The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-05-15

A CARTOON in the Denver Post, May 18TH gave US
shock 1t showed cashier passing s75OOOO to a
well dressed individual and really represented fac
tories increasing Denver's payroll first glance we
thought it Harry Sinclair making the last payment
to the Post on Teapot Dome.
SIGNS point prohibition really being an issue in
the coming National campaign If it centers around
fight for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment II will be
valueless effort. If to the repeal is attached
some Intelligent plan for handling the liquor
real good might result Government dspensaries
solve the problem.
FIVE miners confined in a mine at Gilman in Eagle
county, rescued alive and well this rescue
working night and day Is minute shifts got
tube through them which food and fresh air was
sent and they describe their soourn under ground
merely incident in the game. For time was be-
ieved all were dead
CONGRESS has butchered up the infamous Mellon
plan of reducing taxation in that will always
be to its credit The inpudence of trying to saddle
nearly all the taxes the poor foolish an idea
We have tried for many years Evidently Mr.
Mellon had not yet sobered up from the hysteria
when anything that cruced poor folks the proper
thing.
THE of the safe arrival of Maj Frederick Mar
tin and Serg. Alva Harvey the lost flyers the round
theworld trip will be hailed with great JOY by
who have been following the fortunes of this advenur
expedition Their accident, occasioned by running
into mountain in fog their long sojourn in the wilder
and their safe arrival at a camp, make thrilling
tale
REPUBLICAN leaders find much satisfaction in the
fact that the Senate failed by override
Presidential veto of the Bursum bill giving add
tona increase the few remaining of the Civil
The SO to % and sixteen Democrats ral-
lied to the Coolidge standard his veto One of
those Democrats voting with the SO would have saved
the bill for the old veterans Seems to of those
Democrats would be ashamed to look old soldier in
the face after this.
Mr all-b hl he ~, 4
with intending veto and get away with it before the
people, he will be the first who has Haunted
and the people and made good His policy seems
to be to rely the big interests and if they cannot
him through, die like brave with his Back
the field and his feet the foe" However if he
does that he will inevitably leave many "bots his
name" The first big was his veto of the bill giving
increased pensions to the veterans of the Civil
True of them dead but their memories live in
the hearts of thousands of descendants who will resent
this piece of parsimony toward their living comrades
HENRY FORD made his bid for Muscle Shoals at a
time when there practically competition Compe
ton has developed the fact that his offer below the
bidding value of the property, but that does not mean
that Ford trying to drive hard bargain There are
who, taken trust do than when bound down
by the letter of sharply defined contract and the
strength Ford is holding the consideration in Congress
of the various bids for the property shows that large
the country thinks he is that kind of
rara a competing business world Should those
who have this faith in him win it will be interesting to
watch results and should he not bring dsappont-
he will have brought something back into the world
greater faith in menbetter than his little tin car
Grand Junction Sentinel.
THIS editor has promoted the indictment of
bootlegger or distiller We helped the grand
jury object being the discplinng of county officers
for dishonesty extravaganza The jury at once
stimulated by DR. Suvans friends to give their atten-
ton bootleggng 1t attempt to divert atten-
ton from their misdoings The jury did take the
liquor law violations Every little fellow who had sold
quart of booze indicted at once tried and fined
Jailed or both except DR.. Sullivan, who caught in
his own We may be wrong in our view point, but
we do believe the miner ranchman, or aborer who
makes sells, perfectly good whisky is so
reprehensible character county official carnouag-
ing his crimes behind his office There is ought to be
more drastic penalties punishment for the official
law breaker than the ordinary citizen