Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT © OOS RO? Che Casper Daily Cridune ISN * SOTERA ES Ot ES PTS Che Casper Daily Cribune The Casper Daily ‘Tribune issued every ané 1 Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- opposite postoftice. -, Wyoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building,|and made the issue so clear Well, if the nse is a a reed _ is playing a pretty ics. le has punctured a lot of hum! and pretense t the dullest cannot mistake it. And he has, as his prede- Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second|cessors have had, this great advantage over class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones ~.---.-----—--------15 and 1 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. By J. E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the| behind him. use for publication of all news credited in this paper andvalso the local news published herein. 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The Tragedy’s Lesson The last sad act in the Van Gorden tragedy has been performed and the community can settle back into its wonted composure. All that remains to be done is to clear up the wreck- age created by overconfidence in a man totally unworthy the faith reposed in him. A man who departed the pathway of business recti- tude, upon which he had traveled all of his life, to pursue the devious and winding way of de- ception and duplicity in his struggle to main- tain appearances before a public already sus- picious. No one ever succeeded by these meth- ods. In his calm judgment, Fred Van Gorden knew this as well as anyone. How or why men who become involved, choose the most certain way to expose their wrong doings while imag- ining they are concealing them is as inexplic-| able today as it was in the beginning. It is the moral, as well as the statutory law, that the wrongdoer must suffer the consequences of his acts. That Fred Van Gorden suffered, but concealed it, there is no doubt. far greater. There is a lesson imparted in the Van Gor- den tragedy, old as time. Handed down from age to age and it has to do with honesty and up- rightness in daily transactions. Van Gorden adhered to his earlier training and not wandered off into the unfamiliar field of double-dealing there would be a more cheerful story to tell today. When he ceased to be square his troubles multiplied, and climaxed in horrible tragedy. Dragging Along The “investigation” of Attorney General Daugherty drags its weary way through an unfriendly committee of United States Senators any one of which would be ineligible to hold the office of pustice of the peace in any com- munity in the country, Ifthe traditional love of fair play that has always distinguished the American people can survive the jolt given it by the Wheeler com- mittee then we are ready for the worst that can happen. Not a thing new has been brought out by the witnesses examined, aside from some impossible hearsay evidence about everybody. else except Daugherty. : The pity is} that along with his acts, the innocent suffered | Had Fred | congress—that the public is almost always on ¢| the President’s side in such a quarrel. Cangress has tried conclusions at one time or another with the White House since the beginning of the government and u: come off second best. Yes, President Coolidge. has played politics very successfully. He has the whole country Congress will find that out sooner or later. Increase In Wheat Tariff Under authority conferred by section three hundred fifteen of the tariff act of 1922 the president has by proclamation increased the duty on wheat from thirty cents a bushel to forty-two cents a bushel to become effective thirty days from the date of the proclamation, which will make the date of enforcement April seventh. At the same time he increased the duty on flour twenty-six cents per hundred pounds and decreased the duty on mill feed fifty per cent. This is the first change in duty under the flexible tariff. Section three hundred fifteen authorizes the president to raise or lower the rate of duty on any commodity so as to equalize the difference in the production costs thereof between this country and the principal compet- ing foreign country, but such change shall not exceed fifty per cent of the existing rate. It is also provided that before such change can be made, the tariff commission shall have reported to the president that investigations of compara- tive production costs in this country and in the principal competing foreign country shows the différences in such costs to be either greater or less than the amount of duty. Our principal competitor in wheat is Can- ada, the production costs in which country hay- ing been found to be on the average twelve cents per bushel lower than in this country. Many have wondered why it was that the Canadians were able to ship 19,501,000 bushels of wheat into the United States during the cal- endar year 1923, notwithstanding the tariff of thirty cents per bushel on imported wheat. The explanation is that production costs in Canada are so ‘much lower that the Canadians could pay the duty and still undersell American wheat growers. That is the reason for the increase in the tariff. We do not attempt to predict what effect the increase in duty will have upon American wheat in the home market, but we do say that it will give the American market to the Ameri- can farmers. That is the purpose of the tariff which is not intended to regulate prices. Take ‘Your Choice An object lesson or a picture carries with it oftentimes greater conviction than a page of text. The New York Commercial does such a thing in a simple little story in words about Mena, Arkansas. It says: Twenty-seven years ago the town of Mena, Ark., was populated ‘by approximately fifteen hundred. Jt had then twelve business houses, three hotels, a butcher shop, a lumber yard and a flour and feed mill. Then Mena had no railroad. If you got to or from the place you did it over a wagon road that was none too good. Mena was, and that is about all that can be said of it. Then the railroad came. Now Mena, Ark., is a place of five thousand population. It has 133 business house, twelve churches, three graded schools and a high school, three strong. banks, a free public library, sewer system, paved streets and a municipally owned water works system, not to mention other things which go with-a modern up-to-date and thriving town. Had the railroad not gone to Mena it would have remained about as it was in 1896. The proof of this is found in the fact that other struggling places elsewhere, and which are with- out railroad facilities, have in the last twenty- None of the “stuff” so far adduced would| S¢ven years either retrograded or stood still. be entertained in a court of justice for a single moment. The question of whether Mr. Daughe: has|2re to be found panied his usefulness to the Pee is ‘c ae railroad appily, not going to be determined by a pack of political hyenas in the United Station anny Menaites who have made We do not know anything about Mena’s in- habitants, but we will that among them wi t has made the place what Doubtless it is a common thing to hear money through its Tf the moment a public servant is grossly|8towth, thanks to the railroad, berate the rail slandered by demagogues and. partisans who|SY¥8tem that has benefited them have no respect for character it is possible to end his usefulness to the.nation, then no person who serves the people from the clal may be retired. Let a blackguard in the senate vilely traduce an executive of the nation|‘e country it would from his seat in the upper chamber, where he is | "4. backward places immune from answering for his slander, and let | the Mena of twenty-sev the fact that he has been so maligned end his| }#¥e been made to a “usefulness” to the public and we shall soon be| Tiroads. unable to get decent respectable citizens serve the nation. os ee ss oe Playing Politics The accnration that the president was “play- ing politics” when he asked congress to pass at once a resolution to reduce by one quarter the income taxes for 1923 simply means that he blocked the kind of politics his accusers were and have been playing. Too many members of congress, even of the president’s own party have tried to dodge the real 1@ presented by tha Mellon program. Professing a tender regard for the taxpayer, they have balked at the only way to lighten his burden. ‘Then the president put the question squarely to them. Do you propose to reduce taxes or don’t you? ‘The answer can only be yes or no. The passage of suchea resolution would have settled the matter. About all the senate could say was to talk about the “parliamentary — situation.” The senate could not act because all revenue matters must originate in the house. ‘The house did not act because it would not and because. it would have interfered with its private game of polit If the president’s request were grant- ed and the taxpayer got that measure of relief, who can tell. what he might do with an amor. phous bill like the present “compromise,” if by chance efforts in the senate to amend it sub- stantially prove futile In the enlightened view of his critics it is not playing polities to endeavor to avert a possible veto in this round ashion. The fine-spun distinctions of this sort, does uné What and is that the President asked ve him bread and that it prefers im a etone, taxpayer is not likely to be impressed | president down | C22‘be found in Mena because it is immune from attack and every public offi-| 2!! to find plenty of them and their neigh- Probable that such people is no trick at in every place blessed But for the railroads of be filled with decaying similar in character to en years ago. Our cities very large extent by our Take them away today and the ors. We say. that it is by railroad facilities. to | Prosperity of the land would be gone. When the debt that the United States owe: to its railroads is considered, is it any ‘wonder that some of us look with contempt upon the La Follettes who would hamstring and hamper pe alee i er of the land? None o: @ Follette tribe has as yet con- tributed as much as a si pea ei : ingle cent to the wealth to increase the size and im: let, village or city in this The Wisconsin idea is railroad plan is to build prefer? ortance of any. ham- broad Jand. to tear down. up. The Which do you ___ One More Inheritance During the Democratic administration sums of money were coll income tax law and sin m. lar; lected illegally under the ce that time the Repub- ay some of i back to the taxpayers. The Deriten ae aa ly in a position to say that the repayments are improper for in some instances former employes of the Democratic administration are attorneys for the claimants for refund. i Over forty-three per cent of the inmates of state hospitals in New York are foreign born. Need anything more be said in order to show the need for a-more stringent immigration law and more strict enforcement? : McAdoo wants to-run for president on some such slogan as “Clean up Washington.” He has traveled under that war cry before and it brought him more money than he ever saw in Here Why should he smite the hand that fed 0. look with hatred j ‘There will come a day when Wash- ington will recover its now lost san- ity. When that day comes the Sen- ate of the United States will wish it, might blot from its records all traces of Thursday, March 6, 1924. On that day it sank to a new low level in its history. For weeks {ts mud guns have beiched and splashed. What once was a deliberate body has been re- sounding to the partisan yelpings of Uttle men and the snaps and snaris of character assassins. They have made charges under the [Pectection of the Senate they would not dare utter as man to man. They have made the oll investigation the |excuse for an orgy of partisan de- |nunciation the lke of which had nev- jer been in the Senate and hardly anywhere else in America. The country has looked on in a growing amazement. The public jhas been shocked and finally dis- gusted by this brazen exhibition of Ppolson-tongued partisanship, pure malice and twittering hysteria. ‘Thursday capped the climax. That dsy two private telegrams from the President of the United States were read into the record of one of many senatorial inquiries. This was done in the hearing of the same Senator Walsh, chief inquisitor of that com- mittee, who had taken exceeding Sreat pains to see that certain tele- grams and letters exchanged between | himself and E. L. Doheny were “ex- Dlained" before they were spréad upon the records. Walsh and his jcCommittee took no such pains with the White House messages. It | would have been easy for the inves- tigators to establish the irrevelancy of these messages before they were made public with a round flourish. Thy chose to do nothing of the kind. Did these White House messages relate in any way to the oll scandal? THey did not. Was there anything overt in them? If so, it does not |appear. They were, in fact, such | messages as are sent as a matter of official routine and ordinary cour-| tesy by any man in public life. The White House explanations of both were adequate and clear. But they did not corvince-the nar- | row and hate-filled minds of some Senators. Hardly were they in the record before the filth-batteries of the Senate, manned by the Three Mad Gunners—Harrison, of Missis- sippl; Ca y of Arkansas, and Heflin, of Alubama—went tito action jSenate rifle pits spat venom. Tho {drum .fire of Senate innuendo was laid ‘down upon the White House, Not a man of them all had a scrap} of evidence. No matter, they aahoe| hearsay, rumor and suspicion serve, and for hours they mouthed venom-| ous insinuations and bespattered the name of the President of the United | States with sinister implications. | In all the Senate only one man had the courage to stand against | |them. Senator Lodge has known} the Senate in its greater days. When he rose and made dignified protest against these savage innuendoes and fleeting vilification, the rabid pack turned on him ‘as wolves wheel and snap. They would not be cheated of thelr daily hour of hate. As they! turned to a new victim, whatever is left of the decency, political fairness and honor of the Senate sat mute as 50 many dumb, cowed and driven jcattle, When the Senate was the Senate, there were men who would have risen and read these whirling der- vishes from Dixie a lesson in ele- mentary decency. Where are they now. these older Democrats and Re- publicans? Where are the saner, fairer Democrats of today—Under- | Wood, Glass, Bruce, Simmons and |Ralston? Do they condone such ex- |hibitions? ‘Where was the courage of those Republicans who sat silent and shivering, leaving the white- fight alone? Where, for instance, were Curtis, Watson, David Rear Moses, Pepper and Willis? Where was Pepper, paladin of fair play, and Borah, the pure of heart? The situation in the Senate has come to be impossiblo. The upper hbuse has worked ttself into a frenzy. It has made Itself the home of arsenic squads who poison rep. utations and of well-poisoners. who destroy character. Weeks ago it wandered afar from the main and principal aims of {ts investigations. It is now the haunt of political gun- men. If these are the breed of Senators that popular vote sends to Washington, then {t was an evil day for the nation when {t approved the Seventeenth Amendment. Disgust with Senate tactics {s ris- ing to a danger mark. The people of this country are falr minded and j delleve in fair play. They are now realizing that the Senate's actions are the very pith and essence of. pettiness. There 1s actual danger of a backfire of national disgust T_T “ask tor Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk Rich form, ' always at Ask for Z 8@> Avoid Imitations — Substitutes $$ rritutcrs | NOTICE I Have Moved My Office to Room 222 Cottman ldg. DR. L. E. BAY, Veterinarian “Yours for Beauty” The Princess Pat Beauty Parlor , Private Baths for Ladies Expert Attendants 159 S.-Beech St, Phone 1409W. . | haired Lodge to stand alone and*| that will discredit all investigations and all investigators. A wearied and resentful people !s about to cry Gentlemen of the Senate, you will] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924 ‘and hold to them. Quit trying to Kind Ol tady — “Then you|inston, Caesar, Stark Twain, and you touch. Cae Tramp to Bho, I started my} Jones—“Ge, but he’s = hustler. Your attempts to smear the White| career as a Wall Street lamb. ie cely 0s a8 Dr Se House with oil will react upon you. pee : Nobody ts going to believe on. the Wasted No Time. So Near and Yet— ‘ word of & crossroad politician that! xfedium—"Ah! I have a messags| “Hew near were you to the righ! President Coolldge got any oll mon-|¢rom the perso nyou wanted. He|answer to the fifth question? e ey, ts pratecting anybody who did|says he has met Napoleon, Wash-| “Just two seats away! or that he is tained by this black = eae = T arrived in town on Thursday And it's Tuesday now, I guess, ~ But I cannot be quite certain For the daylight, more or less, Is all muddled with the nighttime— Lights above, below, around— Gods! the Big Horns are a grave- yard To this wild stampede of sound. Scrapers lift their cliffs about you Sheer and bold as Devii’s Tower, And to count their blinking windows Would mean business by the hour. Crowds unending push and wallow Like a bunch of wolf-crazed sheep— © dear Big Horns! dear old blanket! And a squint of that old sleep. Broadway is a floodtide canyon Brimming full of clash and roar, Where a million folks won't notice Whether you are glad or sore. Yet I think their hearts are human, From Big Horns to Bi By WILL CHAMBER roadway IN Though life's waters seem all foam, ‘Wonder why that movie Alredale Transformed to a pup back home, You can dine here with more people ‘Than some counties have back there, Work your jaws to leaf-hid music That would make a coyote stare. You can view a thousand wonders— Art joints, parks, and gilded hall,— But—O Big Horns! sky-kisst Big Horns! ‘Through !t all you beckon, call. —Yaukton, 8. D. In a store Window Downtown There is a Display of Futuristic Paintings, And there Is also A sign in The window Which says “Art Objects,” And when I Looked at The pictures I coula Not blame Art for Objecting. eee Somé Help Amateur Vaudeviiiain— ‘Don’t you think {f I'd cut out one of my four songs it would improve my act?” Critic—“Yes, about twenty-five per cent.” Uncle Hook, Says “Ef you tell a man that there aro 436,971,328,497 stars in th’ sky hel! believe you. But ef a sign says Fresh Paint, he has to stop and make a personal investigation.” eee The papers had a story -the other Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE day about a bachelor who died, leav- ing a fortune to the woman who had rejected him twenty-five years ago. And yet they say there is no grati- tude in the world. eee Kept Her Word “She said on her wedding morn- ing that she would go through every- thing for him.” “Well, I guess she has. TI loaned him ten dollars this morning.” | Suggested Relief Editor Tribune—A few years ago the county built a very fair road ~| from Casper to Alcova. Since then no money hag been spent to keep up the road, the builders I sup- pose thought it was permanent. Just now the Alcova road is al- most impassable and every timo we kick are told,” oh we can't work on the roads this kind of weather.” Recently an election was held to vote on a new courthouse. The com missioners claim the present house 1s crowded. I'd like to suggest send. ing the road gang out on our road. Perhaps that would relieve some of this congestiofi complained about. JOE ANDERSON, Alcova, Wyo. New BusRoute: The first new 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. It will return from Elk street on East Second to Conwell; north to First street, and from there to town by the same route. This test route is one of the two new route the other route to be tried out on South Durbi date of the one-week trial of the latter will b The idea of these two new routes is to ende: new territories which will support them, we can buy more busses to serv: 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 | Postum proposed route begins Wednesday, March 19, e these territories instead of using our | Why Is It? is there more argument about cof fee than any other item of diet. Coffee has alWays needed defense—one of the few articles of diet that does. No doubt exists about the fact that coffee as an emergency stimulant for the heart and from experience that for them, coffee causes thorities, have reason to question coffee drink- ing, can you afford to risk your health with it— when you can have a safe mealtime drink, such as Postum? You will like the delicious flavor of Postum. It fills every requirement of a hot drink; and many former coffee drinkers even prefer it to the best coffee. With Postum as your mealtime beverage, your system free of. caffeine, and your sleep sound and restful, you'll realize that Postum has established its genuine value in health and comfort. for Health “There’s a Reason”’ Elk Street 210 330 250 Last Trip 11:40 8 We are contemplating, n and Beech street. The e advertised later. avor to run them through and in that way show us that BUS LINE!