Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 5, 1918, Page 2

miehenicesiany Crsessovese EECEPELELERE Et OC Rehoere byt” | PETS PEPERSL ERB ES 4 Lebeiird been tit © eeprer: ie het ‘The Casper Daily Tribune faite pean iso facto ee ioe | A team has long since ceased in Sunday, any way to represent the city it Publicati eicoat » Wyoming. stands for on the score board. Play- ‘ublication wee Ez ers have become mere hired imen, pee Bebe Me TOP Bea |not\playing a game so much as work- Business Telephone____ _. 18 ing at a trade, for the benefit of _-918 “magnates” with whom baséball is a }mere business, conducted for the most part along merciless business lines. “3 player's sakes ee 4 Entered at Casper (Wyo.) Postoffice |#!est wholly gone. Specialized ski as Mean cheveniGer ee: , 1916. is paid far beyond its real worth. | “Rasodiataa Pcabe Sate Winnings or losses may be inordinate-| United Prean/Service. |1¥ large. The whole thing is a big J, E. HANWAY, President & Editor. perce di Pape camntally Gor? ° Rae * | ploitation of a sport e: ial - EARL E. ARE a Mer. | ular and eaaaicatie} but growing less ‘3 \so year by year. R__E. Evans Margaret V_C. Douds |" ahis deterioration has “had its| ¢f- Tas issoctacoe Prema ts estisstiag | fete OR the Bablle. A. daly obesver entitled to the use for republication |i8 driven to the conclusiom.that pa- and also the local. news published |SPorts as they used to be. > * herein. It is well that we are to be thrown’ ’Cause it doesn’t flow enough to end back, for a while, upon amateur base- | a life of shame. |ball. The reversion will do the game /It’s longer thak the Amazon and &@ world of goood. When profession-| shorter than the Thames, jal ball is resumed, there may be brot It ain't worth a damn, put it’s full of back into it some of the wholesome, | precious gems, |invigorating amateur spirit that it) It’s the darndest thing you ever did has lost. | see, mn —_0o——__ «{And you can’t understand it til you THEY SAW THE JOKE get on a spree. 3 | Year Ago Today in War | _The last increment of national guard was drafted into the federal service. Reports from Romeé indicated the Italian forées were preparing to \launch another great offensive. ace POWDER RIVER! Issued every evening exce) at Casper, Natrona Coun’ tion—By Carrie» 50c¢ month; $3 for 6 months, $6 for year. ‘“Tommy” Thompson, now of Chey- enne.) |'Way out West in Wyoming, Where the coyotes howl and the rat- tle snakes sting, |They raise horses and cows and oil and men, And they drink* from the bottle! j ’cause they. can't “say when,” | There's a gold-durned river—but it’s r= - This paper has enlisted prith the coveinadent in the cause of Amenica for the period of the war--+<-+« } A British correspondent at the) (yel]) POWDER RIVER. WHOPEE.| front sent back to the London daily} | he represented a little story that | Clsrus “ j rouses a smile of satisfaction. He} ti; one mile wide and one inch deep,| had seen a column of German troops) puts fat on the cows and wool on the) —Hended, by the way, by 30 German} atikepes: | officers—extending a mile in sey God eer nude it ‘to httirate | Jand marching in the general direc-|,/, rs ‘ > | tion of Paris. That is they wére Cause it rises and falls in a moun-| LESS SUGAR Fifty million pounds of suger have been lost by submarine sinkings off! some the German troops’ recently |, tain State. > the Atlantic coast. That is about|made prisoners by American fighters | !*'s ase on nothin’ but a i half a pound apiece "for Amerians at| at Chateau-Thierry. - | est yell, But' when the Kaiser hears it, he'll home. Th s fi isia | home, ie crops from Louisiana cane think he“is in hell. and from beets in other states have! been disappointing. Porto Rico has| produced less than was expected. Sugar from Java and other far places | can not be transported because out ships are needed to get troops and supplies to Europe. These are some of the reasons why the Food Administration asks Ameri-| cans to go on a sugar ration of two} pounds per month per person until further notice. It may be a little hard for us. It means giving up luxuries. | But it meeans winning the war, and} that is what every American is_de-| termined to do. | Two pounds of sugar per person! per month means slightly less than half a pound a week. Our Allies are doing less than that. That is plen- As they were passing thru a small French village the inhabitanis could not resist crying owt sarcastically, “Nach Paris?” Some of the com- mon soldiers actually grinned appe- ciatively and answered, “Ja wohl!” which phrase and grin may be free- ly trarislated into the American, “You said it!” The officers, it should be noted, did not reply or smile. Prussian ef- ficiency develops in its officers neith- er a sense of humor nor the graces of a good sport. Pade Bey COMPENSATION | (Yell) POWDER RIVER WHOOPER., When the boys convince the Kaiser) that he “also ran,” | They'll all know POWDER RIVER) to the one last man, They’ll be-yellin’ it in Belgium; they” take it “O’er the Top,” ' And when the Fritzes hear it they'll drop their guns dnd hop. It'll run thru Merry England, be a, | “creekski” to the Russ, ] And to the Frenchman it will seem a ° brand new way to cuss. | “Fortune never comes with both |It then will climb the Alpine heights! hands full,” remarks a pessimistic | and find its way to Rome, editor. “You notice that when they |scare the Austrians all te death— told us we could use more wheat they then BRING OUR BOYS) ty to use in tea, coffeé, and in cook-| also told us we must use less sugar.” BACK HOME. | ing. Where sugar can be saved to True enough. But there is a more l'Then the Allies get together and have a srons Advenvare is in the luxuries! optimistic point of view than pes aidnbilee) in which it forms so great a part.| You notice that just as they told _us},, | Less sugar can be put in ice-cream,|we must use less sugar, they a Cause ap bala pp Mon Nm oa all | and less ice-cream can be eaten be-|told us we could use more wheat. tween meals. Just as it has improved the nation’s health to eat less meat, so less candy will give another boost. Some people, undoubtedly, need to eat more candy. But the people | who indulge in it most freely are| without question the people who need it least. The young woman who used to spend her afternoons with a noysl and a box of chocolates is nearly. ex- tinct, and should become, wholly 80. She has to help with the’ housework because the maids are working in fac- tories, and her fdle time is given, not to novels and chocolates, but to the Red Cross. Children whose ev- ery penny has been going for cheap sweets may much better be eating fruit between meals. Tell them that applesauce with dates or raisins, that | (Yell) POWDER RIVER WHOOPEE. | os? In the Day’s News | ACCIDENTAL SHOT FINDS William H. Thompson, candidate | LODGING IN BOY'S LEG for renomination as United States | t : senator in the Kansas primary cam-| LANDER, Wyo., Aug. 5.—While paign, which closes today, is now |playing with a riflé with two of his completing his first term in the up-|young companions, Lee Bradstreet, per house. Senator Thompson In early life he moved with his par- | weapon was accidentally discharged, | ents to Kansas and his boyhood was|the{bullet penetrating both his tegs/ passed on a farm in that state. Af- just above the knee. A surgeon was! ter completing his schooling he be-|summoned and the boy given imme- came a court reporter. While thus|diate attention. He is now getting! employed he studied law in the of-|ajong nicely and undoubtedly on re. fice of his father and in 1894 was|cover, The boys were playing in a admitted to the bar., His debut in|jo. jiouse near the Second street public life came in 1906, when h ae 6 ( Whe\ielected: a duden -oftguedignceh nares ace no ecciment \oncumes ,prunes without sugar, will help win | the war. and watch the prune cult|court.” He remained on the bench} England has an organization called | sweep over the neighborhood. until 1912, in which year he was nom-|the Gettetical society, the members As for the grown-ups, abstinence|inated. and elected to the United/o¢ which believe the world to be! from the accustomed amount of sug-| States senate on the Democratic tie a4 1 a pancake, instead of round | ar is going to mean a real sacrifice. | ket. . |like.an orange. There is no use pretending it will not. But it is sacrifice far a cause to which we are pledged. No true Amer- ican will refuse to make it. ‘0. OUR FRIEND THE TURK ~ OS Se a ee | Todav’s Anniversaries || 1772—-P@land was partitioned for the first time by Austria, Prus~ sia and Russia. Edward K. Collins, who estab- It is natural enough for Turkey | jgo9 and) Bulgaria to fall) out lover: the lished the first line of steam- Roorahien spolles oe se atical £90 ships between ‘the United | This : hat if ‘3 ja ; - 1 Seare, zare. Stat nd I x land, oorn at many, as the arbiter of those sppils.| States and Jggiay Para] is is to notify my Turkey has many causes of greviances | York, Jan. 22, 1878. ) against her Prussian ally, which must come to a head sooner or later, as she adds.np her losses and realizes how little she is destined to get -in compensation. We shall rejoice if Turkey carries her xesentment to the point of for- saking Germany and Austria. We shall rejoice still more if Turkey pro- ceeds to fight out her quarrel with Buigaria, thereby depriving the Cen-| tral Powers of support. We should be particularly pleased to see Tur- key turn upon her German master as Ukrainia has turned. | 1862—Confederates under General | Breckinridge made an unsuc- cessful attack on Baton Rouge, then in possession of | the Federals under General | Williams. 1878—Serious riots followed the con- viction of Nihilists at Odessa. | 1893—Mills in Fall River, employing | 7,000 hands, closed on account of scarcity of currency. 1901—Death of the Dowage Empress | Frederick of Germany, eldest daughter. of Queen Victoria, ns a 4 | and mother of the present One thing, however, is certain. We) German emperor. Born Nov.| do not want Turkey as an ally, under| 21, 1840. } any cireumstances. It is well to have | 1914—-Montenegro made a declara kept out of war with her, if by so tion of war against Austria. doing we have helped to turn the/1915—-Austro - Germans captured | of August, 1918, fo ae ee ae &, tition. MAJOR | (Words from the song copyrighted by| mostly in the name, 1 | atrociti, is/12 years old, was shot and painfully}. - 47 years old and a native of Indiana. | wounded Monday afternoon, when the |! _ Wyoming. lege jand typewriting. > Hold a Professional Life Certifi- Sheriff of Natrona County, on the y ticket, having complied with the laws and sig- nified my intention by filing nominating pe- FOES, GERMAN CA NEWPORT, England, Abg. t |wished to call noble, Major Fox was taken prisoner. had been ordered to hold a ¢ertain|@ble to walk out and pull a half- position at all costs, and the start|conscious brother after him—the some|third was dead. -Soup was given to : |200 prisoners, together with officers. |the survivors, and then they were or- | These” officers were in his charge, {he and his men had” lajor Fox, an escaped prisoner war, spoke of hts experiences at a/end of the day their output was natu- “patriotic méeting” held at Newport, Tally small, and their hands and knets | Monméutbshire. Major Fox had been| Were bruised and bleeding, as a result \a prisoner in German hands for thrée|of their inexperiéneed efforts—pun- years, and those three years had, he|ishment, 24 hours in a steam cell, The ‘declared, entirely altered his views|steam cell is small, and when the men |toward an enemy he would havejare inside and the door closed, hot but whom he|steam is turned on, and there is no |now knew to be utterly ignoble. » It release for 12 hours. At the end of, lwas-at the first battle of Ypres that/12 hours the door was opened, and FOX TELLS EXPERIENCES O THREE YEARS AS WAR PRISONER IN MP; NOTES ATROCITIES 5.— of and so friendly were his feelings to- ward them freshment al! ginning of a show like this.” A at he offered them re- around, saying ‘Jolly |bad luck to be scuppered at the be- few hours later he himself was a prisoner in German hands, and when of him, this offiter at him fyll in the face. suffering and - degradation; to \the officer who was to haVe charge |rade.” turned and spat From that }nationalities were receiving orders. A |moment began three years-of insults, for 48 hours Major Fox and other prisoners on their way to Germany were kept food or water, traveling in filthy cattle trucks. Arriving at one) jstation, a party of German ladies) with hot soup opened the door of their truck, asking: there?” “Yes! was the eager soup for the hated English! Fox told his audience that he been a soldier all his life, and seen a great deal of warfare—he had | seen atrocities committed by the man-/ eating tribes in Africa, by Turks and | | n bY Bulgarians—but he had never seen | to equal those perpetrated ermans in the present war. | The following are some of the amples given by Major Fox out of his! the treatment | prisoners receive at the hands “of by the own experience, of the Germans: “Any English and \hopeul answer. Immediately the door }was banged to again; there was no feet off the ground, was shot thru! Major} had had “Three Frenchmen—clerks | from Paris—were put to work-in a coal | mine; they explained they were ready to do cleriéal work, but knew nothing een Announcement support of the ers of Natrona for the office ny for the office. the past 5 y School. lege 3 years. Have the following Bachelor of Pedagogy, Master in Bookkeeping, cate in Wyoming. Soliciting vour support in m: half at the Prij Have been teach- ing for 17 years, In soliciting the 4 vot- | Co. | of | County Superin- cendent of Scfools, | Fai desire to. submit} qualifications ears Graduate of High Attended the Emporia Nor- mal 1 year; the Denver Normal 1 year; Colorado State Teachers Col- Diplomas | Pedagogy. Graduate of Domestic Sci- ence, graduate of cena Col- mography, be- MRS. AMANDA KUTZLEB. 6 hdd hdd dha utal ~ Announcement — friends and the public at large in Natrona County that I will be a can- didate before the primaries on the 20th day + the nomination for Republican Turk against the Hun; but we do! Warsaw, storming the city’s not care to carry the matter any fur-| last defenses. ther. y |1916—Freneh rolled We want no alliapce or co-oper forces in fiercest fighting of tion withythe Huns of Asia, the mur-| Verdun campaign . derers of the American race, the un-) changeable enemies of European civ-| 9 ° ilization. It is as necessary to crush 7 ‘ Turkey as it is to crush Germany, in| | Today’s Birthdays order to_insure the triumph of de-| 4 c cency and enlightment and the esta | “Col. Hugh 8. Johnson, U. 8. A., lishment of a secure peace. who has been designatéd by the pres- 3 ident as deputy provost.marshal gen- PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL leral, born in Kansas, 37 years ago| today. Professional ball, as everybody Brg. Gen. Henry A. Greene, v.| knews, is to be suspended, presun-'S. A., recently assigned to the com-| ably for the térm of the war. Its mand of thy Philadelphia department, passing is now a matter of days. By, born in New York, 62 years ago to- t. 1, at the latest, this great sport-| day. j ing institution that has long filled; James J. Hornbrook, one of the so big a place in American life will new brigadier-generals of the nation- pase quietly out of existence. al army, born in Indiana, 50 years! Will it come back? There is no/ago today. doubt that it will. Its character,) Rear Adpmircl Theodore F. Jow- however, may be somewhat changed. ell, U. S. N., retired, born at George- It isto be hoped, at least, that cer-'!town, D. C., 73 years ago todfy. tain undesirable features will be elim-| J. C. W. Beckham, United States| inated. The game has been so senator from Kentucky, born at wretchedly commercialized that as a) Bardstown, Ky., 49 years ago today.! BEST BOWL OF Back of Grand Central Bar. popular prices. Quick change, Chicago Oil Investments, 15c AT THE CHILI KING LUNCH er eee rae a saa, IMI LD MDT OTIS AND COMPANY Members New York Stock Exchange, New York Cotton Ex- CHILI IN TOWN All kinds of Sandwiches at service, highest quality. Board of Trade’) Oil Exchange Bldg. Phone 765:0r 766 Casper, Wyoming DUTTON STALEY & CO. tocks and Leases 409 TO 411 OIL EXCHANGE Phone 467 or 468. -_ OL heheheh NPP LLLE LL LLL ) LT. SA ald Laminin tater . UNL \I, Al Panes BES ‘ : IN ee LANDER, W9o., . 5. Hotel Noble, one” a a pireg rene in Wyoming, was opened today ,, der the management of J. R. Ch,, bers, who, for filhe years, Was assi, oe — jant superintendent of the dining ; of mining, but to no purpose. At the OURS WORKING department of the Northwestern raj Hi | DAY OF MILITARY TRADI Calls St dink Gere eceis Monday, but the dining room and ¢ By Associated Presq.] | grill, will not be opened until later j AMSTERDAM, Augy3—General von the week. The hotel will be conduc Ludendorff is said to be one of the!eq on the Ettropean plan, dining « Fea workers in the German arthy, | vice being a la aera » dining se often rematning at his office mére ; |than 18 hours a day. Karl Rosntt;| acrerthen $end pbb a ; a German war correspondent, in the! ow hotel stan monumental mee! | Berlin, Lokalanzeizer, says: “Gen-)) tot : \faith of its builders in the dey, eral von Ludendorff is daily at his ment of this community. a |desk at 7:30 a. m., and works until | PA new Hotel Noble w: bui 1 o’clock in the morning. His daily, ey | jo was bailt 4 7 the Noble Hotel Co., composed 4 labor is broken“only by short meal! times, a quick walk and a rapid motor |Fred F. Noble, H. O. Barber and ass trip to one of the armies.” . Se Freighting is Our B the head because too weak to obey an officer’s order t# hold his head up.” “A hut went onfire, about a dozen prisoners bemg inside and unable to escape—as these men came to the indows and tried to climb out, they pushed back into the flames by we 'the Germa’ the strongest of the threr men was dered back—the stronger of the two being ordered to carry the other one. He_ refused. ‘One brother died last night; I will not carry another one in to die.” The German sergeant in charge for all reply took his rifle and shot the half-stupefied French- |man before the eyes of his com- “A row of prisoners of various Russian hesitated to obey, begging for some con¢ession; the guard struck him across the face with a huge bunch of keys, and then struck a British Tommy in the same way. The British Tommy hit back, his) blood being up—he.was flung to the ground and béaten with the butt end of rifles into a shapeless miass.” “Another prisoner, undergoing | punishment, strung up to a post, his} Mountain States Transportation and Storage Co. Office 319 Oil Ex. Bldg. Telephone 958 j You.should our special lunchits, | R-N. VAN SANT 5 le PHOENIX wate Secomt saat mene ad | President J General Manager FOR SALE. . | goa] IVAN CROUCH | Sage 2nd Telephone sat Hes aie and rooming Field Manager house} cheap. 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