Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 6

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They are not concerned in y differences that arise between or andidates of the same party or opposing party. What the people of Natrona county want above anything se, and above any particular indiyid- ual, is honest and competent men and women who will render efficient service to the taxpayers. There are in the present primary can- didates who never coold be nominated by any convention, because of their unfit- ne Under the primary they have the privilege to run for office. There is no convention to pass preliminary judg- ment and this function must be exercised © by the yoter himself. Therefore the duty of the voter is ob- examine into the character and of candidates before you cast your yote, and pass any person who does not measure up to standard and stand four square with your ideals. It is no difficult matter to learn all about any candidate who has offered himself to the suffrage of the people. His opponents can tell you if no one else can. But don't believe everything you hear. Weigh the qualifications for. yourself and determine for yourself whom you will support. It is to your personal interest to se- Ject honest and capable candidates for ahey will handle your public business, if they are nominated and elected, and we don’t think you want your. public busi- ness handled by incompetents an more than you want your private business handled by that kind of persons. if you will regard the whole matter as a business matter, and forget the per- == sonal element in it, you better serve your own interests and likewise your neighbors’ interest. It will be greatly 10 the taxpayer's benefit if you are somewhat hardboiled in the matter of choosing your candi- dates, “ , ” Treat "Em Rough “To the first distinctly political meet- ing which he has addressed since his nomination for the presidency, notes the Boston 1 script, “Mr. John W. Davis echoed the campaign watchword of Gov- ernor ‘Al’ Smith: ‘Treat ’em rough. This was the Smith sentiment: ‘We are going to treat the Republicans rough, if this country is going to continue to have arty government, and I believe it is, we re not going to let. any politieal party escape the responsibilities belonging to it’ Mr. Davis, of course, put this noble sentiment into somewhat more diplo- matic language. Singling out the Teapot Dome scandal, he said. ‘T join Governor Smith in saying that we feel it a duty to see that our Republican. friends are not afflicted with failing memory on that subject.’ It is to be, under the guid- » of the leaders of the party, a dis- tinetly Teapot Dome campaign, in whi all the public vices and all the political dishonesty are to be imputed to the Republican party and all the virtues claimed for the Democr: 3y his avowal of this purpose, Mr. Dayis seems to abandon the ‘high plane’ attitude which he was supposed to have been foreordained to occupy, and to go in for a campaign of aateonticns for nothing but defamation could connect the present administration with the oil lease improprieties which the law de partment of the government is doing nuch more to expose and punish than hostile investigating committee was able to do. Democratic candidate for the pre: seems to ignore the fact that Republican members of a former administration are not the only ones that can be ‘treated rough|’ They ignore the fact that # ma- jority of the delegates to the Democratic nominating convention were keen to nom inate for the presidency a man who pro- posed to use his influence with the ad-| bers; a hospital with twenty buildings ministration.of which he had just been| was put up; three Y. M. ©. A. buildings; a member, and which was stil! in power,| three men’s clubs, four women’s clubs; to adyance or to defend the interests of |four Y. W. C. A. buildings, and im- the Democratic oil magnate, Doheny. In| mense moving picture house. When the more senses than one, the ‘treat ’em| war closed a huge steel frame auditor- rough’ campaign, az defined by Mr.| ium to cost $70,000 was im process of con- Davis, is likely to have a disastrously | struction. Free gas, free water, free heat reacting effect on his party's chances} and free light were given to the occu- in the election—and this not because} pants of all houses. Extravagant wages the Republican campaigners are likely| were paid, inefficient labor was brought to descend to the low plane which Mr.| in, the efficiency of some collections of Davis and Governor Smith invite, but} men recruited from city slums being es- because the people are sufficiently well| timated at twenty-five per cent of nor- informed, sagacious and _ pustice-loying| mal. After the armistice was signed car- to react against a campaign of defama-| loads of workmen were brought to Nitro tion.” from Montana, were kept a week and ooo then returned, theiz transportation and Crop Truth From Nebraska expenses for the full period, as well as ony, : the commissions of the labor agents, PER a ant naples Just hartested the | being paid. The huge hospital was filled serves the Omaha! Hee: “Nor theigrentest with men, brought in by the labor agents crops of oats and rye and: barley. Ne- who were suffering from disease, Five braska is not-growing thé greatest: corn physicians and sixteen nurses were tak- crop in her history. Nor will this year’s ing care of 37 patients when the Graham ie * 7 >. committee visited the place in Septem- harvest make millionaires out of all the} per, 1919, almost a year after the sign- farmers and put success within the reach ing of the armistic of the incompetent and the shiftless. Carpenters re j ane plain truth about the situation | the first five ¢ of the week, time and 8 plenty good enough. The wheat crop} q half on Saturday, double time on Sun- ple a hes nt, to the average in} day, while three and a half million men Teton the bee Saletan on oe ime were performing military service at $30 Sher Gin coat tor eA takton The “pale a month. Boys who. did not know the Of sgh Gacockad Lats nieces hich de ike use of a saw. were paid carpenters’ taxmnestiiowssnavelobeenine tdlention: wages. Men were employed to carry piles of a fair price for a growing crop, There of blocks and refuse from one part of . A the grounds to the other, and then back is very little old corn left on the farms] , Great quantities of good lum- of Nebraska, ber and hardware were wilfully destroy- There is not the least danger that the] oq, 4 western engineer was paid $100, producers of Nebraska are going to be] oj to advise the installation of Cali- stampeded into another orgie of specula-| fornia redwood pipes for the distribu- tion in blue-sky bunk. They are going to] tion of water, which proved to be worth- buy, many things they have long needed} jess, Groups of 500 or more men. were but have refrained from buying because} sometimes taken to portions of the plant of conditions. They ‘are going to make needed repairs on the farmsteads, buy and kept there three days before work i was furnished. Requisitions were made some new machinery and lay hold upon a.few luxuries to which they are doubly for 50 or 60 teams at $8 per day at places entitled. there was no work for them. - - . s were moved from one part of the “It is going to be the best year in the} grounds to the other, although trees last five, but no better than the produc-| yould not thrive anywhere on the tract, ers of Nebraska deserve. But it is not} the cost of moving one such tree was going to put eyery farmer out of debt, $3,000. hor put every merchant on Easy Street, On one occasion when the secretary nor give all of us an excuse to begin] of war ws pected at the plant to another era of extravagance. — make a Libe loan ‘speech, in order to “Let us rejoice over bountiful crops} cjoar a space for the small platform up and fair pric and tell the world the] 4), which he was to s large fore plain truth about Nebraska, not giving] oy jen was set to work carrying off good ourselves to vain boastings, Right now the truth is plenty good enough to make Jumber covering one and a half acres to ‘ 4 i ls 1 depth of ten feet, and every foot of every one of us smile with satisfaction, yurned! The bor cost Davis’ False Start ‘ property was $2,500. New roofing materials, flooring, food- ; stuffs were constantly burned on ‘The Honorable John W. Davis of} dumps at which big force of West Virginia, Democratic candidate for] jo), was ke pt busy, it ts estimated president has stated that the principal} that as high as a wagon load of bread issue in the presidential campaign will] way burned each Steam shovels be “honesty in. government,” and that} covered up large quantities of materials so far as he is concerned he doesn’t pro-} and fittings left lying on the ground, pose to allow Republicans to forget for] jarge quantities of motors and genera- a moment the sins of their unfaithful] tors of from twenty-five to fifty horse- members, and that Teapot Dome will be jaroware. s. burie pred shed traritone id othe enti Ger 40 power were thus buried ,steamfitting, the other. It don’t seem to matter much to Mr. Davis that all the legislation lead- piping aipl valves worth from $600 to $700 per set, and even automobile trucks ing up to the leasing of the Teapot Dome was pdssed by a Democratic congress standing in low places were thus de- stroyed. Employes who complained of ‘4 M this were reprimanded or discharged. and signed by a Denioer ‘ic president.) Phe more costs piled up, the more mater- and that the famous oil investigation | jails used destroyed, the more profit conducted by Senator Walsh involved] foy the contractor. three Democrats to every Republican in ; ant wag ready. for opera- the unsavory mess, which was all con-| tion vas made with a concern demned by a Republican administration and culprits started on the road to pun ishment. The Democrats offering not the which gave the contractor the full cost silghtest assistance in the matter and of operation, plus two and a half cents blocking the proceeding at every point per pound for all powder_accepted and un allowance of one-half the saving be- where members of their party were in danger of exposure. low a fixed price. More than $14,000,000 Since Mr. Davis has asumed the atti was advanced on this cont The construction compan: a tude of war and as the says “treat ‘em spite red Be CE rough,” we will just call his attention toa few matters that haye not been for- gotten by-the people of the nation ev: if Mr. Dayis’ memory has played him false concerning them. We will bring the story right down to his own home state aud relate the doings of his own Demo cratic party. The things to be presented occurred in West Virginia, a few miles from his own home, while the people of this country were ma g£ great sacri fices to win the war and the soldiers of the republic were offering their lives on the battle fields of Eurote in their coun try cause. There were private powder plants in ‘the United States when America entered the war, which had increased their out- put thirty fold since the war began, and gould easily have been expanded to de built. Houses were erected in large num- ved $7.50 a day for roy in, mistice was signed, while *the powder company was employing 5,020 men when the armistice was ed and 5,396 men fifteen da er. Ten months after the armistice was signed the powder com- pany had 1,485 people on the payroll and it was costing the government $43,000 a weck to operate the plant, The plant at Nitro, W. Va., cost the government $60,100,000, Four months after the armistice was signed Secretary Baker's department ordered ordnance mat 1 shipped there from all parts of the country for storage. Fifty thou- sand tons of such materials were stored. Four hundred and forty-eight men were employed for a long period fo get the buildings ready for the reception of this material and 500 men were employed in storing it. Shortly afterward it was A decided to sell the whole plant, except- ae srrile poweas ata merenet reg-! ing the materials which had thus been wated price. he department un- ce) dba: Makhy.chosy-inetead tp establish [ein oe omnes Sepa nUse government owned and operated plants.| Qiher property belonging to the goy- Gps et nila tk Gh darmng chimant (wtovodiateniy Pant passives . ston, i y x i y in Mr. Dayis’ state of West Virginia, toried by a government officer on Feb- There was no town or village n place, no street car lines, no good roads and only a single track railway, The site was purchased by a govern- ment agent who entered into collusion with a real estate firm in Charleston to notify them what lands the government would buy, #0 that the firm might ob- tion optious on them in advance, for which the government dent was to re ceive five per cent ef their gr busi poss. In one case this government agent bought a tract of land for $20,000, sold| 4); t a : 5 it 10 this real estate firm for $120,000] “ut” eras Pats Rares Bana go Palle slg and they in turn sold it to the govern-| furnish. a tor producin, By i ment for $146,125. In one case the gov-| clect tts baltt end Bula ctor ernment resold a 250-acre tract of land transmission line thirty wits long it had bought. The government agent} spending 900,000 in all. ‘The govern. gave the real estate firm information| ment paid for the current it used and us to the other bids, when they purchased | sold the lines materials and rights of it ‘and resold it for a fee of $2,750. Later} way it had bought to this power com- the government began condemnation. pro- pany for 000 in addition to which ceedings for this same tract of land.| the power company v given a favor- This was typical of the methods used in| able contract for furnishing power to the acquiring the site for this plant at ex-| naval ordnance plant at Charleston, W orbitant prices, when as good a site} Va., for a period of years. Eke: could have been procured in other parts]. No powder from this or any other goy of the country without any cost what-| ernment plant was used during the war. ever, because of the anxiety to locate so} Only 4,500,000 pounds of powder had large an industrial enterprise. been produced at the Nitro plant up-to The war department employed a Ne | the close of the war. The Old Hickory yada copper man who. knew nothing| plant near Nashville, Tenn., produced about powder to build government pow- 35 000 pounds of powder, most of it der plants. A cost-plus building program after the armistice. The cost of that the dollar, as being worth $11,- later it was inventoried at 1. The entire plant, with its streets, water plant with a acity of 60,000,000 gallons of water a ials, conservatively , was soon afterward sold to a private corporation for $8,551,- 000, payable over a period of eight years. Although this plant ineluded a steam power plont generating 24,000 horse power, the government made a contract was entered upon, A city three and a plavt was $90,000,000, The two. plants you had spoken-out at once, ,.. , $150,000,000 to Ponts built three plants of a cost of $35,900,000; 399,078,659 pounds of smokeless . pounds of powder in all .in 1918. aay entirely unnecessary to either of vate ts capable of supplying mn nn located ede COM fevecbeen constructéd or er A ROBBERY ° 5 robbery. lations between Mexico and soviet entirely upon direct sworn testimony ; Kimball, Neb., in connection with ven eredible eyewitnesses before . 2 to 159 South Beech, across from se Lf , the attempted robbery of the Amerl:| jew Public Market, phone 2265. n can State bank at Bushnell, Neb.,)vin be pleased to meet old and new construct. The their own which juced larged; without cost to the t and would haye turned ‘out powder for our forces at a regulated price far below facture r in the What happened at Nitro and Old Hick. ory was what will always happen under the system of politicalized industry ad- yocated by the LaFollettes, the Bryans and the other apostles of political own- ership. The facts given herewith. are. based the Graham committee which inyesti- est 4 bratka Ploldup. CHEYENNE, ‘Two suspects have been arrested at , AUGUST 14, 1924. by officers to have been armed vitt | Mexico-Soviet on his person when arrested. He is 5 ‘ Relations Are also alleged to be a dope user. He was picked up while walking along the Lincoln highway about 9 o'clock his automobile could not be found. The other man arrested was | —— in Kimball but there is a doubt ac- MOSCOW, Aug. 14. (By the Am OPV ET UN tute hte | Resumed Agaiit cording to the officers, as to this man’s connection with the attempted | sociated Press).—Full diplomatic re- ‘Thomas Tillman, alias Tracy, alas} Russia have been resumed as the re- Williams, the man my was shot, is| sult of negotiations carried on by ¥ Ba not expected to live. A sister, Mrs.| representatives of the two count- $700 Found on One E. Elsenbach, is sald by officers to| tries in Berlin. r live in St. Louis, Missourl. An iden-| © S. 8. Pestkgovaky, who as a Polish ed for Ne- tification card from the Missour!| revolutionary exile, lived in London Pacific in St. Louis was found in| for a number of years, be ert 9 ‘ "s possesson. pointed soviet representative in Mex- igres te {co while Professor Basilio Vadillo, Se ‘ ; present Mexican envoy in Norway. » Wyo. Au 4 NOTICE. is asigned to Mosco' I haye moved my marcell shop from _604 South Center, phone 636M, As a result of her success in com- petitions throughout the west, Miss Mabel Strickland, of Fort Worth, gated war expenditures under the auth-| early Tuesday morning. One of the | customers. Texas, is recognized as the women’s ority of congress. It is not rumor, hear-| suspects, Robert Harris, is alleged: MRS. NANCY CONNER. champion steer _roper_of the world, say or evidence given by criminals. What happened within a few miles of the West Virginia home of John W. Davis hap-|' pened at hundreds of other points the United States at a time when such waste was more inexcusable than. it would be in time of peace, for if the war | had continue long enough, this wsate would have bankrupted and -therefore defeated our government in war. Was it} dishonesty or criminal stupidity?. In either case, the result to~ the ~taxpay- ers of this country was the same. To talk about the “dishonesty ‘and in- efficiency” of anybody's administration after such. irresponsible performances as above recited is not much of a start on.a campaign of honesty, Mr. Davis had better back, up and take another start in a different direction. “Mountain Echoes” “Mountain Echoes” is the title under which Mrs. Lilian Lucene Elgin has pub- lished a collection of her recent poems in book form. It is a Charming little volume of some sixty pages bound in leather and represents the best efforts of the Commercial Printing company, typographically and mechanically. There are some fifty-three poems in the volume, some of which haye appear- ed from time to time in the Tribune. Mrs. Elgin is a talented writer and she has earned a reputation elsewhere than in Casper, much of her work. ap pearing in magazines and newspapers on the Pacific coast where she has nu merous friends in the writing profes: sion, ‘The thing that attracts ‘most in Mrs. Elgin’s work is the grace and beauty of expression, everywhere remarked _ by those who read her offerings, and who will welcome the*opportunity to. secure this. valuable collection in -book form. The book will likely be on the counters of local stationers and book-sellers dur- ing the present week. We congratulate Mrs. Elgin upon the excellence’ of her composition and her publishers upon the attractiveness with which they have presented it. Lines and “Angles By TED OSBORNE More suckers live in colleges Than in any kind-of pools. The reason is quite obyious; Fish travel ’round in schools. 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