERDICT VINDICATED The Balkans are a slumbering yoleano ready to burst into flame at any moment and devastate half of Europe. We can do little except to maintain our independence and stay out of the hotbed of hate. The sagacity and the righteousness ot that 7,000,000 majority against for- eign entanglements is once more emphatically demonstrated. — Cedar Rapids Republican. PROVES IT Speaking before Peabody college at Nashville, Tenn., recently, Sena- tor Underwood declared that war is today more probable in Europe than it was in 1915. He went on to say that the fact that Europe's credits are strangled delays the event. If that be true, material aid extended by America might hasten an out- break. It has been held by those opposed to the United States mixing up in the European tangle that any. funds advanced for the Old World’s rehabilitation would be divided be- tween reconstruction and prepara- tions for war. America does not wish to contribute aid to Europe in that way—Stoux City Journal. ATLANTIC - CITY, Oct. 11.— (United Press.)}—"Serve and adver- tise.” This is the recipe for successful operation of an electric railway given by Britton I. Budd, president of the Chicago, North Shore & Mil- waukee line, which today was awarded the Charles A. Coffin elec- tric tranportation prize for 1923. The prize, consisting of $1,000 in cash and a medal, was given at the close of the convention and will be awarded annually by the General Electric company to the electric railway doing the best work for public and industry. A score of electric railways com- peted this year. The Budd road won largely on its showing in popu- larizing service, increasing public good will and improving relations with its employes. money for their benefit fund. This action, arranged by the donors, 1s in keeping with Budd's practices. “The aim of the management is to make every employe feel that he or she is an important part of the organization,” Budd says. Make Employes Happy. Much time and money ts spent an- nually by the company in giving thelr employes better education en- couraging them to become Amer!- can citizens (if foreign-born), and helping them bulld homes. ployes seldom are discharged. man or woman does not fit in one HOPELESS TASK If Europe didn’t learn enough to let war alone during the late World war, how can Uncle Sam expect to teach her anything?— Humbolt (owa) Republican. ———_— EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS It 4s evidence of steady habits that President Coolidge did not “lay | off a @ay or two when he got his pay check.—Pittsburg Gazette- Times. eee YAP AND WRANGLE Having stopped wrangling about Yap island in the south Pacific, the diplomats are beginning to ‘yap about Wrangle island in the Arctic ocean.—Fremont (Neb.) Tribune. LOOK TO YOUR LOCAL TAXES The federa] government has been able to make a big saving in ex- enses and to accumulate a surplus which can be used for the reduction |of the national debt. At the time of the announcement of this saving the states and municipalities were asked to endeavor to undertake economies of their own. So far as jwe have heard there has not been a single response. The smaller divi- sions of government are not taking kindly to the idea that they, too, have a share in the responsibility for lifting the great burden of taxa- tion. Being a conspicuous institution, the government at Washington is not ikely to backslide and resume the easy-come, easy-go attitude with the people's money. It would be caught at if. The states and cities are more obscure. Their finances are not carefully watched. But they must be if ever a real inroad is to be made into the mountain of taxes that, more than anything else, !s the cause for political unrest in the United States.—Toledo Blade. i\CHICAGO-MILWAUKEE LINE CAPTURES PRIZE Position, he is transferred to others, until he finds his proper niche. Accomplishments by the road in- clude increasing its gross passenger earnings five times in seven years and its freight earnings fifteen times in five years. Ten years ago it was in a receiver's hands. ‘The company’s annual advertising appropriation is the largest of any electric railway in the United States. Newspaper space, car signs, com- ! pany publications, billboards, motion Pictures and other mediums are utilized. “No matter how frequently trains may run,” Budd says, “if they are made up of cars of obsolete type, unsightly in appearance and un- comfortable in riding qualit! the: ISN’T IT SO! A lot of people are criticizing the anthracite coal strike settlement, and perhaps it is open to criticism, but those same people would be yelling much more loudly if the strike had not been stopped.—De- troit Free Press. —_——__— BIG STICK Unfortunately it remains true that the best way to keep most peo- ple and most nations respectable is them if they go wrong.—Detroit Free Press. > “ WHO’S TO BLAME A pleasant little item from Eng- stores of Great Britain to an un- named government in northern Europe. It is hinted that one con dition of the sale was that the masks should not go to Germany or Russia. It is believed that Dutch |{nterest made the purchase with the | object of reselling to some country like Poland which feels it necessary to be prepared for all eventualities. —Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. POITICS PULLS THE STRINGS There is no lack of power among the present members of the league. If they hold the objects of the league above other considerations they could and would have taken over the situations at once. But the supreme council 1s only the greatest powers under another name and to think that its course will ever be other than any expression of their policies and interests {s self- deception. If we want to play in that game, a seat is ready for us. If we retain our common sense that seat will remain empty.—Chicago Tribune. will not meet with popular favor. If the cars are good and the road- bed in bad conditions the service will not satisfy the public. If em- ployes are untidy in appearance. careless in the manner in which they perform their work, if they do a small favor for a passenger grudg- ingly and only when asked, the ser vice is not satisfactory. agents are not ready to answer cor- rectly and promptly any and all questions asked by the public relative to service, prospective cus. tomers will turn away disappointed and form a poor opinion of the com- pany.” Emmons, former president American Electric Railway association, Balti- You’ll Never Forget MRS. WALLACE REID ery an “HUMAN WRECKAGE” Wyoming—Starts Saturday ee Employes will get the $1,000 prize | Em: | Ifa) _ whe There is a touch tN ss re they “the Coffee ~ elicious of romance to coffee. Butter-Nut coffee sets one a day-dreaming of the fragrant tropics, of sunny seas. Drink Butter-Nut, the Coffee Delicious, the best the tropics produce, blended with a deliciousness, flavor and fragrance inimitable. Ww w coffee from the ground up —” will be that business office sup- plied by us with all the neces- sary paraphernalia for trgns- acting business. Efficiency economy, and results are the things that follow an office system well supplied by The Mills Co. Printing plant, stationery and office equipment store, 240 East Second, (Becklinger Bldg) *cthe result of expert blending of the finest importations—over @ of many years Never sold in bualle to keep before them a lively ap- | preciation of what will happen to | land deals with the sale of a mil-| Mon gas masks from the surplus | If ticket | The prize was awarded by C. D. | more, Mé.;J. H. McGraw of the Mo- Graw-Hill company, New York, and John G, Barry and A. H. J of the Schenectady, N. ¥. between North Chicago and Milwaukee and , OCTOBER 11, 1923 practically parallels one of the best railway lines in the Middle West. rSeacB ee ane, General Electric company, | Just received two carloads of used furniture, everything in the line of household furnishings. Harned Fur- niture Co., Phone 249. 284 S. David. Budd's road operates WHAT CA’ KNOWS ABOUT GOODYEAR TIRES The oil men say that a tire that will stand up to oilfield service will stand anything. And the tire men certainly have to agree It is conditions like these that have tested and proved the new Goodyear Cord Tire with the beveled All-Weather Tread, and made it the special favorite of the Casper oil fields. The rugged strength of Goodyear group- ply construction, the tough wear-resisting rubber in the sidewalls, and the famous All-Weather Tread itself, result in a tire life and a tire economy that you need not ex- pect from anything but Goodyear Tire quality. s . * 4s Goodyear Service Station Dealers we sell and recommend Goodyear Tires and back them up with standard Goodyear Service Casper Buick Co. Schulte Hardware Co. GOODSYEAR le Imagine the purchase of an evening’s elec- tric illumination on the “Cash ’n Carry” plan. Or a dinner’s worth of cooking gas through the “Piggly Wiggly” system. Not feasible, of course! But Public Utility service has other ad- vantages that greatly redound to the bene- fit of those who use it. aNd For instance, which eliminates tem. Gas, too, power. electricity delivers itself— the come-and-get-me sys- Provides its own carrying The low rates for telephone and street car service are due to similar advantages, Which are a few more of the little-known reasons why Utility service, valuable as it is, costs no more than it does. oP os Ry Natrona Power Co. & Northwestern TRAIN SCHEDULES a bean Westboun: No. 608........ East No. 606 ...... NO) 88.2.2 -e ee peeeneccacnncccccee ne No. 20. <<a nnnennnnwwenenaaneen= 8:10 D, m. --. 7:00 a. m -10.25 p. m