Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT : be Caspet Daily Cribune Casper Daily Tribune issued every eve-ing anc Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- g. PubLeation offices: Tribune Building, postoffice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as secund clans matter, November 22 1916. ness Telephones Branch Telephone a Departments 5 and 16 au By J. B. HANWAY and BE. BE. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the The Assc use for publication of all news credited in this paper ‘and also the local news pub!ished herein. Advertising Representatives Pru@fien, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg.. Chs- cage, Ii, #88 Sew York City; Globe Bide., Boston ron Bidg., 53 New Mont- gomery St n Francisco, Cal. 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Those not engaged in oil would not stand for it. What would those engaged in the coal mining industry say to the proposition that Wyoming was given) over entirely to oil. They would first cite the, fact that the coal measures of Wyoming are} the most extensive of any on the North Ameri-} can continent. That these coal deposits un-)| tderlie practically every county in the state. That there is not only one vein but numerous veins, separate and distinct strata, varying in thickness in the northern field from three feet to thirty-six feet. They will cite you also to the facts disclosed by the drilling of an oil well, | also in the north on Tongue river, in a depth of only two thousand feet the drill went through a hundred and sixty feet of coal. What is true of the northern field is also true of the southern field. | What would the lievstock interests of Wyo- ming say if you tell them you saw nothing but oil production and refining in Wyoming? Hard | hit as they have been in the past few years, they | would tell you promptly that they are on the road back to prosperity and point out a pro- duction worth $36,000,000 in ‘the year recently closed, and within another season or two the figure will be multiplied by three or four. The} sheep men alone will show you where Wyoming | will lead the country this year, as of old in lamb and wool production. Yes we have something more than oil in the empire of Wyoming. ° The farmers and ranchmen are coming back rapidly after the vexing problems of war defla- tion and readjustment. Markets bid fair to) recover their stability and the spread between | cost of production and market value to be wider than for several years. These farmers will show a doubling of agri- cultural output over the $58,000,000 of last year, | which was a short one. And then to help} things along, farmers are going largely into corn, and corn is going into hogs, which helps} tremendously. While we are proud of oil and acknowledge it the greatest industry in the state. We have mentioned coal, livestock and agriculture be- cause they came handy. When the time comes we will speak of iron, precious minerals, timber, water power, climate, mountain scenery and ‘a score more things that we possess. More About Plains Poets While not intended, possibly, to be a com- prehensive or inclusive article on “Poets of the Plains” published in the Tribune Monday by our old friend. A. O’Donoghue, of Elkhorn ranch, we are certain there are many more ‘early writers eligible to the list in northern, central and southern Wyoming, if the writings could be resurrected and brought together. Mr. O’Donoghue tells of the activity of interested | people in Washakie county collecting and plac-| | is overfed it stops laying; and if it is slaughter. | ?sht there. He read a number of 4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924 Pea forgeting pe who is to blame, and who must pay, it usually is the passengers of the car the driver is driving who gets. killed or wounded instead of the passengers whom the engineer is hauling. All the money in the world will not bring back a human life that is lost. The driver of the car should remember this. He should think of the responsibility that is upon his shoulders. In fact, in most grade crossing accidents it is the driver of the car that should be sued, instead of the railroad company who employs the engineer. | Capital This country is rich in ‘capital; but the in- More Poets of the Plains Editor Tribune: In the tnterest- hummed a little tune that was ing communication in Monday's] popular then, “When I get Mine.” Tribune from Elkhorn ranch, men-|I asked him what he was going to tion was made of Jack Martin, the|do when he sold his claims and had cowboy, miner and poet, apparently/ plenty of money. He mentioned Uttle known. This brings to mind] some middle western state, this side an interesting session I had with|of back east, and said he would this man years ago when he was] buy a certain farm there and settle working some gold claims in Copper| down in comfort. I fear he never mountain during the mining excite-/ sold out, as Copper mountain ment there. The Burlington had| proved to be a frost. not at that time penetrated that] While speaking of literary plains- pg i there was no pid? men, why does not the writer from as dam, but a wagon road was rosea of capital is so restricted by harrass- built to the canyon in expectation pemahore, hs pose scout? mare ng laws that vast amounts of it are withheld of great development. Martin and| before me an autograph copy of from private industry; and the prosperity of the % one-eyed man named Cunningham | his book, published in 1886, and country rests upon the basis of prosperity in 584 Some claims for which they had] from the preface and biographical private business. For it is private, not public, Pe”, “fered a nice figure but for| sketch, I gather that Captain Jack business that pays the taxes and makes muni. | “2! they wanted $100,000. One| was a noteworthy character. Many cipal; state aud. federal aavecmeane ible, | cYCmns he visited the camp where }of his poems mention Wyoming Ccattarh government possible. |1 was working and we became! points, and he seems familiar with ~ pital is the goose of the fable that lays | acquainted. He invited me over to| the entire west from the Black Hills the golden eggs; and it possesses some of the | his cabin, a typical log house near|to the Mexican border. These characteristics of this barnyard fowl. If it|the Big Horn river, and I spent the|early-day pioneers who took time to write poems while living the nomadic and primitive Ife of the plains must surely have been in- spired to add their rugged lines to our Mterature. ROY CHURCHILL SMITH. nse of News Value Republican. own knowledge actually happened. Yet, although this committee sat for many weeks in open session, and the facts adduced were as readily available as the gossip which has been given such sensa- Why Pay the Penalty of Lying Awake? ANY people spend hours at night, restlessly .tossing from side to side, waiting for sleep. All because they drink coffee with their evening meal. If the caffeine in coffee irritates your nervous system and keeps you awake when you should be asleep, recuperating your energies, why not stop coffee and drink Postum? Postum is a pure cereal beverage, absolutely free from caffeine or any- thing that can disturb health and com- On January 9, 1920, at Washing- Graham committee had spend $200.000,000 more on nitrate plants. Under oath he stated that he had more power than any other man in the world. This news was of no importance to the papers which have been exploiting wit- nesses who have been airing their imaginations before the political in- quisitions now in progress on Capt- tol hill. The people of the United States did not find out through the news- papers which have been giving yards of space to inconsequential piffle emanating from Washington during the past few weeks, that the government bought, 149,000,000 bread cans and 41,000,000 pairs of shoes for three and a half million soldiers during the World war, or that !t purchased 1,000,000 sets’ of double harness, 2,000.000 nose bag: 948,000 saddles and 195,000 copper- tipped branding trons for 391,000 army horses and mules; $21,000,000 worth of harness for motorized am- bulances, and sent 33,933 new army autos to France six months after long narrative poems for my bene- The problem of | ne and also reid “The Cactus” which was mentioned in Monday's paper. While preparing breakfast next morning Jack continually ed there are no more eggs. proper nourishment is an exceedingly difficult one; but a correct solution is essential to prof- itable industry, which means in turn profitable employment for the industrial workers. The Record of Josephus Ber: | . | Has Press Lost Se n a signed article distributed throughout National the country early in the present month by one Xat of the press associations, Josephus Daniels,| A significant feature of the con- prenaee st the navy in the Wilson Democratic | Eressional edn creng ac conducted administration say: eae one, aipaigntae “My policy was, and always wilt be, to keep | Se ge ero A= he Pe : 1924, has been thi . the oil in the ground where it belongs for naval ploitation, ty the Amerionnt eee sidectcantag?: let it be known I would not con- generally of trivial and unreliable] tional notice during the current h ‘All this had to piace a: ee | “evidence” given by irresponsible] congressional investigations, scarce-| ‘© Wat Was over. rt. Man ref : Fortunately, in the interest of truth, the! witnesses, reflecting upon the char-|ly a word of the story reached the |#Wait revelation hy Republican fo ly preter Postum for its de- : publicity organizations later on, lightful aroma and flavor. Tf you want to know the truth, change to Postum for a month or so, and see how much better you will sleep and “eel. Postum public does not have to rely upon the statements |@cter of men in public life. ot Josephus Daniels. Although in nearly! A disgruntled woman comes be- every department of the federal government ‘T? ® senate committee after a Democratic officials destroyed countless _ree-| ¥%!" effort to dispose of her silence ords before they left office—in some cases to hide |" ‘lis stories about her interpre- their criminality and thwart prosecution—and 4, a % ia : ; a c eld wi 7 althoudt il j have been held with a dead man, her records have since been!and her testimony occupies many sequestered by Democratic subordinates pro-| columns of space in ipa ewe, tected by civil service, there remains in the files | papers. of the navy department documentary proof that; A man under indictment for Josephus Daniels actually did everything in/alleged attempted corruption of connection with leasing naval oil reserves that | Public officials, who has been tried he has recently been denying. jfor murder and admits that’ /his In other words and in truth and fact Jose-| Principal business is answering in- American public. A study of the files of telegraphic newspapers during that period shows that for many days during the sessions of this committee not a word concerning the testimony was printed, though every day evi- dence was brought out a thousand fold more important and more startling than has been adduced during any one day of the present widely advertised = inquisitions. Twenty-two lines is the longest story this paper has been able to find in the metropolitan press. when it came to the people as a shock and a surprise. There may be some good explana- tion of this minimizing facts in the one case and magnifying gossip and rumor in the other. Four ‘years ago we were on the eve of a na- tional campaign, and the evidence developed reflected on the Demo-, cratic-radical administration. Now the Republican party ig in power and the attempt is being made to manufacture campaign material for the Democratic-radical bloc. —_————_ ; | dictments, tells a simila: abo For instance, the Graha: 4 »hus, Daniels A | 5 similar yarn ut 5 m com: * phus, Dan els has been engaged in doing a little / nis alleged dealings with a dead| mittes sat for five days during the} Dont Lda p : d fancy lying. man, and gets unlimited space in|autumn = of 1919 at Charleston,| 6, yer Deter’: n response to a recent inquiry of the house|the public press for his eensational| W- Va. Scores of reputable wit-| Rveamper th of representatives ay to the facts in connection | charges of wrong doing in others, | nesses testified that they saw. Yrs of aa with the leasing of naval oil reserves, Secretary| Discharged employes of the de- astounding waste\of war’ materials aad hine or ealth Denby sent to the House the documentary evi-|Partment of Justice and other men|Pald for by the American people! Which does its dence contained in the files of the Navy depart-| "ith srouches. and grievances, are} "inning into on aggresnte value off Hardest maeaity. «7 heme’ dive e witness stand to tell, ey told o ment. | These documents speak for themselves.| not what they know, but what they | Padded payrolls, e¢ idle men and) RiERInE “There’s a Reason” pinion” of Secretary Denby! guess and what they have said and| teams being paid for, of lumber be-| Down. mg burned in fires that raged night and day, of car loads of copper wire being hauled to excavations and dumped, of ripened crops being burned in the face of immediate need of these crops for use in the camp, of the piling up of enormous unnecessary obligations through cost-plus extravagance. This story had great news value, and it was of the highest public {mportance, yet an inspection of the files. of newspapers carrying press services shows that not a word of it reached the American people through; these channels, On October 30, 1920, the Graham committee developed the fact that a New England Democratic politician, with his business associates, had filled a huge contract for duck goods for immediate use by overseas sol- diers, with rotten, worthless, left- over materials at a Toss of millions of dollars to the government. This evidence was taken in open session in Washington, but nothing about it is found in the dispatches of that date in the newspapers which gave a page to Roxie Stinson. On December 16,'1920, at a Wash- ington public hearing, the Graham committee developed the fact that the government had bullt at Old Hickory, Tenn., a powder plant any more than they are the “statements” of) heard in communication with. per- former Secretary Daniels. They are the record,|sons not principals in the charges final, indisputable, irrefutable. being investigated, and their out- They give the lie to his signed statement that! !vings, which would not be ad- his policy always was to keep oil in the ground. ™tted @s testimony in any repu- The proof is found in the fact that he, on March | Sve overt, are” Mera lned Snaae ae 510809 r n ) Ure'\| headlines and in unlimited detail. , wrote to the chairman of the naval com-| ‘phe dispatches of a prominent mittees in both houses of congress asking for| Washington publisher are intro- practically unlimited power to take oil out of | duced in evidence, and despite the the ground in the naval reserves and to do it| fact that they are of no importance through the process. of leasing. As Secretary |i the case under investigation, one Denby pointed out in his reply to the Houre of ®f°*t newspaper prints two pages Representatives, if it had been the policy of °% the stuff daily as if it were of former Secretary Daniels to keep the oil in the “iy “nie. ge ‘ All this tart ground he did not need any legislation to ac-|contrast to piss etry Ponder} complish that purpose. by these same newspapers and press The language of the amendment to the leas-| associations to the tremendously ing act which Daniels proposed admits of no important. and thoroughly verified double meanin; He wrote it, and he asked testimony brought out during the power to “develop” and “operate” the naval oil (vestigations | conducted by the reserves. Both of these words clearly mean |p tha World wae, inte the conduct taking oil ont of the, ground, otherwise the re-; Fifteen hundred pages of this evi- serves could neither be developed nor operated. ' dence have been published. It con- He asked for power to do this directly “or stitutes the most-amazing record of by contract, lease or otherwise,” which gives the sraft, waste and malfeasance that lie to his stdtement that he let it be known that bas ever been spread before the eye he would not consider leasing. on the world. Nearly every page of He asked for power to “store” oil taken from meg teen sy So tnaateeetiet ee the naval reserves, to “exchange” it, to “sell” it.| say by irresponsible Soaaeall coer He even asked for power to go into the oil re-| gers, but as competent testimony of fining business, and, not satisfied with all this,|eye witnesses as to what of their he asked for blanket power to “otherwise dis- pose of the oil and gas products thereof.” No- body but a fool would argue that he intended to keep the oil in the ground when he asked for such wide powers to take it out, store it, ex- change it, refine it and otherwise dispose of it. It is not even approaching the truth for Mr. Daniels to state he let it be known he would not consider leasing. To the contrary, as the rec- ords submitted to the house of representatives by Mr. Doheny showed, Mr. Daniels no sooner Ignorance Is Bliss Artist—“This is: my biggest and best painting. I would like to donate it to some charitable institution where it would be appreciated.” Critic—“Why not give it to the In- stitute for the Blind?” . A Catastrophe Surgeon—“How did you happen to get in this terrible conditio: Were you in an automobile wreck?’ Patient—"No, I fainted down town and was brought to by the Society of First Ald to the Injured." = ask to Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk WILL CATCH YOUR EYE TONIGHT The 5 Passenger Touring \ 4 Passenger Coupe NOLAN CHEVROLET CO. BOOTH NO. 10 ing these early expressions of the Wyoming muse in the local library at Worland. While} this is a step in the right direction and to be} commended, these things should finally repose} in the state historical department at the capitol There is a great deal more of this early day matter than one, at first blush, would imagine. No doubt there are poems, prose articles, de-| ‘scriptions, written by the first comers to the ‘state that have real merit. And they must exist today among the children and grandchild- ren of the writers in the older settled communi- ties, Much or little it should be collected and reserved.. And whatever it is it forms the eginning of Wyoming literature. Mr. O’Don- oghue himself has for more than twenty years been a fairly industrious contributor. His ‘quaint philosophy and entertaining observations ‘have appeared in many ‘Wyoming newspapers. He has made a good suggestion with reference to collecting the matter, which the state his- torian should seize upon. Blame At the Crossing . An automobile jou! of motorists try to get across the crossing avead of a train that is) coming. ‘The train and the auto arrive at the] crossing at the same time. As soon as the fun- ‘erals of the motorists have been held the chances are that the railroad company will be sued for thousands of dollars for having the train reach the crossing at the same time that the occu- ‘pants of the car reached it. According to most accidents at grade cross- ings it is thought by relatives of the killed and injured that the engineer when he approaches a crossing should stop his train, look for oncom- Sng automobiles, ring the bell three or four} minutes and then proceed to cross | But juries and judges are t he te eee that the moral responsibility f rests squarely upon the high who, warned by road signs, signals, whistles from the engineer, ctc., are either in| 1h danger ‘lease naval oil reserves to Secretary Fall. Yet Sceretary Daniels did exactly the same Persia your house:-.eurf-| “Devoe Floor Paint ts produced ; thing. He transferred to pecan of the 3 ous eyes . . . courteously spoken’ Tn the moat sis to R E LINED ‘terior John Barton Payne the right to make artistic colors; easy ies aninkyal oil reserves and he did so with- words that thrill with spproval or apply; and cofers the preceding fin-| out even the formality of a presidential order. chill with dispraise beneath the vel- ish perfectly. Itisspot-. If the transfer of his power to Secretary vet of politeness. Femiriine hearts rapidly, and is extremely | D ‘ got power to lease the naval oil reserves than they began to be leased. Nor were these leases confined to wells already in operation. Leases were made to drill new wells. At least one— the Consolidated Mutual Oil company lease— was without restriction as to the number of wells it might drill. Nor is that all the records of the navy de- partment show. Secretary Daniels had at that time absolute charge of the naval oil reserves, just as Secretary Denby had absolute charge of them. Secretary Denby had been denounced on the floor of the senate by Democratic leaders and in the Democratic newspapers and in pub- licity issued by the Democratic national com- mittee because he transferred his eta e did this after having received an order from President Harding to do so. “What Have You Done to This Room?” as Demo- beat fast when woman judges Fall stigmatizes Secretary Denby, cratic leaders and press claim, then Secretary woman by the whol This Coupon is Worth 40 : Daniels is placed under exactly the same stigma, Be jegome standard Pulce: cus : CT aniels is p of household appearances. “ Sodeye Wien rere arirchatpenl f for he did exactly the same thing dvring his of any Devoe Paint and Varnish Prod administration. Is'the complete of you Nor is that the end of the story. In letting pices ve beauty of your aoc repactee psoas arr can the leases to the naval oil reserves in California is Falepettac peer foce that neither Secretary Daniels nor Seeretary Payne , Stained or worn? - If it is, Town. wie, advertised for bids or invited any competition. J make it good to lqok at with Devoe, | Devoe Agent's Name —— —__ 2-26 ‘e Use d bestos Too In striking Floor Paint. One coupon to a person, Te be weed by adehs only The leases were made secretly. contrast to this was the action of the Republi- can administration in making leases to the oil erves in California and Wyoming. For, as Secretary Denby informed the house and accom- pained his information with copies of the doc- uments, ete, three companies were invited to bid for the Teapot Dome reserves and five were asked to bid for leases on the California naval “The Genuine Has the Silver Edge” L. D. Branson Service First at Durbin 2 JOHN JOURGENSEN t 242 West Yellowstone Highway. Casper, Wyo. too much of a hurry, have too much fire-water under their belts, just good common sense across tracks. when about to drive or are too-earcless to exercise’ Da ten are the facts concerning the record of AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR}, CASPER Josephus Daniels while he was Secretary of the | © DEVOE PAINT AND VARNISH PRODUCTS Phone 383 \ navy, all proved by official records of the navy department, 4 fone x Sheed ' < css = Ls