Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1921, Page 9

. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1921. TWO CHRISTMAS TREES WILL BE - ELAS TREAT TO CASPER KIDDIES Ambsemaukd ete Theabies Rescived foi: Annissl Pepe Christmas Morning at Which All Children of City Will Get a Glimpse of Old St. Nick - According to rved by the Elks, Casper lodge custom No. 1856 of the B. P. O. E. will hold their third annual mas fete in the form of two Christmas trees laden with pres- ents and decorations to be erected in the Iris and American theaters. In order to meet with the growth of the city, which also means more kiddies to be entertained, ; —~ two Christmas trees will be lighted this year instead of the usual one. Officlal motor cars numbering to 100 or more, will be arranged to call for and return the Christms gui and the street between Second First on Center will be roped oft the official cars only. This will sure safety even to the tiniest young- used to give the tree a gala appear- ance, Toys will be hung from every branch and no child will go away fro. the fete with empty arms. ‘ Gifts including mechanical will be given to every little guest of the Elks. One gift and a sack of candy is the portion which will be al- lotted to each of the children and care will be taken that appropriate gifts go to the right one so that no little poy will return to his home with a doll baby while some heart broken ‘Missus” carries an engine. The doors\of the theaters will be thrown open to the swarming throng of kiddies at 10 o’clock,in the morn- ing so that the day will be started in a spirit of gratitude to the kind friends among the Elks, and in hap- piness with their gifts. The children will be formed in lines to file by the Santa who will give them thetx pres-| plain cooking. The chiei ents, each in the proper to boll a A poet once sang that man could do without poetry, but he couldn't do without food. So the London County Cow Westminster i pene Institute with a three-months course in lecturer says the hardest thing to teach is how ous committees ays “it divide the United S leave the country “powerless terests, national or international,” John tary of war, said today tn an address before the convention of the assoc: tion of Life Insurance Presidents. Wontrasting the present © sitcation with a recent administration char- acterization by reference to “a big Stick," Mr. Weeks said. musi¢ and art incil has Christmas style and tied with ribbons. 2 ‘The committees which have been IRISH: AG a ENT 6000 Craken; ner and U. C. Cy Bon. LARGE. INGREASE IN CADET GORPS 15 AOVOGATED Superintendent of Academy in Fis CHEYENNE, Wyo.; Dec.’ 8.—“It! is can begin to function without further trouble it will do much’ to quiet af, fairs throughcut the world,” said United States Senator William °S. Kenyon of Iowa, while in Cheyenne Wednesday. Senator Kenyon spent a day and night here while en route to Fort Collins, Colo, where tie was scheduled to address a meeting of farmers. Senator Kenyon recalled that he | ‘ By O. P. AUSTIN Satistician, The National City Bank Annual Report. Urges of New York Training for Emergency” / Jus? 131 years ago the Congress Periods. <> | of the United States was bidding adieu to Wall Street, where it had Src | MEWS TOIOIASEMATOR good news, and. if the Irish free state | to obtain first hand, authentic infor-| fontion regarding condjtions there, but that his intention fatied because news- paper men Identifiedhim and gave his, v publicity, with; the result that, he wis showered ,with offictal atten-| tlon .by beth»the ‘British government | and the n. Fein representatives nd was unable to (obtain any unbi- ased information whatsoever. eT aR we ‘The Begum of Pnopal, who is to en- tertain the Prince of Wales during his visit to India, is the only woman Mo- hammedan ruler in the world. The Be- gum: is a.highly educated, cultured woman, who speaks English fluently. | She 1s fond of music and painting, and has written one or two bodks, notably an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. ware; the sessions pending the con+ struction.of the proper buildings at / + associated with the “money power” for five-year period, returning temporarily to its scenes of former tivity at Philadelphia, whence it to finally remove to the new capitol to be established on the Potomac, Few ‘of the thousands of people who the historic spot at the now can train only one-third of the}: “cotner of Wall and Nassau streets, officers needed even for a peace time! but a few feet’ from the doors of ermy of 150,000 men and would fall} ‘The ‘National City Bank) of New short, it was sald, ng the }..York, are» mindful: of the “stirting nucleus of officer material desired for|.-events’ which occurred «during the training civilians in tims of emergen-| five years eee it was the abid- ? Ree ing: place of C cy. + nS 2S ing. ingress. 7 Expansion of the cadet corps to”2, New York Eighth Capitol 500. would. necessitate > new rt : i. estimated |. It was'in’1785 that the Congress tan, sei soetiet, Senraaee ofthe Confederation, after a de- at $6,000,000. tain! i? States, General] cade of wandering in search of a Mate ee ulead a. cote Permanent abiding place, estab- renponsive to the reaction against war| lished itself in the modest old City by dunintabing the size of its army,| Hall, which then stood at the cor- tal BP egomt oar ‘wise, increase}. ter of Wall and Nassau streets. Ce rT eaten "of professtonaily| During the period of its existence, >, ORs i which, began at Philadelphia in 1774, it had -held session in no less than seven different cities and towns, thus making New York the ighth capitol of the United States, while *Washington became in turn the ninth capitol. Kept on the Run The peripatetic life which Con- yress had led during the decade be- ore settling down in New York tad been in large degree due to the “ecemsity, of hurried moves to pre- ent tha Capitol and the Congress :lifg into the hands of the British. The first movement, from. the- ~igifal “meeting place, Philadel- via, Occurred in 1776, when the hh Were preparing to move up- n that‘town, and the December scssioniof that year, 1776, was held at Baltimore. Se With the danger of an immediate , occupation of Philadelphia tem- 3 Porarily removed, however, the a - Congress returned to that city in ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-—An_in- the secretary of-war, made public to- day. The academy, the report shows, SEATTLE, Dec. 8—A wireless mes- sage from. the steamer Tokiwa Maru, off Cape Flattery, picked up here. to- day said the Toktwa was rushing to the assistance of the Japanese steam: er Datgén Maru, in distress after a} ~ tong battle in # heavy gale. ‘The posi- tion of the Daigen Maru was not stven. 3 the new’ capitolsto‘be held alter- nately at pelea? and Trenton, ; 1 Lure of Great City i The session of 1783: wasy held at Annapolis and that of 1784at-Tren; ton, where it appears’ it’ the lure of. the \great: city--of Fae which had then a‘ population o 33,000, overturned the double oh tol-plan, and in Jaaitary 1785, the Congress ‘removed to NewYork, where it was granted the ise of the City Hall, 5 ; : All ofthe meetings‘up’ to this time had, of course, occurred under the ‘Articles of ~ Confederation; which, however, had proven un4 satisfactory, and when the ninth staté ratified the proposed Constitu- tion, in 1788, the Congress, then int | session in New Yosk, hastily passed | a measure requiring that the vote for the President, provided by the new Gonstitution, should occur om “the first, Wednesday in Januaty; 1789,” that the electoral votes should be cast on “the first Weéd- nesday in February,” and that ‘the President should be inaugurated on | “the first. Wednestlay in March As it happened that the first Wed-. nesday in March fell upon the, fourth day of that month, the date! “March 4th,” as the beginning of, the term of the President and Com- ess, Was thus permanently estab ished. Inauguration is Delayed: With the limited facilities of tom-. munication and travel which char-) acterized those days in which the telegraph, the wireless, the railroad or the flying machine had not yet been dreamed of, the official report’ of the election did not reach Seq- eral ‘Washington at his home in Virginia unti 1789, an because of the time occupied by his <journey thence to New York, his: actual ij enon did not opsiy until April 1789. Meantime, the enterprising citizens of New York, realizing that the dignity of Con- ess and President undér the new. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it remained but for three days, re- moving thence to York on the op- posite side of the Susquehanna, where it spent all of that terrible winter in which Washington was at Valley Forge. Returns to Old Quarters On the “evacuation of Philadel- phia by the British in 1778, Con- gress returned to its old quarters in that city, remaining there until 1783. wing to sOme misander-» standings with the Philadelphia authorities, it removed over night to ‘Princeton, New Jersey. At Princeton it completed its. session and there-adopted a plan for. the creation of two permanent czpitol cities, one to be located on the Potomac and the other on the Dela- March, 1777. But with another WASHINGTON, Dec. +8.—The: war movement of the British in that direction, it hastily removed to department is opposed. to granting cle} Weeks . today informed. Chairman Kahn of the house military commit- tee. abstr Staab Attorneys M. F. Ryan and E. G. \Venatta have moved’ their law offices from suite 310 O-S building to suite onsolidated Royalty building, old Olt Exchange building 12-9-6t ——— 2 Mrs. Berta Davis Pullen, the new clerk of the city court of Valdosta, Georgia, is the first woman im her sounty to hold public office, ‘onstitution required more suitable: surroundings than those offered by the old City Hall, had contributed $32,500 for the improvement of that . page and it was re-named “Fed; Hai and thus» became the | meeting place of the First Congress! under the Constitution and the |: place in which Washington. took. the oath of office as the-first Pres-" ident of the United States. Why Congress Moved y Tt was during the second session of that first Congress under the, new Constitution that the events: occurred which resulted’ inthe de~ arture of the Congress from New Vork and the establishment of the: permanent capitol of the nation ati the spot now designated as thes District of Columbia and the city.’ April 14, 1789, and 4° Che to defend ér‘maintain its in- -W. Weeks, secre- “It was not many years ago that we heard storiesMibout a “big stick’ which Was supposed to bé used tn driving congress into a state of tract ability nd force the enactment of laws desired by the. executive. The -€aspet Daily rou PRESENT SYSTEM IN CONGRESS BREEDS FACTIONS HOSTILE TO BEST INTERESTS, SAYS WEEKS NEW YORK, Dec, 8—The present system of organiza- tion in congress, whereby control is divided between numer- carried to its logical conclusion,” ites “into hostile factions or groups” and truth, however, is while the executive is a masterly man of dommating per. sonality and characteristics, he was a Party man and tise tn the legislative branch of the government were equal. ly so. They believed in government by party and that the responsibility under such government should be ob. served even by those who might doubt the wisdom of the proposed action. “Then came a reform, or it was so heralded, in the conduct of the house of representatives. The power of action, which had largely rested with the speaker and through him with the committee .on rules, was taken away and divided among com mittees.- The result—and I think it has been clearly demonstrated—- is that it is impossible to get the type of legislative action which cones from party regularity and responsibility.” Not only the United States but the whole world “ig slowly but surely re- turning ‘to normal,” ‘the secretary de- clared. “Thd great need for the present emergency is clear thinking,” Mr. Weeks continued, “The real cure, however, {s so old fashioned and so readily within our reach that some of us fail ‘to recognize. It Is’ Work. “We do not hear of strikes iin-Ger. many but they seem rather popular everywhere else. The selfishness which comés from the desire to get something at the expense of one’s fel- low aman is having a potent influence in preventing the restoration the country needs.” The farmer—‘the backbone of the country"—was the first to feel the effects of [postwar deflation, the sec retary said, but added “that the farm- er could not be entirely absolved from blame,” for his present situation as he should have foreseen the tnevit able collapse of values. “I shall not take the time to crit icize the legislation congress has en- acted for the benefit of the farmer. It was brought about by a combina. tion ‘of members of the two great po- Mtical parties’ which had sufficient votes to obtain the result desired. Some..of this legislation may benefit those for whom it was enacted. Much of % is unsound, however, from/an economic standpoint, and I very much doubt if it will be of any henefit even to the farmer. ‘One of the least excusable of the laws passed, it seems to me, was that increasing the interest rate on farm loan bonds to $4 per cent and Teav. ing the rate to the farm borrower the same as it hadbeen,”" Mr. Weeks then reviewed “the further legislative program” of the TOUGH SLEDDING agricultural bk characterizing as “unwise” the so-called pure wool bill declaring that the Proposed law .to regulate cold storage would “make the price of many articles of food higher and gescribing the federal highway bill as being designed to construct “roads purely local in char: ter,” for the benefit of ‘one or at best, a few individuals.” The demand of the bloc for a representative of agriculture on the federal reserve board Mr. Weeks said, was as worthy as would be similar demands from “manufacturers, labor, commerce or any single great industry” Ex-Kaiser Is Author of Book “Comparative Historical 1878 to the Outbreak of War in 1914.' according to the newspaper Ach Tuh rabendblatt. matter the book contain regarding events immediately preced. ing the great war. i BERLIN, Dec. 8.—Former Emperor | William has published a book entitled ing of suites for manual ‘ables From In addition to tabulated information | MINNESOTA TOWN BOASTS OF BG JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL light > : the Pipestone, high school. . The Pipestone juntor-sentor | tember 1, 1920, cost was approximately $406,000. {228 feet, depth 175 feet. Jan entire city block. high school was constructed during the Years 1918-11919 and completed Sep- The architect was G. |. Lockhart and the bullder was L. \P. Jorgensen, both of St. Paul. The ‘The outside dimensions are length, The build. ing coritains three floors and accupies Thq ground floor has twenty-three rooms, consist: training, (Physical science, agriculture, com- mercial training, domestic science, |eafeteria, auditorium and gymnasium, The first floor has twenty’ room, con- sisting of the superintendent's office |ity of 1,000. -}and board room, grade rooms, nurse's deep, with the proscenium opening of floor has twenty-eight rooms. are junior and senior high study halls, principals’ offices, tion rooms for high schvol and room and restrooms, feet. The butlding struction, is fireproof in rest of the way. jer Bedford stone. The auditorium has a seating capac- The stage is 20 feet $40,000 SPENT AT PIPESTONE MODEL STRUCTURE A. _C. Tibbetts, superintendent of Minn., public schools describes the Pipestone junior-senior These school recita- junior college instructors, school for special pupils, normal training rooms, music room, drawingroom, library, reading- The balcony of the auditorium {s between the first and ground floors. ‘The total floor space in the building is 66,580 square con- with board ‘floors in the schoolrooms and mastic-covered con- crete floors in halls and auditorium. The outside walls are of Pipestone up to the second floor with ‘brick the The trimmings are office and kindergarten. The second37 feet and a height of 28 feet. It is ‘The American Congress had ten meeting places up until the time it was permanently located in Wash- ington in 1800. The pictures reproduced here are from rare old prints and original drawing, collected by Mr. Austi d #8 Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, 10. “Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1775, 1777-78, 1790-1800. 1774. * 6 Baltimore, December, 1776. . % Federal Halls 9. Court-house, Lancaster, Pennsylvdfia, 1777. 2. Court-house, York, Pennsylvania, 1777, y 1. Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., November, 1783. Coe State-house, Ansiapolis, Md., 1783 moat. mast ‘apitol 3. 5. Court-house, Trenton, New Jersey, 1784. They are listed below in the order in which the buildings were, occupied by Congress: 4. Old City Hall, New York, Wall and° Nassau Streets, 1785-88 New York (reconstructed. City Hall), Wall and Nassau Streets, where the first Congress under the Constitution met, and Pres. ident Washington was inaugurated. building at Washington, D. C., After five years in old Federal Hall it was packing its bags Juet.131 years RES to move to £ Philadelphia, thence to Washington. of Washington. One of the first important questions laid before the -Congress had been that of the as- Sumption by the Government of the existing debts of the Confederation J and those which the states had created during the revolution. The | .foreign debt amounted to $12,000,- | 000, the domestic debt of the Con- federation $42,000,000 while the debts of the various states incurred during the Revolutiorfary War ag- grégated ($26,000,000 making the grand total’ of $80,000,000, a sum which then sounded large, no mat- | ter how small it scemis to us in | these days in which we count gov- ernmental appropriations in terms of billions. Hamilton’s Three Proposals The proposition submitted to the Congress by Hamilton included: first, the assumption of the forcign PAGE NINE DATES OF CROP REPORT TOTALS ARE DEFERRED e Postponement Made Neces- sary to Complete Year’s Estimates Announced by Departrgeni. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The date of issuance by the department of agri- culture of the December report giving latest acreage, yield per acre and pro- duction figures fo staple cops in 1921 and revised, figures for 1919 and 19 s announced today at having been change dfrom December 15 to Decem- ber 28, at 4 p. m. and the date for the Issuance of the estimated acreage and condition of fall sown wheat and rye has been changed from December 17 to December 29, a 0 p. m. This postponement, the department said, was made to enable the crop re- porting board to complete its work. The reconciliation of the crop. esti- mates and census figures for 1919, the department added, was especially ditts- cult because of abnormal changes due to the war in crop acreages shown in the census report for 1909 upon which the estimates for the succeeding 13 years w based. ———— fitted with complete scenery and has four dressing rooms. All high school students meet here each day for thir- ty minutes to listen to and tender muste, declamations and discussions. Prominent people of the town a from outside frequently give addresses at this time. About a dozen plays have been. pre- sented by various student organize tions, especially the public speaking classes, Band concerts and other lo- eal entertainments are given in the auditorium. The gymnasium ts 86 feet by 66 feet and has seats for 1,000 people. It is fitted with two rooms contain. ing lockers, shower baths and toilets. The showers have 24 private dressing- rooms. There are 600 lockers in these rooms, The swimming pool is 67 by 17 feet. The usual student activities are carried on in the gymnasium. Ip addition the American Legion and town basketball teams practice and play here. In 1917 the former high school building was burned. The people of the community were unanimous that an up-todate building adequate for several years to come and represent. ing the latest thought in buildings, should be erected. The result Is. this building which is the equal in effich ency and housing capacity of any other in the state, There are thirty-four teachers in the faculty, The course rangea from the kindergarten to the first year of Junior college and there are 1,000 stu. dents in attendance, Graduates of the junior college are admitted to the [=e and state universities with: out examination. $s Subscribe for The Dafly Tribune. / debt of the Confederation; second, the full payment of the domestic debt, which had fallen far below par in its market value; and, third, the assumption by the Government of the debts incurred by the re- spective states during the revolu- tion, The first proposition, for full payment of the foreign debt met with no pEpositiens and that for the payment of the domestic debt was opposed by many but received a majority vote. Opposition is Aroused The third proposition, that the Government of the United States should assume the debts created by the respective states during the Revolutionary War was bitterly op- posed and its final settlement re- sulted incidentally in the nad bye of Congress to Wall street. The opposition to payment by the Gov- ernment of the claims-of the re- Spective states was bitter and long drawn out, much of the opposition being based upon the assertion that the claims had been already bought up by speculators and that the as- sumption by the Congress under seemed likely to fail, diplomacy got in its fine work. The question as to the permanent location of the Capitol of the Nation was then pending. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore wanted it. So did seyeral other enterprising cities and * towns in the middle ites and in Virginia. The South, which opposing the measure for the ment of the claims of the states, was solidly in favor of the transfer of the permanent seat of govern- ment to that section of the country. Hamilton favored the payment of the claims of the states, Jefferson favored the location of the Capitol at the South, and these two ex- perienced men, putting their heads together, worked out a plan which was laid before certain of their col- leagues at a dinner at the home of Jefferson, where the details were agreed upon. The next day, to the astonishment of those not immed: ately participating in the agree- ment, the hostility of certain Southe ern members to the payment of the claims of the states mysteriously disappeared. The bill for payment of these claims was passed and a little later the measure establishing a permanent seat of Government on the Potomac became a law, with a proviso that Congress (should re- fhove to Philadelphia before the - Wall Street in the early days of the Republic. «The building with the “custom house” sign is on the site of the present home of The National City Bank of New York. that date would not.be materially beneficial to the states themsely Most of these claims were held in the North, and as‘a_result, the members from the nerthern states favored the, proposition, while those of the South were almost solidly against it and succeeded in temporarily defeating this feature of the measure. . How it Was Settled At this juncture, when the as- sumption of the debts of the states date set for the next session, the first Monday in December,’ 1790, and remain there until the-year 1800, by which time the Capitol buildings and presidential residence would be ready for occupancy. And this is how it happened that 131 year ago Congress tear- fully packing its belongings at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets preparatory to the trip to Phil- deiphia, which was then a matter of several days instead gf a couple of hours as at present.