Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 8

i a eee -2or YA evra & ore SANSeeTN ASS es rte or re he sade AON ZUG 1 = Wa PAGE EIGHT Suidap per (Wyoming) pesteLiv-e ag second mber 22 1936. Tribune C wadspe Daily Tribune lesuea every evening Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Pubi.cation offices: Tribune Bulid Husiness Teleph. Branch Telephoue Exchange Coanecting All Departments By J. E. HANWAY AND EB. E. HANWAY Advertising Tepresentatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg. Chicago, 11, 286 Fifth Ave. New York City; Gobe Bidg., Boston, Mass. suite 404 Sharon B:dg.. 65 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, Cal. 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The attitude of these men in well illustrated in the address which Gar- ibaldi made to the soldiers who fought under him. “Soldiers,” said he, “what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no muni tions, no provisions, but forced marches, danger- ous watch posts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries—those who love freedom and their country may follow me.” The prospect Garibaldi thus placed before his men was not inviting, yet the way these men re. sponded thrilled and still thrills the world. At the back of the movement was a tremendous en- thusiasm to free Italy from a foreign yoke, and to gather up its scattered sections into a united whole. It was this enthusiasm which enabled Garibaldi to realize his dream. A divided allegiance on the part of his men to the ideal he set before them would have rendered his dreams futile. So it is with all great move- ments. They are the triumphs of men’s enthus iasm. Fine Example Eighty per cent of the voters of Kansas and eighty-three per cent of the voters of Indiana went to the polls on election day. A magnificent example of representative republican govern: ment in action. The percentage of voters in the solid South states is contemptibly insignificant. Virginia is one of the least of these offenders, yet on election day this year only sixty-seven out of every 1,000 men and women of voting age cast their ballots—less than seven per cent! Virginia’s vote in the campaign of 1872 fifty-two years ago, was 185,000 out of a population of a million and a quarter. This year, with twice the population of 1872, Virginia cast 167,500 votes! One-third of the people of voting age in Virginia are negroes. The state has 512,000 white voters, of which more than a third of a million are disfranchised eith- er voluntarily or by the laws and practices of the state. If all the people of voting age in the state were to cast their ballots, the whites would out- number the negroes, even if all were permitted to vote by 168,000, or 500 more votes than were cast in all at the recent national election! So much for the familiar bunk that this condition is dic- tated by racial necessi Radicalism Waning The pendulum is swinging back. The general elections in Germany indicate the decline of radi- cal sentiment. The British elections of October and the American elections of November were tri- numphs of conservatism. Italy and Spain, after being menaced by bol- shevism, have become conservative by revolutions which manifestly have the support of prepon- derant public opinion. The world seeks security and stability rather than innovation and experiment. Perhaps the Russian radicals have done the world a service in opening its eyes to the perils of radical dom- ination. The people of Russia have paid a heavy price, but the rest of the world have profited by the example their masters have set. : Even in Russia the reigning oligarchy has been compelled to strip Trotzky of power, because, like Lenine, he has had a seizure of practicality Lenine saw clearly that radicalism had over. reached itself in Russia and that the end must be disaster. Trotzky has tried to modify com munism to make it consistent with human na ture but I intoxicated comrades will have none of it France is having a foretaste of communism, the result of which will be to arouse the French masses tinst radicalism. Now that France-is face to face with the open revoluntionary activ ities of t ‘sheviki, the swing of public senti ment is sure to be strongly against even an ap proach to communism. The Why of War “Tf men want war they will have it, and if they want peace they will have it.” This sounds well. But, in the idiom of the day, “It don’t mean any- thing.” Vor neither peace nor war is the product of \ f humanity. There is nothing clearer 1 reading of history than that peace and ir como from a multitude and a complexity f reasons. No war in history, if, perhaps, we fi fought simply for conquest, between i i princes who used their subjects as so Wany vves, was ever a product of the desire of he peo} Wars result because people are born-into the world with fists bent and striking feebly out at the world, Wars result becanse little boys fly at each other's throats over the disputed owner: ship of a peach. Wars result becanse little girls bite and scratch over a fancied insult to one’s doll. Wars result because men become bitter ar- guing over the boundary line between their prop- ertics. Wars result because one man resents the way auother looks at bis wife. In a word wars. come, not because people will them to, come, but in Spite of the fact that people will them to stny, J 7 away, because our emotions of love, hate, ousy, rage, envy and greed get the best of us. Just as long as we need police to protect indi- viduals and property, there will be wars. When human nature changes, when the impulse to in- flict bodily hurt upon our enemy dies out, then there will be the possibility of universal peace. Meanwhile we can do opr best to make wars as unlikely as possible. But, the sad fact is, this is about all we can do, and we are only fool- ing ourselves when we think that we can make war “forever impossible,” by any patent device, while the human heart remains unchanged. Dragging Too Long It is noticed that Atlee Pomerene, govern- ment attorney in the Teapot Dome case for the cancellation of the Sinclair oil lease, contem- plates applying for a continuance when the case is called in federal district court in a few days. It is hinted that certain witnesses desired, are in Canada and will have to be brpught to this coun- try through extradition proceedings. Why was not this matter looked after long ago. The facts were certainly known to the gov- ernment’s counsel. This case should be brought to trial, heard and determined. It has dragged long enough. It is an injustice to begin with. Founded pol- ities, investigated by politics and scandalized by politics. Directly the charge will be made that it will be tried by politics. We all rejoiced when the lease matters were removed from politics and placed in the courts. If this particular case is not tried presently, someone will want to know what is the matter with the courts? Titles and Wealth The present government of France, which is intensely democratic, proposes to,abolish titles of nobility. They were abolished in 1848, but re- established under the third empire, with the pro- viso that they be registered and that a fee of 1,000 francs a year be paid by the holders. At first the fee was paid willingly by those who desired recognition of their claims to nobility, but it has recently been discovered that the national rev- enue from this source has diminished to almost nothing, not because the nobility did not care for their titles, but because those titles were recog- nized by society whether the state approved them or not. It is not easy to abolish a hereditary title even in a democratic republic, and it is particularly difficult to do so in a country surrounded by oth- er countries which recognize ancient degrees of rank, Canada, a democratic state, cannot prevent the use of titles, and France still has a royalist party, and a society awaiting the restoration of a king. Preservation of titles in France is mainly due to the idle rich and their women folk. When a man has to work for a living a title is merely a handicap. Real Public Service Governors, mayors and public officials gener- ally throughout the county ought to take notice of the fact that this economy business seems to be popular, Spending public money is one way of making friends, but with the economy idea in the air it may make more enemies among the vot- ers. There is no surer road to popularity for a public official than the practising as well as the preaching of public economy. As the governors of the various states prepare their messages to the several legislatures soon to be assembléd this fact should not be lost sight of. The executive who can scale down the budget by lopping off useless exependitures will not only be earning his salary but gaining public approval. Inci- dentally, he will be performing a real public serv- ice. . Readjustment on Reclamation Areas The legislative and other measures to meet the need of a settled reclamation policy for the coun- try, as affecting both existing and future de- velopments proposed by Secretary Work in a program submitted to President Coolidge, urge the reappraisal of crop values of irrigation lands as a basis for readjustment of payments; a def- inite policy of co-operation between the federal government and the states in the settling and development of irrigation areas, as well as of waste lands available for agriculture; the closer settlement and colonization of already arable lands, and the transfer of the control of existing works. To Abolish Primary The people of Maine sore and disgusted with the primary election system are circulating pe titions for its repeal at the coming session of the legislature. Under that state’s law twelve thou- sand signatures to the petitions are required to start the operation of the initiative and referen dum process. The question of abolishing the di rect primary will be submitted to the people next September. A Low Coward The deep dyed villain who ran into the old lady and rendered her senseless on the street the other evening, dragged her to the curb and left her in an unconscious condition to die, then jump- ed into his car and escaped is worthy only of hanging. If it is possible to trace him and bring him to jistice for his outrage it should be done. ‘The police department, if it does nothing else, can earn glory enough by apprehending him. The world changed almost everything but Wm. J. Bryan's remedy for war. He still claims, us he did in 1916, that unpreparedness will keep us out of war. One comfortable thing about Colonel Bryan’s theories is that facts have no effect on them. Senator La Follette and his followers have the same right to a seat in a Republican caucus as a yermiform appendix has to insist upon an inside job with the individual from whom it has been surgically removed, ' - Indiana won first honors in percentage of vote east on November 4th, with eighty-three per cent. Kansas came next with eighty per cent. South Carolina gets the booby prize with about one-half of one per cent. 1 $1,100,000,000 in foreign tions during the first eleven uonths of this year, says a federal reserve board vulletin—three times the amount loaned last year ind larger than any year since the war. t Americans i ountries and cx \dd to the list of names of silent men: Hiram son and Robert M. LaPollette, jams at one corner, while another one but a few hundred feet away was clear. until it is synchronized. The rail- ways and the trolley systems learnea this truth a long time ago and New York now gives evidence that municipalities are beginning to appiy, their common sense to the subject- << Foreign Loans Under the various war loan acts during the World war, the United States Treasury was authorized to establish credits for foreign count tries at war with the enem.es of the United States. Two of these acts provided that any payments of the yrinc.pal of these loans shall be ap- plied to reduction of the debt of the United States. The original credits established were: Credits Exp’turer Belgium $ 349,214,000 349,214,000 Cuba... 10,000,000 10,000,000 Czechoslo- vakia . 67,329,000 61,974,000 France - 2,997,747,000 2,997,477,000 Grt. Bre. 77,000,000 4,277,000,000 Greece . 48,236,000 15,000,000 Italy ....1,648,034,000 1,648,034,000 Liberia .. 26,000 26,000 Rumania 25,000,000 Russia... - 187,729,000 Serbia 26,780,000 +9,636,815,000 _ 9,598,237,0000 June 30, 1924, these governments had made the follow.ng payments on the principal: France $ 64,298,000 225,181,000 10,000,000 2,003,000 720,000 37,000 1,794,000 $304,035,000 Settlement of Breat Britain's debt approved February 28, 1923, pro- vides that repayments may be made in obligations of the United States. These payments reduced the public debt $312,937.000 to June 30, 1924. > THE GIFT of the giver and the siver of the gift both find favor with “her” when it is bought through the “Gifts for Her’ column of the Classi: fled Section. "The Coffee } ‘These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either e horizontally or vertically or both. 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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. VERTICAL 2—To fall Ini drops 8—A worthless leaving 4—Seventh musical note 6—The English navy (abbr4 6—Act of clearing of forest aeore 7—One having charge of a publil- cation (abbr.) 10—Pertaining to fruits - 12—A garment worn In Arabla of Denmark 14—One who manages (abbr.) 15—Southern Stat 17—Measures of length (abbr.) 19—White alloy IIke German ellver 20—A native of Normandy 22—Organs of human body 26—A. common metal 30—Ancient name of Lake Come, 32—Lake In Central Italy 34—A fermented beverage 35—My lady (French-abbr.) 38—A manufacturing clty ef Penn 40—A North American country 43—Mald loved by Jupiter, changed by Juno Inte a helfer 47—A direction In musie 48—Prefix meaning In, Into 50—A large quadruped 53—Preposition 54—Hereditary (abbr.) 55—Preposition 56—A river In S. E. Russla 69—Boy’s name (famil y 65—Interjection '86—One of the continents . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1924 Mandate From People Senator Borah appears to be one of the men in public life who Is neither too proud nor to stubborn to shape his political. course by the signs of the times. He is willing to permit the voice of the people to 4 By this statement Senator Borah enrolls himself as.one of the Joyal neither afd nor comfort to the opposition. If a majority of the members of congress will follow the lead of the senator from Idaho some real ac- complishments in the way of con- structive legislation may be possible during the present short session. The election returns prove beyond cavil that the great majority of the American people place implicit faith in President Coolidge. They ques- tion neither his honesty of purpose nor his executive ability. During the last session of cefigress a bloc was formed to oppose the admints- tration. The result of this combina- tion wag to defeat a number of ad- ministration measures. But the peo- ple sat in judgment on the con- troversy between the president and ‘congress in November and uy their PUZZLE SOLUTION Solution of Wednesday's Puzzle. WOREEM DBOAOHow oa Go Booeee TEN INTETAT fOlAlr| t (abbr.) e the year along with wages are small but comfortable. The eight eae as week if you desire. res; invited ot Ours Big Dance and NOTICE The rent at the Yellowstone Apartment to be cut the first of apaitmant with Kitchostio and ieee setae aid nicht enette and laun room, and light furnished for thirty and thirty-two dollars. These i We will do our best to please. to inspect our apartments. YELLOWSTONE APARTMENT HOUSE 44 FURNISHED APARTMENTS. votes they supported the president and condeimned the opposition. Senator Borah {s one of those who will accept this verdict of che people as conclusive. He will advocate the enactment of the president's recom- mendations into laws. It is ev possible that enough senators inf representatives will follow his lead to make possible the enactment of new revenue laws by the present session. If the Mellon tax plan had been passed as ft was presented, if it had been considered from an eco- nomic rather than a political view- point, we should now have scientific rather than political revenue laws. If the president's recommenda- tions are followed there will be no legislative time consumed in at- tempt to tinker with the present transportation laws. No time will be wasted in discussing the advis- ability of abolishing the railroad labor board. If congress follows the election re- turns the United States will accept membership in the International Court of Justice. Confidence in congress will be re- stored only when congress follows the mandate of the people, and following the recommendations the president in his annual message it will be obeying the people's mandate. Electric Transportation ‘The recent convention of the American Electric Rallway associa- tion at Atlantic City which was at- tended by nearly 5,000 electric rail- way executives from all states in the union, frunished etriking evi- dence that these common carriers were never more awake to the needs of the public than at present. Five hundred thousand persons are employed in the industry which represents an investment of $10,000,- 000,000. Electric transportation is being reborn and will come back stronger than ever before with com- bined bus and electric service. Extensive use of display advertis: ing {n the cars and in newspapers was urged in a report to the con- vention. a GIFT PRICES that tempt—Christ- mas values that beckon—the “‘Christ- mas Gift Suggestions” columns of the Classified Section are full of them! Stay for a day, a week or aiyeer— iff in the service at the Belmont. The luxurious comfort for which it is famous as @ resi- dence hotel is hospitably avail- able to the transient. i This Giaaprkomaa ents to ERY ets of the posi Ded district for quiet, and near hs foe oven ee: SHERIDAN ROAD AT BELMONT * Chucage se apartments furniture and biulding are only Pay by the ictable people wanted. You arc CALL 2750 Notice—-Carpenters The Carpenters’ annual entertainment will be held Saturday, December 20, at 8 P. M. at Labor Temple. All Carpenters’ and their families should be there. Turkey Supper ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE | ~-~--+—-----9:55 p. m. TRAIN SCHEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN ~ Westbound Arrives D te es aoe wenn eee ee enone ees eee 21:30 p. m. 1: 0D. m. yh TS <e-e crturperi asia ey ts ea eee 5.45 p.m. 100 p.m , BUR! ON & QUINCY Eastbound Arrives Departs ommnemseewee: ~coccn 4:00 p. m. ~-8:10 p. m. 8°35 p.m. Arrives Departs ~---------6:50 a, m, 7:10 a. m.