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A G 1 t t 4 d « e 3 1 2 4 ) Page 2 THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE The Casper Daily Tribune ™"” men in the field. cA modern ! Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona county, Wyo. Publi- cation offices: O!l Exchange Building. —<____ = BUSINESS TELEPHONE.....,..... 15 Enter at Casper (Wyoming) Postoffice as sécond-class matter, Nov. 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM THER UNITED PRESS ee J. B. HANWAY, President and Editor R. E. EVANS, City Editor EARL BE. HANWAY, Business Manager J.B. GRIFFITH .-Associate Editor THOS. DAILY....Advertising Manager Advertining Reprenentatives David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Ave. New York Ray Higgins, 314 Denver, Co tury Bldg., SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall or 6 d .05 tion by mail accepted for less period than three months, All subscriptions must be paid in a24- vance and The Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription be- comes one month tn arrears. Member of the Associnted Presn The Associated Press in exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited te it or not otherwise credited in this paper and ‘Iso the local news published herein. ——$——<——— LABOR AT THE PEACE CON- FERENCE Why should a peace conference, meeting to wind up a great war, drop the obvious activities connected with . task and busy itself with labor reform? Millions of people must have asked themselves this question of late, on reading the news from Paris. It may be all right, they ad- _ mit, for the conference to deal with labor problems after its other work is done, but it did not assemble for that purpose. Why take the time for it now? A little reflection, however, tends to the assurance that the peace con- ference very likely knows what it is about. labor lezislation,. presented by the British delegation, looking to the es- tablishment of a labor commission working under the jur- isdiction of the League of Nations have certainly not been devised permanent out wise foresight nor taken up with- out a definite and statesmanlike pur- pose. Those delegates regard the labop problem as fundamental and impera- tive. They see Russia staggering un- der the incubus of Socialism in its They see cen- tral Europe, and indeed all the rest of Europe, not to mention the other most da: gerous form. continents, menaced by an unpr dented economic unrest grows largely out of wave of radicalism. Th the wrong adjustments of labor and capital and the determination of those who regard them ves as under-dogs to get a fairer share of the world's wealth and power. Before the future, can be resto assured for before for the present, the peace can be and even peace toiling mass made to feei that the war which they have fought and in which they have suffered so terribly is ng to profit them as well as others. They muct be convinced that now and hereafter they are going to have-a square deal. e all the fine settlements of the peace conference may be mads ind the governments ma be swept away by The p given to labor is meant for justice to W of prok n fury. lence labor and for safety for the world. 0. A “BOLSHEVIK” BLUFF That Swiss professor who cam¢ back from Russia with the horri “1 about Tro y’s plans of con- jucst must be either a Bolshevik con- vert or a vodka victim. According to this Prof. Philippe “Reds” troops marchi Jeaneret, the have 1,000,000 Russian now Poland, and Austria,. an g an army of ep over western Germany are raisi to sw Zurope and erush “bourgeo! rance and Eng- land. He pres Braunstein ander aspiring to conquer the world for Bolshevism. The Bolshevist menace is serious ents Herr Trotsk: in 2 new role, as an Alex- enough, goodness knows. But its ways are not the ways of Alex er 1 and C ar, much as its hypoc! or lunatic leaders would fain co thes: great captains. It r stealth. It fights not with guns, but with propajanda—lies instigated and racial hatred. class env. army, that is absurd Nothing less than an army, of 5,000,000 could hope to As fora x on the face of it. havo any effect against the Allies in western Europe, for France and Eng- land alone are keeping at least that The plans for international! who did so much everywhere must be — n jself that it is worth nothing.” ve able to do the enormous amount of on ,000,000 men yj fighting army, as everyone knows, re- | The Jack Pot | quiries an industrial army at its back. } if it were possible to rally millions) 4 New York clergyman has been | jf Russians to fight again, where i8 aking money on the side by raising| the industry to provide them with) oiatish. ‘Tip to Where is templating raising their pastor's sal- the transportation system to convey ary: Maybe you can dodge it by buy-| ‘and provision that army? Where is ing him a glass tank and a couple of | system to support it? ¢:.4 to start with. Russia is reduced to economic chacs. | KS now would be formless mobs, incapable of aggres- parishoners con- guns, shells and supplies? the financial | | Russians in millions So that international yacht race is| not going to come off after all. Does! sion against trained troops anywhere. | +), New York Yacht Club really | The invasion will rather be the | tink jt would be in bad taste to ac-| The Allies may invade} cept Lipton’s challenge this year, or! jhas the club lost its nerve? it—not to shoot down the misled na-} ss 8 ‘other way. Russia, when they can get around to tivds, but to feed and police them and | get their industries in order. The Chicago packers say it’s ab-| surd to charge that they control meat | —— 9 ——__—— prices. e ANOTHER WAR that if they could The peace conference must hurry.!they’d lower 'em. War may be averted between Italy, ee ‘and the Jugo-Slavs, but civil war has| Really, those lifted its head right here at home. men might stop Boston is going to mobilize the poets. dent long enough to give us a little | She has summoned them from far legislation. | and near, the good ones and the bad| gear ' ones, the new war poets, and the old] In regard to that $100,000,000 | Each may speak hi fund—why shouldn’t those provis-| ‘piece and it will be decided what is| ‘onal governmentsghave provisions? | good and what is bad poetry, and the| Ves poetic world will be made safe for| New WU. S. motto: \drink and be merry, for tomorrow control prices, | Washington states. | running for presi-| domestic bards. Let us eat,! | idemocracy, too. | Oh, noble Boston, willing to re-| We're dry. The Germans vote more | 'vive the meméries of her revolution-|*ationally than they talk. | The shot that was fired bey aS | by the cmbattled farmers will be but) Switzerland asks the Allies for! the puff of a pop-gun compared, 2¢¢ess to the sea. There'll be a Swiss) with the opening shot in the battle/"@vy yet. between rhymed and free verse. But let the means! ary days! + * ® determined ke a record for masterly inactiv- Congress scems fight go on by all) m For in battling for the merit: of their variohs forms doubtless many, * 8 poets brave and true will die of apo-, ‘A plexy, and then who shall say that all not donetforitha jat the idea of putting a tax on soda Ah, well, piece hath h-r herocs. As) “8tc-: “a ke‘oved poet almost said: ja See ey ere Sot ‘Not braver he who m3 the wall, | In the Day’s News | | 1 | By level x Than he who step And da -f], befor: them ail hes litten, -------- --= —-c *, | Today is the 45th birthday of a ‘man whose name is fam i read what he has| the world, a man who neither sm written ! nor drinks and finds no pleasure se chief enjoy a is church work, and whose favori LEISURE AND THI STRENUOUS recreation is sitting, playing ihe v: ( LIFE \lin, or a drive fn the park. And y this young man, if he lives, and he Helmholiz, the tin the best of health now, will som undoubtediv be the richest m the world. He is John DB. Ro! ler, Jr., the only son of h’s m that a great idea never came to him millionaire father, and the prob2' while he was working at his desk, heir to a fortune so vast that owner now says he cannot estima jit within 10 or 15 millions of dollars. The younger Rockefeller wis born in ; Cleveland, attended Brown Universi- iE .| ty, and the entered upon a career of zarden musing of| raining to fit him for his vast r+ Dr. Graham Lusk, who | sponsibilities of the future. In 1901} he married Miss Abby Aldrich, daugh- ter of the Rhode Island senator. The of Science, advocates leisure as a! coupie have six children, five sons/ for the production of any and one daughter. | | > eminent phys! research | work on the subject of sound, said; while he as tired, or after a glass of , but rather when he was at le while he w and especially walkine in the other things. quotes this instance in a recent issue big or useful work:: “The scientist must have leisure | Today’s Anniversaries | | to think over the problems which of-| * — & Moses Cleveland, fo: * a 1754—Gen. fer. The individual who can nowspel| whom the great Ohio city was happy unless he is at work at full named, born at Canterbury, | power all tho time is much less likely | Conn, Died atherels:Nov-1 716) successful scientific | 1g9¢_Freedom of the City of Lon-| work than he who will not commence don voted to Captain Hardy) of Nelson’s flagship “Victo-' i ay.” | 1814—Battle of Brienne, in which disciples of | the French under Napoleon de feated the allies under Blu- | er cher. i it wrong. By the ‘strenuous life’) 1g44- Duke of Sexe-Coburg and Gotha, father-in-law of Queen Victoria, died. Born Jan. 2, ‘ : | 1784. | |tile running all over the place, “busy| +g69—Resolution acrried in the Prus | ‘as 4 bug,’ and no more useful. He sian parliament confiscating | jWas a great advocate of play, of rest! the property of the ex-King| from one occupation in the freshness |to accomplish a research until he has satisfied him-| | On this [Roosevelt's strenuous life idea often| s opposed to the weak and molly-| point the | coddling one, Roosevelt meant no fu-| of Hanover. 1906—King Christian IX. of Den. | of another. It was because he w Alexandria, died in Copenha- to the gen. Born April 8, 1818. throated green warblers that he was|1915—Austria reported gains against t he Russians in Galicia. | 1916—More than a score of persons | killed by a Zeppelin raid on Paris. |1917—German Crown Prince deliv- | ered heavy blow at Verdun, capturing French positions at open charms of the black-| state work which fell to his lot. The life which takes time for con- templation of nature, of large issues, of spiritual matters, is not a weak one, nor is time thus spent ever} Hill 304, wasted. It is the empty-pated rush-| 4 = ° ing hither and yon with no time for! | Today’s Birthdays | isure which is weak, and which, in 4 Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin of the } King of Italy and one of the Italian |naval commanders in the late war, spite of its often fails to be constructive. apparent busyness, so = o—_—_——— |born 46 vears ago today. Sir Frederic Hyman Cowen, one THIRD U. S. ARMY ADOPTS lor the most prolific of Engtish com- INSIGNIA FOR SOLDIERS ers, born at Kingston, Jamacia, 7 errs neo today. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY Sir David Murray, R. A.. famous | OF OCCUPATION—(By Mail.) —A |Iendecans painter, born in Glasgow, blue circular patch with a superim- | Scotland. 70 yeors ago today, posed red c’rele containing in white! Pomain RoNond. ecrlebrated French the letter “A” has be2n adopted as|avthor and Nobel prize winner, born the insignia of the Third American 53 vears so today. army with headquar‘ers in Coblenz.| Jared Y. Sanders, former governor All officers and enl'sted men of the lof Louisiana, born in St. Marv Par- army cf occupation, as the Third |ish. Louisiana, 50 v-ars ago today. Arm is known, are entitled to wear) Barnev Oldfield. one of ths fr the insign'a on th? left sleeve. celebrated of nutomobile reee driv. i —— ers, bern at Wauseon, O., 41 years Saye vour money—buy a meal ticket |ago today. a bee The arvey. ee 4 i iS 6 | | | { 2 Today’s Events | 2 Kansas today celebrates the 58th Ce: Throughout. the United States to- day will be observed as “Carnation Day,” in memory of the late Presi- dent William McKinley. In far-off Australia, the States of South Australia keep an annual holi- day today in celebration of founda- tion Day. United States Senator James E. Watson of Indiana is to be the orator at the annual banquet of the Kan- sas Day Club to be given tonight at Topeka. Measures for the preservation of Canadian forests will be discussed ot the arinual convention of the Ca-) nadian Forestry association, opening today at Montreal. At a meeting ip Lansing today the} Victory Highway association of Mich- gan will be organized to build a Vic- Of course! Everybody knows \‘ory highway across the state. Prominent representatives of the lumber industry fyom a dozen states vill assemble today in Kansas City for, the annual convention of the Southwestern Lumbermen’s associa- tion. >———_—___—__—- ¢ Year Ago in War_ | Italians broke German lines east of Asiago Plateau. Allied aviators attacked Zeebrugge, German submarine base in Belgiuin. Forty-seven persons killed and 16% > jinjured in German air raid on Lon | don. ‘YORK OTARTED 0 JOIN LOBBIES OF BIG HOTEL The initial work on perfecting the unison of the lobbies of the Midwest and Henning hotels was made Tues- | day when W. F. Henning put a force | be suspected of being a mere subtra- | to of laborers at work tearing out the fuge for tying a can on one end of} London—Because of a shortage of! nartitions. A connection has alread: been effected on the balconies. Lobby plans call for a continua- | tion of the two elevator services but | , The old topers chortle with glee ® merging of the desks of the institu- Sparts, or just sparts, ‘ions. An entrance can be obtained to the lobby from the Henning en- trance or the Midwest entrance on Center street as well as a north en- trance on Third avenue. The old Henning dining room will be elimi- nated and will be made part of the enlargement of the Midwest. oe aes HOME. _COOKING--at The Harvey. e:sseccccconenaecesebe: ee Phone 349-M. Richelieu French Lima Beans two-lb. can 1_--____ Richelieu French Style String] two-lb. can — Richelieu Tiny Wax Beans -two-lb. can — Casper. Storage Company General Storage Car Lots Canned Goods, Handled, stored, re-shipped and Checked in a Business SPANISH and FRENC Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 p. m.’ New Classes Stating. CASPER BUSINESS COLLEGE, Inc. Smith Tarter Bldg. The Casper Storage Grocery THE RICHELIEU STORE SPECIAL—THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 'SPARTACANS, LIEBNECKTARS OR. | LIEBNECKTIES—THEY’RE ALL THE [Uniens OB sdmission to he” AME, NAMED FOR ROBBER CHIEF |= eh BY, charts B. Driscoll \to name your political party after! 1 United Presx Staff Correspondent.) | The young Mr, Spartacus, ‘tiring | NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Perhaps it| o¢ keeping the night watchs over his is just as well to call them Sparts. | sheep, became a robber chief, the Just when we were learning to say’ chronicles say. They do not specify} ' bolesheviki, and were learning to give | whether he stuck up banks, checked, lit about ae universal an application | hats, or headed a packing industry. ; 38 we used to give camouflage before 7 that sorely eed word was officially! Angwey he Wes @r0bber, entombed by the Society for the De-| houndary — rectifying expeditions jcent Burial of _Hackneyed Words, | happened upon an fen took. along came these Germans, with their him to Rome. The sport fans de- | Schrecklichkeit and head cheese, and! cided to match him against a much | sprung Spartacus on us, | touted gladiator recently importea | That was right in line with their! from Asia, and for that purpose pu junfair tactics. gas, flame throwers | him in a training camp for gladiators. and gingerbread saloon-fronts. | He escaped as soon as he had learned But now that we have -Spartacus the fundamentals of gladiating, and with us, what are we going to do! issued a declaration of independénce, jabout it? asserting that all slaves were hence- ‘The Spartacus group,” was the! forth free. Whereupon every gentle- ;name the German _ultra-radicals’ man’s slave began to put on airs, re- |adopted when they first hung out) fused to pull the corks or polish the their shingle in the blood-letting busi- | car any more, and, in short, started ness. But that sort of name never ‘a revolt. would do, So, we have the papers,! Under leadership of Spartacus the in their extremity, alluding to them| slaves captured most of Southern variously as Spartacides, Spattacans,/ Italy, and held out for nearly thret ; Spartecites, and Spartaci. Objection years against the best forces the Ro- is made to the first-mentioned be-| man government could send against ‘cause it is very close to homicide.; them. But at last they were beaten suicide, regicide, fratracide, insecti-; by an army under Lucullus, just as cide, and such like occupations. Ther hey were about to seize all the ship- jis not lacking a considerable part ing board’s ships and dash back to which claims that spartcism is all of | Thrace. Spartacus died with his men, |that and more. But, the ending -cide, leading a charge. { from the Latin, caedo, to kill, always! Such as the gentleman whom the kills whatever it. is added to. Kills German radicals have chosen as god- what it goes after, as it were. A! father of the revolution. ~ jhomicide is a man-killer, a suicide Liebknechterines, Liebneckkers, Li- |is a self-killer, and an insecticide is ebneckties, Liebnecktights, Liebneck- |an insect-killer. So a Spartacide. tars, Liebnecrats, or something like would be a Spartacus-killer. And{ that, would sound so much better! that isn’t what we want to say at all. In the same way a Sartacusser might be accused of heaping profane! ae) Vonie AP rcancet| ‘invective upon a Spartacus and all | |his works, and a Spartacan might} ARCHANGLE — (By Mail.) —Via! A Roman army, in the course of its | | jpartacus, and you can see very| letter paper in the most distant sec- | easily how a Spartacrat might be mix. | tors of the north Russian front, many | |ed_up with an aristocrat. | American soldiers are sending home! Maybe it’s just as well to call then.,; postcards made of birch bark. . and therby| —q~. avuid complications. _ ;Our Wancads are ‘ul 4 The sparts take thefr name from a! powestel)pallers | certain Mr. Spartacus, whose initials | | have been lost somewhere in the shuf- \fle. He started life as a modest} {shepherd in Thrace, perhaps some | where in what recently was Europe | Turkey, during the century just pre-| ceding the birth of Christ. Thin*!| ‘of going back that far for somebody HEOLD MEMABLE> | PrANTENS 2 BLACK: C RCo} ra | | | | | zi 3 f 3) Household Goods, Pianos, Ztc. }! 3] Storage Houee on Burlington fi : ra 2 CHAMB JN SURF. 31) “AnD I Second and Durbin RTARE to i | i | i | { | Casper Loan Office Will save you money on your Wardrobe Trpnk, Hand- bag, and Suitcases : : : Reliable 133 So. Centur Phone 804-J. Presbyterian La’ \for material’ and_zdeliver pork... 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