Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1920, Page 8

OFC MEMBERS GREET NEW SECRETARY AT LUNCHEON: INTRODUCTION SPEECH GALLS FOR CO-OPERATION Charles B. Stafford Responds With Address Defining Tasks Before Organization; Special Music Features Forum Charles B. Stafford, new secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, was greeted by an enthusiastic gathering of men and women when he appeared as the speaker at the Forum luncheon today at the Henning He was introduced by President Earl B. Holmes, who urged Hotel. that the members of the Chamber to aid Mr. Stafford in his task of the people of the city. Some of the important tasks before the Chamber of Commerce were stressed by Mr fford in his talk he paid particular attention to the work of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Tide water Association, which the local chamber will back to the utmost in its efforts. The music for the luncheon was ex ceptionally arranged for numbers by who is here for t the Duo-Art piano f bell Music Company. Mrs. Otto Krausse favored “with spe- cial violin numbers and there v 1 songs by various groups of mem- and Jack Le of speci: Hilts of Denver, k demonstrating hod bers, Mrs StzTord said “Last Friday noon, I made the state-] ment ‘that in so far as you and I are} concerned, Casper, Wyo., is city in the world. Our worthy chair- man, Mr. Leary, rather I might be a nish athlete, but gen- tlemen, I was never more in earnest inj my life than when I made) that state- ment, and I repeat—Casper, Wyo., is the best city in the world, as far as you and I are concerned, and it always will be the best city in the world for us, if we will continue to co-operate. We can make the city of Casper even better and! the kind of a city we wish it to! be, if} the thinking men and women of this city continue to co-operate. Nothing is impossible for Casper to accomplish in a civic and commercial way, if we continue with the spirit that has been manifest during the past several months. e “The people of Casper remind. me of ® prize sales letter that was written by a tap manufacturer of New England. letter v a masterpie: In de- scribing the goods, he said: ‘You could | forge a first class razor from one of our steel taps; and the razor, would eut smooth id clean for the same reason that the tap does—'twould have the right stuff in it.’ “Now, that’s the propeller that makes Casper go ahead, you've, got the right stuff in Ca and you can make Cas- per just what you went to make it. The human element is the controlling factor in the civic and commercial develop- ment of any city. Raw materials enter Into the, proh- jem to a certain extent, but » Philadel phia and Boston are the greatest wool en centers in the United States and their rew material is purchased in our Wyoming and other states of the Distance from market test handicaps. together spirit that is dis- our open forum meetings is | Iam reminded of a certain in St. Cloud, who could not He would not join the com- One day he rushed into flourished a. let- state safety commission, showing where he had been called down for advertising a linoleum sale, where in he had slipped in a small item de- merchant co-operate. mercial club. the president's office, ter from the scribing some material similar to lino- | said: | I don't belong to | This lop-sided merchant you ask why the club. Look, why spould I join the club, when some other merchant, who is prdbably a member, reports me and gets me into Mr. MeKen the president, disclaimed any liability and said: ‘Our members who rub elbows with each other at open forums and monthly meetings, are very likely to take advantage of each other in that way.’ “That reminds me of a story about the farmer’ that said he owned the most willing team he ever saw. ‘The bay leum. ‘There, solo} r the Knight-Camp- | ’-}to make it, worked out on intimated that} plan, the same as rent: 1 this mess over nothing.’ | not | Meeting at Hotel of Commerce do all in their power speedily becoming acquainted with } “It will not profit ug much to invite |prospective Industries and manyfactur- ers to locete in Casper if we have not facilities for housing their workers, A man with a family, comfortably housed jin Casper, especially if he owns his poses, the Lakes, needs the St. serve its inland commerce. The Atlantic seaboard—the nation’s! workshop—heeds the ‘power running to! favorably, on the. Fess bill proposing a waste in the river. “The Railroads—the arteries of cassline Glass mail tates for 1920,1921. ana —need this relief from acute congestion! 1922." — Indians, “The West—' “The East—the seat of Make all the allowance that is neces. |. ¥! sary. for luends reserved for various pur-' forests and others, the} fact rémains that the deyelopment of Wyoming has been retarded most of all by its remoteness from market. the ocean route reaches to the head of Wyoming will be as near the sea as Kentucky «nd Tennessee are now and our natural resources are| greater than tliose states possess. One third of the area and population of the Grited States—needs the St. Lawrence waterway as @ world} ‘outlet. | When industry—| Lawrence waterway to! “The Nation—in the dawn of a new! economic era—needs this unemployed ; servant of its latent resources, “Therefore, Open the Locks.” ee gg ae ae * FULLER PENSION, BILL IS SIGNED BY PRES.WILSON (By Associated Press.) — signed Fuller pension bill, increasing the pensions of veter- ans of the civil war and widows and other Gant carne td of veterans. SECOND CLASS POSTAL RATES TO CONTINUE —— (By Associated Prem) } WASHINGTON, May 4.—The house nostoffice committee today refused to act ed) of ‘the graduated incveaes tn enn. own bome, or is purchasing it on the installement plan, will quite likely be satisfied to remain here, whereas if he |is not comfortably housed, perhaps Iiv- ing in one or two rooms or in a base- ment, he will not he s@tisfied and -will not be as good a citizen as if he were living, in more cheerful and senleary surroundings. s ‘ “I would strongly aGvise the organ- izing of a housing corporation with "a | capital stock ‘as large. as ites possiple plan simi- Jor to the organizatidn in Janesvilles, Wis., and Lockport, N: ¥s) The. purr chaser to own his own lot,.and make a small payment down on the “house, the housing corporation to erect the houses the best/and the purchaser to make future pay- |ments on the installment 6r mortiztion I/am sure that | this plan could be successfully nego- tiated in Casper, and would-be one of the best steps for progress tHat ‘cdula be taken. “There is a matter coming up before the International Joint Commission of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association at Cheyenne, Wyo., 6n Juné © 2, that should have the hearty support and co-operation of every “merchant, shipper, oil company and wobdl grower n Wyoming. i “The joint commission. will meet to hear briefs and application ottlining the benefits that may be derived*by Wyo- ming when the lake ports shall have been made accessible to ocean-going, steamships. aA “Wyoming is the largest wool pro: ducing state in the Union. The wool market is principally Boston and Phil- adelphia. When the deep waterway fs completed the logical movement will be to the nearest lake port and thence by @ll-wxter route to the Auantid seaboard. It is estimated that the deep-water route will saye to the farnjer on an average 5 cents per bushel’on grain and 10 cents per hundred of wool. to | the growers of the Middle, Western states. { : | | | | The is here at last with a M, change in fashions We can’t help it if we are d must be delivering eimorass ‘LYRIC THEATER, Continuous ‘1 P. M. to 11 P. M. TODA The beaiitiful romantic ‘drama } ‘BROKEN MELODY’ Featuring) - a, big Sites. We ‘SIBERIA SIGNS UP WITH JAPS HONOLULU, May 4—A_ military agreement conceding all Japanese de mands was signed by representatives of the Siberian Vladivostok government and the Japanese on April 29, accord- ing to a Tokio cable to the Nippu Jiji, a Japanese newspaper here. 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Gentlemen, if | the Casper Chamber of Commerce and | the community will only adopt that} principal, Casper will advance with even | greater rapid y then it has in the past. | “It would be utter folly for me or any other comparatively total stranger to tell you people what Casper needs for civic and commercial success. You thinking men, who have been residents of Casper for months and some of you many years, know. better than any one | else wht Casper needs to keep it in the front rank of progress. “Referring to our program of work for 1920, one of the major planks is that ; of housing. it is evident that one of the most pressing needs in our city is er housing facilities. 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