Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 8

OT Er « Th ermal Lae ein am PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Sunday Cribune | Entered at Casper (W; ming) postoffice as second GC matter, November 1916. ness Telephones ~_..-_-~----___ —_ 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments, By J. EB. HANWAY and E. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Prous 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, 1 23 Steger Bidg.. Chi- cago, T'l., 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bide.. Boston, Mass. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New ae gFomery St. San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Dally ‘Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago. Boston, and San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome ——_———— eee Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sunday - 3. HANWAY 0 50| 50! 2 75 One Month, Daily and Sunday Per Copy --. iy 3 One Year, Dally and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only Stix Months Daily and Three Months, Dally and Sunday One Month, Dally and San ox, A}l subscriptions must Daly Tribune wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becoines one month fm 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 ecial messenger. Register compla-nts before $ Let "Em Rant } While the folks outside Wyoming have been throwing fits wbout oil, the oil fields of the atate have gone steadily along producing oil at an inc 1 rate, Last year the eighteen fields within the state brought to the surfac T barrels of crude oil. The Salt Creek field alon brought in 35,290,085 barrels of this total. | The much talked about and lied about Teapot field with her sixty odd working wells brought up only 1,022.069 barrels, after an expenditure of approximately fifty million dollars to estab- lish the field and build the pipe line to the Missouri river. Big Muddy, Grass Creek, Rock Creek and Lost Soldier all exceeded the Teapot. The refining capacity of all plants in Wyo- ming is 95,000 barrels daily or 35,000,000 bar- rels ann ally. Oil development in Wyoming is not going to cease by any means. The festive wild catter is not the animal to be frightened by congression- al conversation, senatorial investigation or oth- er continuous performance in Washington or) elsewhere. Our wildcat friend is the boy who brings ’em in, gets his, and lets the others quar- rel over the remains. The enterprise of Wyoming oil men will not be suspended, pending any outcome at Washing- ton. For as far as anybody knows, the Washing- ton purification league will be whacking away at shadows until Gabriel sounds the alarm. It would be foolish to change any development | or expansion program contemplated for the com. | ing months. Congress will adjourn shortly and | there will be an election this fall and a lot} -of the present disturbers of business and gen-! seral hellraisers will not be present in the new ongress, . | Go ahead with business and forget a lot of | $fools who are playing such fantastic tricks be-| fore congress as make the remainder of the coun- ? try groan. The Approaching Exposition The Tribune's _ Industri Exposition from present indications bids fair to prove one of the best moves in the interest of. production, manufacturing and marketing ever attenipted in Wyoming. Splendid co-operation has been secured among .the leading interests of the state and exhibits ‘will far exceed anything hoped for in the be- gining. The plan, once understood, has required but little urging upon local business men. The arrangement of the exposition hall for the displays will be the most artistic seen in Cas- per, or in Wyoming. The exact dates have not been settled upon, but the details are gradually being rounded into shape so that final announcement can be made in_another week. If the first exposition proves a success, and those who participate in the show demand it, it will be made a permanent annual affair. Shift Carefully The department of agriculture does not be- lieve in hysteria in farming. At least not under the present administration. Remarking upon the shifting of many farmers from one crop to another because last year’s experience was not satisfactory the, department advises: “Many wise farmers hesitate to follow the crowd in these continual shifting’ They realize that the difficulties of this period are less to be met by chasing elusive price advantages of the moment than by following the tried and tested system and leaving no stone unturned to improve that system. Efficiency and rigid economy now mean everything, and continual change is a will-o’-the- wisp.” Switching from one line of farming to another means a new capital investment. The more ex- tensive the shift, the more capital required. Moreover, if a grain farmer shifts to live stock or to fruit, he has much to learn and probably a lot of it by costly experience. The purport of the department’s bulletin is that the shifting should be slight and carefully considered and consist chiefly of endeavoring to produce as many as possible of the things the farmer will need for himself and family, Walsh Bears the Aroma Senator Walsh was one of the first to get on ~the anti-Doheny band wagon. .In 1919 Walsh made a speech in the senate in defense of the ‘leasing bill during the course of which he prais- ed Doheny. As late as December 1923, Walsh wrote a letter to Doheny urging him to conduct oil defelopment work in Montana. In that letter Walsh said that he would be pleased to be as- sociated with Doheny in such an undertaking if his official position did not make it seem improper. Walsh wrote this letter in pursuance of correspondence which had not involved Do- heny’s hame in any way, so it is apparent that the suggestion originated with Walsh. This is not the only instance of association between Waleh and oil men. When W: Montana Democrats that he still favored the nomination of McAdoo, he sent the message sh sent word to Che Casper Sunday Cribune not look upon transactions with oil concerns as | criminal, But in view of all the insinuations the Democratic leaders have been throwing out wherever they can find a blican in any way connected with oil matters, itis a little curious i the tendency of the commonplace to that some of their leaders have found the asso- * Ade ry aS be casual. Upon this whimsical hu- man mood it is that the base of all collecting rests. The broken chair ciation so agreeable. Help the Poor: ~ The McAdoo promoters are asking for help and passing the hat for dollar subscriptions. | That is a far cry from hundred thousand dollar more than one dollar, individually, to quitting ex-secretary made president. Happily that class has been reduced to a pitiful minority by recent disclosures. There is talk to the effect that if McAdoo can take a hefty enough trading contingent to New York he will have his strength thrown to Ral- ston, who is generally regarded as the most ikely candidate for the Democratic nomination. What would be the quid pro quo? Well, it might be that McAdoo be the vice presidential nomi- |nee. Why? Ralston would be in his 68th year at 5 inauguration, and the cares of the chief mag- istrate are not such as are conductive to longe- vity. Polecat Politics Democratic gas attacks against the Repub- lican stronghold are to be delivered in waves, or rather clouds. For some months we have read the deluge of rumor, innuendo and plain libel. Just as the public is tiring of that ,the Daugh- erty committee gets under way with a choice list of hitherto unknown witnesses filled with hearsay testimony. In anticipation of the time when that proceeding, also, will pall upon the reader, the way is being paved for an investigs tjon in to the income tax division of the treasury department. The customary special committee of five members has already been appointed, and is busily storing up its ammunition to fire when the proper time arrives. It is just possible that public disgust will have reached such propor- tions by then that the character assassins will be ready to curb activities. * Turkey and the Hay There was once an old lawyer who needed an assistant, so he advertised for applicants to meet him in his office next day. When they were all assembled about his desk he told them a story somewhat as follows: A young man rush- ed into the house to get a gun with which to shoot a turkey that was sitting on top of the woodiple around the corner of the barn near the house. He got the gun and blazed away, but he was so near a pile of hay that it caught fire, and before it could be put out it had spread to the woodpile and burned it up. From there the flames leaped to the barn and destroyed it with all the horses and cattle that were in it, and had even partially burned the house before the time- ly arrival of the village fire brigade got the conflagration under control. All the applicants for the position with the old lawyer thought the story was highly inter- esting and exciting but only one of them in- quired, “Did he get the turkey?” That man re- ceived the appointment. All of which is respectfully referred to the sen- ate oil committee. ‘ The White Collar Brigade A statistician has gathered from census fig- ures that since 1880 the number of clerical work- ers in the United ¢states has increased seventeen hundred per cent whereas the number engaged in all gainful occupations aside from agriculture has increased only three hundred per cent. He figures that, if the trend kept on at the same rate for the next fifty years we would have as many clerical workers as of all other workers put together. He does not include sales clerks in the classification “clerical workers,” but mere- ly office workers. A study of the subject will indicate that the great increase in the proportion of clerical work- ers has been due largely to the drift of govern- ment. Government, local, state and national, has been gradually assuming more and more of the tasks and ‘responsibilities of the people—and this requires clerical service. For instance, early in the period mentioned above, the government undertook regulation of railroad rates, and this required the setting up of an interstate com- merce commission, which, of course, had to haye a lot of clerical assistance, and one of the first things the comr&ission did was to formulate a system of accounts the railroads must keep in order to make reports to the commission. That required an immenre increase in the clerical force of the railroads, ‘ That -was one of the earlier causes of the in- crease in clerionl service. In recent years the givernment enacted an income tax law which, of course, requires an army of clerks to receive. file, examine, and correct income reports, ad- just differences, collect taxes, issue receipts, con- duct correspondence, etc. But the number of gov- ernment clerks made necessary by the income tax law is far smaller than the number made necessary in industry. Men who previously kept their books and accounts any way that suited them best, must now keep them to suit the gov- ernment. Failure to do so may mean the disal- lowance of a claim for deduction from income. A comparison of clerical employment statis- tics of today in any city or state in the union with similar statistics for 1880 would show that the increase in official clerks has been ont of all proportion to increase of population or in- dustry. Such is the inevitable result of bureau- cracy, and we have been drifting to bureaucracy] at a tremendous rate in recent years. Wyoming’s taxable wealth is_$437,329,735. Of which Natrona county supplies $73,299,454. When ‘you figure that the total population of the state is only 212,000 people, the showing is not at all bad. Senator Wheeler, of Montana, says that Do- heny financed a revolution in Mexico. Doheny says he loaned money to the Mexico government to forestall a revolution. Now we shall be in- terested in learning who is a liar. spe There are in Wyoming streams this minute, exceeding 300,000 undeveloped horsepower going to waste. While it is a valuable asset, it would be more valuable if utilized for economic pur- poses. There is a little less than two thousand miles of railroad in Wyoming. Not enough transporta- tion for a state of ninety-seven thousand square miles area, through an employe of an oil company. Repub- licans are not laboring under the delusion that everythingrassociated with ail is evil, so they do _ Will not someone tell us winter is lingering in the lap of spring? * Philosophers have often remarked of yesteryear, discarded and exiled | to the attic, becomes the treasured find of today. So 3t is that kerosene lamps have returned to New York fees and the appeal is probably as hypocritical shops that pride themselves on their as the principal for which it is made. There perfection of artistic appointment. is‘a certain class of voters which would give | In those chaste precincts, where is see the S2thered much of the available sup- ,Ply of rare porcelains and faded |prints, the old off lamp of your childhood sheds its mellow, subdued | } Blow. |the kerosene lamp. first to bring it though the modern school has stri- ven to embilish {t, to make it more of an arts-and-crafts utensil than it was, it is nevertheless unchanged in es its adoption of the kerosene lamp as a It is the vogue. New York was the first to outlaw New York is back again, and principle. Turned too high, or im- properly trimmed, {t smokes just as it used to, and at all times it breath- pervasive fragrance. With fad in New York we are not so much concerned. It is our niemory of that homely, serviceable contri- vance that we entertain as one muses upon the redolent past. Come to think of it, all of the world’s great men of the present must have, at one time or another, been “tolling upward through the night” In light of its dispensing. The weighty volumes that have been drilled and tunneled by their minds, the profound calculations over which they pored, were illuminated by the kerosene lamp. Many of the great- est poems were doubtless penned as the wick burned lower and lower, dying at length to a red and smok- ing char. Fortified by the learning acquired in the narrow circle that fought back darkness, men have been ready for the test when they met It, and have passed their ex- aminations, as history records. Be- fore they owned an oll lamp, once a Te aN MRSC SEs tatiana icy Shorea ntact con tnish Winter Tells About Tea A brief resume of Congressman Winter's address on the Teapot Dome controversy and oll leasing generally, delivered in the house of representatives, is given herewith: “It 1s not my purpose,” sald he 0 defend these leases, but I say plainly and without hesitation, be- cause all the facts should be known and inte!ligent and fair judgment arrived at, that, so far as these leases are concerned, the naval oil reserves of the nation, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, in California and Wyoming, have not been ‘given away’; the country has not ‘lost them’ or the oll in them, there was no ‘wanton waste of a billion dollars’ worth of oil’, the public domain has not been ‘looted,’ the people of this country have not been ‘deprived of the means of national defense,’ the navy {is not ‘without adequate oil for navy fuel to meet any war emergency,’ and would not be and will not be after these leases con- tinue in operation; these leases were not, in my judgment, aside from the question of fraud, illegal, and there was not in these leases on Reserves 1 and 3 a change of policy with regard to the naval oll reserve. “No amount of quibbling or fine- hatred theory can change the fact that Teapot Dome was being drained and had been in the process of draining for some time in and through private wells in Salt Creek fleld immediately adjoining it on the northwest. When the Teapot fleld came to be actually drilled and the sand penetrated by wells it was found that contrary to all expecta- tions there was no oil in the first wall creek sand, which was produc- tive in the contiguous Salt Creek field. “The Salt Creek field ts the big end, the sole of the oil structure, of which the Teapot is a small heel. Nothing was found in this first sand of the Teapot except gas in the south end thereof; and the pro- ducing area of the second sand, ex- ceedingly prolific and productive in the Sa't Creek field, was disappoint- ingly less than had been anticipated by all operators and experts and government officials. Its produging power had been diminished from an expected capacity of 600 to 1,000 barrels a well a day to an average proven during the last year of operation of seventy barrels a well day. Instead of a content of 100,000,000 barrels estimated by all it was found after drilling had given the necessary data of the thickness of the sand its prorosity and the location of the water line in the sand around the field that its content is but 26,000,000 barrels. The expert geologists employed by the government reported that drain- age was taking place, though one of the two, I believe, testified that in his opinion the drainage might cease after 4,000,000 barrels had been lost. “The necessity of leasing the Tea- pot Dome being determined, what was then the situation? Notwith- standing the act of June 4, 1920, giving the secretary of the navy jurisdiction and power to operate or lease the structure, the fact is an important vital fact which has been practically 'gnored throughout the entire matter In the public print and discussion, the 9,000 acres of this Structure within the surrounding walls known as the Escarpment was practically all covered by pri- vate mining claims located under the: laws of the United States and the State of Wyoming and recorded prior to the withdrawal of said area as a naval reserve. The figures, as I recall them, show but 440 acres of the extreme edge and poorest part remain open to the subject of the jurisdiction of the secretary under the act. “The procedure affirmed as the correct one for the government re- gaining possession of a mining clafm is that the secretary of the interior must serve upon the claimant occu- pant of the mining claim thought by the secretary to be invalid, notice to appear at a hearing; such hear- ing must be held and evidence taken, “I, therefore, maintain that it was New Lamps for Old Yeritable symbol of modernism, they | M&h- plete. what votaries tend the oil lamps of New York’s smart, shops. the janitors do. SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1924 lamp could not return. It stands no| tray deep emotion and the actresses more, aula of modern | at their hearts?” f itlumination than the ox-wain has of She—“Each probably fee's it mest ousting the motor vehicle. Yet men|in the weakest point.’ traveled far in its light, and dared until was it an greatly, were honored for their] “My mother-in-law is sick.” pursued thety qiaiies ty cundis Hemt, Siaicviate. Gttea we fear that the | °T hope it's nothing trivial.” And managed to acquit themselves| °* Time advantages of the present are not with credit to their forebears and spoon ad scteédl pon ‘ma'they ehould bs;-when Correct oe the universe. all labor, either mental or physical] Robert and ‘Mary were walking wa th is vastly easier than once {t was./ home from fat no As and dis- M a message. cussing the scripture lesson. in See “well.” said Robert, “which of the ’ uncomplaining Ten Commandments did Adam break when he ate the apple?” remote settlements, in little hidden “He didn't break any,” replied towns. But it is a far cry from the Mary decisively. te fashionable shops of the metropolis, “What do you mean? Why notr’ th wherein this relic of old days is asked Robert. eS shined, to those times when kero- Proving His thp awful railroad) pecause there weren't any then,” cot sene lamps were new. Why, it was] He—“As I was saying, Miss Spy-| wrecks shall be visited with severe answered the little girl. in: once almost the common practice] cie, when I start out to do a thing,| punishment, which consists of a Money doesn’t talk until it gets ite never to waste a match on the new/] stay on the’job. I'm anything but| warning never to let it happen! pig lamps, for the Americans were for-|a quitt again. Hostess—“What? Going already? merly a thrifty people. They rolled She (with a weary yawn)—‘Don't —— And must you take your dear wife spills—and what a quaint word that] 1 know it?” “Is the man your sister is goin’ to| with you? is—of twisted paper and kindled marry rith?” 5 Caller—“Yes, I'm sorry to say that these in the fireplace, and so they| syn, “Naw, every time the marriage is] 7 must.” te lighted the lamps. Such lamps were Wish. mentioned, paw says: “Poor man.” mined or a great improvement on candles, al-| ait —_— Unele Hook Says. da most as @ great an improvement. as} lad Only a Substitute. "You c’n kill a fly just as dead é the electric light in contrast with} “nice, “I wonder why they hung that| with a fly sfatter as you can with jos oll. Victorian culture decorated) uct. pirtite? Papeete flowers, but these lamps were or- a . ota iginally for the elect. Again they 4 are for the elect. ‘The cycle fa com.| 2° Uncle Hook Says Another One—“Certainly not. He's __ “Castles in th’ air is awful purty] on our side.” t’ look at, but they have a durned low second-hand value.” “Is Jiggs a hard- man?” “I guess you would call him that. Any work he does seems hard to him.” If speech is given to conceal thought. Hiram is one of our great- We have no means of knowing Irate Father—‘Can you support my daughter in the style to which Reason she is accustomed’ He— do movie actors al-| Ingrate Sultor—“I can, but I'd be ways clutch at their heads to por-! ashamed to. ————————eeeer ea Possibly But when there were kerosene lamps in every home in America the cleansing thereof was] oct ifttle concealers. f often an enforced prerogative of childhood. Detaled to clean and fill the three or four lamps of the house- hold, you bore them to the woodshed and unscrewed the burners and brought out the coal oll can, stopper- ed with a small, disconsolate potato. And having filled them, you replaced the burriers and polished them well with a flannel rag and turned to the chimneys, always dul'ed by. service and often thickly sooted. These you blew a slow breath into, and before Public sentiment in the United States always insists that those re- A Step Ahead | Scient advertising by a mer- chant that knows how, gradually Ufts a business to a larger scale HOTEL MARSEILLES Broadway at 103d St. the moisture had quitted the glass| 0f operation. iy Station at Door) you polished it well with newspaper, The enlargement of plans and NEW.YORK CITY facilities follow inevitably; the law fie 3 of growth 1s bound to operate, Near Riverside Drive’ else something is wrong. Central Park, Theatres Consistent and continuous adver- tising is necessary to maintain any advanced position won. Over and above that, a man of real vision and courage, cons! ering the methods that have brought him along thus far, will hazard something on faith and go after greater heights. The advertising plans should keep just a safe step ahead; ad- vert'sing should lead the business, not follow it. The Tribune takes great pride in its Advertisers who have adver- tised and grown and grown and advertised. and Shopping Sections necessary to make these or similar contracts and leases with some one in order to carry out the govern- ment’s policy of preserving oll in its public lands for the future use of the navy. I further contend that even had it been possible to have retained this oll in the ground, It never could have been extracted or refined or exchanged 2,000 miles from the Atlantic and 1,000 miles from the Pacific for proper fuel oil in time to meet a war emergency after the same came upon us.” > Kuppenheimer GOOD CLOTHES Two authentic examples of the season's foremost Style idea in suits for young men Copyright 1914 The House of Kuppenheimer CAMPBELL -JOHNSON Co. HEAD TO FOOT CLOTHIERS