Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 18

’ | | | fe Advertising Representatives ir 23 5 PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Datly Tribune By J. Entered at Casper (W. BE, HANWAY AND E. E, HANWAY 5 oming) postoffice as second class matter, Novembe 1916 at Carper, W building, oppo: usiness Telephones -.- Branch Telephone ‘oming. Publication offic te postoffice. s: Tribune -- 15 and 16 i All Departments £86 Fitth ‘on Bldg., ples of the Daily Tribune and San Francisco offices ome. and visitors are wel SUBSCRIPTION RA‘ Carrier and Outside State y Year Months, I Months, Dally a » Daily and Sun on une will not arred must be paid in ad r subec nd the Dail becomes one month in ripuor fh YOU DONT Trit t call 15 or 16 r complaints The Farmer’s Needs agricultural commission appointed by the president to te all phases of agriculture in the United States with a view to the enactment of proper statutes to correct unfavor able conditions, has finished its task and has submitted a very thorough report of .its proceedings and recommendations. The report hits, in no incertain terms, the conduct and ad- ministration of certain federal agencies, such as thé interstate commerce commission and the tariff commission. The depart- ment of agriculture, federal reserve board and internal rey- enue bureaus also came in for their share of criticism. The committee found, it reported, that inter-departmental or in- terbureau jealousies were seriously handicapping the admin- stration of some departments and were causing a “dog in the manger” attitude that is resulting in the under-expansion of some governmental agencies and the retarding of the develop- ment of others. Furthermore the commission has declared that agriculture is suffering from the country’s lack of a unified banking sys- tem and suggests that the remedy lies in measures to increase the relatively small membership in the federal reserve system and in a modification of certain state banking laws. He: ure now being held by a house committee and efforts will be made to frame legislation for the consideration of congress; at this session. The report of the commission is refreshingly frank. It deals with facts, not personalities. Where the fault lies it has been exposed in impartial manner. The tiller of the soil is the backbone of the nation. We cannot exist on concentrated, chemically distilled food tablets yet and are’ still dependent upon the farmer for what we eat. It is only fair to so regulate matters so that he may make a reasonable profit as he supplies us with the necessaries of existance A Poor Practice It is a very general practice for judges and magistrates, after sentencing an offender, to suspend sentence providing the eniprit absents himself from the jurisdiction of the court and does not return for a specifid time. se illustrating the point recently came to light in New Jersey when a man, plead- ing guilty to carrying concealed weapons, was put under sus- pended sentence and warned that he must leave the jurisdiction of the state at once and not return therein for five years. This practice cannot be too harshly condemned. Hither a man is guilty or he is innocent. Hither he deserves a probation or parole period under the supervision of the proper officers or he does not deserve this leniency. But here is the spectacle of a guilty man, a man guilty of a high misdemeanor, being let off scot free and foisted off on any other state where he may elect to go, absolutely unpunished. Let a state punish the crimes within the state. Why should the rest of the nation suffer from the depredations of crim- inals exiled from the scene of their wrong-doings by a selfish justice which seeks not to correct a condition but to conduct a judicial system a minimum of expense. What matters it to jaw-breaker where the scene of his next escapade is? He es- capes the payment of his crime against society without even having to serve a term in the county jail. Of what use is a court of law? Why not simply broadeast to the underworld that we don't want them to break the laws but if they do just to go quietly out of the state and “please don’t come back for five y o Sustained Interest Women continue to show an increasing interest and actiy- ity in things political, instead of a decrease after the novelty had worn off, as was the melancholy prediction. This has been demonstrated by the journey of 300 women from a single coun- ty, Monmouth, in New Jersey, to Washington to call upon President Coolidge to convey to him the greetings of the Wo- men’s Coolidge Army, an organization of 10,000 women organ ized to work for his election, Lead by Mrs. Lewis 8. Thompson, national committeewoman and commander-in-chief of the and Miss J. Mabel Brown, vice-chairman of the count general of the “army,” the 300 women made the pilgrimage, with no axe to grind, no favors to ask—just to tell the presi dent that they were “standing by.” This would seem indicative of a sustained interest and a sincere intention, Wilbur Scoffs Secretary of the Navy Wilbur scoffs at the “boggy man” of the widespread rumor of the wholesale poison gas and dis ease germs to be used in the “next war.” “If poison gas can be used on one side it can be used on the other, as Germany found + out to her sorrow,” he says, “and if disease germs can be used on one side they can be used on the other, Moreover, the nation using disease germs as a means of offense cannot confine the effects of disease to one side of the fighting line. You can’t keep smal) pox or any other disease on one side of « given line and what will render the soldiers of one side of the line im mune to disease will render the soldiers on the other side im- mune also.” Secretary Wilbur scores the “wild rumors” which have gone the rounds concernings the horrors of war to come. He is the counterpart of the man, who, when his wife awoke him in the middle of the night to say that she had heard a noise and that there were burglars in the house, calmly and sooth- ingly informed her that “it must have been a mouse” and went to sleep again Character Building It is becoming ever more broadly recognized that one of the proper functions of a school is character training, in fact that one of the most important functions of a school is to lay a sound foundation of character upon which the educational tructure may be builded to the honor and advancement of the human race. The too crowded cirriculum hag failed to idmit of much effort in this direction, and it is with great atisfaction one prepares to observe New York city’s board of education in its effort to weed out fome of the less important ubjects to provide time for character training, This section of the report should serve as a basiy for other communities sr to represent the best in educational values, Character traiging should be the aim of all school actly. fhe Casner Sundav Crihune ities and the groundwork in every school subject. The present crowded curriculum makes character training difficult. The course of study should, therefore, be reconstructed in terms of character qualities, Wabits, tastes, interests, and attitudes, as well as skill and information which should be acquired in each year and each subject. Spec high grade teachers par- ticularly gifted in character training should be assigned to , help pupils study ethies through story, lecture and direet ap- plication as a means of counteracting the influence of news- paper scandals and moving picture suggestion.” The further intention is to also grade and rate the subject on the same plain as in academic work, and to provide parents and guardains with detailed reports of the pupils’ standing and improvement. This should, prove of invaluable aid and as- sistance to the parents in checking up and supplementing their own observation of the particular deficiencies and needs of children and in their effort to correct these deficiencies and errors through proper training, and seems indeed worthy of a wholehearted trial. Almost Too Much Still another public official has asked that his income as such be reduced. He is Sheriff Arthur 8S. Maudlin, of West- chester county, New York. His s ry is $10,000 and the addi- tional fees that accrue to him bring the total close to $30,000, Sheriff Maudlin has asked that the fees be abolished. Either his name is an index of his condition or else the long discussed millenium is almost upon us. Tere is a public official actually asking that his income be reduced from $30,000 to $10,000. It is unthinkable, In this day of money- grabbing and eommercialism what has prompted the sheriff to request such a strange procedure? Sheriff Maudlin is the second official in his county to suggest a cut in his own salary. The other official was Daniel ). Nolan, county. coroner. Is this condition contagious? Could it become epidemic? If so, let us supplicate the powers that be ‘to send us a thorough plague of this strange and rare disease, Election gf Immortals There has been a change in the rules governing the nomi- nation of candidates for New York university's hall of fame. It is readily understood that one must be dead to be great, but the board in control has decided that they must be even deader than has been required up to this time. We may be in error, but we are under the impression that ten years had been supposed to be sufficient time to clearly demonstrate that the candidate had passed beyond mortal ken. The term has been lengthened to twenty- ) However as death is a positive and not a comparative term, the shortness or length will hardly concern the condi- date, if one must wait until death for fame, it matters not how much Jonger one must wait. ; Be eC Do You Think So? It is reported that William J. Bryan spent half an hour recently with President Calvin Coolidge, and there is much curiosity as to which of the twain supplied the bulk of the conversation. Possibly the eminent gentlemen sat down in a corner and worked over the cro rd puzzle of unison. The Lord Knows Meetings of the Chicago city council are now opened reg- ularly with prayer. Some of the aldermen heard that the Unit- ed States senate always began its sessions that way and be- lieved themselves entitled to the same formula. Most folk are ready to concede that a Chicago alderman is highly in need of all the prayers he can get, but nobody supposed he would start the program of devotion himself. In the old days the council was usually opened with jacks or better. Naturalists of the Argentine museum of natural history have discovered fossils of five glyptodons and one scelido- therium, a fossilized human skeleton and a human skull in the deposit along the banks of a lake near Chasoomus. While the Argentine pampas yields fossilized animal remains in abundance, human fossils are rare, although it is contended by local scientists that there is plenty of evidence that men lived on the pampas in company with the prehistoric beasts. Gold and gilver stockings made of metal threads have be- come a fad with the feminine gamblers in the casinos of the Riviera. Suffice it to say that skirts at the same time are grow- ing shorter, CROSSWORD PUZZLE Thet skin disedse tn 25 horizont al could almost be “the highest point with the change of only one letter. This hint should help you got. it ed ik) hal Ee 4Gne & ia Sai oe ita Slit RATE AE Re ene ee ee ee | Letters From the People The Tribune welcomes contributions, the only requirement being that all communications must be signed by the writer, although name will not be used if requested, and not exceed 500 words. While we may not agree with the views expressed by contributors, we are glad never- theless to provide the means for dissemination of the public's views. “HANG MEN WHO MAKE THE BOOZE,” SAYS SUBSCRIBER Casper, Wyo. Editor the Tribune: ~ IT am a subscriber to your paper and never miss reading an article and after reading all about that young girl who shot her mother, I was tempted to sit down and write an article in the hopes my letter will be printed. What fs the matter with America today? The world seems to be up- side down or something. You have read about that young 16-year old girl who shot her mother? Hundreds upon hundreds of yotng girls are to going straight hell every day. Why? Because of this damnable booze. Why don't they stop this so- called drink? Because the judges couldn't them up in court. and get a and the cops wouldn't reason to pinch a guy if they did. There's one, and only one way to stop this and save the young girls and boys from the depths of hell. “Hang the men who make the booze,"" get little money have much of_a Perhaps one girl out of every 10 will go to the devil because she wants to, but the rest’are persuaded and dragged down by specimen who call themselves “me Are they men? No, they are the lowest, vil- est scum of the earth. They may think they are men but they aren't, and when a girl goes wrong, what do the majority of the people who call themselves Christians do? They kick and trample ier down, down, down until there {s nothing left of her, and 10 chances to one, the peo- ple who do the kicking are the very ones who have no room to kick. You boys and girls who smoke and drink, stop right isn't going to help you don’t think it cute. Le! right now, it {s_mue straight than it is to Will’ you do your bit to help America be a better, cleaner, purer and sweeter nation by letting tobac- co and drink algne? SUBSCRIBER easier to go go croked. RANCHER SAYS PROMISE OF COUNTY ROAD REPAIR “HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED Editor Trfbune: Casper ‘has been cut off from a revenue of more than $100,000 dur- ing the past two years because the Gillette road which branches away PUZZLE SOLUTION Solution of Saturday's Puzzlo Sanus [olojR] ITheEMBAIRIRIA(N IGT e Me] w/c} eI BE Ob fon 8 @ goo8 HIATRIE a ATH] VERTICAL, Round pyramid. Viscous liquid Soll Row Female deer 4 Near. 8 | To set Sour | To shock. Mus! First part of day Not ar 6: Caress. Your 7. You and I Rode §. 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Thus One thousand dollars cash today, will clinch the deal-can you swing, 117 SAVINGS to the northeast from the Salt Creek highway immediately north of nine mile lake has not been main- tained and kept in repair. é ‘We farmers and ranche: who live along this road between Casper and,.the vast territory to the north- east ike to trade in Casper. We reallze that Casper stores and Cas- per merchants carry a much larger stock than any of the other towns around in this section and that we can\ always get better prices for our produce and better bargains in things we want to buy than any- where else. There are over a hundred families of us who prefer to- trade in Cas- per whenever we can, but that 1s seldom. Our cars have been wrecked and stalled time and again in*trying to make it to the city and back over the Gillette road, and we have just about given up in despair in trying to get into your city. We might mention further that there are lots and lots of supplies that are bought in Casper. and hauled oyt to the stockmen and oil men over this road whenever it {o.passable, by men who do like to do their buying in Casper. But going to Douglas on SUNDAY, FFBRUARY 8, 1925 account of the awful condition of the Gillette road, which is now a foot under water, and ag a result, Casper merchants lose this business, which they are much in need of at the present time. We have found out that the mem- bers of the Natrona county board of Commissioners make promises with no intentions of ving up to them. A year ago we petitioned the board to repair our road, to re grade ft, and make it paseable. The board agreed to do the work as soon as summer came and the road atied up. Before long it sum- mer, and@ the road was as a dry bone, but nothing has as yet been done, In our opinion, the commis- stoners might well bave foregone the expensive item of spending $12, to $14,000 on a bridge across the Platte river in the rear ot Iba's ranch that is absolutely useless and spent a fraction of this mobey on our road that would have served hundreds of people. As it fs, they have gone to the expense pf build- ing a wonderful, beautiful, high- class bridge over the Platte river in the back of Iba’s ranch. , You must go through a gate to get to ft, and climb a steep hill to get away from {t on the north side of the river. When you finally reach the top of the hill, you can see just two homesteader’s homes, with an occasional shack near the river bank, which is not occupied. This bridge-is constructed where no one In fact, no one even s where it Is but the commis nd just a tenth of the cost idge would have put our 359 East Second Street be yo ba You might call it luck, but have you ever noticed how often the systematic savers suc- ceed? Ue. = Think of your financial posi- : tion a year, or ten years‘from today. Then consult your own st judgment. Don’t you really think the very next thing you should do is to decide the amount you should save each month and then OPEN A SAVINGS AC- COUNT and stick to it! ° A cordial welcome awaits Use the many de- grees of servicé which this u here. nk offers, WYOMING NATIONAL BANK Corner Second and Wolcott TRUST SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT COMMERCIAL road in passable shape and would have opened up a vast territory to the northeast, while the two home- -steaders on fhe north side of the river near the north end of the bridge could have followed the hill road north of the river and crossed into North Casper, coming through the new viaduct without the loss of any time. When the board of commissioners indulges in such non-essential ex- penditures as in this case, wve won- der what they are thinking about and we wonder why it 1s that so many of us cannot have a Iit’> wh so few get such an enormous Thnk of it! An expense of thous- ands and thousands of dollars for the benefit of eight or ten people. Who could have had the nerve to ask for such an expenditure? W’ could have thought of building such a beautiful bridge where no body goes and nobody knows? The faflure of the commissioners to stand by their promise should be a concern not only of ours bu of the business men of Casper. as we are prevented from coming with our produce and returning with our supplies on account of the terrible condition of the highway It's only right that’. we should have this rond made passable, and we believe the Casper merchants will back us unin our demand, as the highway means lots of busi the burden of so lavishly ness to those who pi the taxes that is sp the commissioners. Farmers and Stockmen on the Gillette Road Noftheast of Casper. A space only five feet square is required to install a bathroom as pictured above. See our showroom for many other types of fixtures, Schank Plumbing & Heating Co., INC. Phone 711