Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1925, Page 6

vaMAt PAGE SiIX The Casper DailyTrime By J, EB. HANWAY AND B. b. HANWAY Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class. matter, vember 22. 1916. every Sunday at Caspe' build! Wyoming. iS. opposite postoffice. Casper Daily Tribune Issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Publication offices; Tribune Business Telephones Telepl MEMBER Thé Associated Press is exc all news credited tn this pa sively entitled to the use for publication of 7 and also the local news published herein. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) Advertising oy Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720. Ave., New York City; Globe B: 65 New Montgomery St., San are on fle'in the New Yo and visitors ‘e welcome. . Chicago, IL, 286 Witth ass,, Suite 404 Sharon ‘Bldg.; Copies.of the Daily Pribune Chicago, Boston and San’ Francisco offices SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One «Year, Daily and Sunday Six Months, Daily and Sunday ~. ‘Three Months Daifly and Sunday . Daily and Sunday ~. Sunday only .. By Mail Inside State ne Year, Daily ption becomes oné month {n arrears, "tT GET YOUR TRIBUNE KICK, IF YOU DO: It you i it will be delivered to you by spect before 8 Patience No Longer a Virtue We wonder if the fact, that Kansas City bankers, mer. chants and ethers have formed a vigilance committee and armed their members with- rifles, sawed-off shotguns and other fire arms, spells anything to other communities. Kansas City has an epidemic of hold-ups, robberies and similar crimes and the police have seemed helpless to. cither capture the of: fenders or stop their dastardly work, so that citizens have taken the safety and protection of the people into their own hands. The slogan adopted by the vigilantes if “No work for the jury,’ which interpreted, means that. robbers and all sorts of law-breakers will not be invited to ride in an automobile to police headquarters, when caught in their depredations, but will be shot down and sent home or to the morgue in an’ am; bulance. This whole proceeding by business men of Kansas City has tlie proper ring to.it. If public officials, appointed for that purpose, fail or refuse to protect thé people and defend their PIODSENY, against wrongful seizure, then there is nothing else for it. Sconer or later there may be similar calls for the forma- tion of vigalance committees elsewhere. There may even be a call nearer home than we at’ present are willing to believe. What will bring a vigilance committee to Casper is just a little more trying of the people's patience with official failure, di- vision of graft by law enforcing units and misuse of publ funds. One more story of the use of the people’s money in need- less public works, for no other purpose than for the percent- age of graft accruing to officials granting the contract. and uot only will vigilance committees be formed, but public ‘tar and feather parties will be in yogue. There comes a time when the people turn and take the punishment of unfaithful officials into their own Hands. French Spoliation Claims Now that congress, at the instance of President Coolidge, may take action to pay the final amounts due on the French spoliation claims, it may not be amiss to state what. these claims are—since many persons have the idea that the whole matter concerns a myth—and, also to indicate how those in- terested should undertake the rather complicated: matter of getting the actual money from the government. These claims have their basis in our cancellation of the treaty of amity which we signed with France in 1778 when’ she helped win American liberty. The French being incensed at our friendliness towards England proceeded to seize American merchantmen right and left. Under Napoleon in France and Jefferson in America this was put to a stop, and the two nations renewed their friendship, which should never have been interrupted. As a token of the nation’s willingness to acknowledge error, we assumed the claims against. France of the numerous merchants who had lost their vessels, But these claims were very tardily paid. From 1891 to 1905 congress paid out about $4,000,000. The present bill, now ore congress, which aims to settle the matter for good, appropriates *! 069, of which, however, about $1,000,000 goes to insurance com- panies, The remainder, of $1,300,000, goes to the heirs of about 1,500 original owners of vessels or cargocs The Time Honored Theory Recently au English scientist submitted the proof by long experimentation that the moon had a strong influence upon the germinution of sceds and that the belief that seeds should be planted in the coming of the moon resied upon a scientific basis. For decades farmers have been derided for their bellef it the potency of the moon. The end sought-could-be reached by exposing seeds to moonlight befe planting. Now we are in formed thut the state of the moon governs the destructive chill ing and the freezing of fruit crops. When fruit trees and shrubs blossom in the light of the moon, they survive any subsequent frosts. But if they blossom in the dark of the moon, the fruit does not stand frosts. The dark of the moon produces wetness in the blossoms while the light produces waxiness and so the yseque crop forti fied against but the heaviest frost ' ; Tn the ern states, from whieh comes this information, the fruit b blooms come in the lig fruit crop is safe. Discovers More Wickedness Senator Norris of Nebraska brings hot charges against the United States chamber of commerce, The busines, men of the country are engaged in a financial conspiracy to buy con- trol of everything in the government from the president's cab- t down, They are inaugurating a glant p anda to for sale of Muscle Shoals natural resour: peal the in yeared in the light of the moon. If the ht of the moon, according to this theory. come tux publicity law, eliminate inheritance taxes and reduce surtaxes, “This fund,” s: the senator, “would be the most sinister influence for bad government in the whole history of our nation.” This fund, of course, means the fee of $7 per mem! which the na tion is collecting to for its publications, 7 rious expert and inye gative jes operating under spices. Seven dollars from ¢ member of an organization like the United States ehamber of commerce does’ make a lot of money; but what ean Senator Norris or anybody els¢ do about it? Is it criminal conspiracy or political autocracy or anything else reprehen- sible for an organization to solicit funds for the prosecution of its openly declared aims? And after all, is 87 per year a dangerous sum to ask from a business man by an organi- gation which supplies him with a great variéty of prihted fiat ter openly and publicly distributed for his‘ cash? American delegates who will participate officially in the league of nations confe t Geneva next month for control of international traffic in arme have sutisfied themselves that it would be impossible to shut off entirely the international traffic in arms. Such a course would merely result in compell- ing nations not now producing arms to set up and maintain sueh industries. The plan to establish a system of licensing of arms shipnients is the only method of curbing the traffic sut isfuctorily, American opinion agrees with the theory of the \ lentative copvention” tat publichy of transactions in ayas don’t find your Tribune after looking carefully for it call 15 or 18 messenger. Register complaints | mystery | ous and | of the-name of |a number of other ter Jerived. | read thi fhe Casver Daily Cribune is-vital to success. Kestrictions would uot apply as ‘to. bellig- erent nations, but the question of when a nation or a’ revolu- tionary group shall be granted recognition remains to be worked out. The question of declaring prohibited zones about which extra precautions to prevent shipments’ of arms might be thrown is yet to be worked out. Africa is already prescribed in this way by international agreement and there is an’ under: standing regarding China. ; Contradictions in History In one of the peace magazines a well-known educator la- ‘ments the contradictions of. school history books. He points out that whereas French children are made to read that Ger- miany ,was: wholly responsible for the violation of Belgian neutrality, German children at the same monient are reading how-Belgian and English officers as early as 1908, planned a march through Belgium to get at Germany. He thinks this: inakes for suspicion and hatred. Probably it does. It also makes for further establishment of the fact that history can lie and that some eminent liars have written history. Paring Taxes A 300,000,000 reduction in the federal income tax in 1926 will’ be made possible by the efforts of the administration and the appropriation committee to cut the nunning expenses of the government. Since the war ended the country has paid off $5,500,000,000 of the public debt. Appropriations by the sixty- eighth congress were: $500,000,000 less than by the sixty-sixth and $375,000,000 less than bythe sixty-seventh. The surplus for the fiscal year ending in June, 1926, will be approximately $373,000,000, of which 3$300,000,000 will be used ‘for tax re- duction. : Foreign Securities , eign securities sold publicly in the United States dur- ing rage three months of this year amounted to $279,000,000. In the first three months of 1924 the amount of money taken from the. United States in this manner was $238,000,000, Of this year’s-amount European borrowers got $139,000,000. Can- adian $67,000,000 and Latin-American countries $56,000,000. Private borrowings were $95,000,000 and governments got $184,000,000. Too Many’ Kinds Assistant Secretary Dewey of the treasury department is making a study to see if it is not possible to eliminate some of the denominations of money issued by the government. He finds that, not including the federal reserve notes and the national bank notes, there are nineteen types of paper money issued directly by the treasury. It is suggested that all silver certificates may be eliminated except the $1 and the $2 bills, and that as to greenbacks all might be eliminated. except 33 hills. For the rest there would remain gold certificates of the denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000 and $10,000. A hundred per cent American is a fellow who obeys a law that the does not like. Riddle of the Jinx “Though not ao ancient as the riddle of the Sphinx, the riddle of the Jinx presents-a problem of {ts nw ers asks apse one aN reget Hen | torial which created such a.furo us to solve, > aid-Tribune. “The mystery of the amon unreasoning prohibition fai J not in the meaning. but in | *tlcs: fener of the word, Our corres rnere jae bee. as aoenroned pondent rightly explains that Jinx is | !¢nse reaction, Bobs oon yan tie the name for a malignant, pureuing sheuntiy et arKe, i t nae itor wer, though thie, perhaps, puts St bbedsh ake he The Dry <4 mendment, Dowie etter. ‘The Jinx ie some- | Costly Error.” which The Free Pre: f 2 P ' t a akes' things go | Printed last week. See OE eoiekenr roublesute spirit “Some who have spoken or wr! one that does ‘not do his spiriting gently. He ts the opposite to’a mas cot and must be very close kin to a Jonah. But he {s not quite the spirit of heavy tragedy. He pre- sides over thoeo! little tragedies of daily life which the wise learn to bear with a grin. “One suggestion te that Jinx may be a corruption of Djinn or Jinn, known, of course, to all readers of Unpleasant but True Commenting further on ‘the su! approva} of the stand this newspap has ‘taker. But they have been a distinct minority and most of t disapproval seema to us to I: Glagnosis. What has come in soun and’ protest truth has been. stated. getting warm, as the children say, disappointing to. The Free Press with this guess, for there.does aD-lit 1. to any of its critics. pear: to; be a possible connection in “phe Free: Preis tock: ho pleasa meaning between the Arablan gob: ln, or genie, and the modern Jinx. Unfortunately, would take a good deal of magic of a very black kind | se} has turned out to be a to make;the form; of the word Jinx] perit, It has bean considerably: mo! geem like a. probable derivative of | unpleasant \to be obliged to adi Djinn or Jin: It would be ex- y to account for the ything tho’ Eng: ago, that the primary election sy tem for which it fought at’ th Its enabling a made a bad mis: ood) part of the stran, however, eides in the epelling.. Tho onl) words of the same and minx, but. wo inks, winks.a ed to acknowledge that treme form a-national curse. would ) pleasant to be able to say very numerous in English this column that the Bighteen 3 spelled in the ordinary fash-|Amendment and the Voletead a fon ay Jinks,-the word loses a’ good] have bean a success, or even to d! deal of its strangeness and ‘Oriental | cern some inimiediately | may he made.a success, toup high} {t 1s always sh {fn a LOdister- | refuse to mo. of. high sighted ee the truth because’ t haye a word which fs close to’ Mn scarcely satifice d. Jinks + asf ingland. eye to same Jennio ‘ the word is ner. of origin to Only recently iven usa new y 2 ep is to tind 4) nks oF Jinks, whore rane we | I Jinx. There is, of course the renowned Captain Castoria_ is especially pre- horse who fed ht | ‘ on corn ns, but the way to| pared to relieve Infants in ulllize Jinks in thi | arms. and Children all ages nection {s not. clear. Perhaps we | may look more hopefully in the.di-|| Of Constipation, Flatulency, rection, of Jinks the Barber, a char: acter have been tnvented wal rc = J. Reding Ware in his Passing English of the Victorian Era, was the synonym for a secret | To informer, the {dea of the character being suggested Absolutely Harmless ~No Opiates. ject of prohttitior enforcement, the Detroit Free Press has added these further opinions to the recent edi- ton have been emphatic in thelr dis- the element of strong, confident denial of the accuracy .of The Free Prese chiefly *like expression of chagrin hecause disagreeable ¥ a ve “And we wish to say that’ this the Arablan Nights. We seem'to be ltruth if quite as disagreeable and ke. It has been anything but enjoyable to be oblig-|in addition to tational pro-| the pilot. hibition, far from proving @ blessing to the country, {s, in its present ex-| king of the air’ to ultimately pro- have been. infinitely | ure made possible by truth is ugly; und ia the present case, it is absolutely craven to do so, “The United States has a great deal of trouble ahead {f.it does the ostrich act and refuses to meet the facts with regard to prohibition. ‘It has no right to refuse to-meet them. Besides having a duty to themselves and to thelr neighbors, the people of today have an unescapable duty toward \the people of tomorrow, and they will be criminally shirking that duty, if they allow the prohibition situation to drift. The Free Press, for its part, has decided to keep ‘its skirts clean. “The great mass of the comment called forth by ‘this newspaper's editorial indicates: that there is a pretty lively realization of the pres- ence of a national crisis as a result of the’ present over-strict prohibl- tion regulations. There is a quite general acknowledgement, that The Free Press has given the facts; that the dry amendment.and the accom- panying enforcement acts as. they stand are a failure-and an evil be- cause. public sentiment 'is' hostile. to them; and that ‘in the. interest. of law, order and morality it {s neces- Bary to loosen the check rein, and substitute for existing law somie- thing of a moderate, reasonable na- ture which the people of the United States wlll approve and support. “The, Baltimore Sun, one of the solid, conservative newspapers of the East, cays in an edttoria! comment: hether the prohibitionists eee {t see it, they are up against I¢ they do not modity their liquor policy, it will be modified in spite of them. If they will not ls- ten to reason, th: may have to submit to. unreason. Something must "be done‘about prohibition if the country {s not to continue to live in lawlessness, {7 it fs not to con- tinue ‘to promote erlme by law, to debauch the national . conscience through the agency of the national Constitution.’ “This, it seems to us, is a shrewd analysis of the sit Democratic Disunion Democratic disunion “has now hed the polnt where the friends f Al Smith andthe supporters of William G. McAdoo find {t tmpos- sible to meet and break bread with- out the risk of public scandal, even on the day sacred to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, who, without his permission, has been clected as the patron saint of the’ democratic party. As a result tlhe Jefferson p.| Day banquet which’ was to have been held in Washington, Apr'l 13, was cancelled, and other celebrations ve also been thrown {nto discard Ofticially, the’ Washington banquet was disposod of because William Jenuings Bryan, Franklin D. Roos- evelt, Josephus Dantels, and others uld- not attend. Apparently these re n+ ly: a smen had more wisdom in their a declinations tHan the democratic leaders who’ originally invited them $8 It: 1s: important, -however, that the republicans do not attach too much significance to these rifts in the democratic lute. it er 1 |crats, by reason of the solid south electoral ‘college b: a side {s a necessity, to be caught napping. Now the “Airford” Edsel B. Ford, with the active co- as|operation. of his father, who bullds an automobile about every | elght ds re |._minutes, has’ built an all-metal mon- in confessing; as it did some time]oplane whic has just made its in- ‘® jitlal, shccesstol, flight. chines have a wing spread of sixty ré|-but their total wetght is Jess than nit} that of a sedan automobile. The that in approving of the ratification | capacity or-as it is of the Bighteenth: Amendment and | phrased “useful duce these machines at the low fig- in | ductto: th | planes being in the nature of exper- et} imental machines, were quite costly is-|as,{s the case in all {nitial produc- mote prospect that they | tion of any sort of machinery. The speed of these “Alrfords” will be to}.100 miles an hour for pleasure crulis- he Ine atid @ capacity of 49 to 50 miles Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising there- from, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural ‘oid imitations, always look for the signature of AO TI TR cep. Physicians everywhere recommend it. tendencies of the ger ot difficult to tmagine such a might. make trouble. Tor: | aps men nowadays do not make | confidences to, thelr barbers, or, ff} sbey do, perhaps barbers do not re veal them, But one must not ap proach questions or origin like this In too teral a mind, There ts evi- dently a strong element of comedy tn the word Jinx, “And, just as no one now remembers the orlgin of mascot, so also the word Jinx may be an echo from ‘the otherwise for. gotten joke’ on Jinks the Barber, We offer this us at least © possible solution, but {f any one elee cu riddle more convincingly See els da rmtily oper.’ seat en! ee, Let Caaper Printors Print.tor Casper The UNION Label THE TRADEMARK OF GOOD WORKMANSHIP Can be used‘ by the followin, Union firms, who employ none but rinters: . The Casper Daily Tribune. Oil City Printers. The Casper Herald Service-Art Printing Co. The Commercial Printing Co, Hoffhine Printing & Stationery Cu . Slack-Stirrett Printing Co, For all of these| court, completing its investi wars and rumors of wars the demo-| of alleged wer crimes by the former | ing, have'as| gave orders to burn or plunder vil muny lives, apparently as a cat, and|lages or towns and was not ‘respon eterna! vigilence’on the républican| sible for the executions ordered by if we are’ not| the military tribunals of his arms There ma- feet, a ‘fuselage of forty-elght feet, technically load,") fe 2,000 this newspaper | pounds. There will be room in these planes for elght or. ten paseengers, he seat reserved for Tt ds-the intention of the “flivver “quantity pro- The firet two or three an hour in addition to that, for war N y ‘SUBWAY use. It is Mr. Ford's intention that the LJ a first: commercial lines of his activit will be the transportation of letters, express and valuable freight. The dream of Darius Green and his ‘flying machine fell far short of what the Fords expect to accomplish. In addition to these airplanes, or} rather “Airfords,” the Fords are building an all-metal, lighter than air machine. The portion contain- ing the ges will be made of dur. num, 4 per cent copper, and a little cobalt. These gas containers will actually weigh less than silk bags with their interior “cells” now used in the e* ‘lay dirigible. The great advant oft is metal container is that it Is - non-combustible and practically safe against lightning. The dirigible, which will carry only 100,000 cubic. feet of gas as against the 2,000,000 in.the Los Angeles, and the 5,900,000 in the latest Brit- ish ‘dirigible, will have a speed of about.70 miles an hour, It may not | be many years. before every well: equipped household will have its “Airford" to be used for going in a straight’ line instead of 1+ Henry's car over curving roads. REBELS TAKE SHALL TOWN MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 20. —It 1s reported that Honduran revo-| lutionists have captured Ocotepec, Honduras, a village 50 miles from San Salvador, and are marching toward Comayagua, which is 37 miles northwest of Tegucizalpa, the capital, where the situation is re ported as critical. | gj | Reports from Honduras, through Managua said April 14 that General Gregorio: Ferrera, with 300 followers had started: a revolutionary move ment as a result of which the gov ernment declared martial law. ‘The Ferrera movement began in - ruary and, was reported to have} gained strength during the ensuing| weeks, On February 25 the state depart- ment at Washington approved thi sale of 3,000 American military rifles and 20 machine guns with 2,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition to the Honduran government. As. surance was given these would he employed to support the covernment and to protect foreign lives and property. | Crown Prince Is TRAIN LEAVES |: RAILS, 6 HURT NEW YORK, April 20.—Six per- sons were injured when a five car alumin, which is 90 per cent alum!- | subway train containing more than Jue Righi Held Guiltless Of War Crimes BERLIN, April 20.—The s me ! ation | crown prince finds: t he never | corps. The court has therefore | quashed further proceed 8.00 A. M. P.M. P. M. ANNOUNCEMENT Our business in the Salt Creek Oil Fields has grown in such volume the past three months that we are now able to furnish the public with better service and a reduction in fare from Casper to the Salt Creek Oil Fields. New Rates of Fares and Schedules Effective Monday, April 20 Fare Casper to Salt Creek Either Way SCHEDULE LEAVING CASPER TOWNSEND HOTEL Salt Creek Transportation OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS WM. UTZINGER, President WALLACE L. 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