Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1924, Page 6

PAGE SIX. pe Casper Wally Cridune Che Casper Daily Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening an¢ The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. opposite postoftice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones ~.-------------------15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. ———— By J. E. HANWAY and E. B, 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 pub!ished herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-2: cago, Ill., 286 Fitth Ave., Boston, Mass., S 404) St, San Francisco, Cal we y; Globe Bidg., haron Blidg., 55 New Mont- bu an San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of. Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State san One Year, Dally and Sunday -----------—-----' r+ One Year, Sunday Only ~~. 2. Six Months. Daily and Sunday | Three Months, Daily and Sunday - One Month, Daily and Sunday - Per CoPy ~----5>"Sfail Inside Stat One Year, Daily and Sunday ----—-——-. One Year, Sunday Only ---.. ate Six Months. Daily and Sunday ——----——-----#3.90 Three Months, Daily and Sunday --- One Month, Daily and SunCay -—— x ns must Dally ‘Titasb wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becoines one month in arrears. Recent Tragedies sident of Casper, whose coming dates back ‘isitings days, coarptnicte of the frequency of tragedies occurring in the city, bringing, as he said, odium upon the community. In the old day, at widely separated periods, some untoward in- cident would occur which remained a subject for discussion for several years and became a part of the history of the country. In these days, how- ever, the rapidity with which things of unde- sirable character happen, the one following so closely upon the heels of its predecessor, they can be given little more than passing notice. The old timer argued, that the frequency of these local calamities and their appearance in the telegraph news of the day were certain to create the wrong impression of the community in other localities. This is in a measure true, but it is one of the penalties to be paid by the large and growing city everywhere. The fact that a half dozen atrocious incidents occur within the space of ten days or s0, does not stamp Casper as a crime center. In point of fact Casper is a rather model city in its gen- eral deportment, well governed, peaceful and orderly. The improvement over several years ago is so marked that there can be no compari- son. That things happen, we would much rather not have happen is painfully true. We have a thirty-two thousand population. It is made up of people from everywhere. The great majority are newromers. In such an aggregation there are bound to be good, bad and all the intermed- iate shades and varieties of people, Unlike the staid and settled village population, the city population is restles3, undetermined and unde: cided in intention. The ownership of property and the ties of a fixed home are wanting as a stabalizing influence. Upon certain minds and under certain cir- cumstances crime or wrong exercises a greater dominance than good. In a large community the percentage of this class is bound to be greater than in the small community. Therefore in the Jocal newspaper or under the date line in the newspaper at other points Casper stories, how- ever repulsive, can not reflect to any consider- able extent upon the thousands of regular living and right living people who give the city its character and reputation. There is no cause for fear that the outside world will regard Casper as a hotbed of crime on account of the few recent incidents that have occurred to bring shame and sorrow to the peo- ple. These things have happened everywhere since the beginning of the world. They will con- tinue to happen here, as they will elsewhere. The human family is a strange and mysterious organization and itse members are not all cast in the same mold. Farms Must Earn More There are several reasons why farm earnings ere showing a decline partially due to economic discontent and political agitation. Statistics show that large numbers of tenant farmers have accumulated funds out of farm earnings toward becoming farm owners, but the process is slow and one of considerable diffi- culty. Increase in valuation of farm land has two effects—purchasers can borrow more money to meet payments, but higher prices for land dis- courage tenants from buying. Desirability of farm land is not enhanced by too much academic discussion about employing family labor without wages, or underestimating the value of such labor. All reports show that tenants or farm own- ers having good sized families, and largely em- ploying family labor on the land, are more pros- Perous and successful than farm operators with- out families, Where the tenant has no family labor from which to increase his margain of return over necessary expenditures, he carries an additional handicap in this struggle to become farm owner. The same general fact holds true with those who own farms, but are compelled to employ all their labor at present prevailing high wages Publication offices: Tribune Building, | 23 Steger Bidg., Chi-| Copies of the Daily | are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, ' | who fas killed in a drunken quarrel with -his paramour. 4 The admission as evidence of alleged conver: | sations with persons now dead is not itted even in police court proceedings. To such testimony to be diguified as evidence would a wide the doors to unrestrained perjury. t is what has taken place in the Wheeler com- mittee investigation. It has taken place because Wheeler and the majority of his committee de- liberately desire that sort of “evidence.” It is so easy to prove things by conversations with dead people! One is not embarrassed by the truth! The star witness of the Wheeler committee | was Gaston B. Means, who first came into no-) | toriety as German spy 13” in the employ of} Count von Bernstorff and Captain Boy-Ed dur-/ | ing the war. His next bid for first page position | | was in connection with the murder in North! | Carolina of his associate, Mrs. Maude A. King.| | Means was acquitted of the charge after long deliberation by the jury. In connection with) the murder of Mrs. King, Means produced a will which would have benefitted him. This will was | | pronounced a forgery. Means and his attorney, Thomas B. Felder, are now under indictment in the federal courts, charged with a conspiracy to bribe Attorney General Daugherty. Means and his secretary Emil W. Jarnecka, are also under indictment in New York for conspiracy to remove millions of dollars worth of whiskey from government warehouses and permit it to reach bootleggers. Means, on the witness stand before the Wheeler committee admitted that his principal business was answering criminal in- dictments, | Other witnesses called by Wheeler in the ef- | fort to besmirch Attorney General Daugherty | boodlers and have been engaged in bribery con- spiracies to corrupt public officials and break | criminal laws. Some of them are under indict- ments in the criminal courts. If the innovation of proving honest men and public officials guilty of high crimes and misde-! meanors by introducing testimony of: convicts! and ex-convicts, crooks, forgers, bribe takers, murderers, train robbers and other criminals is to be followed then there is no end of the pres- | ent investigations until all the-inmates of our penitentiaries have been put on the stand. Too bad this method was not thought of years ago! Jesse James and Calamity Jane and all the other cutthroats of a generation since died too soon. Some of them ascended the gallows and met a felon’s death, when, had they lived in these times, they might have taken a de luxe trip to Washington at the expense of the tax- payers paid out of the senate’s contingent fund! Arriving in the nation’s capital they would haye become the center of attraction, shown all deference, photographed in all poses, taken night joy rides in senatorial automobiles and brought their career to a climax by ascending the wit- | ness chair before some committee to spill their venom and their slander to the profit and glory of the Democratic party, and the personal grat- ification of the political blackguards who have | made the United States senate a cesspool of po- | litical filth over which floats the scum of their own putrid motives. Smeared With Their Own Tar In much if the testimony they have been pro- ducing before investigating committees in Wash- ington, Democratic senators have been ignoring deceptive practices that are a matter of com- mon knowledge among men in public life. For instance, a number of witnesses were called to testify concerning the collection of graft money by men who claimed to haye “influence” with the attorney general. The Democratic members of the investigating committees were willing to leave the inference that this collection of hush money was with the knowledge and connivance of the attorney general although there was not a word of evidence to indicate that the trans- actions were in any way known to that offi- cial. j admitted on the witness stand that they were |, What Are Radicals Doing? FARGO FORUM ‘Let us look for a moment at the records of performance in behalf of the farmers of the Northwest of President Coolidge on the one hand and the so-called “saviors” of the farmers on the other hand. The “saviors” of the farmers have bil held the “balance of power’ in con- gress since December 3. And the “balance of gower” means that the group holding; it should be able to ac- complish something concrete for thoge whom it is supposed to serve, But the record shows that these far- mer legislators who have made it a business to “farm the farmer” have merely assumed the role of ob- structionists, and today, three months after congress convened, the La Folletteers can not point to a single accomplishment on their part signed to soundly relieve the agri- cultural distress, They have played politics in stren- uously opposing the only tax reduc- tion plan which would bring real re- Uef through lifting the burden of direct and indirect taxation and, as a substitute, have offered a plan of high surtaxes which would keep sur- taxes unproductive and thus hamper the development of business and agriculture. A readjustment of in- come tax schedules all along the line is in reality one of the first essen- tials in improving business and agri- cultural conditions. Then let us briefly inspect the re- cord of Mr. Coolidge. Since he en- ‘ered the White House he has devot- ed more time to the study of agrt- cultural problems than to any other Pressing subject on the theory that if a way could be found to place agriculture on its feet—in other words, if conditions could be so ad- to pay less for what that not only agriculture whole business & One result of’ Mr. Coolidge's in- vestigations has been that today a private finance corporation has been organized for the purpose of aiding agriculture In the Northwest, {n par- ticular, and all business of the Northwest, tn general. This corporation proposes to see that the cedit of worthy farmers is not withdrawn and thus, through stabilizing business and farming con- ditions, to restore confidence. This corporation is now functioning and will thus give quick relief when quick, relief fs so essential. A second result has been that the President has raised the tariff on wheat and wheat flour and has or- dered a decrease in the duty on bran, shorts and by-product feeds in order to place the American farm- er on a parity with the foreign farmer. The President has been standing flatly for honest tax reduction and appealed to congress to grant a sub- stantial reduction in income taxes for 1923 before the payment of March 15. Congress is still jockey- ing with the revenue bill and re- fused to immediately. grant the 1923 reduction, But {t should be kept in mind that the President has been representing the side of the taxpay- ‘rs of the country. And farmers should remember also that when the President has been able to act in- dependently of Congress in their in- terests, he has acted. The Good That Men Do “The evil men do live after them,,a proposition that the oaly practi- the good is oft interred with their bones.” So declared the pessimis- tic Mark Antony in his address to the Romans, after the murder of Caesar. Fortunately for every good cause, fortunately for the progress of the human race and for our hope of the “future, the words that the reat poet of Avon placed in the mouths of the Roman soldier are eternally untrue. The evil that men do may live after them. Wrong acts and evil influences do not al- ways pass with the passing of those who are guilty of them. Frequently they survive to trou and hinder those who are striving for the van- quishment of that which {fs wrong in the world and for victory for that which is right. But the good also survives and it lives longer than the evil. If that Were not so, the race would retro- grade instead of advancing, or at least would remain at a standstill. That the world is growing better instead of worse {is proof enough that good is not always or ever in- terred with the bones of those who do good. No more conclusive evidence that the good that men do lives after them, can be presented than the ad: mitted influence of the good deeds of General Neal Dow upon the times subsequent to his, and there could be no more fitting time for all to stop and consider that influence, than upon this, his birthday anniver- sary. It was nearly 75 years ago that General Dow submitted to the world The absurdity of the liberal admission of this sort of testimony has been brought home to the! Democrats by the testimony of a federal agent} in New York who recently testified in the Unit- ed States district court. According to the story told by this witness, he had participated in a number of conferences. with a former private secretary to Senator Edwards, of New Jersey. Senator Edwards is a Democrat. The former private secretary, so the evidence shows, pro- posed a collection and division of graft in con- nection with liquor transactions and said that “If we get into trouble, Senator Edwards would not hesitate to go to the bat for us in Wash- ington. Senator Edwards told me I had as well make some money out of this for my wife and children, and I am going to make all out of it I can.” Of course Senator Edwards: denies any con- nection with the matter. But the denial of this Democratic senator is no more definite than the denial of Attorney General Daugherty that he had any connection with the New York group that was dividing graft in connection with prize tight films or whiskey withdrawals. The fact that Edwards is a pronounced‘ “wet” and has fought the prohibition laws vigorously, lends some color to the story told by his former pri- vate secretary, but a fair-minded public would hardly convict him on that sort of corrobora- tion. Yet the case is as strong against the Demo- cratic senator as it is against the Republican attorney general. Collecting graft on the score of “influence” is nothing new in either national or state affairs. It is common knowledge among political work- ers that whenever a state administration changes there is always some attorney who claims to be “close” to the new governor and who tries to sell his influence to people who want pardons or other official favors. It is difficult to secure Consumers and tenants of rented Property need to learn that taxes are a large part of the cost of doing business or of owning property and that, when taxes increase, prices and rent will rise, for manufactur- ers, merchants and property owners will not submit to reduction of their profit by the amount of the new tax if they can find a way to escape. —Portland Oregonian. Have the bitter critics of the Harding-Coolidge administration the brass to keep on talking about graft and incompetence in an adminis- tration which so admirably succeed- ed In clearing away the unspeakable mess which the Democratic war ad- ministration had created by the most wanton waste in the history of mankind.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. “Dems” for an issue were spoll- ing, So they started the Tea Pot a-boiling But they didn’t feel gay ‘When the dust passed away To find thefr own nest they’d been soiling. The —Los Angeles Times. Lynching may be on the décline in the United States, as the para- srapher of the Chicago News tells us, but reputation assassination cer- tainly has become an almost daily occurrance in the United States sen- ate.—Marion Star. It would be interesting to com- pare the known earnings of Mr. Random Newspaper Observations cal remedy for the admitted and palpable evils of the use of and traffic of intoxicating Hquors was fer the strong arm of the law to reach out and seize and throttle: it. This proposition of Neal Dow's was alnfost wholly a new one when he offered it. Men may have dreamed of something of the kind, may haye thought of or hoped for a time to come when this remedy might become practical. General Dow was a dreamer, but he was a The Prodigal Daughter (Written in the highly approved style) It Is evening in the little house, and mother sadly knit While father sits and reads the news, and slowly chews and spits, A knogk is heard and mother goes to open up the door, And sees the daughter who had run away two years before. A joyful meeting, surely, and moth- er's heart is stirred. But unforgiving father sits and utters not a word. And now sli¢ has come back again to est, and sleep and rest; She sobs her broken story on her mother's heaving breast. “It was in the springtime. mother, Mr. Bryan says he will run in case of a deadlock. About the only condition his party would consider it on fs lockjaw.—Philadelphia North American. President Coolidge says he tells ais boys to work hard and behave themselves, If all of us, boys and men, followed that rule, what a fine world it would be—Providence Jour- nal. “We must bring honesty back to government,” says McAdoo. Pro- vided alwa; that the retainer be satisfactory.—New York Herald- Tribune, Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE “He left me sad and lonely, He did not want my love at all— noyed. I didn’t win his love, although I did And if we ever need more money, - MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924. the merry month of May Ship of State The man I loved and trusted, A Revenue grew tired and went away. Cutter. —_———_ a » crushed and broken thing. I had to leave the chorus. How could I dance or And then he me a laugh, Dear, dear, I was an- win from the Le paereny ra hundred thousand a Aino quit today fn protest against com- mencement of demolition of a block of dwellings in which the workmen are housed. Destruction of the houses was planned in connection with the projected development and extension of the dock yard. To guard against possible trouble, po- lice are patrolling the vicinity of mother dear, why then I'll go back to the city and break my heart again.” Where There's a Will— “Oh, Ethel, Jack finally proposed.” “He did? Why, I thought you Constitution. sald he had no intention whatsoever | the dock yard. of proposing.” = “Well, he didn't have.” CARD OF THANKS Wildcat Is Added To Thermop Zoo THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., March 31. Another wildcat was added to the z00 of the Rock mountain wild ant- mals at Thermopolis Hot’ Springs reserve, this week. The animal was presented to Thermopolis Chamter. of Commerce by A. F. Duntsch, editor of the Riverton Review, who gathered the Uttle fellow up as they met on a stroll through the mointains of ment pro and con mean?” statement, and t! other fellow says. Willie—Paw what does an argu- We take this means to thank our many friends for the words of kind- ness and acts of iove and sympathy extended to us in our time of sor row. Also for the beautiful floral offerings. 2 Mrs. Blanch and Vera Ford, Paw—"The pro is your convincing con is what the I don't Mr, and Mrs. W. J. King, Personally, Mrs. Rosa Ford, Care Who ts Mr. W. W. Ford, Elected Mr, and Mrs. A. H. Ford, President Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ford. This Year, iia Ana aes So long as SEND IT THE He tries to PEARL WHITE LAUNDRY Make the PHO! 7 Fremont county a few months ago. A wildcat is tame amusement for a Wyoming country town editor and Editor Duntsch soon became tired of the humdrum and monotony. Any complaining Review reader has the wildcat beat for excitement. Superintendent Divine, of the re- seive, received the animal by ex- press this week and it was turned loose in the wildcat department at the big cages against the high moun- taln where the zoo ts located. Wilson’s Papers To Be Published NEW YORK, March $1.—The pub- llc papers-of Woodrow Wilson will be published next fall, through an arrangement with Mrs. Wilson, it {s announced by a New York publish- ing house. The edition will appear in six volumes. —_——— when I can away from home. The couniry seemed to stiflo me; I simply had to roam. T went to New York, mother, as you surely must ‘have known, Ani there J was. a little heIpliss country girl, alone, How foolish for an innocent yourg thing Lke I was then To think that she can xin the Sane opposed to wicked men My fuce rnd figure soon oh-s.ved employment in the chorus, <ind there I met the man I loved. His name was Morris. “In my innocence I dined with him; I didn’t think it mattered, For he was rich, a millionaire, and, I, of course, was flattered. We went on many perties, mother dear, ‘most every night, And never once did I suspect that it was not all right. Ah, life held joy for me then tn those eventful days, A steady round of pleasure~ shows,cafes, and cabarets. and I—I never doubted him, but loved him with my life. I thought he soon would ask me, mother, to become his wife. “Ah, Spring has come again, mother the flowers are fresh and fair, And melodies of woodland birds are heard upon the air. There even seems to he an invita- tion in the breeze To joyfully come out and play amid the flowers and trees, The sky is blue and cloudless, the world seems bright and free, And happiness is everywhere, dear mother, but with me. 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Sr ‘\, very valuable aid of two blackmailers, a couple| that some sort of legal service was rendered in|on tho first page-in the newspapers that and mere outward to ‘© constipation, to break se kane Saldana te Stl: bh oo ~ of self-confessed boodlers and several who have| return for the ‘fee. |if they will slander the accused, the complexion are wo different up fevers and colds, to clear up Di cr aR fT 835 p.m been indicted by the department of justice for| One of the outstanding lessons of the inves:|de04 etd the defenseless—-Darton's tekioe Der Caldieall es Spee Sree oan indigestion, ia, pimple, Novag rai violati etd ras je One s NES: | Weekly. . e turb- v ——-----—---— SO a Neate so Ae it spurted ahead of tigations that have been in progress at Wash-| V°°*!Y sin. Over 10 million bottles were MenStae ne m No use talking, youug Wheeler, of Afontana, pat-it all over his political godfather, Walsh of Montana, in grabbing the first page of the newspapers. But as soon as the tactics of the Wheeler committee were evident the Walsh com- miitee came right back, and at this writing it is one,train robber ahead in the contest, ‘Jennings’ contribution is supposed to be polit- ical gossip which he obtained from a politician ington is that a high public official cannot be held accountable for everything that may be |done by his friends who are capitalizing their friendship for him in order to fill their purses. | This seems to be true of attorneys who collect big fees as well as of those who operare in & smaller way. It is as true of men who collect The country will appreciate the President's do-it-now policy in the matter of tax reduction even if Con- gress cannot be compelled to act. —Boston Transcript. 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