Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1924, Page 6

‘ PAGE SIX. . , i TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1924. Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper nd also the local news published herein. “Tbe Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and he Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- fier, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, “opposite postoftice. ——_—$—_$—$—$—$<— Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones --------- Branch Telephone Exchange Departments. HANWAY By 5 ©. HANWAY and B. EB. ‘Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Stgger Bldg., Chi- engo, Ill, 28¢ Fifth Ave., New York Cfty; Globe Bidg., Boston, Maas., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont: gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the re ly Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. 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It happens this year that the Re- publican party has only two outstanding candi- dates for the presidency, President Coolidge and Senator Johnson. Of these two the president seems to be so far in the lead in popular esti- mation that, unless some unforeseen influence is exerted, his selection is assured. But in the Democratic party, in which there is Mo candi- date who commands general support, the out- come of the national convention is very much in doubt ; The presidential primary is the plaything of the politicians. The people are led to believe | that when they go to the polls and express their choice of candidates that they are having some- thing to say about whom shall be nominated. As a matter of fact, they are being fooled. The Dem- ocrats who express a choice for McAdoo, for example, are quite likely to see the delegates they select to go to New York bearing the Me- ‘Adoo label while the politicians are trading them off to support some other candidate al- though such a candidate may not meet with the approval of the yotera in the primaries in any way. Instead of giving the people a chance to se- lect’ candidates the presidential primaries only serve to mask the schemes of the politicians. In states such as Maine, where delegates to the nat- jonal conventions are nominated by representa- tives of the people and where there is strong enough sentiment to impress the conventions, the people at least know how the delegates they select to go to the national convention will act after they get there. “In every case where a departure ‘has been made from the representative system of govern- ment similar unsatisfactory conditions prevail. The sooner the people come to appreciate this} fact and the quicker they get back to a straight representative tem which the founders de-| termined was wise, and which experience proved was wise, the better it will be for the Repub- lic. A greater farce than the presidential pri- maries has never been inflicted upon the people. Better Read It Closely * | It would not be a bad idea for the United | States senate to turn to a copy of the constitu tion of the country and read and digest it. At present there is an amendment before that body contemplating a change in the date of in- augurating president and congress elected at the same time from March to January, overlooking the fact that in the absence of a change in amendment twelve of the constitution at the same time, the government would be exposed to the serious danger of a two months’ period dur- ing which there would be no president and no means of choosing one. Amendment twelve is worth reading because it deals with the method of choosing a presi- dent in no candidate receives a majority of the votes in the electoral college, a contin: ency that is now being much discussed, It reads follows “The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and yice president, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president and in distinct ballots the per- sgn voted for as vice president; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as vice president, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign-ind certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of government of the United Stat directed to the president of the senate; the president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house’ of representa- tives, open all the certificates and the votes all then be counted; ¢he person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons iving the highest number, not exceed- ing three, on the list of those voted for as presi- dent, the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president, But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state hay. ing one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the house e of representatives shall not choose a president, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon before the fourth of March next fol-| r, then the vice president shall act as p: n the case of the death.or other « disability of the president. The pers the greatest number of votes as vice pri hall be the vice president, if such number a majority of the whole number of elector appointed, and if no pe have a majority, | then from the two highest numbers on the list %e senate shall choose the vice president; a| quorum for the purpose shall consist of thirds of the whole number of xepator and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary | to a choice. But no person constitutionally in: | eligible to the office of president shall be eligible | to that of vice president of the United States.” Tt will be noted that in case of failure of the electoral college to cast 2 majority yote for any candidate for president the house shall proceed to ballot upon the three candidates receiving the highest number of yotes. The house shall vote by states, one vote to a state, the vote being gov- erned by a majority of the house delegation. The successful candidate must have the vote of a majority of all the states. There are so many ties in house congressional delegations that no candidate, under the present composition of the house, could receive a party majority. The house is given until March 4 to choose a president be- fore the vice president chosen either by the elec- tors or by the senate, from the two candidates for that office receiving the highest vote at the/ preceding election, or holding over, could take the post. Meanwhile there could be a two months’ lapse in the presidency, with all the danger this would entafl. Without the Facts World’s Work, in a recent discussion of the oil leases entered into by the government with | private concerns, shows the usual lamentable | lack of knowledge concerning the facts in the matters, as.do so many other publications. They evidently ignore the proper sources of informu- tion and accept any hearsay matter that comes to hand. Thesa publications would suffer less humiliation end loss of prestige if they took greater pains to learn the facts. This magazine says: “Under the Taft administration the enemies of conservation as Well as the special privilege seekers, again came to the fore. This fact pro- duced a split in the Republican party and made inevitable the election of Woodrow Wilson, whose whole campaign was waged on the {seus of the people against the interests. On this is- sue, too, the Wilson administration stood firm. ; So adamant was Mr. Wilson for conservation that there were many men as honest and patri- otic as he who believed that he had gone too far; that the result was to lock up the public domain, whereas the real purpose of conserva- tion was its orderly and public-spirited develop- ment. This latter fact gave a handle to those who longed for the good old times of private and wasteful exploitation. All through the Wil- son administration, even when the country was involved in war, they kept constantly at their} self-appointed task. Probably the most “blatant | enemy of conservation in the United States sen- ate was Albert B. Fall. The Congressional Rec- ord, for the petiod of his membership, is filled with his denunciation of this great work and his demand that the old conditions be restored. | Senator Fall typified the old influences in the | party which Roosevelt had succeeded in sub- merging.” It is evident from this that World’s Work is} at least unfamiliar with the following import- ant, undisputed facts, in the light of which its; statements would not have been made. First: The naval oil resrves were set apart under the Taft administration. Second: They were thrown open under the Wilson administration by the act of June 1920, at Secretary Daniels’ request, and seven leases were made upon them by Secretary Daniels and Secretary Payne in the next eight months. Third: Secretary Payne had leased fourteen thousand acres of adjacent public lands to pri- vate oil exploitation, draining these reserves. Fourth: The oil leasing act was fathered by Senator Walsh and signed by President Wilson; President Wilson’s commissioner of the general land office retired to accept a sinecure at $35,- 000 a year with an oil company operating large- ly in the Salt Creek field and Fifth: Senator Fall placed Roosevelt in nomi- nation for president in the Republican national convention of 1916. The general leasing act may be all right, the development of the naval reserves may have been all right and certainly”Theodore Roosevelt wa all right, but the facts as officially recorded certainly justify no such observations as the World's Work chooses to make about these mat- ters. More False Teaching Outside the open Democratic attacks on in- dystry, an insidious warfare is constantly being made on American production by certain cru- saders who distribute deceitful circulars by the millions, designed to undermine all wage-employ- ing business, in which neither the tariff nor po- litical parties are mentioned, but their teachings are entirely Socialistic. Their slogan is that “Business should be con- ducted for service to humanity and not for the} benefit of its stockholders.” There is not one legitimate business in the world today that is conducted in that beneficent manner. If Amer- ican workmen wait for employment until in- dustry is adjusted on that plan, they will still be waiting at the day of judgment. There is no disputing the fact that any per- son who engages in a creative industry that pro- vides work for others is a public benefactor, nor does the fact that he acquires a competency by so doing make his action reprehensible. In view of the dishonest Democratic tariff policy, the leading Republicans at the Cleve- land convention owe to the people as a moral obligation a social duty, the clearest possible explanation of the true effect of an adequate tariff Jaw on American enterprise and produc. tion linked with an invulnerable defense of the same, Bring out the point plainly that the mud fired at “protection” is actually intended to destroy American production. Let the people once become thoroughly im- hued with the knowledge that American produ tion is entirely dependent on an adequate tariff, then that policy will become permanent and the tariff is no longer a political issue. Yet the general tone of the obtuse Democratic assertions is “The country is so rich and pros- perous that we no longer need “protection.” The fact that wages are so preponderant in the United States causes a corresponding in crease in the cost of our own raw materials, so the removal of tariff barriers would be indus. trial suicide that would engulf the whole coun- tre, Among the days and weeks we celebrate and ve and propagandize for the good they will do and the education they will impart, there is no need for a “petroleum week.” The people al ready have all the information, the data and the education they desire. th “Tax Cut Week” is the next sug vance by the American people. T unanimous and strongly in born congress had better be, sted obser- he people are favor, and a stub |men Poets of Wyoming ; By One of ‘We have many a Bard in Wyoming Who its praises have written and sung; From East and West to this place’ so blest ‘They have gathered here, one by one. They all loye this land they have chosen To be thelr adopted State, They delight in its beauties and joy- fully sing: Its glories, early and late. Some,.sing the songs of the watery holes And ranges of cattleland; Others, sing of the towering moun- tain And thelr rugged crags, grand. There are those who sing of prairies Where flowers paint the desert o’er, While some will tell of pines that sing wild and Checking Up on Scandals All up and down the street are lovely Httle homes in which Mra. Jones, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Brown and hundreds of other mesdames are en- joying “life, lberty and the pur- suit of happiness." They are get- ting three meals a day, “ridding up” the house, sewing on buttons, tucking the children into bed and Nobody no body kissing them good night. think anything about it; says anything “about it; nq body writes anything about it. It is not news; it is taken for granted. But—presto, change- Somebody reports that Mrs. Smith has kissed somebody else good night! W-h-e-e-w! The town blows up in a freenzy of gossip. It is talked about, written about and possibly Mrs, Smith's picture gets into the papers. This is news. Had Mrs. Smith been an adyent- uress, a person of no standing in the community, one of whom such conduct was expected—the story, if repeated at all, would have gone in one ear and out the other. The better her reputation and the hisher her character, the more it will be mouthed around and rolled under the tongue of the general public. ‘The Republican party, the crest of a great has. always rallied to banners of the highest tntegrity. It has always cherished the highest ideals and attracted the better element in every community. Its noble statesmen, Lincoln, Grant, Gar- field, McKinley Roosebelt, have repeatedly been attacked by the most bitter and ‘nsinuating calumny by their personal and public enemies rut in each Instance thelr nobility ana unselfishness and devoted stutesmanship and purity of char- avter have risen suoliaely a! insult and innuendo het tugin . The public ts convineed that th» Republican parcy fs the pariy of integrity. cific els should have stepped asite cum honorable conduct is now ceus- ins; a furor of astonishment, or grief fa Hepublican rane among the Democra:s. The fact that born on moral its wave,, and of giee McAdoo profited more by oll than any Republican and that two other cabinet mem- bers in the Wilson administration were also emeshed causing a ripple on the Demo- cratic waters. McAdoo goes march- ing through Georgia in the prima- ries, garnering in the Democratic preference for president; also meet- ing a like approval in South Dakota is not even |and several other states. {not shocking, unexpected—in |party. Graft is apparently not the the Don’t fail to tak tion. Our stock come early. Phone 1500 against an adequate party for na- : defense; against welfare légis- That any one of its/casting us into outer darkness. Of course! Democratic || Around a rude cabin door. Some, sing of "The Wild Wind of the West” That roars through monarch trees, Of the pungent tang of sagebrush ‘That is borne upon the breeze. Thero are Poets who tell tho wonders Of a Wyoming sunset’s glow There are those who paint the beauties Of a trcut-stream's glist’ning flow. And yet, Wyoming {s unhonored by . a Poet-Laureate, Which seems a pity (when we have wise and witty Poets, both small and great) With so much talent to select from 'To leave it entirely to fate. So, for the glory of Wyoming And the honor of our loved State Let's stand behind a movement To choose our Laureate. During the last administration the ‘evidence of corruption in the government were #0 immense, so prevalent, so numerous, so ineom- prehensible and so past finding out that the public mind could not grasp or plumb the depth of them all. The electorate imply gave up and sank the party with a majority of 7,000,- 00. Fifty-nine bread cans for every soldier; 16 pair of shoes for each man mobilized, but never an air- Plane delivered to the front! Three sets of double harness and six Nose bags, for each horse and mule; har- hess bought by the hundred for mo tor ambulances; acres of unneeded camp sites! Thousands of crooked deals like these were well known and accepted as Democraic misdeeds —but nobody wag astonished; no- body was shocked. The party which stood for the institution of slavery; the party which tried to spread it over the entire nation, carrying it into each territory and working to force it upon each new state; the party which went to war in the effort to break up the Union; the party which has always stood for sectionalism; the party which ts against pensions to Civil war veterans; against pro- tection to our labor and our agricul- ture; against sound money; against the integrity of national credit; jation for women and children; against the Monroe Doctrine and the independence of the United States— such a party does not shock us by anything it can now do. We were not surprised by its orgy of waste, extravagance, mismanagement and graft. A mote has been found in the Republican eye! The Democrats are chortling with hilarity, They are all-for plucking out our eyes and Wrong in the Republican party —think of it! Is there a perfect party to which we might turn? ‘There ts not. There {s no lodge, no club, no church, no political party {n which all of the members are above reproach, human. Shall wo, then, give up our social life, our religion and our politics? A political party 1s to be judged -| by five characteristics, by and large: Its personnel, its program, its prin- ciples, its administration, its accom- plishments. At the close of the last Demo- cratic administration we had a debt of $25,000,000,000 and, though the war. had been over a year and a half, no plan had been formulated to reduce it. We were hated and re- garded with suspicion by other na- tions. Tho credit of the United States was so poor that our Liberty bonds were selling for only 85 cents on the dollar. A financial depression was settling upon us. Business wi halted anxious, unstable. Mill: wheels had stopped running. Five million men were out of a job, walking the streets and sleeping in the parks. Mothers were suffering keenest anxieties and little children were going hungry to bed. In such an atmosphere, bolshevism was rais- ing its ugly head. Disorder, chaos and mismanagement were paralyzing the national government. ‘Thousands of useless employes were feeding from the public crib. Agriculture— poor agriculture—was plunged into the most profound depression. Each prodding into government affairs revealed unbridled waste, extrava- gance and corruption of such pro- portion as to stun the public con- ception. Today, after threo years of Re- publican administration, we are at peace with the whole world. By the armament conference we have taken the greatest step toward in- ternational peace which history has ever known. We haye won the re- spect and confidence of other na- tions. We have restored national credit and brought Liberty bonds up to par. Our demoralized rallroads have recouped themselves. The great fabric of national business has been elecrified—both literally and tiguratively—and is pushing ahead with super-power. Industrial activ- ity has set a new high standard. The 5,000,000 unemployed have all been set to work and at the highest wago ever carried home in the pay en- velope of labor, and besides this we have created half a million unfilled Jobs in industry. Our government has been completely reorganized and efficiency injectd into it. The army of useless employes has been lopped off. Yrorly expenses of gov- ernment have ‘cen cut in two. The budget system has instituted new ideals of economy. Agriculture is coming back and on a basis for Sreater future welfare. Women are being absorbed into political entity. Child welfare, education and all the ethical interests of humanity are be- ing advanced as never before. Day by day, in the thousand offices of the government, the routine work is being performed conscientiously, unselfishly, honestly, wisely, bril: Mantly. There was never a better day in American history. 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The man who laughs as he does his| And the ‘With never a thought of shirking, ‘Will find as he digs his way through life, : That’ he will do most of ths working, singing in thelr homes and little children, com!ng home from school, are munching thick slices of bread man who scowls the whole day long— The man who is not worth while, Sits back in his office and puts the brunt Of the work on “the man who can smile.”" Uncle Hook Says, Th’ feller who thinks he loses his temper is just kiddin’ himself; he only displays it.'" and butter. Used Kellogg Bran 2 months— constipation gone after suffering 3 years ‘Three years of suffering with con-|sures—with brans which are only part ition. What hay Kellogg when ‘a krumbled, restored his health, But read his at the Kellogg Company, Creek, Mich Kellogg’s Bran brings results be- cause it is ALL bran. You can’t fight constipation with halfway mea- Battle was his|bran. 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