Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 6

a a en ee UNIT CONTROL OF U.S. BUSINESS SEVEN ¢ NATRONA COUNTY TRIBUNE OMPANIES HOME. INTERESTS TO ASSIST INDUSTRY #HUS ane, AFFECTED IN MEETING PROBLEMS OF PEACE Organization at Atlantic City Conference Today Will Co-operate with the Gov- ernment in Reconstruction Work [By Associa ted Presw} ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 3.—Organization of virtually all industrial and commercial! inte? ests of the nation into a single unit to represent business in general will be undertaken at a series of conferences, opening here tomorrow and continuing until Friday, of war service committees of each industrial or trade group formed during the war as mediums for negotiation | between the government.and their Fe-| spective business. There are more} than 300 of these committees, each} composed of the leaders of the in-/ dustry or trade, and the conferences | are expected to bring together be-/| tween 2,000 and 3,000 prominent | business men to discuss problems of reconstruction, industrial relations after war, war materials and their control, price regulation, amended anti-trust legislation, export and im-| port regulations, financial supervi- sion and similar subjects. | It is planned to organize the in- dustries represented by these 300 or more committees into 35 groups, | aligned according to interests, and} finally mto ten master groups, which will federate in a single organiza-| tion. The importance of this move-| ment, its organizers say, is that it| will effect the largest organization of business interests ever attempted in the United States. The conference was called by the OCCUPATIONAL ARMY OF OVER MILLION, PLAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Gen- eral March, discussing demobil: tion today before the Senate Mili- | tary Committee, said that General | Pershing was selecting units for an | occupational force of about 1,200,- 000 men and that all other Ameri- | can soldiers in France would be brought home as rapidly as shipping could be provided. torts BRITISH FLEET | BY ORDER 10 DISBAND Governor Houx has ordered the de- mobilization of the home guard r ments in the state. There are seven companies affected located at Wheat- land, Casper, Thermopolis, Basin, Sheridan, Newcastle, and Laramie. These companies are under the com- mand of Major Sliney. In com- pliance with the governor’s order, the companies have been mustered out, and their equipment is on the way to headquarters in Cheyenne, according to an announcement from the office of the adjutant general. These home guard companies were the same as militia companies, and were organized several months ago at the instigation of the war department when there were no soldiers stationed in Wyoming. A DIVINE GIFTS LED NEGRO PREACHER TO KILL MAN SHERIDAN, Wyo., Dec. 3.—W. Oiggs, the negro section hand held for the killing of T. J. Hunt, a negro fellow laborer at. Arvada last Sunday with a shovel, professes to be a preacher and gives evidence of being a religious zealot, one imagines that most of his movements are divinely directed. Asked by County Attorney Graver- son why he had come to Sheridan af- ter the encounter, Diggs responded “De Lord told me to go to Sheridan.” When the county attorney asked him if he knew that the victim of his blow with the shovel was dead, Diggs Chamber of Commerce of the United | TO A NCHOR IN responded that he knew the Lord States, which has assisted in the or-} ganization of war service committees | for each industry to co-operate with | the War Industries board and other! government agencies in regulation of production during the war. ber of prominent speakers have been | HUN PORT SOON BERLIN, Dec. 3.—Twelve British| is reported. The large British fleet would tell when Hunt was dead. At that time he had not been so ad- vised. gee COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3—The Brit- A num- destroyers arrived at Libau today, it) ish fleet arrived yesterday at Port Libauin, Courland, on the Baltic, says engaged for the general sessions, and js expected hourly at Wilhelmshaven, the Wolff Bureau of Berlin. get each industrial or trade group has formed its own program of topics for} consideration and of speakers. | The principal immediate purpose of; the conference will be to determine practical methods by which industry may cooperate more closely with the government during the reconstruc- tion period by a more centralized scheme of organization. | Here are some of the more impor- tant questions to be presented for discussion and as the basis for recon- struction to the government. | “What method should the govern- ment pursue in the cancellation of contracts to insure the least hard- ships? What should be done with the enormous war plants the govern- ment has erected? What conserva- tion measures put into operation in your craft during the war can be con- tinued? How are we to bring about better relations between employers and employes? How can men dis- charged from the army and navy best be absorbed by industry? How far should American business men go in combining to buy and sell in foreign! countries? What aid should Ameri- can business men give the European countries in their rehabilitation? How closely should business work with the government in studying reconstruc- tion and demobilization plans? What kind of government agencies should be established. to deal with recon- struction? What legal methods or means could be introduced in the craft to better stabalize prices dur- ing the reconstruction period? “What is your financing problem! during reconstruction? Do you rec-! ommend government aid? On unde- livered government orders, what per- centage of materials on hand, sup- plied either by the government or purchased by you for government or- ders, can be utilized by your craft for commercial purposes during 1919? What is the value of a uni- form method of cost accounting for the individual manufacturer and the craft as a whole? What new meth- ods and practices would simplify ma- terials, eliminate waste, reduce num- ber of styles, save materials, with- out destroying individual creative- ness? What propaganda is necessary to educate the retail and consumer to accept these eliminations and sim- plifications?”’ It is planned also to prepare for the quick assembling of extensive in- formation on industrial and labor, conditions for use by business rep-: resentatives, congress and the gov- ernment executive branches in the reconstruction. MOTION URGES RETURN POWER | GIVEN WILSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Senator| Knox today introduced a resolution declaring that extraordinary war! powers conferred upon President Wilson should be withdrawn. The resolution declares the United States entered the war to vindicate the an-| cient rights of navigation and remove | forever the German menace to our peace. The purpose of the United States in the peace conference should be confined to the aforesaid aims, the senator claims. eS aR ail Sam Twidale of Waltman is in Cas- per attending to business interests. “Sam” is one of Wyoming’s promi- nent sheepmen. BASIL MANLY IS | NEW EXECUTIVE ON LABOR BOARD WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Basib| Manly was today appointed joint chairman of the war labor board, succeeding Frank Walsh, resigned. ‘ eee agian ear THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., Dec. 3.—| George Tady, an Austrian miner em-| ployed by the Big Horn Collieries | company at Crosby was electrocuted | last Saturday when he came into con- | tact with a heavily charged wire. | Nothing is known of the exact nature of the tragedy, but from burns it is supposed that he was struck across! the face by the fire, as marks showed a burn extending from his forehead down across the chin. A hole the size of his forefinger was burned thru the skull. The man was a mem-| ber of the mine workers local union, | and about 40 years of age. er ES WHAT IT COSTS 10 MAKE WOOL AND MUTTON HERE A Kemmerer flockmaster has, by careful computation, arrived at what he declares an accurate figure of his | cast per head to run his sheep. For the year 1918 the cost will be $6.75 per head. In 1917, with gigantic feed bills, the cost was less, the figure be- ing $6.48. Had the feed item been! left out in 1917, the cost would have been at least $2.00 less than for 1918. of 1917. | POILU WRITES | IT IN HEART’S | DICTION HERE (By United Press) PARIS, (By Mail.)—French is an expressive language, but it has noth- | ing on the English used by a grate-| ful poilu, whose wife and little son had been cared for by an American Red Cross physician. To-wit, the fol- lowing received at American Red| Cross headquarters here: “Dear Doktor, “I am ashamed of to write you this letter because I have few of knowl- edge of English. Since lontime al- ready I will desire for learn English. And occasion being present at me one month ago by the creation of a English school, I follow it each even- | ing hastily. No thing was more dis- | comfortable for me than of meet | your brave Yanks on the road with- | out being able to address a word. The looks seem well, sometimes, to | translate a few the kindness that we have for them, but that is not con- ceited, the conversation is better! “It is now a great joy in all French | army that news of Americans success | in Lorraine. I should not finish thts little word without thanking you of the prettyness that you have always had for my wife and my little son. | Believe well that your shadow me| remains dear and that I all receive) with the greatest pleasure the little | letter you will well write to me. Be- | lieve dear doktor at my better es | timents.” MADRID, Dec. 3.— The Spanish Cabinet resigned today. —_——— others. In many cases mighty plants have sprung up—but at a prodigious cost. | The packing industry was able to adapt | itself to unheard of demands more quickly, perhaps, than any other industry. And this was because the vast plants, refrigerator cars, branch houses, etc., | had been gradually developed to iis present j An International Service Built on Tiny Profits Per Pound | Some industries have been able to get in step with war demands more quickly than MARKETING OF BREEDERS WILL HURT INDUSTRY Liquidation of Shipping Season Results in Serious Decimation of Herds, Says Writer in Breeder’s Gazette R. P. Heren, president of the Mon- tana Stock Growers’ association, gives out the following in the Breed- er’s Gazette after an investigation west of the Missouri:: : “Decimation of both steer and cow herds of the United States cannot be realized unless one visualizes condi- tions west of the Missouri river. I have recently traversed the entire pastoral region from the Rio Grande to the Canadian line, finding the same conditions everywhere. Not only has this season’s crop of ma- | tured steers and dry cows been mar- keted, but breeding cows have been dispersed, immatude cattle rom | yearlings to three-year-olds sent to, the shambles, and calves sacrificed. ! Cattle have been gathered and shipped that under normal condi- tions would have figured in the pro-/} spective supply for two years to come and cows converted into beef that should have added to half a dgzen calf crops. In many locali- ties this liquidation was not due to) financial inability to carry cattle, but | the lack of feed and inability to | ship in. We have contracted cotton- | seed cake to carry our cattle thru the winter at a cost of $77 per ton | laid down, but have no assurance of getting it, while hay is worth $17 to $22 per ton, whére available. Not all the cattle have gone, but it is/ conservative to estimate a 35 per cent excess marketing west of the Missouri river this year owing to the feed situation. The lamentable fact s the necessity for unloading cows and young cattle that cannot be re- | placed.” ———.].—>—_— | Money to Loan on chattels. Secu- | rity Loan Company, Suite 302 O. S.| Building. 12-1-tf | equipment of packing | state of efficiency, so that in the crucial hour | it became a mighty international system for | war service. And how had this development taken place? Not by making vast inroads into the capi- tal wealth of the country, but largely by using, from year to year, a portion of the profits, to provide for expansion. Swift & Company’s profits have always been so tiny, compared with sales, that they have had practic- ally no effect on the price of meat (amounting to only a fraction of a cent per pound). And yet the owners of the business have been content with reasonable returns on their capital, and have been able, year after year, to put part of the profits back into the business to provide for its expansion. These fractions of tiny profits have been repaid to to the public many fold in the form of better service, and better and cheaper meat, and made it possible for Swift & Company to meet, undaunted, the sudden cry for meat for overseas. Could any other method of financing a vital industry involve less hardship to the people of the country? Could there be a better instance of true “profit-sharing” than this return in added usefulness and in national preparedness ? , Swift & Company, U. S. A. | BICYCLES KIDDIE KARS KOASTER WAGONS ELECTRICAL TRAINS MOTORS, TRANSFORMERS AUTOMOBILES STEAM ENGINES DOLL BUGGIES DOLL-BEDS DOLLS OF ALL KINDS DOLL FURNITURE SLEDS For American Boys ~~ and Girls Santa’s Own Toy Store * MAKE THIS THE CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS Upon the happiness of little children the shadow of war should not fall. The Christmas days of childhood are all too few. We must not let even gone of them be saddened. Give them American made toys which will last for years—which will educate as well as amuse — which ~ will train the growing mind along natural lines rather than grotesque ones. If you have no chil- dren of your own, re- member that many of your friends have gone to the front, leaving be- hind them children who will be lonely _ this Christmas, whose gifts will be fewer, who will have great need of the happiness you can give by sending them toys. Made in America Toys BLOCKS CARTS FRICTION TOPS FRICTION TOYS HUMPTY DUMPTY CIRCUS DRUMS TOY TRAINS ERECTOR SETS MYSTIC MAGIC CHEMISTRY SETS TEDDY BEARS DOGS, CATS, MONKEYS Shop early in the day—Early in the week-—Early in the Season. Holmes Hardware Co. Casper, Wyo. FACTORY OFFICE HELP YOU Every Da Phone 601 Up Zar Uj im our iT AD Columns TRIBUNE WANTADS POSSESS A DYNAMIC PULLING FORCE and you merely have to take ad- vantage of THEM to profit. The keen, alert buyer or seller use them WHY NOT YOU? “CHEAP and EFFECTIVE” That’s Tribune Wantads