Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1923, Page 8

kal cS Of%s08 4077 Armes CONFERENCE ON FUNERAL PLANS CALLED TODAY _ Coolidge Takes Up Duties As Nation’s Executive In-Meetings Today. ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(By The Associated Press).—President Coolidge took up his duties as chief executive today at a series conferences de voted almost entirely to discussion of plans for the funeral of President Harding. The new head of the nation, who * arrived quietly in the capital late last night, began quite as quietly as his first work day in the temporary “White House” improvised for him on-the third floor of the historic Wil lara hotel. He was up at 8 o'clock, had a talk in his suite with close per- sonal friends and o'd acquaintances, read over a mass of cablegrams car- rying the good wishes of the rulers of foreign lands, and then received Post master New to discuss final details of the funeral plans. Meantime Mrs. Coolidge had slipped away from the hotel for a short shop- ping tonr, leaving behind a constant- ly growing collection of flowers sent her by admirers. They nearly filled her hotel room and overflowed into the corridor outside One of the suggestions made by the president with those with whom he discussed plans for the funeral, was that Woodrow Wilson take a promi- nent pert in the rites to be performed within the rotunda of the capitol over the body of Mr. Harding. It was said an invitation would go forward to Mr. ‘Wilson at the S Street home where he has Ived jn semi-seclusion since | he retired from the White House, but | those in a position to know thought it doubtful whether the former presi Gent's physical condition would per mit his acceptance. The first with whom Mr. Coolidge | talked today were F. W. Sterns, a Boston merchant who arrived with him from New York last night and Benjamin F. Felt, former Boston newspaper man and close friends of doth Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Stearns. The president also conferred with James B. Reynolds former treasurer | of the Republican natoinal committee | and manager of President Coolidge | campaign for the Republican presi-; dential nomination 1920 | The funeral plans were discussed at length with Postmaster General| New, Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett, Col. C. O. Sheriff, White House military aide, and Director Hines of the Veterans Bureau. As soon as the funeral ceremonies are ended the resignations of all mem- bers of the Harding cabinet will be handed-in as a matter of form. It is not expected that any of them will be accepted. Mr. Coolidge let it be known that the present personnel of the Harding administration would continue in of- fice indefinitely, and that he could fee no reason for any present change or for the interruption of any negoti- ations now being carried on with for- eign governments by Harding's ap ODED DRAWS “TECORD CROWD (Continued from Page One.) Fay Copperamith—on Smokey Joe. | Mike Hastings—on T-7 Tom. Steer Roping Contest it Dick Hornbuckle, Douglas, no time. | Fred Beeson of Arkansas City, Kan. 83 1-6. | Eddie McCarthy, of Cheyenne, time. Phil Yoder of Yoder, no time. Tke Rude, no time, Lem Carmin, no time. Lioya Saunders, 27 2-5. Fred Lowry 42 4-5. | King Merritt, 49 Ray Bell 47 4-5 Clarke Hogue 44 15. Carl Williams, 87 2-5. The trick and fancy riding was again one of the features of the day. Buck Stewart of Fort Worth, Tex., and Mabel Strickland, the two Fron- tier Days champions led the field with Floyd Saunders, Huth Roach and Fox Hastings putting up some spectacular rides. | The fourth section of the bucking| saw Mary Gibson on “88 Buck’’; Floyd | Lee on Dynamite, Dave Whyte on Sealskin, Orville Heck on Steel and| Pete Rice on King Tut. The day's program was closed with the spectacular wild h no of Dewey, Okla From: War. On‘ Russian* F 77By W. HOWARD RAMSEY © The American Relief Administra- tion is withdrawing from Russia. The famine is over. Colonel Haskell and the little group of Americans who were working with hi ‘turning to America. They come by ‘ones and twos, unheralded and unac- claimed, as quietly as they wen yet, if America realized their accom- pushes flags would be flying, ands blaring forth a welcome, and delegations of the most prominent citizens would be waiting at the pier to cheer their homecoming. And being plain, unassuming ‘Americans, unaccustomed to cere- jmony and heroics, the relief workers would be tremendously embarrassed \by the ovation, and inquire quite se- riously, “What's the big idea? {What’s all the fuss about?” and {some of them would probably add, “How are the chances of getting a job?” Just the same embarrassing question that the boys in khaki were ‘asking in 1919! {* For almost two years now a scant two hundred Americans, on a battle line far longer than the western front, have been fighting a foe more |pitiless than any the allied armies faced. From the Baltic to the Cas- jan Sea, from the Crimea to the they have conquered the fam- i more lives than were lost \in the World War, healed a sorely- suffering people of the diseases which threatened to sweep the whole of Europe, won the benedictions of a great, but stricken, nation, achieved the world’s greatest adventure in hu- manity! And because #t was an adventure in which all America shared, it is but fitting that its accomplishment should not mene unnoticed, that the people by whose generosity the.great fleet of ships was fitted out, the farmers whose grain filled ‘their holds, the vast body of taxpayers, the ‘men whose contributions ran into five {c= six figures, as well as those whose [means enabled them to give only les- ser sums, should know their gifts |Wwere not given in vain. No one of the returning workers jean tell the whole story. He may |\give interesting details. “I wae et Kazan when the corn arrived. The \peasants came from distant villages jto haul it back on sledges, ‘They }had no horses. The ice in the river |Volga was breaking up. The roads were terrible, Some died before com- pleting the trip.” Or, “I was in Odessa when the famine was at its height. There ||were bodies in the streets. People were dying so fast they could not be buried. The hospital basements were heaped with dead.” Or, “I was at |Orenburg when the starved corpses |were being hauled to the cemetery like cordwood, stark-naked, frozen bodies, and tossed into "shallow trenches, while dogs waited to tear open the common graves.” But their stories will all heave jabout the same ending, “We opened ‘up our kitchens, got the supplies to the villages. My district fed so many hundred thousand children, is- sued corn rations to so many hun- dred thousand adults, inoculated so many hundred thousand, restocked hthe hospitals, provided food fit for ae patients, cleaned up the tuwns. Homestead Tale Today’s Thrill Describes one of the| homesteading as the winn-| in the Tribune | 111 contest. g- One night we had spent the evening with a neighbor. | A mile away we saw our cabin fllum- Inatea by tongues of finme. High above it and on both sides fire leaped out, © window, lke a grate, | sho on the night over sage brush in the ran toward the blaze, and dark | : mea. marveling how it could have happen. ed. Breathless we came to the y and behold, the fire was a half mile| beyond! Piles of gathered sage brush where a neighbor and his fam made merry ‘he starvation was checked. The movement of refugees ended. Cholera disappeared. Typhus de- clined. Things are looking much bet- ter there now.” The men who were at the head- quarters in Moscow, keeping tho ac- ‘counts, fireciogs the movement of the food and medical supplie: receiving and correlating the reports, fighting the battles for transporta- tion, for adequate warehouses, for : itary traing, will [have a different story, Jt will not 10491,297- 200 FEEDING Persons - LE eas Casper Daily Tribune | Return ‘Victorious aoa PF | poten \ ~ ie 4, amine ‘and ‘Pestilence’ (Continued from Page One.) “S jher parting word of comfort to San 4 © jot the official party to 4 UPA Francisco was: “I wont break down. My thoughts will go just as fast as the train.” Mrs. Harding was the last member @ the ho- tel. She came down to her automo- bile on the arm of Brigadier General Sawyer and Secretary Christian at 7 o'clock, almost 30 minutes after the casket started moving towards the depot. She waa spared the ordeal of watch- ing the casket, carried by soldiers, sailors and marines, wend its way ; | through the hotel lobby to the street through a colorful array of military offictals, while the naval band, out- side the hotel played “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Lead Kindly Light," Mr. Harding's favorite hymn. As the gray casket covered by an American flag, topped with a wreath of California carnations, was gently rolled into the hearse, the chimes of St. Patrick’s Catholic church, just a block distant tolled “Nearer My God to Thee.” The bright.array of uniforms which three branches of the military service brought to the procession was in sharp contrast to the garb of frock ||coated statesmen who followed the || hearse. America’s Gift to Russia Included, in Part: The feeding of children to the number of ...... And adults to the number of .......-..-.-+-. The distribution of medical supplies valued at. To hospitals and institutions numbering .....m:.+ With a daily capacity of ..........-.... The performance of .... ANd. 0.2 nee em cece oe Shipment of food and seed grain amounting to.. And medical supplies to the amount of. Shipped in .... 2.2 emesocesseeeacce be so vivid as to detail but ft will be more comprehensive. Instead of telling of one city or one district with thousands fed, they will talk of the extent of the operation in terms of millions. They will illustrate the freight movement from the Northern and Southern ports to the heart of the famine area by graphic charts They will tell ‘ion cans of milk were ordered, how many consumed and the use that was made of the empty cans and cases, of how many thousand kit- chens were 0} d and how the ra- tions were allocated months in ad- vance, so that the children who came to the kitchen could be certain a-meal meas waitin; See adway pre nd down on lower ; ward the end of Manhattan Island, in one of the skyscrapers there are men who could tell still another story. ‘They would speak of vast in pur- chases, of the chartering ef hundreds of ships, of the mobilization of funds. of crop’ estimates an¢ international negotiations, of a detailed accounting system, of expert auditing. They would tell of a business administra- tion of entrusted funds under the di- rection of Edgar Rickard, which en- abled the chairman of the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoo- ver, to report to the President of the United States: “there has not been deduction of one penny for adminis- trative purposes either from the funds provided by Congress or from public charity in the United Sates.” But by whichever group the story is told, it is one of which America may well be proud. In July, 1921, Maxim Gorky and Patriarch Tikhon appealed to the whole world to save the starving population of the Volga Valley. The very day that appeal was published Herbert Hoover tele- graphed to Gorky the conditions un- dex which tre A. R. A. could extend its relief. Within a morth Colonel William N. Haskell was Bepointed di- rector of the A. ”. A. in Russia and food ships were on their way. Amer- ica was the first coun to respond. It offered to feed a million, It was feeding more than ten times that number day in and day out before the first twelvemonth had passed. It transported to Russia and dis- tributed there close to a million tons of grain and other foodstuffs, A fleet of 237 ships plied its way across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean, Baltic and Black seas, and under the direction of only 200 ‘Americans an army of 125,000 Russians labored, wnloading, ware- housing, hauling, weighing, cookin; and serving that food. It was fo enough for one billion seven hundi and fifty million meals. Surely nev- er before has one nation set so great a feast for a famished neighbor! Is it any wonder that the peasants | th of one war-devastated and famine- stricken village, having no gold and no bronze available, painstakingly dug from the log walls of their cot- | freight cars and Jocomotives, for |tages leaden bullets and cast a medal | river barges and for the American who brought them the food, inscribing it, “] was an RIDGE AND ROLLINS OF| CASING 10 LEAVE WITH OGHEMBECK’S ON TOUR Rollins inday zino Join mbeck'p orchostra.! few months Shembeck and his organization will start on a world tour next week. Rollins’ place at the dance palace will be filled by Kenneth Plummer, considered to be one of the best men obtainable on the drums, Jimmy Al Jen will take Ridge's place at the banjo. Both men were formerly with Rinkler’s orchestra when it predom- inated in the minds of Casper lovers few years ago. “¢ nmut will be on the sax clarinet Monday. All new players have been rings during tho past of dance music a soft its hundreds of| A: red| of Russia and fin 833,125 Individuals - -$7,685,000 + -16,400 «+++ -1,039,000 Persons --- -6,896,598 Inoculations ++1,804,401 Vaccinations --912,121 Tons 15,000,000 Pounds +---237 Ships Yave quoted further, ve quo’ er, “Naked and ye clothed me,” for the merican elief Administration purchased, and distributed in Russia, close to Seiten worth of clothing, principally among the children, many of whom were so ly clad that they could not decently come to the public kitchens for their daily meal. In addition to this it delivered in Ri more than 400 tons of clothing collected in the United States by other to say nothing of vast quantities of bedding, seabed garments and complete lay- ettes. The pious Russian villagers might well have completed the text, “I was sick and ye visited me,” for never was there a sicker nation than Rus. sia when the A. R: A. arrived. phus, cholera, recurrent fever, smail- pox, typhoid—all were raging in the starvation districts and takin, a tre- mendous toll of life among the peo- ple whose res: was weakened y famine. Moreover the movement of refugees was rapidly aioe these epidemics into every part o: the country, and even across the bor- ders into neighboring states, w til Europe was threatened with a pandemic of le re And the A. R. A. in its visit of mercy came not, like Job’s comforters, em- pty-handed. Rather it brought $7,685,000 worth of medicines and other sick room ne- cessities. It brought a score or more icians, skilled epidemiologists; hi d, and They might it serums, vaccines and other disease entives ever ordered at one time. ‘& opened free dispensaries, clinics, ambulatories, hospitals. It’ cleaned up entire cities; it purified water sup- plies; it bathed, deloused, pu: oculated, vaccinated rich and poor, ola and young, not by tens or tens of thousands, but literally by millions —almost by tens of millions. So that instead of there being 277,701 cases of typ us in Russia as there were in March, 1922, March, 1923, saw only 6,821 cases, Relapsing fever has been eliminated in the same propor- tion and the incid.nce of cholera is negligible as compared with last year’s figures. It takes more than figures to tell the story. When Dr. Henry Beeuw- kes, as chief of the Medical Divi- sion, writes truthfully that since ing into Russia, the American Ri Administration ha: appl of 16,000 hospitals an: tutions having a constant capacity of 1,039,000 persons, the task may appear to have been a monumental one. When one glances at the maj that these insti- tutions were scattered over an area ill-supplied with railroads and that some were separated from Moscow, of suppl; y more than a thousand miles, one’s wonder grows. But no one who has not stood in- side a Russian hospital, as it was in the days of the great famine, before the relief came, can realize the full measure America’s achievement. Everything was lacking. Beds were FINAL APPEARANCE 0 PIERCE ANG ROSSLYN AT ARKEON THIS EVENING The final appearance in Casper of Pierce and Rosslyn, entertainers at the Arkeon, will be made tonight. An entire change of program and cows tume hag been made for the occasion rought the largest quantities of| fro; ——+|eral Daugherty, }would not stand the strain, all the 8 from the) er apples. ero polluted, plum: Wat wero polluted, plum! ing was ons use and almost be-/ yond nope » |Drug rooms were | empty of the simplest and most es- sential remedies. The food was un- speakably poor, utterly unfit for sick’ | Rersons and woefully inadequate in | amount. Men and women crawled | to the hospitals to die, rather than to be rade whole, and not a few succumbed in front of institutions that had no room for another patient. America has wrought a transfor~ mation here. It is useless to pile up the figures, but a few may be significant, The A. R. A. distributed| | to these Pegi ations Sailiin and al half soap. Neo-salvarsan, fhe cored a perfect gs) | relapsing fever, was extent of 700,000 ministration acted as the agent of) the United States Government and | the American Red Cross. The sur-| lus Army medical supplies Ecpad over to the A. A. by lemented the Army stocks valued at! $4,000,000 by its own contribution of| supplies to the amount of $3,685,000, while the entire cost of transporta- tion and handling was covered 14 an individual donation of $267,40' ym the Laura Spelman Pecketaler) ap ae America’s great adven- gether ture in humanity has cost her about $62,000,000, Everyone in America has shared in the benefaction. The} United States Government appropri-| ated, in addition to the medical sup-, plies, some $20,000,000 for corn and seed The Jews of Amer- ica, ‘rough the American Joint Distribution Committee, gave $5,-| 000,060; Catholics, ‘8, Menno-| nite: Baptists, mtherans, Adven-) tists, and othas ease denomina- tions, through their res: ive organ- izations, swelled the total. But the distribution yas made under the: unified supervision of the American Relief Administration. It was made in a characteristically American fashion, without to race, sect, party or creed. It was America’s gift to the Russian people. ! An ive present? Wel may have been. It cost more my the mere millions. Two of Americans who went to Russia are not coming home. One died from Syenos and the other dropped from, sight. Two lives and $62,000,000, dollars—almost as much as it costs, the United States to maintain its, navy for two months in time of esc —say ten million saved from deathi by starvation and half that number ee cays by ceanned wie chores ship and gratitude of a great peopla heel and held—perhaps a Batlon sav ; It almost seems as tf the adven. ture had been worth while, __ ‘ so that the persons who attend the Arkeon dance tonight will see tho ouple In an act which they have not given in this city prior to this time. The Arkeon will not be without an entertainer of merit next week, how: ever, for Richard Miles, who has been singing for two seasons on tho Pan: tages circuit, will open an engage ment at the dance palace this eve- ning. The University of Nebraska seren- aders will also leave tonight after @ week's engagement here. | Dancing will start at sion is sree, 8:30. Admis- Around the Montgomery street can- opy of the Palace Hotel was gathered ||an imposing array of statesmen whose names are household words in the na- tion. There were General Pershing, Sec- retaries Hoover, Work and Wallace, Attorney General Daugherty, Associ- ate Justice McReynolds of the United States Supreme Court; Rear Admiral Simpson and J. 8S. McKean, Senator Samuel Shortridge, Congressman Julius Kahn and Mayor James Rolph. With the exception of Attorney Gen- whose condition notables walked to the depot. While the cortege passed through silent thousands to the station, Call- fornia flowers which had been gather- el lavishly to invite the smiles of the ||man who loved them, were showered by alr planes from the sky that his pathway into the beyond would be one of increased beauty and brightness. At the Southern Pacific depot, the body was placed on board the Hard- ing special train which was covered with shrubbery and flowers gathered from California gardens. A shaft of sunlight broke through a cloud just before the sun set in the Golden Gate and lighted the skies just as the brilliantly lighted coach |sped out of the west on the firat stretch of its sorrowful journey to Washingon. ON BOARD FUNERAL TRAIN AT SPARKS, Nevada, Aug. 4—(By The Associated Press)—The special train bearing to Washington the body of President Harding paused here a few minutes this morning before speeding onward on its long journey He PALES MT EON Lr SILENT TRIBUTE IS ELOQUENT AS FUNERAL SPECIAL SPEEDS EAST during the long night were silent men, women and children, all with heads bared and many with bowed heads. ‘There were little boys and girls, hard- ly yet out of school age, but they showed the same reverence and the same respect as their elders. ON BOARD HARDING FUNERAL ‘The widow of the late president re- tired early to her stateroom and when the train reached here about 8 o'clock this morning, the door was still closed. There had been no occasion to call anyone during the night, QULDIERS FROM FORT. RUSSELL TO MEET TRAIN Honor Guard for Body of Harding Planned on Stop at Cheyenne. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 4.—When the Harding funeral train arrives in Cheyenne Sunday noon {t will be met by a squadron from. the Thirteenth United States cavalry at Fort D. -A. Russell. This squadron, together with all the officers at the post, will act as a guard‘of honor while the body of the dead president {s in the city. The Thirteenth cavalry band will play funeral music, the Seventy- sixth Field artillery will fire a salute. and, on behalf of the city, Mayor Ed H. Tayor and a squad of police will deliver a floral tribute. Governor) W. B. Ross, who is in the northern part of the state, will be unable to meet the train. Complying with orders from the war department, cannon are booming requiem salutes at Fort Russell. Thirteen guns were fired at sunrise, there are explosions at intervals of every half hour all day, and this eve- ning there will be a 48 gun salute. MEXICAN FLAGS AT HALF MAST MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4.—(By Tho Associated Press.)—The executive de- partment of the Mexican government has decreed that the flag be flown at SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923 RS, HARDING TO LIVE AT SHAVER HOME. INCA “White Oaks” Fann at Marion to Be Future Residence, Report. MARION, Ohio, Aug. 4—(By The Associated Press.)—President Hard. ing'’s widow will make her future home at the farm of Dr. C. E Saw- yer, personal physicfan to the late chief executive, just outside the city, according to an announcement in to- day’s Marion Tribune, a morning newspaper controlled by the same men who recently bought Mr, Hard- ing’s interest in the Marion Star. Known as “White Oaks” the farm is one of the beauty spots of Marion. Millard Hunt, who ococupies the Harding home under lease, offered to vacate immediately, but Mrs. rd- ing refused to let him do so. at is the home where the “front pore®{’ campaign was held. NG The old Marion Civic association, which handled things during Mr. Hardng’s campaign for office, has been revived to take charge of the funeral plans. Attorney Hoke Don- ithan, @ personal friend of Mr. Hatd- ing, has been natned chairman. A uniform system of mourning for homes and business places will be worked out, Adjutant General Henderson wil! he asked to detail company D and the Howitzer company of the Ohio nat- fonal guard, both Marion units, to duty here Wednesday and Thursday. According to Dr, Carl Sawyer, son of the late president's physician Dr. George T. Harding {s bearing up well under his son's death. Dr. Harding rested fairly well last night, Dr. Sawyer said. Member of Jones Family In Wrong By Cashing Chegk’ Similarity of names seems to have been q temptation to Paul D. Jon who has been arrested by the police department on the charge of obtain- ing money under false pretenses. Jones is said to have cashed a check that was made out to another Pat Jones, three days as Mexico’s “homage to Mr. Harding’s memory for his friend- ship to Mexico as demonstrated by the important step the lato president took to bring about the resumption of diplomatic relations between both ~ Watch for the Airplane — Sunday Evening at 6 O'clock 4 At that hour Dick Leferink, of the L. & L. ‘Air- plane company will drop 500 hand bills adver- tising Englewood. The hand bills will be dropped while flying over Mills, East Casper and West Casper. In each bunch of bills will be several bills that will be good for a $25.00 first payment on any, Englewood lot. Watch for the bills, you may be the lucky one. John M. England Co. 202 0.8. Bldg. Phones 1129 and 5483