Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1923, Page 8

«=P + (eee "AGE EIGHT LS IN EN ESEN SEN ESS ETDs = LEDS SELES chs S SE AR OO Che Caspet Daily Cridune WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1923 Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive'y entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ly Tribune issued every evening and very Sunday, ut Casper, ribune Building, oppo- The Casper The Sunday M Wyoming. Pu site postoffice. paca tome ier ene ae Se ES be. 2 ER Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916, Departments. By J. BE. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chi 6 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg- Suite 404 Sbaron Bidg., 55 New Mont fotnery St., San Francisco, Cal Copies of the Dally ‘Tribune are on fila in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors aro welcome Member of Audit Bureav of Circulation (A. B. C.) 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The celebration of this rite is now at its height throughout the land. It consists mainly and wholly in admonishing the dear people to do it early and have the vexatious ceremony off their hands. It used to be that the merchants, alone, spread the wise advice, because people of that day were more deliberate and fully as procrastinating as they are in this day, and it invariably came about that the heft of it oc: curred on the evening before the day the calen- proclaimed to be December twenty-fifth. Then the merchants successfully urged the newspapers to take up the propaganda, which has been put over in concert ever since. Put over so regularly, proficiently, industriously, elaborately and so assiduously that it has be- come an institution of the first twenty-four days of December in each and every season. That results have been obtained through this gratuitous though seemingly necessary urging, is doubtful. For as the years roll by just as many or even more persons can be found busily engaged on the evening of the twenty-fourth, as was ever known in the past. Some purveyor of propaganda has for a slogan—“Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success.” We are unaware of anyone on the job, who has grown weary in the way of well- doing, or even discouraged, but surely we can not refrain from acknowledging that ultimate success, seems at-the present moment an undue number of laps ahead. Just what is it all about? A pertinent in quiry indeed. It is really nothing more than the usual, friendly and courteous suggestion that if possible and agreeable to your personal and private arrangements, and compatible with the state of your finances to do your early Christ mas shopping ¢trly. The retailer, with a greater eye to business would add—“while the stocks are fresh and the lines unbroken.” Now, we feel that we have once more done our duty. That a great weight of responsibil ity has been transferred from our shoulders to the shoulders of those more directly inter- ested and better able to sustain the weight. But, in the doing of this annual duty, if we have induced just one lone shopper to rush down town and frantically put it over, we shall feel amply repaid for the latest effort. Calling the Radicals It is about time some such organization as the “Sentinéls of the Republic’ came to the front to call radicals, in and out of public life, to account for some of their utterances and actions respecting American institutions. These birds, whether they are in congress or just barkers on soap boxes on the street cor- ners, are bent on destruction. The more at- tention they attract to themselves the wider becomes their limit. It is only because of the influence they may exert upon the uninformed, and it is only that they accumulate numbers and by this strength attempt to use force that they become dangerous. In exercising their power, which is at most a puny minority, the noise they make in the ab sence of opposition from the others who regard American institutions as secure, passes for a movement stronger than it is in fact. These radicals are apparently dissatisfied with the constitution and the Supreme Court. They propose amendments to the former thrt would practically abolish both of the great Am- erican institutions, The Sentinels have made it the first order of their business to make these radicals in con gress, and on the outside prove their assertions respecting these two institutions, and keep ham- mering them until they supply such proof or shut up and retreat. The socialists ard the radical senators of the LuFollette type have been freely charging the supreme court with “ursupation” of its powers. The Sentinels are now challenging .these dis- turbers to prove their charges or publicly with- draw them. It is well that there is some patirotic interest with sufficient intestines to call these birds for apparently there is no one left on either side of congress to do the job. Kind Woids” The esteemed La some mighty kind thing : Community Chest camy n just closed, which we cannot refrain from publishing as a fine example of good will on the part of a neighbor- ing contemporary. The Republic amie Republican says yout Casper and to raise and over five times as much as the bud get of this city. But what is still more inter esting is the fact that Casper not only raised its $54,000 but even went beyond that amount. She did a one hundred per cent job plus. The question naturally arises with respect to our! own town, which is still this side of $8,000 on its canvass for $10,000. What is the matter with Laramie? Can't we get into the Casper class?” More Fantastic Finance A report comes out of the northwest that probably the Farmer-labor party will urge a bor dollar,” discarding the gold standard. It is proposed that the new money be based on a certain amount of labor, and claimed that it will circumvent the money trust and give greater elasticity to money. This is another plan to discard good money on a gold standard and substitute irredeemable paper money. Such money would drop in purchasing power to al most nothing, as is the case in Germany today. If money is based alone on labor performed, with no approximate unit or standard, its value would vary and finally drop to the level of the most inefficient labor and finally to the level of no labor at all. Such a plan is utterly im- practicable and certainly leading to ruin for the wage earners. Germany now has a cur- rency based on labor performed, and it requires a month’s labor to buy a loaf of bread. Does that sound good to wage-earners? Fearless Ones Some army engineer has declared the White House unsafe. The announcement comes as a surprise to most of us who had regarded the structure as both staunch and stable. Had the engineer reported the various roads leading thereto as being in that condition he would have commanded more attention. There are many gentlemen in the country who will tako a chance on the dangers said to be present in the historical structure, and even put forth strenuous efforts to expose themselves to them. Oil Is King In November just passed, fifty-four new oil companies were launched in the United States with a total capital of $43,085,000. In October forty-six companies were organized with a cap- ital amounting to $79,669,000. Since and includ- ing 1918, more than #$12,500,000,000 of American i n invested in American oil com- alone more than $3,716,000,000 In eleven months of 1 more Oil now were invested. than $800,000,000 were invested. king. is Frisco and Hollywood It can be truthfully said that neither Hiram Johnson nor William G. McAdoo is of that par. ticular type of statesman who would rather be right than president. While it is altogether unlikely that either will be president, it is vio lating no confidence to mention casually that neither would care much about being right if he could only be president. Hiram can thunder like a wind storm from the upper reaches of the Sierras concerning generalities but McAdoo who cannot out-crow him can ontbluff him. If either captures a presidential nomination it will probably be the beady-eyed bird rather than the baying hound. The gentleman from San Francisco roars and smokes like Mount Vesuvius, but the gentleman from Hollywood can rob’an eagle’s nest under the mother eagle’s eye. Your confidence man goes farther, survives longer than your black jack tough-custome® These are impolite figures of speech. Nei- ther gentleman would steal anything—smaller than a presidency. But either will promise anything, condemn anything, do anything to steal that. What Mr. McAdoo really believes about anything important no one knows. It doubtful if he knows himself. What Mr. Johnson really would do as president, probably would not be as harmful as what he threatens to do in order to be elected. He would most likely bitterly appoint his own particular followers, the original Johnson men, the radi- cals whom now he fires with denunciations. Of the two Hiram would make the better president. He rants now, whereas in power he would develop responsibility and evince conser- vatism. As president he would prove a fearful disappointment to his followers. He would display considerable more sense than he would please them. Whereas McAdoo as president might show the courage of his lack of convic- tions. He might display the consistency of an inveterate opportunist. Apparently the Hollywood bird hasn’t any convictions he wouldn’t swap. Ostensibly the San Francisco deep-voiced guardian of our nightly rest emits a conviction every time hv barks, but his bark as candidate would be worse than his bite as president. Thes two seekers after the great presidential office are spurious. Are their respective par- ties figuring on permitting them to put them- selves over? Unemployment Insurance A big eastern soap manufacturer has adopted a form of “unemployment insurance.” The com- pany adds to its profit sharing scheme a clause that “guarantees full time work for not less than forty-eight hours per week in each’ calen- dar year.” In other words, the company insures its employes steady work, unusual circumstances alone excepted. It applies “unemployment insurance” from within. And it adopts the right form of insur- ance—steady work, not “doles.” Here is another mple of foresight, and it is referred to manu- facturers for consideration. Tn a number of states unemployment insur- ance has been considered by the legislative state machinery, a state system of employment offices and a compulsory surance department were to be forced upon industry and the taxpayer. Industries must employ a fair number of men regularly, not a horde, irregularly, unless they want to witness proposals in legislatures for unemployment insurance bills. Mr. Mellon is in favor of a bonus. One for every federal taxpayer. So far we have heard no objection from that numerous individual. The Treasury Mellon is the direct cause of an old-fashioned belly-ache to a lot of fellows who had different ideas as to tax matters and treasury surplus. is now successfully operated between n says: “Casper, the metropolis of central Wyoming, nd the United States. Fine! Now decided to adopt the Community Chest plan,|these cussfired propagandists and general in and fixed as the goal of endeavor the large sum structors can remain at home and tell it to us, wf 54,000, $14,000 more than Cheyenne tried if they must, over the sad sea waves, Wool Sales KEMMERER.—Severa! more sales of wool in western Wyoming are re- ported this week, the lowest price paid beng 40 cenis and the highest |tha" forty years and was engaged 41 cents flat with no discount. J. B. Smith, who was a visitor in Rock Springs the frst of the week loaded his iarge clip at Carter the latter part of last week, selling to Eisman for 41 cents fat. E. J. who also paid the city a visit Tuesday, sold his wol to Harris, oading it out at Opal at 40) cents. The Quealy Livestock company of Cokeville, also sold during the past week, loading at Cokeville at 41 cents. Passing of Old Timer The Opinion of Other Newspapers The Little Farm The effect of the South Dakota vote must be large. Under the unt jue South Dakota system it does.not finally assure to the President that state's 12 delegates to the Republi can national convention next June. But It does give him the prestige of being the duly indorsed candidate, preferred by a registered majority of nearly two to one, when the ac tual presidential primary is held in South Dakota in March. Coming soon after the announcement of Johnson's candidacy it advertises the senator's weakness in a State of pronounced radical tendencies which was supposed to be one of his strong: holds. President Coolidge, on the other hand, has been more success: fully advertised’ as a farmer boy and a friend of the farmer's in a great agricultural section. That little farm up in Plymouth, Vt., may prove a bigger political asset than could be acquired with « aign fund of millions—Springfield Republican. More Little Homes Of 25,000,000 families in the Unitea States Ipss than 2,009,000 have in- comes 6f more than $48 a week, says the statistician Babson. But at least 75 per cent of the new homes built the last two years, Babson says, have cost more than $6.000 in cluding the land, which puts them within reach of nbout 10 per cent of prospective b ‘s and renters. The home building industry today is a matter of price, and some build. ers, Babson points out, are finding demand for houses which are Tteft unfinished inside, which gives the owner an opportunity to do the work himself at a great saving. Attrac tive six-room bungalows, built this way in Detroit, sell, land included, for $2,500. The building boom of the last two years has about supplied the de mand of those who can pay high prices, but there are several million people wanting moderate-priced dwellings and live-and-let-live rent —Cappers Weekly. Happy But Curious The reassembling of Congress finds the country less happy than curious over the outlook. Moreover, cur- fosity is mingled with some anxiety. Nobody ventures to predict what will happen, and optimistic persons will not be disappointed if nothing happens than the passing of the nec- essary appropriations measures ac- companied by the usual pre-election oratory. a ask for Horlick’ The ORIGINAL Malted Milk The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. QuickLunchat Home Office& Fountains. RichMilk, Malted Grain Extractin Pow- {er& Tablet forms. Nourishing-Nocooking. In Christmas Roses Carry the Spirit of Christ- mas into your home—send her a box of Casper Floral Roses. Flowers speak ina universal language— everyone understands the feeling and sentiment they carry. Cut Flowers— Greens—Potted Plants— Floral offerings for all occasions—at : Casper Floral Midwest Bldg. 153 S_ Wolcott Phone 872 It Happened in Wyoming Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired In, Telephone In, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined Beyond, has been a man of consid- erable importance in this part of the state. 1838 at Montrose, Pa. He has been a resident of Wyoming for more in newspaper work for the greater part of this time. His newspaper career began in 1854 as a printer in the picturesque little town of Mont-| rose, Pa. and continued for many years. Civil war Mr. Shaffer followed the fortunes of a war correspondent. He was later employed on the Bul'etin at Memph's, Tenn., and was there mixed up in jeral Forrest's cavalry in 1864, came west, \ mont, Neb., where he established the | | Heraid and later accepted a position EVANSTON.—William T. Shaffer with the Age at Evanston in 1876. who hag just passed to the Great After leaving this paper he printed tax reduction programme enacted we would like to see legislation pro viding for the consolidation of rail, road the d the World Court. that we are sanguine as to the hap pening of any of these things. the country’s time and money want- ed in fruitless policial manoeuvering and discussion. of measures fously the progress of the country. cultivate a philosophic attitude to- ward the inevitable—which ts that an uncertain, gress cannot produce much to the advantage of the nation, but, never- theless, must be endured.—Chicago Post. work, luncheon sets, towe’s and buf- fet sets, suitable for Christmas gifts. Phone 1075R in mornings. Carbon County News. In 1879 he) established the Uinta Chieftain at) Evanston, which paper he continued to publish for about twelve years. Mr. Shaffer held severa! important United States land office, county ly sentative of the Tenth Wyoming as-| sembly at Cheyenne. Takes Own Life ROCK SPRINGS.—The people of Rock Springs were greatly shocked when the report became public that Carl E. Johnson had committed sui- cide at some time 'n the early morn- ing, by shooting himself with a heavy calibre revolver. The suicide joccurred at the rear of the garage jat his home, 412 Walnut street. His He was born February 28, During the greater part of the the Rocky Mountain Courfer at|rash act is attributed by his friends Green River end in |878 established | to despondency over financial mat- the first paper in Carbon lounty, the ters. offices, ind'uding receiver of the! commissioners met in regular month- treasurer and tn 1909 was a repre- and on the last day applications were considered for the position of county assessor, week through the death of County Assessor John Love, Jr. cation, Soren Larson, former assess- or of Sweetwater county, as successor to Mr. Love assessor Springs, being one this city’s plo-| they are beng taken up as soon as neer citiens, and a stalwart in the’ they become optional Repub'ican county. have been on file for consideration’ turity. by the commissioners were those of W. G. Bailey, David Jones and the successful Mr. Larson, of Rock Springs, and Robert Anderson of Bitter Creek. Retiring School Bonds ROCK SPRINGS,—Schoo! District No. 4 is retiring $25,000 worth of bonds of the $65,000 issue which built the Senior High school build- ing in Rock Springs. Arrangements have also been made to retire the balance of the bonds at the end of four years, paying at the rate of $10,000 per year. The specified ma- turity of these bonds {s 1934, becom- ing optional in January, 1924, and New Assessor ROCK SPRINGS—The county session at Green River this week, made vacant last After deliberating over the app! was named The new. of Rock is a resident ‘This system of Sweetwater, of payment saves a large sum in in- | terest which would otherwise have ranks Among the applications known to) to be paid if the bonds went to ma little scrap with Gen- At the close of the Civil war he locating first at Fre- We would like to see Uncle Andy's ystems; we would like to see or opened for America to enter We cannot say We rather expect to see a lot of We fear we may see the passage which will check ser- Feeling thus, we are seeking to factiondriven Con- ——— Beautiful assortment of fancy — Expert watch ani jewelry repalr- Casper_Jewelry Be Co., 0. No matter what the weather conditions may be, the Humphrey Radiantfire is ready at a moment’s notice to provide warmth and cheer. 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