Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1925, Page 8

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 The Casper Baily Tribune By. J.B. \HANWAY AND E, B. HANWAY {sued -Bvery) nit -._ -._ Bldg., 216 East Second Street, Casper, Wyo. X Eentered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter Cite Pease ra November 22, 1916 @ Business Teléphones ~2_ =.=. Branch) Telephone Exchange MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hews ‘credited in this paper and: Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) tional Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & ‘Prudden, 17020-23 Steger. Bldg., Chicago 111; 270 Madison 507’ Montgomery St., Seattle. Wash., and Chamber of Com: merce. Bldg... Los Angeles. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York; Chicago. Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are Ave., New \York City: Globe Bldg., Boston,. Mass.: San) Francisco, Cal.:: Leary Bldg... “Wash. SUBSCK ats By Carrier and Mail The Casper Daily Tribune, every evening except: Saturday One) Year, daily and Sunday Six Months, daily and Sundi Qne Month, daily and Sunday .-. One. Week, daily and Sunday .. The Casper Herald, every morning exce Qne Year. daily ang Sunday ----____ 3ix Months. dafly and Sunday. ~_-. One Month, dajly and Sunday One Week, dafly and Sunday -. ON RATES is” a ig Except.’ Satufday. Publication Offices: Tribune ‘The Astociated Press is exclusively> entitled to the use for publication of also the local.news published herein. Out of Bounds It is easy for any one to imagine an ideal public which leayes the choice and freedom of individuals in all uncer- tain-inatters undisturbed, and only requires them to abstain from modes’ of conduct which universal experience has con- demoed. But we may well ask where has there been’ seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship. And when doce the public trouble itself about universal experience? in its interferences with personal’ conduct the public is seldom thinking of anything but the enormity of acting or feel- ing differently: from itself, and. this act of judgment, thinly disguised is held up to mankind as the dictate of religion and philosophy, by nine-tenths of all speculative writers and so- called moralists. These teach that things are right because they are right, because we feel them to be so; They tell us to search in our own minds and hearts for laws of conduct binding on ourselves and all others. What can the poor public do but apply these instructions, and make. their own personal feelings of good and evil, if they are tolerably unanimous in them, obligatory on all the world? Extending the bounds of moral policing, until it eneroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities. When ought the public interfere with an individual's morals? Whoeyer in the. consideration generally due to the feel- ings and ‘interest of others,.not being compelled by. some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject. of’ moral disapprobation for that failure, but’ not: for the,cause of it, nor for the errors, merely personal to himself, which, may. have remotely. led to it..In like manner, when a person ‘disables himself, by conduct purely self-regarding, from ‘the*performance of some. definite duty incumbent on him'to the public, he is guilty of a social offense. Wherever, in short, there:is a definite damage, or risk of damage, either to/an individual. or to the public, the case is taken’ ont of the province of liberty, and placed-in that of morality/and law. Being Alone 3 Being alone is‘almost a lost art. Democracy‘can neyer be entirely successful without the aristocratic virtues. One of the most significant of these is disciplined silence: Anybody is capable of reverie. Anybody is able to pass idle hours com- posing mental novels of which he himself is the hero and in which he.does all of the things he is incapable of doing in real life. But. that. disciplined ‘silence in which the hours of lone- liness are® built into disciplined beauty: is almost a Jost .art. “The world is too much with us,” complained Wordsworth, and Matthew Arnold declared, “Each half lives’ a hundred dif- ferent lives.” The hours of brooding and creative thought, where a man discovers; himself, and begins to achieve a new quality of ‘per: sonalty are among the decisive moments of:life, The old testa: ment.prophets knew the secret. The Sayior was a great master in the art of being alone. The great saitits haye learned: in golitude the best secrets which they have given to society. It is a penetrating qquestion to ask’of any age: Is it cap- able of prodncing an ‘Amiel y-ho can write a “Journal Intime.” Causes of Business Improvement That the public debt should be paid as rapidly as possible is the-keynote of the annual report of the secretary of the treasury. He says the country is prosperous and now is ‘the time to pay. Reduction in the debt decreases interest and.amor- tization’ charges and helps: stimulate gencral business.» He warns against inflation, intimating that.unhealthy conditions may attach to the Florida land boom. He adyocates -increas- ing the coast guard and vigorous‘action to.enforce laws against liquor and narcotic smuggling. He finds conditions: abroad improving because of stabilization of money and return to the gold standard: Tax reduction by congress he regards as ulready stimulating business at home to.a marked degree. Pleasant: Burden Solemn, warning that the United, States is going to get:into trouble by holding the great surplus stock'of gold in its treas- ury continues to be sounded both at home and abroad by eco- nomists' who are anxious to’see a distribution of the basis of currency. Too much gold, we are asstred, will break the back of the nation that carries it, by dislorating trade and finance. Gloomy as this: prospect appears, there is not one nation but stands willing, to e itself by taking over our entire gold reserve in spite of all the dangers. With this in mind, we will bear our burden cheerfully. until other nations find a way to get some of our gold without sacrifice of our pride or their own. : Proposed: New Board Legislation abolishing the United States Railroad Labor Board’ and ‘establishing in its place ‘a: Board of Mediation to iron out differences between railroad management. and em- ployes is: being drafted by committees selected by:the Associa: tion of Railway Executives .and the leading labor: organiza- tions, which provides’‘that if an ‘amicable adjustment of a.wage dispute cannot:be reached,’ the’ matter jat ‘issue isto, be laid before the president, ‘who will’ thereafter appoint a: “fact- finding committee” to make, a complete report of all. elements of the situation for public consumption, what will* be: done thereafter* to depend largely: updn -public: opinion as -repre- sented in ‘congress. ’ President’ Approves The president has approved a proposed measure creating a board to. map.out a reorganization of government depart- ments. The new plan. authorizes a*board of five members made up of two senators, two representatives anda member selected by the president to study the governmental structure-and. rec- ommend to the president a reorganization of functions, the president to have authority to effect without further ‘congres: sional/ action any consolidation or shifting of functions so rec- ommended. 5 yee Says It’s Communistic Senator Underwood of Alabama attacks the federal inher- itance tax as “communistic” and interfering with state's rights. Ile cites expecially the case of Florida which has-no inheritance tax and volces objections to the federal government overturn- ing the policy of that state, which evidently is to attract wealthy men as residents by allowing them to escape’an inher- itance tax. Thomas A, Edison thinks the world can get long without more inventions until general intelligence catches up with those it now has. World Topics After exposing hundreds of fraud- ulent “mediums and mind readers, Dr. Walter Franklin Prince still believes in the’ possibility of life after death, spirit communication, telepnthy and so-called “haunted houses.”” However, he asserts that almost without. exception the material manifestations he had investigated —including spirit photography, spirit writing r and | materializa- tions had turned out to be unmitigated frauds. The of Dr. who is research officer of the Boston Society for Psychical Research, ts that of the painstak- ing ‘scientist. He has no “will to belleve,” be sald. and once he was DR WF. PRINCE as skeptical as any. But a multi- plicity of evidential circumstances have convinced him that: | 1—Telepathy is a fact. 2—That genuine, paritions people. 3—That there are certain “psy- chogenetic centers"—in other words haunted houses—that have the prop- erty of arousing in persons unknown to each other similar, and, in some instances, identical experiences. 4—That there is an element of the super-normal in some dreams. 5—That {n some mediumistic re- sults there are evidences of the super-normal. 6—That the soul survives bodily death. “Peychic research {s not a ‘cause’, tobe fought’ for,”, he “said, ‘nor something to be popularized. “God ‘save us from the populari- zation of. psychic research! If was popularized some. seventy years ago, when some estimated there were 11,000,000 spiritualisits in the country, It was so mixed up with delusion, fraud “and ouija board that we haven't recovered yet froi the nausea of it." In the course of his speech, Dr, Prince cited several cases that had Impressed him: 1—A California. business man heard. while “sleeping, the voice of his wife crying in another .city,. 70 miles away, “Walter.” He ‘awoke and heard his name repeated. Later he learned that on that night his son had been critically Mt At the exact minute he heard his. name called his wife had extended her arms and called to him. 2—Dr..Prince lfved for three years in a “haunted house" In New Jersey. His daughter was awakened at night by the sound of rapping. , Dr. Prince responded to her screams. He spent the night in her room. The sounds seemed to come from a desk In a corner, They continued intermit- tently for weeks and seemed to follow him around the house. In this house, both he and’ hik daughter frequently heard the sound as of someone walking down stairs. Tt appeared to he a man with one leg shortened. They atter- ward learned a man of this descrip- tion had once lived in the place. His daughter awokeiat night with the. sensation: that the bed) clothes were being pulled from’ “her ‘bed. Another. woman had ‘a. similar ex- perience, and in addifion the mat- tress under her began to move. “These are not isolated. cases “or T should accuse myself and every- attitude Prince, objective have appeared to many ap- with them of lunacy," Dr. Prince said. “My belief does not rest on any one case, or, in any two or three, but upon hundreds of well authenticated cases, ‘ studied» stien- tiftcally.”” Too Much With Us By Wm. Wordsworth: The | World’ ts too much’ with us; late’ and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our ‘powers; Little we see in Nature that fs.ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the Moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers. For this, for everything we arerout Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn, Commercial Aviation “It “becomes increasingly evident that, if we are to develop ‘aviation on a large, scale it will have to\ be done not by the Army and ‘Navy, but by. the commercial Interests. of. the country,” observes The Scien tific American. “This is no. re- flection ~ upon .:the) .two .seryices, whose experimental. «work, done either In thelr own shops or through contract with «private: concerns,\ has kept American aviation in the front rank as faroas the quality of. its pilots .and /machines is» concerned. With congress. in the mood to cut appropriations, and with Mr. Mad- den claiming that the Army and Navy have little to show for what they get, it 1s evident that if avi: tion {s to walt upon large appropria- tions or» actual~ subsidies—well,’ it will, have to walt forever. “Nor are subsidies necessary. There; is a-better way. Let) con- gress pass the aviation hill that has been based. upon the investigations of Mr. Hoover's committee, which has been co-operating with the American Engineering Council. in gathering data about aviation here and abroad, This bill is based upon the bellef that. the government should do for aviation what {t has done for seagoing commerce, In promoting. the latter, the federal government has lighted the channels in» our harbors; published charts; furnished weathet forecasts; pro- l vided «bureau to Inspect vessels body else who had anything to-do! of tune; It moves us not.—Great, God! I'd rather be . A Pagan suckled in a creed out- worn,— So might I. standing on this pleas- ant lea, be Casper Daily Cribune for seaworthiness; “provided -for the examination and certification of martime \officers, and finally, has developed and ‘improved ports and tiver and harbor channels. “Now'if the ‘federal government can doall this for the ships of the sea, why should it hesitate to do the same for the ships of the air? Nay, the: need is even more im- perative. Extinguish our light houses; burn our charts; shut down our weather forecasts; stop all ship Inspection and examination of pilots and officers and allow anyone who wishes to take any leaky old “hooker” to sea; ahd what would become of our waterborne com- merce? “It would Cease to be! “But. our airborne commerce is in exactly this parlous, atate—nt least so far _as government help and su- perviafon Is concerned, It has’ not ceased to exist for the very. good reason that it has never. been born. The provisions of the bill call for Ughting casts; the licensing of pilots and mechanics; providthg charts and ample weather forecasts; the. in- spection of planes, et cetera. The various towns and cities should pro- vide’ and maintain landing fields, They provide ports for ships of the sea—they should do the same for ships of the air. “Thus, and in no other way, rest assured, can the United States build up a merchant air service. “The country walts upon” con- gress.” a Seniority Rule New blood does not necessarily mean new Ideas. Sheer ablility does not necessarily mean legislative len- dership. Hence a rule-that would select committee chairmen onthe basis of merit—if anyone is ingen- lous enough to devise such a meas- |. uring: apparatus and make it work tn Congress—would be liable to work badly and really result in a deplor- able, chaotic condition in legislative matters, Merit is often connoted by senlority. Seniority n’age and sery- ice has always been enhanced in its Influence by the fact that the mem- bership has been so largely new and unskilled, Old members put confi- dence in those they have come to know in previous sessions, and noth- ing could be more’ natural. Such a principle jn followed in business and public life generally. ‘There in’sound reason for the preference, In general. of the experienced man. All other business. goes on that principle and why should not the public business? In final analysis, the sentority sys- tem seems just like plain sense. Years of service is the more Import- ant factor In developing parllamen- tary skill and general ability for con- greasional work. The seniority rule is based on years of service and hence. is more lkely to secure par- Mamentary skill and general ability for congressional work than some. other system which makes years of Service only one factor in.the choice. It-works, perhaps, occasionally with bad results, but at any rate dt works ger Ss, Buy your Hoslery and Silk Under- wear Gifts at The Stuart Shop, 136 South Center St. Your old hat made new. Casper Hat Cleaners, 251 South Center St. —————_—_ Drink’ Hillerest Water. Phone 113 Viet a CHevro'rt Tor Xmas. - Who’s Who “Money doctor of the world’ 1s what -his friends are ‘calling. Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton university, A professor of eco- nomics-at Princeton, who {s an ex- pert:-on money questions, ex: plains Proféssor Kemmerer. He has » remedied (nancial — situa. tions on ‘every continent except Austrailia: In 1903 he was made finan- cial adviser. to the U. 8. Philip- pine commission which ‘was in- vestigating’ the establishment of the gold stand. = :KEMMERER ard in the islands. Thrée years later he was-sent by the Philippine gov- ernment to Egypt. Since that time he has™served Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Bogota, Union of South Africa and Chile in an advisory. capacity. ‘ He studies the situation minutely, then prescribes his remedy. Often his -clients do not >ike his) advice but only once have his recommenda- tions been disregarded.’ This was in Guatemala when a revolution de- stroyed the fruits of his work. Professor Kemmerer was. born in. Scranton, Pa., in 1875 and |.was graduated from Wesleyan univer- sity, Connecticut.. He has: taught at Cornell, Purdue and Princeton. He is. the author of numerous treatises on financial systems, g2b ite cr Bureaucracy The assumption that bureaucracy cannot grow on the free soil of self- government has been, pretty well shattered during the last ten years. In their early struggles for freedom, Americans might have regarded bu- reaucracy as a plant of foreign growth, imposed on the people by kings and Irresponsible rulers, But if we ever cherished the theory that the people, If left. to themselves, would see to it that their: govern- nient machinery is kept down to the minimum of absolute necessity, we have to revise our faith on looking over the latest official figures de talling the high cost of state govern- ment: Statistics Issyed by the department of commerce shaw that the cost of maintenance and operation of State governments has more than doubled between 1917- and 1924. The per capita cost has risen from $4.19 to $9.00. ‘ Now it should be noted that this expenditure was’ caused simply and solely by the increase: in» govern- mental machinery. These. figures refer merely to the cost of “mainte- nance and operation of general de- partments” in the households. of the forty-elght states. They do not in- clude expenditures for permanent improvements, such as highway con- struction, or for extraordinary items like the soldiers’ bonus. In fact, permanent improvements account for less than one-third of the funds spent by the states, In pre- clse figures, only 294 per cent of the total state expenditures went for im- (The B provements, while operation: of: gov- ernmental machinery, In other words Inflated bureaucracy, ‘bed | two CONOCO_ REG.U.S. PAT OFE, Gasoline ESERVEDLY recognized ‘asthe powerful high- mileage motor 'fuel:, Recognized, too, for its prompt ‘starting and, smooth-running characteristics. From the start, with a’cold engine, to the end of the journey, all year ’round, Conoco Gasoline gives. more and better: motoring alanced CONTINENTAL OIL :COMPANY Producers, Refiners and Marketers ‘ lebraska, New Mexico, Dakota, “More Miles Better Miles Utah, Washingeon ond Wyoming thirds, ‘or 66.2 per cent during the year 1924. These figures show the possibility of. bureaucratic expansion, if the ganized appetite for’ public jobs. In spite of reforms, good government leagues and primary elections, the ultimate source of bureaucracy, the old spoils system, seems to: flourish pretty vigorously, and many state officials seem to be amazed at the suggestion that it might be’ possible to retrench and cut down the num- »| ber of officeholders. But when Pres- ident Coolidge sees a practical: ex- ample to the states by federal re- trefichment, some state (executives explain ¢ federal economy was “dnevitabl after the war and “would have come, anyway.” “\Vhy did the “inevitable” post war econ: omy fall to reach the state:govern- ments up to 1924? British Tariff ‘Rates Free trade advocates in’ the Unit- ed States can draw small’ comfort from: London reports to the. effect that.new import duties‘are seriously being -proposed in the: British par- Nament. The committee of the board of trade there which has been in- quiring into the subject has recom: mended that there be duties on cut- lery, gloves, packing and wrapping Paper and glass mantles. It is rec- ommended that the ad valorem duty ‘on gloves and cutlery’ be thirty-three anda third per cent for the next five years, 4 It is said that these new duties are not meant as retaliation against the United States because of our protective tariff.but are designed to- protect British industry against Ger- man comeptition. The industries manufacturing the articles on. which the duties are recommended are said to have suffered severely because of 3erman importatigns into Great Brit- ain and something must be done to save them from wreck. Now wages have been steadily de- creasing in Great Britain for the past several years and there is much industrial unemployment. If Great Britain with wages lower than ours, and an idle population anxious to work, cannot compete with German importations, what would happen to the United States if our tariff duties were lowered?. We’ would) of course getia flood of imports from all parts of Europe’ and from Great Britnin too, The tariff at present ts none too high; and our imports are steadily creeping up on our exports, A lower- Ing of the tariff, as proposed by some of our free trade statesmen would be little less. than. industrial suf cide. _ The Constitution “I mean to stand upon the Con- stitution. _I need no, other platform. { shall know but one country. .The ends I alm at shall be my country’s, my God's and truth’s. I was born an American; I’ live an - American: T shall die an American; and J in- tend to perform the dutles tn-um- bent upon me fn that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of ‘per- sonal consequences. What are. per- sonal consequences? What iis the Individual man w.th all the goo1 or evil that may. bet de him, in. com. narison with the or. vhot may befall a «reat country eri-, sis like this, arid in the midst of great transactions which concern that country’s fate? Let the conse- quences be what they will, people fail to put a'curb‘on the ors|careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can ‘fall too soon, It he suffer or if he fallin the de- fense of the lberties and Constita- { am ster. July 17, 1850 == fi A ,) The Evolution of the Overland Roufe It used to be when milady went West her trip was fraught with hardships and perils. The. Crinoline girl would gasp if she could but see how her great granddaughters make the trip today over that same historic route. For the all-Pullman Famous San Francisco Overland Limited has all the niceties which women best appreciate: a bath when she wills, and, among other luxuries, a maid, manicure and hairdresser. Similar service for men. Overland Limited leaves Cheyenne at 10:15 p-m., daily. Solid Pullman train with obser- vation, buffet, club and dining cars. | Pacific Limited leaves Cheyenne at 2:20 p.m., daily. Standard observation and tourist sleepers, chair cars and di =] You may include beautiful Salt Lake City 4 en route by making a short side-trip. Fe California books and ° Sot oreationveah 0. B. Stapelton, Ticket Agent Union Pacific System — Union Pacific Station Cheyenne, Wyo. \ T0T-4 (CHRISTMAS CARDS" are the sim- .plest and most sincere expression of a sentiment that is universal. The: ie enable thousands to send greetings. whi otherwise might be neglected. A beauti- ful, well chosen card, inexpensive.as it is, will carry as much sentiment as a jewel or painting. GIBSON Greeting ‘Cards are always acceptable to our customers because they are chosen with a care for beauty and appropriate sentiment. Casper Stationery Co. 115 E. 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