Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Casper Daity Cribune SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1924 Che Casper Daily Cribune ‘The.Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoftice. a eT Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 1918. Business Telephones Branch Telephone Departments. By J..E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ociated Press is exclusively entitled to the The A use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudd King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. cht cago, L 86 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg., Boston, Mass.. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily ‘Tribune are on file In the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sunday -. One Year, Sunday Only ----.. Six Months. Dally and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Datly and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only Bix Months, Daily and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday ----~ One Month, tpt ae ee = s eriptions mu Daily Tabane wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. I¢ you don’t find your Tribune after looking care: fully for {t, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered poe by special messenger. Register complaints before o'clock. Reason and Fairness If activities continue the local and federal officers will soon have a comparatively cleanj and reasonably dry town out of Casper. These officers, whoever they are, are entitled to considerable credit, even if the field was large and the violations flagrant. There is a better atmosphere already and many of the less daring manufacturers and pur- veyors of liquor.have retired from business. and sought other employment. Officers of the law charged with its enforce- ment are doing only their sworn duty when they capture violators. The matter of publicly ex- ploiting their deeds does not come under the head of the officers’ business. It is someone else’s business. And at times it is advisable and then again it is not advisable to broadcast the facts, in order to drive the lesson home and se- cure the best results. Newspapers are not conducted for the sole purpose of exploiting police raids and other activities. A reasonable amount of it is right and proper. If an officer believes he is holding office for the publicity he secures out of it he is wrong. His duty is to maintain the peace and good order of the city, protect the citizens and comport himself with dignity and becoming mod- esty and leave the publicity to those in whose hands it rests, and those who are capable of exercising the better judgment as to the ad- visability of publicity under the-circumstances that arise out of the situation, When it is unadvisable to publish certain facts in connection with police investigations in the many problems that confront them daily the publication mediums willingly abstain from men- tion of any of the matters, which might work n defeat of justice. In all these things there must be reason and fairness exercised in order to accomplish the desired end sought. Mr. Daugherty Quits Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general in the cabinet has tendered his resignation to the pres- ident and it has been accepted. This relieves Mr. Coolidge of a very embarrassing burden. One in- herited from the Harding administration. Long ago the Tribune urged that Mr. Daugherty ought to sever his relations with the govern- ment upon the ground that he did not possess the legal ability to conduct the great office] which he occupied. He was strictly a political appointee, having been a political friend and follewer of the late President Harding for many years. Many Republican party leaders took a similar view of Mr. Daugherty. His adminis- tration had many things to its credit, but it was prodnctive of criticism and controversy, The Democratic party leaders, as a matter of course, were particularly bitter at Mr. Daugh- erty. He it was, who, in the line of duty, prose- cuted the war grafters under the Wilson admin- istration and forced them to disgorge many millions of dollars. That was the animus back of their war upon the attorney general. The objections urged by Republicans to his incum- bency was lack of ability as a great lawyer and too much practical politics in high places. The Democratic bitterness was not to be considered, but the Republican objectors had some basis and should have had some weight. It is known to have been Mr. Daugherty’s in- tention to resign even before President Hard- ing’s death, and in fact he hesitated in the be- ginning as to the acceptance of a cabinet place. The activities of political enemies in Ohio, de termined his acceptance of the cabinet place, possibly his demand of it as a political reward for pre-convention and campaign work. Then came the attempt to impeach him, which failed and which delayed the retirement from the cab- inet, But little time elapsed between the at- tempted impeachment and the latest raid upon him, As he himself said in the beginning of the present investigation, it is a poor time to quit when under fire. The president is a fair man and out of courtesy to the officer whom he in- herited, he did not insist upon a resignation, but rather gave Mr. Daugherty an opportunity i clear himself of the charges piled up against him. > When the delving of the Wheler committee re-| surrected such a mass of matter, whether truc| or false, it became embarrassing to the admin- istration, and the president had no other course open to him than to relieve his administration of the cause of all the trouble. The Wheler committee has placed in its rec 1t all the crimes in the calendar, f law and duty, bootlegging, graft, 2 murder. The committee has witnesses of the criminal and near criminal sort. People whose testimony wwould be given no credence in a court of justice, yet whose every word has been exfloited in the ‘3 “ press to the lasting disgrace of the press asso- ciations and the senate committee which brought the irresponsible mouthings out. While the public will never believe half the stuff the senate committee has caused to be spread over the country, it is well that Mr. Daugherty has severed his relations with the Coolidge administration, for the country was growing tired, very tired of the whole busi- ness. Now that Mr. Daugherty has moved out, how long will it require for the committee to wind up its affairs and also move out? A Lurid Tale The oil committee of the senate is featuring Al Jennings, late train robber and general out- law, a former citizen of Oklahoma and lately a moving picture hero, sawdust trail evangelist and all around limelighter. The Honorable Al brings from the far west a bed time story about one Jake Hamon, a one time oil operator of Oklahoma, totally lacking in morals or decenecy, who lived in open adul- tery with a woman who later murdered him and who while drunk or otherwise incapacitated is alleged to have boasted to someone who after- ward confidentially related to the said Al Jen- nings, that the said Jake Hamon had just con- 0 | cluded a political deal with the Chicago conven- tion of 1920, at an se of a million dollars, to nominate Warren Harding for president. The said Jake Hamon to recieve for his share in thus accomplishing so smart a political piece of strategy the great office of the secretaryship of the interior department in the Harding cabinet when it should be formed. It is an intersting fairy story. Before it could be pulled off according to Al, Jake got into trouble with his strumpet and she up and shoots} him and off he goes to a place where angels are scarce. Jake Hamon was just about as fit for secre- tary of the interior as tlfe Devil is fit to be gas- tor of the First Baptist church. His character and reputation were nationwide. The whole idea was preposterous, just as Al Jennings’ story is preposterous now when the principal characters in it are dead and gone and nobody remains to dispute or confirm any phase of it. No doubt there are other retired horse thieves and holdups, temporarily out of jobs, whose im- aginations are even more vivid than Al’s who would be willing to journey to Washington to enlarge the senate oil record, and who would be fully as competent to elucidate oil leases as well as numerous other subjects pertinent and im- pertinent to the subject under investigation. By all means these brethren should be brought forth. There are a lot of people over in Timbuctoo who should be given a chance to testify before Mr. Walsh’s board of defamation. They don’t know anything, but that would make no dif- ference. All that is needed is witnesses. When this oil investigation is finished and the record published and put on the market, who will want it? The subject changes so violently throughout the pages that no one will be able to keep track of the story. The assistant heroes} are so many in number and so far outshine the original hero with which the authors started out that the story has degenerated in confu-| ion. We fear the work will never be classed among the best sellers. We even doubt if it will find much reception as free Democratic campaign circulation. Curse of the Primary The Detroit Free Press is a consistent foe of the primary election system. It is not alone in its hatred of a system that has done more than any one thing to bring on the undesirable sit- uation found today in the congress of the coun- try, the mediocre quality of office holders, and the: general rottenness thai crops out in our elective system. _ It will be no better, neither will we regain the proud position we formerly held in these matters until the people come to their senses, strike at the root of our evils, and {tarms in this country, 4,250,000 A Tariff-Made Industry The argument that the protective tariff ts bound to increase costs is pretty well refuted in the case of the automobile industry, which is one made possible by the protective tariff. Up to the time the Dingley tariff was put Into effect France led the world tn the production and the use of motor vehicles in 1899, France had a total of 1,672 motor vehicles in use. During that year thirty manufacturers in the United States produced a total of 600 cara, an average of twenty cars per manufacturer, a production which is now being surpassed every work- ing day in the year by a great many manufacturers. Last year 328,333 motor vehicles were exported. The industry has sixth largest in There are two arter million people securing a livelihood in it. Measur- ing the purchasing power of the dollar in what {t would purchase in 1913 the dollar was worth 111 cents in automobile purchasing power last year. It {s worth even more this year. Without an adequate protective tariff, it is quite evident that thé American automobile industry could never have been developed to its present size. Back in the Infancy of the industry, France and Great Britain possessed real advantages over this country. As long ago as 1824, practical steam driven motor vehicles were produced in Great Britain. In fact stage coach lines with steam driven coaches maintaining average speeds of 10 to 14 miles per hour were in actual operation. Adverse legis! tion put an end to the early develop- ment of the automobile business in England and these laws were not repealed until 1896, a fact which no doubt gave France the advan- tage. As late as 1902 one found more automobiles on the roads in France and England than he did in the United States, It required the pro- tective tariff to give our manufac- turers and our capitalists the cour- age to go ahead with the manufac- ture of automobiles. Theso vehicles which, if they were to be produced at the lowest possible cost, had to be standardized and turned out in large quantities, The Dingley tariff proved effec- tive in preventing the dumping of foreign machines into our market. It gave the manufacturers an oppor- tunity to organize, standardize and develop quantity production. The result has been that at the beginning of this year, 85 per cent of all the automobiles in use in the world were in use in this country. Motor vehicles have been in no small degree responsible for the im- proving of 430,000 miles of highway. At the end of 1923 there were on motor cars and 3,890,000 motor trucks. T use of these motor ‘The Cactus" was referred to by A. O'Donoghue in a recent article in the Tribune entitled, “The Poets of the Plains." The poem was written by Jack Martin, formerly of Thermopolis, and published, some years ago in a western magazino. The poem follows: There's an old time Indian legend which, Perchance, You never knew, How the cactus first was planted, and the blossems on It grew; It’s an old Shoshone legend, and it may not be amiss, (Judging by the soll it grows tn) and it Runs something like this: Ages past, old Nick was travelling o'er destroy the primary system. The Free Press in its latest strike at the obnoxious system says: “The general degenerate condition of congress is traceable in large degree to the primary elec- tion system. There were congresses that were lack- ing in effectiveness and in statesmanship long before that much heralded panacea for all polit- ical ills was foisted upon an unsuspecting na- tion by a bunch of professional reformers. But the progress downward and particularly in the direction of sheer cheapness, has been steady and progressive since the country discarded the convention. “The primary election system is a real bon- anza for the flannel mouth and the professional demagogue. It provides such personages with peculiar scope for the display of their talents and at the same time it discourages men of in- tellectual and moral substance and patriotism from entering public life. “Besides lowering the general standard of can- didates, the primary system also is sadly de- structive of party loyalty, so that today the sys- tem of government in the United States is be- coming more and more a government of men rather than a government of principle. There still are members of the national legislature| who are able, honest and patriotic and who have! vision; but, particularly in the lawer house, such men are steadily becoming fewer and when one drops out he seldom is replaced by a worthy successor, “There is just one way to correct this condi- tion; and that is to remove the cause either by abolishing the primary or by modifying it, if that is possible, so that its more vicious fea-}| tures will be minimized. A* present the likeli- hood that an effort in this direction will be among the movements of the near future seems faint. But sooner or later something of the sort must be undertaken. Otherwise the country must expect to see the idea that the American govern- ment is a government by party, regulated by principle and belief rather than by individual interest, prejudice and passion, become hopeless- ly obsolete. Otherwise the country must expect to see the disgraceful performances which are disgracing the present session become common- places of legislative precedure t i Biotin taliniees r in the national The arid Western plains, Long before the days of stage coach, telegraph, and railroad trains: And the sun-scorched, barren desert, Over which he chanced to roam, Resembled what ts said will be the Cowboy’s future home, The soll looked like the ashes of ‘The region down below, Burning sand and sulphur-scented lava, Scattered round; and so He sent back by a servant and brought Some seed out West, And planted it. It prospered, and Perhaps, you know the rest, How it's offspring spread and flour- ished o'er the golden sunset land, From Montana's snow-capped moun- tains To the sunny Rio Grande. But the red and yellow blossoms? Oh, Yes; I forgot to say, How a roving band of angles chano ed to Pass along that way. 40° Below Zero That's the temperature some- times in Great Fal Montana. This is why our trees and shrubs are so satisfactory in Wyoming, Send for price list. GRASS SEED We can furnish the best grade of lawn grass; composed Blue Grass and velvety lawn. per pound p paid. One covers 200 square feet. TREADWELL NURSERY Co. Great Falls, Mont. HAY—GRAIN CHIX FEEDS— SALT Casper Warehouse Co. 268 INDUSTRIAL AVE TEL. 27 STORAGE FORWARDING For the best results chickens use Victor Buttermilk Starter. For more eggs feed hed Scratch Feed and Laying Mash. in raising hicles on farms has resulted in a tremendous change in farm life and has gone a long way toward solving some of the most difficult farm problem: Last year the automobile industry paid to the United States govern- ment ‘In ‘special federal excise taxes @ grand total of $155,000,000, and all tainly never would have grown to ite present size had it not been for adequate protection. In 1918 there were only about four million motor vehicles in use in the United States. By the first of January, 1924, the number in use had increased to nearly 15 miliions. The wholesale value of the cars and trucks sold last year was in excess of two and a half billion dollars. It is obvious that with the sixth largest industry in the country ex- panding at the very rapid rate at which the automobile industry has been expanding during the past six years, a very decided check is placed upon any tendency toward depres- sion. All this is due to just one result of the Dingley tariff, to the clause that placed an adequate tariff upon imported motor vehicles. That would not have been brought the only way to make !t safe is through @ protective tariff which guards against cheap labor of foreign countries. Once well started, how- ever, the product can be turned out at less cost than it can in any other country, as is indicated by the fact that last year there were exported 328,333 motor vehicles. This is just one example of our tariff-made in- dustries, ————— A Baltimore club announces that it has concluded a match between Champion Harry Greb and Fay Keiser,tho Maryland middleweight. ——__—>—_— A school to train women labor leaders has been established in Chi- cago by the National Women's Trade UI of America. Wyoming By LENNA LUPTON BONAR. Dia you ever see the sunrise on the high and rolling plains? Did you ever smell wet sagebrush after sudden springtime rains? Have you ever felt the smart and sting of gravel in your face? you've never known the! glamour of the God-forsaken place— | Wyoming. Then } Have you seen the clear-cut skyline when the evening's shadows fall? | When the mountains look like card- board and you hear the coyotes call? Have you seen the painted bad-lands in their yellow, red and biue? Then you'll never know how lone- some Ufe can be until you do—in Wyoming. Have you seen the sand and sage brush strstch for miles and miles away? While down tho hills along the draws the cooling shadows lay? It's lonesome and it’s desolate, it’s off the beaten track; Holland is preparing to send about 150 men and women athietes to the Olympic games in Paris. They will compete in all sports, except gymnastics and polo. Shedding bitter tears of anguish o'er this Wide expanse of sin— Erring women, weak and wanton, and The perfidy of men; And their tears fell on the cactus, and ‘The blossoms on it grew, Falrest of all desert flowers, under Heaven's dome of blue. —————__—_. Expert watch and jewelry repair ing. Casper Jewelry (Co.. OS Bide. But once you've caught the lure of it you're homesick ‘till you're food. Asenaddition to school or business lunches or for between meal snacks it is vastly superior to most of the sweets common!) used. Trade-mark on every package Made only by Walter Baker & Co.Lea. Mills at Dorchester, Mess. and Montreal, Ceneda BOOKLET OF CHOICE RECIPES SENT FREE, UNITED STATES, FISK, ETC. 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