Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1921, Page 2

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It is to be regretted that some of the French news- papers have permitted their understanding to be llouded by their ignorance and disappointment, and have so rar forgotten themselves as to bring into ques- tion the govd intentions and honor of their good friends the people of the United States. This is done when one of the Paris journals makes the assertion that the people of the United Stat trying “‘to slip out at the last minute after hav- ing allowed their representative to negotiate an un- derstanding in their name.” Such a statement lacks the merit of common de- icy if not common honesty; and no American news- lpaper worthy the respect of its readers but will an- lswer a challenge of such character. The answer to the challenge is this: The United States has neither directiy nor indirectly endeavored to evade any of its obligations, legal or moral. It stands ready today to serve the world in larger meas- ure than it is under obligations to serve and it will not shirk any responsibility which could possibly be imposed upon it by the due observance of interna tional ethics. The world is familiar with the history of the action of the people of the United States with reference to the whole Versailles episode. The world is also fully informed of the joint authority conferred by our con- itution upon the president and the senate in the wer to make treaties. So when te Paris “Midi’ Mand other newspapers of the French capital unier- thke to say that it is beside the point “that an Amer- n president is not qualified to conclude treaties y himself” and that “it is not the custom of other nations to slip out at the last minute after having allowed their representative to negotiate an under- standing in their name.” The people of the United States did not permit Mr. Wilson to negotiate an understanding in their mame. On Octobe 25, 1918, just pior to the con- gzessional elections of that year, President Wilson issued an appeal to the voters of the country in which he said: “The return of a Republican majority to each house of Congress would be interpretated on the other side of the water as a repuriation of my lsadership * "* The peoples of the allied countries with whom Cal 15 or 1 ou fail to receive red te by t The Tribune your 1 vou special messe know whe we. are associated against Germany are quite familiar with the significance of elections. They would find it very difficult to believe that the voters of the United States had chosen to support thé president by electing to the Congress a majority control by those who are not in fact in sympathy with the attitude and action of the administration. * * * In these critical days if it is your wish to sustain me with undivided minds I beg that you will say so in a way which it will not be possible to misunderstand either here at home or among our associates on the other side of ¢ sea.” Upen that issue thus plainly stated the people of fhe United States repudiated Woodrow Wilson. It as a repudiation based upon his appeal for a yote if confidence for the particular purpose of assuring foreign nations of his continued lgadership. That, however, was not all. Thirty-nine members ates senate seryed notice upon Wood- Wilson, which notice was published in all the al- id nations, declaring that those senators, constitut- a controlling number in the matter of ratifica- fon of a treaty, would not confirm a treaty into phich was woven a League of Nations covenant. It is , therefore, to assert that the American people “allowed their representative to negotiate an understandi n their name.” And it is a libel upon the United to declare that because this repub- lic re ratify, under the circumstances here related known to the world, a treaty Mr. Wilson it is trying ‘to slip out at the last min If th lack the as is p a and 1 ed, “Midi” and newspapers of its type nee to grasp as plain a proposition in the American refusal to accept the Versail treaty with the interwoven league covenant, then w in the name of international amity do they attempt to write upon such subjects, and wanipnly in- sult the people of the nation that has proved from the be history, the sincerest and staunch- est friend France ever po: PERVERTING THE TRUTH. On re referring to that so-called “economist” for the railway labor unions, Mr. W. Jett Lauck, who has asserted that “an interrelated capital group de. liberately deflated the farmers and then ng industrial stagnation to deflate would be impossible for a person superficial knowledge than Mr. Lauck posse: give utterance to a more prepcsterous statement. Howev it will not deceive the farmers, for they are well are that the deflation from which th have suffered was deliberately inaugurated hy the federal reserve board, controlled by an administration under which Mr. Lauck, himself, was a long and will- inte! la- of less to ing server and of whose policies he apparently ap-| proved and was a part Aside from the well known fact that the federal reserve board started the deflation which fell as such ; shame. undertook, | a destructive blow upon the agricultural producers, it is also well kown that the so-called capital group } has been one of the great sufferers from the defla- tion process. This will be shown by an inspection of the income tax returns. Many a bank in the months has been in an embarrassing situation 4 under the deflation process the securities it held were a doubtful safeguard for the lodn that had been made. When Mr. Lauck says that, “the industrial paniysis which has staggered America is capital on strike against society” he perverts the truth regarding the situation which exists today. Capital that refuses to invest in railroad securities | refuses because the expense of railroad operation ¢x- ceeds the operating revenue. Capital which refuses to invest iv construction of cither howses or office buildings refuses because the dollar of investment to- day will buy only a very small proportion;of labor, material and results that could have been obtained in normal times. When bricklayers and carpenters and plumbers shirk on the job under the encourage- ment of radical labor leaders of manifestly I. W. W. proglivities, capital would be foolish indeed to inv n new undertakings along construction lines. What is here said is not a reflection upom labor in general; it is a criticism ef certain methods that have been promoted by radical labor leaders who pose as the friends of labor but who are in fact its worst mies. nation is in need of hundreds of thousands of new homes. it needs musth reconstruction of the road beds of railroads. It needs = mo: highways and bridges, more office buildings and more industries of various kinds. There is capital available seeking prof- itable investment. Capital can produce revenue for its owners only in case it is actively employed. If on a strike it is not against society in gen- i but against an attempted union labor autocracy ich seeks to confiscate priv pro der so such plan as that proposnd Mr. Plumb and his ©- THE HOLE IN THE ROAD. “The highway past a person's home or place of business constitutes his connection with the world” is the way the Cleveland Plain Dealer puts it. “With- out it the individual would revert to primitive isola- tion. Moreover, that highway belongs in part to the individual, for it is built with his money. Whether the road be good or bad, the individual is a partner in the enterprise. A hole in the road near one’s home concerns one personally and directly. If one happens to drive fre- quently the hole assumes the proportions of a ma- jor public issue. It may appeal to the individual as of more importance to him than the tariff, the cur- rency, or the foreign policy of the nation. “Millions are spent annually on American high- ways. Many thousands sre wasted, and one of the chief sources of waste lies in neglecting pavements after they are laid, As soon as that hole in the pave- ment in front of your property appeared it should have been somebody's particular business to repair it. Such a hole is much like a cancer—readily cared for at the start, but rapidly spreading and becom- ing more malignant if neglected. “President Harding doubtless had in rmiad this hole in the pavement—this hole you are especially inter- ested in—when he told congress that it should be the policy of the federal government when it co-operates with local authorities in road building to insist that pavements so laid shall be afterward maintained properly to avoid waste. ‘Patrol and constant repair’ was the phrase he used. “They do this better abroad than here, though in some states in America the importance of ‘patrol and constant repair’ recognized. If it is worth while to spend millions in good roads every year it is ob- viously worth while to maintain them in their im- prove condition afterward, Patrol crews equipped with materials for quick repairs should be constantly on the alert for signs of trouble. In other countries a hole in the road is not allowed to become a can- cer beyond control. It is fixed forthwith. It should be so here, “If American highway authorities want to make themselves ‘solid with those who own the roads—that is, with Mr. Average Citizen and all his kin—they should take a hint from President Harding's message to congress. ‘Patrol and constant repair.’ That's a slogan that sounds good to us.” = oN THEIR FATE A MYSTERY. Sixty-five thousand girls to disappear within the United States in one year and leave no trace is too great a toll to be levied upon the American home. That was last year’s record. We do not know what this year will disclose. They went from the small towns and rural districts in the greatest majority. Their fate no one knows. -It seems an awful reflec- tion upon our established system of discovering the things that would lead us to solve a greater propor- tion of the mysteries that surround the cases of these missing girls. While their fate might not bring any comfort to the home from which they went, there would be at least the poor satisfaction of the knowledge. For each day of the year 178 valuable lives were, to all intemts and purposes, snatched from earth and a corresponding number of homes made desolate. he worst of this mystery situation is the fear that these girls have been lured into a life of crime or This fear haunts the home so long as fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers survive. A situation of this sort is beyond police and civic authorities and a speciei central bureau with numer- ous auxiliaries should be established, whose sole busi- ness would be to trace these lost girls. een QUIT KICKING AND FORGET IT, Governor Henry Allen of Kansas, was down in New York the other day and he cheered them up wonder- fully in their effort to get firmly seated upon the water wagon. The governor cautioned them, how- ever, that in a wet fight it was somewhat a matter of, if at first you don’t succeed, dry, dry again. Kan- sas had suffered the same way. “For ten years we had periods of dampness and periods of drought. But all the time the sentiment for prohibition was growing, and it is growing in New York. Pretty soon the very people who are fretting about the matter will be prohibitionists themselves. It happened in Kansas. “I know it is not comforting to say to a thrifty peo- ple like the population of New York that they'll grow to like prohibition, but theyll have to like it. New York might as well get her mind off her liquor, be- cause the supplies are getting lower every day and the quality worse, and they'll never get bigger or bet- sr again. Prohibition doesn’t retreat; it just keeps going forward all the time. As long as a man keeps hoping for something he can’t possibly get, his mind is troubled and his nervous energy is being wasted. “Why, I remember that out in Kansas the original prohibition campaign was no more popular with the business men and the real people in general than it is right now in New York. It was a sentimental cam- paign, and the marching song was ‘Father, Dear Fa- ther, Come Home With Me Now.’ “But after those first ten years the business men got so they would not employ a fellow who drank, and it wasn’t long after t util the entire population came to accept prohibition as a general benefit, That made the combination absolute, and for twelve years prior to the Volstead act no man ran for office in Kansas on a wet platform. “So I'd say to New York that I know just how the} people feel, because Kansas felt that way, too, for a long time. Kicking will do no good. The people might as well forget it.” ean wits With all their pretentions New York people haven’t ot sense enough to come in out of the “wet.” The authorities had to rescue something like 1,680 in one day. They are being temporarily housed at the po- lice. stations. fhe Casper Daily Cribune | ITH OUR WYOMING EXCHANGE Ceecnpemnteenanersupllllitamsuninesteaciinedide tee The Longest In. (Sheridan Post) Even if he gets out today, Frank! James will be the “longest” in jail of any Inmate of Sheriff Dolph Thomas" “hoosgow.” Frank James measures bty inches from the soles of his, feet to the peak of his dome—some six feot and eight inches of bone and muscle. Although Dolph lacks a lot of being a Tom Thumb, coming close to the six-foot mark himself, when he towed in his prisoner, even his best friends feit constrainad to mur- mur, “the long and short of it.” When he tered the portals of the mansion which will be his domtcile until further notice, James had to double himself up until his knees fairly met his chin After he had effected an entrance, he told his keeper that he was very com fortable except for “that d—— crick in my neck which reaches clean down to my knees.” Janes is charged with embezzle- ment, it being alleged that he “did” Fred Noble out of $280. He wil’ prob. ably be arraigned teday. Got His Man. (Kemmerer Camera.) Oscar Fowler, 29 years of age, is within the confines of the Lin- county jail, the result of a chase lasting three days and nights on the part of De “Buster” Me- Tivain to land the guilty party who a been rustling horses in the lower n river country. Fowler »tured about fourteen miles north of Opal at about 7 o'clock last Thursday evening when Deputy MeTivain, accompanied by Jim Barn? hart, forced him to surrender. The officer then started toward Kemmerer and waiked ten miles with his pris oner before being met by auto which brought them to town Mysterious Di (Laramie Republican ) No messages have been recelyed or anything further learned of Roy Jones, vocational student at the Uni- versity of Wyoming, whose disappear, ance was reported yesterday, Dean Faville, local counsellor for vocational students, has notified H. J. Battle, the local agent for voeational education at ob enne, but Mr, Battle has not been able to get trace of Jones. Mrs. Luthie, mother of Jones, who s not aware of his departure, is expected to arrive for a visit here this vening, coming by automobile from Rawlins. \ Mrs. Jones is the former Mrs. Frank Luthie, whose first husband was one of the victims of the influenza tn the epidemic of 1918. The Fair Budget. (Sheridan Enterprise.) Early, publicity chairman for Sheridan County Fair, has callod Cor a meeting of the budget committee of the fair board in the Sheridan farm bureau offices Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock Heads of the various sections of the fair board are requested to make known their needs for finantes to this committee, so that the budget for the air can be completed Saturday and the fair work be started immediately With the work of the catalog com mittee, headed by John E. Patrock, completed this afternoon, wide adver- P er. 3 the | Usement of the fair will be started, and ft ts the hepe of the fair board that this year's exhibition will be of such irspertance that it can next year be broadened in scope to include all of Northern Wyoming, and make the fair of greater importance. Bankers Meeting. The Kimball County Bankers asso- ctation held their monthly meeting in Pine Bluffs, Monday ev« sing, April 25. The Pine Bluffs State Bank and the Farmers State bank of this city were the hosts of the occasion and left nothing undore to make the event pleasing and profitable. At 8 p. m. a meeting was held at the Pastime theater, to which the pub- lie was invited. W. 8. Rodman of Kimball, president of the association, had charge and introduced the speak- ers A number of interesting talks were made, followed by the address of the evening by Fred R. Marvin of Denver, editor of “The Mountain States Banker.” Comes to An End. (Wheatland Times.) No, not the universe in which we lve and move wut the nm aper known Whe World. The subscription list, business and entire equipment of the World was purchased on April 22 by BH. S. Drury, who will take full possession of sama on May 1. All advertising and sub. scription contracts carried by the ‘World will be completed by the Times, the cansolidation to take place with next week's issue of this paper, fur- ther announcement of which will be made at that time. eeiosetante es | Question Box | az the (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The C@per Daily Tribune information buf»au, Frederic J. Hast:in, director, Washing: ten, D. C. This bureau does not at, tempt to scttle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your . question and have our being,| plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postage. All re- plies are sent direct to the inquirer.) | Q. Why are money always money?—L. E. R. | A, The currency system of Chins is crude. The only thing there that and resemblance of currency as lwe know it is the Mexican silVer dol liar, For this reason, quotations are tee in this medium. Q. What has become dore"Yhomas Orchestra?”—A. i. T. | A. This orchestra was founded by | Theodore Thomas in 1891, and named jthe Chicago Symphony orchestr . Mr. ‘Thomas conducted the orchestra until his death in 1905 whereupon the name |was changed tc “The ‘Theodore Thomas Orchestra.” The ortzinal name was again adopted in 1913, and |is still used. | Q. What is meant by the expression \“T'll copper that bet?”—E. BR. | A. The expression means that the \person talking will bet on the other | side of the proposition. It comes |from the game of Faro, where a cop- per or checker may be placed on cards to show that ths player is bet |ting that the card loses. quotations of Chinese given in Mexican the “Theo- Q. What portion of the world’s sup- ply of gold is in the United States?— B. M. K. A. The United States has about 40 per cent of the world’s supply of gold tand has a larger amount of gold than any other nation. Q. What is the phant's tailt—L. W. A. The length of an elephant’s tai} varies from two to three feet Q. Do pineapples grow on trees or on bushes?=-R. M. ©. A: The pineapples ts defined perennial herb of the family Bromelia ceoe. It grown about three feet high. asa Q. What is the origin of the word “Jingoism?”—T. H. M. A. This found its origin in a song sung in 1877-78 when England undecided whether to interfere in a war being waged between Russia and Turkey. The party favoring war used song containing the words “We don't want to fight, but the Jingo, if we do, we've got the ships. we’ as ATTENTION MUSICIANS Members of Casper Local 381, A. F. of M. Our regular monthly meeting will be held at Moose Hall on Sunday, May Ist, at 11:30a.m. A full attendance is desired, as matters of importance will be discussed. RAYMOND L.REED BERT WAGNER President. Secretary. Will Be Opened Monday, May 2 And Prices Will Range From $175 00 to $3752 This Addition Will Be an Exclusive Residential District THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO COME OUT TO THIS NEW ADDITION SUNDAY No Lots Will Be Sold Until Monday Morning, May 2 See Ben Realty Co. 201-203 Midwest Bldg. PETES RTT TE Phone 1480 Pat got the men, we've got t “Jingo” and jingvism became known as 4 nic name for the war-like party @. How much oleomarcarine and butter is made in the Unie! States? —O, A.A. A. In 1920 there were 366,000,000 pounds of oleomargarine manufac tured; 00,000,000 pounds of creamery Butter, arid 709,000,000 pounds. of farm butter. Q. Was the present crand duchess of Luxemburg reigning at the be- ginning ef the world war?—M. H. G. A. The Grang@ Duchess Marie Ade- laide, was reigning at the outbreak of the war. After the armistice was signed there was such dissatisfaction with her attit toward Germany that she abdicated, and the Luxem burg parliament named her sister, Princess Charlotte as her successor. Q, Please give me information as to how the electric chair is operated? W. dL. A. In operating an electric chatr an alternating current of about on yolts is used and is applied through Jarge electrodes wetted with salt solu tion, one being affixed to the head e money toa.” | was shouted with emphasis | | trotek: SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1921 the calf of one les ten amperes pass ty of the condemned. is usually applied ‘for and From through t s Frost. Herd antes Brough.” a ‘The Thing ‘That Counts. “I perceive, saié ee es or witnessing his fir . aiat suecess in this sport can 2 at tained only by perfes co-operation among the players, each subgrdinating his own individuality to. that of the organization of which he is a port. 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