Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1925, Page 14

PAGE TWO | “ Denendable Dealers Use These Pages — Che Ca spet Sunday Cribune , OLOSSPEEDING UP CAR OUTPUT Trend Toward Closed Models Also Shown in Sales. e bi public trend to- 1 type of automobile 1 t ed by the ex- Motor’ Works, big units of General Mo- two ago 50 the general t of all cars big Cldsmobile of the closed Lansing are ented demand for edans has necessitated ges in Oldsmobile pro- slans. It has been necessary \dditional floor space and rearrange shop layouts in certain | departments to accommodate the tn- creased operations made necessary natly increased’ closed Oar portant change made over by the Fisher of an additional comprising over { floor space. pace added to the operations gives for greatly increasing tion of closed bodies, for ely. facilities in the Lansing, together and expansions in will make it pos double its em f exclus increased plant at extensions for Oldsmobile to stion by Ja College Education Worth $70,000, One Estimate Declares 14.—(United Press). of a college educa- $70,000, ac- it ical survey con- n Everett W. Lord of of Business Administra- n University. in connection with gation into the earning undergraduates at the Oldsmobil These i A By graduates in 1924, who, as 5 freshment, were earning $20 a week ess, 13 had increased their sal- uries on the average of 68 per cent when they recelved their degree, ac- to Dean Lord's report. had doubled thetr ven had tripled them; drupled them; two had in- eased them five-fold, and one was r six times his weekly salary 1924 brought rains rit arn: five . freshman when ree. How’s Your Electrical System? SEE SANDS ‘gf Sands Battery Shop 430 W. Yellowstone { Phone 1692 Batteries, Electrical Equipment THE GUEST After awhile) we “wit sit down to- gether? ; . He will be ponderous, settling lke a cow, Thickly satisfied with God and wea ther— I shall permit, his pasture bow. And we will’ talk tobacco and elec- tions, with a Sccurities, acquaintances and pen: He'll rhyme the latter with his smooth perfections, Content to see me slowly nod again, Lil know the price of every piece of silver Used to chop his richly scented food; I'll tell myself his heavy hands would pilfer Golden nails from some cathedral’s rood; JOHN SAYS: IF AFTER SEEI Ss CA and Getting Ou You Can Do Be ED RS r Ridiculously LOW PRICES tter Elsewhere | | GO TO IT! UT— | Phone 79 _| JOHN H. WHISENHUNT & Co. a Books and Bookmen A Column of Gossip and Opinion TED OLSON. Looks Like PRETTY GooD EAM To BACK 4 ! \ j Wish \\\ SRUIAN i) ‘ yi A tel ( iH lll Ay mCi) Ny! Mi ti es, Orr) here. Then we will part . he knows What birds are saying down his or- chard rows! —S. Bert Cooksley in Verse. «I wonder if ‘Americana 1925" is a book cal-| culated to keep the reader shuttling | between wild mirth and astonished wrath. Every line of it is outrage- ous; all of it is funny; much of it, to anyone who cares a little about Such ancient myths as liberty and tolerance, verges close on tragedy. If you are not a reader of the Amer- ican Mercury, let it be explained briefly that “Americana” ts H. L. Mencken's title for a monthly de- partment made up of clippings from the press, quotations from election handbills, excerpts from public ad- uresses, which hold up to uncon- scious ridicule the ignorances and preudices and follies of what the doughty editor-critic the “booboisie.” loves to term In this volume Mr, Mencken has collected these items, arranged them according to the states whence they come, and thrown in by way of good measure a glossary of ribald definitions and n of “Notes for Foreign Students,” embodying brief and un- complimentary, xump-ries of w! he considers ihe ~utent features of ich state, in his preface, zeal | ders have culled a absurdities from the ’ Naturally the small saper is particularly well rep. d, bu tropol | not restricte Lonjatrat these y And it is at ong with prohibition, lunch- | eon clubs, and censorship, that Mr. Mencken and his collaborators, con- ous or unconscious, have leveled their most venomed shafts. Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher, proclaims this volume, in his jacket blurb, as “the ideal bedside book” { question it. There is fun enough io be sure to savor slumber with a wealthy hilarity, but there also is rovocation for sleepless hours of umination on the state of the re- ubllc and the future of civilization. A ponderous thesis on the folly of ‘aw-makers is comprehended in this Lrlef list of “acts forbidden by city ordinances in Los Angeles: “Shooting rabbits from street cars “Throwing snuff, or giving it to a child under sixteen. | “Bathing two babies in a single bathtub at one time. “Making pickles in any downtown district. “Selling snakes on the streets." Funny? Of course But weighty also with material for thought on court congestion and the reasons for current disrespect of the law. Van Loon recently wrote a large volume on “Tolerance.” ‘There is iuaterial for another in @ few items Lke these: From the Denyer Post: “Chief of lice Candlish {ssued an edict Thursday forbidding white women or white girls bethg in the employ of Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican or Negro restaurants. ... The chief did not promise to find Jobs. for them.” From Goldsboro, N. C.: Moses and his wife, wealthy ne- groes, left here in Pullman berths tonight for Washington and York This is th first tim history of this et at negroes “Allen have “had the nerve,” one citizen | expressed it, to buy sleeper tickets ens are aroused, and it is sald the Ku Klux Klan will| tions of biology which have fathered White citi be asked to give Moses a warm re- ception on his return.” From an ad in a Pennsylyania daily: “Milk from a Holstein cow; Protestants only.” From Virginia: “Two hundred ex- cited persons, gathered before Mag- istrate Bell'in Princess Anne coun- ty, assused 70-year-old Ann'e Taylor of witchcraft. Whether convinced cr not that Annie could kill a mule by waving a cane at him, queer the rising of good corn bread, or put snakes in a woman's stomach, the court banished her to North Caro- Mna.”* From the application for member- ship in the Order of Bookfellows, an organization of professed literati: “I pledge myself . + to be kindly and tolerant toward those who think a3 I do, and to maintain the ancient free speech, why should it be exer- cised at times and under circum- stances which trritate people?” These will do for an exhibibt. There are many others as choice, as infuriating. There are many. to be sure, that are merely funny. For instance, a sign posted on a public road in Georgia: “noTIS “Trespaser’s will be persekuted to the full extent of 2 mongral- dogs which ain't never been overly sosh- ibil with strangers and 1 dubble bar- rel shot gun which ain't loaded with no sofy pillers. Dam if I ain't tired of this hel raisin on my proputy.”” There is frank blas, of course, in Mr. Mencken's title. These quota- tions are not the final word on American civilization any more than “Main Street’? was the final word on village life. Nevertheless, he has performed a valuable service in col- lecting them. They may help to jar some of us out of our complacent assurance that these United States represent the ultimate pinnacle of culture and civilization and may drive home a wholesome realization that there 1s yeoman work yet to be done before “life, Iberty and the pursult of happiness” are assured every man. And even if you haven't an atom of crisading fury within you, you'll find “Americana” mighty good read- Ing. Many of the current .misconcep- “In all the world no value like this” PLEX SPRINGS, another exclusive Ov- erland advantage—-easier riding, easier « full-size 5-pi |-grown people — big-car '+ ++ Priced at only $595! Extra Big Doors—extra wide... room and abe wercseat Pare 5 a light-car classic with 91 modern features— traditions whenever I agree with them.” From an editorial in the Houston Chronicle: “Granting the right of’ much loose philosophy and more bad politics and economics are dealt with summarily in “Premetheus: or Blg- logy and the Advancement of Man.” It is a small but potent volume by H. 8. Jennings, director of the zoo- logical laboratory of Johns Hopkins university, and it is published by Dutton as one of the ‘Today and Tomorrow” books The average layman has come to think of heredity as a rather simple affair. Mr. Jennings shows that it is on the contrary extremely com- plex. The old Mendelian idea of unit characters, uniformly inheritable, is far from the truth. ~ “Research has shown,” he writes, “that the substances passed from parent to offspring, giving rise to the phenomena of inheritance, are a great number of discrete packets of diverse chemicals, embedded in a less diversified mass of material. When the organism becomes a parent, these sets of packets are distributed to the offspring accord- ing to a simple plan. The laws of heredity are in the main simply the rules of distribution of the packets.” He points out that the possible number of different combinations is virtually infinite, and that as many as fifty reactions may enter into the formation of so simple a character- istic as the color of an eye. More- over, the interactions cover a long period of development, during which outside conditions continually oper- ate. Therefore heredity and envi- ronment have practically equal weight in determining what the in- dividual shall become. To sum up; “Characteristics are not inherited &t all; what one in- herits is certain material that undér certain conditions will produce a par- ticular characteristic; if those condi- tions are not supplied, some other characteristic is produced.” From this outline of scientific fact as it fs accepted at present, Mr. Jennings draws certain fruitful con- clusions. He points out that our present immigration policy, which holds that certain peoples are gen- erally unfit to become part of the American commonwealth, is sclenti- fically unsound. The new environ- ment may well bring out character- istics that have never before appear- ed in that race. Thus he pokes an inexorable pin of truth through the bubble-philosophies of such nolsy Klan-sociologists as Mad'son Grant Lothrop Stoddard, and Albert Ed- ward Wiggam. The dreams of the eugenicists, that a race of super-men may be propagated by the methods used in developing a spineless cactus, for instance, he dismisses as equally fal- lacious. “So long as bi-parental in- heritance is kept up,” he concludes, “ . capitalists will continue to produce artists, poets, socialists, and Icborers; laboring men Will give birth to capitalists, to philosophers to men of science; fools will produce wise men and wise men will produce tools.”” This dictum may confound the over-optimistic, but it has comfort for those worrled\ folk who have feared that our civilization is doom- ed because college graduates have only one child or two, and imml- grants have ten or eleven. Appar- ently Nature doesn't “worry greatly about college degrees or the shade of skins. She may yet give us a Shakespeare or a Newton or anyAr- istotle from south European immi- grant stock. S. Bert Cooksley, whose acid little character sketch’in verse? Heads this cotumn, is a young California poet of signal promise. He 1s somewhere around 24 years old, -he lives: in-San Francisco, and he edits the Overland Monthly. The story of “The First World Flight,”” as told to Lowell Tomas by the intrep!’ American airmen who made it, is to be published soon by Houghton Mifflin. “Pribune tead- ers’ will remember that it ran ser- ially-in this paper last year. The mellowing influence of ad- vancing years upon youthful radi- calism was never better fllustrated than in Ida M. Tarbell's “Life of Judge Gary.” Time was when Miss ‘Tarbelt was one of the most vigorous of “trust-busters” — remember her arraignment of Standard Oil? But her discussion of the steel magnate fs almost unqualified panegyric. Biography has long been reserved almost exclusively to men—except, cf course, in the cases of such world figures as Queen Victoria. But wo- men are haying the'r-innings now. Gamaliel Bradford’s book “Wives,” is being followed in the spring by one entitled “Some Amer- ican Ladies,” In it Meade Minnig- erode, co-author of * on} One of the best recent outdoor, ad- venture novels is A. M. Chigholm's “The Red-Headed Kids”. There is effective characterization, a North woods seting that bears the stamp of reality, and a logical, swift-mov- ing, consistently interesting story. The first of a new series of short stories by Jameg Branch Cabell ap- peared in the November Red Book. It is, ike most of ‘his best work, a chronicle of Poictesme. The anthology season is on. Here is “The World's Best Short “Stories, of 1925" to launch it, The title is a ‘4 bit deceptive, for “World” refers to the newspaper and not the sphere. The book embodies a new method of choice, sinte the sixteen stories it contains are those chosen by as many editors as the best their re- fective magazines had published during the year. Will James, inimitablo artist and commentator of the range, has fol- lowed his “Cowboys North” and South” with a new volume of draw!- ing narrative ang racy pictures. It is called “The Drifting Cowboy." ERIE LAWYERS PROPOSE ._ INCREASE DIVORCE COST RIE, Pa:, Nov. 14.—(United Press) ie, known as the Reno of the East, may_ soon lose its reputation of being a place where divorces.may be obtained cheaply . In; this eity one can fil) an.appli- cation for divarce by paying a fee of $2, and a hearing of testimony before a. master requires a honor- arium of $25. In other nearby cities fees of $10 and $50 are charged, re- spectively, for the filing and hearing, Local vyers claim the strenuous task of hearing domestic difficulties should be rewarded with increased stipends. Action by the country bar association with that in view i fore- cast. eee Tell the A¢ vertiser—"] saw ft In The Tribune 7 SEE XEMMER “The Fender Man of the Town” 455. W. 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