Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 8

: i : : ~ SEVER" ROMs at ee aE POL EEE RSESS FALL! PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Dailp Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper so the local news published herein. and sper Daily Tribune issued every evening anc Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building, toffice. per, opposite p 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. E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY pa Ris iho Mca ta inet eat nec anand Shh ES Advertising ntatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 St + 286 Fifth Ave., Ni ri 55 New Mont- of the Daily cisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) — SUBSCRIPTION RATES By One Year, One Year. Six Month Three Mont! y One Month, Daily and Per Copy --.- wicks By Mail Inside State One Year, Dally and Sunda; One Year Sunday Only --- Six Months, Daly ané¢ Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sun¢ay ~ All subscriptions must be paid Daily Tribune wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don't find your Tribune after looking care- fully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. Back to Barbarism A group of persons in this country, more or less formidable, are obsessed with the idea that their missioin in life is to overthrow the| eighteenth ‘amendment, and restore personal liberty to damage themselves and _ others, Theirs is the bold, battering-ram frontal at- tack method. Solidly massed behind them is the entire criminal element of the United States, and beyond. Are their interests our interests? Still more numerous and including some of our so-called “eminently respectable” citizens | is another group. They are full of soft words and deprecating gestures. Repeal the eighteenth amendment? Bring back the saloon? Perish the thought! . Nevertheless, they are busy sap- ping and mining in the rear of the amendment, reminding one of the ancient Joab who said to Amasa, “Art thou in health, my brother?” And plunged a sword under his fifth rib. It won’t make any practical difference in the result whether the amendment is smashed in from the front or blown up from the rear. If you sell wine and beer, there must be a place to sell them. And it won’t change the character of the place an iota, whether you call it a saloon or a “refreshment parlor.” A skunk will smell just as rank though you politely term him a “polecat”. Such refreshment parlors would prove a menace to our youth who are now free from the temptations of the open saloon. The alcoholic who has hit the tobog- gan slide toward perdiiion didn’t get his initial velocity from raw whiskey. . Flood the land with wine and beer and every hard-boiled old bum or anyone else can get any percent of kick he desires anywhere. The Goy- ernment could not furnish enforcement agents enough to make a record of more than one-half of 1 per cent. The Eighteenth Amendment would quickly be discredited, soon be as dead as Julius Caesar, and the only decent thing to do would be to drag out its malodorous carcass and bury it “with the burial of an ass.” No Congress, no Supreme Court, no power on earth can ever make alcohol harmless, or nonintoxicating. Slavery and the liquor traffic are twin relics of barbarism. And if we again legalize the sale of alcohol for beverage purposes we shall pre- sent the. astounding spectacle of a so-called Christian nation going back to barbarism. Another One Another fool peace plan has been brought to light. The author, Admiral McGowan, Us58. N., retired, ought to know better. In his plan, he suggests that the constitution be so amended to require, before this country can declare or participate in war, except in the case of inva- sion or attack, that there must be a referendum, each voter to sign his or her name on the bal- lot for subsequent identification. Then if the majority voted peace, there the matter would end. Something of that nature took piace in 1916, after we had been attacked’ on the high seas. The Democrats,’using the slogan, “he kept us out of war,” declared that a vote for Hughes was a vote for war and a yote for Wilson was a yote for peace. The country reelected Wil- son, but we were in the war a month after his second inauguration. } Admiral McGowan does not define what he means by invasion or attack. ‘Conceivably, while a nation-wide referendum was being ar- ranged} a nation or group of nations aligned against the United States might, without actual invasion or attack, secure strategic positions which would be perilous to the country, Surely, former Paymaster McGowan would not advo- cate a plan which would permit such a situa- tion to develop. “Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he that gets his blow in ‘fust’.” Protection The Fordney-McCumber tariff bill was de- mounced by every free-trader, every free-trade newspaper and every internati ist, in the United States during the period of its consid- eration in congress. The denunciation became more and more vitriolic as the bill approached enactment. The opposition was unconcerned with facts—it was out to defeat the bill. Even after enactment, on the eve of a congressional election, misstatements continued regarding the operation of the act and an effort was made to make people believe that it would cost the coun- try $4,000,000,000 annually, that it would great- ly reduce imports and that it would seriously curtail exports. The people were led to believe some of these assertions, with the result that a congress was elected that is unable to do busi- ness a radical element holding the balance of pewer in each branch of congress and exercising if to the nation’s injury. The new tariff act has very ¢ our imports, and these incre noticable in dutiable th eatly increased ses are much more an in non-dutiable art hicago, Boston, | dence to manufacturers and thus led to extended and general employment throughout the coun- try. and the wages of workers approximate those of the peak period at the close of the World War. Exports have also increased although the op- ponents of an adequate protective tariff insisted that there would be an enormous falling off in our exports. And finally, the revenue f: protective tariff has nearly doubled, as compar- ed with previous tariff acts, the total being very close to $600,000,000 during the year just closed. The country—that is industries and the peo- ple, transportation agencies, merchahts — has been immensely benefited by the operations of our adequate protective tariff. A free-trade tar- iff always closes up industries, throws workers out of employment and brings untold misery in its trail. An adequate protective tariff always results in an expansion of home industries, more eployaent, better wages and general prosper- ity. These are truths that cannot be presented too often nor too emphatically. Their Faith in Coolidge The home folks in Massachusetts, have un- limited faith in Calvin Coolidge. They always have had. It is rather a habit with them to turn to him in time of stress and he has never failed. His remarkable penetration, his level,‘ plain common sense, his courage to face a situation his habit of brevity and clarity of expression in} so stating a case—all these are familiar to Massa- chusetts folks in their long experience with Galvin Coolidge. Therefore when a distressing | = senndal, like the Teapot dome blowup, occurs, Massachusetts knows the president will go to! the bottom of the transaction and discover and) punish those betraying their public trust. On the scandal the Boston TranscripW® says this: “President Coolidge has taken prompt steps to get to the bottom of the oil lease scandal and punish all who may be guilty of impropriety in connection-with it. The formal announcement of his purposes laid before the country recently, goes as far toward answering every demand for the enforcement of civil or criminal liability in the case of all who may be implicated in this wretched business as the chief magistrate of the republic could go. It proposes employment of special counsel drawn from lawyers who are personally affiliated with both political parties to prosecute actions for the full enforcement of the law in the case. This counsel, in the presi- dent's words, “will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any. civil| liability it will be enforced; if there is any} fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any’ contracts which are illegal they will be cancelled | Every law wijl be enforced. And,every right of) the people and the government will be pro-| tected.” | “This does not set aside the proper activities | of the department of justice, nor relieve that de-| partment of its responsibilities, for the presi-| dent declares that under his own direction the department has been observing the course of} the evidence, and it has sustained the steps to, probe the matter to the bottom which the presi-| dent has now taken. But it disposes of any im-! putation that any official who is directly or in- directly connected with any of the transactions or improper authorizations under investigation will have charge of the prosecution of the case.! The president’s action takes the government’s proceedings out of politics altogether, or at least | out of any legitimate or reasonable connection of politics with it. “This oil lease scandal should be treated as the concern of the whole nation. As the evidence; now at hand makes it appear, a secretary of the interior, not appointed by President Coolidge or holding office under him, accepted an unsecured | loan of $100,000 without interest, from a man} who had very much more than that amount to gain from an administrative act which was pres- ently taken up by that official. The improprie: of accepting such a loan, in such a situation, i ly ‘and plainly apparent to every right- ng person. Did other officials in such ac- they may have taken, show a want of public scruple.and sense of propriety, or exceed their legitimate powers? That remains to be’ Neither the ¥enatorial investigation nor, any prosecution that may be instituted can go too deeply or too thoroughly into all or any of | the circumstances connected with these oil leases and the questions of public honor and propriety which they raise, “What the public wants is exactly what the! president promises to do, and which all that the people know of him must convince them that he, will do to the limit; namely, to see that if there | has been any crime it shall be prosecuted and if any property of the United States has been il-! legally transferred it shall Be recovered. We in! Massachusetts know that when Calvin Coolidge says he will do a thing he will do it.” (Trade Statistics, It is a singular position taken by Attorney! General Daugherty that trade associations could nét lawfully supply their members or the public g with statistics they obtain, . These organizations may obtain such statistics, but may not distrib- ute them among their. members. This ruling is creating a great deal of unfavorable comment among every kind of commercial organization, and the question is likely before long to be test- ed in the courts to ascertain whether or not there are any laws that forbid the distribution is gathered by commercial associa- tions in any way they see fit. It is stated that even labor organizations are opposed to the application of any such restric- tion to commercial ‘and trade associations’ ac- tivities, labor believing that such activities by trade organizations help to stabilize business and thus stabilize the market for labor. It is stated that the Attorney General’s posi- tion is based upon a decision of the District Court of the United States in the Southern Dis- trict of Ohio, in the case of the United States yersus Tile Mantufacturers Credit Association. It or a similar case should be carried to the supreme court for a final decision, and, if the attorney general is sustained, then the law should be so altered as to permit of trade bodies doing what the attorney general now says they may not lawfully do. | Mental and Moral Discipline Habits of mental and moral discipline are the first great objects in any system of education, public or private. The value of education de- pends far less upon varied and extensive ac- quirements than upon the cultivation of the powers of thought, and the general regulation of the faculties of the understanding. That it is icles. There is nothing to indicate that it is costing the people $4,000,000,000 annually, that it is costing the people an additional dollar but there is ample cvidence that it gave confi or | ness not the amount of knowledge, but the capacity to apply it, which promises success and useful- in life, is a truth that can not be too often inculcated by instructors and recollected by pupils—Lewis Cass, 2 RNR AE EOE ne rcs cnara LE Ge Casper waup crioune batch of fool statutes for a long time.—New York Commercial, oo Britain’s New Star carefully, prepared Britain for the eclipse of Stanley Baldwin by Ramsay Macdonald that ~ tire store, and in lines that I am overstocked on to sell necessary to double the capacity «; the present shops, or else sulia patrons of the male species :, nt. the event called forth scarcely a ripple of real excitement. The old British parties have silently entered the twilight zone. The Labor party, whose rise has been in the nature of a quiet revolution, assumes sway. Behind the accession of the Labor government is the urgent demand by the British public for a new Lloyd George could not turn the /trick, nor could Bonar Law. Baldwin was impotent, shackled as he was to Lord Curzon, dictator of the foreign office, and walled in by. demands of the British dominions for a change ‘ ‘scal policy. Acceptance ot a Lahor sgovern- ment is predicated upen the pvssi- bility Ramsay Macdonald's offer to do things differently may result in the desired new deal. The untested remedy, . when the customary medicaments have failed, has strong appeal for a sick man. Time has befriended the Labor party. The new cabinet may not-be able to solve the capital problems of British foreign policy; it may not be able to ease the growing: \ pains of the British dominions; it may be able to ameliorate the un- ‘was Great | employmont situation no more than Baldwin has done. But it takes power at what seems. citizens of ,the United States to enter barber shops, and be served therein, shall not be denied on enjoyed, certain» ladies in Louisiana have raised this issue. It is by no means free from com- plexity. For while the demand is a tribute to men barbers, it is a ser!- ous reflection on the women pro- prietors of hair-dressing shops for women, and the operators therein. Either “mere men” are better bar- bers, or their charges are more rea- sonable—such must be the theory— and s0 while one set of women would win a victory another set would suffer defeat. Again it is seen that ajl social changes, no matter how generally beneficent their effects. are attended by some loss. ne It can not be “that the ladies prefer men’s barber shops merely beeause they have been patronized cereal, will enjoy Kel krumbled. Sp Kellogg’s Bran sweeps the intestine elean—and purifies it. It drives out the poisons which undermine your chili ’s health. It makes the bowels function regularly and naturally. For seven days I am going to turn my store over to you, the buying public of Casper. I want every man, wom- an and child in the city to visit my store during this time and get acquainted. I am going to give you an induce- ment to do this. I have decided to make a reduction of 20 per cent on every articl2 of merchandise in my en- : at cost, and in many instances far below the original cost. Every article will carry its original price tag, with the retail price plainly markedonit. Bring your. paper and pencil and do your own figuring. Now, bear this in mind: I want you to come and look my store and stock over, whether you buy anything or net. Two years ago when | helda similar event the store was filled with my friends, both old and new ones, all of whom profited greatly. My stock consists of only the best manufacturers’ lines that can be obtained, all of which are already marked as low as it is possible to do and stay in busi- ness. But, as above stated, I am going to make still fur- ther reductions of 20 per cent for just one week only, beginning February 2, and ending February 9. SCOTT CLOTHING CO., By J. E. SCOTT. © See Full Page Advertisement on Page 12