Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 6, 1920, Page 2

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Metiiber of the Associated Pr ue Associated Press #5 ay ee 3d entitled tf the use 1 republication of ail news credited in this paper and ‘uso the loeal news published heref. xi re EEE THE MOST DAMNABLE PROVISION. ... With all the objections men have urged against the League of Nations, the profound and convincing arguments advaticed in ‘proof of a practical surren- ler of our constitution, provided we accepted the Wilson league, aside from the numerous other fea- tures incompatible with our national life and ambi- tions, it remained for the keen wit of a woman to discover in the league the most damnable provision of them all. _. This honor belongs to Mrs. Arthur L. Liver- more, the Republican woman leader of New York, whose’ association with all movements respecting woman’s advancement, is nationally known. Mrs. Livermore has startled the women of the country by what she says. She cannot be disputed for what she says is true. The Wilson League ‘of Nations would bind the United States to a contract to supervise and en- force contracts regarding the trafficking in women and children. That the covenant contained such a clause has amazed the women of the country and indignation knows no bounds. t More and more the disregard of American rights and contempt for American principles are being revealed as one studies the contract nego- tiated in secret in the Paris conference and more and more clearly appear Woodrow Wilson’s reasons for concealing it from the view of ithe American people long after nearly every other natiohy knew it by heart. : Mrs. Livermore calls attention to Paragraph 3 of Article 23 of the covenant of the League of Na- tions which provides: y Members of the league will intrust the league with general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs. i This American wife and mother. This ‘gifted champion’ of her sex, thus appeals to her sisters: “After 7,000 years of strides toward civiliza- tion the greatest government in the world, repre- senting the highest purpose of humanity, is asked to attach its signature to a contract which not only recognizes and ratifies but legalizes traffic in women and children. “Slavery was wiped from the pages of Ameri- can history by the sacrifices of the civil war under the leadership of Lincoln and it will never be re- newed with the. consent of right-thinking people of this republic. “Vicious as was the former chapter which told of the slavery of men and-women of the black race, the present proposal draws no line whatever on traffic in the flesh and blood of God's children. “A more cruel or degrading contract was never signed or carried {nto effect by the slave holders of the jungle. Mark you the horror of it all! not profess, or attempt to prohibit or denounce. in any manner, this unholy traffic, but it attaches the signature of the American government to a contract which recognizes the legality of the practice. “Not only did the people of the United States speak on this subject fn the civil war, but they em- phatically declared themselves in more recent years by the passage of the Mann act, which provides for the only supervision which Uncle Sam tolerates in matters of this character and that is ‘supervision over those he setids to United States prisons for en gaging in this very practice. “Furthermore, what a revolting spéctacle is presented to the mothers and daughters of Ameti- can homes when they find the president of the United States and the candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency pleading for the privilege of attaching the seal of the American goverment to an agreement which in the same clause classi- fies women and children with opium and other dan- gerous drugs. “The whole proposition is so fundamentally re pugnaht to the higher humanity for which America stands that it calls for repudiation from every home in this country and must never be sanctified by the * seal of this nation.” The Lodge reservation bearing on this’ clause Which is the Republican party's doctrine, is as fol- lows “The United States reserves to. itself exclu- | It does } siyely the tight to decide what questions are within, its domestic jurisdiction, and déclares that all domestic ahd political questions rélAt- ing whi ly or. in part to its internal affairs, in- cliditig iniinigration, labor, coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce, the suppression of traf- fic in woinen and children and in opium and other dangerous drugs, and all other domes- tic questions, are solely within the jurisdiction of the United States and are not under this treaty to be submitted in any way either to arbitration or to the consideration of the council or of the assembly or the League of Nations, or any agency thereof, or to the de- cision or recommendation of? any other power.” If the women of the United States of America not only in Wyoniing, but ih every State in this Union, do itot go to the polls on election day, exer- cise the full rights of citizenship they now enjoy and rebuke Woodrow Wilson and His understudy lames Cox for this damnable insult to American womanhood, then they are tihworthy of the fran- chise and incapable of its proper exercise. REGISTER TODAY. If you. desire to vote at the November elec- tion, and no doubt most of you do, there is one Necessary requirement that the election laws say you must fulfill before you ate qualified to yote. You must register. The registration offices are now open and will remain open until next Saturday, Oc- tober 9th, in the usual Voting precincts, There are ho ifs and’anids about it. If you would vote at the Novembér election you rust register. Prior regis- ; trations do not count in this election. Tt is urged upon: prospective voters that they register early and have the duty over with, for an unprecedented registration is looked for and you should not take any long chatices of failure to reg- ister by reason of the large crowds that are sure to throng the registration offices as the period draws to a close. : ‘ Register today and have it off your mind. IS ONCE ENOUGH? The proposition is as plain as daylight. Article 10 of the League of Nations binds the United States to participate in all the boundary struggles of all the members of the league. Here it is. Read it for yourself: “The members of the: league undertake to re- spect and preserve as agains! external aggression the territorial integrity and €Xisting political independ- efice of all members of the league. In case of any threat or danger of such aggression the council tion shall be fulfilled.” If Mr. Cox is eléctéd president the United States will enter the league. This means war any moment ante the sending of American boys to Europe to fight the battle for people in Whose quarrels we’ have no interest whatever, either for or against them. . ; : If. Mr. Harding is elected we will.not enter the l¢ague as Mr. Wilson has framed it. If we do enter it there will be no Article 10 in it requiring our boys to fight the battles for alien peoples. Further- more there will be no provision in such league as we enter that is not in harmony with our own con- stitution and with all of our rights and privileges re- served to us. If there is a mother, Wife, sister or sweetheart who has not had enough sad experience in Euro- pean war already, then they should once more ac- cept the false teachings of Woodrow Wilson and James Cox and add more bitter experience to that which they have had in the recent past. WENT DUCK SRGOTING. When Cox toured Missouri the eyes of the state were peeled to observe what Senator James A. Reed of that state would do. Senator Reed is a Democrat, but he is a bitter opponent of the Wilson League, which has been embraced by Cox. Senator Reed is also a mem- ber of the Senate investigating committee inquir- ing into campaign affairs and but recently de- nounced Cox’s charge of a “senate oligatchy” as | rot. The eyes of the Missourians’ that were peeled during |the Cox visit, observed Senator Reed em- | bark upon a duck shooting expedition that he had long postponed. : A TWO-EDGED SWORD. Cominenting on the efforts of Samuel Gompers to aid the Democratic lost cause, John Hays Ham- mond says: } “In urging labor to yote for Cox, Gompers is playing with a two-edged sword. Fortunately. for labor, neither Gompers nor any other leader can de- liver the labor vote. The Américdn wage-eamer is a level-headed man, who does his own thinking and realizes that his welfare depends upon the gen- eral prosperity. at being the case, the wage- earners of the coutitry will not forget the bread dines and soup houses of 1913, necessitated by wide-spread unemployment, following Democra! tariff tinkering. It requires but little imaginaron averted only by the world war, which prevented the dumping of European products into our home | market.” NOWADAYS. Hie This is‘ the new procedure Since it has precious grown: Eat and the world eats with ‘you, Drink and you drink alone. —New York Herald. shall advise upon the ‘means by which this obliga- | Yai | to Vistialize the great fiidustrial calatiity that was | To Washington | | By CYRENUS COLE, CHAPTER Iv If You Want to Know | | “If you want to know, Mr. Miller," said Watson, while Mr, Miller still sat. ina brown study over what he had heard, “T“izn in position to tell you, for I have"éfther heard or read the test: mony in these matters. } “Yes, FT want to know,” said Mr.! Miller, “what became of those twenty or twenty-five thousand airplanes which they ‘talked so much’ about while | 4 our boys were enlisting. and for which | congress gave the. tmoney."’ “Yes, congress appropriated $640,000,- 000 without batting an eye or asking a question," said’ Watson, “And. after- wards congre§s- appropriated a. sti)l larger sum, making $1,692,336,424 in all} tor the aviation program. Aid $1,051,- 511,988 of this was actually spent.” “And how many_planes did they make for that?” i “Well, they made a great many thousands," said Watson. “But most of them were experimental machines} and thousands of them were abandoned | as, unsafe. That is another story. I! will ‘tell that later, What we are inter- ested in just! now are the planes at the front.” “ana how many were they?” “No fighting or combat planes at all,” | said Watson, “I have already told you whet, General. Pers! said. ,The De Haviland 4s were observation planes, ind not very safe énés for that, as we} shal! see Jater, when the Germans were loing a. little observation on their own hehalf. Colonel. M..M. Patrick, who was then a major general and chief of the ur service of the American ‘expedition- ary forces, told the Congressional com- mittee the other day that at the sign- ing of the armistice, there were 740 airplanes all tld on the American front. Of, these 218 were De Haviland 4s and the, other 527 were machines which had been bought. horrowed of almost stolen | from France and England. Many of these were second-hand and eyen obso- fete machines, for naturally those na- tions could not give up their best ma- chines.” “Only, 740,"" mused, Mr. Miller, “2131 of American make and "27 bought; bor-| rowed or’ stolen from our allies—and how many ought ther. .o have been to protect our front?"* | “The French count? about 3,371 for| every million men en aged,,and they | said thatwas not eno.i¢h. Of course, | you understand, the more the better. Colonel Patrick when asked. the, same question. that ,y that Du have asked, replied 720 airplanes were the least © be considered fon every mil- tion men engeg We had at that time about a million and a- quarter men on the active front and) we: shonid’ there- fore have had-et least 3,509 machines ‘n action-and ‘as many Morejas we could get,” F “And. we) had them: foreign ones? iam “We had that many left on Armistice ‘ “But vers. tow 740, three fourths of day,/t-replied Watson. wf them were combat, planes anit. these few Were foreign machines... The De Havilands were only observation plancs ind not very good ones at tha “Not. very good ones at that?” asked Miller: Not very fast, nor very safe," said son. ‘Tam not an dyietor, but the testiniony shows’ that they ised up halt {the gasoline they could carry to climb up 14,000 feet, below whieh they were apt to be shot down by land guns. Fiorello H. Guardia,-~who resigned from congress and became a famous airman, | testified the other day that. ‘We would | have been Just as well off without those De Havilands at the frént as with them.’ He said the English—it was an English machine—were doing away with them When we took them up. “La Guardia also testified that with Ameri- can‘make airplanes ‘practically nothing’ was done," 5 “He ought to have known,” thought Mr, Miller. N stimony is worth considering mt Tea said Watson, “But a greater airman than be, Captain Eddie Ritken- backer, America's premier ace, a fight- er who won twenty-six air victories, y condemned the American made nd He himself used a which is a French made ma- In the book which he wrote, he s of the ‘De Haviland Liberties’ chines that ‘with their. criminally constructed fuel tanks, offered so easy @ target-to the incendiary bullets of the enemy that their unfortunate pilots catled this boasted achievement of our aviation department their “flaming cof-; fins.’ He says that at one time ‘at Grand Pre, France, he saw ‘three of, tof the t | their duty—even when they were sent | out in unfit machines. A few days later 8. it Watson | gave a tuncheén for the Millers, . Macy ;to provide for any aviation program, |to Europe as observers. Chateau-Thierry, they ‘found they were overwhelmingly outnumbered, poorly, Supported and lamentably Feil in the air to go against the 3 \ air fighters, and He says that ‘many a gallant life was lost to tion during those early: The hopete machines,’ Ny» sae itd incident in August, 1918, at ont, France. It was told ‘by Captain Sweeney, an Américan. engi- Bl. to Asbestos Property Fred Patee Beaten Over Head With Foe end Bed’ ey Upon Twice by Davy Crockett, Rebiott on Visit on Casper Mouritain Chargs of assault with intent to kill were preferred against Davy r. Highteen American aviators /Crockett, said to ‘be ‘an employe ‘of the Midwest Asbestos Company, werp ‘ordered Into the Liters iat 2 |by Fred Patee on his return last night from a trip to his asbestos claims in Havilands and achines, hey shook Y und and said, ‘Well, this is not au ‘revoir, this is good. bye,’ because they did not expect to come back. But they ‘went to duty bravely, knowing that it was also certain death in their inferior machines. And none of them came back.. Captain Sweeney said he had never heard of them again. . They were either kijled or had fallen within the Gerinan lines. But they had done They did their dut, American fighting, men did that all CHAPTER V 4 Watson Gives.a Lunchéon Miller also was. present. As soon as the table had been cleared, Watson spread Out oh it @ Mass of papers, books and documents. . fi “Going to read all of them?" asked the lieutenant, i 9 “I am not going to read any of thém,” replied | Wat “But IT -want every statement I make to be based on, the facts—and these are my authorities. All these papers relate to aviation. We may. take. the wastages and failures in that department of.the war service as Somewhat typical. I will therefore follow it through somewhat in detail} ’') “I'm glad of ‘that,” said Mr. Miller, ‘for my mind has been thrown into great confusion over it.” “Up to the time we entered the war,” sald Watson, “we had taken no: steps but the government did send a few men Nor did any- one take much interést in aviation aftér the declaration of war was made until May 24, when the French premier, Ri- bot, sent a éablegram outlining an air program for the United States, in |co- operation with the allies. “He asked it America would undertake to build 16,- 500 airplanes, within a year, 4,500 dur- id eed Gas 4 WINS IN WISCONSIN} \ 1 ; 4 \¢ iwa} Law and denounce the efforts of the red radical elements to promote the hair-bra Plan of fed- fhe rorreasive ny clement, His ~ tion to the speakership in the Goh oF Ub neaes fon fo the baile is ithe of 1912, wi be -suc- ‘ceeded the late Honorable Paul Busting, ‘ ; our ble They jon hands ||, | brick construction. ing 1917 and 2,000 a month for the first six months of 1918, which would give the allied nations supremacy. in the air. That would mean winning the War. America accepted that program and then some. In our enthusiasm we promised 22,625. planes instead of the paltry. 16,500 asked for.’ “Some program, suggested Mr. Mil- ler. “Yes,” said Watson, “but a feasible one. Geh. B. D. Foulois, of the avia- tion corps, was. directed to draw up ns and estimates for this program. le prepared an elaborate report, taking into account, he says, ‘every eonceiv- able item’ of cost, for the 22,625 air- planes and 45,250 engines, two for each plans being required. The cost of the planes_he figured at $125,290,000 and of the engines $365,140,000, and adding the items of men, food, elothing, transpor- tation, auxiliary balloons and every- thing else he mavle a total of $639,241,- 452, as the cost of the program, For weeks hjs plans and estimates, says Gén. Foulofs, were tied up in the red tape of the war department, ‘which didn’t know what it wanted to qo. But: as soon as it was laid before congress, $640,000,000 were immediately appro- Spy Mountain. It is probable that the charge will be made the basis of a formal complaint for the prosecution of Crockett, whom. Pattee claims, lias been trying to locate his property for the Midwest - Mr. Patee approached Crockett in a i friendly fashion, he states, offering his , hand which Crockett struck aside. at the same tinie lettimg forth a torrent of abusive languagee. Startled by this reception, Mr. Patec stood staring at the man for a few moments, he says, €and;then turned to leave. As he turned, he was warned by otter men to take care, and.at the samc instanat he was struck on the head:b. Crockett, who used a blunt hoe as hie weapon. Mr, Patee’s head was-cut open in two places nd he was partially stunned by the blow. , Crockett entered his cabin and .re- appeared. with a revolver, whereupon Patee called to a friend to’ bring him a gun from his ear. Crockett it said to have fired twice. ; + Mr. Patee believes Crockett's attitude is the Indication of a remumption of the eéntest. over the mountain. asbestos claims which has been waged since 1912. Crockett was brought here. at that. time by a firm which relocated many of Mr. Patee’s ciaims on the mountain ana which old considerable stock ‘in its project. Patee’s claims were upheld and he se- éured his patent, the other céncern be- ing ordered off his land by a United priated, the most stupendous sum ever voted for such “purpose.” “Congress did its duty,” said Mr. Mil- ler. “Congress did its duty," repeated Watson, “but the mien who triéd :to|’ ¢arry ollt the program wrecked it, and hose who spent the money wasted it. ey ‘summoned a horde. of theorists and the profiteers followed in thett wake, France and England and Italy sent samples of their fighting machines over here and experts to act as advis- ers. Having no plans of our own, the sensible thing would have beeh to copy those ‘machines that were in practical use by our allies. Where we did fol- low foreign models, our éxperts. made changes in them that led to confusion ‘and that in the end made the machines impractical ones, as-was the case with the De Haviland 4, which I have al-)§ ready told you about. Those are the machines in which they pnt our ne’ Liberty motor.” as ‘Teil us about that motor,” suggest- ed Mr, Miller. Said Watson, ‘and if the war gone yn. it might have become a ser one. But, they staked everything on that’, motor, and. delayed and wrecked the whole program. Before the motor was perfected they placed it in planés for which it was.not fitted. They spent weeks and months on an experimental motor when they ought to have been making motors that had been proved in foreign machines. If they had done that they could have provided) the ma- chines that were promised out allies and that were needed to protect our own fighting men.” “What is your authority for making that statement?” asked Mr. Miller. “It is to Some extent am opinion moere- ly,’ admitted Watson, “but it is an opinion that has, been held; by many emiment men. Of course, no one can tell exactly what would have hap- pened ff some other course had been pursyed. But Gen, Foylois, when on the witness stand before the congres- sional committee the other day inkisted that his estimates. had “been ‘sufficient | to supply the+22,625 machines. ‘When asked if he believed the program could have heen carried out, he said, ‘I have. no doubt of It,’ ‘ahd ‘then he added that, ‘There was something... wrong ~some- where,’ ‘That something Wrong I Will try to tell you aboy (To Be Continued "Pomorrow) : ah NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS We are ready to receive bids for ¢ See Charles Ober corner Center stri “8 “A. perfectly good motor, I guess,"’; rviceable | States marshal. R Later the concern was reorganized as the Midwest Asbestos company and many of the stockholders were frozen out, ‘Mr. Patee says. U. S. SEvaranieni O.D.Wool - | Army Blankets y \ \ POSTAGE Makes Wonderful Bed Blanket ‘or Auto Robe These Blankets are All-Wool, and haye been renovated. We fully guarantee each and every blanket to be in. 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