Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1919, Page 8

SOLID HIGHWAY e 8 lo NEEDED FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC So Says F. J. Alvin in the Denver: Thirty State Legislatures Vote in Average of 670 Street Sales a Day Railroad _Administration _Urges Post and Fred Paie Up Claim With Di sion of Road Work Backs By FRED PATEE Wherever you find a man who knows the road business from a busi- tandpoint, you will find that advocates only solid, permanent The following interview reneral manager of. J. S. Truck Corporation, printed in the Denver Post is only one in- stance of where 2a man who has studied road building as one of the vital issues of his own manufactur- ing business, giv his views to the public. But Mr. Alvin gives you the same advice that e ‘y man who has made road build astudy from an economic standpoint, is ready and willing to give, and they a it, and they are spending thousands of dollars of their own money to press. ) the impor! nee of their advic uch men as F’. A, Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber U>. and Henry B. Joy, president of Pack- ard Automobile Co., and other 1 in the same lines of busin pending thousands of dollars year in building dling Miles’ cement highways, just to show the people who do not have the opper- tunity to study the high y question in a broad way, what a permanent highway ully is. John B. Willys, president of the Overland Automobile Co. of Toledo, Ohio, went down in his own pocket and spent $50,000 of his own money on one of.our Wyoming roads this year. .Think of that, you Wyoming millionaires, and then get into the harness and help pave the Yellow- stone Highway pach of d Alvin has to 3 an see in the road question but one proposition of national interest, and that is the education of those who build the roads to the ne ity of building highways that will stand the | work of the future,” s: F, J. Alvin, ; general manager of the United States Motor Truck company. ' “Roads are going to be worked over | by more and more trucks as the years go by, and must be built to withstand | the great and growing strain of the years of natural increase by motor trucks. Of course, good roads axel coming thruout the country as an| economic necessity, but good roads | must be good for all traffic, and I! fear that builders of highy may | continue to construct roads t will not stand the hard work which they will be called upon to do. | “The truck people must look out n this matter, e been con- “t by with! who will ition that will make o them. The 1 the 1 superior it, due to for their own inter for good roads sucl structed in the pi the passenger car hardly take into consic truck haulage of the fut the roads impass country is growing be roads, and trucks pro means of hauling fr greater speed of han and the saving which ‘ sd from handling the fr ht but twice.” WILL NEGOTIATE WITH LANDER AUTHORITIES 10 CARE FOR NATRONA POOR Commissiener Thos. A. Hall left > yesterday for Lander to attend olgrow necting: in that city. in the ont county act- ing on authority of the Beard of Commissioners, Mr. Hall will investi- » the advi lity of making some rrangements h Fremont county authorities fo ring for a number of Natrona County paupers at the county poor farm in Riverton. i t wi owne While 24 { ivine Mi DRY LAW MAY BE CIRCULATION OF BATIFIED FEB. TRIBUNE GROW BY THE STATES AT RECORD CLI Is Added to City Circulation and Outside Mail Hits New Records The pronbility is that the federal; The city circulation of The Tribune constitutional prohibition amendment | }8 €XPeriencing the greatest growth will be ratified before February 1,| i" its history, and if the present 1919, according to the Methodist | 7atio of increase is maintained The Board of Temperance bulletin. The Tribune will soon be a regular even- following fifteen states have already | i7& visitor in every home in Casper. approved the amendment: Mi For the past ten days an average pi, Virginia, Kentucky, South Caro of fifteen new paid-in-advance sub- lina, North Dakota, Maryland, Mon-| S¢ribers per day have been added to tana, Texas, Delaware, South Dako-| the list, and the general average is ta, Massachusetts, Arizona, Georgia, | Steadily growing. It is the pride of Louisiana, Florida. |The Tribune circulation department The following states which have |W that there ure more Tribunes not ratified are considered certain) Printed and sold every day in Casper to do so: Alabama, Arkansas, Cali-/ than there are homes in the city. fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, | The carrier boys deliver a Tribune to IMinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine! four homes out of every five in the sippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- City, while the little merchants on the ka, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ne-~. street have disposed of an average of xico, North Carolina, Ohio, Okla- 674 papers a day for the past forty homa, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ten.| days, The absence of exciting war ee, Utah, Vermont, Washington. ews has not only failed to diminish nia, Wisconsin and Wyom- the street sales, but this.class of cir- All of these legislatures meet, culation is also increasing at a pheno- menal rate. every state whic).| _Altho decidedly unusual in cities has not already ratified except New, of this size, the “outside. mail’ lists Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, of The Tribune are growing daily, and of these three Pennsylvania is representing papers which are placed hopeful; New York an even proposi-| 0n the afternoon trains for distribu- tion and New Jersey probably oppos-| tion in other towns of Central Wyo- ed to the amendment. ming the same day of publication_ Alabama, where action on th. Every town on the Northwestern in amendment was thought doubtful | Wyoming now gets its first news of elected a dry legislature of 25 to 1U| the world thru The Tribune, and this in the senate and 75 to 31: in the, Service recently was extended as far house. In Connecticut there is a 75-| east as Chadron, Nebr, January and Only Three Are Listed in the Doubtful Column, Report ' ing. in January. The list include: (Continued from Page One) ————— BERLIN, Jan. 9,—(By Associated Press.)—“This whole Bolsheviki up- ratification majority in the house ————S=> and the senate is considered sate. In Illinois there will be about ten GARTHAGE SET EXAMPLE majority in each house for ratifica- tion. In Rhode Island, only recently considered against the amendment , FOR HUN IN EN F the vote in the legislature will proba-, bly be 23 to 16 dry in the senate and 55 to 45 dry in the house. The Wis consin legislature, will ratify by 22 OF FLEET 10 ROMANS to 11 and 59 to 41. e = TID E LONDON, (Correspondence of The ae ted Press.)—The Bishop of Durham has found an historical pre- jcedent for the surrender of the Ger- |man fleet in the pages of Livy. That jancient chronicler tells how, as an ar- jticle of the peace agreement which OF CHANCELLOR ended the second Punic war, Carthage had to surrender to Rome the whole jof her battle fleet. Rome, the article points out, was lthe great military power and Car. ;thage was the great naval power of sneaultye just as Germany and Eng- his = ere and in modern times. Rome beat rising will Be pubidows within the Carthage—the soldier beat the sail- poe Ae ear at os arecueowtey or. In the conflict Rome revealed ar geoise and three-fourths of the Berlin Cxt#ordinary adaptability for naval workmen are with us.” This state- Bai ment was made today on behalf of “Canes. the Ebert government. chester Guardian comments “anticl. ae pated a similar course tor a wo. - tween Germany and England. They were confident that the German mili- tary mind applied to naval warfar:, would prove its superiority to the En- glish, and that England, put to. the test, would be proven rotten—a greay illusion.” xplaining why the parallel of an tiquity was deceptive, the Guardian writers? the Man. LONDON, Jan. 10.—Dctperate fighting continued in Berlin yester- day. The Bolsheviki fought from the windows with machine guns and bombs. Great numbers were killed on both sides. , Government forces recaptured the printing office ,supply office and other buildings. The Bolshe still hold most of the newspapers, and captured the Nauen wireles tion. Liebknecht narrowly escaped Ivnehing Wednesday. A mob dragged him from a taxi but the Bolsheviki rescued him, ould not too hastily ——____ The Sk’pper ‘the boat drifted out on the sunlit sea, The man and the maiden were silent and a little sad. His leave was endcd; the time for parting had come. “Dearest,” he breathed softly, ‘will you float with me always—down the stream of life?” “The same as now?” she whispered. “The same as sow,” said he. “I will, gladly,’ she cried, He was rowing, doing all the hard he had the helm—she steered. iS. Thermos Icy SOLCCOSOLONLPESOSS? OOOO ¢ Wholesale and Retail BEEF Per Lb. Hind Quarter eee 25 Front Quarter oink aa =—— Loin Ends Short Loin Set Ribs Roun = Square Chuck Plates —--- Hind Qt Front Qu Loins _- I Rae BPE E (7) Poultry, Game Fish, Oysters, We buy all our m O8-H0OOOO¢- Exclusive Market GOOD THINGS TO EAT It pays to buy meat in large cuts or quarter during the cold weather. Stes i aaa ¥ _. 27 Best Storage Eggs. per doz., MUTTON ~ Whole or Half —--.--- -- .20 Loins — 126 4 Brontss2---. 325 .19 Legs - = 2 Saddles i 2..24_L2_$7__22 V6 Stew Ll___ Ee ~ 118 in Carload lots. NORRIS CO... Phone 12 —SOIGIISE ISS. Largest In : \) Casper, Wyo. The State ; LAMB Whole or Half -- Fronts ~~ Saddles __ Loins — BALL Every PORK Whole or Half Hog - Loigs 10-12 Ibs. —-- Shoulders (skinned) - Hams ~~ , Fruit and Vegetables, , warfare, and Carthage gave interna | sume! ood time is assured for all. Lunch Kits Extra Bottles and Fillers Holmes Hardware Co. Holmes to Homes Dancing at Henning From CASPER BAILY TRIBUNE | 0 SS ' ’ “| Sedond—tLesdened . congestion on 1 i {the railroads, particularly at terminal {points Third—Improved service made ' i ¥ F possible by such_ lessened: congestion, } “Taking full advantage; of the: car- )fying capacity means morejthan the }mere conservation of equipment. It ion and makes possible “greatly ‘im- proved service. “If it be thought that the im- ) proved car supply which exists at the jpresent time makes it less necessary |to load cars to full capacity, it should i knot only saves equipment for freight | which could not | otherwise move |promptly, but also minimizes conges- key it Continuation of Practice in Order Dismissing Official Rules for Loading jold practice of light loading would | Rules and regulations of the Unit-|speedily bring. about another car ed States Food Administration gov-,Shortage and, congestion, by reason erning the loading of food and feed {Of the increased number of cars used commodities have been cancelled, ac-,t0 carry a given tonnage. Numerous cording to a bulletin received Thurs-|Shippers have yolunteered the infor- day by Di on Freight Agent Leary |™ation that it is their_purpese to of the Burlington. ae aes an ee a In connection therewith your at--| tention is directed to the following | statement by Mr. W. C. Kendall, man- ager car service section, United States Railroad Administration. | “The heavier loading of freight | cars, the campaign for which has had |the valued aid and support of the several departments of the govern: | ‘ment, as well as the hearty co-opera- {tion of shippers, has been a very ma- terial factor in accomplishing the fol- lowing: | First—An increased car supply. | EIGHT ARRESTS ADA DURING 1918, POLICE COURT QUIET TODAY | | | / Three drunks checked out in police | court this morning as a sequel to the “night before.” as a contrast to con- ditions of the early winter only fou. men occupied the bull pen this morn- ing with police circles unusually quiet. Last year a total of 2770 arrests were made for all offenses, of which | over 80 per cent were convicted, The record shows an average of eight ar-| rests a day. i —— | that the British Navy displayed an} intellectual superiority derived fron! long tradition which no young navy! could hope to overcome. We are on safe ground if we say that the Ger- man navy, unlike the navy of an- cient Rome, showed itself singularly | wooden and unadaptable. Sir David ‘Beatty has pronounced its strategy and its tactics contemptible. “If the comparison of Germany with Carthage was a narrow oligar. chy resting upon a peculiarly harsh slave system, and defended by a met |cenary army recruited from all the Mediterranean peoples. Carthage’s lack of freedom was her weakness, and England’s fréedom her strength. But gentlemen of the school of Treit- schke could not be expected to see that, for they despised political free- dom.” gees Mrs. George G. Chandler, who has} been visiting relatives in Chicago, while Mr. Chandler was attending of- ficers’ training school in the south, is expected to return to Casper with-; in a few days to join Mr. Chandler, | who was discharged from service the| first part of the month. Se Beginning at 7:30 o’clock tonight, a box supper will be served at the | Baptist church, corner of Linden and Beech streets. Girls bring a box anu boys bring the money to purchase a | box and a girl at your own price. A SS SLID SS SMES M: LISS IO DS SSS Hot Universal a OUT 114 So. WolcottAcross SiS \ Phone 601 GIO M DS SMM SMES, ROOM Evening 4) eP 6 . “_ TIPILILLLLLLLL LAL ed JEN waac a Watch Our Windows | be borne in mind that a return to the| COMING MONDAY continue to make the fullest of equip- ment, ‘maintaining records esablished during the war, regardless of tariff minima. They apparently’ realize the advantage. gained, which. will prevent. |usdless wast@ and a fetarn to trans- portation conditions which formerly prevailed. - | “The Railroad Administration will continue its efforts to closely super- vise the loading df all commodities, jin order that demands “or -ervi¢e may be promptly met. ‘ a He Passed Medical Officer—‘Have you any organic trouble?” Recruit—‘“No, sir. musical.—Tit-Bits. { I ain’t a bit Fixing the Blame | “Can you keep a secret, Peggy?”! “T can; but it’s just my luck to tell | FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1919. ___FRIDAY,_JANUARY_10,_19195—— things to other girls who can’t,”— Boston Transcript. TODAY —in— “PECK’S BAD'GIRL” A Goldwyn Five-Keei Comedy and A BIG V TWO-REEL COMEDY _ FEATURING | Slim Summerville arta ¥e Transformation i A ‘lady told us a true story of @ soldier’s wit—that ‘a soldier in lios- pital, on recovering conscieusness, said: tat | an what is this on my head?” *“Vinegar cloths,” she replied: “You ‘| havé had féver.” After a pause. “And what is this on my chest?” “A mustard-plaster, You have had pneumonia.” “And what is this at my feet?” “Salt-bags; you have had frost- bite.” A soldier fromthe next bed look- ed up and said: “Hang the. pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.’”-— | Strand Magazine. Ask the Boys Those who' speak of their ‘sons or brothers coming thru the war “with- out a scratch” forgot about the cooties,—Boston Transcript. 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