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The Elk Mountain Pilot
a T. RAW ALT, Publisher
MATTIE L. MILLER, Local Editor
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at
Crested Butte, Colorado.
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GUESS that slogan of Shaw’s “This is a republican
year,” is about worn out already. They only polled a few
votes in the primary and no special indications that they
will improve it this fall at the regular election.
SWEET’S Gunnison county vote shows practically two
to one over both his opponents. The actual figures are:
Sweet 602, Sabin 275, and Jefferson 85. Hot advice the
News-Champ gave you was it not? Also great influence
his paper shows among his ’steen thousand readers.
WITH this issue there begins what we believe will
prove a very interesting and instructive series of articles
written by our good friend. Dr. J. S. Ferris. Some years
back Dr. Ferris ran a little paper for the benefit of the
Community Church and we printed the same for him.
Often we clipped gems of thought from that little sheet
and reproduced them in our papers. It occurred to us
that some more of his thoughts would be palatable to our
readers and we suggested that he write a series of such
articles. There are no strings on Dr. Ferris. He can an
tagonize our dearest convictions and we will not only not
complain but we serve notice now that we will not an
swer them. We are going to furnish the space and the la
bor to put the ideas of a singularly bright and observant
scholar before our readers, and we hope and believe they
will profit by reading them.
SOME days ago- we read one of the stock lies of the
prohibitionists regarding the alleged robbery of some ca
daver vats in a Chicago University of the “alcohol in
which bodies held for dissection were pickled.” The al
cohol was stated to be used for making booze. Of course
we took it to be merely the work of some squib writer
who thought he could sell his production to the dry folks
as good propaganda. But now comes the Federal Prohi
bition Department and repeats and gives official sanction
to the story. We personally know that many colleges
keep the corpses for that purpose in brine. We have seen
them brought in dripping with the salt water and placed
on the table for dissection. We do not believe that ex
pensive alcohol was ever used for the purpose stated, and
we believe the Federal enforcement officers might profit
ably mix less palpable lies with their stories cent to the
press. Why commit the crime of burglary to obtain dirty
and offensive alcohol when it is so easily and cheaply pro
duced au naturale? It is admitted that the alleged alco
hol from the pickling vats was re-distilled before using
for whisky. If so where the economy of using it at all?
There may be greater liars than the prohibitionists but
darned if we meet with their stories.
SENTINEL IS FOR SWEET
This afternoon it seems certain that William E. Sweet
has been nominated for governor on the Democratic ticket.
Vigorously, enthusiastically and conscientiously The
Sentinel CAN and WILL support William E. Sweet in his
race for the governorship.
An attractive, aggressive, energetic candidate, Mr.
Sweet has made a remarkable and a successful campaign
for the nomination. Able, honest, superbly qualified in
many ways, progressive in his ideas and courageous in his
convictions, William E. Sweet, in our opinion, would make
a great governor. We believe that conditions in Colo
rado today are such that such a man is needed in the
state house.
It will be a pleasure for The Sentinel to advocate the
election of William E. Sweet.—-Walter Walker, in Grand
Junction Sentinel of Wednesday, September 13th.
WALL STREET INDICTED
Henry Ford Reveals Disturbing Influence In Economic
Life of the Nation
THE announcement by Henry Ford that he will close
down his Detroit plant on September 16, directly and in
directly throwing hundreds of thousands out of employ
ment, is calculated to make even the “die-hard” rail
road presidents pause and consider where their stubborn
folly is carrying the country.
They could have settled the shopmen’s strike a month
ago on honorable terms if they had followed the example
of the railroad workers and had accepted President Hard
ing’s first peace proposal.
At that time the newspapers insisted that “Prosperity
was just around the corner.” They probably told the
truth, but the lady is not there now.
She has been frightened away by the savage Atter
bury and the blustering Loree. In her place are Unem
ployment and Business Depression.
Ford has not been deceived by railroad propaganda.
He experiences no difficulty in fixing responsibility for
the unfortunate situation.
“Continuance of these disturbances to the economic
life of the nation,” said he. “IS DUE SIMPLY TO THE
GREED AND AVARICE OF WALL STREET, WHICH
DOMINATES THE RAILROADS. COAL MINES, AND
PUBLIC UTILITIES OF THE COUNTRY.”
Thus the world’s most extraordinary captain of in
rustry confirms what the organized railroad workers have
been telling their fellow citizens for many years.
“Labor” recently printed the names of twenty-five
men who through a system of interlocking directorates
control not only the railroads, coal mines, and other pub
lic utilities, but also the nation’s mighty banking system.
These are the men Ford has in mind when he speaks
of the “greed and avarice of Wall Street.” THEY ARE
WALL STREET.
They are powerful enough to plunge this country into
industrial chaos, but if they are wise they will not do it.
GREED AND AVARICE ARE POOR COUNSELLORS.
They always blind and generally destroy those who are
guided by them.—Labor, Washington, D. C.
Colorado Is Progressive
A campaign noted for its desperate combat between
the forces of reaction and progressive sentiment came to
a close Tuesday in a very much more pronounced victory
for the progressives than was expected.
Almost up to the closing of the polls the most ex
travagant claims were made by the gang element for
Sabin and Jefferson.
The News-Champion, always for the bunch, printed
the attached statement of their belief, at a time when
it is simply incomprehensible that they believed it:
Fred L. Sabin of La Junta, one of the three Demo
cratic candidates for governor, was in our city last night.
Accompanied by Senator Wesley Staley of Arvada, candi
date for state treasurer, and Charley Ginsberg of Denver,
he is making a tour of Western Colorado, coming here
from Saguache during the afternoon and leaving for
Montrose early this morning. Mr. Sabin is a prominent
lawyer of Colorado, but is now in the political field and
enjoys an advantage from that standpoint, since he has no
enemies to placate or sore spots to heal. He has very
clear and definite ideas on the leading issues of the cam
paign, on industrial peace, free speech, economy of ad
ministration, lopping off the useless boards that cumber
state government, support of our schools, and the lesser
topics that make up the campaign of 1922. News-Cham
pion was glad to meet him and find that as a broad mind
ed Coloradoan, he has this definite program, which fulfill
not only Democratic ideals, but a very practical need af
ter four years of Republican extravagance and misrule.
As the campaign stands today, Mr. Sabin is unquestion
ably in the lead for the nomination. We have naturally
favored Dr. Jefferson as a West Slope man and an old
friend, but whatever the issues of the primary either of
these excellent Democrats can lead the party to victory.
It is not apparent now whether William Sweet has a look
in for the nomination. Even his ardent friends are be
ginning to wonder why he was nominated. It will be
either Sabin or Jefferson. —News-Champion.
But Mr. Sweet’s friends believed nothing of it either
here or over the state and at the polls wrote their senti
ments in ballots that nominated the standard bearer of
the laboring and producing hosts.
Colorado is squarely in the list of states that has re
pudiated the robbery of the people that has been going on
ever since, as well as during the war.
We may confidently predict the triumphant election
of Mr. Sweet and the entire Democratic state ticket. At
this writing Mr. Sweet’s plurality is about two to one
over both his opponents.
Gunnison county is a noteable accession to the ranks
of progressive democracy. When Mr. Sweet was announced
very early by this paper as a candidate, the forces that
have so long manipulated politics here for personal gain
at once.brought out Wm. Weiser as a candidate, imagin
ing they could deflate the Sweet boom with a western
slope man. They gave it out that Gunnison county was
for Weiser and thought that settled the question. Results
at the County primary determined that every Shoup dem
ocrat was defeated and Mr. Sweet had the county.
Then came the campaign, and again it was claimed
by the organ, (gall) of the gang, that Mr. Jefferson was
our man. Later when it was clear that no considerable
number of votes could be polled for him, a last desperate
stand was made for Sabin.
The verdict is written in the returns. Mr. Sweet has
twice as many votes ns both of them.
There is a lesson in this. Note it, and note it well,
for future remembrance: You can correct nny trouble of
a political nature by using your ballots intelligently.
Twice you have written your desire in the face of the
opposition and now you have the opportunity to do it
again. You cannot lose when you are right and active.
The Republicans seem to have nominated Mr. Griffith.
He has always been regarded as a progressive of the pro
nounced type, but we note that just before the primary
election he made public announcement that he was favor
able to the State Rangers, Shoup’s military program,
which the people were getting ready to repudiate. Evi
dently he has returned to the corporation fleshpots.
WE do not recall another instance in Colorado when
so complete a rout was inflicted on the enemy. Mr.
Sweet was the real target for every reactionary of both
parties. Every string that could be pulled was stretched
to the limit and still they lost. This is not a Repub
lican year. It is a PROGRESSIVE YEAR.
The legislature may be relied on to be progressive.
The Shoup regime has assured that. Pat Hamfat and his
soldiers are on the akids and will slide into oblivion short
ly after a self-respecting legislature and a clean-hearted
Governor get a chance to give them a push. Constitu
tional rights will be restored and impudent military rule
will disappear.. Long suffering Colorado bids fair to en
joy a gleam of sunshine.
In the county primary there was but one contest.
Three men ran for Commissioner In the Third District,
and Wm. Whalen, the present commissioner was success
ful. His closest opponent, Wm. Tanney, of Somerset, made
, a fine race, and S. E. Byrd, of Crested Butte, a fair one,
but he did not start campaigning early enough to secure
his full vote. However, we believe Wm. Whalen won be
> cause he has actually made, for his own district, the best
. commissioner that district has had since Reese Carlisle
. occupied the place. Whalen’s official associations have
. created a great deal of opposition to him and was re
, fleeted in an attempt to displace him.
The tickets so Tar as reported read as follows:
, DEMOCRATIC TICKET—
For Congressman—Edward T. Taylor.
For Justice Supreme Court—William A. Hill.
For Justice Supreme court (Vacancy)—Francis E.
Rouck.
r For Governor—William E. Sweet.
4 For Lieutenant Governor—Walter F. O’Brien.
For Secretary of State—James R. Noland.
For Auditor of State—William H. McNichols.
• For State Treasurer—Wesley Stalev.
For Attorney General—Russell W. Fleming.
For State Supt of Schools—Mary C. C. Bradford.
For Repents State University—Clifford W. Mills, F.
W. Lockwood. #
r For County Representative—Charles H. Cow*an.
For District Judge—Wm. A. Weiser.
, For Co. Clerk and Recorder—C. C. McWilliams.
' For County Treasurer —M. B. Herrick.
** For County Sheriff —Pat Hanlon.
1 For County Assessor- A. M. Thomas.
) For County Supt. of Schools—Margaret M. Bain.
For County Surveyor—J. H. Robinson.
For County Commissioner —W. H. Whalen.
Justice of Peace, Precinct No. 5—J. F. Bunton.
* For Committeeman, Precinct No. 5 —J. E. Mahoney.
For Commit tee worn an. Prc’t No. s—Nannie Harwood.
s REPUBLICAN TICKET—
j For Congressman—Merle D. Vincent.
For Governor—Benjamin Griffith.
For Lieutenant Governor—Robert F. Rockwell.
For State Supt. of Schools—Catherine L. Craig.
i For District Judge—Straud M. Logan
j For County Clerk and Recorder—Linton Pittser.
For County Treasurer—A. D. McKee.
For County Sheriff—James E. Brewer.
) For County Assessor —J. Wal*er Haymaker. ,
For County Coroner —Dr. N. J. Hyatt.
For County Surveyor—A. L. Whitehorn.
, For County Commissioner—Walter U. Mergelman.
It appears that Walter Walker has been defeated by
Walter O’Brien, for Lieutenant Governor. This editor
believes that the publication of the fact that the Sentinel
t supported Shoup last year, brought about Mr. Walker’s
defeat. When attention was called to the fact, Mr. Walk
i er copied the charge in his paper without comment.
3 Doubtless he desired to emulate Grover Cleveland, who
7 said “Tell the truth.” Personally we never held against
Mr. Walker the fact that he supported Shoup. Some way
. he was different. He was honest according to his lights,
P but his lights that year were on the bum as to fitness and
merit, we think. However, we believe Walter is a Demo
-1 crat earnest and sincere. A term in the legislature would
l go far to broaden his vision. Mr. O’Brien is a fine man
and a worthy running mate for COMING GOVERNOR
. SWEET.
Continued from page One
by speakers everywhere, is: The Pub
lic’s point of view must prevail.
The Phantom Public
This is a plausible answer, but it
conceals a dangerous fallacy. The
truth is, there is no Public of any
consequence that stands off in air
tight isolation from Capital and La
bor. Count the men in this or in any
other community whose welfare is not
inextricably intermixed with the wel
fare of one or other or both of these
groups. They are not many. The
proper exploitation of our natural
resources depends on the organizing
ability, the sagacity, the wealth and
the willingness of our capitalists, act
ing in conjunction with competent
and willing labor. On the other hand,
organized Labor is vitally related to
Labor unorganized, including salary
workers, so that the upward or down
ward tendency of wages in one Labor
group eventually affects all groups, as
a careful study of wage currents con
clusively shows. Thus the prosperity
of any one of us is more or less tied
up with the prosperity of all the rest.
The railroad strike itself is indeed a
vivid illustration of this, which is af
ter all a common-place truth. Yet
certain voices are heard, some of them
from high places, pleading for the in- ,
terests of the “great Third Party” to
these industrial disputes, as if some
of us could afford to say. Let Capital
and Labor be damned. This “great .
Third Party” is very much of a Phan- i
tom, which, it is to be feared, some
conjure with only to hide their par
tisanship under the guise of a popular !
term.
The Other Public
Nevertheless, there is a Public .
whose viewpoint should be con troll- '
ing. This is not the Public of “the
great Third Party”, but the Public,
which includes Capital and Labor and
all of us who are technically neither
the one nor the other. This is the
Public whose interest is most vital, —
Society as a whole. Can this Public
better afford for the Railroads or the
Shopmen to win the Strike? Or does
it matter which wins? Are the wages
demanded unfair? Are they more
than fair living wages? Would it
bankrupt the railroads to pay them?
What would be the effect on society
if it did? Would we get more efficient
management, government control,
government ownership or what? Will
it crush the Shopmen’s Union, if they
lose? What if it does? Can the Pub
lic afford to have this Labor Union
broken so that the men who work for
the Railroad Corporations in this de
partment shall henceforth be obliged
to bargain for their wages not in a
corporate capacity but as individuals?
If this Union were broken, will a con
flict follow with the Brotherhoods?
Would Society be better off, if there
were no Unions? Do you as a member
of Society know what Unionism has
done for wages, shorter hours of la
bor, and better working conditions?
Well, let us take the Public’s point of
view, but let us be altogether sure
that we know what the Public’s point
of view really is.
Two Views of Man
First, there is Hamlet’s splendid
raving:—What a piece of work is man!
how noble in reason! how infinite in
faculty! in form and moving how ex
press and admirable! in action how
like an angel! in apprehension how
like a god! the beauty of the world!
the paragon of animals!
Then, there is the little girl’s com
position or. men:—Mon are what wom
en marry. They drink and smoke and
swear, don’t go to church. Perhaps
if they wore bonnets they would.
They are more logical than women
and also more zoological. Both men
and women sprung from monkeys, but
the women sprung further than the
men.
'Hie Dreamer
The gipsies passed her little gate—
She stopt her wheel to see—
A brown-faced pair who walked the
road
Free as the wind is free;
And suddenly her little room
A prison seemed to be.
Her shining plates against the walls.
Her sunlit, sanded floor,
The brass-bound wedding-chest that
held
Her linen’s snowy store,
The very wheel whose humming died—
Seemed only chains she bore.
She watched the foot-free gipsies pass;;
She never knew or guessed
The wistful dream that drew them
close—
The longing in each breast—
Some day to know a house like hers,
Wherein their hearts might rest.
—Theodosia Gnrrison.
Save the Deer and the Benr
Mr. Stanley P. Young, government
supervisor of predatory animal con
trol in Colorado and Kansas, strongly
recommends a five-year closed season
on deer, according to an interview in
the “Denver Post”. “Deer are being
killed in Colorado in much greater
numbers than they are propagated.
The animal will become extinct in
this state unless something is done to
Halt the slaughter. • * * Five years
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of absolute closed season on deer
hunting is needed.” He reports that
mountain sheep elk, sage hens, and
grouse are increasing, and speaks a
good word for Brother Bear. “The
majority of bears are peace-loving,
law-abiding, without a hard thought
for anyone or anything, living on
roots and insects, and seeming to get
huge enjoyment from life. It is no
sport to kill a brown or black bear—
they don’t even act wild—but every
one with a gun apparently feels duty
bound to take a crack at them. The
occasional bear that goes on a ram
page must be killed, of course.”
What are the Churches Saving?
Franklin H. Giddings, the famous
sociologist, who a year ago created
some controversy by his question,
“Can the Churches be Saved?” comes
back in “The Independent” for Sep
tember 2d with the question, “What
are the Churches Saving?”
A generation ago, the churches were
saving souls from hell. Some still are
snatching “hell-bent” souls, but other
churches of the “advanced” type are
“saving sinners from sin”. But what
sin? “What are the churches doing to
save sinners from profiteering, break
ing the traffic laws, bootlegging, and
boodling?”
“What sinners are the churches sav
ing?” According to intelligence tests,
four and a half per cent, of the
American people have sufficient men
tal capacity to follow the higher pro
fessions; nine and a half per cent, ca
pacity to complete a college course;
sixteen and a half per cent, are ca
pable of taking a high school course;
and the remaining sixty-nine and a
half per cent, are incapable of fol
’owing high school studies. To what
extent are the churches saving the
competent? To what extent is their
appeal simply reaching the morons?
“What are the churches saving be
sides human souls?” Always, they
have been greatly concerned to save
dogmas, doctrines, and creeds. Is
their chief interest on this score now
the saving of the doctrine of the spe
cial creation of man from the onset
of evolution?
This is a resume of Professor Gid
ding’s article. The writer of this col
umn withholds comment.
THE CANADIANS ARE COMING.
Canada proposes to show Colorado
what It knowa about agriculture.
And Colorado la here to be “ahowiL”
O. G. Groff, chief of publicity for the
Department of Agriculture In Alberta,
Canada, haa wired and written to the
Colorado State Fair management for
apace for a tent 30 by 40 feet In size
In which to make a diaplay at the fair.
Edmonton la the headquarters of Mr.
Groff, who states that his government
la anxious to show the people of the
states what Canadians have accom
plished. It Is taken for granted that
the fnrmers of “the states” will be
glad to see, and at the same time they
will have an opportunity to "show”
the Canadians whnt has been accom
plished In this all-important line.
Get your Fish Tags at this office
for shipping fish.
AVERAGE OF TWO EX-SOL
DIER BOYS SUICIDE DAILY
Indianapolis, Ind., —The worst cas
ualties suffered by American soldiers
during the world war are just begin
ning to show themselves. By contrast
troops wounded on the battlefield*
are lucky compared with the greatly
increased casualties of today, accord
ing to C. J. Harris, an official of the
American Legion’s national headquar
ters here, in charge of ex-soldier
claims against the government.
There is an average of two ex-sol
dier suicides a day, Mr. Harris de
clares, following a study of reports..
These men, Mr. Harris finds, almost
without exception were in the battle
lines in France. These soldiers, the
Legion official contends, were dis
charged by army doctors as normal.
Since the war, however, these men
struggling for a living, have under
gone mental anguish that their war
racked nerves could not withstand.
New Fords Have One-Man Top and
Slanting Windshield
Detroit, Aug. 26.—A radical change
in equipment has been made by the
Ford Motor Co., which announces the
adoption of the one-man top and a
slanting windshield. This change al
ready has been made and the leading
Ford dealers are showing models witK
th«» new equipment.
This move, it is thought, is to fore
stall competition and comes as some
what of a surprise. For years Ford
has stuck to the old style top with
side bows which required the services,
of at least two persons to put it up
or close it. The elimination of the
side bows will add much to the looks
of the car as will the adoption of the
slanting windshield. Heretofore tha
stock windshield has been perpendic
ular and of awkward appearance a*
compared with modem style.
No additional charge is to be made
for this new equipment.
Why Telephone Operator Reports
Number Aaked For
After you remove the telephone re
ceiver from the hook and ask Central
for a number, you will notice that
she reneats the number in a question
ing voice.
Her repetition of the number in
such a tone calls for an acknowledg
ment from you that she has correctly
the number.
It is to avoid the possibility of call
ing the wrong number that Central
repeats the number given to her as
she hears it.
The subscriber is expected to con
firm the operator when she repeats
the number, if she has the correct
number. If not, the caller is expect
ed to repent the number desired. In
this way the percentage of wrong
number calls will be reduced to a
minimum.
So when Central correctly repeats
the number you ask for, just say “yes”
or “please,” or make some similar ac-»
knowledpment of its correctness. By
adherence to this rule the service will
be made surer and swifter.
Deer from the mountains recently
raided hay fields and gardens in Ska
mania Co., Washington. The hot, dry
weather in the mountains caused th
feeding grounds to be deserted an
the animals swarmed to the valleys
for food. Entire crops were ruined.
Fish tags for sale at this office.