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

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B. ©) Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for" Vtepublication of all news erpdited in this paper ani also the logal news published herein. al RETAIN RIGHTFUL POWERS, The discussion of the city manager form of gov- ernment is growing throughout the state. More especially in Cheyenne, Sheridan and Casper: which | cities are most likely to urge their people to adopt it in aid of more scientific and economical munici- pal gov Ghment. If the acl Hs be submitted to the approaching session ow the legislature enabling cities of the state to adopt the manager plan, follows very closely the plan in other communities where success has been, obtained there is no reason to doubt its suc- cess in Wyoming. i But if the act js ruined by the substitution of frills and’fads'to the exclusion of the tried and ap- proved features, then the manager plan will fail i # as the Wyoming commission form has failed. i It is noted that Cheyenne comes forward with the suggestion that the council or ¢ommission that in{turn selects the manager, be appointed by the digtrict court. ' This idea is far-fetched and wrong in prin- ciple. Just what has the district court to do with te municipal government of fhe cities of the state? What interest has the a in them? The appointive or elective power from the people of the anole ley own the city, not the court. The peo) le of the city set up their ou government and batt selected to con- dhict the public business are responsible to those who create them; and it is not at all likely that the people of Casper will agree to’ surrender their rights and prerogatives to a district court or any- body else. In case of court appointment the com- missioners or council, as the case may be, would be, responsible to the court, the appointing power, not to the people of the city who would have not the slightest. choice in the matter. The commis- sion or council at pleasure select a manager. It may be that the people would not desire to have over thei the council or commission the court ‘would select. The people may not want the man- ager the council or commission’ selected. Are we gding to'put ap with a gituation of that sort? ‘ The people of this country haye struggled for many years to rid themselves of the indirect fea- tutes of choosing their public servants. Most of it went by the board when the direct election of Inited States senators by the people, was estab- lished. The election of the: president is the. last example of the precaution of the fathers, who did not trust the people as We have learned to do in our time. There must be something wrong, Some ulterior motive or design in an act prescribing a form, of local government that would deny the right of the people affected to select their own administration. | » If, in the wisdom of the people of Casper, it is deed desirable to change the form of their gov- evrnment from the present council and mayor form to the manager plan, well and good; but unl&s we misjudge their good sense they will insist that they select their own council or commission by yote of those interested and not delegate that power to im one else. PRACTICAL RETRENCHMENT. Mr. Mondell is no. more willing that the esti- mates of the Democratic executive department of the government, for appropriations for the next fiscal year sheuld escape. his pruning knife any more than he permitted this year’s figures to get away from him. The total estimate of the requirements for the year beginning next July for all purposes is fixed by the several department heads at $4,653,- 800,000. Havihg carefully studied the country’s legiti- requirements Mr. Mondell declares that the scaled by $1,490,000,000. That there is no necessity of punishing taxpayers by any estimate must be such demands as the Democrats have placed be- fore congress. Further, the Wyoming representative and floor leader, is openly opposed to Secretary Houston's } plan for retiring with current reyenue more than $7.,600,000,000 of, the country’s, funded and un- Tied war debi. median balk Ee Pa notes - | foreign loans, already paid, it a {2 Roint in the ia | that pledge. r be derived’ of Vic- in ex~ te gene th 44 per cent of the war debts, exclusive of it is wrong to maintain war rates of taxation for the purpose of reducing the public debt at a rate greatly in excess of the sinking fund rate of the entire debt, Mr. Mondell is of the opinion that by the end of the fiscal year the government haye Yeached mn of war where iL. | reductions, except by the operation of the sinking fund, should not continue to impose war-time bur-, dens. Republican leader desires r al of the ex- mae Ti Reva and a! in of the higher i income surtaxes. No alternative taxes should be consid- ered at this time for a protective tariff law would help out the country’: $ revenues. to great extent and lessen burdens we now bear. And thus again may Wyoming folks take pride in their member of congress and share that pride] ® with the people of the whole country. He prom- ised a saving of a billion and a half this year, and made good. He now promises a billion and a half for next year and, of course, he will make good on st by at vg 30,1923, Any this would be ap unwarranted burde There are more than 150,000 deserters and effort on the part of the war department to pun- ish these men. The American Legion is asking the department, Why? GOOD ENOUGH FOR US. League of Nations and permit that altogether too ambitious and impractical and grafting institution |; to go on the rocks and he shattered, as is its fate, whenever its sponsors can no longer sustain it, Let us the two Americas together in an association worth while, and remain ve the intrigues of Europe! and ‘away from her jealousies and cut-throat prac: lices. ¥ The Monroe doctrine contains not the slightest hint of hegemony of the United States. Though cir- cumstances haye in ‘the past compelled us, through self-protection, to acquire certain territories to the south, our policy is not imperialistic. “We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations en- titled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire,;”” declared Mr. Root, in 1906, “‘and: we deem the observance of that respect the chief guarantee of strong. We neither claim nor desire any rights, or privilegés, or powers that we do not freely concede | to -eyery American republic.” It is only» that: “chronic wrong-doing, or an impotence which re- sults j in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society”” which “may in America, as elsewhere, ul- timately require intervention by some civilized na- tion, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence | of the United States’ to the Monroe doctrine pay! the exercise of an international police power, ie quote Theodore Roosevelt. tablishment of independent Latin-American repub-| ——— ——== eee oy lics, “so that these two continents should form a political system of their own, independent of that of Europe.” Jefferson, in 1793, made application of the same theory. Washington favored the idea. Their views were prophetic. Since Bostieouns divided Europe among his three sons, Europe has been embroiled in wars and steeped i in! intrigues, with Great Britain playing one combina-' tion against another, “Our first and fundamental maxim should be, neyer to entangle ourselves in Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs,” wrote Jefferson to Monroe in 1823. And ‘in the doctrine which was proclaimed two months later, | Monroe said; “With the governments who have de-} tion and on just principle, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of op- pressing them, or controlling in any other manner, their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly dis- position toward the United States. that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness, nor can any- one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord.” It is an excellent thing that some of our South American friends haye had some first-hand . ex- perience with European diplomacy of late. It will serve to open their eyes to an appreciation of the Monroe doctrine and the sincerity and good faith of the United States. The Monroe doctrine will serve our purposes. Let us strengthen and support it. The Republicans of Oklahoma* have ‘selected mon, national committeeman, votes to one for Hamon’s widow, 20 to 40. Cheyenne friends of A. Baker, state land com- missioner of Wyoming, haye started a movement): to make him commissioner of the, federal land of- fice under the Harding administration. draft evaders under military regulations and no! We of America would do well to forget the |; | Pocatello, amplify the Monroe doctrine and bind | ® Hamilton, in the Federalist, advocated the es- s the bxoils of Europe; our second, never to suffer) clared their independence and maintained it, and, | whose’ independence we have, on great considera-| Tt is impossible , James Harris as the successor of the late Jake Ha- Harris received two] CHEYENNE,} week ending ani Be ir of we an pei | j thg weak against the: oppression: of the \Several Cc ‘i £0) force the United States, however, ‘reluctantly, in, \inicr was only about half the flagrant cases of such wrong-doing or impotence, to *s¢ of previous years and, bece to butch and other foreign markets dy> | Sought, vids ten! temperatures. averaged. 81; zerg, were reported. The week was over the southeastern and central parts snow that drifted badly. \ This snow should be beneficia] to, wheat and rye in eastern localities, as| these grains were.in need of moisture, ae The ranges were open most of th the range {fs generally good ond ive is local. feeding has been heavy since October. ! Chugwater, Upton, Yellowstone | Park 10 to |i nest in box candy. and five-pound boxes. LOW-PRE FS FORGES MANY T0 eral thousand fishermen have left N: foundland owing toy the comparative | , failure of the eolony’s fisheries this year and the low price reeéived for the anuda and the United States. ; ed | yalue was, greptiy reduced, pring shire, for cod Jast year. price— penta $12 to $10 a quintal for New- yunciand Sf REA clothe leet one-hit. and paper mills are os e tionally large cut of aise they cannot Range ported in G condition Generally absorb all the men Seng, books from. eet 2. fe them this winter. ; SOONTS 70 STAGE HUGE | PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES TONIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL Tonight at the High Schoo! auditor- | fim the Casper troops of the Boy Scouts will stage a program of Scout | lays and endeavors. The differen: | ‘oops will show by example’ what the | .j- Scouts do and what the aim of the or js #9nigation is. The parents and friends of the Scouts alt invited to attend and no admis- harge will be made. . All the boya nxious that a clear impression nig! he, 18, d daily extremes of 52, and 6 below. nerally fair and pleasant except that closed in the grip of a severé storm the state, with temperatures near'| ero, and a fall of 3 to 6 jnches of! ek except in some central locet In most localities there abundance of feed except in the Un r Green River Valley district where | i2 Stations. High. Low. Preaipi-| eout aim be shown and that: the Temp. Temp. tation. | whee movement works for a better} Casper, Wyo. «-1---~ AS 8 manbodd on’ the part of ‘the merers | Cheyenne, Wye. 2 of the Pe ae $ = TIE OF GHINA DIES 6 36 eridan, Tom Man Dor, 4 r (ployed at the Bon Pon urant, died morning after an ess of about week. Pneumonia edused his death: was @ cousin ef ‘Tom Tuck, #8 also 0 8 Wyo. 2 Rae fab Sait Soe eee For bargains in heaters and ranges EXCHANGE EURNITURE CO, 209-215 “West First Street 12-16-tf. a | ©. West: for Nau ’s Bampler. ‘The |, two, three} 12-23i0% DESERT FISHERY Thousand , Fishermen | Leave Newfoundland ‘Because | - of Comparative Failure of Fisheries and Prices” ST. JOHNS, By Main— ‘oduct. They have gone chiefly to The n wh al catch of herring in th hich ended in: the middie « newed competition with — Si the return of peace conditions, the Phe. earls) eit pimsetlib CURA 2 de e BQuLN | | FAYRITERS fi ane, Dealer , CORONA-—L. C. SMITH Groner Trpewrites 101 01 Wyate widg, Plone os | ok Phone 856 Parker Pormtain Waterman’s Fountain Pens ceils Se we Eversharp Pen THE WIGWAM Pin Seal Purse: Hot Lunch Vampie Dolls 11:30 Until 2:00 P. M ar Main Floor O-S Bldg. Books ‘i 1 # N.& A. Coal Gp. 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The Henning Hotel will serve Xmas Dinner on Christmas Day, December 25th, from 6:00 to 8:30 p. m., -at $1.50 Per Plate Music during dinner by SCHEMBECK’S ORCHESTRA Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance Dinner will be served from 6 to 8:30, at $2.00.per plate, including Dance afterward. Dancing from 8:30 to 12:30 in the Dining '. ‘Rooms for Hotel and Diner Guests Please make reservations at an eayly date PSCTSOS SIO LOSS Oe OSS S OSS SES VED SO OSESS OES OSOS