Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1919, Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919 U.S. WAR RISK | WOULO'NT TAKE $10,000 FOR EXPERIENCE IN. FRANSE BUREAU T0 BE PUT ON GRILL Gross Mismanagement May Show Up im Conduct of Im- portant Department;: Effici- the following letter to a, friend here: A. E. F. University, Beaune, Cote de’Ort, France. Che Casper Daiiy Cribune fore I leave here if I can do so. 1/|80ldiers attending the university and} thave not been to Paris yet nor do 1 they are all wild about their schoo! | bhave an at desire t r Wo grees yeerre vio one gets here. I hope that the idea| a there | Work and the special advantages that | Appointments for Roosevelt Me- again—ntil the next time I guess. Hare, Gillette, Campell; Niobrara Just mh few lines about” the uni- Brimmer, Rawlins, Carbo S. Drur versity and what it is doing here, ete. Maurer, 5 “John "| I am _ getting along very well end) * 5 Isley, S ze 5 § Ite IN OVERSEAS ARMY I feel that my time here is surely} a 5% ; ; ; well spent to ‘say the least. I am| j. Ax Wathativ: £ : i) | taking’ electrical work, mechanical! [g, [ 2 Spring Weston Friends of George C, . Woolf,jlerger, of course. We are not very }4t@wing and wireless. This present | rath) bites . ; ae formerly of Casper, but now sila from the Alps here and I pre term will be out in a few weeks and ee, bi t rr Beaune, Gote-de.'Orr, France, where {snow on the ground day before yes-|!hen 1 may be sent home, I do not} oharwecaf = caches Te fog 9s ta 29 i he is attending a mechanical school|terday. I want to go up there be-|4mow- There are several thousand | ats Winter, Casper, Natrona; HB. Card, | a ee Pe of the A. E, F., will be interested in May 4, 1919. Mr. Thomas Mills, : ent Men Forced Out c-o Mills Baker Const. Co. WASHINGTON, June 5.—“This Casper, Wyo., U.S. A. resolution promises to develop one Dear friend Tom and femily: of the most colossal messes of mis-| Well I guess that you think that management in the whole history of |, am never going to write to you, our government.” so I am going to fool you this once This is the characterization placed|any way. 1 wanted to see you last by a veteran member of congreas|year when I was home for two days) upon the resolution of Representa-jon a furlough, just before I came tion Britten, of Illinois, for a thor-jover, but I did not find you at the} ough investigation of the war risk|affice and as I only had such a very bureau of the treasury department,|short time in Casper I did not get following the resignation of its dir-jtime to run down to the house. ty ector Col. Henry D. Lindsley, after|have not very much news to tell but an exchange of bitter notes with See-|I will try to give you am idea what retary of the Treasury Glass. I was during the war and what I sm While! many. within the bureau say |gloing now. they have known for some time| I came over in June of last year there was discord between the sec-jand came at once to Romorantin, to! retary and the director, the sudden}work in the aeroplane repair and as-| resignation of Colonel Lindsley came|sembly shops located there. These | es a surprise second only to the quit-|shops are the most modern aup up to} ting of the cabinet by Secretary}date shops in the whole A. E. F. and} Bryan, Garrison and McAdoo. Not}were the largest in the world. At only does the director leave but hejone time we had a production of, carries with him several assistants| from fifty to sixty complete planes who are conceded to be among the|per day, and we would easily have| most expert persons in the country}doubled this quantity if the armis-! jfor I have seen a great many pic- tures of the town and it is just like all the rest of the towns over here only several times lerger than any I have been in yet. I like the small towns over here pretty well as they in on leaves or passes are Blois, Orleans, Chabris, Salbris, Dijon, ete. They have some very wonderful churches and cathedrals over here. many of which were built several hundred years ago and which are in @ very fine state of preservation. | The cathedral at Orleans is especially wonderful, also the castle or chateau at Chambord. Blois is a very inter- esting place and in it is one of the! oldest castles in France, and which hes a very gruesome and interesting history. There are a great many places over here much older than Paris, in fact Paris is comparatively speaking, & new town in comparison with some { jof these old places that were built by the Romans. The road running Tours, | will be adopted in -the States for| it will tend to make a much better jarmy. | How is every thing going in Cas- jper, what are you doing this year, least. Some of the towns I have been |SPring, in fact how is every thing] to me a long letter and tell me all the news, and tell Bill Noonan to write to me or I will run his car into a telephone pole when I get back! By the way Tom is work very scarce out there now and how low or high are s. wages since the war ended? told me when I quit that I could| go back to work any time that wanted to. my line now, such as a string of mo-| tors to keep going, a hoist, etc? Well, Tom, tell all the boys hello} for me, Fred and Guy and all the! rest. Will close now as I have no more news to tell you this time. With the very best wishes for you and your family, 1 am sincerely your friend, GILBERT. P. S. Use this address when writ-! after the work in personnel is as foll idan; J. M. You | Pitchfork 1) E. Shaplin, Laramie, Alban Hawe you any thing in| Anderson, Basin, in their respective work. There is a_ distinctive Lindsley. strong supporter of the administra. |work tion, decorated by General Pershing for efficiency at the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces and wielding wide influene in politi- cal matters in Texas, Colonel Lind- sley was looked upon as one of the strong men of Washington official- dom. But he had a settled idea as to how ends should be accomplished and when he found interference would break all his plens he stepped side after administering his severe rebuke to the head of the treasury. jhe narrow gauge tracks all over in- Popular With Men in Ranks A story is being told that shows unmistakably how strong Colonel Lindsley stands with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers. At the re- cent conclave.in St. Louis which re- sulted in the organization of the American Legion there was an active propaganda to have an enlisted man elected as leader. Not only did this: have the strongest sort of support mong the men in the ranks, but was encouraged by the officers who felt that such a choice would be the best possible indication of the Democracy of the association that includes in its membership the hundreds of thousands of men who went to the! defense of the nation. When Lieut. Col. Roosevelt declared emphatically and repeatedly that under no con- sideration would he accept the place, the delegates commenced to center on a man from the ranks. f When it became known, however, that the new head of the war risk insurance bureau was present the news evoked such enthusiasm that Colonel Lindsley was nominated and later elected unanimously. This was taken as a vote of confi- dence in the administration of the bureau. No section of the war de- partment bears a more intimate re- lationship with the millions of fam- ilies of young Americans than does the war risk bureau. Nearly every soldier who holds insurance hes had some communication with the bur- eau and so utter Was the failure of the whole organization for months that it acted as a direct discourage- ment to those who held and had hoped to hold, policies. The usual conduct of business affairs was so foreign to the handling of the divi-| sion of the treasury thrt a turn over finally came and Colonel Lindsiey was named as director,, Brought. Order Out of Chaos | From chaos, order commenced to appear; sensible answers came to sensible queries, a full explanation of the scheme of the insurance was spread broadcast for the guidence of the soldier and his family. Policies were beginning to be paid after japses of months and, after being driven almost to ‘desperation by treatment in the past, the soldier commenced to discover that the war risk bureau was really a function- ing unit of the government. To Colonel Lindsley and his easin- | tants in the reorganization went the} credit and the first opportunity of} the men of the army to show their feelings came at St. Louis when they named him as their leader. Then came his sudden retirement, Whether Colonel Lindsley will fol- low his resignation by withdrawing from the Democratic party is a mat- ter time can tell but in the mean- time congress is set upon finding just why this man should be allowed to go when his services were show- ing results and his guidance was most needed. Jahangir Results Will Startle Casper political} was. Most of the time, during the angle to the resignation of Colonel} war, I was working on aviation en- Democrat all his life, a{gines, also planes, and I found this { work and most of the time we were Nhad from six to ten men when we jand as we had every thing to work tice had not been signed when it very interesting but not e \ereat deal different from working on \@ very fine auto motor. Along about) Xmas my outfit was loaned or at-| tached to the M. T. C. (Motor (ransport Corp) to repair the count- Ness trucks, automobiles and other motor vehicles used by the A. E. F. We then turned our shops into a chain of monster garages, one of which would hold all the garages i Casper and have room for the Mid West hotel besides. They had lit- side the shops and used switch en-| gines made out of Ford engines to pull around the small flat cars, load- ed with truck parts, etc. The plant) or shop in which I worked “‘employ- ed” at one time about a thousand people, most of them American sol- dier mechenics, with a number of French girls for light work on planes, small parts, etc. Every one sure did go wild on the day that. the armis+ tice was signed and we did not do @ thing the next day. They did not msk us to and some of the boys could not have done much any way. I had charge of a crew of men all of \the time we were on the M. T. C. working on airplane motors also. I) were working on the cars and trucks} with, I could put out a truck in one! day. Later on we had a number of cars to tune up only, no repairs to} speak of, and we turned out two or three per day, and there were hun-| dreds of crews working so you see ‘thet we had a big production. There are a great many of the Casper boys! over here that I have run across in| different parts of France, quite a) number of them working with me at Romo, Dewey, Buckeye was there,| do you remember him, he use? to} work at the Casper Motor (a ran across Pratt, the building con-/= through the camp at Romorentin was ; : the same one that Joan of Are rode Corp. George G. Woolf, upon when she delivered France. 18 Co. 3 Reg. Air Service Me Not very far from there is an old chanics, castle in which one of the old kings FI of Spain was kept captive for sev- My Ae. is: fag = ae eral years and I myself saw the poy” A. PO, No. 909. A. ’E 2 place where he was kept, also the,, ~~. elo ee OE place where the prisoners were kept in the Blois castle and the hole in the floor where the beheaded ones were dred yards away. “™* “PRINCE DROPS | NATION ALIT Y| | but it may change any time so write to the old address | Oh it is all very interesting and and one can learn very much travel- ing around in the country and seeing all of it but I am just about full up now of scenery and I am dying to get a look at a very famous piece of statuary, commonly called the “God- dess of Liberty.” That is all the scenery that I care to see right now. It’s very funny how popular this said young lady has become with the boys over here. They all rave about the Goddess of Liberty now and when they were living in New York or any other place where they could see her every day or so, why they even! forgot that she wes there. Now when I see her again I will not yell| out like a savage for the very sim- ple reason that I will not be able to, | I'll feel too funny inside. You get| me don’t you Tom? I have enjo; ed my experience over here ve: y much and I would not take $10,000 for it but if I ever get back, never | ATHENS.—A royal decree permits Prince Christopher to renounce his Greek nationality and become a Dan-| ish subject. FOR SALE Fine corner lot on South Lin- coln street, two blocks south §) of Second street, fine loca- tion, has two-room furnished house on rear or lot facing Cunningham, street. This is a bargain; part cash and terms. See owner at 819 Cunningham “Street. POSSOSESSSOO | AMERICAN CAFE } Serves You Right CREAM WAFFLES Served 5:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. qe a And from 2:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. tractor the other day. He is un in- structor here at the university, in| building and construction. 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