Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1924, Page 6

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Some of his associates wondered how he so rapidly absorbed information and one day he was asked the direct question. t His answer was not a commonplace one. Like many other children had looked into the black- smith’s shop and gazed on the carpenter at his work. But when he began to think of a career as a writer he gave nself a preparation of which few even thought but which certainly stood him in good ‘stead. y irst he read with thoughtful care the twen- ty-eight chapter of the Book of Job. There is the most famous account of mining that pen ever put on paper. Commentators suppose that the mines referred to were under the supervis- ion of the Phoenicians. Whoever managed them there is the eviden at long ago pital was invested in mines and that daring men went high up the mountains risking their lives in place: which beast and bird feared to visit. The 5! and courage of those who overturned mountains by their roots and cut out rivers among the rocks gave the novice an idea of how wise thinkers in ancient times must have admired the skilled worker of the engineering type. Nothing in the Old Testament not the account of the tabernacle not the description of the temple reared by Solo- mon, and the reference of Isaiah to the makers of the images, is more striking than this pic- ture of mining as it must have been carried on in the days of Job. Second the young man went to a library, open- ed a translation of Homer’s Ilaid, and read the description of the shield of Achilles. There was something to ponder upon and to read with in- creasing admiration. Whether there ever was a shield with such marvelous gravings upon it may be left to the Schliemanns of generations te come. Here was evidence as to Homer's admira- tion for the carver the tracer, the designer. From Homer down through many generations this sense of grace and beauty passed not merely from father to son but we might almost say through the whole Greek nation. As Job voiced the Hebrew’s delight on beholding man boring his way through the mountains, Homer sang out the enthusiasm of the Greeks for the man who seems to approach the miraculous, Macaulay's lines are still fresh: The stone that breathes and struggles, The brass that seems to speak, Such cunning they who dwell on high Have given to the Greek. After his reading in Job and Homer the young an dug out from the Latin Julius Caesar's account of his bridge. That was also a notable experience. With all Caesar’s power as a discip- linarian with all his resourcefulness in battle, he could never have been what he was had he not been a great engineer. That bridge-building shows what the Romans were—shows how could rule from the Mediterranean to the *, Shows why they were feared in far east- ern Asia and why they could push out west to Britain. We too much stress on the saying that the artificer of old was looked on with dis- in by the foolish young nobles. Foolish young ons always look with disdain on somebody. ob. Homer and Julius ¢ r recognized the importan f skilled labor. at they said must have been noted by the more thoughtful of their contemporaries, : None But Coolidge Men “Put none slogan that Lodge in M but Coolidge men on guard” is a inging in the ears of Senator husetts ; Capper has heard a whipped by the sentiment it expresses in Ver. mont; Willis and Fess have felt the sting of its righteousness in Ohio; and elsewhere the echoes have come back to other of the traitors. The J indications that it will be heard in e state where senators and repre sentatives h been consp sly disloyal to the titular leader of the Republican party—the leader who, so far as the country is concerned is both titular and a re “Put none but Coolidge men on guard” is the note that is being sounded today at Cleve. land, if the spirit of the people, Thanifested in the primaries and since is any clue to the spirit of the convention, The rank and file of the Republican party have chosen Coolidge with an amazing unani mity; they have epted the man and his pre they 1} e that if there is to be aun victory it m won with a »0) und a platform That not consist of the acts of the it does not t of the rate and | it is to be 8 of platform « party in Cong policies of the Republican lead house haye urged and supporte fouud in the recommendations and vet 4 sition | traffic in their history. as we trust he may, he should go back with a following in congress-which represents the faith of the people in his leadership. It would be better to give, him Democratic majorities in senate and house, or to return a Democratic administration from the presidency down, than to elect him with the mockery of a nominally Republican congress, so mongrel in its make-up as to be wholly unreliable. Party responsibility is.a fiction under the condition we have today. A Protection Platform The delegates to the Republican national convention at Cleveland owe it to themselves, to the party of .protection and to the people of the United States as a whole, to adopt.a ringing specific and strong plank declaring for adequate tariff protection for all American labor and in- dustry. It is a certainty that the Democratic party, in convention assembled, will adopt a plank denouncing tariff protection, and that it will carry on the coming campaign mainly in oppo- thereto. The Republicans can do no less than stand by their own policy and on their own record. \ The accomplishments of the pres- ent administration is one of which to be proud and it needs no apologies. By its policies it set to work the five million workmen whom it found idle under and on account of free trade, and it thereby brought about a period of un- paralleled prosperity. The battle will be fought on the question of protection vs. free trade, and the party to whom the credit for national prosperity is due cannot afford to stultify itself by failing to reaffirm in unmistakable language its adherence to the policy of protection. The Mondell Mind . “Mr. Mondell is anti-bloc, and is significantly chosen at a time when the blocs have been mak- ‘ing the most mischief,” says the Brooklyn Stan- dard Union. “For a slant at the Mondell mind it*is pos- sible to turn to the farewell- remarks of the Congressman from Wyoming delivered upon the | occasion of his retirement after twenty-six years of service, a year ago last March 4, Said con- gressman Mondell, after some scathing criti- cisms of too active lobbyists: “The greatest menace of the day is the men- ace of organized, militant, persistent minorities —minorities which, disassociated from the par- ticular object of their legislative pursuit, may be among the best intentioned of our citizenship, but under the spell and spur of specious plead- ing and selfish appeal propose, suggest, urge and demand the most dangerous procedure.” A palpable hit in the national convention now in session. The job before the delegates will be to insure not only the election of Presi- dent Coolidge, but the support of his vigorous nd manful fighting against minorities. Mr. Mondell pointed out their dangers in 1923; some of his wisdom might well be written into the 1924 platform. | Good Timber Policy The lower house of the Mississippi legisla- ture has passed the senate bill exempting from taxation for a specified period of time, cut-over land devoted exclusively to reforestation. Ry enacting this law Mississippi has made an intelligent effort to encourage reproduction of timber, which has come to be an important national problem. Vast areas of cut-over lands cannot be used for agricultural purposes without expensive preparation, but a new growth of timber can be had without much labor or expense. Tax exemption in a case of this kind is a far- sighted policy, for whatever revenue the state may lose temporarily will be compensated for many times over in increased value of timber | resources, With the federal department of agriculture warning that unless reforestation is practiced, it is a matter of only-a comparatively short time before the country will exhaust its timber supplies, Mississippi has indeed set a good ex- ample for other states. | Beating the Record Last year the railroads handled the heaviest To date this. year the railroads, as a whole, have handled more traffic than they did in the same period last year. The Southern Pacifie Co., Union Pacific and Santa Fe, the three greatest western railroad systems last year handled a record breaking amount of freight traffic through unparalleled efficiency of operation, With the cooperation of shippers, the aver age carload for 1923 was the heaviest in the his- tory of the west. The number of cars and locomotives under repair has been reduced for the three months period of 1924 as compared with the number for the same period of 1923. The Pacific coast, on account of its great dis- tance from eastern markets and because of the perishable nature of a large proportion of its products, is particularly dependent on effiient railroad service, (Timid Advocates The present is a.time in which a great, strong, convincing declaration should be mady of a specific policy for the encouragement anf main- tenance of an American merchant marine in foreign trade. What is needed is something definite and concrete; we too long have been fed up with mere generalizations and rounded periods the gist of whi is that we favor an American merchant marine. Off cougss we favor an American merchant marine; but the burning qu n is how shall we go about get: ting and p: ng it? The American Marine Association has been dealing with this matter, with a view to putting before the two great political parties sugges tions of a plank, for them to incorporate in their national platforms, this month, and, as usual, they resort to generalizations and trite truisms, dof boldly declaring for a specific, def- effective policy. And this is what they t to each of the great political parties: We approye and shall support development of American shipping, shipbuilding and com ponent American marine. enterprises, ineluding harbors, rivers and Great Lakes shipping activ. ties. American shipping development is demand ed as a necessity for national Protection and welfare, the marketing of our production and the ot ning of essential materials from other count Amerian commerce requires subject to American control. transportation the president. In both he } of the Republican voters. If Coolidge is to go back to the White House 8 had the approval ion of government, com on und the modification of place American ship owners on _Che Casper Daily Cribune WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1], 1924, _ a parity with foreign ship owners without im- ravseee of the higher standards of American ving. + ; ‘ We urge reliance more upon private energy and less upon public law and appropriations. American shipping is deserving of national ‘protection and support, and we approve utili-) zing national resources for: its upbuilding. ‘We favor an ‘an merchant marine nsisting of the best type of modern ships built by American workmen, in American ship- yards, flying the American flag, manned b; American seamen and ‘owned by private capit Each of the great political partics might adopt what is above quoted, in toto, and then continue to differ upon policy—specific, defi- nite policy—and so do nothing for American shipping, just as they have always done. The men who drafted the declarations enum- erated above—wholly ineffective—knew and well knew that what is needed is a specific definite declaration of policy, but they lacked the cour- age to utter it. They seem to lack the courage of their convic- tions. Should both parties adopt the declara- tions quoted they would be, as so many political platform declarations are, meaningless, as to definite accomplishment. Perhaps, though, what the ship men have evolved may be a tem- porary expedient to defer action until they can again feel courageous enough to advocate what so many of them desire—ship subsidy—which they never can obtain. ; Games Once Welcome t BY ELDEN SMALL Under the laws of the United States and o! nearly all of the individual states, as well as of many er countries, the lottery is made an outlaw. It is ranked as a particularly vicious’ saga! gambling, since it naturally appeals to the young ‘ by the smallness of its ticket lamor of its capital prizes. . lottery tickets to be in the larger cities of the country, but they must be hunted ‘out with patience, for the selling agents do notrinvite prosecution by the it. For the most part, too, they are located in some of our neighbors among the countries farther south. However, it is not so many years since the Louisiana Lottery flonrished in that state, and its monthly drawings attracted interest and at- tention throughout the land. Of course, there were even then staics in which the sale of its tickets was forbidden; yet they were sold more or less openly and the institution did a great vol- ume of business. It had the favor of the state of Louisiana, of a certainty, and its officials were selected from the notable men in public life. The passage of the federal law wiped it out of existence. It is not so generally recalled that for some years Harvard College was supported in part by a grand lottery system with a capital prize each -drawing $20,000 (then an almost fabulous fortune) and tickets sold at 25 eents each. That was in the early years of the republic. Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE True love, - Like opportunity ‘Knocks once Keep the head clear for business. Heavy foods clog the system and dull the brain. Ll with milk or cream are eS en, easily digested. Month of Reoses ‘and Weddings It is curious how ‘an idea once implanted firmly in the heads of humanity and a custom derived therefrom persist for centuries after conditions have changed and the reason for them has disappeared. For many generations June has been consid- ered the appropriate month for orange blossoms “At Or EX: and bridal veils, yet the unsentimental would Man’s door, imagine that no season of the year could be less But it is suitable for a honeymoon than that most dis- More likely agreeable one when enervating heat and humid- To find the ity, nettle rash and mosquitoes, and all sorts of Door open. discomforts make the temper touchy and life more or less misery. Under the fiery sun illu- sions evaporate and love withers. Doubtless it all started in the long ago when humanity hibernated more or less in the winter, and there was little chance of courting or petting parties before the family fire. It was doubt- less those days of which the poet speaks in words so oft and so tiresomely quoted, “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.’ But for the very reason that we have so often heard the couplet man- kind characteristically considers it must be true whereas the fact is, there is no period of the year when a young man’s fancy is so distracted frem thoughts of love by thoughts of fishing, boating, basebalJ, golf and roaming. And if the young man should go a-courting in the spring like the birds and beasts, it is not often that the bride can have the trousseau ready by June. In reality the young man turns his thoughts to love more often and more naturally after the baseball season and the sports of summer are over; when the parlor sofa is inviting; when the movies are in full blast. The same may be said of his turtle dove. Without wishing to discourage any nuptials already dated, we say away with alk the obsolete nonsense. Noyember is the proper month for lightly turning to thoughts of love, and mid- winter should be Hymen’s own season. Matri- mony in its trying early stages is so much more easily endured tlien than in dog days. IS BETTER GASOLINE Moré Miles, More Pep, More Power Ask the Man Who Is Using It Aero Filling Station Second and Durbin THINNED OUT SOME Fisherman—4Are the fish thick around here?” Native—‘Well, not too thick. use the lake partly for navigation.” PLENTY OF CONVERSATION First Clubwoman—“Did you have anything to talk about at the-club meeting?” Second Ditto—‘Oh, lots! It rained and there were only three of us there.” ve have to HALF PRICE Beggar—“Will you give a poor blind man a dime?” Victim—“Rut you.can see out of one eye.” Beggar—“Well, make it a nickel then.” A SURE SIGN He—“Last night I dreamed that I proposed to you. I wonder what that is a sign of.” She—“It is a sign that you have more sense when you are asleep than you have when you are awake.” Small Space And a large stock of new Royal Typewriters en transit compel us to move our stock of rebuilt Type- writers at once at UNAPPRECIATED Mrs. Pilkins—“Fancy bringing a little child of five to a funeral!) What pleasure can it be to her?” , TOO TRUE Opticus—“The man who gives quickly gives twice.” Cynicns—“Yes, he isgusually called upon to give again.” Mystic Figures What is the explanation for the peculiar fas- cination figures, fixed, unalterable figures have upon the human mind? Certainly there is some strange influence in them that brings re- actions from the mortal mind ranging all the way from superstition to religious mysticism and from religious mysticism to martyrdom on the battlefield and thé floor of congress. verybody knows of the strange terror that A seizes some people at the sight or the thought| He—“I have an important question to ask you. of the figure 13. Why? Why not 14, or 15, or ‘She—(flushing visibly) —“What is it?” In these later days the holy figure 7 has i 5 A ?. He—‘What date have you and your mother joined 11 in the profane company of alley golf déciled ‘upon’ for our: wedding?” devotees, but that has only added to its charm. ntlemen in crouching titudes have been heard frequently murmering it. By what process or formula are guch figures arrived at? How, for instance, dfa anybody ever happen to hit upon one half of 1 per cent, as a symbol of righteousness? Why not .three- quarters of 1 per cent., or even seyen-eights? And yet, rather than that the integrity of one- UNCLE HOOK SAYS “Th’ feller who does evil deeds punishes himself, fer ef he dreads punishment he suffers it, an’ ef he deserves it he dreads it.” FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY : Our rebuilt typewriters include Royals, Underwoods, Remingtons, L. C. Smiths and Coronas and other makes, and carry our guarantee for one year and free service for that time. Fine Late Model Typewriters for Rent THE CASPER TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 230 EAST SECOND Jimmie (who hag to stand in a corner for punishment)—“Darn it, I wish we lived in a lighthouse.” PHONE 856 hv “See Our Window Display—Prices Plainly Marked” THE SAFEST WAY : Passionate Poet—“Here is a poem’ advocat- i ace.” half of 1 per cent should be despoiled by adding a rv (after reading it)—“Do you honestly to it a trifling fraction thousands of men and] want peace?” y . women would go to bloody battle chanting “On- ward Christian Soldiers.” When Secretary. of the treasury Mellon somehow or other arrived at the conclusion that the surtax on incomes should not exceed 25 per cent, immediately that figure became the ral of a host of followers, including Mr. Coolidge, who would’ as soon ac- cept 26 per cent as the right and proper figure as they would throw baby girls to crocodiles. The end is not yet. The authorities of At- lantie City come forth from a mathematical seance and decree that bathing suits must reach to four inches above the knee. Hence four be- comes the mysterious boundary line between morality and immorality, between freedom and a barred room in the hoosgo Can any hu- man being explain why? What would be the extent of moral decay if the bathing suits were to terminate say, fo’ and a quarter inches above the knee? We give it up. All we know is that 4 now joins the glittering company of 13, 7, 11, one-half of 1, 25 and numerous others that have caused joy, distress, family feuds and a tare a complications. It is a’ great world, Poet—“Certainly.” Editor—‘Then burn the poem.” CUT OUT THIS COUPON HE KNEW Clerk—“Is this shirt for your husband, or do you want something in a better quality?” This Coupon Is Good for 10 POINTS ‘ 10 POINTS In the Tribune Carriers Competitive Race “Ts that the Pacific Ocean?” asked an old lady who had never seen it before. .“No, ma’am,” answered a weather-beaten old sailor, “It’s only part of it.” TRUE ECONOMY. “Dedbroke says that he has started economiz- dng.” “Yes, he doesn’t buy anything unless he can get it on credit.” UNCLE HOOK SAYS. “Th’ only feller who isn’t judged by the’ com- pany he keeps is th’ jailer.” I hereby cast 10 points for: Carriers name Pay on your subscription account and count 75 more points for each month paid. KINDLY FATE it is that we two can never manage to be alone.” She—“It must be an act of Providence.” TRAIN SCHEDULES Chicago & Northwestern Saving Steps The average number of telephone calls in one Aer piere Refore a woman No, of our largest cities during 1923 was 8,250,000 Is married No. daily, That is an average of more than one She wants call for every day for every man, woman and Tenderness. child in this city. Afterwards Sometimes statistics are interesting. Think She is of the cnormous number of steps that are saved Satisfied by telephone cajls. Saving all those steps means If she gets lessening the Wear and tear on thousands of hu- oings. =e so means the accomplishment of an enormous amount of work by ‘young women in urious exchanges, who always answer politely when you impatiently demand thei immediate Leghl tender. O’Murphy—“Oi just had me ancisthry traced back t’ an Oirish King.” O'Connell—“Shur, an’ that was aisy. 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