Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1924, Page 12

"AGE TWELVE. Che Casper Daily Cribunce MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pubiication of ali news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, CNned per, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoffice. . Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22. 1916. : Business Telephones ------ Branch Telephone Exchai Departments. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger, Bide. Gh cago, Til., 28¢ Fifth Ave., New York City: Globo Tide. TNston, Mass.. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg. 55 baad ally gomery St. an Francisco, Cal. Copies of tl Suton, ‘Trikune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sundey «. One Year, Sunday Only ----~. Six Months. 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Nearly sixty years after the Civil ‘ar and nearly 110 years after the War of 1812 it would add to the invalid pension costs of those and other minor war $58,000,000 in the coming fiscal year and $415,000,000 in the next decade. “The bill’s supporters are engaged in a plain an expenditure of about $3,500,000,000, and has also been going through the (to it) painful mo- tions of reducing war taxation and available ter lack of political responsibility and its in- competency to protect the public. “Against this background of congressional faithlessness Mr, Coolidge’s devotion to the com- mon interest stands out in dazzling contrast, He is the kind of *tatesman to whom the Ameri- er will the two houses of congress conspire to accentuate his quality and his popularity by flaunting in everybody’s face their own mercen Muck and Mud Now Unstylish Unless all signs fail in dry weather, the great campaign of muckraking and mudslinging that was to have been carried on to the very day of election has been called off: For this “Wildcat’ Currency By ELDEN SMALL. ‘There was one period in the his- tory of the United States when the raid on the treasury. President Harding vetoed a|fooaing of the country with bank similar measure and congress did not have the|notes issued by individual. banks effrontery to re-pass it. Since the Harding veto|and frequently proving worthless ” Y because the issuing bank could not congress has passed a soldiers’ bonus involving Meeker Chard th ie areal patitical yu It started in 1832 when President revenues. No excuse can be found, for sending’ Andrew Jackson vetoed the United the Bursum bill to the White House under these | States bank bill. circumstances. Yet congress seems bent on dem- !idea had some stormy days in its y. ¥ {early history, but Jackson's relent- onstrating to the deafest and the blindest-its ut: less onmity climaxed 1¢ all. ‘There was nohing in the law to prevent any bank from issuing its own bank notes, and there was no system of governmental authoriza- tions, inspection or control. result, small banks in minor ‘cities had their own currency engraved and printed, and put it into general When it became over- the bank generally failed, and its notes were literally worth- Things reached a pass when the notes of a bank were not necepted in the next county, and this condition lasted many years, The first United States bank was chartered by the government, in the Philadelphians could. get to- gether within the next month or so with the determination to put over a’ record-breaking sesquicentennial, it could be arranged in time for 1926, and it would be a good stroke of business. In his address at the unvelling of the South Arerfcan hero, Bolivar, the late President Harding said, speaking of the United States and the Latin’ Amer- “We have developed more nearly @ realization of interdependence, a conception of something like econ- omic, political and spiritual solidar- ity, than ever before. We need to know each other better; to under- stand institutions and peoples and methods more accurately; to develop the great producing and commercial possibilities of our own countries; to encourage the larger exchanges of our products, the most sympa- thetic of our varied relations to one another and to the rest of .the World. By. accomplishing these things we shall mnightily strengthen ourselves to ¢arry forward our tasks of today and of all the to- morrows.” M Since man first learned. the pro: cesses of barter and sale, the ex- position has been one of the great- est agencies for encouraging com- merce and the arts. Why can not the dwellers in the City of Brotherly Love once more agitate the proposal for an exposition and make it a reality? ‘The federal bank Asa er, courage, common sense, ability and) experience, practical men who have made good in their vocation, whatever it may be, men who have taken an active interest in party and public’ affairs, men ygho not only profess to stand but have open- ly stood and are standing for: Reverence for sacred things. Respect and obedience to law and lawful authority. Honest and imparitial enforce- ment of all law, regardless of whether they consiCer them good or bad. Faithful performance of official duty without considering whom it will hurt or whom it will help. . Warfare, as against a plague, up- on e' Movement and every ef- fort which tends, in any degree, to convert our representative form of government into a democracy. Maintaining, whatever the cost, the liberties of the individual and the rights of property, guaranteed by the constitution. Active opposition to every at- tempt to supplant government of the people by the people with gov- ernment of the people by faction: blocs, leagues, unions, associations, sects, cliques or other minorities by whatever name they may be ca'led. a Candor and truthfulness, | free from hypocrisy and Cemagogy, in discussing and dealing with ‘party and ‘public affairs, Our leaders should be men who to believe but ~ FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924. ‘ be with you in a minute, said the dentist, “just as soon, as I scrape off the words “Bakeshop.” Why not save time by just scrap- ing off the ‘B’ and let it go at that?” s . e Mexican D. A. R. “Who 1s that distinguished lady?” ‘ All the Same, “That is Senora Alcatraz Juan 7 She—“What is wrong with that] deMendoza Ortega Arrellaga waiter? He is standing around] Guiterrez de la Guerra.” x “And what are all of the badges, buttons and ribbons she wears?" “Oh, she is a Daughter of the Hundred and Forty-eight Revolu- tions.” ; like he is expecting some- he’s just a tippical Miss Spycie—‘You won't mind if I go on with this knitting while we talk, will you Mr. Boreham? I al- ways think that one should ‘keep one's mind occupied.’ \ Si Hostess—“I can't understand why the guests are so dull tonight. Nothing I can do seems to start SLING them talking.” « Unnecessary. Her Husband—“Why don't you Judge—"Sam, don't you want a| sing something? lgwyer to defend you?” ‘'Sam—No, sah, Ah don’ ne@l no lawyeh. I’se goin’ t’ tell de truth.” + Tourlst—‘Isn't .this a delightful Uttle mountain inn. I suppose I can get plenty of oxygen here.’ “Did you tell Emily that I didn’t Proprietor— “Well, that’s” one] have any brains?” feller up th’ road who makes fairly “Of course not. good stuff fer $5 a quart.” knew it.” Mistress- want you to killa couple of chickens for dinner.” New Maid—‘“Yes, ma‘am. Which car shall I dosit with?” I thought she A dentist had recently moved into] Undoubtedly, Hiram ts the big a place previously éccupied vy algun, but the main trouble ts that he baker, when a friend called to see|is not mounted on a concrete foun- him. dation. relief, a definite revulsion of public sentiment }1791, on a plan drawn by Alexander ‘The present congress is not a representative against the methods of the rakers and the sling-| Hamilton. Its recharter was re- body in that it was not elected by a majority of; ers is, no doubt, responsible. And this revul-| fused by congress in 1811, over the the ‘votes of the qualified voters. That's what) sion, which began when Mr. Daugherty resigned, | Protest of Albert Gallatin, secretary Wesley L. Jones, senator from Washington told) reached its height when the president repelled | °f the treasury, who foresaw result- not only profess whose performances prove they be- Neve. That many of our “problems” thay be left with the Creator of all things in the assurance that a ‘Shay’s Rebellion’ By ELDEN SMALL ant financial difficulties. The noxt the body of which he is a member, in a recent| address. He quoted from authentic tables of election returns and the census of qualified vot- ers, covering the several states in the presiden- tial election of 1920, and the congressional elec- tions of 1920 and 1922. : In the senatorial election of 1922 not a single state cast 50 per cent of its vote for United | Weeks and Wallace in turn. Not States senator, hence every senator elected at) “had anything on” these cabinet officers, but elected by a minority of the] they voters. The highest percentage of votes was cast | administration in the eyes of the public. vada, but the number of votes | that election wa in the state of } 0 cast was the smallest of any of the states. The percentage was 41.9 while the number of votes the sortie against Secretary Mellon by his in- dignant protest to the senate. There seems little dofibt that the Senate plotters had laid out a definite programme t> another. After Mellon, the fire of mud was to be concentrated on Hughes and Hoover and that they hoped and expected thus to discredit the! It was a political scheme for the assassina- tion of reputations, regardless of facts. But the popular reaction from the Mellen attack has cast was 18,200. The lowest percentage was in Florida, being only 5.3 per cent. The vote in New York represented only 24.9 per cent of the qual-| ified voters, so Senator Copeland was selected | in an election in which less than a quarter of; the yoters cast their ballot pnator Brookhart of Iowa, who has rattled around considerably since hewas elected in congress in an election in which only 28.5 per cent of the voters took part in the election, can hardly be said to represent the Republicans of Towa to say nothing of the citizens as a whole. Even in the presidential campaign of 1920,/ there were only six states in which over 70) per cent of the qualified voters cast their bal- lots, the highest one being Delaware 75 per cent of whose electors voted. The lowest percentage was South Carolina with a percentage of 8.5. There were only nine states in which the per-} centages of voters were between and 70. What a record of dereliction of dut It is not the fault of congr that it is a “minority” congress; the fault lies with the voters who had the right to vote but who did not vote. Such voters havé no right to complain if the affairs of government are not conducted to suit them. They are estopped from so doing by their own negligence. They have no right to object if every government officer is guilty of graft or bribery or any kind of crookedness, yet they are the ones who make the greatest outcry if anything goey wrong. In fact, they profess to see wrong in the most innocent things. Som of these non-voters assume the ier-than-thou” attitude ,when they are thems r ninally negligent in their failure to exercise the elective franchise. Unfortunately there is no penalty at- tached for failure to vote, butt should be made a misdemeanor and punishable as such. To paraphrase a well-known expression—The man or woman who can yote and who does not vote ought to be made to vote. The Old Reliable Bridge Nationally we might say that Hamilton’s pro- tectibn teaching for years ruled the party op- posed to him. We might si that the tariff of 1824 rescued us from depression, that the tariff | our ey of 1842 was one of our greatest achievements, been so unmistakeable that the wiser and more conrervative heads among the opposition have initely called a halt. There will be sporadic outbursts of the senate’s “wild men,” no doubt, and a continuation of the investigations in pro- gress to some sort of a conclusion. But the mud barrage behind which the defeat of Mr. Coolidge in November was to be accomplished has been abandoned. Courage and Statesmanship | The San Francisco Bulletin has been running some excellent editorials on the necessity of getting back to first principles in our regard | for, and honor of the constitution of the United States anf the fundamental principles which were recognized in establishing our democratic | form of government. | In commenting on the recent action, or lack of jalong business rather than political lines, the | Bulletin in double column, black-face editorial,| | after citing numerous instances of the shortcom- | ings of our national law-making body says: ' “At bottom, responsibility for the present disgraceful situation * Washington lies with congress, whose hypocrisy, shirking and moral cowardice brought about conditions that made corruption inevitable.” It then cites numerous instances of radical | silly or, freak legislation which congress has | passed to satisfy hysterical demands or dodge responsibility. “A dozen boards and bureaus can be mentioned to which congress has granted the high, the! middle and the low justice with respect to wide areas activity and important industries. “Citizens and business enterprises can be ruined by various of these boards and buregps | Without ever having a day in court. An for &n-| cient right of privacy, there is nothing left, Our telephones are tapped, our desks are rifled, our | hooks searched on orders from our departmental | inquisitors. Few human being are fit to be trust- | ed with the power which congress so gaily dele-| gates to the bureaucracy. | “Our form of government has changed under | We are governed not by statutes, but, 's of this department and that commis: | by rulin that the Morrill tariff aided us in the dark hours | sioner whose orders have the force of laws. Our | of the Civil war, that our post-bellum tariff) rights are determined for us not by courts and | started new industri is working so well t the democracy fear to assail it. This is a birdseye view of the country as a that our present tariff | juries, who hear our cases in public, but by in-| at the shrewder leaders of} spectors and investi ators and bureaus who col- | lect evidence where they find it and announce | decision in true Turkish fashion. That, of course whole. If we picked out one city that has been} is not democracy. It is not even efficiént but if it benefited by protection more than others we should say Philadelphia. The long array of homes, the splendid showing of savings banks, the insurance policies, the standard of living is there a city in the Uniqn that owes more to protection than the city on the banks of the Delaware? 'The city of Careys, of Kelley, of Ran dall, of Swank, of Wharton, is a living monn-| ment to our great economic policy. | At present there is no place in the union in which there are more desperate efforts to ex-! ploit § than in Philadelphia. Republi-| ean pap: ss drowsily over the latest proofs | of the in ance of protection, and give space | to some free port writer, The sober. sense of the} frent old city may tire of the balderdash now in| circulatior t it is high time that the reaction | should come. Protection is a bridge that lias carried Phil adelphia over many a chasm. Do the Philadel phians of today remember how their city fared undor the low tariff of 18947 The Pension Veto “In vetoing the Bursum pension bill New York Herald-Tribune, “Mr. Coolidge ex pressed again in crisp, terse phrases that con ception of his public duty which has go stirred and heartened the country. “I am for econom he said, That ranks in courage and simplicity with his brief announcement in. the first mes sage to congress: “I do not favor the » bonus.” says the aniing ‘Why does he thus reprove the spenders and wasters in congress? Because, in his opinion, “no public requirement at the present time ranks with the necessity for the reduction of takation.” | uirement at the resent time ranks with the sel support in the next elect ‘President Coolidge is not the sort of man to try to buy an election in that way; and he is alsa | wise enough to see that it is not good politics to put the advantage of 1 ‘class above the wel fare of the nation, The Bursum bill is indefen- were, free government should not be sacrificed to efficiency. “Only a congress that will display some cour- | age and statesmanship, and a little devotion | to the constitution of the United States will rid us of this pest of bureau y and #estore the American ideal of popular government. | The Bulletin editorial is strong statement’ of the case, but it will take strong leaders among our publishers and our public officials to save intact to the American people, the liberties which were granted them in the formation of our government. Arbutus for the President | There are poetry and suggestiveness in the! spectacle of two-hundred people of old Plymouth »ing out into the woods—men and women, boys id girls—to gather trailing arbutus, mayflow- ers to send as a loving gift to Calvin Coolidge in the White House at Washington. It is quite | (certain that no such tribute was ever paid to John Adams or John Qy earlier Massachusetts presidents, Both of these had Pilgrim blood in their veins. Probably Pres- ident Coolidge has too, but hardly in the pat ernal line. His stock is Massachuetetts Bay. His blood is rather Puritan than Pilgram. His polit- ical trend is very much like theirs; aggressive, undeviating conservatian. *lymouth accepts Coolidge as the represen- tative of the Bay state. Boston accepts him. All New England accepts him, And New England | has been true to her name despite a vast influx of foreign-born persons. She is for Anglo-Saxon- | dom and all that the word implies. | However, it is not quite anspicious that the! ney Adams, the two | | | arbutus was more coy than usual this year, vines harder to fird, flowers less satisfactorily el oped, owing it is said, to the slight snowfall of the past winter. A cynic might say that the Cal vinistic type of Puritanism is also more hard to find as the years go on, and that its flowers also are more imperfect, President Coolidge will have to think that over also. One has to chew the cud of both sweet and bitter fancy in the White House as elsewhere. year the bank was chartered by the sthte of Pennsylvania under the same title, and failed in 1856, when private shareholders lost their de- tack the cabinet all along the line, one after! posits, totaling $28,000,000. (Copyright, 1924, British Exposition The British Empire Exposition has opened near London after two years of hard work and the expendi- ture of eleven million pounds ster- ling to put the project in operation. ‘The purpose of the exposition is to, field to prevent the supreme court advertise the British Empire and] from sitting, threw whole counties expand imperial trade. ‘The last exposition of note held in | local officials at, Pelham, Petersham the United States was at San Fran-|®"d other points, and threatened lsration of Independence. was talked for 1926, but it seems|convicted of treason and sentenced not to havé proceeded much beyond} to death. They were later pardoned, the talking stage, so far as can be| and. Shi An exposition at Philadel-| Revolutionary servic phi in 1926 would be an excellent thing for the country, particularly if the Pan American phase of trade and commerce were emphasized. We are vitally interested in maintaining supremacy in tie latin Americas that we won dur- the war, and expositions are excellent methods of national ad-|idea as to how we, “the common rit 4 : ~ the commercial action in congress and its failure to exert itself f Brazil hald an exposition In 1922 in which .the United States parri-|and should support and follow men cipated. The results haye been sat-| uf action rather than of words, men iefactory to all those who cooper. ed to make that fair a success. If Not much space in our printed his- tories is given to the rise and fall of Shays's Rebellion, although it gave the gbyernment much concern at the time. Immediately following the Revolu tion, the new country suffered from depleted treasuries and general eco- nomic disorder, marked by high taxes especially. In Massachusetts, Dan- Jels Shays, who had ben a gallant soldier at Bunker Hill and after. ward, headed an insurrection which swept through the western parts of the staje in 1786-7. With an army of 1,000 men he marched on Spring: ist Century Press.) into armed revolt, battled militia and cisco, in 1913. There was a pro-| Boston and Cambridge. ‘The state al some months ago to hold: a| legislature called for volunteers, sesquicentennial at Philadelphia inj ®&@med Gen. Benjamin Lincoln com- commemoration of the 150th anni-|™ander-in-chief, and eventually versary of the signing of the Dec-| dWelled the uprising. ’ The fair| Shays and several Heutenants were ‘8 Was pensioned for his True Leadership BY H. D. HINMAN T have a fairly clear and definite folk,” should be led. My idea is we should “be led by “Yea, Yea and they have not been overlooked and will not be forgotten and that they will be esolved*by the application and operation of Jaws which can not be appealed or amended by par- laments, congresses and legisla- tures. That even in these days of short hours, waste and extravagance, frugality, industry and thrift are virtues and not subjects for ridi- cule and shquld not be discour- aged nor penalized. That all men of means are not dishonest nor all poor men hon- est. That, because taxes, and all ex- penses of government, however col- lected and by jvhomsoever paid in the first instance, are passed on and along to the consumer who, in the end, pays them to the last dollar, the abolishment of every unnecessary governmental depart- ment, division, bureau, board and body and the elimination of every useless or unnecessary Job are press- ing and imperative duties. « That, if public officials spend more of their (ime in trying to as- certain where and how the ex- penses and burdens of government can be lightened and less time in Icoking for new jobs to create and new sources of revenue to tap, great good to all will result. pe SEE a i Misunderstood. Young Man (waiting for the lady) —Is your daughter coming out next summer?” Father—“She'll come out when she gets good and ready, and if you fre: bout it, I'll knock your “Coffee is a Safe and Desirable Beverage” Three years’ Scientific Coffee Research, made by Professor. SAMUEL C. PRESCOTT at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, establishes that Coffee is a good and wholesome beverage for the overwhelming majority of adults “I wit say that neither in the dispassionate study of the vast literature on the subject, much of which is medical literature, nor as a result of our long. continued studies, have we been forced, as scientific men, to any conviction that well-made Coffee is harmful to the great mass of consumers and, as such, dangerous to public health and welfare. On the contrary, the more deeply we have gone into this matter, the more we have read, the more we have looked up this literature in different languages, the more firmly fixed has becomé the belief (in fact, I might say it is a belief so strong that it is a convic- tion) that for the overwhelming majority of adults Coffee is a safe and desirable beverage.” This strong indorsement of Coffee is one of the conclusions reached by Professor Prescott after the most thorough in- vestigation of Coffee ever made. His,research was scientific and exhaustive, and his findings, therefore, establish the fact that Coffee is a safe and desirable beverage for the overwhelming majority of adults, For Better Coffee Every Day, Follow These Rules 1—Sce that the Coffee ts not ground too coarse. 2—Allow at least @ tablespoonful of ground Coffes to a cup of water. Seen Sere te ‘Then pour it over the freshiy ground 4—Serve at once. 5—Never use ground Coffee « second time, 6—Scour the Coffee pot. \ Ask your dealer or write direct to us for a copy of thie NEW booklet, “For Better Coffee,” which explains these rules in detail. Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Committee, 64 Water Street, New York. The planters of Sao Poule, Brasil, who produca more than half of all the Coffee used im the United States, are conducting this Coffee merchants of the United States. lucational work in co-operation with the leading For finer texture and larger volume in your bakings Baking Powder Same Price for over 33 years use less than of higher priced brands Why Pay War Prices? MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED BY THE GOVERNMENT : CAN Guar ig \ Casper Greenhouse ANNOUNCE The largest and most varied assortment of flow- ering and garden plants ever shown in Casper. 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