Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 8

"AGE EIGHT. Che Casper Dailp EMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Keshtkated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news pub! —————— eee Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) rT and The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, per, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune opposite postoffice. — Entered at Casper (Wyoml: machinery of justice, already set in motion by President Coolidge and his legal counsel to fer- ret out corruption and punish the wrongdoers was formally applied to the task of determining the truth and applying the penalty for crime. This decisive action, the first fruits of the le- gal investigation set on foot by the president as soon as the senate inquiry revealed the need, differs radically from the mud-gunning expedi-|. tion in which Senator Walsh was enlisted and which was carried on with ruthless disregard for the rules of evidence ér the rights of in- The two proteedings illustrate per- fectly the real distinction between “muck-raking” and “mud-slinging” through which the Demo- cratic convention and its leaders sought to make capital and the orderly processes of Jaw which were invoked by President-Coolidge to purge the administration of unworthy members and to right any wrongs of which they may have been Platform History. In 1912 the Demoesatic national conyention returned to the doctrine that.a is unconstitutional and that iff. would do away promised to do aw: ing and the high promised to place the ing) postozfice as second government de; 1916. banks on the basis of competitive bidding, de- clared that appointments to office should n based on servive to a political party, ed a second presidential term: Wha: to these pledges durin; Business Telephones ~~~. Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting By J. KB. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives ; Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger ear cago, LL, 28€ Fifth Ave., New York City; Glo! eee Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bidg., 55 New Francisco, Cal. Copies of the a ay ‘Tritune are on file in the New York, orogens 5 and San Francisco offices ‘and visitors are : SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Daily and Sunday -. One Year. Sunday Only ~--.-.. Stx Months. Daily and Suni 33 Three Months, Daily and Sunday ---~------ 2: One Month, Datly and Sunday —-~-. “ By Mail Inside State is well remembered. In 1916 the Demécrati declared that the nation h. the grip of ‘monopoly and clared for a non-partisan a bigger army and navy, any Mexican government American life or pi the Wilson a gomery St., Sqn The senate investigation, whatever may have been its genesis in an honest endeavor to undo a wrong and punish the perpetrators, soon degen- erated into a mill for the fabrication of political capital. It was prosecuted, in the end, not so Ol much with a view to.laying the foundation for legislation protecting the national interests and safeguarding one of the nation’s resources for the national defence, as chiefly to serve parti- penne a $ 9,00 WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1924, is nearing thirty, plays no small part her decision to marry the who offers himself. ie first presentable man rotective tariff lion of the tar- with inequalities in wealth, ay with the high cost of liv. CRIME. WAVE IN NATION: GROWS, If this fear of spinsterhood influences. her too much, and paekas been eaacoued ne earn- and spend: m an ie man mar- Kd on ahes lesen ickly that she has ries is poor, she discovers madg a yery bad bargain. some portion of her liberty; she has he has surrendered icity and econ- ic - government,” against Panania canal tolls for American coas' wise vessels, President Wilson refused to san political ends. < For this reason, after the first popular reac- tion of disgust and indignation at the exposure of Fall’s financial dealings with the oil exploit- ters, public interest in the sen: evaporated. There were good One was the widespread appreciation of the par- tisan purposes with which the inquiry was car- ried on, but the most important was the univer- sal confidence that was felt in the sincerity and disinterestedness of the attorneys selected by President Coolidge to take up the investigation proceedings should the One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only Bix Months, Daily and Sunday -. Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday bacriptions mus’ Daly ‘Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. 1K. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. gehen don’t find your Tribune after looking care- fully for {t, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to yoo by special messenger. Register complaints before tect American life and property in Mexico keep us out of war, Panama canal tolls on Am sels were remitted, aid in advance and the tariff commission, te inquiry rapidly reasons for*this. * Versailles treaty, dorsed the condu “& aur and to begin criminal facts justify that step. Mr. Roberts and ex-Senator Pomerene have not been unduly deliberate in their work. Nor have they tried the preliminaries of their case in the public eye. It would be out of place to dis- cuss the case itself, now that it has reached the courts; but there is ground for general satis- faction that the procedure to follow will be un- Calvin Coolidge, Jr. By GENE MARTIN. It is not that the strings are broken; Tt is not that the songs are dead; It is not that no words are spoken Nor can be said. te These things are no cause for wonder; It is common that life should pass dis he would resign if erican coastwise ves- and opposed a non-partisan In 1920 the Democratic national platform ad- vocated the league of nations and denounced the Republicans in the Senate for opposition to the opposed a seperate peace, en- ict of the war, and the financial achievements of the administration, demanded a revision of taxes “so that the wealth of the nation may not be withdrawn from productive enterprise and.diverted to wasteful or non-pro- ductive expenditure,” declared in favor of a budget law which President Wilson vetoed when a Republican congress passed it, declared that American oil interests should bé fostered and encouraged in their efforts to acquire territory for exploitation in foreign lands, and, as usual, denounced “Republican corruption.” colored by partisan prejudice, but will be direct- ed solely to elicit the truth in a matter where every attempt has been made to prejudge the |questions involved including the leg: jerwise of the oil leases and the personal guilt of the public officials and others who were con- cerned in their negotiation and execution. Upon the outcome of this criminal action will depend grave issues of gevernment policy, but the removal of the question from the arena of political strife is something in which the coun- try can take legitimate satisfaction. What Is Your Opinion? A nurse in the home of one of those ©! youths, who murdered the F From a body that must work under Life’s timing. glass, But that which is past believing And by which our faith is wrung, Is that he should go ere achieving— @ While his life was young. Sadness at the White House. The athy of the entire country has gone out to. President and Mrs. Coolidge in the un- ed bereayement that has befallen them. The shock is all the greater, since the cause of their son’s death, arose from so seemingly a trivial injury. ‘From the first bulletin announc- ing the boy's incapacitation, which in itself was superinduce - the ranks boy says that And now, in 1924, we find a Deniocrstic na- tional. platform abandoning once more a para- mount issue of four years before, again making broad its phylacteries in a sanctimonious out- ery against “Republican corruption and dishon- y,” dodging every issue upon which the party might stand to lose a vote, and going to the country with another hypocritical, disingenuous liatribe attributing all the ills that flesh is r to to Republican administration and prom- sing to quickly through the legerdermain of Democratic legis- ion and the uplifting influence of Democratic purity and probity. Contradicts Himself. a document of gloom, each succeeding announce- ment was more doleful than its The people at a distance could not understand such persistent despondent news, greatest experts of the country were in atten- dance or in consultation. _Not once did a cheer- ful or hopeful/line come from the hospital. bed- until he was fourteen the boy did not eyen lace his own shoes, He was pampered and petted and made to think that his mission in life was to have other people do things for him. He is credit- ed with being a brilliant student in college, but a »vernor Smith, of New York, discussing na- ul affairs took occasion to give the present f a back handed slap, and as is the usual case with persons who hiave but a superficial knowledge“ of the subject badly contradicted himself before he was through. We cite the foregoing statement of the nurse to call attention to the fact that the greatest danger confronting the young people of this coun- try today is idleness and spending money un- earned. And yet there is a widespread belief in the wisdom of amending the constitution of the United States after a manner to permit any state to legislate “no work” for any person in- side its borders under eighteen years of age. Congress ‘has gtanted the states permission to make such a constitutional amendment. We have the feeling—and we believe that it is justified—that if the history in detail of each criminal in this country were known it would be discovered that the great majority, The governor said: “The whole tariff law looks like a surrender to’ group government. work of small groups throughout « States that are using the power of taxation to enrich themselves and to find their way deeper into the. American pocketbook, to make more], difficult the running of the American household, to reduce the purchasing power of the American wage to the minimum.” Of course, protection is extended to groups— industrial groups, agricultural groups, mining groups, the aggregate of which constitutes the whole population—just as the people is made up of about 1 side, The whole state of mind was one of low Thousands upon thousands of have had similar slight injuries to that which caused the Coolidge boy’s death, and more than passing attention to it—a blister up- on the heel caused by an ill-fecling shoe, while playing tennis; and infection of the abrasion when the blister broke. The prominence of the Coolidge family seem- ed to surround the Whole situation with a seri- ousness and a positive danger that would seem The boy jvas a clean, upstandiitg boy in splendid health. No such result should have ensued. Had young Calvin been kept from a dismal hospital and horde of specialists, and Tt looks like 7 euovonevenaposppcespnssuggarrepssgsas=s=>sepapenesengss4555U8t225553U5S0ESURSSFIGAT 100,000 individuals. So, of them, were not workers as children. Tdleness is a curse to the young as well as the old. No parent who desires to be entirely fair with children will encourage them in the habits of idleness, We hear much about the crime of child labor, but always the statistics of the matter are ignored. There may be children of tender years working’ in ‘the factories in and about New York, but we have never learned of that fact. We know that farmers’ and also we know that a vast n grow up to head the-big and important. busi- ig and economic institutions surrounded by cheerfulness at home and injury minimized after the fashion of the old family doctor, who would haye applied some simple home remedy, or possibly none at all, it is altogether possible that there would have been @ different outcome. The psychology of the case was wholly against the boy, ‘The Tragedy at New York. For more than a week past the Democratic national convention in New York has been an indoor, exhibition of racial prejudice, religious children work, umber of them ness, manufacturin; ernor Smith might just as well have said that the individual was the beneficiary of the protective tariff. He is, and the aggregation of individuals making up the whole population constitutes the people. Then Governor Smith went on to deliver him- self on other. matters, and finally got round to hose grievances he sought. to exag- “No one,” said the goy- ernor, “can dispute the importance of promoting agriculture and lending to the people engaged in it ‘every support which the country can-give.” Later on, though, the governor added: “It is not true that such a policy ‘would be in the interest of a class any*more than con- structive legislation in behalf of industrial of the country. Calvin Coolidge worked as a boy on the farm. Literally millions of chil have worked and we cann one of them eame to worthlessness and ruin be- cause of that fact. On the other hand, the country is with young criminals who never worked when they were young. The habit of idleness and ir- responsibility fixed in youth -has cursed them in maturity. We think they would have been blessed by toil, What do you think? What Has He Done? It has remained for James M. Witherow, of Moorhead, to voice in an open letter to Robert bigotry, individual intolerance, class animosi- ties and sectional rivalries. The Democratic party is as a house divided against itself—divided by the foes of its own household. It is the east against the west and It is the Roman Catholic and the Jew It is the American by dren in this country ot learn that a single] workers ia in the interest of a class. to regard every bill enacted for the protection of a special group as ttibutary legislation, because it should be understood that properly enacted laws are never legislated asa matter of favor but solely for the benefit of. the community— in short, the public welfare. That is how I see it; that is the sort of idea I go by.” It is seldom that a public man ‘so completely against the Protestant. birth against the American by choice. It is the Ku Elux Klan against the opponents of the It is the cities against the small towns It is the wets against the It is McAdoo against Al Smith. New York as never witnessed a more disgrace- ful brawl, never saw a quarrel working greater damage than this quarrel is inflicting upon that American character which it was the dream of Washington that his people should develop and which it was their proud destiny to demonstrate and the country. answers himself, contradicts himself, in fact, at ernor Smith is entitled to the can tell his Free-Trade friends he is with them, against group government, and he can tell the different groups—farme! _ WASHINGTON, July 9.—Harry F. nclair fled a plea in abatement in the District of Columbia supreme court attacking the validity of the ‘indictment charging with conspiracy to defraud the United States in con- nection with oil reserve leases. some measure a mendicant; and both pride and appetite urge her to enlist with the wi ers again. If she returns to her labors, herself in no better case than beginning, and the husband she acquired may at any time, through no fault of his own, become a posits in FIGURES SHOW “Tidal Wave” Develop- ed in Rapid Increase In Six Years. ot be and oppos- t happened ig the ensuing eight years ic national platform ad been released from special interests, de- NEW YORK—William H. Ander. son, former state head of the anti. saloon league, serving a Sing Sing for forgery, is completing a book to be called “behind bars for banishing the bar.” All of which serves only to introduce the opin- ion that a young woman who is able to take care of herself shows some symptoms of bein: none too bright if she marries without being forced into the contract by an undefined some- thing the old-timers called love. By L. C. OWEN. (Special Correspondent of The Cas- Copyright, 1924, Consolidated Press SAN FRANCISCO, nation-wide crime wave which the authorities first claimed of a half dozen years ago is rapidly approach- &|ing the proportions of a real tidal waye, if felony statistics of fornia may be taken as a general MADRID+An official communt- que sald the situation in Morrocco where Spanish troops and tril ure battling is improved. The Treasury Surplus. The Treasury surplus for 1923-24 of $505,000,-\ 000 represents the extinction of that amount of public debt through current savings. It is a superb achievement, following about $300,000,000 apiece in the two p: years and bringing the total debt reduction through ordinary Treasury operations to more than $1,100,000,000 since June 30, 1921. Includ- ing reductions through sinking fund appropria- tions, $2,722,000,000 of national debt has been wiped out in that period. Last October the Treasury department esti- mated the 1923-24 surplus at it turns out, receipts were put too high by $32,- 000,000. But expenditures were put $208,000,000 Secretary Mellon could not forsee changes in mney market conditions which have materially affected the balance sheet. loan rates sent Liberty bonds of all issues above par and prevented the British government from exercising its option to make war lodn payments in bonds at face value instead of in cash. The bonds would have figured as current receipts, but would have been offset by a corresponding expenditure entry for their cancellation. $50,000,000 interest paid by the British govern- ment last month was carried as a cash receipt with no immediate offsetting expenditure. Easy money also enabled the railroads to re- tire many obligations acquired by the Treasury in its settlement of government rail operation The Treasury had expected an ad- verse rail settlement balance. was a difference of $120,000,000 in the govern- ment’s favor. The excess of the actual surplus over the estimate was 4herefore due to natural causes beyond official control. Mellon intentionally minimized the govern- ment’s resources falls to the ground. His man- agement of public finances has been not only masterly in-a technical sense, but-also absolute- It will continue to be so. Congress laid a vast. and unnecessary addi- BOSTON—John G. Price, former Ohio attorney general, was ¢lected svrand exalted ruler of the bene and protective order of Elis at srand lodge session. surpluses of PHILADELPHIA—Attorney Gen- eral Stone, in an address before the American Bar Association, declared there is every evidence of a decline in actual administration of Iaw in the United States, ee 20-POUND FISH LANDED AT THERMOPOLIS, SKID THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., July 9— A river sturgeon welghing 19% pounds and measuring 40 inches in length, was recently hooked in the Big Horn river near here by Frank Sugden, a messenger boy. an unusual catch in this part of After the big one had snatched two hooks away, the boy thought he was in for a repetition of the Jonah affair. Pastor Fined For Speeding In. Police Court at Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 9—The Judge coatless, the defendant in the formal black of his calling, Henry L. W. Schultz, pastor of Trinity German Lutheran church, was arraigned in municipal court here on a charge of speeding in an automobile, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $3. Judg- ment was pronounced by City Com- against the law in this state which, according to com- crime experts, averaged about the same in 33 other states during the last four years, have jumped almost 25 per cent in the last 12 months. count shows that there were 21,722 felonies committed in California dur- ing the fiscal year ending July 1, as compared with 16,167 the previous 000,000. As Two“of the most dangerous ale- ments in the mounting crime wave which criminologists must soon become a national prob- rapidly multiplying number of banditry cases and the alarming increase of major breaking among juveniles. Within the year, a total of 1,050 cases of banditry, most Payroll, bank and similar hold-ups, were recorded. banditry cases were 364 under legal age limit. and number of juvenile part show a 40 per cent increase over the previous year, Other things the statistics show Instead, there Automobile thefts rests for the use, sale or possession of narcotics increased 78 per cent: bad check passing jumped 20 per’ cent; forgerv increased 100 per cent; arrests for obtaining money under false pretenses increased millenium The charge that Mr. cent; embezzlements gained 86 per cent; first degree burglary charges ly straightforward. increased 24 per cent. increased 84 per cent. Some solace is offered, however, in the fact that the number of murders 274 Tirst degree arrests being made as compared with 315 the year previous.” ceny also showed a 20 per cent drop: tional burden on the country by passing the The indicated surplus for 1924-25 is only $25,000,000. But President has instructed the | department chiefs to increase that surplus to $108,000,000 by practicing heroic self-denial. The Administration is pointed right. It will renew with all its vigor the fight for economy in expenditure, which is the surest means of restoring economic equilibrium and lightening the excess war taxation, which still takes toll from every citizen, . missioner Cal Holliday, sitting for Judge Sam Becker, who {s sick, The day was warm and Judge Holli- day sat in his shirt sleeves. _ —————._ SHERIFF RECOVERING FROM AUTO ACCIDENT here and there of female handitry, other instances of womn committing felonies are not on. the increase. Al- together’ there were only. 17 cases against feminine law breakers, Of the 274 murderers arrested, only 9 were hanged or which partly substantiates tions of criminologists that less than out of every 100 first degree slay- ers in this country get capital pun- he handi- e United Brutal Cartoons By ELDEN SMALL It is, upon the whole, perhaps quite fortunate that we no longer take our party politics quite as seriously as our American forebears. Some of our campaigns have been notable for the bit- ter and insulting personal attacks upon the pres- idential candidates, to which great newspapers and eloquent stump speakers lent themselves without reserve. The CJeveland-Bl was the last_of the particularly Sometimes the big papers used their cartoon- ists to attack the opposition candidate or leader |with inerciless and brutal pertinacity. Probably Lincoln suffered most in this regard. Thomas Nast’s bitter cartoons in the “Boss” Tweed scan- dal days are still recalled. , . & In later years, the pictures of Blaine as “the tatooed man” in reference to scandalous charges of officials were too bitter to’be humorous. So was the Homer Davenport tor and President-Maker” Mark Hanna as al- ways garbed in a vest thickly ornamented with dollar marks. And the campaign picture of Gen- eral Ben Harrison trying to avoid being buried beneath “his grandfather's hat.” Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE ‘Wom The statistics, criminologists point out, record only cases in which ar- rests were made. Police records, they assert, chronille an equal or great: er number of banditry cases and other serious crime in which no arrests have ever been made. Willard J. Herrin, county, who was injured in an auto- mobile accident is progressing satisfac Memorial hospital, but» the condition . Herring, who was also ontinues to be critical. Cheyenne Sun- vicious ones. confeption of “Sena It is wrong vigorous bodies and crispy Kellogg’s just naturally go together. Flakes filled with flavor and health meee , so thorough! booby prize. He industrialists, M. LaFollette some of the doubts and question- expressed privately or-re- to vex the minds of many The hero worship iyth among farmers received its first serious setback in the dential primary campaigns of North Dakota and Montana, when the farmers of those states entered La Follette’s name on the ballot, under an implied understanding only to have the name withdrawn, after time and energy and some money had been spent by them. That incident be; progressive who to the world during the great war. Only the blind and bigoted and sordidly sel. fish partisan can be amused or gratified at what has been going on at Madison Square for and no Republican “he serves his party best who serves his county best” can fail to be saddened by the sorry spectacle which the tives of’ the party founded by the fa ligious freedom are staging. Newspaper humorists hav of the convention, it-were a political But it is more and worse than that. American tragedy. have forgotten the ings that have been mained unexpressed farmers in the accorded the La Follette m: No Democrat who holds that e been making fun poking gibes at it as though It may be all of that. gan the questioning, The gave their time and money hinking it over since and one freely have been t doubt gives rise to or uncovers another. A majority of the delegates experiences of the war. The whoever they may be, that he’s for them, because “it is wrong to regard every protection of a special group as tr bill enaciod for the ae = =. ——_—_— The Woman’s Side. * In the old days, when woman was unemanci- pated ,a girl’s chief business in life was to sit about and wait for a husband. She angled, per- haps, by gentle wiles known only to her sex, but most of her time was occupied in waiting. A hus- band was essential to her happiness and her standing in the community. If xhe did not marry, the time cams when her parents began to con- sider her a burden arid to feel mistteated. spirit that ke: solved throug’ in the convention by in the convention are even more bitter, more Witherow touches on a few that have been plaguing thé minds of La Follette adherents: Why should the senator cast the blame for failure to gain farm relief legislation ot the union whole and highly re- hout that conflict is conspicuous E r sident Coolidge? The senator has been in hington since 19 , and the fruits of that long service are principally embraced in the or came upon evil days, some of the men and some of the women. tom to accept poverty A splendid but small minority of the was ealled an old maid, and to be an old maid was to be a failure. If she married and obtained a “good provider,” her lot was not unpleasant; but if the man of her choice earned yery little ihe was required by cus- her lot and make no effort to mend matters by getting a job. The modern girl need not fear spinsterhood. She need not be a-burden, for there are innumer- able places where she can earn money. She need not fear that honest work outside the four walls of a home will advertise her inability to get a husband, for at her elbow as she works will be ized the tragedy they senators law fixing wages and living conditions alling for the physical ds, which has cost the coun- ar, whfle rates on farm 85 per cent higher today than the senator started to saye the Answering Harrison and Walsh The indictments found by the District of Co- as a result of oil leasing trans- actions by government officials and the benefic- iaries are an answer, from a source far removed from political partnership, to the carping crit- icism of the Democratic convention echoes of the bitter conirover- semblage died aws the hypocritical reproaches of a falsh Uttered in that conyenti products remain they were when If the senator were able to recure lumbia courts relief for sailors and assure the conditions, why secure a like advantage for whose support he was elected? m better living has he not bent to the oar to the farmers, by Hgrdly had the The American girl nowad: lays has something on her lips, her cheeks, her hip, gad her consci ion when the other women who have husbands. And there is the point of the story. The average girl dreams of a husband who will pay the bills and provide her a home and free- dom from drudgery, If she can obtain one of this kind who, loves her and earns her love, she is fa- vored of the gods. But even though she is eman- cipated she has within her still some of that age-old dread of being left on the shelf, and this, ee etal —serve with milk or cream. If baseball ever becomes unionized, we suppose that the umpires will be made walking delegates so that they can call strikes. A GREAT SAVING Friend Wife—“I found the most wonderful .bargain today, dear.” Friend Husband—“What was it?” Friend Wife—‘*You remember I went down to get a new dress. Well, in one of the stores I saw a sign, “All Dresses to Be Sold at. Half-Price.” Friend Huskhand—“Good. So you saved half of Friend Wife—*No, I bought two.” iby legis- Inner-sealed waxtite wrapper exclusive Kellogg feature. RRECT Teacher—“What is the difference between ‘re- sults’ and ‘consequences’?” Bright Pupil—‘Results are what you expect CHEDULES & Northwestera TRAIN S Chieace and consequences are what you get.” TIME WASTED He—*Should a man propose to a girl on his Caleage, Burlington & Quiney She—“Tf he doesn’t, she might as well get off.” VERY FRIENDLY I though your paper was friendly Politician—“ Editor—‘So it is. What's the matter?” Politician—“I made a lon; and you didn’ Editor—“We ‘T CREEK BUSSES a Day Each Wa: TOWNSEND HOTEL Baggage and E: Called for and It Creek Transportation ~ Speech last night ’t print a single word of it.” ll, what further proof do you 3 LEAVE CASPER: y Leave Salt Creck The other day I see her home, and she said willing to have me come up and see it any time. sked Gwendolyn if I could at. she would be