Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1924, Page 6

- TPAGE SIX. ‘Ss Che Casper Daily Cribune 1i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated * exclusively -en- to the use for publication of all news K credited in this paper and news published here'n. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation ‘ 4 (A. B. ©) The Casper Dally Tribune issued every 7 evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunda at Gasper, Wyoming. Pub- Neation off Tribune Building, opposite postoffice. (Wyoming) postoffice November 22, 1916. Entered at Ca as second class per tter, 15 and 16 none Exchange Connecting Departments Al By J. E, HANWAY and E. Advertising , Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, Ul., 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg., Boston, Mass., Suite ~ 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Montgomery St., t San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Datly c ..,. Tribune are on file in the Now York, Chi- ; a San Francisco offices and come. s °RIPTION RATES. By Carrier and Outside State r, Daily and Sunday - r, Sunday O Six Months, Daily an Sunday . 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They are endeavoring to have themselves called the progressive ticket, “and are making. good progress .toward " getting away with it in the metropolitan et press and the several press associations. f ss These worthies are not progressive, but radical. There is nothing progressive x z = 1 wie z che about war-time sedition or peace-time ; bolsheyism. Whenever that phrase is : =. used in connection with the LaFollette- t Wheeler ticket it is a phraseological at falsehood. - The only political party behind LaFol- lette and Wheeler is the Socialist party. The Cleveland ticket of July 4th is * Socialist ticket. It should be called the Socialist ticket throughout the campaign by every Republican and Democratic speaker and in the news and editorial ~ columns of every Republican and Demo- = cratic newspaper—and indeed by eve one having a decent respect for accura . of statement. The LaFollette-Wheeler ticket is the Socialist party ticket. It is that and I nothing else. It should be so branded i in the interest of truth in politics. 1y es Ra Mae Py m Is He Anxious 7 The trial of Burton K. Wheeler, sena- tor in the United States congress from Montana is set down for hearing in the federal district court of Montana, at Great Falls, on an mdictment charging ~him with accepting pay for attempting to put through the United States land & office, fraudulent clainis of a fraudu- lent oil company. The people of the couh- try are interestedsin this case and have r their eye trained on Great Falls. The ~ *© ease will come on for hearing, and will be heard unless Wheeler presses for a postponement, If he does this, the pub- lic has every right to believe that Wheel- er is not anxious to test his innocense ro * before a court of justice and is unable to prove himself clear of blame. We shall * learn when September rolls around. Since Wheeler's indictment, he has be- n “come LaFollette’s running mate on the to... Bocialist: ticket, Bix Senator Wheeler has already had a ‘!'= political trial in the United &tates sen- ary OSS ate, Wi s case was considered by a th" = committ the majority members of t which, in advance of hearing any of the evidence, publicly pronounced the accus- ed man innocent, Witnesses for the de- fense were first summoned and were amined by Senator Wheeler himself, Wit- nesses for the prosecution were subject- ck. €d to hostile examination and the doc i mentary evidence in the case was receiy- ‘ted only upon demand after long delay. The hearing was a fiasco. If Senator Wheeler wishes longer to « maintain his claim that he is the victim of a “frame up” and that he is innocent of the charges made, he will demand trial in September. If as is now inti- mated, die should urge delay beca of campaign engagements, it will be a con- F- fession that he is unwilling to have the «facts go before the country and to ha a decision rendered by If inno- cont, the most effectiyv mpaigning the socialist candidate for vi president could do would be to appear in court nnd secure the verdict of not guilty which would undonbtedly be the result of his trial. If guilty, the natural move for the ott accused man to x publicity for the brought out in e ene A DU -er® cts as they will be dence in a real court Te, of justice by “stalling off” the trial. a Tt will by ator Whee meets this situation, Meet-}of the commoy 4 jog a case in court, where action free {pu prejudice is certain, is a differcnt also the local} political demagogues is to put into the} ike would be to avoid} interesting to note how Sen-|a ‘question in the matter from being “tried” by one's sym- | pathetic colleagues with the support of a local and national newspaper clique anxious to conceal rather than disclose \the facts. Those who believe Senator Wheeler guilty are anxious to have him given a chance to prove his claim of per- secution and “frame-up.” Whether or not Senator Wheeler himself is anxious | for the opportunity will appear when his willingness or unwillingness to promptly meet the accusation becomes apparent through his next move in the Montana case. Members of the committee which nam- (ed Senator Wheeler for the vice presi- ; dency on the socialist ticket announced | that even if Senator Wheeler were con- victed it would only be accepted as evi- dence that he was being persecuted. That depends entirely upon whether the peo- ple think a senator should sell his offi- cial influence to corrupt clients engaged in trying to put over a crooked oil deal on the government. But members of the committee evidently overlooked the fact that one of the prescribed penalties in case of conviction is permanent exclu- sion from the right to hold any public office of trust or profit. Get Tegether The only real danger that confronts the country is that people who have sense will fail to do their duty at the polls this year. They have been failing in that respect for some years. In fact ever since the curse of the primary law came upon us. We draw this conclusion from the facts and figures which prove the neg- | lect of the citizenry of that duty which should be paramount with all of us. The conservative elements in the Dem- ocratic and Republican parties consti- tute a majority that would be impres- sive could it be voted as a unit. Can't they get together? The LaFollette forces find much that is satisfying in the fact that the people who have sense and braing are now train- ing in two different political camps. The most distressing news that the radicals could get would be the announcement that their common enemies in both par- ties had united to oppose them. But it would be good sense and pat- riotism if that news could be written. Political generalship does not differ greatly from that of a military char. acter. To divide the enemy has eyer been the effort of men 1 Napoleon. LaFol- lette has taken a leaf from the book of Strategy as written by the Corsican and applied it to matters political. He is a dangerous force but not a fool. The enemy in this instance is you and IT and everybody else who hates the Com- munistic force that is striving to tear down the structure of society it has taken so long and such painstaking ef- forts to build. We urge every reader to consider this important matter. The duty of the citi- zen is to make sure that his vote counts against and not for, the followers of Marx, who see in Russia a better govern- ment than we have herein the United States. They must believe that, other- wise they would not be striving so madly to put the theories and practices of that government into force and effect in the United States. If all good Americans were to unite under one banner against the noisy mi- nority seeking to win through the differ- ences—silly political differences—which divide the so-called intelligent citizens of this country into two great parties the end of radicalism would come quick- ly. Surely such a consummation devout- ly desired is within the realm ‘of thin political! | The One Standard In every metropolis and hamlet there are persons who feel superior to common mortals, and lesser folk wonder by what right they get that way. If the desire to feel superior and the capacity to enjoy a feeling of superiority were confined to the few, there would be no need to change the present system. Unforunately, how- ever, the desire to feel superior to one’s fellows is universal; and for the greater good of the greatest number it would seem ‘he part of wisdom and fairness to establish an official standard by which all men may be measured. Wealth is not a proper standard, how- soever much the possessors of it may de- sire to establish it as such, for many possessors of wealth came by it dishon- estly or through no merit of their own; and wealth, moreover has wings. A stand- ard must endure, despite the whims of fortune. Birth, so long, accepted as a standard of excellence, no longer has standing among the intelligensia, for it is obvious that no man deserves great credit for be- ing born. The most insignificant have the same experience. Moreover, many who are well-born become nuisances or wor: and never at any time scrape an ac- quaintance with honor. If a standard can’t operate in all cases, it isn’t a stand- ard, Consider then, the possessors of brains. These feel smperior by reason of j their condition. But neiny men -who think deeply and accurately are asses by n of their excellence, and some, at least ,are criminals and rakes. It is ap- parent then, that brain power and learn- ing cannot afford ndards by whieh to judge men. Too many ‘whe possess these are lower than the lowly. There remains but one standard to which all men may conform if the i It is neither arbitrary or superfie }is not the sport of cireumstance. It is standard of decency. Before it the | lowly stand equal chance with the great. It is*fundamental and it is not subject | to change, To judge men by it is to judge them to judge men by any other j stand rd is like judging the merit of a | dog by the number of fleas he possess, Pinning Him Down position of LaQollette on the pro- ion question which is bound to be mpaign, regardless acceptation of the p: ties that the iSsue is settled, is causing no little concern among the Wisconsin Th hibi Che Casper senator's followers. While the LaFol- lette platform, written by himself and adopted by his henchmen at Cleveland makes no mention of prohibition or law enforcement, which would have been a dangerous thing, in view of the wet pro- vlivities of many of the LaFollette groups, the senator himself opposed and voted against the Volstead act, when it was before the senate for debate and adoption. eo The agile LaFollette will next give a demonstration of carrying something on both shoulders. Test for LaFollettc “That peculiarly unhappy fate of the American farmer, under which the more he has the less he gets and vice versa, is apparently about to be lifted,” says the New York Herald-Tribune. “Even in th e of reports showing that earlier crop estimates were too low, the Chicago wheat market can gain seven to eight points in a single dram- atic day, there is already in sight the al- most indecently lucky combination of a bumper crop with bumper prices; and even Kansas gives way to a nearly for- gotten enthusiasm. The granaries are *bursting’—with July wheat at $1.31 at Chicago and a yield which as late as the first of the month was expected to be 46,000,000 bushels short is now expected to. exceed that of last year. “The failure of the Russian and Medi- terranean crops and conflicting reports which still indicate that Canada has met disaster are responsible for the prices. The Canadian government is un- willing to admit that the conditions there are as bad as has been re but one estimate fixes the entire y 275,000,000 bushels, as against 474,000,- 000 last year, and continued bigh prices seem assured. The situation in corn is less clear. Our government’s July report was extremely pessimistic, but better conditions are now expected, and at any rate, the price rise seems already to have compensated the farmers for crop losses. Less than two weeks ago it required a bright optimism to predict $10 hogs by fall. Hogs en selling for some- thing oye: are now quoted ‘in Kansas C 10 a hundred pounds, nd July corn is ranging above $1.05, “The immediate result of all this will be, of cours Mr. LaFollette’s most effective polit ument. The farmers will undoubtedly be able to be- gin the liquidation of their lon mulated debts tion to which the gin the early days of June has not survived im out. But it also lays the La- FPollette philosophy under a much more subtle test. A more or less accidental al- leyiation of the farmer's immediate troubles does not answer the agrarian question. It does, however, mean that uggested answers can be more calmly amined, Mr, Coolidge was not respon ible for the failure of the Canadian wheat crop, but a good year will enable the farmer to ask whether the Coolidge agriculture pdlicies are not better adapt- ed to taking advantage of the realities of a changing economic situation ‘than the wild hypotheses upon which Mr. La- Follette has embarked. Theré is only one answer.” Graveled Roads Editor of Tribune—I was greatly pleased to see your editorial relating to graveled roads It seems most peculiar that our city councils in the past and the one of the present cannot get down to business on th proposition of graveled streets. They have talked it for several years and then they state that the proposition should be tr out.. Where do they get the idea that it such a mystery, when they have graveled and oiled streets in most any up-to-date community in the United States, and why we can’t have them here where we have the materials at hand, is a question no one can an- swer. This town cannot possibly afford to continue the expensive paving pro- gram that it has been conducting in the past two or three years. The city is al- ready bonded too much for such pur- poses. A graveled stteet properly taken care of the first few months and oiled as need- ed, will become so hard and firm in the course of a year or two that it will be all the hard surface any ordinary resi- dence street needs. If they want proof of grayeled roads, just let them look at the Yellowstone trail east of the city. This road has not been really well taken care of and was neyer oiled, and yet it carries an immense amount of traffic which is much heavier than any resi- dence street would get. Another thing in connection with the oiling of grayeled streets which is much needed in Casper is the fact that it will eliminate to a large extent the terrible dust nuisance. We hope, ‘since you have started this ampaign, you will uge a-sledge hammer and, if necessary, pile driver, to get the proposition through. HIT ’EM AGAIN Conventions By ELDEN SMALL Presidential tickets have been nomé nated by political conventions of the var. ious parties for so many ars that in the mind of the ordinary citizen the plan is accepted as a sort of constitutional tutory system framed by the offi- cial government. As a matter of fact it is entirely outside the law, if not indeed in frank defiance of the spirit of it. Framers of our constitution and foresaw that th dent and vice pres some ¢ polities. possibl feared selection of presi- dent was likely to y become a matter of partisan They wished to make this im- id so framed the code that the chief magistrate should be elected, not by popular vote as a partisan selec- tion, but by electors chosen for that sole purpose in the various congressional districts of the states. Tt was provided that all the electors should meet at the same time, following their election and vote for their choice. It was even fixed that they must meet in their respective state capitals to yote, so that they would Dailp Cribune not be subjected to party influences as they might if they met at Washington. One of their number is selected to take the result in each state to the national capital. it was planned that the electors should be representative citizens in their com- munities, not politicians, and it was hop- ed thus to avoid party lines. Even today the electors are not bound by any law to vote for the candidates named by the conventions of the parties, although it would be considered rank party treach- ery if they did not. The whole convention system is of later development. Kenwood Approves Editor Tribune—Say, you hit the nail on the head—if our city council would do a little thinking toward keeping Cas- per’s present citizens and less about some fool thing that interests only a large city, we would have a better satis fied citizenship’ and theréby have the eee necessary foundation for a real city 4 You can’t have a future without dili- gently caring for the present. We of Kenwood can’t get to town for days at a time every year, because. of mud knee deep—no hard streets nor side- walks—enough said. KENWOOD TAXPAYER. A Lightning Change On July 9, William Jennings Bryan said “Davis is impossible. His professional connections raise a conclusive presump- tion against him which no arguments can. overcome. We ‘can not afford to. spend our campaign defending J. Pier- pont Morgan or explaining why his at- torney does not represent the people. in- stead of the great corporations.” On July 10, the same William Jennings Bryan said: “I am at your command. You may have my services.” Can you beat it? Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE Gwendolyn is Trying to get A position in The bank because She is thinking About getting Married and She wants To get a Little Inside dope On the finances Of some of Her gentleman Friends. 7 LOWBROW “John, the cook says she is going to leave.” “What reason has she?” “She-says she is used to working for cultivated people and she simply can’t stand oun phonograph records.” Truth is mighty. It would have to be to stand all of the stretching it gets. . FAMILIAR He —“Haven’t I seen you somewhere sometime?” . She—*You probably have. I’ve been there.” 4 TAKING NO CHANCES Actor—‘Say old fellow, I wish you'd advance me ten dollars and take it out of my first week’s wages.” Manager—“But suppose it happened that I coulda’t pay you your first week's salary, where would I be?” UNIVERSAL “T saw a terrible one-reel comedy.” “Well, who hasn’t?” UNCLE HOOK SAYS. “Everybody in th’ world has his faults. but th’ main difference in folks is wheth- er they're ashamed of ’em or proud of em.” PUBLICITY The Lady—*And you may say that we suspect a discharged butler of the rob- bery.” The Reporter—“When was he dis- charged?” The Lady—“Oh, we never really kept a butler but I think it sounds well.” CAUSE FOR GRIEF “Tommy, will you be sorry when I marry your sister?” “Yes I will, ‘cause I like you.” Gwendolyn is an alchemist— I guess Pll have to drop her, For every time I’m out with her, My silver turns to copper. SUCH IS FAME “I don’t mind your marrying that young congressman, Emily, but I’m afraid he doesn’t stand very high in the political world.” “Oh yes he does, He's been inyesti- gated by five committees already.” An optimist is a man who will go into a restaurant without a cent in his pockets and figure on paying for the meal with the pearl he hopes to find in the oyster. MUCH MORE FUN “The doctor says that he will remove my appendix for a thousand dollars.” “Oh Harold, ’d much rather haye an automobile instead.” OUR DAILY SONG HIT “The Socialist Fights for His Prin. ciple and the Plutocrat for His Inter- Just what is a “crackpot?” It must be something terrible, for Al Smith has just applied it to William Randolph Hearst, and Al Smith isa good judge of epithets. Besides all that, it takes a pretty sturdy nickname to describe Wil- jiam Randolph, ASBESTOS SUITS USED FOR ON BIG. 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A automobile is company awaiting at the local postoffice and within a few seconds of the time of arrival of the suits, they are on the way to the oil well, the automobile run to which consumes about an hour, The heaviest sults are the heaviest individual consignments yet handled by the air mail. ~ CRUDE CUT ANNOUNCED INDEPENDENCE, Kan., July 29. —The Prairie ‘Oil and Gas-company has announced a cut in the price of crude oil, purchased by it in Kan- sas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas +} at the well as follows: Below 30 degrees beaume gravity $1.10. a cut of 15 cents per barrel; 30 tg 32.9 degrees beaume gravity $1.25 a cut of 200 a barrel; 33 and above $1.50 a cut of 25c a berrel. And that is reason Happy, and sign myself, Rubber Co, Ine. One can’t be happy, And smile in the face Of Battery troubles. In the summer it is Too hot to crank a Car, and in the winter It is too cold. 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