The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-02-03
MR.. scHwAs's INTERESTING SITUATION

More than s10O,0O0000 stolen from the Shipping
Board according Colonel Abadie, former controller
general of the board
large part of the money he says went to the Beth
lehem Steel Company while Charles NJ Schwab the MAS
ter of Bethlehem, serving his country chairman
of the Shipping Board.
The Colonel volunteers the opinion that Mr. Schwab
knew nothing of the transaction and will gladly refund
the cash the government completes its
However the Colonel is quite positive that the thefts
could not have been consummated if Mr. Schwab had not
with patriotic fervor agreed to take charge of the
Shipping Board while still retaining his interest in
Bethlehem
Only master mind could solve the complex and i'm
portant problems of both positions and Mr. Schwab had
that kind of mind Unfortunately it keen enough
to follow the operations of certain light fingered gentle
men employed by Mr.. Schwab in his Bethlehem plant.
While their upright boss helping his country
these creatures without his knowledge
from the funds he administering and placed the
money to the credit of their employers corporation
Of course. they said anything to Mr. Schwab
about it. Crooked employees do They just swpe"
million two, it to their unsuspectng and
mpeccabe superior and then about their business
They loot the treasury and take chance going to the
penitentary for the love of the thing.
1t will Uncle Sam million dollars to audit the
accounts left by Mr. Schwab and other patriots who
served the Shipping Board Colonel Abade believes
that addition the 1O0OOOOOO which Mr.. Schwabs
eutenants helped to get away with little more than
s3O0O0O.000 misaid, lost stolen He doesn't
seem to know just what happened to it.
Wouldn't it be dreadful if the million-dollar audit
been hauled to Bethlehem and put in Mr. schwabs
strong box while he delivering his favorite lecture
entitled: work hard and and you'll die richLa-
Dor. Washington D. c.
Elsewhere print n article contributed by a sa-
trst replying to the Monrose Press very courteous
kindly comments Gunnison weather. Gunnison wealth
has changed much the Press editor then
ming the Gunnison Tribune performed yeoman service in
securing the location here of the school which
he thinks is unfortunately situated. We all grow
ing just rihe peeved the untruthful ISLANDERS
tinualy handed this place by Montrose papers year
back secured short period of respite by suggesting
that consolidation of land offices Grand Junction of
the Genwood Springs and Montrose offices would be an
economical procedure and it that a proper
move make at this time is to the suggestion,
which with change of administration just occurring
would probably favoraby When the press
of makes it their chief business knock another
town. they may look for reprsa if the aggeved
paty has any citizens with CUTS. Mr. c. E Adams pro-
prieor of the Press is doubtless innocent of the nur
gbes continually hurled Gunnison by his paper
He evidently employees pnhead to that sheet for
him. but he going be he'd responsible for said pin
heads utterances unless he softpedas him mighty quick
4 The chief for extravaganza and wful waste,
if actual dishonesty, in public the
nonchalance with which watch them scoop public
money for the gain of themselves and their friends
merchant would call the clerk rag
he followed system of Why the great
empoyn public speak in a plain way wasteful and
extravagant officials? They merely hired men,
ing for They have had great gabfes in Delta the
last week. trying to lind out why their taxes much
higher and the whoe business is still in the air They
know they hurt but know why. Had they
beens paying attention to what their officials doing
for the past few they would be better posted
they in dollar chasing to watch
their boarded pile.
i Perhaps striking example of the wave
affecting has occurred than the murder of her mother
by the ranch girl in Northwest Colorado Peeved
her mother objected to her keeping company with a
neighborhood boy. she deliberately shot her
buried her pile. Then for several weeks she
lived with her brothers and sisters daily passing the
grave of her victim There certainly something
joint with conditions when such things possible.