Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1919, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE BIT OF THE BILLIONS’ AS SEEN BY GOV. CAPPER OF KANSAS No Orgy of Waste and Spending in All History Com- pares With It, Says Executive, Who Likens ; T ______THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE cr = WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919 CHARLIE COMISKEY HAS ‘SOME GIANT’ AVERAGE. | FOR CLUB THIS YEAR (Ry United Prens.) CHICAGO, APRIL 1.—‘“There/ were giants in those days’ was not written of baseball. But here’s a giant that works for Charles A. Comi: owner of the Chicago White Sox WAR VETERANS’ ORGANIZATION BEING FORMED United States Treasury to Giant Sieve. TOPEKA, Kansas.—Arth States ur Capper, ; tl Senator from Kansas, in a signed article in Capper’s} now signed to earn dividends next the new _ Unitea Age, 761 years. Height, 159 feet 10 inches. Weight, 4,779 pounds. He’s a composite of the 28 men "|United War Veterans to Include Soldiers of All Wars, Is Plan Emanating from Kalispell, Montana. | Weekly, under the caption of “The Riot of the Billions” flays the wild extravagance of the administration at Washington and quotes figures to show that the Democratic party has made the summer for the ‘old Roman.” KALISPELL, Mont., April 2.—The Comiskey, one of the few men to United War Veterans, a National or- salt his cash away in socks and make/ganiization, has been formed to in- the fund grow, has this giant loosen-/clude in its active membership all United States treasury a sieve permitted —even encouraged — the flow of billions of dollars of the peo- ple’s money, without any restraint or check or s He says the Democrat ion threw all! of Am: s in a heap and then to use them up. a result, Senator Capper the artling: ie fifth of every Am 1 be taken from him th direct and indirect. ich has caused a sensation, s follows h Congress, just closed, made such lavish appropriations dur- ing and after the war that the job of spending the nearly 80 billions ap- s too big for the spend- Jonsequently about 20 billions ved. The ultimate cost of will be about 60 billions. These figures are based on an esti- mate made in Washington. “No true American begrudged the amplest expenditures for the war— we had pledged our all if need be— but dumping our resources in a heap and “going it blind” is not to make: As , ceeds through which the party has of the twelve Federal Reserve banks. “For a standing army of 175,000 men $1,070,000 would have been ap- propriated had congress been able to reach the bill. That ought to give us an army of 175,000 major-gen- erals instead of soldiers. No Country or Age Ever Eaw Its Equal. “No country in the world ever spent so much money on its military arm in time of peace as these ap- propriations for our army and navy. The naval appropriation alone ex- the combined annual naval budgets of the world’s three great- est maritime powers preceding the war. Added to this, 626 millions more are appropriated and turned over to the shipping board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation, poss- ibly for Hog Island beneficiaries anc others. “The new warships will be obso- lete before there can be another great war. They will be rotting hulks long before half our war debt can be paid. In my humble judgment we are in much more danger of going into ing his composite muscles and absorb- ‘ng the higher branches of baseball learning from William “Kid” Glea- son. This monster baseball yer of Comiskey’s is ambidext . He bats ‘ight handed 16 times then hops to he right side of the old dish for 12 ‘ries. Twenty-three times of 28 he throws with his right hand, then comes up with five left handed ef- forts. For the most part he’s married. “iberal deductions would indicate iis composite wife lets him have 10 lays’ vacation in every month of 28 lays. (All this means only 10 of Jomiskey’s men are happily or un- ‘appily single.) This bird bats .256 and fields .967, oretty fair averages for an all-round nan, Further juggling of the figures hows the average member of the White Sox squad is 2712 years old, ias been on the team 4.8 years, is ive feet nine and one half inches tall ind weighs 170.6 pounds. lveterans of the Civil War, Spanish War, and World War. | The objects are: To unite in fra- {ternal bonds, through national, state, local and foreign organizations, all soldiers and sailors of the United States; to perpetuate Memorial Day, as estzblishod b; the Grand Army | of the Republic, and to preserve from neglect the graves of Our Nation’s Dead; to secure employment for and |to assist our comrades, their widows, ‘orphans and depegdent relatives; to |promote loyalty, mutual aid and co- operation among them in all lines of endeavor; to secure from Congress and other legislative bodies the en- ‘actment of laws beneficial to the wel- fare of our comrades, and to secure {employment for those who have re- |turned to civil pursuits in consonance , with laws which prefer honorably dis- ernment service; to provide and es- tablish homes for orphans and de- pendent children of our comrades; and to inculcate the principles of un- versal liberty and justice to all man- kind of loyalty to our country, rev- ‘charged soldiers and sailors for gov-} i t IN BENNISON ACTURE ~ AT THE IS ON FRAY There is plenty of wholesome fun mixed up in the exciting scenes of “Oh; Johnny!’ at the Iris theater Fri- day. It has been the deliberate plar. jof Ira M. Lowry, who directed the A ly a laugh with OH JOHNNY! Prodiiottore production, to supp! every thrill. For instance, the way in which LNJGHS MATCH THRILLS ~ [HISTORIC WEIMAR DISLIKES UPROAR OF PEAGE TIMES WDOESN'T WANT 10 BE CAPITOL, WOULD WORSHIP ARTS | By FRANK J. TAYLOR } pects of the future, folks in Weimar | (United Press Staff Correspondent.) | viewed with apprehension the instal- | WEIMAR, (By Mail.) — Quiet,| lation of dozens of telephones in the |sleepy Weimar doesn’t like being capi-| theater, the filling of the high school ital of Germany, and do¢sn’t want to} with telegraph instruments and tvpe- be capitol. Weimar didn’t even want|writers for the press, and the arrival to be the seat of the constituent as-|of soldiers and policemen to guard sembly which founded the new Gea man republic. than willing to let some other town have the honor. * When it was definitely decided th Weimar was more, against political uprisings. The beautiful old Saxon castle was |taken over by the government, and ipacked full of people, where it had ormerly been almost deserted always. # | assembly should be at Weimar, the in- | The snow blanket that covered Wei- habitants of the clean, pretty little; mar was continually stirred up by eity bent every effort to make guests|the ten per cent increase in popula- feel comfortable, but they viewed the | tion, said ten per cent being active BENNISON, Al meeting with apprehension. It brot too much excitement to Weimar. Weimar is probably the most cul- \tured city of its size in the world. It exists because it’ was the home of Goethe and Schiller, and the novu- lation lives on the atmosphere of elas- sic German. It is the home of writ- ers and playwrights, and supports one }of the t zroups of dramatic artists in its beeutiful theater. Weimar wants to be let alone tc lits culture and plays and music, ac cording: to the inhabitants, who are |praying that the assembly will place the permanent capitol of Germany | elsewhere. During the war, when the rest of Germany rapidly disintegrated, cul- { tured Weimar kept most of its old| liked. |habits. Shop windows by dozens are filled with classic books and pictures lex literature of England and France |quite as much as Germany. Treaties on universal peace, and against war of any kind stayed in Johnny Burke fools the men who tried | their places on book-shop shelves in ‘to find out the secret of his mine| Weimer, while the rest of the world |is as original and ridiculous as it is|stowed them temporarily in cellars |dramatic. Bryson, the stock promo-| Shakespeare’s picture is_jn art store | people, always busily hurrying around jand that too made Weimar seem un- | resful and uneasy. | Fortunately, Weimar has always j been accustomed to visitors and has many of them, who come to render oriaee to Goethe and Schiller and |zet a glimpse of the classic German | which the world liked years ago be- |fors commercial imperialistic Prus- | sianism overwhelmed the country. | There are more than fifty hotels {in Weimar. and these were quickly | Packed. The city government took | charge of the room and food situatio:- }and assigned everyone a place to |sleep and eat on his arrival from the | outer world. This was another thing Weimar dis- It was used to tourists who were mostly scholars and who came to town knowing most of its secrets, and who quietly went to hotels and creat-- cd no excitement, and were content ond eled to roam around and not bother anyone. The excitement of it all is too much for Weimar, most cultured of towns. Daher ad More than one thousand societies efficient use of them. Yet, with the| That’s what “Commy” and Gleason |erence for its institutions, obedience of women in Great Britain are ar- war at an end, no enemy in sight, and the nations discussing peace and n of armament, this prodigal istration is urging the appro- on of nearly 2 billion dolla anding army and a record- » big naval program, the big- program in history. nbolic device on the seal United States treasury should The great pity is that n and billions which now thru this great vacuum at Wash- must be dug out of the! of our workers and produc- and then taken from the earnings of the common people and the pock- ets of the great consuming class, while at their source they represent natural wealth which can never be recreated for us. “Pay, Pay, Pay” “One fifth of every American’s in- will be taken from him this ar for taxes direct and indirect. This is a result of the world’s great- est financial drunk which has been! going on for months at Washington. | No orgy of spending in all history with it. One-tenth of this} estimated wealth has been | appropriated at a single term of congre: On top of this, with a 7; billion issue of Vietory Loan notes coming April—the Treasury mean- while borrowing money from the} ks to meet running expenses—; h the war an event of the past, Cc K.’s, tho it did not} appropriation of ers for the navy, the; val appropriation bill in| history of the world; provides} million dollars on and then, like a! strewing the street throws away nearly in ‘small change’ on and river-and-har- b appropriation for the! Federal Employment service, which | might have been the means of saving m something v e than a war pe—Bolshevism in America} ce—was ruled out of order! u e drunken sailor even then has the best of it over this spend- | thrift administration, for it is his own money he is throwing away, not | millior nd billions for which he is | ee, and his largen of view, ness of conzequences ly contempt for money or its is born of an alcohol-crazed But no drunken sailor, how- the for spending 1,0 the regular arm drunken sailor Vuh his pay, 100 million publie-buildin: use brain, national bankruptcy than of going to] have to work with this season. and | war between now and the time this dearly bought war junk would have tc be sent to the scrap heap even if the world fails to achieve a permanent peace. “One of the first things the new congress should do is to establish e budget for the government. State and national budgets mean scientific judicious, careful expenditure of the people’s money, instead of the ‘every- thing goes’ profligacy of the spoils ystem. They reduce expenses. They cut graft and ‘pork’ to the minimum. Here is a reform THAT IS COM- PULSORY.” ee |RED CROSS ASKS | INFORMATION OF UNKNOWNS HERE Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the following named people will confer a great favor on the local Red Cross officers by calling cither, phones 950 or 760M: Mae Harris. Grace Fay Faris, (Omaha address). Walter W. Mahaffey. Maud Heaney. Clayton W. Harding. Arthur S. Riggins. A. Maclennan. Mary Collier. All of these people either have cash allotments coming from the army or Red Cross authorities, or inquiries have been made about them by relatives, while they were in the scrvice of the government. They are all Casper or Natrona county people, end should h some acquaintance who could notify the Red Cross au- thorities of their address. a NON-SUPPORT IS DIVORCE CAUSE IN BURK CASE __ The Tribune was in error Tuesday in stating that Mrs. James Bur’ hed been granted a divorce on the ground of cruelty, the complaint filed in dis trict court, upon which the decree was issued, citing non-support as the one and only cause. The trial of the two men held for felonious o prodigal, has ever flung money deast with the reckless abandon vith which billions have been and re being spent by the present t the nation. Democrats Must Have Hated Money “Americans often are accused of being dollar worshippers, but their administrators at Washington ap- I to hate the sight of money judg- ing from the manner with which they throw it away and try to get rid t ees criminate and unexampled spending that the American people at the present time are the most heavily taxed nation on the globe. he Treasurer of the United ates estimates it will cost Ameri- n taxpayers 1,200 million dollars 4 year for the next quarter of a cen-| tury to pay off our net war debt, less the amounts lent to the Allies. “This means we must be taxed every year for 25 years to raise 765 million dollars annual interest to be paid to bondholders. Also for an ditional 417 millions a year to go into a sinking fund in order to pay off the principal. “In other words, to lift this debt on the installment plan—and we now can lift it no other way—we! must pay 30 billions of dollars to; are a debt of 18 billion dollars. It is estimated that our total ex- penditures for the war itself will aggregate 30 billions, er 10 billions more than the combined resources “It is due to this riot of indis-| upon Wyrn, one of them the | fendant in the divorce action, wil |hold an interesting feature in t | neither will admit the stabbing, it i | Said. Whether the authorities ha definite information on this score w: not be learned until the trial. s e I | As one of the results of | e results of the war, ithe women of India have, for the |first time, been employed in the gRov- {ernment departments ot Delhi. ana the question is being discussed as to giving women equal representation ‘With men in the plans of the Nationa}! India iety. Patching, Retubing, New and Box 1141 AMALGAMATED WELL ON CAP ROGK, SALT GREEK The northwestern lim{.s of the Salt Creek field will become a known juantity in a few days, or just as soon as the Amalgamated Oil com- pany which is drilling on section 6- 0-49, ain reme northwest cor- ver of the largest producing town- ship in the state, is able to drill hru 2 hard sandstone cap rock which was encountered Saturday night at| 1 depth of over 3,600 feet. Drilling 3 going on rapidly as pessible ana vord that the bit has drilled thru he cap rock into the oil sand is ex- yected momentarily. ‘STRANGLER’ LEWIS PUTS DOC ROLLER OUT OF GAME (By Aanocinted Press.) HARRISBURG, Pa., April 2.— Ed. “Strangler” Lewis defeated Dr. B. F, Roller in a wrestling match here last night. Roller was injured and unable to con- tinue after the first fall. HILL'S SECONDS THROW UP SPONGE FOR CHIEF 4 (By Asoc! YOUNGSTOWN, 2. scheduled eight-round bout be- tween Jack Wolfe of Cleveland and Johnny Hill of Newcastle, Pa., terminated in the fourth round when Hill’s seconds tossed the sponge into the ring. PAL’ MOORES GIVEN NEWSPAPER DECISION (By Annociated Prexn.) AKRON, Ohio. April 2.—Pal Moore of Memphis was given a newspaper decision over Willie Devore of Akron in a 12-round bout last night. LAWLER AND MHENRY FIGHT 8-ROUND DRAW Nashville lightweight, and Happy McHenry of Mont- pelier, Ind., fought eight rounds to a draw here last night. Press.) April 2 Casper Boiler Works PRACTICAL BOILER WORK BY PRACTICAL BOILERMAKERS Old Crown Sheets Repaired. Steam, Oil, Gas, Air, and Water Tight Work. WE GUARANTEE ALL OUR WORK Engerson & Brehan CASPER, WYO. ' Phone 486-J or 18 to its laws and to discountenance whatever tends to weaken these sen- timents. The organization consists of active members, called comrades, and in ad- dition thereto an honorary member- ship consisting of persons who per- formed distinguished or faithful ser- ¢ or engaged in efforts for the ef of disabled and suffering sol- diers and sailors, or who to a con- |Spicuous extent became interested in promoting the moral welfare and physical comfort’ of troops in camp! or in field, or whe are honorably dis- charged soldiers or sailors of any of the Allies of the United States in the! World War. it urges that mémbers of other pat- riotic organizations continue their memberships in such organizations, but join the United War Veterans in addition, in order to have one united organization of ALL soldiers of ALL wars, | Women honorably discharged from |military or naval service, and the mothers, wives, daughters, and sis- ters of all soldiers and sailors living 1 eased, who served in the Army,. 'Navy, or Marine“Corps in time of |War; are elgible to the Auxiliary. y |. Fhe National Heatiquarters are at! | Kalispell, Montana. The Commander-| in-Chief is Commandant of the Mon- |tana State Soldiers’:Home. | eee | ett X During the half century of its ex- istence the Nationat American Wo- ;man Suffrage association has had but four presidents. t | A unique honor has been bestowed} junon Mrs, Louise Clayton, of Jen- \kintown, Pa., who has been elected | jan honorary member of the local fire | ‘ter, engages a Mexican half-breed and | windows with Goethe’s and Schiller’s !two confederates to track Johnny on | his way to the mine. Johnny observes that he is being followed. He gets ofz his horse, hides it and climbs a tree the largest branch of which ever hangs the trail. He takes his rope and, as the half-breed rides under, drops the noose over his shoulders. Then taking hold of the rope by the and Shakespearean plays, as well as classics from any language were play- ed continually in the Weimar theater. | With their interests centered entirely |on things cultural rather than polit: cal, and with their minds filled with the best from the best from the pasv rather than social and political pros- ranging for celebrations to be held next month in honor of the Queen Victoria centenary. The president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Ja- non is Mrs. Yajima, who at the age [of 85 years gives her entire time to the work of the organization. other end Johnny jumps down ana his weight carries the greaser up into Garden Hose Sprinklers, Connections the branches. | He then ties the rope to the tree and jokingly leaves him to his fate, catches his horse and rides off. \ GREAT GASSER BROT IN AT BYRON, WILL DRILL” TOL SINS, REPORT Rakes—Hoes Spades—Shovels f Tools | Few men realize the ir of balance Lecomte cob. lets especi- ally necessary in tools for the home or farm, as well-balanced tools are less tiring and) require less skill to obtain good results. KEEN KUTTER Tools and Cutlery are all carefully adjusted and balanced to give the greatest efficiency with the least effcrt. The Keen Kutter Drawing Knife, for example, is absolutely unigde in this p: lar—never hisifeeen fully imitated apd (tis 1cognised by experts nad as the most per- fect drawing knife ever made. All Keen Kutter Tools fulby guaz- d. Lawn Mowers Edge Trimmers Brighten up with Lowe Bros. High Standard Paints. The recollection of qual- ity remains long after the price is forgotten. HOLMES Hardware Company “HOLMES TO HOMES” A 25,000,000 cubic foot gas well was the result of the drilling by the} Carter Oil company in the made to Branden-head the gas sand) 4an.effort to ‘make ;a test of an oil| gand which it.is thought wil] lie about} 300 feet below the present strike, | -: The endeavor to reach the oil sand} will be’ slow tedious work owing to) the tremendous gas pressure in the! upperisand. Efforts. are being made how to cut off the pressue #9 that there will be no damage to the casing that will be used to case the sand when the test of the lower strata is made. ~ eae Mrs. Esther Jolly is the new mayor WYOMING ‘ef the town of South Range, Minn MATINEE 2:30 & 4 P. M. NIGHT FIRST SHOW AT 7:30 MATINEE TODAY BEST VENTILAT- ED THEATER IN THE STATE THE HOUSE OF QUALITY PICTURES CTT maTNEE TOMORROW NIGHT NIGHT | SS ane D, George Walsh Famous Comedian in “Never Say Quit” A Comedy in Which Bad Luck Becomes Worse Shirley Mason “COME ON IN” —— Also A FLAGG COMEDY ALSO A CAPITAL COMEDY Smiling Bill Parsons “YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN” “GR pnomen reer LOUIS and “MUTT and JEFF” FRIDAY "= BENNISON in “Oh, Johnny” A COMEDY-DRAMA OF THE GOLDEN WEST i t