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The Elk Mountain Pilot
C. T. RAWALT, Publisher
MATTIE L. MILLER, Local Editor
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Fostoffice at
Crested Butte, Colorado.
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Subscription $2.00 per Year
THE public could well declare itself that no more
bond issues for roads will be voted until the state builds
its own cement mill. Should the proposed six million
dollar bond issue be passed 50% of the amount will be
passed over to the cement trust.
WE believe that the announcement of A. M. Thomas,
which appeared in this paper last week, is very acceptable
to most people. This editor has no hesitancy whatever in ,
saying that Mr. Thomas has, in our opinion, made an ex
cellent assessor heretofore, and we see no reason why he
should not do equally well again.
IT looks as if State Treasurer Stong had presumed a
little on his position and met with a small loss of about
$33,000. He refused to invest funds belonging to the com
pensation fund as ordered and now is sued personally for
the resulting loss. Some of the State Officials seem to
think laws are made for the other fellow and do not ap
ply to them.
WITH a population of a million, it seems as if Colo
rado is trying to pay taxes and run in the same class as
such states as Illinois and New York. This tax question is
going to cause trouble in this state some of these times,
and a lot of grafters and tax-eaters are going to have to
move their residence. The people that furnishes the sin
ews of existence are slow in getting tired, but it is be
ginning to tell on them. Buying silk socks, silk shirtsf
and $15.00 shoes for a common state ranger is going to
get monotonous some day.—North Fork Times.
Washington, June 6.—President Harding has asked
congress today for a deficiency appropriation of $28,122,-
500 for refunding taxes illegally collected during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.
And, still they tell us they are making great reduc
tions in expenditures! Reduce at the spigot and increase
at the bung hole. Appropriating to coyer deficiency and
constructing deficiencies by paring appropriations is a
nice bunco game by congress and the administration, that
would put a bank clerk in the penitentiary. It is just the
same as kiting checks.
WHEN the farmer mends his granary, no one shouts
that he is trying to ruin the wheat market; yet when any
one tries to mend the leaks in the money system, there
immediately goes up the cry that “sound money” is in
danger. It must be that some one finds profit in the
leaks and rifts and imperfections of our money system.
You may gauge the direction of the danger by observing
where the cries come from. They come from those who
profit, not by manufacture, or trade, or farming, or trans
portation, but by money-juggling. It is not “sound money”
that is in danger, but a system that allows expert “play
ers” to win advantage over honest workers. That system
certainly is in danger.—Mr. Ford, in Dearborn Indepen
dent.
THE attempt to worik a resolution through the Dem
ocratic Assembly by which there will be no contest before
the people, but will make, in effect, the Assembly a con
vention, is very ably and thoroughly scotched by the an
nouncement that Wm. E. Sweet will not be a party to
such a deal. Any man who proposes such an act knows
that he strives to vitiate and destroy the very life of the
direct primary. He is a deliberate assassin of the pri
mary law and we insist that at the next legislature steps
should be taken to amend the primary law to eliminate
the Assembly feature. It is the last ditch of the crooked
politician and boodle-shover. The Assembly was grafted
on the primary law and is a cancerous inoculation calcu
lated to destroy the whole measure.
NO less personage than the Hon. Elihu Root was re
quired to give the Guggenheim management of the Amer
ican Smelting & Refining company a clean bill in a recent
investigation of the corporation. Mr. Root made out a
strong case of successful management of the company and
handsome returns for the stockholders during the past
twenty years of operation, and stated that dividends
amounting to one hundred eighteen million, seven hun
dred ninety-eight thousand, nine hundred and eleven dol
lars had been paid and that company assets stood at the
vast sum of one hundred twenty-eight million, forty-two
thousand, two hundred seven dollars and twenty cents to
boot. Not one word, however, was said of the condition of
the mining industry after this amount of “cream” and
“top” milk has been skimmed off by the smelter trust.— ,
Silverton Standard.
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WE rannot see why Tom Blackwell and his pure and
sanctified crowd wnste so much space on the liquor ques- '
tion. They regard that issue as wasted in which a col
umn of boast is not published of the splendid success of
their effort to legislate the boys sober. If so, why the :
yodel? The fellows who drink the whiskey do not talk a 1
whole lot about it. They seem to take the situation phil- '
osophically. Personally we think the law has advantages.
The open saloon is closed, the whiskey trust is busted, 1
f most everybody and their aunt is learning how to make
blamed good liquor, and no man or woman who wants it
cannot get it. It would seem to be an ideal condition if
Blackwell and his bunch would only be satisfied. The
only fly in our ointment is the fact that so many of our
good folks are still peeved and angrily buzzing. We do
grieve when Tom Bladkwell is unhappy.
MR WOODRUFF of Michigan. Republican Congress
man, printed in the Congressional Record of May 15, a
letter from Captain H. L. Scaife. Mr. Woodruff explained
that Captain Scaife was engaged by the Department of
Justice to investigate aircrnft frauds, but resigned when
he found himself constantly blocked by men in the De
partment. Scaife’s letter to Woodruff explains at length
how, just after an interview with Daugherty he met Fel
der, and Felder told him he had just seen Daugherty and
that Daugherty wanted to see Scnife. Felder then offered
Scaife employment to defend the Bosch Company, and
went from that meeting to spend the night with Daugh
erty at the Wardman Park Inn. The next day Scaife re
ceived a letter from Felder retaining him as counsel in
the case. It is well to bear in mind that the Attorney
General, whose duty it is to represent the people in prose
cuting the Boschc people, advised the Bosche attorney to
hire away from the government its chief witness against
the Bosche company. The question nanturally arises,
what chance have the people to stop or prevent frauds
against their Treasury so long as a weak President puts
such men ns Daugherty at the head of the Department of
Justice, whose chief function is to prosecute the looters
of public funds?—Manatee River Journal, (Fla.)
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT
WE ndte that many papers are declaiming against the
huge campaign expenditures of Gifford Pinchot in obtain
ing his nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania. Those
papers should take into consideration the fact that there
is no law limiting campaign expenditures in that state,
and that Mr. Pinchot like all others is compelled to play
the game according to the established rules. Also the de
feat of the republican ring in that state is worth all that
it costs and no censure can possibly be placed on the suc
cessful candidate for handling his case according to es
tablished usage.
WHILE they are hunting ways to suppress the Ku
Klux we want to again suggest that the easiest way is to
make it clear that the killing of a Ku Klux is legitimate
and meritorious. The present law permits taking care of
ones self against assault. When a man singly or
associated with others, attacks any citizen, the aforesaid
citizen is warranted in shooting to kill. He may legally
assume that the attacking parties are not officers and if
he happens to kill a sheriff or district attorney, all the
worse for the official. It requires no special enactment,
merely the exercise of inherent rights.
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AT the Commencement exercises of the Gunnison
County High School last Thursday evening, we were im
pressed with the evident sincerity of the young people who
were graduating. We listened with interest to the class
prophesy, the will and testament and the general pro
gram and our thoughts ran back over the years which
have elapsed since we listened to the first commencement
exercises we ever attended, which by-the-way, occurred in
St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1872. Then as now, the young
graduates saw a world of great opportunity ahead of
them, and parents hoped, ns now, that they had builded a
better world for their children to live in. But how very
impotent are our efforts to build better. While these
boys and girls have been striving for an education, what
have we done to help them? The writer really believes
that the old live only in the hopes for posterity. But how
futile are our efforts. In the last ten years we have
heaped burdens on these boys and girls that will last dur
ing their entire lives. We have piled millions and bil
lions of unjust and burdensome taxes on their young
shoulders, a vast amount of which will be paid, if paid at
all, by their children. To that extent we have not been
good fathers and mothers. We should have builded to re
lieve rather than burden their future lives. We can find
many excuses for what we have done. We can point to
better roads, better schools, a higher conception of living
purpose, but we have acquired these benefits and handed
them to our children attached to a heavy and burdensome
mortgage, which they and their children must pay, or ex
tend.
We would not write thus pessimistically were it not
for the fact that the program of reckless waste still is
being promoted. At the time of writing it is proposed to
load $6,000,000 more burden on these young people. The
saturnalia of graft and extravagance shows no sign of be
ing abated. We do not feel like mixing denunciation of
the past with the argument for the future. We want to
deal right now with the living present. May we not hope
that in the fact that these blossoming boys and girls are
soon to take our place in solving the hard problems of
life will be found a reason why we should use a little
common sense in how heavily we burden them with taxes
and impositions?
A horde of tax eaters tell us that it is necessary for
us to bond our children for six millions of dollars to
meet the proposal of the government for road expendi
tures. That means twelve mil Hops in principal, and
about the equal of that sum in interest, for all must be
raised by additions to.their burdens, and this is for Colo
rado children alone. Other states are rushing wildly into
the maelstrom of bonding to the same extent. In the last
two years we have locally voted many times more debts
on our children than we should. How would it do to dis
continue piling burdens on the future generation? Let us
wait, say ten years, and let them pass on the advantage
of the proposed expenditures after we are gone. It is not
a good system to buy in advance of one’s ability to pay,
and this applies with equal force to communities as well
as individuals.
FARMER-LABOR CO-OPERATORS
DEMAND MEXICAN RECOGNITION
THE workers of Mexico have appealed through the
All American Co-operative Commission of Cleveland, the
national headquarters of farmer-labor co-operators, to
enlist the support of the Droducing (lasses of America
for a fair consideration of the Mexican's government’s
claims to recognition by the United States. The Co-oper
ative Commission has just sent a letter to Secretary of
State Hughes urging immediate recognitibn of the Mexi
can Government because it has fulfilled every condition
required by international law to entitle it to our friend
ship and intercourse. It proved its stability, its fidel
ity to international obligations, and its power to maintain
law and,order throughout every section of the Mexican
State. At least twenty-two governments, including
Japan, hajpe recognized Mexico, while the United States
holds aloof.
In its letter to Secretary of State Hughes, the Co
operative Commission does not mince words, but asks a
plain, honest explanation of the following facts: Why
American negotiations with Mexico, including the pro
posed treaty, have been shrouded under the cloak of se
cret diplomacy? Whether it is true that the United
States Government is acting as the agent of the big oil
promoters, sales manufacturers, and land holders in op
posing recognition of Mexico? And whether it is true
that the Department of State has demanded as the price
for recognition certain changes in the Mexican constitu
tion of 1917 protecting the Mexican people from the ex
ploitation by these vested interests?
Somewhere there is a colored gentleman in the dip
lomatic woodpile behind which the State Department con
ceals its real reasons for non-recognition of Mexico. Rep
resentatives of American farmers, workers, and co-opera
tors believe that the true reason is the progressive nature
* the present Mexican Government. If a Sultan, a Czar,
or a grafting old autocrat like Porfirio Diaz were the
ruler of Mexico, the country would have been recog
nized long ago. Bi*t President Obregon heads a workers’
government. He has secured the equitable distribution of
1 land, the separation of church and state, and the abolition
1 of P®°n»Re. He has taken the burden of taxation off the
backs of the poor and placed it on the rich. He has pro
> tected the Mexican workers with welfare legislation
• which would never have a chance in the American Con
' gress. Furthermore, Mexico is one of the two nations in
• the world which is actually spending more money on edu
-1 cation than on its army and navy; and yet oqr State De
• partment has recognized neither!
i These great reforms which have rejuvenated the Re
public of Mexico are not to the taste of the oil specu
lators, silver mine owners, and international bankers who
are grabbing Mexico’s resources. They object to Article
27 of the Mexican constitution which nationalizes the
mineral wealth of the country. They object to the pro
gressive labor legislation which is making a man out of
the Mexican peon. And they yell “confiscation” because
the Mexican Government is determined to break up the
vast estates so that every farmer and worker can have his
little plot of land, for which the Government proposes to
indemnify the former owners.
The farmers, industrial workers, and co-operators de-
WAUNITA HOT STRINGS
Out of nature’s Eternal Spring of
Wonders, long, long ago, there came
one of the loveliest spots in Colorado.
It was as lovely as Paradise and peo
ple called it Waunita.
The Ute Indians, the earliest inhab
itants. according to old legends of In
d;an life, used this verdant spot for
their council grounds when they met
to plan for their wars or hunts. The
medicine men useJ the waters as a
cure, and one can still see the re
mains of dams which they built to
retain the Waters for bathing pools.
The trail of the Utes leads west over
the mountain ranges. It was this
pathway which the pioneers followed
in their gold rush in 1849.
Into this quiet, restful spot, unmo
lested by the strife and care of the
busy world, there came, among the
pioneers, a young physician from
Ohio, Dr. George W. Davis. Three
days he camped there and started
the habit which exists today; name
ly, boiling potatoes and eggs in
the hot springs. During his stay here
he wrote a letter home to his wife
and six months old baby, now the
owner of Waunita Hot Springs, Dr.
Charles Gilbert Davis.
The ways of man are progressive
and this delightful and useful spot was
not destined to hide in seclusion and
keep from the human race its many
beneficial resources forever. Colonel
R. S. Moore and a Mr. Johnson, fol
lowing in the footsteps of the fore
runners of civilization to this spot,
which was as a beauty-spot placed
here to heighten the loveliness of the
surrounding country; contested the
ownership of this place. Mr. Moore
engaged the services of Bob Ingersoll,
the famous lawyer, and at last suc
ceeded in winning his case. In 1888,
’•'owever, he sold out to Dr. Charles
Gilbert Davis. The territory then
only included two hundred and forty
j»cres, but Dr. Davis has extended it
until at present he owns one thousand
one hundred and sixty acres.
Then this old traditionary council
spot of the Utes began its travel
‘owards its goal as a famous health
resort, and like a demure country girl
springing into world wire prominence
over night, it has become Iknown.
Dr. Davis wrote to Madame Curie,
upon her discovery of radium, asking
her if she thought that radium might
be found in the springs. She replied
NASH LEADS THE WORLD IN MOTOR CAR VALUE'
NASH
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One thing stands out sharply and clearly, and
that is the pronounced rapidity with which pur
chasers are turning to the Nash as the sound
est investment value.
In the five-year period since the first Nash was
placed on market the value of Nash business
has multiplied itself at a far faster rate than
that of any other maker.
Remarkable as this sales record is, it is in truth
no more worthy of comment than the condition
of Nash finances-
FOURS AND SIXES
Prices Range From $965 to $2,390, F. O. B. Factory
NASH
RAINBOW ROUTE GARAGE
ASPEY & HARTMAN. Prop*
mand to know why their State Department refuses to rec
ognize a government that does hot dance to the tune of X
big business.
The undersigned desires to announce himself as a
candidate for the office of County Assessor, subject to the
will of the people of the county as expressed by the Dem
ocratic County Assembly. Yours respectfully,
A. M. THOMAS.
that she not only thought so, but that
si.e was almost certain that it might.
Her prophesy has not failed. The ra
dium is used to-day as one of the
prominent features of Waunita’s ben
eficial resources. Some of the other
medicinal opportunities here are: the
water baths, mud baths, drinking wa
ter, intravenous infections and inha
lations of the emanation gas, that
arises from the springs.
A few months ago the Bureau of
Mines at Washington informed Dr.
Davis that the helium gas which es
capes from the emanation gas as it
arises from the springs, is used to in
fate the great aerial ships, which
float among the clouds.
Hundreds of people come here an
nually from the four corners of the
country for health and pleasure.
Turning now to this piece of God’s
handiwork, which has been practically
unaltered by man, let us consider its
appearance to the new-comer. This
hidden vale tynong pines is nestled
close up to the base of Tomichi Dome
as if seeking the protection and care
of this sentinel peak, which can be
descried from any place in Gunnison
County.
Along the road to Waunita, as you
enter from the west, are beautiful
trees; green fields; cozy homes,
framed by picturesque background,
with many scenes of domestic tran
quility to please the eye of the pass
erby, now and then one can catch the
ripple of the shining, silvery water of
the fresh, cool brooks as they wind in
and out among the trees. Wild straw
berries can be gathered along the
way if the tourist wishes to linger
long enough to taste their delicious
Then, too, he may feel the ex
hilaration of supreme joy when he
tops the summit of several hills, over
which the road winds its way before
reaching this little resort. From this
exalted elevated position he gets a
bird’s-eye view of the surrounding
country. Then, before he realizes it,
down he swoops into the very heart of
this little settlement.
The hotel will probably be the first
attraction for the traveler. No mat
ter how hungry, dusty, tired or foot
so-e he may be, within its walls he
can always find comfort and rest. It
looms up as majestic as the pines
which surround it, with an air of cool
restfulness. A long porch, upon which
are placed many large, easy chairs
and rockers, is its main feature from
ANNOUNCEMENT
an external view point. Entering into
the home-like sitting room of the ho
tel, the seeker of pleasure or health,
whichever he may be, will at once
sense an atmosphere of restfulness;
and glancing aiound will notice the
fire-place in the right hand corner,
surrounded by inviting looking chairs,
which adds greatly to that same feel
ing* of being at home. The entire
room is furnished as one would desire
a private living room to be. In the
left hand corner is an attractive
counter where bathing suits, confec
tionary and such, are sold. Here also
people register, if they wish, and one
may find names of people coming
from the remotest and most promi
nent places of this wide awake nation.
This little counter does not detract
from the novelty and beauty of the
room but rather adds to it. A stair
way can be seen which leads to the
upper regions where the tourist finds
his long looked for rest and comfort,
for indeed it is a comfortable place
with all conveniences one’s heart
could wish. The dining room is clean
and cool, inviting one to partake of
appetizing and delightful meals. Here
one cm rest while he eats, not being
disturbed by endless noises outside,
clamor and dust.
The sanatorium is close by and a
wonderful place it appears. One al
most feels himself becoming better
by the sight of it. Clean and orderly
is its appearance inside and out. It
is furnished with efficient nurses,
helpers, and also the needed equip
ment. Near by is an uncovered well
and.one can watch the water bubbling
up out of the ground. This water, at
times, is hot enough to bum the fin
gers of curious investigators. There
is a pipe connected with this well,
from which at intervals steam is dis
charged with loud reports similar to
a gun shot, which are very startling
' when first heard, until one becomes
, accustomed to them.
One of the newest buildings is
probably the club house, erected for
< the pleasure of the occupants and vis
itors of this small haven. Its very
! appearance suggests pleasure and one
I can be delightfully entertained here
if one does not wish to participate in
the joys of the pool which is near by.
As you enter the pool, on both sides
. can be seen small enclosed compart-
I ments for dressing. On the left are
j the men’s dressing rooms, and on the
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