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Washington ran si.-- Reduction ~
tie nayYs enlisted personnel 90 a
nssivm q 10000 men. as compared
With pfeners possible maspwuri az
$4,000 ~ provided Tor In ihe uavai
appropriation hli "a bc reported t9
the house tomorrow
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JROt BILL ~ LADIES iiD
Si00.00n SUIT FOLLOW =

Council Bluffs - Jan at Nu
Hattie Hil toaaY is defendant Ia .
flo9Dop suii iof slandsr Sled by Nr
Effle NoA' Aes Vokf alleeH Nr
Hin told menbers of leido 40
society that cakc she touaied ~ q
bazaar was a0' iii 20 oaf aud that
consumption " poftfoa 81 ii made
NJ yokl sick
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Child Born After
Mother Is Killed
In AUTO Wreck

WH~AaAsF. }Ae ~netaa.
sAs mo'Nse ~ "a sns sFaa wss
kilsa les pessea rtas a.s asa
fepf e'Nsfa mefs ssftvvaN inNfsa
~feH tNsIf Aass ~ss ets,seN a.
lfAfe safs thls NNfefng esensf
r~iiss saath sg hsfe
A. uHeavAl sesaeAs teas ~ts
pfrtefrrsH ~nfr tN8a esnf
aief ~sf s#n At easaiss Is
NaNfnN ssvsFa nevsss sFtsF sas
e'eiissf Nka alsd 81 lessFiss fht
shila ssi.l ltt ph4alsfaNs ssH
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31

wahlretea Jan 81 The
Commonwealth National Herk q
Rssdqiile Vs. q village ioo
miles gfom hrFe. was robbed Of
h and securities totaslsns
slf0 coo and lhsu seq on fire. Ae
eamllnn lu rupmta received today
- tha WUblagioh Police de
FarlmeNt
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31
FARMERS PARTY sEcURrs
A pAprR tN Wfecg.sth.

SHrhoygAn Ns Jan q f'N Fse
loyFA Telegram an esfH.8 HsNs
pa9er hss peen ransie 90 laa
Farmers a laborefu pp0l#alnf pm-
pant Ah ofisere aol directors Ate
members of fhe soplalisi AoHirai galis
according lo announcement f1 1gt
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31

These last words almost
reached scream as Clara Smith.
charged with the murder Of Jake
l.. Hamon. multi-millionaire oil
man and Republican National
committeeman from Oklahoma.
related the story of the tragedy
and of her flight from Ardmore
She was 10 Chihuahua. Mexico,
and was talking with a newspaper
man, the same who had tracked
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31
ANNUAL CHAMBER nesr

The Chamber of Corfmerc, will 20 4
its annual meeting TUESDAY night \
full attendance 8 desired
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WageCut
Rail Men

Chicago. Jan 81 liamedisse
ahrueaiiou of ihc natiomal agree
nents heiNreu railroads and en
ploYe~ was proposed Is the rasl
road labor board today hy " "
Atierhup chasrnyn ~ the labor
committee az the Association ~
Railway Executives and Niee
president 81 lhc Pennsylvania
railroad
The Snisen,N 81 ihe railroads
"a the ceaniry must he assured
hy a reduction ~ operating Is
renses. Nr Alierhury declared
Unless prompt actios affords re-
lief 90 the roads. he said many II
the Zines u the country may be
forced inia insolvency
The labor board can prevent
iihis catastrophe AR AlterburY
said bN declaring that the ma
tlanal agreements. rules and
working conditions coming over
frum the war period are termlu
atcd al once THAI the question of
reasonable and economical rules
anl working conditions shall ~
remandcd 10 negotiation between
each carrier aud IT. own cm.
ploNcs and that rs the hasis for
such negotiations the agree
ments. rules assd working eondi
iions ia effect ou each railroad IS
of Dec 81, 1917. shall he re-
established
Touching upon the question q i
awre reductions Mr. Aftcrbury T
aid
Ii ihc board viii 40 this. The
labor committee Of the Associa
tiou nf Railway Executives wlll III
arec npon every railroad com
lany party io decision ~ 2
Chat no proposal for the rNkieiion
al basic wages shall be- made
Vi Thin ihe neNf Succeeding 20
dsys This vii afford an oppor !
iunitv "a gauge the economic
which can be ACCOMPLISHED I
through more efficient rules and
working conditions u VIII also
afford additional time la which
Is realize the benefits of fnr 4
fher derline in the enNi II lN (
FHw
The natioual agreements /
rules aud working conditions
continued an pavu 81
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
VERSUS
CLARA SMITH

Il did hold the gun in my hand
and / did have it pointed towards
him. but. so help me God, did
not pull the trigger.
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Fer iNe trr4 tsNe ~ 'he history
ot NeN jersey aud rssh n
inv history pf ihe eueHg a
Woman lawyer Is defending an
charged nlsh mufaer Al
NsRHsia = Male, q liaekeNsa
n i Is appeaflWg ns aifuGaek
fur William Gleason gs ur Hi
New NHrh vaf Nf.aW nhp !.
avu "a 81 haeNe 't3ml pUllee
man ieha kil'er Mr Naley
naNa lhN "nlN gsasa she has au
sen'ed g tvks 'ilessaH Nm 4
ihsi ahe le convinced NJ 0ss nNo
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31

Ner Oflesna Ia jan ~ Ie
nieh' snl ruesda5 partly ,iatmy &.
sioudy
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31

Roosevelt Moore. negro without
visible means of support was ~ kea
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-31

up hy the sherffs force iotaY and
now languishes IN dufanco eife IN
tae county bastile Roosevelt SAYS
a. was named after the Former presis
dent u sure never dla think any
white man would iau me III iail a. \
common yag. said Roose shore arH
bad for this nisscr Thirty daya ana
so was the sentence meted Ont hs
Justice Hargus
About two wears Fatty" Gaines
veil known Local negro politician
and nobob among bis class. was trie
b fore John ~ Chappeile, then the
oosnty judge OF Logan county FATTY
VAS declared guilty by jury of his
peers and assessed by the cori
fine Of $500 and six months ia iail
lis attorney aN~alcd the case aud
2. has been in the appellate court
since Saturday Governor Rob@ tsoa.
after an Interview with Former Judse
ChaWele reuitied 500 of the fine
aDd Gut the sentence ~ 30 days ln
ife Logan county Jail Patty" be-
gan serving his sentence today
--"ft would be hard on me x !
had a dozen prisoners with the
yoracious appetite that the good lord
bestowed on that black boy Fatty
Gaines. said Sheriff Robertson TODAY
Why he eats as much as seven men
and is hungry all the time. II Is
hard enough 70 get by fe.sding prison.
ers as Il is at ise price ! am allowed
to charge. but with a dozen mouths
like Fatty ! would De a bank.
rnH sheriff. sure be added Patty"
5 In for thirty days
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tcontinued on Pags -
, 1921-10-24
PACKING HOUSE
WORKERSMEET
STRIKE
Executives of Allied Crafts in
Session at Chicago to Dis
cuss Vote of Union
Workers.

CHICAGO, Oct 24.-A conferences
OF executive officers and represents
lives OF the allied crafts OF tho pack
ing industry to discuss the threaten.
ed strike of the A~malgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen viii be
hold here this week c. ]. Hayes,
president. has announced. The union
voted for a strike s5.ss4 to $3.50. he
announced last night.
Representatives OF tho big five"
packing firms manifested little inter
est In the strike vote. pointing out
that the total OF 3s.s44 votes announc-
ed by Mr.. Hayes was only n small mi
GRITTY OF all he workers. The strike
ballot was not a specific protest
against a particular thing. but simply
an authorization OF the officers TO call
a strike at IN time they thought II
advisable to protect tho interests of
the men
, 1921-10-24

They are not fettered by any knowledge of history.
Their opinions have no historic background.
But IL we are to sit at the feet of infants, what
is the use Of tcaehing them ~anythingf It Is for them
70 teach rs, II we need their leadership. Let US in
vert our colleges, and instead Of sending our young to
be taught, wait till the adults are 80 or go and then
send them to colleges to be taught by the rising gener-
alton, which rises tecause It has no ballast, and in
which new thought and progressive schemes may al
ways be found.
"'Cut and dried opinions on practical matters are
almost sure TO be wrong In other words, experience
disables the community from establishing habits and
forming opinions. Whatever is is wrong. Wipe out
everything that the world thinks it has learned by try
ing an infinite number of experiments, and do some
failed to lead TO disaster. The old are not likely to do
this. The burnt child breads the fire. The child that
has not burned its fingers is the only one who can in
fuse US with advanced and untrammened thoughts
about heat,
But then there is a practical dificulty in the way;
how are we going to select the fresh and unbiased in
FAINT minds that are to teach us? II the schools are
to teach what most of the community believes, it is
comparatively easy to know what Is to be taught. But
if what most OF the community believes is almost GER
tainly wrong, how are we to pick out the teachers7
What are the qualifications for an instructorship7 Are
we to fill the prcfessorships with those who can shout
the loudest that whatever is is wrong, and who are
the most violent in supporting the things that have
failed and the most ingenious in inventng new fash
lens in thought and ~y.s>.ice7
Are we to learn TIE road to progress from Russia,
and accept Mr.. Voliva's belief in the fatness Of the
vorld?"
, 1921-10-24
EMPLOYING NATURES POWER.

"Homesteaders, waiting for the train in the Occur
d'Alene country in northern Idaho, while away the
time by reading on a placard on the station wall, the
following short but dramatic story" observes Les
lies:
"on the Mountain division of the Milwaukee rail-
road 81 electric locomotives have supplanted 1852
steam engines at an annual saving of 800, 900 tons of
coal and 10000, 600 gallons of fuel oil. With a max
imum grade of 1922 feet, a 3~,20O-ton train is hauled
with comparative ease over the Rocky, Bitter Root and
Cascade mountains"
This enormous amount Of power, only part of that
which is used for lighting and other purposes in the
same neighborhood, is made by merely taking ad-
vantage of the tumbling Of water down hill.
One of the romances of the next decade or two
will be the Harvesting to a greater or less extent Of
the Colorado river, which goes roaring and foaming
through what used to be practically inaccessible can
yons for hundreds of miles. Already the Califor-
mans are talking and working on this problem. Other
states which have riparian rights on the river which
the Californians have not, will wake up to fighting for
their own. 1t will be a long and complicated battle,
but the power now going to waste at the bottom of
that marvellous canyon, down which Major Powell and
his party ventured or their trip of discovery in the
7o's, must sooner or later be put to useful work.
, 1921-10-24
A DESTROYER OF INDUSTRY.

"The income tax. inside from being tremendously
complicated, is a destroyer of initiative and enterprise
and a breeder of discomfort with wage Garner or large
corporation" is the opinion expressed by the Invest
ment News "a wartime measure, 1t has no place
at least in its present form-in peace days. All ini-
tiative is depressed by n threat constantly hanging
over the head of industry. No matter how honestly
or how efficiently accountants, hired by a concern,
make reports there is always the possibility, and not
infrequently the probability. that some government
accountant viii find flaws largely because his own par
ticular system of accounting Is not always followed.
At any mornent such a man may step into the Office of
the corporation, demand TO see all books, and for some
indefinite time literally turn the place topsy turyy
while making examinations.
This interference with the business routine of a
corporation not merely disarranges n smooth running
themselves helpless and very much at the mercy of
an autocrat. who, although it may be temporarily.
holds tremendous authority and can cause much
trouble.
'The power to tax is the power to destroy. Too
much taxation bleeds n business white. What initia-
tive or encouragement is there left to the enterprising
business man when he feels o perpetual threat is hang
ing over him? Business prospers best when left un-
disturbed. The touch of bureaucracy is the touch of
death. 1t blasts as it goes. The average business man
wants to be let alone; to work out his own destiny.
Government perpetual interference is like the stran-
glehold that in time will choke business life. Thou
sands Of business men, crushed in spirit today and
hesitating to embark upon a broader field of COM
mercial expansion, would instantly spring into the
game again were this stranglehold of a tax system,
onerous and discriminatory, to be removed at once
, 1921-10-24

ia man Of business success and conser-
vatfvo views
/ submit this contribution simply
for the purpose OF calling attention
to the distinction between the com
mission and h commissfon-manaxer
plan. preventing II possible n wrong
conception OF our legislative act
which provides for the commission
manager plan. sorfhat there may no;
be an ~unfounded prejudice In the
minds OF U people against the adop-
ton OF b commission-manager plan,
when II IL submitted to our citizens.
Undoubtedly II our supreme couri
should hold the present law defective
and invalid the nex legislature win
provide a valid law and anopportunity
be afforded the citizens OF Casper &c
decide whether they wish to adopt
this modern and effective method IN
municipal affairs.
CHARLES Z. WINTER.
, 1921-10-24
Counter Offer
from China Is
Asked by Japs

TOXIC. Oct. 24-By The Associ.
ated Pressl.-The foreign office today
gave out for publication its recent
note to China n connection with Jap
MS proposals for direct negotiations
with that nation over Shantung. The
text OF china's reply dated October G,
was appended.
Commenting on this correspondence
a foreign office official reiterated the
view previously expressed in Japanese
government quarters that Japan could
not comprehend China's refusal OF al.
rect negotiations, in view of the fact
that Japan's former note was based
upon informal conversations with rep.
rescntatives OF China.
II China would submit a counter
proposal. the official declared. Japan
would gladly give Il consideration.
nee she was actuated by the SINGER
est desire to find an amicable soiu.
ton and remove the source of fric.
ton. In the event of China's con
tnued refusal to negotiate Japan's
course. he said. was underlined, but
would be determined according to cir.
, 1921-10-24
Block Signals
Drunk, Liquor
Still Located

ELLENsBURG, wash, Oct a.
Another and inanimate witness has
been added to the list Of intoxicated
pigs. staggering COWS, incbriafed
ROSTERS and other unconscious wit
nesses that have directed officers TO
Illicit liquor manufactures
The G item was = pair OF rail-
road block signals that stood per
sistenfiy NJ an improper ANGLE
Making inquiry into the signals
peculiar behavior. Special Agent
Brand Of the Chicago. Milwaukee,
and St. Paul railway went today to
n section house In the heart Of
the Cascades There he found the
signal lines had been tapped TO sup
ply electricity to light n giant stiil.
Sam Matthews. q negro. was arrest
ed and ESQ gallons Of liquid. said to
be OF great potency. was confi'
cnted.
, 1921-10-24
To Avoid Misunderstanding

Editor Tribune: Two OF your recent
issues contained editorials rather con-
denning and opposing the Commits
sion Form Of government for cifies
and recalling the fact that tho con
trmplated submission OF thu commits
sion plan TO tho voters OF Casper. was
baked by he decision OF n OF our
courts hat the Commission Act pass
cd by tho last legislature. making II
optional with cities OF Wyoming to
adopt the same. was unconstitutional.
OF course that Is n purely legal ques.
ton to be determined by our supreme
court n does not effect IN any way
b question OF the merits or demer.
Its OF the proposed plan OF municipal
government. 1t was further STATED
that there TX not seem 10 be much
interest In tho primary election for
h nomination Of commissioners at
Cheyenne. and that. while the con-
trary was true In Sheridan. that Is
some FL candidates had there an.
nounced for the three places 10 be
filled, yet the commission form OF
government was proving unsatisfac.
tory and the tendency was to aban-
don this method In cities where II
had been tested. as n radical or fanci-
full proposition.
It should be clearly understood and
stated that h Act passed by the last
legislature contemplated not a com
mission but a commission-mnnaRer
plan; there is n great difference. al.
most tho difference between failure
and success The Commission plan
has proven almost as dissatisfaction,
as the old method OF mayor and coun-
ell. for the simple reason that they
both lack thu centralizing feature
OF authority n responsibility in one
head and adequate compensation for
tho exclusive service of the expert
manager.
In the commission-NIanage p,an
makes the commission form not only
workable but the best government
yet devised for cities: instead Of diving
out the fact Is that within s or 10
years this form OF Municipal system
has been taken up by city after city
after watching its work and results
until at this time approximately 400
cities have adopted Il: and I believe
the record shows. that no city which
has adopted the commisaion.mannRer
plan has ever abandoned Il.
A late dispatch from Cheyenne
shows h a the city governments OF
Cheyenne. Laramie and Raslfns
since the act provided by u legisla.
'ture has been held up. pending a de.
cision Of h supreme court. are ser.
iously contemplating the hiring OF a
city manager. to give his sole expert
attention to all three cities under a
combined salary. The proposition
came from Hon. N. r. Corthell, Of
Laramie. n OF tho ablest attorneys.
, 1921-10-24
OPPORTUNITY.

The Lander Post hopes to become a Wyoming
metropolis BY a unique method 1t expects Lander
populations Of the other Wyoming cities that at pres
emit outnumber Lander. OF course it all depends
upon how thoroughly the other cities clean house. The
one certain way to make Lander the unquestioned
metropolis is for her to bid for the discard of the
other cities where the cleaning out process is in opera
ton. Casper is willing to contribute quite a tidy
number and it is assumed that Sheridan, Cheyenne
and Laramie would be equally liberal. This may not
be quite in line with tae Posts idea still it will make
things more definite and certain.
This is what the Post says about the matter:
without any strenuous efforts on the part of the
people of Lander there is a prospect that this will be
the most populous city in Wyoming, IL the programs
Being arranged in other cities are carried out. At
Cheyenne, Sheridan, Laramie, Casper and other of the
larger towns of the state, strenuous efforts are being
made to clean up these cities. At Casper the woman
of the streets and the houses of prostitution are be-
ing driven from the city. II the job is thorough and
they are all driven from the cities mentioned, that
should leave Lander wyoming's most populous city"
, 1921-10-24
THE uNr6uNDED FEARS OF JAPAN.

One thing the Washington convention on limitation
Of ornaments will do if it does not accomplish its
whole purpose of cutting down the enormous appro-
priations of the nations for naval and military estab-
lishments and that is to disabuse the minds of the
people of Japan of the fear they have of American de-
signs and ~supplant it with the good faith ard good in
tentions the American people have toward the people
of the island empire.
AS to the present situation in Japan the New Re-
public says:
THE fear in Japan of Americas superior resources
is already immense. Japan does not occupy a very
large space in our foreign horizon. America almost
fills the entire horizon of Japan. 1t looms as large to
Japan as Japan in turn to China. 1t is practically i'm
possible for an American outside of Japan to realize
how enormous the fear is of the United States, and
how fear breeds suspicion and incipient hatred. The
dread may seem to us most unreasonable and hys.
terical. Much of it is SO. But it exists, and it is con-
stantly cultivated and employed by the militarist party
in Japan to strengthen its hold on public affairs. In
connection with the racial discrimination issue it is the
chief political asset of the imperial general staff"
, 1921-10-24
E The WAR.

It is quite the American temperament to forget or
Mt least crowd into the background the unpleasant and
bitter experiences Of life. We prefer the sunshine
and the pleasanter things of life. 1t is our nature and
we would not change it if we could. We are not in
sensible to the serious things nor do the lessons OF
bitter experiences go UNDECIDED. We simply decline
to go about all clogged up with ugly and distressing
rememhrances, when there are sunshine, flowers, mu-
sic and laughter to be had. It is bad enough to de-
scend to brutality when we are compelled to do so be-
cause there is no other way out of it. And even then
the world has admitted that we are the most excel.
lent fighters it has ever seen. Equally cheerful in a
fight as we are at play.
An English cousin, Philip Mansfield, calls us sharp
ly to account, after a tour of our country when he
tells US:
at seems a strange thing, but we really have for
cotton the most terrible war of all times, and the war
has been over scarcely less than TO years. Perhaps
way: We just do not remember. That is all. We do
not remember the war. We don't want to remember
it, seemingly. We want to forget it.
this time, of all times, l think it is a tragedy
that the people of England, or of America, or of
France, or of Belgium. or of any country should for
get. Of course, there is less reason for France to for
get, or for Belgium, either. England, too, los its re-
minders in the way of wounded soldiers, and SO has
America. Yet on my travels throughout this country
I was amazed to note the great indifference to any
reference that might be made of the war. Attending
n moving picture show in one of your western cities
1 was more surprised to note a total lack of enthusiasm
when pictures were thrown on the screen showing
places in France where American boys fought and &C
tually fell in death. There was just a ripple Of ap-
plause.
at is human nature to look toward the sunshine and
away from the clouds. War certainly brings clouds.
Therefore we are perhaps 70 be forgiven if we look
away for the time being, but the sad part of 1t all is
we might be looking at the sunshine while another
cloud is gathering in back Of US. We should look and
be prepared for the next war"
Our cousin does not quite grasp the American
psychology, that is all. His criticism is delicate and
kindly but we are disinclined to brood over things that
cannot be helped and things that have passed. We
take no delight in misery and get no thrill out of mis-
fortune and sorrow. Moreover, pulling the hero
stuff" is no more to our liking. All of this is done,
n g a-nI NJ lanror y n q the 1ov w rms
to get away from it. There are other and better
things to do.
, 1921-10-24
Whatever IS. is WRONG.

"We learn from an eminent educator" observes the
Philadelphia Record, that free thought may be
strangled in its cradle if the schools go on teaching
that whatever is is right. Cut and dried opinions on
practical matters are almost sure to be wrong We
are warned that we need new progressive leadership
of the most liberal kind to save the world from revo-
luton. 1t can come only from the younger genera
ton now in school and college,
ave had imagined that free thought was long since
out of the cradle. and that it was making quite as
much noise and knocking over quite as much of the
furniture as was necessary to avert stagnation. Per-
haps it is in its cradle and in danger of strangulation,
but it is hard to believe this. What difference there
is between progressive leadership of the most liberal
kind and revolution we do not know; they are SO near
Iy identical that we might as well be damned by revo-
luton as saved by progressive leadership of the most
liberal kind
But there is no doubt that II we need progressive
leadership of the most liberal kind we can only get it
from the younger generation now in school and coll
lege' They are not ~hampered by any experience.