Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO. Che Casper Daily Cribune 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 published herein, rhe Bunty" Motulng Welbune:everg Sunday at Caw je Sunday orning une per, Wyoming. Publication offices; Tribune Building, opposite postoffice, Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice aa class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones a By J. B, HANWAY and B. B, HANWAY Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-28 Bldg, Ohi cago, Lil, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Ridg., Boston, Mass,, 5) 404 Sharon Bidg., 65 New ig gome' San Francisco. Cal. Coples of the Daily Tribung are-on file in the New York, Chicagp. Boston, and San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome, SUBSCRIPTION RATES : By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sunday One Month, Daily Per Copy Ong Year. 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If Senator Walsh, the chief conspirator and inquisitor in the matter, will tell the public, and prove to it, that he has discovered anything worth while, it did not know before, there will be less dissatisfaction about the cost of the whole entertainment. 7 : Now that the inguisition touching California naval reserves and the Teapot Dome has petered out and there is no other excuse to prolong the misery through congressional recess, Senator Walsh hints that he would be delighted with senatorial authority to invade the Salt Creek field upon the bare probability of discovering something. He has no idea just what, no notion that anything criminal or even irregular could be turned up; but he wants to inyestigate, be- cause he has had a taste and become obsessed with the idea of frightening somebody with the exercise of the temporary power, which the sen- ate committee does not possess, but which, such mer as Walsh assume, If the senate grants Walsh, or any other in- vestigator of his type, further license to disturb and destroy legitimate industry, and Salt Creek is invaded, the oil industry in Wyoming is prac- tically destroyed for several years. The Walsh system brings everybody and everything under suspicion. It assumes that honorable business men connected with any branch of the indus- try, are scoundrels and crooks until they can clear themselves. No man is innocent until testi- mony proves him guilty under copgressional in- yestigating methods. So if Senator Walsh has his way Salt Creek will go on the operating table this summer/ and ba dissected. Then oil development, and all operations in the great field, will be arrested. Business in the field and in Casper will be prac tically suspended during the surgical operation directed by Senator Walsh. Of course Walsh does not know for what complaint he will oper: ate. He simply wants to operate. It matters nothing to him whether it is appendicites or chillblains, or what effect it may have upon the patient. : - All the fing prospects for a prosperous year in the oil industry in Wyoming, now under way, are likely to be knocked into a cocked hat if ‘Walsh gets his way. It seems more than passing strange if a cheap exploiter like Walsh, who having fallen down on his one oil investigation, can induce the sen- ate to entrust him with another commission to wreck business and industry in the Salt Creek field, It would seem that either the senate or the business interests of the country should. awaken to the situation created by thege senseless: in tions, which get no where and prove noth- ing and a absolutely destructive to business and industry while they are in progress and for a long time thereafter. No good citizen objects to occasional checking up of public affairs, but when such checking up runs riot and becomes a menace to the welfare of great industries, without eyen the basis of suspicion it is high time a halt was called upon self-seeking political buccaneers of the Walsh type. Even if drastic methods are required to accomplish it, The Wisdom of Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was not only a great states- , he was a great politician as well. He had a y just sense of political proportions, other wise he never would have attained the presi- dency. Prior to the presidential campaign of 1860 the political situation was very involved. There were yéry many issues, so! of them purely local or sectional, Mr, Lincoln was anx ious that the Republicans as a party should not become involved in too many of these questions, realizing that they would Jessen the chances of party success in the approaching national cam n. The really national issues were of too «great importance to permit of their being jeo pardized by those which were purely local. The situation prompted him to write to Schuyler Colfax on July 6,1 as follows: “The point of danger is the temptation in dif. ferent localities to ‘platform’ something which will be popular just the but which, novertheless, will be a firebrand elsewhere, and especially in a national convention. As instances the movement against foreigners in Massachu setts; in New Hampshire to make obedience to the fugitive slave law punishable as a crime; in Ohio, to repeal the fugitive slave law; and squat: is explosive matter enough to blow up half a dozen national conventions, if it gets into them; and what gets very rife outside of conventions is very likely to find its way into.them, What is desirable, if possible, is that in every local convocation of Republicans a point should be inade to avoid everything which will disturb Re- publicans elsewhere. Massachusetts Republicans should have looked beyond their noses, and then ‘they could not have failed to see that tilting against foreigners would ruin us in the whole northwest. New Hampshire and Ohio should for-| bear tilting against the fugitive slave law in such a way as to utterly overwhelm us in Ill- inois with the charge of enmity to the constitu- tion itself, Kansas in her confidence that she can be saved to freedom on squatter sovereignty ought, not to forget that to prevent the spread and naturalization of slavery is‘a national con- cern, and must be attended to by the nation. In a word, in every locality we should look beyond our no! and at Jeast say nothing on peints where it is probable we shall disagree. I write this for your eye only; hoping, however, if you see danger as I think I do you will do what you can to avert it. Could not suggestions be made to leading men in the state and congressional cen- ventions, and so ayoid, to some extent, at least, these apples of discord?” In the light of history Lincoln was right in his time, and his advice has held good in all subse- quent years. For there are always local issues which local interests magnify, in importance, out of all reason and which do not have place in party platforms. The lesser interests must be submerged for the good of the party. At the present time the situation is about ns mixed as it was in 1860. There is one great issue in which the business and labor of the country are more interested than all the rest and it is one upon which the major parties are clearly divided, and that is the tariff issue. Un- less the policy of protection is maintained by electing a Republican president and a Repub- lican congress business and industry may as well prepare for a season of depression. Increasing Postage Rates A bill, known as the Paige bill, is pending in congress, one purpose of which is to increase parcel post rates. Tt is not a moderate increase which the bill proposes, a jump of a cent or two on existing schedules, but a 200 per cent raise. Other in- creases are proposed in second and third-class postal rates. The bill is designed. to get addition- al revenue to the extent of $110,000,000 annually. A lot of help a reduction in income tax is go- ing to be if postal rates are jumped in this wholesale and extravagant manner. Have you ever bought new laid eggs by parcel post, and had them delivered at your. door for a nominal carriage charge of 8 cents a dozen? Well, you will go to the grocery fdr them if this bill passes, because your postal rate will leap from 8 cents to 24 cents: And the farmer will go out of the business of direct dealing with the consumer by mail, and back into the hands of the middleman. This is just one example of the way the Paige bill will work. You can think of a hundred others—all of them arguments against it. If you are in the manufacturing business, and use the mail to send out samples and goods to customers, consider the difference in your expense for postage with a 200 per cent increase. They say there is some risk of the Paige bill passing at Washington. If there be any risk it is time for those interested—and they are le gion—to get busy with their congressmen. Increased revenue is doubtless needed for the postoffice department. Increaseg in salary are due the postal: clerks. But this bill will gouge the public and defeat its own end. It will result in driving business to the express companies. Congress voted an appropriation of $500,000 for a thorough investigation of postal costs as a basis on which to readjust rates if necessary. That investigation has been under way for some time. It is expected an exhaustive report will be ready for submission in July or August. To legislate for an arbitrary upward revision of rates in anticipation of this report is an un- intelligent proceeding. Postmaster New urges that congress wait un- til it has the results of the investigation before it. That is sound advice, but the indifference of congress to departmental opinion makes it im- portant that it should hear from the country, Judging from the manner in which it treats the recommendations of Secretary Mellon, Secre- tary Hughes, Secretary Hoover and others—not to mention the president—the fact that Post- master New is against passing the Paige bill may be sufficient to insure ita®passage, unless there is emphatic protest from the people who will be voting next November, Casting Out Traitors “Much is being said by non-Republicans, hy- brid Republicans and pussyfooting politicians about an alleged effort to “read Republicans out of the party and drive certain elements out of the Republican ranks,” notes the National Re- publican. “The program will not drive a Re- publican out of the Republican party. The pol- iticians attacked are not Republicans, They represent no Republican sentiment. They are hos- tile to Republicaniam. Their prominence repre- sents fraudulent trading upon the name of the Republican party. It represents the incursion of non-Republicans into Republican primaries. Strip these politicians of the Republican lapel and their power is gone. “These quasi-Republicans exist officially only because they have imposed upon the loyalty of actual Republicans to obtain power they employ for non-Republican and anti-Republican pur- poses. Whenever they discover that this: can no longer be taken for granted they will do one of two things; Ieave the Republican party or join it, actually as well as nominally. If they leave the Republican party they will lose the power they have gained at its hands and will take no Republicans with them. “Thesa politicians represent no substantial popular sentiment, They have a certain follow- Ing among radicals who are to be depended on to support no candidate other than one of their own un-Republican persuasion, Their appetite for power and patronage is well developed, and when they are made to discover that they can no longer pursue their distructive tactics within the! Republican party and politically live, they will either decide to be Republicans hereafter or destroy themselves by attempting to stand on ‘ter sovereignty in Kansas. In these, things there their own platform somewhere on the outside.” b | @he Casver Daily wrroune Either Vote or Keep. Still Voters who do not vote may learn a lesson “by Condo”—one of the “Everett True” series—in which his companion is made | from a cartoon lito say to Everett: elected him!” “Of course yon voted against him!” Highway | For more than a year now I have: been calling mtion to the fact that the highway between Casper and Glenrock must be paved to save the investment of something like $400.000, already spent on it. So far no attention has been paid to these warnings, although hundreds of per- sons besides myself have taken the matter up with various members of the Highway Comnussion, and both Douglas and Glenrock have voiced the opinion of the tax payers of Converse county through the Cum- munity clubs of the two towns, by passing resolutions asking the te highway commission. to take im- mediate action, 5 During the past two montks hun- dreds of persons have been after mo to keep hammering on the matter until we got action, and finally one of the most prominent Democrats of Converse county asked me to write a personal letter to the gov- ernor asking him to take a din e matter and help us get the high- way surfaced, I did that, and received a very nice letter from the governor thanking me for calling his atten- tion to the matter, and this morning I received the following letter, which is evidently the ultimatum of the state highway commission. Now we have known all the time that the state highway commission have been stalling us off with the answer that there were no funds with which to pave this section, but do they suppose that we are going to sit idly by and see that $400,000 investment wasted, disintergrated and blown away just because there is no money with which to pave, and save it? Is it not true that this state has more money for roads and other sorts of improvements than any other state in the United States? Isn't it true that if we want to do so we can raise another $400,000, or $500.- 000 to save an equal amount that is already invested and is in jeopardy of absolute loss? If this is true why then does the state highway commission take no action? Why don’t they come for- they have to do is ask the people of the state or of the two counties which are to be directly benefitted to float a bond issue, and raise the money to save the investment al- ready expended on this particular piece of the state highway. I am certain that the federal gov- ernment will be glad to do their ward and rajse this money? All| part in saving this highway, for they already have some of their money in it too, and they will ad- vance another $350.000 or $400,000 should we hesitate to raise the sniall amount that it is necessary for us 0 raise? $160.000 to 0.000. at most is all we shall have to raise and I know it can be done if only some action is taken and an honest effort is made to do it. Mr. Laird says the Highway De- partment will be very glad to pave that road as soon as the department has the money with which it can be done, but Mr, Laird does not say that they cannot raise the money. And I say they can “IF" they try. The question is are they going to try or are they going to let the present surface which is already get ting very thin in spots, blow away entirely? Are the people going to accept Governor Ross’ letter as the Ultima. Read what he says. tum? My dear Mr. Patee. I have conferred, with Mr, Laird about the paving of the Casper-Glen- Labor in Politics By ELDEN SMALL Organized labor may or may not be a powerful influence in today's politics, according to the source of the expressed opinion, But {t is {n- teresting to note that this element of our citizenry first began to figure in election affairs ixf the early 1800s, Trades unionism in this country dates from 1800, and first appeared formally at a presidential election in 1872, with the Labor reform party, which urged an 8-hour day and var- fous other reforms, A few years later the Knights of Labor, formed to unite all branches of workers, did much to weld its members into a compact political forces, especially under the I rship of Terence V, Powderly, I But its vote has generally been divided, the old parties retaining some and « share boing divided by the Socialist and Socialist-Labor Parties, Even before it entered the prest- dential fights, organized labor had, however, named state tickets in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in 1870, — " The frult commonly called blood- orange is really a cross between the ordinary orange and a pomegran: ate. The juice of tho latter is dark red in color, and when an orange tree branch is grafted into ® pomegranate tree the resulting fruit takes the form of the orange, but shows traces of the juice of the larger frult. a a Al The creation of designs for tex- tiles, wall paper and floor coverings by mechanical means is a possibility of the near future. This. is expected to be accomplished by means of a rocently-devised projecting machine which, through ite prismatic and control arrangements, is capable of ed variation of patterns that are lected on a Screen or as otherwise desired East Terraces is an ideal place to build your home. Department has which it can be done, ent time we have no way of handl- ing it. it back twice. pect to get it again.” “Oh, all right then, if you are going to be as mean as all that.” to save what they have in it, why} The Latest Song Hit. “My Wife's Devotion to Me Is Touching.” Uncle Hook Says “Recelvin’ advice is like kissin’ a girl: it don't cost nice t’ get, but Mable t’ be dangerous if taken too blamed seriously.” Headline — Church Services in Aeoroplane." We sincerely hope that no one will stoop to make a pun on the pastor belong: ing to the High Church. “Hubby, Newsboy—“All about the investi. gations in congress- Better get one now, mister; it will all be contradict- ed tomorrow." Every freeborn American citizen has a chance of becoming president with two exceptions, Bryan and Johnson. EI “And that’s just exactly the kind of .a dirty political grafter he is, Mr, True, and now théy’ye Sete Commission Is S | | By FRED PATEE rock road. He says that the High. way Department will be very glad to pave that road as soon as tho the money with Iam very sorry that I cannot give you a more encouraging answer. WILLIAM B. ROSS. Nip—"Miss Playne is the very image of her mother,” Tuck—'Yes, the resemblance is something terribls AEA business of the United States is run to assume your share of the responsibility by registering and yeting, you haye no right to complain about ‘the way the government business (your business) is run. “kick” unless you vote. ating | ECEIVENSHIPS LINES end PGES Unknown, Ella—‘‘What is your last name?" Bella—"I don't know. gotten it yet.” nuthin’ All Alike “Do you believe there among thieves?” asked the inquis- itive one. “No I don’t,” answered the cynic. “They are just as people.” bad as_ other Minister Unreasonable can you back that dollar you borrowed from me last week?” “But, darling, I have already paid Surely you can’t ex- “Well, no I didn’t. I forgot to register!” “Then forget the rest of it!” If you do not care enough about the way the Motion to Cut Down Number of Bishops Lost - SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 17.— A motion to decrease the number of Methodist bishops was defeated at the Methodist Episcopal conference by a vote ‘of 461 to 44. A rev port of the committee on Episcopaly reducing the Episcopal areas by one was adopted by a large majority. The defeated motion, calling for re- committal, instructed the committee no to fill the places of five bishops made vacant by death or retirement in the last quadriennial period. s this a time to retire," cried Dr. Vote or keep still. You are not qualified to i STRIKES. 1 BLL PROPOSAL ‘WASHINGTON, May 17.—A rail-|° road strike or lockout threatening a transportation emergency would re- sult automatically in sults by the government to throw the roads ‘af- fected into receivership under an amendment to the Howell-Barkley bill approved by a senate subcom- ittee. The bill, itself, which provides for abolition of the railroad labor board and substitution of a system of ad- justment tribunals on which both roads and other employes would be represented, then was reported fa- vorably hy the sub-committee to the full interstate commerce commit- tee. A similar bill is to come up in the house early next week. The amendment reported by the sub-committee provides specifically that when a strike or lockout results on a railroad which the president considers may bring a transportation crisis he shall at once instruct the At the pres- Governor. I haven't receivership and shall seek appoint- ment as receiver of a man “who has no financial connection with the railroad. an’ is and wonderful ice cream and cake. friends. A—B—C fi sane: ELECTRIC WASHER REE ! Price only 65 cents. at ’the SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924. David G. Downey of New York, chairman God's name I say ‘No.” In appealin, chureh’s leaders, Dr, Downey swep: the house from its feet, as it was about to recommit the report, —_——— Sister Godeliva, who 1s in charge of the X-ray department of a hospi. tal in Fargo, N. Dak., is one of the first women to be reg: diologist in America, pains ini oc MURS ? 2 2? Wyoming Motorway ¢ ? ¢ wid snera he Pec tated. . Cali the Tribune for highway in. formation. East Terraces is path of Casper’s most rapid development. The above photograph shows only a few of the Casper Automobiles parked in front of the Glenrock Hotel last Sunday, where 140 Cas- attorney general to file a sult for|Perites partook of one of those famous chicken ai Each person was loud in their praise of the delicious chicken They one and all promised to come again and bring their Remember, these dinners are served every Sunday from 12 to 2. BE THERE NEXT SUNDAY — of the committee, “In for confidence in the a8 a ra. in the inners, CASPER ELECTRIC Co. 121 E. First St. Phone 19935 Flies to East Terraces has many lots facing on East Second street. Pay me The Best Spring Tonic You will find is the new Tallerman Bath In this treatment superheated air at high temperature is used to cure various forms of Rheu- matism, faulty elimination. You will find it wonderful for re- ducing. Dr. L.-J. Connell Room 18 Daly Bldg. Phone 8493 363 S. Ash Street . Gates Willis Garage Live Storage $10.00 Per Month Dead Storage$ 8.00 Per Month GAS, OILS AND CAR GREASING AND SERVICE FEDERAL TIRES AND TUBES GENERAL REPAIR WORK IN CONNECTION Phone 1891-W Ever buy a Wooden ~ nutmeg? A huckster stopped at Grandmother's door. “Any nut- megs today, lady?” ; In the tray before him he displayed his wares—big, beau- tiful nutmegs, and at a ridiculously low price. Being fond of nutmeg’s spicy flavor, and seeing an. oppor- tunity to stock up on them to advantage, Grandmother bought generously. There was to be rice pudding for supper. Grandmother took the golden-brown beauty from the oven and pre- pared to give it its finishing touch—a sprinkling of nut- meg. Out came the grater and one of the new nutmegs, She scraped and looked puzzled. Scraped again, and looked closer. Sawdust!! The nutmegs were made of wood, How far from such methods we have traveled in these days of advertised merchandise. The merchant of today signs his name to what he says about what he sells, He knows that when you come to buy you will expect the goods in his store to be what he has said. He knows that if he deceives you once, your trade is gone forever, Wooden nutmegs never could have been advertised. Read the advertisements. 5 THE FIRE OF PUBLICITY CONSUMES FALSEHOOD —ADVERTISED GOODS ARE RELIABLE A SAS TRZT SA ASSASSINS TRS