Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1920, Page 2

7 p ~ €be Casper Daily Cribune at Casper, Natron Matter, November 22, 1916 EMBER THE CIATED sRESS FROM UNITED. PRESS. President and Editor Associate itor er ny alee SEF suit Business Advertising Manager | pay Aree aren erce a J. Randall, 34. Ave., New York City sh. King & Prvdden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, Til, the Daily Tribune are on file in the New Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. 4,50 0 3.90 ) Months_. - 1.95 Ne_subscription by mail accepted for less period than three months. area pions must be paid In advance and the Daily will not insure delivery after subscription becomes ne month in arrears. = ~___ Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations (A. B. ©.) a a Sn RSANSaS Se SE Member of the Associated Press 3 ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use FAILED TO DISCREDIT HISTORY. Mr. Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Franklin Roose- living a fairly truthful and upright life, as. his- tory goes, the main difficulty is in: altered to suit the convenience of ‘Messrs. . Wilso Roosevelt. ised Rumania and Serbia that America would send +her army and navy to help them, in case future arose in Europe involving them, and when Spencer quoted his words in a speech, Mr. denied having uttered them. The official re- of Mr. Wilson’s speech was produced and it oo. ame Senator Spencer had correctly quoted _.. Mr. Wilson’s attempt to change history was un- "availing. It remains truthful and Mr, Wilson. sub- sided with what grace he could, i | Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, made the statement, at Billings, Butte, Helena and Spokane, that Wilson had put one over on Lioyd George. America would have ‘twelve votes in the League of Nations assem- bly. He had had three of them (proxies) himself until the previous week, but had turned them over to Secretary Daniels. He boasted that: he had: _written’ the constitution of Haiti himself and con- sidered it a pretty good-constitution.”* Haiti, San ningo,-Panama, Cuba and a’iumber of the’ Gen- fitral American states regarded Uncle’Sam as a big brother and would. vote with us or give us their Teli tchlveis wan feithsully repose by the’ hos sociated Press ‘and published Aisitenec I coun- . Franklin Roosevelt. went away back in Maine and issued a denial that he had ever uttered any such, boastful and foolish statements. The Associated Press had an interest in keep- ing history straight, so. it set about to investigate. As a result some thirty odd leading business and professional men of Butte, most’ of them’ Demo- ats, subscribed to swofn: statements that Mr. Roosevelt had made the statements attributed to him and had been correctly quoted at all the points where the Associated Press had filed reports of his " In the Roosevelt ‘case as.in the Wilson case, his- tory was vindicated and remained truthfui, and Mr. Roosevelt retired from public view. Both gentlemen have left an impression in the publi¢ mind that they were willing to sacrifice the truth'of history for their personal advantage, when the facts of history placed them in an undesirable ish position. As it transpired, neither of them were permit- ted to discredit history. With practically all classes of American pro- | ducers down on the Democratic administration, it is difficult to imagine where the Democratic candi- dates will get their votes in the coming election un- they can manage by some hook or crook to yote the people of foreign nations—who seems to be the chief proteges of the party that is interested in internationalism first. * PENALIZING THE WOOL GROWER. , The wooi growers. of America are in no happy ‘ame of mind. They haye. little sympathy for iScratic policies that have affected them so ly. To ‘add to other discriminations t the wool grower Boston reports the arrival of cargo of “woolen rags” which will be reworked and used in the manufacture of shoddy cloth——the reworked wool taking the place of an quantity of virgin wool. The woolen rags >. from Germany—presumably rags from that became useless through long usage ing the war. “These German rags came into the’ United States duty free, thanks to the Wilson-Underwood free trade law of 1913. Under previous Repub: lican laws the rags would have paid a duty of 10 cents a pound, adding to the funds in the United Staics treasury, and giving the American owner that measure of protection in perpetuating his indus try. The fact that the American shepherd's loss is-| Exchange Building | unsold and unsalable =---15 | buyers, reluctantly examine ning) “Poxtoffice as second-class | offer a price less than the cost of —— erman rag-man’s gain does not tend to dimin- » the discatisfaction of the sheep grower who has wool in his warehouse. When roduction, Batur- ally the American farmer thinks a second time, and not ia a very pleasant way, either, of the cargo of | : -rags that came over a Democratic | free trade law to supplant the newly-clipped wool, | which the American would like to sell in order to his government taxes, his wage bills and his high cost of living. - The American wool grower pays United Statés taxes—the German rag-man is encouraged to sell his rags here free. amd “Byery American voter whe marks his ballot _.s.00 | for Governor Cox should bear in mind President | Wilson's attitude and representations to other coun- tries, and the pledge of Gov. Cox to fulfill every- thing that President Wilson has promised.” : Bi aes Pa eBet +LETS MAINTAIN OUR POSITION. The Unitd States is a creditor nation. Billions | are owed this country by the nations that were re- aving history | dentand congress we can maintain our position, m{repair the blunders made by the Democratic ad- Mr. Wilson, who had some timé back prom- | terest: secure by the adoption of.a suitable protect~ sheep | cently warring in Europe. The debtor nations de- sire to pay us in manufactured goods rather than tat debt cannot be paid in gold for there is not enough gold in the world to do it. This coun- try maintains the; highest standards of living in the world, Our peopile receive the highest wages, work the shortest hours, and have the most sanitary and satisfactory surroundings in factory, farm and mine. Our workmen are the best paid, the best clothed, the best housed and the most intelligent on the If we elect a Republican president, vice presi- ministration, make the business and industrial in) ive tariff law, and go ahead to greater things. Otherwise, we will have to continue to wallow in the slough of despond. Self-preservation is the first Jaw of nature. It is also the first law of governments. Unless the gov- ernment be preserved, no personal or property right can be safe from the aggressions of combined greed and brute power. ; : REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. We need forever to remember that representa- tive government does represent. A careless, indif- ferent representative is the result of a careless, in- different electorate. * * ® Government is not an edifice that the founders turn over to pos- terity all comple’ed. . It is an institution; like a uni- versity, which fails unless the process of education | continues, * * * Laws do | not. make fen forms, reforms make laws... We cansiot lopk to gov- ernment. We oust look to ourselves. We must stand not in the expectation of a reward, but with a desire to serve. There will. come out of govern- ment exactly what is put into it. Society gets about what it deserves. Politics is the process of action in public affairs. It is personal, it is individual, anc nothing more. Destiny is in you.—Calvin Coolidge. Bishop Gailoy says the Episcopal Church is “too horribly respectable. The rites and inherited aris- tocracy of the church have drawn its members | frora serious and i i ‘ SORDID CHAPTER. tion should squ in the purchase ‘of war supplies and materials, and by the cost-plus system of doing business with fav- ered contractors;| but by disposing of the vast thousand and one items of supplies, for a small per- centage of their value to favorite profiteers to be resold to the people at prices 1,000 per cent higher than cost has built up another and different group of millionaires by preying upon the people and looting an inefficient government. “ All over the land these army goods vultures are fattening off the people. Now let's get down to the discussion of practical probleris. If we! go into’the League of Nations, shall we raise troops for service in Europe by con- sctiption or by a volunteer system? SUGAR. “What makes the sugar cost so much?” Spoke Rollo to his Ma. In stern rebuke she answered him: “You'd better ask your Pa.” His spoon dipped in molasses To make his coffee sweet; Poor father registered remorse From head unto his feet. “Not quife so fresh, my son,”” warned he, “If, you intend offense; ‘Tis true I've been a Democrat, But now Iehave more. sense. “When Wilson spurned the Cuban crop | And Palmer fixed: the price; I switched, to the Republicar They don’t-throw loaded dice. —Harrisburgh Telegraph. With the possible exception of producers of| moonshine whisky, there seems to be no class en-! joying special prosperity by virtue of the policies put in practice by the party now in power. | ler, “they sent Iowa and Minnesota aod yelt:are having their own troubles keeping history globe. We can never lower these standards. and) straight. There is nothing wrong with history. It | never will. \ | United States army had an organized | stores of food, clothes, building materials and the] « te thing that 1 want you t6 havé spread from the Four Corners,” said W: ‘and that is ler, ‘for I] hile Cunp Dedge was under construction, and there’ in one day I saw enough to dis- gust me for the rest of my life. I never hope agsin to see so many men doing ‘so little, nor to see building ma terials which were then so precious so Wastefully used,” “Much might be said about the loea- tions of these camps,” said Watson. ‘Some of them were placed In outrage- ous places and. they were generally massed in the suuth for climatic réa- sons they said, but the reasons were ceally political. One Southern senator boasted that he had secured a secont eamp for his state under threat of gyre people refusing to subscribe for L.ber- ‘y bonds. His. Constituents © renomi- nated him oh -that* claim when he should have been tried for treasonable threats instead.” f “Speaking of locations,” said Mr, Mil- Dakota boys te Deming, N, M., 2,000 miles from nowhere and where the cli- boys were periodically involved in sand! who\were kept down there until mid-! summer of 1918,’" ? “ made much of the hurry-up nature of cost-plus. A ‘Committee of contrattors question and they knew what wanted, ‘The contracts went by favor. Gen. Goethals, who was invited ‘to ‘sit in one of the meetings, but without au- thority, aglvised against thé system. He said it would prove financiatly ruinous gnd defeat the hurry-up program. But the man who was big énough to build the Panama canal without a dollar of wasted money, was not listened to. . It was in vain’ that he told them that the corps of engineers, men trained at pub- li@ expense at West Point for just such a bridge over a river in \a few hours; men who took pride in their work and who asked no. profits, only the pay of *d Watson. J But the men whom the te, committee that hé hiraself hauled sovernment had trained for such work ‘ruclt loads of plank ontova fre. He were cast aside for cost-plus, contrac-/ Sid all’ Kinds of anitterials were ‘de- liberately destroyed gud - wasted.’ The B. C, Bowman, whom I haye already ah ordinary country carpenter ‘could; ited, sald he worked’ as a time-keeper. One day he talked with a secret ery iea man about the waste, and he esti aemy men. tors."” “I gaw nothing at-Camp Dodge a ‘net -Ao,”” remarked Mr. Miller, “The construction was of the simp- lest kind—one-+story wooden buildings with posts set in the ground instead of taid on jsills, and here and there} a two- story building. As you say, it did not call for intricate contracting. For, the gontractors and the sub-contractors, the thing was a snap, for they had to fur- nish “nothing except what was called their ‘personal supervision’ and. they “urnished but little of that. The gov- ernment advanced all) the moneys for) vetcrials and for the pay rolls and it furnished eveh the tools, It: was all yt government expense, and all that the contractor had to do was to figure’ nercenteze of profits, and the ¢ontract- pr, so Gen, Goethals . testified, was mily interested in his 10 per eent profit, 1nd thescost was permitted to take care rf itself—his profit was greater whan *e cost was greater, and it was a very system,’ ‘Those ure Goe- e been fully veri- néeed, they have," said Wesony tA cominittee of the select house eom+ theo is still. carrying on* the investi- setions. I was with them at Colum- bus, Ohlo, where Camp. Sherman was under 0) ond they are now at Rock: ford where Camp Grant. is being ‘obed. What 1 heard and what T have <d Js beyond summarizing.” “Named after Grant and Sherman, F Mr. Miller, “what : by working men; hon- "st men who were employed in the construction of the cantonments. hey ~4 ho object except to tell the ‘trath ind they took patriotic pridelin. tell- ne it. J recall one man who appeared ax a witness, His name. yas’ John ichle, a man who hed two song dn my im france and who was, con: about thelr welfare. Hd said the y the work at Camp Sherman ‘as done amgunted to open disloyalty. { jotted down some of the other things he sald, and let me read them to you: cerned “Half the men would have done just rbout as much ag all_of them’ together. “‘L have seen men «0 thiek around Sulldings the looked as if they. eould hutiding for meh. ~. in labor to erect a 42- tool shed.. A man/told me he could it in. a day himsel?, Fite 4 Ww lines of ‘menvhalf a mie long on Sunday, drawing double pay, to get tieir money during working hours, 4 stogan was “get it while the = Rood?" m cy They told us to slow down or we; would be put of a Jib * @ to Bae ty a“ pitce of lumber" around to make it seem like working,’ “1 sow. subh. things ‘myself at’ Camp} mp Shérman,” | ree McCorkle, | first day he and a CHICHESTER S PILLS 1 that the &® a #un-hade over a joint that any two men could haye fixed in half an hour.”? “Of course blame. were honest workmen. ‘The tes- were so honest that they quit work because they would not their government, even when foremen am contractors ordered them to do so, ner of useless work. One John Har- tis testified he hauled Airt a distance of two miles to fill. temporary well, and after that, around those wells was hauled away to another place, creased ‘the costs on which the plus of »rofits was figured. One George Spen ner testified that he was told that ‘two sash had to last all day,’ that is con- stituted @ day's work when he could Yaeve set fifteen or twenty. One F. C. what tor." “That is like a story,as you kno\ “of course ‘they were not,” repeated honest’ foreman how he was handling fis men and he replied he handling them, ‘I am just keeping them. om the pny roll.’ he said: And that is what the government alloy “And what we saved and bought Lib- : J erty bonds for,’ sighed’ Mrs. Miller. nestle. CONMUMBGA ere 80 BAG: ANAL ENS “.niagl aN eH oteerce eal ote? time \ ‘he had, 100 men on a bunkhouse and it storms. .And I k ‘ho Ptned be wohintane Wires ‘Leis Cope aee gas: the: ebeer sieht 9, \ 4 mem, 200 men Worked at.a time on a Y Small barracks ind the men stood in ap bargin aed Sor, nae Reon RR Sa yeah pate pe how : how these camps should be built. They tiecnuso it, would’ be t fe yworkmen who were there ap wor Piey decided: Samii THR ate Waa Cnieeredl pastime at fe 4 ithe cantonmenis. It was the sole accu- oFactically hi to decide nate 4 res lhon and thee aanEst® decide that. peticn of hundreds. Ben M.. Clarke ten: ; fied that ‘after a buildinz was up to | shelter @nd shield them,’ any time you wanted a poker game or a craps game @1 you had to do was to Jook in three or four’ rooms and you would find one in the three or four anyway.’ Oné gayn- ;hler said he had brought fifty men from .g” Chicago, oh the understanding, they were not to Work, but could ‘shoot | craps and get the earnings of other. svorkmen a8 well’ as draw their own: jpay for doing nothing. JI could reel off teams of. such stuff.” | work. They were men who could but, ane tho ‘materdates:seaheg Mr. oe an automobile sed 20 @ man from Dayton, |® carpen' u hought it ‘wilful waste,” — poulg An a day to erect and a great waste — money.’ Various witnesses the «men were not to “They would have worked required of them, Most of cheat} 2°4:. supervision.” Mra, Miller. * Men were set to do all man- question, Mrs. Miller,’’ the dirt that was pile? only, and the greater It made work ‘and in- said that once he askéd an} q0re; wasn't old to do wrong. the contractors. wanted. and wed and paid) &iey were not - for, but they some of them twice over. filled with other gambling. €25,000.000 for - ‘personal One thert| “One John Harris told ol. A. B. Warfleld ef the army, in the construction division, tes- ified that ‘there was a great waste of material, waste of time, waste of labor, of government testified one- fourth of the materials were wasted and that one-fourth of the men were faseless, while one man said that 9,000 or 4,000 men at Camp Shernian could fave done the work of the 14,000 em- ployed there and In shorter time, under “Arid why was it done so?” asked) “Thore is only one answer to that said Watson, ‘because it was wanted done that way. As Gen. Goethals had warned them the contractors were interested in profits the costs the, the ‘men would answer, “What do you mre? You are getting yours out of it, ‘md the contractor don't care: He gets 2 percentage out of every dollar spent the more it costs the more it) auits him.”’ That was the keynote. | jo, Those who wanted to do right were) Men were payrolls when they were” not there. Materials. were not checked over and} invoiced or accounted were all paid for and “The men who sold the materials were told to mark up their prices in- stead of offering the lowest prices to ‘el their goods in competition with others. The estimates of the investi- gating committee show, that $480,000,- ‘00° of the $1,200000,000 spent on the eamtonfnénts could have been’ saved— ‘hey were wasted, paid without. returns or ‘stolen. This is as muchas the Pan- ama cangit cost, The associated con- tractors who furnished’ nothing but their ‘personal supervision” got nearly supervisian.” an eprentios and civigee oth him, Se re sore when they. fee man. riding in his Rolls-Roy: and their ess, while to. ) who large . ea work of the war so little Aid’ the real Was paid.” | “Fighting jsn't a matter | mother,"’ said the lieutenant. _ the treasury while we Were’ gone,”” Watson, “will sreatty.” “Not with my yote,” said Mr. Miller, Nor with mine,” sald’ Mary. women,” said Watson. "t¢ you had ever .been in love with tion."* 3 af } (To be Continyed Monday) a re Will spend the week-end. wot complain of the pay for in any right sense we could not be paid, but we do object to stay-at-homes robbing: “And the men who got these $250,-./ zreater their profits. I heard ope wit-! 99 chunks,” ‘said ness testify that ‘When I complained ‘be 1 asked to contribute to campaign funds chat it Was not going a8 it ought to,| \ooraingly to hel» keep in power: the party under which they prospered so. with his fist coming down on the, table. “And not with mine,” added Mrs, Mil. “That reconciles me to yotes ‘for one,” said the Heutenant, “you would: * not be in need of any such reconcilia- Miss Jane Posey left yésterday, morn-- ing for Thermopolis, Wyo, where, she _ DIAMONDS as an Investment “Is there another article on. the market that you can buy, have the = pleasure*and use of, be free -from SS upkeep expenses and maintenance MANS: and still have its value retained or “\\)* slightly increased as there is in the Diamond? ‘Think it over. We carry all sizes and you are assidred of good value by/an old, reliable firm, here to stay. JOS, I. SCHWARTZ Iris Theater Bullding—B. Keating, Mer. 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