Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1919, Page 6

‘ BAR me ing wil by ne dis av Ce to im sti he w ec ee si t 1 v 1 1 “ 1 Iasu el exapin ore t Sunday at Easy ttronu. county, Wyo. Publi- Ni cation ‘offices: ‘OnE Bxchangs | Building. BUSINESS TELEPHONE..... - 16) mater at Casper (Wyoming) Postoffice | second-class matter, Nov. 22, 1916. Rpronts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS R FROM THR UNITED | |tured folk who used to scorn and I EB. HANWAY, Presideast and Editor EVANS, City’ Editor LB. HANWAY, Business Manager B. GRIFFITH Associate Bditor THos DAILY....Advertising Manager | Advertising Representntivesx David J. peanaete 341 Fifth Ave., w York City. Ray Higgin, 314 Gentury Denver, Colo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail or Carrier One Year . Bldg., 3:30) 65 Copy . 05 | ane paubestiption by mail accepted for an three months. Ane mu bacr pions must be paid in ad- vance and The Daily ‘Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription be- | oomes one month in arrears. Member of the Associated Press ‘the Associated Press is exclusively MY entitled to the use for republication of | all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise: credited in this paper Cle} iso the local news published heroin: THE NEW POSTMASTER. The Casper postoffice has witnessed | again, as the result of a convention | problems za The Casper Daily Tribune} no longer so, thanks to, the heavy taxes imposed in England, France and |Italy, the three countries that have |so long harbored colonies of rich Americans. Their incomes are taxed |far higher there than ‘they would be lat home. And so hundreds, probably thousands, of these more or less cul- It won’t be long until oil opera- tors will be in a dispute as to who put the edge in Edgemont. ~ * @ Burying the County Divisign Hatchet. The progressive town of Riverton is planning a big celebration for the opening of the spendid new Teton hotel which is to be completed early in’ May. It would be a credit to any town in the state and its construction in spite of the many difficulties en- countered, speaks volumes for the energy and enterprise of Riverton people who have successfully financed the project themselves.— Lander Journal. slander their native land in the aris- |tocratic circles of London, Paris and 'Rome—or as near those circles: as they could get—will come back and make the best of it, and spend only ithe It is all right, too, so far as the rest of the nation is concerned. They |are not considered particularly de- |sirable immigrants, but they may im- |prove after a few years’ close con- tact with real Americans. “social season’’ abroad. so * * Paderewski didn’t work it right in hi i for the presidency of “SELF DETERMINATION” FOR/"!5 campaign fo) Pp v Poland. Instead of making speeches, IRELAND. : he ought to have played the piano. The Irish problem is forced upon} * * * ithe attention of the American people| Somebody says that are largely Maybe so; but most people think they “Mexico's financial.” a change of administration, and what of the Friends of Irish Freedom held is more significant from the stand-|jn Philadelphia, and the widespread point of the patron, the acquisition | propaganda of which that has been a of another carrier to the force, there-| part. The spokemen for Irish free- by assuring another residence dis-!dom now have a specially strong ap- trict of service improvement. At| peal, since they ask all Americans last, it seems, Casper’s flaims to /to apply to Ireland the same rule that recognition have been heard, even| America stands for in the Paris peace tho the answer is negligible, and with /conference, the ‘“‘self-determination jare largely Carranza. ss 8 Biloxi, Miss., boasts of a school teacher named Miss Legal Tender Ritch. Aw, make your own joke}. about it! * * * “Must a statesman be an ass?” asks the New York World, for the the completion of new sidewalks in many parts of the tity more carriers! can be obtained without quibbling. On the other hand the order au-| thorizing the addition of a new mem-| ber to the force justifies complaints that have arisen over the’ condition of the service. It constitutes an open admission on the part of. the depart- ment that more help was needed, and it justifies Postmaster Van Doren in tendering his resignation after re-| peated and insistent requests had! been ignored. Now that confirma- tion is available, be stated truthfully that requests - and appeals were directed thru every pos- it can such sible avenue open to the executive in seeking an service. improvement of the To the public it will be interesting |, to know that the inspectors’ on the records and stock of the Cas- check per office revealed an accurate ac- counting and a perfect system of books, which balanced to a cent. In taking stock of goods amoypnting to $100,000, there was no discrepancy, a fact which testifies to close applica: tion and attention to detail on the part of tke postmaster. It can be said without fear of contradiction that record such a is rarely equaled in postoffice administration and it is particularly significant in view of congested and aggravated conditions which prevailed here. In assuming the direction of the postoffice Casper, Mr. incumbent, h business in Sproul, the new is the advantage of foilloy ing an efficien: predecessor, and the disadvantage of taking orders from a whose standard of efficier shown by conditions ing thruout the country. It is no Pee te 1890—Opening of the great bridge | : which in future they shall live,” how es z idle complaint that shows irregularity ian ais across the Firth of Forth in ave Ral aE ts “can they be expected to do so this Scotland. of : mos seat alizing Kind in the year or next year? 1894—Rt, Rev. John A. Paddock, distribution and transportation of first Episcopal bishop of Olym-| The peace confe ce, even if i j Pp mail thruout the country. Mr. Sproul RENT Srremamrane en tale pia, Wash., died at Santa Bar Eifion ean qari i ath eeeYe willing to discuss the matter bara, Cal. Born at Norwich, Bc aaes fie sompatpy anc goed wil over the head of the British govern. ,.-- Conn Jan. 19, 1825. of the public in venturing upon a) i oig ath 1897—William McKinley was inau- doula tani anaes nent, will hardly want to concern gurated president of the Unit-| polities, the ppblic will wish him su- At the same time a brighter era may open with the transition from war to a peace basis and it is to thi brospect, more than any other, that Casper will pin its hopes for a steady improvement in the service. ee ee NATIVE IMMIGRANTS. Regardless of what is done about, . the alien exclusion law, there is going ores before long. The of wealthy Americans who have long sojourned begin to find will consist migratio. abroad, and who now life back in this “crude and unde- veloped” country more tolerable than the: sed to think it. It isn’t merely that America has now grown more “cosmopolitan,” tho that has something to do with the mat- ter. The main consideration is that living abroad has got to be too ex- ve. It used to be that a family) Suropean tastes and &’n Ameri- pen with can i could get more for its That is) rome nan at home. | comparatively \direction made during the past year. |The British government invited all Siar ~ came of it. ~ people, the form of government under! ‘ardless of i jofpeoplesi: forty-leventh time. Well, it isn’t ob- This point has been ably presented ligatory, but it’s the custom. jby Cardinal Gibbons and many other igre They urge Ninety-five per cent of the Ameri- the American pubjic to appeal to can. expeditionary forces are users the Paris conference, asking it ‘‘to of tobacco in some form. This makes recognize the right of the people of the outlook for the campaign against Ireland to select for themselves, with- the weed a little dark. Those boys out interference from any other peo- ‘are good fighters. ple, the form of government under = bd * which in future they shall live.” The boys are coming back from Most Americans would gladly help the front with accounts of how it Ireland, if they could. There will feels to be shot. After July 1, the be, no doubt, much American infly-'™an who knows how it feels to be ence to bear at Paris, along the line half shot will be the dne to focus public attention. \leading Irish-Americans. desired. The task, however, is a dif- ficult one—made difficult by the Irish people themselves, In the case of every other small! nationality whose claims are presented | x s/s * After all, the Clown Quince is a ‘Democratic chap. He says there are men who have made worse speeches |than he. at the peace conference, there is little difference of} opinion among the people concerned. | The nation knows what it wants, and is organized to get it. “Self- determi 2 * & nation” therefore becomes West Virginia is storing in its simple. But the Paris conference may | archives a few bottles of Bourbon inquire, how is self-determination to |and Scotch for the reference of fu- ive applied to Ireland? Just think, they There was an experiment in that|Probably will never be qualified to {appreciate its age. * & « The funny thing about it is, that {some of the men who object to a L. jof N. want a small army. fairly ture generations. Anyway, March came in like a lion if the leasing bill didn’t go thru. Cheer up, hic! | Today’ 5 aaa I snd debated for months, and nothing|1798—Government armory and man- South Ireland and North | ufactory located at Harper's of Ferry, Va. ireland could not agree. | 1836—The Bank of the United Sta If the people of Ireland could | | ceased to be a government in- last year “select political, religious dnd business fac- tions of Ireland to get together and agree on a plan of home rule, virtual- ly promising to endorse any system qi they might evolve, short of absolute independence. The convention met! * stitution. | ;1869—The North German parliamenz was opened with an address by the king of Prussia. for themselves, | without interference from any other ed States. 15—Washington received the offi- ial German reply to the Ame, iean protest against the “war | ‘one.’ 1916—Germans entered the village of| Douamont, north of Verdun, If the Irish expect effective sup- after suffering heavy losses, | port from America, they ought to|1917—British admiralty announceai§ et together first and do some real! aE cea pt te. ruary. self-determining. tself with the “self-determination” of South Ireland or North Ireland, of Catholic Irejand or It could only deal with Ireland as a whole, Protestant Irc- land. | Year Ago i in War in War | > ? t> a eee I J “| | Norwegian s hii y } | b ‘gian steamship Havana sunk was: In the Day s News | by German submarine without warn ‘O jing. Today is the 75th birthday of Sher-. Washington announced construc- man L. Whipple, whose name has tion of $25,000,000 army base ‘n been prontinently mentioned in con France. nection with the vacant post of at- » __. { oe Today’s Birthdays | torney-general in President Wilson’s| | cabinet. Mr. Whipple is a “prominent Boston trial lawyer whose legal \ac-| 9 —__ j yities and associations are nation- Brand Whitlock, United States wide. A leader among the Massa- minister to Belgium, born at Urbana, | | 38 president, jdon today snatch éf song, or éVen thé “Barking of a dog at twilight: © The other night I left the train two: stations away from home; arid’, started to’ walk the rest of thi i across the hills.. It began to snow after a little. From the houses along the road lights flickered thru’ thie haze; atid as I rounded a curve, a little" dog ran out aiid barked: In an instant my’ ‘mind leaped, back twenty years or more, to. the) days when I carried a newspaper: route in Boston. I remembered low long the way used to seeni—two miles |® out and two miles back—and how|' dark it was, in winter, when the sun had’ gone. And how I hated one newspaper that used to issue a great edition of twenty-four pages on Sat- urday evenings! The editors must be heartless creatures, I thot to my- self; surely they had never been boys and ¢ompelled’ to travel a °paper- route. In a big house up on the hills. in the district where rich men lived, there were two dogs that every night barked at me. “Oh, they wont bite,” said the owner. “They bark, but they’re pér- fectly goodnatured.” i} How serenely confident every man! is that HIS dog is perfectly good- natured! Every night I had to grind up my courage to start out on that route, would run out and bark. I was just} 2 little fellow, in short pants, and the space between my knees and my ankles seemed pathetically ‘unpro tected—just made for dogs to bite. COW MONS CARY ~GREMANGE ON LAND | AFFAIRS TO CAPITAL. SHERIDAN, Wyo., March 4.—The | delegation of Crow Indians which; went to Washington to take up ques-; tions of difference as to the allot- ment’ of lands have now returned to the reservation. They were success- ful in a way in their mission, and while they did not get the bill’ they wanted they succeeded in getting the | bill fo go over until the next session | of congress, when they will ask for the support of a bill which has been Te wany. tacaociiaes ledge oe Ik thinking of those «two dogs eae Pe to take time to be kind ta ‘BURLINGTON BOMBARDED !body were so burned as to’ disable| Tied by two vie I shall never fo: nog the Thay whoge: he was the ni Snow was com ed more. dark “onal Papere more heavy wid more tT had “just come out of the man’ ‘with: tuo: doge, aa oa (0 stepped ‘onto ‘the porch ‘of! the Mext | Pt house, suddenly the door opened, and a bi ne one ee man “stood ‘siifiag: | laniplight. “Hello, ki: he cried jovially. “I've been waiting for you. Do you know what day tomorrow is?” ““Yes sir,” I answered. “It’s Christmas.”” “Right yoy are,” he shouted. “And here gomssthing ‘rot Shney Claas" He opened his ‘hand, and there was ia big silver dollar. + IT do not know his name; I have not seen him in twenty’ years; but lost night, walking home in the -now, remembered him with a warm feel- ing around my heart, And I fell. to thinking that I must be pretty nearly us big now as he when he gave me that dollar, and aWout as old. And I wondered how I look to the kid that brings my paper and the other kids I meet, and whether I am the kind of man that is always tou them—or whether E-am the kind that they would ‘sort of like to run’ into, when it’s-cold, and the route is long, jund the, burden’ is heavy. And a dog runs out and barks. _ BY MRR DAMAGE SUITS SHERIDAN, Wyo., Sil 4.—Sher- idan is ‘witnessing’ an open season on |damage suits’ against the railroad | ‘company. Rush Blaisdell started proceedings by droping ta into the hop: per an action for $20,000 damages against the Burlington. Plaintift a). leges that on the 30th day of No- Vember sparks from a defective loco- motive set fire to his clothing, as a result of which his lower limbs and im. Faddis & Spear field suit for $1. 522.15 damages because of delays drawn up by themselves, The Crow tribe lias some exceed- |} ingly intelligent members, capable of | looking out for their interests, and | they have a manner of ‘convincing |: those with whom they talk of their} deep understanding. The seyen who | have just'returned comprise.a Tepre- sentative from each of the seven ‘dis | fricts on the Crow reservation, and while they are not a unit as to what’ is considered best for their interests, succeeded in securing a reversal of the ruling that only citizen Indians will be given the annuities. outrig! | and hereafter the per capita pay-) ment will be made to all the Crows alike. ee | “1 Today’s Events | Today is Shrove Tuesdgy. Town meeting day in Vermont. Woodrow Wilson today jenters, up- on the final half of his second term | bat | at The City of St. Paul is 65 yeatk} | ota today, having been’ incorporated March 4, 1854. | "The anuual convention of the Main| Herter. Plumbers’ association meets) at Portland today for a two-days" ssion. A special election is to be heldj |today in the Twenty-second Pennsyl- | vania district to name a successor to the late Congressman E. E. Robbins, The Supreme Tribe of. Ben Hu an American fraternal order with large membership in the middle west, and south, celebrates its silver jubilee today, having beeri organiged March +, 1894, at Crawfordsville, Ind. The Inter-Allied Co-Gperative Con- ference is to holf a meeting in Lon- to adopt plans for the work of co-operati reconstruction | in the liberated distri anization- of — panna ieee Latest Fashions and chusetts democrats, he has frequently | Ohio, 50 years ago today. been urged to become their candi-| Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, date for the highest state offices and U. 8. N., chief of the bureau of.co for the United States we A na-| struction and xepaif, ui tive of New London, , he gradu- MA.” BR ated from Yale Teeeli y in 1881 {and from the Yale years later, and has since been en- ‘ gaged in the practive of his profes Rev. Arthur CC: ‘McGiftert, | sion in Boston. Last August Mr.| president of Union Theological Semi-| Whipple was chosen as chief counsei| nary, born at Sauquoit, N. ¥., 58} rf the United States Shinioe Board, | years ego today. Miss 63 years ago today. — were ditched near Rayenna Neb., and M ————————- @ ni “Clothes for the Man who! Kyows” in a shipment of 154 head of cattle in October, 1917 from Little Horn. {Mont., to Chicago. The Spear-Faddis Cattle company filed: another suit for $3,727.87 dam: ages arising from delays from a ship- ment of 407 head of cattle from the isame i allege on the'same date in 1917. It is al it: in: carrying two ship a engine at down at in, ‘some "Of the: cars ariother accident — was encountered jnear Creston, Iowa. C. M. Taintor also filed suit @ainst the Burlington for $4,150.00 {damages alleged to have ‘accrued from ‘delays in a shipment of nine cars of cattle in May, 1917, from }Denyer to Benteen, Mont. Money, to loan. oi t Secu- an, Company, ttels. ite 302 A e| Bldg. 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