Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO. MONEY COGGED BY BAD LUCK (Continued from Page One) Mam McClintock, Sr., and then passed on. ‘The elder Mr. McClin- tock, Inheriting the fortune, mar-| (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) ried Miss Emma Nelson, of Topeka, WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—By trav- Kansas. To them was born one |eling to Chicago in the drawing room son, William McClintock, Jr. of an ‘ordinary sleeping car,” Presi- In 1906, the father was driving|dent Coolidge has set. another ex- his automobile slowly past a team/| ample of that “Jeffersonian simplic- of horses, ‘That was a time when | ity” whéch ts to mark the next four horses and automobiles were far| years in the White House. Not for less well acquainted. The animais| thirty years—possibly many more shied, drove the tongue of the bug-| than that—has a president of the gy through Mr. Mc€lintock’s side| United States made an overnight and the millions he had made from | trip away from Washington in any- shrewd investment of the more mod-| thing but a private car, often in a est fortune he had inherited, passed | special train, to his wife, She died of heart dis- The president is traveling in a ease two years later, leaving the|slepper without dining equipment, fortune to her fivewear old son, Wil-| having to take his dinner and break- Mam, 4 fast in the regular dining car at- Instead of going to distarit rela-| tached to the train for all the trav- tives, William was taken into the|elers, high and low. family of William D. Shepherd, his] It must not be supposed, however, father’s closest friend. There, the| that the general public is being ac- rich little orphan was constantly |commodated in the same pu'lman under a protecting wing, while his| with the president. It so happens fortune, in a trust fund, kept grow-|that his traveling companions are ing. Threat of kjdnapers kept the|all personal acquaintances or at- youth from enjoying the life that other boys lead. He had constantly before him preparation for respon: sibilities that would be his when, at 21, he assumed full command of his great wealth, By ROBERT T. SMALL. Seven months ago that time came With it came announcement of his engagement to Miss Isabelle Pope a friend of his high school days. He came home from Dartmouth College to be near her. Then came an at yo eA MA pla ne (Continued from Page One.) affected by senate gavel and finds himself pre- Without ne claim it, these| siding over a closed corporation—a millions so omnious, untouched by | corporation in which he will be but any holder, lie in wait for the pro-| figure head and have no say whatso- bating of the will the young mil|ever. Dawes, the dictatorial, will Monaire made shortly before his| have to become Dawes the submis- death, sive, Dawes, the go-getter, will be- Almost certainly Miss Pope will|come Dawes, the asit-still. be @ substantial beneficiary. Al-| Curtis and Borah and Warren and most certainly the Shepherds will] Smoot will tell Charley what to do receive a large share of the estate,|and Charley will have to do it or Others, friends of his mother, may|put ® substitute in the chair. figure less prominently in the ap-| Inasmuch as General Dawes is not portionment. to sit with the Coolidge cabinet as There is now no indication that| Coolidge sat with the Harding any of them will balk at sharing In| cabinet, it begins to look as if he the fateful McClintock fortune. | would h ® decidedly idle time of Probably they figure that, with di-|it in Washington. But maybe he vision of the huge estate will come| won't be here much. That would be an end to its deadly spell. Or prob-|one solution of the troubles the vice ably they are willing to take a/ presidency is about to bring on him. sporting chance in return for as: sured wealth for the remainder of| Senator Curtis, thus far in the their lives. Whatever the division|session, has been the most active of the millions time alone can tell|of the big four. He has been desig: through their recipients, fate has decreed an end to the ill luek that this fortune has occa-| preliminaries of the session. Sena- sioned. tor Curtis is a real rican, boast- B NK BANDITS ing a goodly quantity of Indian blood in his veins. He is quite the antithesis of ‘Henry Cabot Lod; whom he sjcteded as director eral of thé G. O. P.sdlons> Lod, was cold an@ austere; Curtis is|/ cordial and. rictlous. +) owas tall ‘Rnd slender; Curtis fs stocky. Lodge was pale; Curtis is somewhat MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec... 8—]|swarthy, black hair and a Five robbers entered the Northwest-| black mustache adding to the effect. ern National bank here today, held| Curtis will do with kindness and |} escaped with|contact more than Lodge could do || $10,000 in cash and bonds estimated| with the aloofness of the overlord. |! up the cashier and at $300,000, - Of all the big four, however, the strangest at this session is Smoot of Utah. to Washington late in November was not the Smoot who left late in the summer. There was something missing. Even the galleries noticed it when he appeared the first day of the session. His fellow senators rubbed their eyes and looked twice as the familiar tall, slim figure of the man from Utah parked itself on the second row aisle. It certainly was Smoot—and yet, there was a siip-up somewhere, Something had gone wrong. Finally it dawned on everyone at The famous drooping Smoot mustache was gone. (Cartoonists will please take note.) And there is a story back of the loss. One day during the campaign Smoot was try- Ing to catch a train. He found he had time to visit a village barber. He asked that his mustache be trimmed. ‘Before the senator real- ized what had happened, the ton- sorial artist had trimmed not wisely but well. Only ¢ bit of toothbrush was left. Smoot was disgusted. “Take it all-off,” he groaned, “and be quick about it.” Looking at himself an hour or so later, the senator was rather pleased with the effect. But Mrs. Smoot was forlorn. She favored the mustache. “It remains to be seen now," re- marked the senator, “who is boss in the Smoot family.” ‘Thus far, the senator has it; there is no suggestion that the mustache Is about to grow again. once. tablets to work off the cause and to fortify the system against an attack of Grip or Influ- enza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. Price 30c. The box bears this signature C.U Sore Starks Grocery and Market Corner C and McKinley Streets Phone 903 SPECIALS For the Week of December 7th 8 cans Light House Cleanser, for sana 25¢ 4 cans No. 214 95¢c Peaches, for - es Aerie ze’..-.....90C gah 95c Salt Creek Busses | Leave Casper, Townsend Hotel 8 a. m. and 2:30 p, m Leave Salt Creek B a.m. and 2 BAGGAGE AN Bus Leaves Salt Crock Transportation Co. TEREPHONE 14 Apates for 91.00 Beauty Apples, for DOO WE DELIVER ‘JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY’ IS. EXEMPLIFIED BY PRESIDENT ON JOURNEY TO STOCK SHOW whether | nated “leader” of the majority and |! has been busy arranging all the |! large || ‘The Smoot who returned |! body with an official position in gn the freedom of the she rail algo" free hand. ¥ taches of the ‘White House. There| Presidents McKinley. _ was no room in the president's car} velt were the last to travelsunder & even for the newspaper men regu- ona that todey would: have larly attached to the White House. | called particulary They had to find accommodations elsewhere on the train, along with the general public. Preaching severe economy. in. hi annual message to congress, Preal- dent Cooljdge took an early occasion [> to show how very much in earnest he is on the subject. Like charity, (ie he belleves that economy begins at |, Mr Tatt traveled fieeiy, But on home and he is going to set the ex-|11ain was the cost charged entirely ample to the nation in keeping with | Sin Wt ernjnent. “Fie Sew the frugal life he always has led. = oma po ioe mabey tt Whe ‘@oceuts The president has a travel allow- panied him shared pro-rata in the sum 1s more than sufficient to|ntire expense, provide him with a private car and| This was true also during the crew whenever he cares to use it,| Wilson and Harding regimes. Mr. It has always proved sufficient in|Taft always used s private car. the past for presidents with far more | Sometimes it was attached to milk of a travel predilection than Mi occasionally to @ mixed Coolidge possesses. But the pret The correspondents accom: dent feels that the more of the sum | pa that he can turn back into the treas-|on the benches of a Gay ¢each, so ury at the end of the fiscal year, the| they at least, are accustomed to better for the government and for|some of the frugalities of the new the tax payers, It was erroneously /administration. At one time the reported some time ago that this|Taft correspondents organized what travel sum was a@ part of the presi-|they called a “pillow and blanket dent's personal compensation andjclub.” * They would. borrow the any saving from it went to him. | pillows and blankets from the presi- That never has been the case. It is | dent's car. a public fund. There has been a suggestion from Railroad men said today that|time to time that congreas should while Mr. Coolidge’s new mode of | provide a private car for the presi- travel will save the government |dent just as it provides him with a something, the amount will not be| private yacht, the Mayflower. It 80 large as would appear on the| always has been necessary to hire a surface. A private car would cost4private pullman, The cost.of such a 26 single railroad fares to Chicago. |car averages about $75 a day, The|¥ With 16 or 17 persons in the pre: Coolidge plan of travel will save t dential party, including secret serv- vernment considerable in this fee authorities, the saving in rail-| way, for each member of his party es to the government {now will pay only “space rates” on to about $200. Of course/a‘regular sleeper. ret service has a travel fund Mri Coolidge would oppose at this own and the expenses of the|time any move toward @ special pri- charged against | vate car for the White House use, ppropriation. just as he put his foot down on the The presént trip of the president | proposition that the government is in sharp contrast to the mode of |accept a palatial residence to be presidential travel. of two decades|used as a home for the vice presi- ago. Then the congress provided | dent. nothing for the chief executive to] President Coolldge’s own ‘‘extrav: &o on, but he traveled nevertheless | gance" perhaps is in the use of t! in regal fashion. The reason for this} yacht Mayflower. He thorougly en: was that the railroads of the coun-|joys his week-end galls down to/¥ try furnished the transportation and | Chesapeake bay and seldom misses the equipment free. 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