Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1920, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Casper Dailp Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, County, Wyo: Publication Ofices: Oil Exchange BUSINESS TELEPHONE-.-_-----.---.~ hn necnnes. ncaa Entered at Casper (Wyoming) PostoMce as matter, November 22, 1916 os MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FROM There is no good reason why the Wyoming legislature should not pass’ the act, which will be presented to it, enabling the cities of the state to adopt the commissioner-manager form of munici- Following the enactment of the law the ques- of applying, it to Casper will be referred to the to say by their vote what they desire. A | provision in. the law will doubtless fix the time of Advertising Representatives * David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Aye., | Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger ., Chicage > Copies uf the Daily Tribune are en file in:the New York * and Chicago offices and visitors are ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Per Copy---. One Year__.. ~ Bix Months. Three Menths_._- mon 18 No subseription by mail accepted for fess périod tho three months. All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription bécontes one month itt arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations (A. B. C.) Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively éntitied to the use - for republication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. THE ELKS PLAY SANTA CLAUS. 2 As distributors of sunshine and happinness— * all honor to the Elks. If in the course of the affairs of childhood, it | ever ‘occurs that the administration of their patron : saint, Santa Claus, becomes unpopular or unsatis- factory to them, then we nominate for his succes- sor, the Elks. At some time along back inthe years the Elks must have been boys, themselves. Else they could * not have entered so readily and naturally and—yes, »* joyously—into the Christmas, festival they arranged = for the children of Casper on Christmas morning. a: The party was a success. The invitation which was general, was accepted in the spirit in which it was extended, and the Iris Theater never held a . lustier gathering. The ~assemblage was purely democratic. High and low degree stood side by side and applauded and wealth and pdverty waved their flags and chered. the Elks, Santa Claus and Fatty Arbuckle, in sportsmanlike’ rivalry. And when the master of ceremonies came to the stage to tell how the program Was to be car- ried out, he hoped all of the girls and boys would grow up and become good American citizens. ; “Do you know what that means? “We got you!” 1 And out came the flags cheers, and no child hesitated. They knew. And, then came “America,” The pianist struck the opening bars of the fa- miliar hymn. Instantly every child in the house stood at attention. They did not need to be told. They knew their duty as citizens and the respect due their national anthem. As the grand old hymn got under way, more than 2,000 childish voices carried it along and more than 2,000 flags waved . in unison. It was an inspiring sight. Amidst enthusiastic approval, such as children only can render, Fatty Arbuckle came on the screen in his interpretation of what a country school ought to be. He left nothing to be desired from his * standpoint, provided you are ready to agree that _ a school is strictly for entertainment. Here restlessness and expectancy took posses- sion. Something impended, Everybody got ready - to cut loose, Slowly the back curtain rolled up and a magnificently ornamented and electric-lighted Christmas tree was revealed, with a sure enough live Santa Claus and a stock of gifts and candy, - ‘n’everything, that aroused the juvenile audience to its best effort to create a juvenile bedlam. Like drilled soldiers the children took up the march across the stage, received their presents, * vanished through the north exit to the waiting au- tomobiles in front of the theater and were whisked : away home. Every precaution was taken and every contin- gency covered by the theater management, the city police and fire departments and wherever you turned a good live Elk with a Christmas smile, was present to guard the safety of the guests. Youthful Casper played in great good fortune. - For an entire half day they commanded’ the undi- vided attention of a great and benevolent fraternal order, all departments of a “city administration, while every car owner from limousine to Lizzie was “James” to these important ladies and gentlemen. Look .them over, they are worth the effort - taken in their behalf. You don’t know what potep- tialities are bundled up under those litle jackets and coats. One thing is certain, nothing in the future will = ever disturb the relations ‘of the Elks and the young- sters, and up Tolled the It is to be hoped that some member of the Wyoming legislature will have the good sense to propose a bill to kill the Wyoming primary law, and that the other members will support it. There neyer was a greater delusion than that the people make the selection under a primary law. Ask any expérienced politician. 0, Ti, F the referendum. : There is much that can be said for the man- ager plan and cdhsiderable that can be said against the present mayor and council plan. “Tt is the enterprising cities of the country, wear- ied by the cumbersome and expensive form of ai ministration, that have turned to the more business~ like and economical manager system. In all some | 125 cities of the country have made the change and to the credit of the new system every one of them are entirely satisfied. « * In brief, the plan contemplates the election by. the people of a commission of from three to five members, which is, the actual governing and law- making body. The commission appoints a man- ager who has entire charge of the executive and business departments of the city. Under suitable ordinances he organized the several departments and selects the various subordinates. The man- ager is responsible to the commission, but*all other employes are responsible. to the manager. The} manager holds his. position at the pleasure of the commission. It brings the conduct of the public business down to the plane of expertly managed private business, removes all mystery, politics and red tape. There is one man says yes or no about munici-; pal matters and he knows what he is talking about. If the people find that he doesn’t, they have re-| course to the commission, who may ‘dislocate him without formality. There is no such thing as mak- ing the best of it until an election rolls around. Ac- tion on the real executive is instantaneous. The people know whether they have had real success under the ward or district system of coun- cil membership. It may not be true in Casper, but it is true most everywhere. The stfong or “active member from a certain ward or district usually works it to secure improvements and betterments for his special ward, often at the expense of other wards where the need is greater. It is an old trick, but it still holds good. Thre are many features of the mayor and council government that have become objectionable because obsolete, that it is scarcely worth while! attempting to reform it. That is what other cities | ‘ager form. : The need of the times is to have a concentrated j government, that works both ways. One that can. et action and one that you can get action upon. Fat is the manager government in a nutshell. | \ BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST. Admirers of Col, George Harvey are wonder- ing if he is sincere in his recent proposal respecting the submission to popular yote of a question be- tween nations ordinarly a cause of war and which in the ordinary employment of diplomacy hae! failed of settlement. .. Col. Harvey is not in the habit of contributing old stuff for public approval. In all cases hereto- fore he has given his army of readers something of real value and now to have him submit one of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan's ancient playthings with the sawdust already kicked out of it. is disappointing. If Col. Harvey will look over his American his- tory, with which he is perfectly familiar, he will find that in no war in which the American people ever engaged, did they do so without having been kicked into it. Never was America the agressor. Never has war been a deliberate act. In both the Spanish-American and the world war, the press of the country bristled with war propaganda and liter- ally drove the people into it... The American people are not a warlike people. They would never, not with the entire press of the country howling, delib- erately go to the ballot box and vote for war. The .very first trouble with the plan would be that while we would be dallying around voting on the matter, the other nation, which did not settle box and give us an old-fashioned smoking up. The sum of human experience with war in all the ages has been not to want it, but to be always prepared for it, It is at the same time the best recipe for peace. The only way the United States will keep. out of trouble is to maintain a good, big strong navy, a reasonably fair-sized’ army, keep out of European entanglements, continue to be fair and square with and that is why they embraced the ‘man-|' matters in that way, would’ surprise us at the ballot|- otter men's money than to buy the wife a new coat with your own. Tribune ‘ Prospects for Large Yield tu 1921 Slump on Price of Wheat and ~ Extremely Dry Weather During Fall The estimated acreage of winter wheat in Wyoming is placed at 66,000 acres, 7,000 less than last year, and d-| the condition of the crop is 85 per e-nt ig of normal compared with 96 per cent last year, aecorditig to a report com- piled by A. 2. Cook, field agent for the Department of Agri ure, anid an- nounced through the bureau of crop 4s: timates. Dry weather prevailed during the entire fall, cansing a decided de- cline in crop prospects, while the loxs in the market price of wheat and the high priced labor prevailing at pres: ent. $ Twenty-seven thousand, four hundre! acres have heéh sown to rye, it is also shown, and the condition of the crop js estimated at 88 per cent compared With 30,000 acres 1920 Which at this tine’ Jast 3 ed &@ condition of 96 per cent. The average fall pléwing a® reported on the per cent of farm tands prepar’! this fall was 27 per eent compared with 25 per cent last year. mi The average wage paid for farm hk bor is $71 a@ month with board ace $102 without board... The average cay wage is placed at $4.23 with beard aud $5.31 without board, Dhese figures ay- proximate a 16 per cent increase over Wages paid last year. Mm acreage is attributed to the slump | thy the Pilgrim Tercentenary Conunis- t ston, “|mouth Rock. CWE OF PLR T0 BE CL CRNTED CTI WEEK WITH FORM, EXERCSE OW ORG ROUNDS PLYMOUTH, Mass.’ (By Mail)—The, old canopy has been torn down and will landing of the Pilgrims 300 years, ago{be replaced by a new and more sightly ‘ all that the connotes will) one to“be erected by the Society of be celebrated this week with formal ex:|Colonial Dames, oh on the ground and almost on} ‘The shore line presents and unkempt the pot where they ‘first trod. Thejview of coal hoists, shaky wharves and band that crossed the Atlantic] tittered piers, but the werk of restdring to find religious: freedom and ag@inst| the old lines and \clearing off the de- adversity founded a nation in @ wild-/tracting features is part of the plan of erness will step again in story from the) observance for which ideas are well Mayflower's shallop to the shore, starve! advanced. " ‘through: the winter and plant seeds of) Cole's Hill, the Site of the old bury- permancy in the spring. ing ground, where the bodies of many In prose and verse the’ epic/of their;of the forefathers and their courageous venture and its accomplishments wil) be] consorts lie, fs to be further preserved retold by ‘scholars. From United States|to recall the Pilgrims and ‘the Senator Henry Cabot Lodge as orator hat were theirs. and two persons in their great venture, many are there. the story of little ers who. sustainéd dependent on their Myles Standish, a religious company, arm protected them in good trials hours of need. The little ce; on the hill slope was the resting of nearly half the col In Pilgrim Hall are relic. livelier scenes of the nings. A child's cradie born at sea on the peritous Voy; reared amid the hardships of { tation; a crude cooking uten tends the thought to the Pilgr corn and other crude product withholding wilderness, | conjured up the soldierly fi, MONDAY, DEC. 27, 1929 — metery ony of & place Of @ hundreg the first| winter of and the graves of that convey SoIOnY's begin. cafrics with jt regrine White, age and he plan. nsil ex. im moth- of those nh a little S$ of the and 2 cutlass sure of Capt, military man in a Whose strong right Stead in Pe the} lives cookery on will come the historical relation of the Plymouth ‘plantation’s establishment and its significance. Le Baron Re Briggs, who is dean of the faculty of arts and sciences of Harvard Univer- sity, as the official poet, will span the years from 1620 to 1920 in verse. Gov- Calvin Coolidge, the viee president- elect, will make an address appropriate t6 the occasion and singers will intone! ngain “The Breaking Waves Dashed! High,” and Mrs. Felicia Hemon’s stir-| fing hymn. The ¢xercises, which are sponsored will be held in the Old Colony Theater, a stone’s throw from Ply-| Less than a thousand persons can be present, due to the size of the small hall that is used from time to time as motion picture house, stock company theater or dance hall. | For the formal observance of the day a sélect audience has been invited, intiading: the ambassadors of Great Britain and of Holland, renewing the iy the chain of the Pilgrim’s 8, The New England governors xd members of the judiciary, together with official representatives of various! Patriotic societies. including the So- _ of ‘PREACHES GOSPEL OF TREE PLANTING ON 1,000-MILE JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA EDMONTON, Alberta (By Mail).—On a thousand-mile tour through Southern Alberta in an automobile equipped with a planting and tree exhibit, Archibald Mitchell has preached the gospel of tree planting on the prairies to 10,463) people this fall. He conducted his edu- cational campaign under the auspices of the Canadian Forestry Association. He is the first tree missionary ever to make an automobile stumping trip through the Canadian west, but. his success has been so great that the For- estry Association has decided to make such a tour an annual event. ‘The pur- pose is to give prairie farmers and townspeople instruction in the plant- ing and culture of trees to embower their homes in’ shade, beautity the jandecape and furnish wind-shelters for Hyestock. tributed each’ year from the Dorninion fovernment’s nwursey ‘at Indian Head, Saskatchewan. It costs. the govern- 1 or 2 cents each to grow the seed- lings and farmers get them for the asking. They are planted under diree- Ubon Of government experts, who super- vise their ,culture for two years, Nine- ty Per cent of trees planted in the last, ten years have lived, according to the Forestry Association. Paonia. 1s 8 — SRE CO-E05 AT PENN STATE COLLEGE GET MEALS FOR LESS 80 GENTS PER DAY STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (By Mail).—| ‘ College have demonstrated their ability to combat the high, cost of living by running their table on less than 50 cents a day per person. A group of seven girls in home eco- nomics, in their first of eight weeks’ residence in the housekeeping practice the campus, established a record of 43.6 cents a day, They set the limit at 50 cents, which is less than haif of what the men students pay for board in the town. The girls manage a ten-room house during their resider as a part of their training. Posted schedules give each her duty for the d Records of this Kind may give a partial answer to the of why there are frequent $ around the commencement ch year, Howing is a sample menu for @ BREAKFAST. Steamer Pr Hot Cakes with. Syrup Coffee LUNCH, Soup Tomato Salad, Bread and: Dutter Jelly Jumbles- and ‘Tea DINNER Lamb Chops with Gravy Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Carrots Chard Salad Pumpkin . Pie It is cnsier to beg®enerous with an- the world and then, if some nation or other insists on crowding a row onto us, simply turn in and lick the other fellow very earnestly and very quickly. Some peace plan may be found that will work. We do not say that it is impossible, but after what happened in Europe a few years since we have very little faith in anything of the sort. Some wise man advised to “trust in the Lord and keep your powder dry,” It is still very good advice to follow, while mankind remains so uncer- tain. The gladsome holiday moonshine created no _ The Wyoming legislative session opens on Tuesday, January 11, 1921. end of distress among those who dallied. Several barely escaped the final adventure. woman ever made a permanent hit with a man by pretending to be sométhing #he isn't, pha ik bubisirelb A lot of them don’t know it, but no GEOLOGISTS OIL EXPERTS Oil Field Maps Blue Prints Explorations Reports Wyoming Map & Blue Print Co. P. O. Box 325. Rm. 10, Lyric THE WIGWAM { Visiting the ‘ive million tree S satities are ded Senior co-eds at the Pennsylvania State! house maintained for their benefit on} clety of Mayflower Descendants, also were included and in most cases will} attend. The Descendants as a body} would overflow the little hall. In all) seme 750 persons will, be present by invitation. About 200 of the town folk, who’ will make a holiday while stores close and mill wheels stop, may gain admission, but only in competition with many persons from other places, who plan to make the day one of pil- crimage. To give the people. of the town at large an opportunity to participate more numerously in the tercentenary celebration a supplemental meeting will be held in the afternoon, Dean Briggs is expected to reread his poem and Senator Lodge's scholarly oration will be given by another speaker for @ see- ond time. Those who came here today to be! on hand early for the formal meeting,| spent the day for the most part in Pligrim. shrines. They} found several in the process of change. | Plymouth Rock probably for tht last} time was exposed for the act performed! by tourist-thousands of setting foot on! the famous stone, whien was the Pil-| rims’ Janding»place. That part. of. the) rock that has been long available fov% this purpose is to be moved to the water, line and joined again with ‘a’ second part from which it had been fcleft. The * eee: — - | The Big MONEY SAVING EVENT of Casper FOUR MORE DAYS our CLEAN-UP SALE Everything in Wearing Apparel for Women, Misses & Children - - Casper’s Economy Store — The Leader > 143 East Second S069 25000 FS SOOO SESOCOESESESOOES SOOOSHSOOOOOSOSPO OPPO SOOO OP DODO OO DOPO DOOD PP ODP OV DOT PO POOP ODS PRE-INVENTORY SALE § Beginning Tuesday, we- will place on Sale COATS were priced from $35.00 up. DRESSES - SUITS Our entire stock‘of Suits go in this Sale.- These consist of Duvetyn, Rayonnier, Velour de Laine, Tricotine and fine Serges. Many of these will make good Spring Suits, and are very cheap when you bu them at ONE-HALF the: for- mer price. Hot Lunch 11:30 Until 2:00 P. M. Main Floor O-S Bldg, NOW ONE-HALF PRICE our entire’ stock of Ladies’ Coats, Suits, Dresses and Skirts, at One-Half price. ° - We have ‘a good assortment of Coats, betli Plush and Cloth, in this Sale, which will be a good investment. These All Silk and Wool Dresses at One-Half former prices. ‘These consist of Duvet de Laine, Tricotine, Serge, Satin, Taffeta, etc. Pre-Inventory Sale of Furs at half price We invite you'to make your selection early; as our stock is not large, but’ we have some beautiful pieces left which are very cheap when bought at half price. Richards & Cunningham Co. THINK RICHARDS & CUNNINGHAM CO. WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST.