Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1924, Page 8

beeras 4G ate -ore no om ver gait M ret who ire ‘eb -\GE EIGHT Che Casper Daily Cribune ed at Casper (Wyoming) postcffice as second . November 22, 1916. ‘The Casper Daily Tribune issuea every evening nd The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at (ower, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Bulld- ing. opposite pos.office. 15 and 16 Business Teiephunee Sanecting “AU Branch Telephone E Departments =) AL ee By J. E. HANWAY AND E. EB. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of. all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. , ia viaprnah eam aaa ii apnea aS a oS Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A: B. ©.) vertising Representatives acing. @ Prudden 3 Steger Bids., 6 ifth Ave., few York City; G obe , Suite 404 Sharon Bdg., 55 New nm Francisco, Cal. 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Neither is there anything to be said about the economical methods by which prompt and needed charity is rendered by the authorities who direct the ac- tivities after the chest is filled. No more is there anything to say about the desirability of the chest plan, the past year’s experience has more than proved every claim set up for it. For this coming year the total amount to be raised has been reduced seven thousand dollars below the total of the present year, but the nec- essity to give in accordance with your circum stance has not and cannot, be reduced in a Christian community facing the local: undertak- ings Casper faces. z Last year, while other Wyoming cities and towns met with dragging campaigns, Casper set an example in meeting the test with promptness and subscriptions above the amount required, enabling the chest directors to cut the budget for the approaching year. 2 Give what you can afford to give. If it is a dollar, give it. Every person in the whole com- munity is a’stockholder in this public service. Ifyou cannot be a large stockholder, be a small one. The chest ‘is a corporation in which no one can be jobbed by controlling interests. The dividends are large and certain. The whole com- munity shares in them, in a thousand ways. The person who fails to do his part will have a hard time with his conscience for the next year. Women and the Community There is an old saying that “Everybody's business is nobody’s business.” Responsibility to others is duty which civiliza- tion has to develop. Who is the community? The community is all of us. The sum of all. Who shall do the community work—if not all? To excuse one’s self from community work by the. alibi: “I have never cared for public work,” is as futile as to say: “I have never cared to wash dishes, therefore I will not indulge in it.” It is a job that must be done. The welfare of the family depends upon it and no woman has any more excuse for being a slacker in the com- muntiy work than in the work of her own pri- vate home. There is ample time for efforts in both directions. 4 Women are coming more and more to realize their responsibilities tc the public. Many splen- did women have never yet though‘of them in this light. They have been modest and timid and backward and thought others liked to as- sume responsibilities and go ahead—and so ex- cused themselves. But the home has assumed.a new relation to the community and to care for the community is every woman’s job. It is not only every woman’s job, but every woman’s privilage and opportunity, since the welfare of the community is the welfare of each home in the community. It is the new spirit of community responsibil. ity and service which is the motive back of wo- man’s activity in politics and civic affairs. The political, organizations that were formed in the recent campaign among women were the agencies for performing woman’s new job of community homekeeping. All over the land women are perfecting these organizations with the idea of making them per- manent, and an instrument for public welfare. Every home-loving woman should feel it incum- bent upon her to bear her part in the great work. Party Government No member of the next congress who refused to support affirmatively the Republican nation- al ticket this year should be permitted to partic ipate in a Republican caucus or receive a com mittee assignment on the basis of his falsely al leged affiliation with the Republican party. The Republican party should support no pol itician who refuses to support the Republican party. Any office holder who refused to support the national Republican party when its cause was at stake in a general election should he depriy ed of the’ personal advantage he possesses by reason of a dishonest pretense of Republicanism. These politicians staked thgir fortunes on an effort to deadlock the government by throwing the election of a president into congress. They should look to the De ic side of the house for their designations as members 1 committees. rhe proper Classification politically of these borers-from-within” was too long postponed and this temporizing policy all but wrecked Re publican unity and hope of success during the last congress. The cowardice and error of this strategy is now fully apparent. The organiza tion of the next congress will afford opportu nity to repair this mistake, fortunately before nd senate f congressi - Che- Casver-Dailp- Cridune it is too late to publican party. The caucus should be restored in the house and senate. Members of the house and senate who refuse to be bound by responsible party: de- cisions on fundamental questions covered in the party’s national pronouncements should. be excluded from these caucuses and from what- ever advantage they secure through a nominal party allegiance. The restoration of party re- sponsibility, and as a necessary premise; party solidarity, is essential to the public eel tute, No member’s vote should be bound by such de. cisions contrary to his convictions, but when a public man’s-cinvictions prompt him to part company with his party, he should have the courage and honesty to stand on his own feet and take. whatever chances are involved in his inability to be longer loyal. No honest politician will wear in a campaign a label he is ready to repudiate whenever he thinks it is to his advan- tage to do so. The recent election result showed clearly that demagogues, revoluntionaries, grandstand play- ers and chronic insurgents are no longer in public favor. The people believe that when a man begins to imagine he is too big for his party he should go out and start one of his own, which Senator LaFollette, after working the Republican party for all it was worth, fin- ally proceeded to do with results so disastrous to himself. The people believe in majority rule, within parties and in the nation. This principle should be put into execution by the political party which the election returns of November ith command to do it. “Old Stuff The origin of the popular cross-word puzzle has been traced back to the middle ages. In the middle o ges the devil was as mportant in theology as God, if not more so: Charms were made to p_the devil away, one of which was the crossword puzzle, a sort of nagnetic acrostic. If Satan finds. some mischief still for, idle hands perhaps the present craze for cross-word puzzles is a religious exercise in disguise. Al- though some trying to work the puzzle think they are more likely to drive a person devilward than to keep the devil aw: Sir Ramsay Coming Ramsay MacDonald the lately defeated’ labor premier of Great Britain now that ‘he is out of ffice by the grace of engulfing conservative votes, has announced his intention of. visiting he United States. We cannot conceive why he should feel an urge to come to America. A bad- ¥ repudiated radical is no curiosity in this ountry. We have too many of our own to pay much attention to a foreign variety. The one comforting thing about the former oremier’s visit is the announcement that he will not lecture or make public speeches. That be- ing the case if his only object then, is to’ weep apon the shoulder of certain American radicals and exchange condolences over mutual plight, Sir Ram is perfectly welcome to our shores. Future Wars Battleships will not command the sea in the future. The advantage will be to the nation haying the greater number of efficiently-man- ned airships. 2 x This is the opinion of Rear-Admiral Fullam, retired, one of Uncle Sam’s old sea-fighters. If ships are used at all in time of war ‘they. will need to be protected below by undersea craft and above by airplanes or they will be. al: most useless. Without this aid a fleet would be as harmless as the Spanish Armada of years ago. Wider Grades _ Almost over night road builders are awaken- ing ‘to the fact that one of the surest ways to prevent highway accidents is to widen the road grades from fence to fence more like a street instead of digging great ditches at the sides of the road and banking up the cénter like a rail- road grade. The amount of dirt moved is prac- tically the same so no additional expense is in- volved. The new type of road is much safer as a mo- torist feels more at ease on it than he does on the old turnpike style of construction. The mere fact that he does not feel as nervous about. run- ning off the grade reduces the danger of | dents for he is inclined to drive straighter ‘and not “wobble” in passing another car, It’s the same proposition as when you walk a narrow plank across a creek, you #ra inclined to think you are going to fall off. Put an addi- tional plank on each side of the one you are walking, and you can walk the single plank he- tween the other two without any hesitancy. A wider road grade gives the same feeling to an automobile driver. This makes a safer road than merely widen- ing the paving. This common sense idea coupled with time tested methods of pavi now. being used in the west’ and which Tecognize the necessity of a shock absorbing type of road paving to absorb the, traffic impact, will give the traveling public better and safer roads and assure the taxpaper a great deal more for his money than in the past. ‘ Grade Crossing Mishaps Grade crossing catastrophes occurring with growing, frequency indicate the need for a de. vice which, under prescribed conditions, will take the control of the motor car out of the hands of its operators. Recent reports show extreme carelessness at railroad crossings, for the/ accounts of such ac: cidents disclose that in most instances the auto- mobilist is thé transgressor and that m trains are actually struck on the side by motor cars, rf A short time ago, an automobile struck the twentieth car of a moving freight train, dem- onstrating negligence on the part of the driver of the car. The most desirable step is that which through a mechanical device, will automatically stop the automobile before it reaches the cross- ing in Be path of an oncoming locomotive. ‘Another means of averting casualties appears to be a series of humps and bends in the road, which will force the motorist to reduce speed to serve his own comfort, convenience and safety. SBS HY TA We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are gpent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the pu or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are ilways complaining that our days are few, and ing as though there would be no end to them. ange things that came to ‘light u the recent national election was the plurality ceived by President Coolidge in the homeward of Senator Pat Harrison in Gulfport, Miss, which are], prevent the desruction of the Re- Souphouse Aristocrats ances in connection with our edu- cational system. One phase of the . subject. many we dealt with too mildly. This is the abuse—we say advisedly abuse—in many instances, school funds in the isolated puplis. the practice of certain families in! shifting from one school district to another—cfien, from | thelr summer résidences to their winter homés in téwn—with the payment to the par- ents of a handsome monthly allow. ance for the maintenance of their youngsters under their own, roofs. of the Even a casual glance over the ex- tent to which this.thing has been carried for ‘years, would be an eye- opener to the average taxpayer. As a matter of fact, it has become with some families, cal business proposition. well figured practi- Of course, we must separate the sheep from the goats. As we all know, not a few parents in isolated districts are actually obliged to send their children to board with strang- ers. f Moreover, it ‘s mathematical fact that paying the ‘board of a few iso- lated pupils, : necessity for a gchool in cértain lo- calities is a big saving of the school tunds. such children are not .always, by any, means, of the class that would under ordinary circumstances, elect to feed at:the public trough. there is another breed, of a very dif- ferent type—the breed already re- ferred to—who have the scheme al- most reduced to a science. thus: the Furthermote, the. parents of But YXes,.and furthermore, great dell- cacy should be used in the mode of procedure. “hand-me-out” some of them have strongly, objected to t! being entered as “ he pens: “Board” would savor of pauperism, and they certainly were not paupers. Why, the, idea! some kind of newfangled aristocrats. whose maintenance should be an honor to the taxpaying peasantry. While demanding the allowance rd.” It should euphenistically termed “ex- "or something © similar. Rather, they were How to properly designate this singular brand of aristocracy, we are at a loss to know. crude and unlearned way, the only designation we can conjure up, ‘is at best, perhaps a very shift—soup-house aristocrats. So, in our poor make- But let us proceed. So generous were the al'owances granted. by the school board in cer- tain districts that in some instances where theré were several young- sters in the family, that almost the entire aggregation have been eat- ing off the taxpayers. The writer has seen graft in many forms and disguises in the big cities in the east and elsewhere, but for hragen effrontery .and unblushing shamelessness, this feeding off the school funds; ‘stands without a par- allel. Brutally speaking, it is the meanest and most swinish form of graft we have ever known. Fortunately we | havesnow dn this terms—that we most strenuously - Cofftew | Keeping Dawes Busy PUZZLE Americans are wont to look upon their vice president as a sort of po- SOLUTION Solution of ‘Wednesday's Puzzle away in an obscure corner, calling for no particular attention or com- ment and receiving nene. Ask the average citizen’ who was vice prest- Ay DIC FE} ‘dent when Cleveland or Roosevelt ana Ee SS sca peeattend or who fs first in pres- idential succession today and the shonces are that he will not be able o reply offhand. When he goes to Rit TOIE| OTR} & Washington, no matter how promi- A j nent te ay hhve been before, a S nan elected to the vice presidency IS |PTOTT | enerally sinks into ob!ivion. "He is OIOTE me] | | en thought of as the under- tudy of the president, for that of- ficial does all the talking and the lacting and very little ts expected of | the vice president except to sit still jin his big chair In th senate cham- ber and not to look too bored or sleepy. But in Washington they are ai- district, a school board who have|ready. speculating upon whether set esti “tacos against the shame-|that vivid, virile, go-get’em Dawes less practice. Said one member,| Will remain buried tor four years or “certain families in this district have| Whether he will break all yice presi- for years half lived off the schools.| dential precedents by jumping up But, I'li be d—d if they do this} trom his big chair and saying things ‘a ais @ week. ainly ee ee cea eovad in not a| 20 Smcharacter for fim -to sit, sul few instances in the past that cer- bia tor pees. ne ars ee tain parties resorted to devious) * "oom Cpe roms macs ean methods to insure the permanency | P®” a3 anBy «RL VICS: aoa the tibiae of their “isolation.” in a certain | S98 things, Sete, ne — locality, not far from. here, @ nur.-| oF the senate. If shee ts a proulem ber of soup-house aristocrats actual-| Uder ages as caper ly got up a petition against moving | Mterested tt is golus 3h @ disused school house into their | ™atter for the restless Dawes to neighborhood. A school was the| te occasion go by without firing very thing they did net want, In} some of his: snappy, incisive some of them were compelled to ad-j'® dead. presi bith bul ceddanerer ae eee and that whar| 2f talk or the playing of pewee poll- they wanted was the coin of the| tics engnces his impatient attention realm. One lady, mother of two,|it Will seem just and proper for him who owns her residence in town, and|t? 40 the unconventional thing and who never spends more than a few| ‘0 rebuke the er CR Uns weeks each summer in this district, | 2° Would he perfectly right in this, ns "| but there is no precedent for it, and vehemently insisted that ahe was en] 20% Wore ts it Mrecedent wencrally rules, Now, business 1g business. We) not always. And here is where have been doing some figuring on) pawes will have a chance to obtain our own account of late. What if relief from whatever suppression of some of us old bachelors could hitch) iis emotions senatorial convention on to some widow, with at least may impose upon him. Following a four youngsters of school-going age. | custom set by Harding and one by move into another district and get which Coolidge greatly profited the kale from the original district.| nile he was vice president, the As we once sald before. it would! president, so it is sald at Washing: beat hog-raising by a day's ride.| ton, will have Dawes attend the cab- And—happy thought! We might thus inet meetings and have the benefit of his judgment'in the for- mation of policies. Here will be Dawes’ opportunity, and everybody who knows him knows that he will not hesitate to avail himself of it Perhaps the cabinet will hear noth ing of Helen Maria, but whatever it does hear will be to its distinct advantage, and it will not go far wrong if it follows the advice of this level-headed, red-blooded deep-seeing, forceful man of action whose high- est aim In life is service to his coun- try. be ‘able to break into higher society. We might be admitted among the soup-house aristocrats. Now, the writer certainly does not favor a narrow, or parsimonious policy in the direction of our educa- tional activities. Far from it, in- deed. On the contrary, we advocate In all s{ncerity not only free instruc. tion, but In case of destitution free meals and clothing, and this without any concomitant stigma of pauper ism. When nations can ‘spend bil- Hons on hellish devices for the wholesale destruction of life and property In wr, we sure'y ought to be able to devi a modicum to the care of helpless children. But, in conclusion, we state—and state In no object to any mode ‘of procedure which would necessitate the already wish to] overburdened taxpayers feeding Ufc uncertain | soup-house aristocrats. Elkhorn Ranch, Wyo. MO cuneate TO THIHUUAN , out of you buy yesterda, litical. recluse—a subofficial, stowed | practicability of today and the neces- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1924 - Impossible might fly. . “The absurdity of Time has blurred the cutlines made hazy the inscriptions on many of the that were legal tender even as recently as thirty years ago. No scientist is quite so sure of any- thing as he was before the Curies in their little French laboratory turned up that wonder-metal, radium. y ts the m Great men science now in mutation of metals and that !t pro- Fa pecsiesans ory, of finding poses to finance an attempt to make inexhaustible sources of energy gold from mercury. The proposition is essentiaily identical with the long- ridiculed ambition of the zlchemists of the middle ages. Except, of course, that this is scientific. ‘By an electrical atom-cracking ma- chine the experiments will seek to drive a single electron from the eighty In the planetary system of the mercury atom, leaving the group of seventy-nine characteristics of the ultimate structure of gold. It sounds’ simple enough. ‘A not-dis- similar result is obtained daily in our ofl refineries, where molecules of the -heavier hydrocarbons are brohen up to produce gasoline. It looks ke another blow at the Victorian era—a time in whicn which may make the dream of the perpetual-motion seekers almost come true. Most of the scientific “impossibilities” of yesterday are no longer in the realm of imrpossibility. It ts not quite true that thoughts and ideas run in circles. But they do seem to take a helical course, not returning to the same spot, but to another point in the same vertical line. The modern alchemists are not repeating the experiments of their predecessors, even if those pre- decessors did try to make gold from ‘quicksilver. Langley and the Wright brothers did not fasten feathers on, their shoulders with wax in manner of Icarus. The problem is approached from a different angle, bright, sharp-edged, — Hard-minted| },::¢ it is the same problem. facts such as that elements were elements and immutable, paseed StREa Iain current in scientific circles and it Was the fashion to smile patroniz- ingly at the old alchemists, admit they had made contributions to knowledge, but declare that what they were trylng to do was foolish and Impossible. The Victorian era also smiled, it will be recalled, at the Icarus legend and the childish News item: There’s going to be a run on pekings Christmas morning — espe- cially in homes where the Shop-o-scope has played an important part. “and No Place to Go? We find ourselves, almost without - realizing it, a nation on wheels. We drive or ride in 16,000,000 motor vehicles, We pack the paved highways coming in and out of town. We over-run even so-called remote regions. And we are pounding to pieces all but permanent roads. : Next: year 4,000,000 new cars will be on the road. Compared to this in- toads will be insignificant. ‘We don't want to be a nation on wheels, with no place to go. The answer is, build more, and where necessary, wider concrete roads—and start building them now. Not in a long time have general con- ditions been so favorable for carrying on such public works as permanent highway building. Your highway authorities are ready to carry on their share of this great public work. But they must have your support. Ss Tell them you are ready to invest in PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION ani asi DENVER, Coto. oA National Organization to Improve and H Extend the Uses of Contrete | OFFICES IN 29 CITIES We Have, a Limited Amount of Room for Dead Storage $6.00 Per Month Make Reservations Early SS een "TRAIN SCHEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN Westbound Arrives Departs No. 603 ~-1:30 p. m. 1:60 p, m. 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