Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1924, Page 2

weed SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924. small structures and ‘contrivances used fh the streets. Ideas for lamp- pos! railings around trees, letter boxes, trolleyposts, fountains, ben- ches, chairs, sandboxes and such fhe Casper Daily Cribune: of the freight rates upon these products. | The total freight rates paid upon wheat. in 1923, according to the statistics of the interstate commerce commission, amount- ‘AGE TWO. he Che Casper Dailp Cribune | MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PR The Associated Press is exclusive A City Beautiful PARIS, (By mail to United Press) “The City Beautiful” is the slogan for the Decorative Art Exposition to The Need Obviated | The hoped for effect of the MeNary- »-| Haugen bill as respects wheat has been, And pull them from the sky. If they were not I have no doubt But some reforming ass Would take them down and DARROW PLAYS Hitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the locul hews published herein Member of Andit Bureau (A. 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He has only one purpose, to get tevenge on the party which has so persistently de- nied him’ the nomination and, like the proverbial bull in the china chop, he is out to do all the harm he can. But how many yo! will he draw from Coolidge and Day As the situation stands, a vote for LaFollette is a vote for Davis and “the little brother of the Peerless Leader.” Why? Because the only effect of any considerable number of votes for LaFollette would be to throw the elec- ‘tion into the house. The most foolish can not imagine the house electing LaFol Jette but every intelligent observer knows that after a period of deadlock LaFollette and his followers would vote with the Democrats for Davis, rather than permit the election of Coolidge. Wheeler's Defection Democratic leaders are almost weep- ing over the defection ef Senator Wheel- er of Montana, all the more so because they exploited him as such a hero when he was broadcasting “Roxie Stinson’s bedtime stories,” the filth offered up by Gaston B. Means and others of that ilk engaged in slinging mud at the Repuh- licans. They knew all the time just what Wheeler was and they are only getting what they deserve when he turns and bites them. Democrats should not worry nubout Wheeler. They should congratu- late themselyes upon his departure, and the taking with him of his I. W. W's Anarchists, Socialists and other riff raff. There may be a few honest, but misguilded citizens go aléng, but these will not remain. They will not like the company. Which Is Which? “How can I vote for Davis without voting for Bryan? Tiow can I vote for Bryan without voting for Dayis?” These ure the questions which are agitating the Democrats, east and west. And the an- swer to both is the same. “You can’t.” One sad and weary congressman who had just returned from the Democratic con- vention, when asked what he thought of the ticket, replied laconically, “anybody who. was raised on a farm knows you can't hook up a thoroughbred and a jackass and expect the team to pull.” He refused to indicate which was which’ —but he was from the west. A Common Traitor Unless the electors ‘of this country get to the polls and vote in November, the unexpected may happen, and LaFollette, Wheeler or Bryan may be chosen presi- dent by the house of representatives, this in view of a division in the elector- al college givi to no presidential can- ate a majority of the college. would be unspeakable to have Bryan as the president of i It Wheeler this great nation, and here is what you will have if LaFollette, by any remote chance, is elected: In 1911 LaFollette came out fof the or initiative, referendum and the recall of judges, going so far as state that he would recall United supreme court judges if their sions were un satisfactory. In the World War he es used the cause of Germany. He has a arge German-speaking constituency. He opposed the declaration of war, its fi- ites nancing through Liber bonds or. its conduct through that measure of world salvation, compulsory universal military service. He did more to embarrass the government and delay action than any one German. After opposing y nee on Germany and stating that “we have n’t a leg to stand on in support of our war declaration,” he was denounced by the legislature of his own state by a vote vof 26 to 3 because he was for Germany and against the United States, so to speak, three-fourths enacted—not by passage of the bill, but by the opera- tion of the ordinary law of supply and demand. : This must have two effects. First, to relieve to some degree at least the dis- tress among the northwestefn farmers, and second to impress the farmers that there is hope for their fortunes in the ordinary evolution of natural conditions without resort go the artificial sort of devices proposed by radical politicians. Both considerations must weigh strongly against. LaFollette’s hopes. In- deed, one might fairly guess that if these ri in the prices of corn and wheat had taken place three months ago La- Follette and his backers would probably not have entertained their plans for a third ticket. Third Party Movements In every presidential election since and including 1880 there has always been one third party movement, and some- times two or more tickets in ‘addition to the regular Republican and Demo- cratic ones. Many of these extra party movements were fully as serious as La- Follette'’s now promises to be. But in none of these eleven elections, except two, did the total vote of all the extra tickets aggregate ag much as nine per cent of the whole. . In 1880 the Greenback party, with Weaver as its candidate, got three per cent of the whole vote. In 1884, two ex- tra parties, Prohibitionist, with St: John, and Greenback with Butler, got, com- bined three per cent. In 18 parties. Prohibionist with Union-Labor with Streeter, bined four per cent, 1892, two ties, Pedple’s with Weaver, « tionist with. Bidwell, got, eleven per cent. In 1896, two extra parties al or Gold Democrat, with Palmer, and Prohibitionist with Levering, got, com- bined three per cent. In 1900, two extra parties, the Socialist with Debs, and the Prohibitionist w Woolley, got, com- bined three per t. In 1904, two extra parties ,the Socialist with Debs, and Prohibitipnist with Swallow, got, com- bined, per cent. 1908, two extra par- ties, Socialist with Debs, and Prohibi- tionist with Chafin, got, combined six per cent. In 1912, the Progressive party, with Roosevelt, got twenty-eight per cent. In 1916, two extra parties, Socialist with Benson and Prohibitionist with Hanly, got, combined, five per cent. In 1920, three extra parties, Socialist with Debs, Farmer-Labor with Christensen, and the Prohibitionist with Watkins, got, com- bined six per cent. In all this list the only really formid- able third party was the Progressive, with Roosevelt in 1912. That was not really a third party bit a second party, being the outcome of an actual split in the Republican party and resulting in the Republicans running third. This 1912 situation provides no analogy what- ever for LaFollette’s present enterprise. Dangerous Tendencies In an address before the Western Rail- way club of Chicago, Mr. F. W. Sargent, vice president and general counsel of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway com- pany, outlined a few of thé dangerous tendencies in modern political thought, and among them the tendency of the peo. ple to expect the legislative branch to provide by act of congress the things that*must come through economic laws and the industry and busin acumen of the peopl® On this subj Mr. Sar- gent said: The dangerous tendency in modern leg- islation applicable alike to both state and federal governments, is that of at commission tempting to regulate by law all the mi- nute and minor details of individual and social and commercial conduct. We are beset with numerous blocs, composed of militant minorities, each demanding that its particular hobby be translated into some statutory prohibition. The tendency to look to the government for relief of individual ills and the correction of pri- vate morals is bound to be detrimental to our American institutions. The thought is all too prevalent that some legislative fiat will do the work that is and ought to be the responsibility of the individual, The»real remedy is rarely through leg- islation, for the cause lies deeper. It is found in the life training of each gen- eration. There is a tendency to shift the re- sponsibility that rightfully belongs with individual initiative to some govern- mental bureau or agency. We have piled statutes upon statutes until today our, codes are distinguished ‘by their bulk and their weight. The tend- ency is for legislators to regulate all because of a grievance that frequently affects only ‘a few. We are becoming statutory conftsion dicial reconciliation and interpretation. We have regulated and re-regulated, We have created commissions and con- structed bureaus upon bureaus. We have them with regulators, investigators and prosecutors. The harvest is rapidly ripening. Al- ready we discern a growing contempt for law, and disrespect for authority, lost in a maze of and attempted ju- Such a legacy we cannot afford to leave’ to the next generation. The remedy is not through the magic of government for the government has no magic. Music seems to be passing from the jazz back to a state of sanity. Legislation has not progressed so well. Legislatively speaking, we are still in the jazz state When we see the thousands of statutes regulating every subject from cuspidors in Wisconsin to laundries in Oklahoma, we are not surprised at the alleged fa- vorite poem of Uncle Joe Cannon, which is said to run something like this: “E am glad the Moon and Sun Are hung up so high That no pretentious hand can stretch Then propose to Jight the world with gas” In a state not fur distant they have something like one hundred and twenty commissions and boards with their re- tinues of clerks, investigators, inspec- tors, etc., bobbing about from city to city, county to county, lake to lake, re gulating, directing, instructing, advis- ing, penalizing and taxing but always, holding the political organization to- gether. We are advised upon competent auth- ority that in the country as a whole we have ohe government employe forvevery twelve people engaged in gainful occu- pations and that one dollar out of every eight goes for taxes. ‘History teaches us that one of the dangers to a democracy is that it may break under the weight of its own laws. In my judgment we have reached the saturation point, and the president was right when f&te advised that we give ad~ ministration a chance to catch up with legisation might well back up t# the ministration. Grain Prices and Freight Rates The Railway Age gives statistics to show that recent’ advances in the prices of wheat and corn have been worth forty times as much to the farmers a's would have ‘been the reductions in’ rates on grain which the interstate. commerce refused in a recent decis- ion to grant. f “It has been repeatedly pointed out to the farmers,” says the Railway Age, “that their troubles have been due only in a small measure, to freight rates and al- most entirely to the relatively low prices of their products caused by the working of the law of supply and demand. The advance in prices that has occurred Has come at just the right time to show how true this is. The reduction in grain rates sought was about 10 per cent. It would have amounted to about $30,000,000 an= nuably for the railways of the country as a whole and to $17,500,000 to $20,000,- 000 for the western roads. The: latest available statistics indicate that ‘the total reduction of rates on wheat would have been about $9,300,000 annually and on corn $5,800,600. . “Between June and July 17, the price of cash wheat on the Chicago-mar- ket increased 23 cents a bushel. On a crop of 700,000,000 bushels this .would amount to $161,000,000, or to 18 times as much as the reduction in wheat rates sought, Betweon the same dates the price of cash corn increased 38 cents a bushel. On a crop of 3,000,000,000 bushels this would amount to $1,140,000,000 or 200 times as much as the proposed redtetion in the rates on corn. On the basis of these increases in prices the increase in the value of the year’s wheat and corn crops is almost 40 times as great as the reductions in rates *that were sought on all grains and grain products. ‘The difference between the yalue to individual farmers of the reduction of rates that the commission refused and the increase in prices that actually oc- curred between the first of June and the middle ef July may be best illusfrated by statistics for average farms in cer- tain states. There are shipped from the average Kansas farm about 59% bushels of wheat*‘and 50 bushels of corn an- nually, The reduction in rates sought on this much wheat and corn would have $7.50. The amount of wheat produced up- on the average Kansas farm is 900 bushels and the amount of corn 360 bushels. The six weeks’ increase in gra s has increased the value of the cheat and corn grown upon an average Kansas {arm by $548.50 or about 73 times as,much as the reduction of rates sought would have amounted to. “On the wheat and corn grown on the aver#ge farm in Minnesota and shipped to Minneapolis the reduction of rates sought would have amounted to about $3.50 annually. The average production of wheat.per farm in that state is about 300 bushels, and of corn about 441 bushels. The six weeks’ advance in the prices of these products amounts for the wheat and corn grown on the average Minne- sota farm to $305 or to 87 times as much s the reduction of rates sought. North Dakota is distinctly a wheat growing state; its production of corn is very small, The reduction in the rates upon wheat sought would have amount- ed for the average North Dakota farm to about $16 a year, The amount of wheat grown annually upon the average North Dakota farm is 1,650 bushels, and the inerease of 23, cents a bushel has increas- ed the value of this amount of wheat $380. This times as great as the re- duction of rates sought. “The principal argument advanced for reductions of freight rates on grain was that the freight rates had increased much more in proportion than the prices of grain. The average advance in grain rates over pre-war years now stands at about 45 per cent. If the interstate com merce commission in this case had ac- cepted the argument of those who con- tended that freight rates should be bas- ed upon prices the advances in grain prices that have ogeurred within recent weeks would have completely turned the tables upon them. When they presented their case to the commission the freight rates on grain, figured on a pre-war ba sis, were relatively higher than grain prices, but at the time the commission rendered its decision the prices of both wheat and corn had become relatively higher than the freight rates upon them. Therefore, on the price theory of rate making the rates upon both wheat and corn should have been advanced, not re. duced. “Since the reduction of freight rates has been advocated as a panacea for the farmers’ ills, it is an interesting and sig nificant fact that the recent advances in the prices of wheat and corn are worth many times as much to the farmer as would have been the complete abolition gaged. in choosing an executive. electoral college first appears growing out of well-dined sessions of medieval “rotary” clubs in such trade centers as Cologne and Mainz along the Rhine. central Europe following the leavening influence of the Crusades set the stage for a battle. That new figure, the mer- chant, began to refuse obedience to the extravagant fighting princelings. With the aid of leaders of medieval unions or guilds, the merchants sent‘electors to an elec influence of much spiced food officers were elected and announced to the wait- ing populace, Election day was a holiday within the town. grew which proclaimed the head of the Holy Roman Empire. At Mainz and later at Frankfort, the Bishops of Celogne amd Mainz and a few nobles of larger Ger- man states met after the death of an emperor to elect his successor.@ Mary- land’s electo: of the Holy Roman Empire institution. lion: will ‘never meet. In each of the forty- eight states certain little ‘groups will gather and mail an envelope to Wash- ington. The contents of this envelope will be counted by two tellers of the house of yoy bet ia and read by the presi- den the electoral college will haye been grad- uated until another four years. hall for its electoral college. This audi- torium, which cost the Reign of Terror, was surprised in the midst of its regu- Jar seven year sleep recently when the august senators and the spirited depu- ties trooped out to Versailles, twelve miles frmo Paris to elect M. Doumergue | president of France. deputies of Franc they must meet jointly at Versailles to} elect a president. Th serves for seven ) ed to $93,000,000," while on the basis of the six weeks’ advance of wheat prices mentioned, the increase*in the value of the’ year’s wheat crop has been about) 161,000,000 or 74 per cent more than the total freight ra’ $58,000,000, while the six weeks’ increase in the price of corn as spp hed ee ayear’s crop amounted. to: $1,1 most 20 times freight charges paid on cogn in 1923.” freight rates ipon it. ‘The fotal | pon corn’ in, 1923 were us much as» the total The Electoral College Choosing a president, the next event the. United: States’ political calendar, brings into the limlight the history of the electoral college, a practice of the medieval Hofy Jand’s contribution to the constitution. Roman Empire and Mary- Red wine, roast pork, chicken, pigeon, goose, rabbit, cakes and sweetmeats were part of the business of the electoral col- lege in its earliest, lusty, German youth. v i ‘tained closet point where it can be overtaken by ad.-.| ab ead yee tebanieh cond id do for a Rhenish craftsman en- The The appearance of organized towns in on dinner party. Under the benign Out of the town “rotary”, club elections the Imperial Electoral College 1 lectoral college and the present 1 college are direct descendants | The electoral college for which mil-} of citizens will vote in November! of the senaté, and the members of France has a $100,000,000 convention | »Although the senate and chamber of | ronyene in Paris now, | officer ordinarily ars, but Millerand, | ufder pressure of the French legislature resigned before his term ended. Cologne’s early Rathaus, where burgh- Sees ers dined and voted, finds a counterpart ! today in some of London’s famous polit- | ical clubs. Many English premiers are | elected in the Carlton club and similar | institutions~ on Pall Mal! undey the shadow of Buckingham Palace and a few blocks from the. parliament build- ings. Selection of the king is merely an approval of a decision by leaders made in a leading conseryative or liberal or labor club. Short Lived By ELDEN SMALL Our forebears were optimistic be- | lievers in experimental state-making, in’ spite of frequent failures.. The “State | of Franklin” was one of their try-outs, | and it attained the ripe old age of three years before it went under at the point of militia bayonets. Washington County, North Carolina, comprised some 42,000 square miles when in 1784, the state legislature for- mally ceded it to the federal government | to dodge payment of taxes and like ‘as- | sessinents, levied by congress. But the residents of the country objected, called | a eonvention and seceded, establishing | the “State of Franklin,’ with its own constitution, courts, militia and congress. Tt entered into treaties, and functioned for three years, But in 1787, jealous North Carolina de- cided that the people of Franklin were | just outlaws, and sent an army against | } them. The new state crumbled, and once | more became the county of Washington, N, ©. Another curse of science will be made manifest when friend wife commands | friend husband,to telephone her a photo- | graph of that business conference he’s supposed to be attending—Arkansas Gazette. If the Republican campaign manage- | ment desires to maintain the betting odds, which are three to one on Coolidge and Dawes, that same management will have to’ become about three times as ac- tive as dt is at present. A firm grip on the pick handle, or the shovel handle, and a considerable amount of perspiration will go’ further in solv- ing the world’s problems than any sol vent yet suggested by statesmen. Don’t mistake the noise you hear for any rush for the Davis-Bryan band wag- on, it is only LaFollette letting off the surplus steam. \ OUR DAILY SONG HIT “The Plumber Was Through Two Hours Ago, And He's Almost Ready td Leave,” Here 3 @ conviction that capital punish- ment 1 ,000, or al-!vent hanging,” sald Darrow. ‘will never permit any man to hang 80 long as there is anything in the “(Continued from Page One) again his battle is to sustain ver fs justified. “Every. effort will SS saab Ey world that I can‘do to save him.” Darrow saved the lives of the Mc- Namara brothers; bombers of tHe Los Angeles Times buflding in) 1911. He saved Hig Bill Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone from the gallows in 1907 after they had been charged with killing former Governor Steuen- berg of Idaho. He defended Eugene V. Debs after his activities in the raflway strike of 1896. His court activities as attorney for the state have run -through famous trials for nearly 40 years. _ Out of that career has come the knowledgé that is shaping his pres- sent strategy in the Loeb-Leopold trial. Accepting the state presenta- tion ‘of facts’ without contradiction, the defense plans are carrying along for the grand finish. ; Ajienists for the state are to start the trend toward the climax and bring the Darrow force into the open for the first time. Through his marshaled’ psychia- trists, he counts on building a theory. fof emotional insanity that will con- vince Judge John R. Caverly, who holds the lives of the boys in his hands that their crime was the re- sult of mental irresponsibility and 'should be punished only by life im- prisonment. To cap this, the veteran criminal attorney is to make a plea of his own that may be the greatest of his career—a career dotted with juries and courts brought to tears by the appeal of the Darrow word pictures. But the battle the defense has arranged centers. solely about the mental responsibility of the two slayers. Scientific explanations of the reasons why minds of studious billance should revert to murder simply, for a thrill may save these lives. ' Failing, however, the de- fense that Darrow has built, is pre- pared to go to higher courts and to bring in new points that may take years to determine what the fate of the slayers shal] be. WILLIS GARAGE LOW STORAGE RATES Let Us Service Your Car Over Twenty Years In Casper . °363S. Ash Phone 1891W Why Suffer From Insects BUG JUICE Kills Bed Bugs and All Other Vermin Apco Products Co. || 118 W. Midwest Avenue Or Phone 285 "SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way LEAVE CASPER Townsend Hotel 8 a. m., 10 a. m,, 2:30 p. m. | LEAVE SALT CREEK 8a. m., 2:30 p. m., 5:30 p. m. BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS Bus Leaves 9:30 Daily Salt Creek Transportation Coypany TELEPHONE 144 ae $5.00 Reward |. 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Our motto—Giving as much as possible for what we get. NOT getting as much as poss!ble for what we give. Official Stock Yard Reports for June: - DENVER ...... SHIP FOR ANY ST. LOUIS SALE AFTER AUG- : CHICAGO UST.1ST. LOAD SO WICHITA AS TO BE HERE AT SIOUX CITY LEAST 3 DAYS PRIOR TO SALE. KANSAS CITY 414 NOTIFY US A FT. WORTH ....... 267 WEEK IN. AD- OMAHA . - 193 VANCE WHAT YOU ST. JOE . . 191 ARE SHIPPING, ~ i two weeks in Fee et ee rang ele ae one! ter. We solicit your business. a 4 Write or Wire for Information Colorado Horse & Mule Commission Co. By A, H. LANGMAN, Mgr. FOR SALE ee cf iN nee pring t en aS es ae heel Too lets rae temper screw, swivel wrench, forge and small tools. Ajax Engine, 12x12. 47-H. P. Boiler, new. Located 16 miles west of the Bair camp at Lost Soldier. Apply to man in charge at camp for inspection. A. C. GEHR, P. O. Box 157 Rawlins. CASING FOR SALE 20-inch Drive Pipe, 90 Ibs. 15%-inch, 70 lb. DBX. 12%, 50 Ib. DBX. 8%, 82 lb. Coalinga. 6%, 24 Ib, Coalinga. ~ Also about 50 joints of 8 and 10-inch weight suitable for drilling up to 2500 feet. All of the above located on 29-27-92, 16 miles west of Bair -Camp, Lost Soldier, except 1000 feet. of 6%, which is at Rawlins. For inspection apply on ground or of A. C. GEHR, P. O. Box 157 Rawlins. casing of lighter NOTICE Owing to.the fact that our main highways are becoming so clut- tered with advertising signs as to render official warning and direction signs inconspicuous and of little use, a resolution was. recently passed by the State Highway Commission prohibit- ing the erection of advertising signs within the right of way lines of the State Highways. Due notice of perhaps a year will be given covering the removal of those signs now erected except those attached to State Highway markers, guard rails or bridges or those placed close to the road shoulders, in which case em- ployes are instructed to remove the signs immediately. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT By Order of the State Highway - Commission