Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1923, Page 10

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The record vindicates both the reporter and the council. | To quote Mr. Pettingill further in this most important matter, he says: “I have attempted to have the present scale corrected on numerous occasions in the past and will continue to work to this end as long as I am a member of the city council of Casper de- spite the evident opposition of the evening news- paper.” Of course he has done just what he represents himself to have done. And with the same result} as he obtained at Monday night’s meeting—“It, failed to receive serious consideration.” When} a member repeatedly presents the same matter to a council and it never secures serious con- sideration, what does it become but a joke? The main trouble is Mr. Pettingill has neith- er the weight nor the influence to put his mea-| sure through, no matter what its merits may At this particular time, when the present council has but a few days of service before it expires by limitation, it would be the height of impropriety, if not a piece of gratitutous pre- sumption to fix salaries of appointive officers in the face of an incoming council, whose pre-| rogative this.matter would clearly be. The city} council Monday evening very properly and very clearly took this view and therefore Mr. Pet- tingill’s motion “failed to receive serious con- sideration.” \ Mr. Pettingill retires from membership in the city council very early in January. If memory serves he was-a candidate for mayor of the city of Casper at the city election on November 6th. The official returns of that election will show that out of a total of 4,118 votes cast for candi-! dates for that office Mr. Pettingill received 312} being the low man, with the exception of two can- didates receiving a few scattering votes. Being 1,642 votes behind the winning candidate and from five to six hundred votes behind the next higher candidates. In other words in that elec- tion there were 312 votes for Mr. Pettingill and} 806 votes against him—those who did not de- sire him to be mayor. Still further, for every vote cast for Mr. Pettingill there were at least 131 Recalling the Steam Roller restoring to the southern states the num- vet slagstes in the National Republican convention held by that section prior to the ap- portionment determined by the National conven- tion of 1920, by action of the Republican Nation- al committee, is cause for much surprise among ublicans everywhere who have bung their Re > : Neath over the “southern disgrace” for many ry i. yeithe committee’s action is surprising ‘because it has gone squarely counter to the decision of the national convention itself and apparently has presumed to override an authority which is higher than itsown. By what right the com- mittee may reverse the deliberate action of the national convention will doubtless be made clear, put the performance is very singular whatever may be said for the technical propriety or the wisdom of it. : The convention of 1920, in the effort to min- imize the long-standing political scandal of the voting power of Southern delegates which rep- resented States without the least Prospect of casting electoral votes for the Republican ticket, adopted, a new rule. It provided for two addi- tional delegates-at-large from each State cast- ing its vote for the Republican presidential nom- inee in the last preceding presidential election and one district delegate for each congressional district maintaining therein a Republican‘ dis- trict organization and casting 2500 votes or more for any Republican elector in the last preceding presidential election or for the Republican nom- inee for congress in the last preceding congres- sional election. The rule as amended provided that there shall be three additional delegates-at- large for states that voted for Harding, and that at least one district delegate shall be elect- ed from each congressional district. The increase in the number of delegates from the states that voted Republican in 1920 more than balances the number of delegates restored to the hoplessly Democratic States in the South, | yet the movement for the reduction in the rep- resentation of the so-called rotten boroughs is! checked, while the increase in the total number of delegates in the convention tends to make it more unwieldy and unmanageable. It will have a membership on the new basis of’ eleven hundred ten as compared with nine hundred eighty-four in the last convention. The compromise is doubtless intended to mollify the southern Republicans, but whether true or not, the action will be promptly charged to the administration as having been done to strengthen its control of the next convention by votes cast against him, for, he “failed to receive serious consideration.” Corn in Wyoming Showing a friendly interest in the corn grow- ing movement lately inaugurated in Wyoming and culminating in a successful corn show at Worland, in which many counties of the state} participated, the Billing Gazette has the fol-| lowing to say about Wyoming's successful agri-| cultural experiment, which is practically a du- plicate of Montana’s experience: “Wyoming has joined the ranks of the corn states. Wyoming’s first annual corn show has; just been concluded at Worland. It was most} successful. According to press dispatches the ex-; hibits of corn that were shown astonished even the Wyoming people themselves. Of course Wy- | oming people have known for many years that! just as good corn can be grown in Wyoming as any place else, but this is the first time in the history of the state that any concerted movement | has been made to gather a display of corn. As| a result the Wyoming public generally was no} doubt surprised at the extent of the corn grow- ing industry in its own state. “Montana had much the same experience. Corn was grown in this state for many years on odd, lots and in remote sections by newcomers from the middle west corn belt, before it attracted | statewide attention. Miles City business men, taking cognizance of the “success that attended | corn raising in eastern Montana, fostered the industry and organized the Montana State Corn show, just as the business men of Worland have now got behind the Wyoming State Corn show. “Overnight, almost, corn has become a crop of importance in Montana, of such importance, | in fact that it bids fair to establish a new era} of farm prosperity in this state. “Corn and hogs” | is the slogan heard everywhere and in corn and hogs, Montana sees a future that is going to| surpass even its most prosperous days of wheat growing or of cattle and sheep growing. “Wyoming has the same opportunity and it is encouraging to note that there is under way! in that state a definite movement to take ad- yantage of it.” Do Tell! means of the increased southern delegations. The action is of very doubtful wisdom. Speakng of Jokes Mr. John S. Pettingill, member of the city council from the second ward complains in a signed statement in a morning newspaper, that he has been misrepresented in a news account of council proceedings. The following is the complete item as it appeared in the Tribune's ac- count of tke council meeting hold Monday eve- ning: “Councilman J. S. Pettingill jokingly made a motion that the salaries of the policemen be raised to $200 a month and the salary of the chief of police be raised to $500 a month. It failed to receive serious consideration.” And the following is the incomplete item Mr. Pettingill quotes as part of his complaint: “Dirty Polities” “Councilman J. S ttingill jokingly made a motion that the salaries of the policemen be raised to $200 a month and the salary of the} chief of police be raised to 0 a month.” — By omitting the last senten n the Tribune's item, Mr. Pettingill either accidentally or pur- posely destroyed the answer to his complaint. When Mr. Pettingill made his motion he did do it in a jocular manner as other councilmen have since testified. That it was considered a joke, is further evidenced by the manner in which the council received the motion. “It failed to receive serious consideration.” And if the rec- ord of the meeting makes any mention of the Pettingill motion at all, which under the cir- cumstances is not likely, it will further confirm the reporter’s account as correct. Mr, Pettingill desires the world to understand in the “most emphatic manner.” not joking about the raise in pi r Be that as it m he should cultivate that air | and manner of seriousness that would convince his fellow councilmen whether or not he was springing a Joke on them. The reporter writes as he»sees, and writes correctly. Council judges |ment is costing too much and will have to cut Just how far does the Wyoming state board of agriculture hope to get with its proposal for an income tax upon business, wage earners. profes- sional people and the like. These tax proposers talk like the people mentioned were not already loaded up with all the kinds of taxes they are able to curry and still survive. The plea back | of it is that the farming interests of the state are practically bankrupt and it is desired to relieve them of some of the burden, by shifting! charges for state support to some other class! which is now groaning along with the farmers} over the weight of taxation. 4 Look the state of Wyoming over and find any interest that can stand any additional assess- ment. The thing to do in Wyoming is not to introduce any novel taxation schemes but to economize by another route. Abolish a large and varied collec- tion of useless boards and commissions that | cause a drain upon the people’s treasury and do} not render adequate service for their cost. Among them include the agricultural board, | which has the impudence to exceed any author-; ity it legally possesses and presumes upon its own imaginary importance when it assumes to raphe Nt the people of Wyoming upon fiscal af- airs. State. government would cost a whole lot less than it does if fifty per cent of the boards and/ commissions were abolished. All there is to them is the jobs. So far as actual benefits are con-| cerned they are nil. In most of these make be- lieve activities there is not enough real work to entertain one active and able worker whereas six to eight are on the job. The agricultural board will have a fat chance to get over with its income tax to sustain itsel? and other boards of its kind at.the public trough, for the people of the state have long since ar- rived at the conclusion that our state govern ts expenses and establish greater ecunomy if it is to receive any support whatever. The board, officer or individual who even thin much less expresses any idea of new or additional taxes in Wyoming is a fit subject to be Jed before the firing squad. |Louls Cardinals, cupping his ears, be. | Dyke, for a quarter of a million, but The Opinion of Other Newspapers The Price of Stars The fans of old thought money talked In a loud tone when the Bos- ton Nationals bought “King” Kelley for $10,000. It was only a faint whisper. Nowadays money must shout at the top of its lungs to get even respectful attention. To the cash offer by “Squire” Ebbets, of| Brooklyn, of $275,000 for Roger | Hornsby, the president of the St. replies, “I can scarcely hear you.” ‘Mr. Ebbets might go: out Into the market and perhaps acquire a Rem- brandt, certified by Professor Van he can hardly expect to obtain a first-class second baseman for such a paltry sum. It is true that “Babe” Ruth went at a bargain to Colonels Ruppert| and Huston for $137,500. That was some*time back. Were he to go to! the auction block today his owners might, if they chose, endow a col- lege handsomely with the proceeds of his sale. The baseball magnates deal in about the most precious merchandise in the world, with the possible ex- ception of “movie” stars, The motion-picture producers may well envy the feudal lords of the diamond who dispose of their serfs at will and to their own enrichment, where- as the darlings of the screen com- mand the signatures on the dotted Unes and build casti@ in Hollywood. Mr. Hornsby, it is understood, would be glad to leave St. Louts for two cents. @iis wishes, however, are not consulted.—New York Tribune. fe aT Equal Rights As had been predicted the. proposed amendment of the Federal Constitu- tion, sponsored by the Woman's party, giving the women of the United States precisely the same legal status as men, is not being wel- comed by all of its supposed benefi- cianes. Some of them are begin- ning to point out that there may be decided disadvantages in a condi- tion of perfect equality and that if “equal rights" are to mean abolition of special privileges now enjoyed the price paid may be too great. The proposed amendment reads: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdic tion."* Out fn Kansas Senator Curtis and Representative D. R. Anthony, a relative of the late Susan B. An- thony, have agreed to introduce the resolution in Congress for the pro- posed amendment. As one of the pioneer woman suffrage States of the Union, where for more than a generation women have voted and held office, it was thought particul arly appropriate that the Congres- sional resolution should have for sponsors legislators from Kansas. Sofhé surprise therefore, has been occasioned by the announcement that the Kansas League of Women Voters is strongly opposed to the equal rights amendment and so are other organizations representing 35,000 women. Their reason is thar such an amendment would practical ly nullify most of the welfare legis’a tion enacted in behalf of women dur ing the last twenty years, such ar that providing pensions for widows and mothers with children to sup port and fixing maximum hours of |labor for women in industry.—Pitts. burg Chronicle-Tetegraph. ——_— Dodging Chicago Cleveland’ and not Chicago ts tc have the Republican convention nex* June, and for the first time in a good many years energetic Mr, Upham has had to acknowledge defeat be cause of opposition from the White House. The primary reason for sending the convention to Ohio is said to be a pecullar one. The supporters of President Coolidge are reported afraid of Chicago as a Johnson stronghold and uneasy lest a stamp. ede of delegates be engineered at the proper’ moment in the convention balloting to benfit the senator from California. Personally, we do not believe tha’ Chicago favors Senator Jonnson to such a degree as that, or even that the Johnson boosters are in the ma. jority. If the shepherds of the Coolidge | { presidential boom are guarding so carefully against hostile inroads at this stage of the political game Hiram must seem to them a lo‘ stronger than most of them have thus far admitted: or else we must ‘ATTENTION SCHOOL TEACHERS For the accommodation of School Teachers and others the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad will hold Eastbound Passenger Train No. 32, de- parting from Casper at Four Fifteen P. M. Friday, December 21st. Make your reservations today. J. A. LEARY, Division Passenger Agent. FOR RENT Store room 20x60 with full basement in Chandler building, 617 East Second street. Inquire at A. E. Chandler Filling Station set it down to a display of inherent New England Caution. — Chicago Post. Cheer Up! In his reguiar department !n the Baltimore American of Tuesday Mr. B. C. Forbes quoted the following skit from the Boston Chronicle of 1800, a parody on “Prices Current,” a regular newspaper feature of those »| times: PRICES CURRENT Law—Falling rapidly. Modesty—Female, quite out of fashion. Morals—Falling rapidly. National—Much in demand. Poverty—A plentiful harvest ex- pected. Public ance. Public Offices—To be had only in barter. Public Virtue—A contraband arti- cle; if discovered, would ruin its pos- sessor. Religion—No price. Seats in Congress—Dog cheap. Taxes—In great abund- Plenty of pessimism today, but it doesn't compare with the holepless- ness of 123 years ago. The World’s Longest Paved Highway BY FRED PATEE ‘The Pacific Highway 1s 1,687 miles long and all but 115 miles of the entire distance is paved. What do you think of that? A highway that connects three nations, the United States, Canada and Mexico, and all of it paved but 115 miles. Can you beat that? Talk about America’s “Applan Way” they have it on the Pacific coast. On October 25th last there met at Olympia Washington representatives from California, Ore- gon, Washington and British Colum- bia, to celebrate the completion of seven hundred miles of paving on the Pacific Highway, in British Colum- bia, Washington and Oregon. A notable ceremony was held in front of the Union Jack, and the Stars and Stripes. And well they might celebrate, for they have al- most finished the longest stretch of paved highway in the entire world.tourists in t! From Mexico to Vancouver the high- way is complete and every foot of it is paved with the exception of 115 miles in Northern California. Work will be begun immediately on the un- paved portion so that there will be an unbroken ribbon of hard'surfaced highway from Tia Juana to Vancou- ver. New York has its Broadway, Chicago its Michigan Ave., and the ‘West has its Pacific Avenue. Its wonders will be the writers theme and poets will sing of its glories—a 1600 mile avenue! An accomplish- ment worthy of the men who con- ceived it, of those who made !t pos- sible and of them that executed it. The Victoria Daily Times of No- vember 12th says-of it “It stands today as the most colossal road build- ing feat in the history of the world. There is nothing on the entire con- tinent that will do more to attract years to come than THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1923 SS ere a a ee eae eee en this great highway.” And what is of the greatest interest to us here in Wyoming is the fact that 1,000 miles of this wonderful highway is a part of the Park-to-Park Highway of which the Yellowstone highway is a very important leg. Time will come in fact is already here, when thousands upon thousands of tour- ists will ride over the Yellowstone highway to get to the Pacific avenue. Time will come when the Park-to- Park highway will be paved all around the entire loop, and what are we here in Wyoming waiting for? Why do we not get busy and do our share right now? Isn’t‘{t a shame to let the good grade and gravel highway between Casper and Glen- rock go to ruin for lack of a hard surface? Why not surface it and make {t a real boulevard and set an example for the rest of the Yellow- stone Highway? Wyoming with all of her oi] revenues should be ab- solutely ashamed of herself to let the Pacific coast with her long stretches of uninhab‘:ed and sparsely settled coast country beat us to a first class paved highway. —————— BIG AUCTION SALE There wil] be a big auction sale at 234 South David, Saturday after- noon at 2 p. m. of household furnt- ture, rugs, bedding, cooking utensils dshes, glassware, Harned Fur- Co.. 234 S. David. P! 249. iture air test Coffee win. Copyright 1923}. A. F & Ce.) WARNE AND CROSBY From now until Christmas we are at your service for the best in Groceries, Meats, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. A Few Specials for Christmas Week Extra large fresh Head Lettuce. . 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Special attention will be parties at the Elks Home given to private New Year's Eve. completed in time to take care of the crowd. There will be dancing and refreshments of all kinds will be served. Make your reservations now. Phone 1801 ‘Ask for Curly Mason —Or See— JIMMY RUSSELL At the New Second Street Public Market