Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 2

_PAGE TWO Che Casper Daily Cribune Issucd every evoning except Sunday at Casper, Ni County, Wyo. Publicition Offices: Oil Exchange Bi BUSINESS TELEPHONE, Entered at Casper (Wyoming) Postoffice as second-class matter, November 22, 1916 + - President and Editor -Associate ; Bator MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM UNITED PRESS EVANS. R. BE. NS_ THOMAS DAIL’ Advertising Representatives David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Ave., New York City Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, Il. Copies uf the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York é and Chicago offices and Visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carr. One Year-- -$9.00 Six Months a Three @onths. 2s One’ Month. Per Copy-- By Mail 21:98 than Ne subscription by mail accepted for less perlod three months. All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Dally Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription becomes one month in arrears, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations (A. B. ©.) Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news. credited in this papar and also the local news published hereifi. THE PUBLIC INTEREST. The American public forms the largest and . Most important interest inthis country. It is the paramount interest, yet it is a constant sufferer through the action of other and less impostant in- terests. Take the cases of the railroad strike and the coal miners’ strike tying up the distribution of food stuffs and fuel vital to the general public. This, through disagreements of one kind and another be- tween the railroads and their employes and the ‘coal mine operators and their miners. The Ameri- #can public must starve and freeze to death because . minor interests must, perforce, stage a quarrel. There should be, and must be, a limit to the = punishment of the public beyond which neither em- > ployer nor employe dare step in the adjustment of * their difficulties. And furthermore, there must be “a continuation of production of the necessities of life and their distribution while disputes are in pro- cess of settlement. The threat to tie up the essentials of life by any- | body at any time is a menace that cannot be tol- erated, let it come from labor, capital, or either or both, and back of it must be the power and majesty of the government with punishment so drastic that none dare carry the threat into execution. The first duty of the government is to protect the lives of its people. Then to make property - secure. To accomplish the former the free and un- interrupted movement of the essential commodi- | ties of life, between the several-states, is impera- tive. % The matters of the right to organize, to engage in collective bargaining or as individuals, to quit employment when desirable, or to enjoy any other right the constitution guarantees, must be undis- | puted. But no action against the interest of the public shall be taken by any other interest what- soever. The day of threat, coercion, ruthless disregard and assault upon the life of the nation must come to an end here and now. Whoever places his little selfish affairs above the welfare of the whole people, is not a good American. His undesirability and his unpopularity must be brought home to him with the weight and forcé of the contempt of the great majority which forms the public interest, and which interest simply desires to live and let live and is entitled to the con- sideratica of all other interests, great and small. AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE. The successful operation of a business depends upon at least three things+-organization, method and men. This holds just as true in a city govern- ment as it does in a private business. There is no form of government alone that can ensure that capable men will always be in charge of its activities, and that adequate methods will invariably be followed. The city manager plan makes it more easily possible to secure qualified officials for administra- tive positions than does any other plan yet devised, and it provides a ready method for getting rid of in- competents. Furthermore, it provides a plan of organization for getting results, when the proper class $f public official is secured; and the proper method of pro- ceedure is inherent in such organization. It can be truthfully asserted that what has been performed under the city manager plan in cities that have adopted this form could have been per- formed under any other form. Yet it was not. Had it been, the necessity for change would not have arisen. You may compare results between the mayor- council plan with the city manager plan in the best examples of the two forms in any part of the country and you will find this to be true. The for- mer fails in serving the best interests of the pub- | lic while the latter succeeds. The one system is outgrown, the other is scientifically fitted to mod- ern needs and conditions. \ | Mr. Wilson will continue to reside in Wash- } ington. That is, he will become the sexton of the 2 oer \ al | partment which was self-supporting, was under one a “WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? } The civil service commission acknowledges and the present Democratic administration admits that there are’ 691,116 people now on the federal pay- roll, with an average salary of $1,176, which, with the bonus, would bring it up to $1,400. Add to this a large number who do not figure in the civil service returns, but who are paid by the taxpayers, and it seems certain that something in excess of one billion dollars is being paid to federal government help, requiring an average annual taxation of each family in the United States of $50 on this one item alone. Nothing like it was ever heard of before. Yet, when this same administration assumed power we find it promising the people in its party platform this, among other things: “We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which befits a democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the peo- ple.” At the time that fair promise was made the cost of running the federal government under the Republican party, exclusive of the post office de- billion dollars annually. This included the cost of public works, army and navy, and the thousand and one functions of the government of that day. Speaker Tom Reed in the late ’90s declares that “thissis a billion dollar country,” and he was much criticized for that assertion by the Democratic party. But Reed never dreamed of the day when fone billion dollars would be paid out in salaries and wages alone, to the hosts employed by the ; party which took him to task for his remark. The late Nelson Aldrich expressed his belief that $300,- 000,000 annually could be saved in running the government. That was a decade after Reed had made his statement. If $300,000,000 could be saved then, how much more can be saved now on the Democratic estimates which this year exceed by a billion and a half what was appropriated by the were told to buy Liberty bonds until it hurt, and! we did, and what hurt most was their depreciation under Democratic control. The time has ‘come when we must economize until it hurts, and the de- lay in govertiment reforms and improvements must | be blamed to the party which in eight years has put us in such an awful hole. STIRRED UP A BREEZE. It isn’t everybody who can write a book and get away with it, Mrs. Asquith, wife of the former British premier, is one of those who has failed, She undertook to give to the world the contents of a diary which she faithfully kept during the time her husband was at the height of his, power and popularity. She had the very bad taste to include the intimate and confidential conversations and opinions expressed to her as the premier’s wife, by | the leading men and women of the realm. ° Now the scene has shifted and the war has made political friends out of former political foes | and the fair lady's publication has caused no ned of embarrassment. It has been nothing less than the explosion of a political bombshell in the midst of a! very peaceful and harmonious situation. ‘British political high lights could do nothing less | than repudiate the whole Asquith publication as the veriest twaddle, deny the soft impeachments the good lady and let the opinion go forth that she} had violated all the rules of good society and good, taste. Lady Asquith is therefore coming to make a! prolonged visit to America while the storm is sub- siding. NO SHOW OF INTEREST. The Kenyon-Kendrick bill to regulate the meat packing industry is, for some reason, not drawing | standing-room only audiences as the senate debate | proceeds. : There is no indication that a vote will be! every indication that the measure will be switched | | to the storage track by the big appropriation bills | that will come before the senate after the first of the year and occupy a large share of the attention for the remaining days. of the short session. If this bill has worth and should be the law ifs friends are not doing in its behalf the things that should be done. On the other hand its opponents are active and effective in criticism. : This measure had a combined Republican and Democratic sponsorship and has been under con- sideration for a long time. Upon the question of merit there is a wide di- vergence of opinion, too great to bring the meas- ure down to’ a ‘test. Whether deserved or not, appearances are al- together fayorable for a quick death by chloro- form. | | Why is it necessary for America to continue to fced the people of European countries two "years go to work and support themselves? | —————_—_____ } . . * 1 Secretary Daniels is peeved at the failure of the submarine development during his administration. We wonder who is to blame. It could, with perfect truthfulness, be statad that Wyoming is enjoying most delightful and mod- ” » Republican congress for the last fiscal year? We!" of themselves, while high society has ostracized?” le reached before the holiday recess and_ there ‘is | * after the big blow out? Why don’t these people}? EPORTS REACH PEKING OFICES Reports of Extent of Famine Sit- uation in China Are Brought to Officials Compare With That of 1878 PEKING (By Mail).—The area and extent of the famine situation in China has recently been brought out in a number of reports reaching here. The region chiefly affected extends east and west from the Gulf of Chihli to hata a chinga in Shensi and north and south from Mongolia to Shang-ching in Ho- ban, . Forty-two years ago China was swept by ® memorable famine in which mil- Hons of persons perished from cold and hunger. In 1878,- however, condi- tions were less serious than at pre for at that time a wheat cron vr» the drought, whereas toda-’. years’ lack Of rainfall, onty limited areas have produced evén the sei tiest ylelds. The reports have told } the trees of entire districts have been stripped of their leaves for use us food. The starving people mix them “dl dug to t= With millet chaff, clover or weeds, with| * & minimum of grain and bake them into cakes which resemble clay. Thousands of refugees who are endeavoring to migrate afoot from the famine areas ure said to be living on such ‘food” hoping to reach the more fortunate cities and towns where they may possi- bly purchase necessaries of life. extraordinary means to obtain money for food aré reported trem all sections of the five: provinces. — Little |‘ ehildren are founde dese in the streets and many have heen rescued from the rivers into which they hav een cust by thelr impoverished pa: ents. The sale of children fs olten re- ported, much despised girl babies be- ing offered for sume as low as a doile r. A boy of five years, whose mother had died and whose father was ill, was res- cued from the father, who declared that if no one would feed him he in- tended to “throw him into the riv. There have, feen suicides of om families. Reports from the famine a Will require plainest food to avert the greatest lo: of Ife, have been received follows: One thousand deaths 1 starvation fare occuring daily in the Peking dis- trict; farm and@ draught animals. in Tehchow and Siaoehang, in Shantung, have been sold by their Swners for a song becatise, of lack of fodder to keep them and fuel to ¢ook them if slaugh- numerous in ea which, it is estimated, $200,000,000 worth of the points tered: every road northward from Changteho, in Honan, swarms with | hunger-pinched humanity, many of whom fall exhausted out of the v y procession to die by the roadside; the district southwest of Paotingfu, denud- ed of vegetation, looks as though it had heen swept by a plague of locusts; at # village near Wu Che'eng, an old man with a basket on his arm ‘containing about six pounds of red millet, ex- plained that he had traded two o ceats and # pair of beots for the mi which he was taking to his wife their seven children, Efforts that so far have been made to © famine situation include the ; The Chinese ministries of agriculture and the interior, appointed a commission to dis- a $1,000,000 fund to be raised by ® short-term loan; Shanghai reports that another fund of $1,800,000 is being raised by seven province at the re- of Tang Shao-yi, the chief south- ra peace the Japanese gov- ied 500,000 bushels of addition, representatives of and British commereial -in- sts in Shanghai raised $5,000,000 for the Chinise Relief’ Association. The Peking-Hankow Railway is al- lowing refugees to travel free on trains bound for South Honan and Hupeh and these have been crowded with little and have de ment has su In ‘ican children or old” persons unable to trek n ov wi r the mount. roads narle. to points laa e People ! | Letters From th WANTS TO KNOW. Casp Dee. 28, r of the been reading with interest the controversy with the state land board regarding the 40 acres the Standard Oil Company wishes to build homes on for their me This, of course, is an opportunity for ansion that /Cas) should ke Yy effor to grasp and it is readily understandable — why the Standard should wish land located as that is, for it appears to be the closest to. their plant of any sizable body of land that is suitable for their purposes, What 1 am unable to parly ts the desire of the City of Casper to pro- cure land for park purposes so from the center, of population, as me! tioned in a recent number of The Tr bune. May I ask what is to be done with the 160 acres donated the city by the government for park ‘purpo: which lies just south, of the cemeti Is any effort contemplated to impreve this body of Innd and really make » park of it? It seems asvif this could bo done as cvonomically as the rough land south of the eity. It would seem ething not understood is holding hack the growth of G where there is sujtabl and it cer ly than ny other land that is’as clese to the center of population: Another “ong this line: asper has at present two\ park sites pring not quite a block and nd and has a park com- drawing $200 per month, vn ix the clty getting from this salary investment with the pres ent small park system? 1920. tivestion ane eee ee per to the east, | puilding | AR COLLINS | CAMP: 15, FLEGTS OFFICERS AGAIN Spanish War Veterans Also Dis- cuss Plans for Big Encamp- ment to Be Held in City Next Summer "] 1920 7 Children Cry for it Men Sigh for it 7 Preliminary plans for the entertain: [ment of the annual encampment of Spanish Wor Veterans of the depart- menf of Colorado and Wyoming came in important consideration at’ a i Monday evening of Caspar-Col- , No. 15, when officers were for the new? year and other business transacted. Although boast- }ing of the only camp in Wyoming, Cas-! per's representation in this organiza- tion is far above the average for, cities bor this size and eéfforts will be made 6 secure the organization of other camps in the state prior to the annual! went next year. Hiection of officers resulted as fol- J. Kemp, commander; George senior Vice commande junior vice command RB. Women Rave about it Forbidden Fruit? s for Quick Results ndbury, {J 10: \c rguson, adjutant; Sy chaplain; Lincoln F, color sergeant. Ww. Ww Kelly, | campment will be held here next July and on January 31, when officers will be installed at a mesting to be held in the LO. O. F. halt; the local camp will take further 4 toward the entertainment of visi- The women’s auxiliary will be d to join in the plans. Colorado towns are well many “delegates will attend y encampment from that state. EXPRESS THEFTS QURING | YEAR TOTAL $24,000,000 DENVER, Colo., Dec, 28. — Losses torough theft to the American Railway Express company for the par 1920 will total $24,000.000, The annual organized the Want Ad The Big MONEY SAVING EVENT - of Casper | THREE MORE DAYS of our CLEAN-UP SALE Everything in Wearing Apparel for Women, Misses & Children Casper’s Economy Store The ‘Leader 143 East Second POOPOSO ODO OOOPODOOOOO OOOO SOOO OOO 990000 Isis Try Tribune OOOO% according to @ Statement by Cassius M. Day, in charge of the mountain district. He said petty pleas Were permitted in many instances where ‘the value of the theft Inreen, was known to be greater in order obtain a conviction. i Paving Planned on Old Santa Fe Trail ; to PUEBLO, Colo, Dee, 28.—Four miles of the Santa Fe trail est! of Pueblo’ wil? he paved with yonerete in 1 ‘The work will start early in the summer, according to James A. Bell, mh charge of surveying party which recently trav- ersed the section to be paved. i The trail is already concreted as » two miles west of th 3 | said the state highway com- jon intended adding to the move- ment as funds are dyailable until the road reaches the Kansas line. A BUILDING TONIC To those o* delicate con- stitution, young or old, Scott's Emulsion is nourishment and tonic that builds up the whole body. Sentt & Bowne, Bloom feld.NJ 20-18 THE WIGWAM Hot Lunch 11:30 Until 2:00 P. M. 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