Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 6

she? si 3. nt “a PAGE SIX Che Casper Daily Cridune TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924 Cbe Casper Daily Cribune Jaily Tribune tasued every evening anc | otning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- | Publ.cation offices: Tribune Bu!lding, ice. Tho Sunda, per, Wyoming. opposite poste Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22. 1916. Business Telephones Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting Departments. By J. E. HANWAY and E. E. 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 Bldg., Chi- cago, Ul, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg.. Boston, uite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- Copies of the Daily z are on New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome ————— Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) —— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State Six Months Daily and Sun ~- Three Months, One Year, Dally and Su One Year Sunday Only “Six Months Daily and Sunday -. Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Suncay All subscriptions must be pa: Daily Trimmme wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month fm arrears. KICK, IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don’t find your Tribune after looking care- fully for ft, call 15 or 16 and !t will be delivered to you Dy special messenger. Register complaints before $ o'clock A Typical Democratic Leader The leader in the debate on the Democratic side during the assault in the senate on the Coolidge administration, preliminary to the campaign of 1924, is Senator Tom Heflin of Ala- bama, who delivers himself of a daily diatribe, | full of vitriolic personal abyse, malicious slan- der and barroom billingsgate. Heflin came into national notice a few years ago, when as a Democratic congressman, he pull- ed a gun in a crowded Washington street car and shot at a negro passenger whom he accused of * giving him “back talk,” after Heflin had re- buked him for failure to give a seat to a white woman. Heflin missed the negro; the bullet pierced the window of the car and struck a white man who happened to be passing along Pennsylvania avenue, seriously injuring him. A. remarkable feature of the affair was that at the time the shooting occurred. Heflin was on his way to a church to deliver a temperance lec- ture. If Heflin had not been a member of congress with sufficient political pull to escape the con- sequences of his crime, he would have served ” a term in the penitentiary for his offense. As it was, he was able to thwart the ends of justice and escape by paying a hospital bill and a small compensation to his victim. The fact that he shot at an unarmed negro, even though he missed him, made him so popular with Alabama Demo- crats that he was promoted to the senate It is not surprising that the lawless spirit of such a man should find expression in the vil- lainous attacks he is making on the reputation « of every official who happens to be a Republi- can. Heflin sat silent in the senate during all the orgy of waste and graft which notoriously went on in Washington under the second Wik son administration. There was a time when the people of the United States would have been! surprised to find such a man standing forth as the leader of his party in the United States. That Heflin typifies southern Democratic lead- represent any honest effort for better public ad- ministration, or any motive but the meanest and most irresponsible partisan bigotry, is also gen- erally admitted. The Better Side It may be accepted as true that the great majority of people are honest. It is true also that many of them are tempted. They view the lives of ease. Then they wonder if the plodding is worth the while. Why should others, by de- vious ways make quick wealth, while they strug- “ gle along the rocky way for what seems a pit- tance in comparison and not knowng from week to week where the money is coming from to » meet obligations certain to come due? But most of them remain true to convictions—to funda- mental virtues. Somehow they realize, that the roost precious possession in the world is a clear conscience and its comfort is worth more than all the wealth there is. Much that is in the air is rumor At a time like this every man in public office igs under suspicion. Once the fire is started it requires every department in sight to put it out! Records are investigated. Men and women are inquired ef. Even innocent acts assume a sinister aspect. Of such is the stronge psychology of scandal. The amount of actual wrong-doing established , to date is really small. Inquiries by grand { juries may establish that it is smaller than is + actually supposed. Not everyono understands just what fs at the boitem of it all. Oil is an easy word to use. It is a word of threo letters and one syllable. It rolls easily under the tongue. A Democrat says that e Republican is ar: A Republican says al. Ask either one for ch he bases his accusation upon some old, half hidden prejudice, or nere inkling or hint of wrong. We a he est regulators on earth. We like to point t finger saying: “Thou art the mi tn age of invasion. We find its nifestations in our tax systems which to such icge extent destroys the dignity and privacy of personal affairs. We find it in prohibition, that great mor- al crusade that marks as momentous a revolu- + tion in social conduct as a nation has ever } known. But when it is all worked out, when all + is done, will not the world be better for it and shall we not find established the essential good- ness of the human heart? We hope and wait. We do not think as often as we ought of the * thousands and thousands who are living brave, honorab und useful lives, lives in which there is no of human helpfulness—livea in which | I there Delving in Slime “It seemed as if there could not be a descent from the Walsh tactics, but we think Senator Wheeler has accomplished the apparently im- ssible,” says the New York Tribune. ! below commonly accepted standards of fairness in the pursuit of inadmissible and worthless evidence than did the Daugherty committce in its opening session. “At the outset there was an omen of the spirit! that was to prevail when the committee by a 3-to-2 vote refused to permit Mr. Daugherty’s statement to be read into the record. This small T. Lease, mayor of Great Falls, item of routine Courtesy toward an accused per-|Mont., for 36 years and member of son quarreled with the high-handed plans of the the Montana State Council of De- new senator from Montana. Later the majority ‘"¢ during tne World war, of the committee realized the dangerous reac- tion to such police court tactics and the state-| yson ment was admitted. “Then followed the endless questioning of the United States district attorney for divorced wife of Mr. Daugherty’s dead friend. the Montara When the name of a dead president was thus %f° on.the recommendation of Unit- ultimately dragged into the testimony the tri-/°¢ 5tates Senator T. J. Walsh, Dem- umph of Mr. Wheeler was complete. To be sure, the relationship between the witness and Mr. Harding consisted of the fact that they had | cari once atterfded the same large family Christmas dinner. But what of that? The Coolidge tele- grams were equally innocuous and equally gloat- ed over by the Montana school of slander. “A small portion of Mrs. Smith’s testimony was doubtless relevant and competent. But this portion proved nothing at all except what every one knew—that her former husband was the close friend of Mr. Daugherty. As for the rest of Mrs. Smith’s private conversations, they can- not be contradicted for the important reason that the man quoted is dead. The sound human reasons which prevent the introduction of hear- say in courts of law, save under the most excep- tional circumstances, were admirably demon- strated in this case. Jesse Smith cannot affirm or deny Mrs. Smith’s quotations from his lips. He cannot be sworn as to the truth or falsity of what Mra Smith says he said. He can neither explain nor be cross-examined. Hig casual talk to this woman wlio had been his wife is per- ernment,’ from a public platform: mitted to stand upon a senatorial page as proof |they took this man Little out and against Mr. Daugherty and the Harding admin- |" istration. No fair-minded citizen guch second-hand gossip in would heed the establishment of justice. “Cherishing the worst that Mrs. Smith could jeece sen segs ait be cab 3 the ae imply by innuendo and by interpretation of her ®"4 we on thea’ the: Gatine Ee. former husband's conversations, Senator Wheel-|*20°t, them that we had for shoot- er had little enough treasure trove for his da excursion into slime.The fortune of a specula- tor that grew from $175,000 to $250,000 is scarce- ly proof of vast governmental corruption. But Senator Wheeler has already shown that he cares not for proof or fairness. On the floor of the senate, where he was immune from attac or reply he has already, upon no evidence what ever, convicted Mr. Daugherty of gross miscon- duct and crimes. He thereby disqualified him- self as a prosecutor and judge and it woulc be idle to look for any other tactics than those which he is pursuing. After the mire of Sena- tor Walsh’s attacks upon innocent and guilty in the oil investigation, Senator Wheeler’s nos- ing amid irrelevant gossip touching dead men who cannot face their accuser is, it must be agreed, the next logical step.” Why They Do It Mr. Daugherty committed an unforgivable of- fense against the Democrats and they seem de- termined to get revenge. He brought suits in- volving war contracts: given during the Demo- cratic administration and saved the government | j n the ordinary con- ‘Were sending our be cerns of life, let alone accept it as evidence of | by the thousands to uphold this gov- grave wrongdoing in u solemn proceeding for |ernment that the anarchists in Butte | $85,000,000 out of $88,000,000 of claims contested. | recovered for the government $3,500,000 that had been paid out illegally, got judgment for $1,225,- 000 more, and ‘secured the indictment of 95 per- sons on charges growing out of war contracts written and approved by Democrats. Daugherty did this without parading the facts through the newspapers. Now the Democrats are going after Daugherty through the newspapers but not get- ership is of course admitted. That he fails to} HNE ney uta akin Teri Ue For Which Purpose American scientists announce the discovery of 2 new process which will effect the permanent union of hydrogen and nitrogen atoms. The discovery, it is claimed, will produce two great benefits. It will give the United States command of an explosive force twice as strong as anything yet found, and it will give to Ameri- can farmers a fertilizer cheaper and better than anything yet produced. Upon the development of which phase of use- fulness will the United States expend most money? a nation ies in the answer to that question. There is no doubt about what continental Eu- yoen nations would do with the new. precess, ey together to develop the explosive phase and pre- pare themselves for conquest. Can the United States rise above that course Sonne of action? Is the United States going to adopt as a per- manent policy the utilization of science and sci- entific brains to extend its military power or to increase its productive power? The future history of any nation is deter. mined in decisions such as this. Tossing Wrenches Many people are opposed to prohibition but, as before the passage of the Volstead act, they are employing poor means of fighting it. What the wets really want is the return of all alco- holic beverages that were sold before prohibi- tion. Some people may like beer, but other wets always have preferred whisky and other hard liquor and the return of beer would not satisfy them. But, they say, if beer is permitted it wiil be an entering wedge — which only indicates their real desire. The latest effort of the wets is to insert in the treasury appropriation bill a provision aimed at the buying of evidence by prohibition agents. This would make it more difficult to enforce the dry laws. Why these subterfuges? Why not fight for what you want and be open-faced about it? No real support of the wet side will ever be gained by feeble efforts to throw wrenches into a law- enforcing machine. The Great Entertainer The perfection of radio to the needs of the geucral public is without question the greatest contribution ever made in the realm of enter- | fatnment. Grown overnight to a national pas- | time, it can never lose its popularity and is cer- tain of continued improvement and development. We say that radio is the greatest entertain. ment device yet launched because it has a scope that cannot be duplicated or aled, There are factors entering into the use of the radio that “Welfind a response in every normal human being oubt if any legislative body, whether of the The-radio arouses more than one faculty, it links nation or of a state, has ever dropped farther itself with man’s instincts, | ceased . ocratic) were its the council, and | Independent ae oF “A state meeting of Democrats|crat, chairman of was called in Helena in April, 1918,| Will A. Campbell, of the Great Falls | most condigngninss | ee Some Sidelights on Wheeler sessions. At the end of the trial every member of the state council tana, prosecutor ard judge in the Daugherty inquisition, made by N. at the Rainbow Hotel, Great Falls, Mont., as reported in the Great Falls. . Leader, Nov. 2, 1922.) “Mr. Wheeler was appointed and Mr. E. C. Day was named to “A state meeting of the county councils of defense was called in connection with the state council, and resolutions condemning Mr. Wheeler were passed — only three members of the state council, among them N, T. Lease of this county, voting no—and then, only because B. K. Wheeler had been summoned before the state council to answer to a charge of traitorism during war time. “Mr. Wheeler was called before the state council of defense and the trial lasted five days, during which time Bill Dunn and a number of other persons charged with treason were heard, with the result that th's same B. K. Wheeler was charged with ‘non-performance of duty dur- ing war time,’ and condemned as an unpatriotic American citizen. “The vote was unanimous, and Governor Sam V. Stewart, Demo- penitentiary by the county distirict court. members of the gang, I believe, later arrested in Chicago on a charge of burglary, tried, found guilty and sent to Joliet. “Mr. Wheeler arswered that he did not believe that the people felt And the*only defense district sqme years ocratic senator from our state. Mr. Wheeler's term of office expired about the end of the year 1917, or in 1918. “Mr, Wheeler’s management of his office had been so unsatisfactory that a mass meeting of Democrats was held at Helena by Democrats from various parts of the state and resolutions passed and sert to Unit- ed States Senator Walsh, demand. ing that Mr. Wheeler be not reap- pointed. “The appointment was held up for many months, but Mr. Wheeler con- tinued to hold the job during the early part of 1918. Butte almost to be an American city. Men were preaching treasor openly on the streets, and from the public platform and Mr. Wheeler never raises his hand to stop it. “It became so rank that the pa- triotic citizens could stand it no longer, and they took one of these anarchists, who had been shouting ‘Down with the United States gov- would punish a man for such a se- ditiius telk. * “Some time later during a conver- sation with Mr. Wheeler at the Placer hotel I said to him. “Mr. Wheeler, I do not want you to take this as a compliment for it is not intended as such, but you are fur- rishing the brains for that bunch of traitors In Butte,’ and be only smiled as though he was proud of the fact.” That’s What You Do to Your Electric Light Plant When you want to say something is elastic, don’t compare it to rubber. Say, “As elas- tic as the equipment in an electric light and power company.” “The Great Falls Leader of same issue says further: You are continually squeezing that equip- ment to its smallest limits, and the next minute stretching it out to its full extent. Just consider. oe For finer texture | and larger volume in your bakings / him Now I am not an sdvocate of ynch law, but at that time we oys to France In the middle of the afternoon, maybe, you are not using the electricity at all. Sud- denly a storm breaks, darkness closes down and at once you and everybody else in town switch on lights. were trying to tear down—they ing foreign enemies. you probably know, during the last year of the war we had a state council of defense, consisting of the governor ard eight men and women appo'nted ty the gov- ernor from various parts of the state. ‘This was strictly a non-parti- san body, but it was composed of five Republicans and five Demo- crats. This state council of defense was composed of the following Mon- ana citizens: Governor Sam V. Stewart, chairman; Charles Kelley of Butte, M. M. Donohue, of Butte, president of the Montana Federation of Labor; Mrs. Tyler B, Thompson ot Missoula, Sidney M. Logan of Kalispell, Will A. Campbell of He- lena, editor of the Independent; TI. D. O'Donnell of Billings, Samuel Sansburn of Dawson, of Fergus and my: of Cascade county “There was also a county council of defense in each county consist- ing of three members each, and these were also appointed by Gov- ernor Stewart regardless of poll- tics, but the Democrats predomi- nated. “Early in May, 1918, these county councils from all over the state met in Helena, and passed resolutions condemning Mr. Wheeler and de- manding of Senator Walsh that Mr. Wheeler be not reappointed. “About the same time the state council of* defense summoned Mr. B. K. Wheeler, W. F. Dunn and some other radicals to come to He- lena and explain their actions to the tate council. ‘Their trial lasted through five days, including night and Sunday This means your electric--cornpany must make a quick jump from a small load to a heavy load. You press the button or turn the switch, and great electrical machines respond instantaneously to your touch. Same Price for over 33 years use less than of higher priced brands Why Pay War Prices? MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED BY THE GOVERNMENT The business of serving you with electric light and power is one which calls for vast equipment and vast capital to maintain it. But more than that, this is a business which demands constant alertness in the men be- hind the equipment. You can keep them on the jump—with your rapid ups and downs in the use of electricity. But you can never catch them napping. Try it! Natrona- Power Co. New Bus Route: Worse and Worse Congressman (sternly}—‘When I Was your age I was making an hon The key to the future of the United States as|s0wn which caused every man would spend every cent they could SCrapé | not tell j est living.” Son—‘And now look at you.” eee Miss—‘Tt {s vulgar to dress so as to attract attention on the street.” Mess—‘Yes, isn’t it.’ Miss—‘I saw Myrtle de Style go- ing down the street yesterday in.a The first new proposed route begins Wednesday, March 19, and ends March 26. It will run out East A street to Jackson; south to First street; east to Fenway; south to Second street, and east to Elk street. Passed to turn and look at her.” Mess—‘Isn't that awful? I won- der who her dressmaker is.” Miss—"I asked her, but she would me.” It will return from Elk street on East Second to Conwell; north to First street, and from there to town by the same route. eee claims he is a descendant great family.” “Yes, and he ts still descending.” heres how NA BRAN/ IN SHREDDED WHEAT This test route is one of the two new routes we are contemplating, the other route to be tried out on South Durbin and Beech street. The date of the one-week trial of the latter will be advertised later. The idea of these two new routes is to endeavor to run them through new territories which will support them, and in that way show us that we can buy more busses to serve these territories instead of using our present equipment. To give you better service we must buy more busses. To buy more busses we must have more money. To get more money we must have more people.” See how it works? BOOST THE BUS LINE! intwo Iscults ~