The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 6

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BY GEORGE RAD RANDOLPH CHESTER AND LILLIAN CHESTER | (Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) | Paris, Feb. 27.—There was a sudden noise overhead which startled | us as much as a bomb could have stupidly, and then with comprehension and delight. what we had been missing all this our vague unrest; now we knew w the lack of it! ing away at little si Chopin to. ragtime. Work? had made a great. discovery as the war itself, which was the infinite. Of course, ‘we all know that the war is no joke! A man who could find real -humor in this international insanity could probably have the time of his life,in a morgue; but there is a well- known fable of the frog which tried) to swell him$elf up to be as big as the| ox he wished to fight; and remember- ing:his highly scattered fate, we ceas- ed for, the time being, to try to at- tain, in receptiveness at least, the di- medsions’ of the cloud which hangs over Europe and civilization, and started gut to find amusement; not dinfng out of a symphony concert or a lecture, but: real live amusement, such as regular restless Americans know. eigeDy * The movies! The sign “Orches- the-Cinema,” with its insidious promise, in the name, of quench- ing thé fever which burned in our. veins, settied the question. It was much more like home than anything. All dark in there, and an usher with an inadeqvate flashlight to guide your, stumbling footsteps, and a ‘five-piece orchestra sawing away at the: latest musical comedy hits from Erdadway, Piccadilly, and the Eoule- varils; the same ineffable essence. of air: ‘which has never felt sunlight, and the same big woman ‘with the fat knees, who. makes no more room for when you pass when she stands up ‘than when she’s sifting. 'e finally found our praces; seats dinky little pen for four, which called a loge.. agkness a stirring and.a stumbling! chow, madame had been inserted one of the two front seats, by # ichman who, in his politeness, This is the ninth of a number of articles by the celebrated novelist and originator of ‘‘Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” George Randolph Chester, world’s greatest reporter; who went to Europe to tell the story of FRANCE TODAY exclu- sively for the Daily Tribune and other members of the News- eon and tea, and dinner places; with everything. Somebody up there had opened a piano, and was wildly hammer ches of eve It became suddenly impossible, for we we had been as serious about the war j the same thing as trying to be as big as | freshly; and, at each fresh request, |he did it again, until he feit like a jumping jack, At this ‘chaos raged in thac loge, for the French gentleman and the French lady held an animated gonter ence, while monsieur and agitatedly discussed the inigasal point at issue. Some half m this—it seemed an_ ete NOT WHEN the sorely tried audience was “Sh!” “Sh!” “Sh!’t/-when me | happened to catch one int i word in all the id-fire spe: i that word was “ici Fr “Oh, ici!” she r ated eagerly. ‘e It a “Sherbo” Over There. | means “here. “Qui, ici,” vigorously repeated the} both stood up, Monsieur stood up. up. the He is accompanied by his Their articles are }audience hooted; | sent lights were turned on, and our| | pleasant companions, a very nice poilu |and his girl, explained in most catis- ! factory pantomine, that they wished | | to sit side by side so they might hold} hands, and that we, now sitting side| by side, might have the same privi-' lege. The wild thought flashed across monsieur’s mind that, since he and madame were the late-comers, they | time; now we knew the eause of would feel it their duty, and pleasure, | at was the matter with the 1 ne £2 take the rear scats, but any at-) ay Was Mle matter wily the ‘Unc | tempt at another shift would have | MUSIC! That is,! brought on a riot from the surround- ing sufferers, so it was allowed to 0 at that, with everybody contented. Ah, those movies! The first treat. to unreel before our | astonished eyes was a Comedie-Com- ique Americaine. Two of our best known and justly infamous acrobatic screen comedians indulged in a mad knock-about, which she was whispering, rapidly; and she| had no head nor tail as to plot or was whispering to us; but, while we | @ven incident, which left the intellect 3 Nea s stupified and the reason insulted. have a very fair article of war French,; ‘The four of us, when the lights we discovered that it was of positive- went up and we could see to talk, ex- ly no use ‘in the dark. The French|"eccet ovr unanimous condemnation | which is cpoken to us needs a face to of that picture; we protesting that) |. was noc representatively American, | make it understandable, s@ monsieur, | anq they protesting that they believed | with great shame, confessed that he it, although we could see, from a cer- knew only American. Oh, very well! | tain glisten_ in the poilu's eyes, that | monsieur spoke Americaine! Great re-| he thought he “had it on us.’ | liet in the-voice of the lady, and she} Ah, but ‘wait! The next picture was| said, politely: a a French one, where we knew immed-| Will you sit?” : fately the heroine’s appalling virtue! a‘ A blue funk seized upon monsieur's by the fact that she was totally unin-! intellect, as he explained with equal) toresting, and that \all the dramatics| politeness, that ,while it might not be! would go'to the wicked young woman | apparent in. the darkness, he was sit-| in’ the beautiful gowns, who, in het ting! F ‘ death-bed repentance, would be ever Pained silence for an instant, and a} so much more sympathetic than any-| slight trace of distress.in the voice body who had ever been good. of the lady, as she inquired, more or| For five“long reels that inane mer- less_plaintively: 3 ry-go-round’ of temptation and fall ‘Will you sit down? jand repentance dragged its weary Monsieur, who is anxious to have} way, with nine sobbing points to the his countrymen well reputed for po-| reel; but, before it was over, our litene3s and accommodation, sett hi eyes having ‘become used to the ears nurpling, his tongue thick-| gioom, we turned triumphantly, and ening, as’ he explained most patiently, in two languages, or at least a lang-| we “had it on him!” uage and a half, that he was not only! We are happy to be able to Fapore sitting, but also sitting down! to the anxiously waiting American He began to have doubts about his| public that physical structure, he began to feel! just as ghastly as they average at that his estimate of his own sitting! home, although,. like at home, they height must always have been at] are not bad. n fault, he began to feel as tall as a} But the music! It was a treat to house, from the chair up, particularly| such starved souls as ours. when the lady, now with much dis-|" It was good music, and they weren't tress and much plaintiveness, re-! stingy with it; they see-sawed right quested : {along and shifted the well known ‘Kindness, sir! Will you please sit| classical and popular bits instantan-' down?” eously to fit the varying phases of the ' done. We locked at each othe Now: we knew ‘thing, higgledy-piggledy, from upheld the traditions of his and ;monsieur, finding himse! feet of uniocat At this uncomfortable point in the! picture, even playing “The Death of proceedings, monsieur, feeling like a| Asa” for the final scene of the re- brute, leaned forward to madame, and’ pentant young woman, .when, thank a heavens, she died at last! “What on earth does she want? I oy ‘The movies have their place. If you am sittin; and I’m not sitting aver thought. it befor ould! bat or anytthing!”-. As a com- te Mie face saw, in our poilu’s shifting gaze, teat bist $ Fa t ming! There were! lots of them, come | fragments. of, lon ~ we hearts were lighter, and fom a little ‘im | welterweight or featherweight, tedy? ws | pily took the two rear seats, and the| ° then the heaven-| ten. @ movies in France are| decorated, They're getting their first; ff; you could look at the faces of: we watched them, we knew that such to enjoy the music and the movies; and the darkness and the hand-hold- in: £. We found ourse’ humming: too, orgotien airs, as swung along, ‘the ;boulevard; and footsteps werd! lighter and our ine Wwe forgot that there was a wat, did the: poilus on leave. fore music, we must have more o 1 heavy opera, which lagt is better known ins musical ‘comn- What” should. it” We; Guess, and you'll guess rightly if French lady and gentleman and they| you can put. yourself in the position jof those who have sometimes liked Madame stood! music with Whereupon, the French lady and! ¥rench gentleman, who ru gentleman, politely but firmly, insert-| ticket agency, }ed monsicur into the front seat by, which had a Broadway. chorus; and side of madame, while they hap-j we shall like, him always their meals. A kind a theater told us avout a revue The show was allvigh:. But lis- At the close of the first act, they introduced a regular, genuine im- ported jazz band, known here as a a “sherbo!” We sometimes uséd to sniff a lit- tle at that music, back home; we used sometimes to thing it was low, and common, and all that; but goodness gracious! it was like a sight of the Statue of Liberty, and the tall build- ings along the Battery, and the Broad- way trenches, and all the other dear, delight of home! That jazz bana | played agdin from a balcony out in the big promenade foyer, all through! the big intermission, played lickety- split, thmupety-thump, whang, pang, slam, with the triangles and the bells and the big bass drum, and some saxophones, for the well-known moan, j and everything. Of course there can be no dancing in a country where there is so much sorrow, but never, have we seen any thing so lift up and exhilarate a con-| course of totally, mixed people as did that wonderful, that marvelous, that miraculous jazz band! There were people of all national- ities and all classes,/but whether they | were English, Americans or French, or just. assorted, the effect was th: same, Eye sparkled into. evo). and gleoful smile answered gleefiil smile, should- ers swayed, and feet“iresistidly lifted in time to the music, despite the,/sl»w shuffle compelled by, the packel crowd. \ But. the’ most joyous faces we caw were those of a- group: of. queer look- ing poilus, with the lower corners of their overcoats, pinned “ack, and big wrinkled boots, and. 92ards_ growing almost any place. They stood slouchily and had a gen- eral air of elderly. negligenc2, which was striking, to say the least, for sol- diers ;but the most striking thing was the joyous gleam in their e: We asked an American officer about them, a'doctor who'has seen a lot of service. He laughed. “Oh they don’t care much avout) the finer points of drill and dress pa-j rade. They can’t do anything but) just fight. ‘Their entire regiment was lay-off in two years. Verdun!” We-took another look; a good, long, hard, earnest look— ‘Those fellows had} been strong enough to go throug! two years of .concentrated Had they we been strong enough to live throuWF conditions ‘Which four years |,4g80 would haye been declared impos- sible ;they to expose. thmselvs to fatality so of- ten that the imminence of death must have seemed ‘the: normal condition; they were simple-hearted enough, af- ter all that, to reappthe keenest of en- joyment out of a band, and, as They're from e arose, in order to sit Hse Poilus as ye filed aoa: hum: men, men with thats elasticity ofspir- hed been reckless enough i tt, which is the secret of the ever- renewed spirit of France, can BOED ANOTHER VERDUN! BIG. CROPS. IF ALMIGHTY HAS COOPERATION Judge Beede Says Supreme Har- vester Won’t Help Shirker ‘| and the Slacker \ Judge A; Mc G. Beede, who is also, fuel administrator for Sioux county, here to attend the fuel section of the} North Dakota defense council war con- | ference, renews his prediction of an open winter and of bumper crops for 1918, “if they are put in right.” Judge Beede, who is also a reverend, for| many years missionary to the Indians, | says he’s convinced the Almighty has | no love for a slacker. “The man who puts’ in his crop any old way and de-| | pends on the Almighty to bring it) through will be disappointed this year ust as he has been in other years,,” said the judge today. “That’s true of) our Indians on the reservation, and it’s just as true of the white man on the reservation or off of it. We are making lots of new Indian citizens on the reservation, and there is a great amount of preparation for a big crop year, both on the part of} the Indians. and their paleface neigh ‘bors. Conditions on.the reservation are generally: much better than they were four years ago. The experiment of giving the Indians more liberty is proving a success. There is still room for improvement. Our cattle winter- ed well, except in the case of shi! less ones who failed to put up enough hay last winter. There hasn’t been snow enough to cover the range. The new government ruling, cutting out sufficient red tape to give purchasers of Indian lands immediate possession, will help a lot in getting in a big crop in Sioux county. There is a splendid opportunity now for a man with a lit tle money. to buy, land there and get a good ¢rop from it this year. I. re peat, we. are going to have a good crop. All the signs are right, and.1 have been watching signs closely for a great many years.” ¢ ry | Correspondence. _| —_—________—__+> GACKLE NEWS , Editor Steve W. Ruh of the Repub- lican in his editorial columns is stir- ring up the people of Gackle as to the necessity of building a new and up-to-date schoolhouse. The present building is overcrowded and a new building will soon have to replace the present structure, The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church met last Wednesday with Mrs. Schmidt. The ladies organized a read- ing circle and selected a book of. fic- tion entitled the “Wolverine”.as the first series pf readings, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Spink, teacher of SPECIAL—MEN’S MAD- RAS AND PERCALE SHIRTS SOFT. CUFFS, DETACHED COLLARS—$1.50 VALUES ROSEN’S CLOTHING SHOP McKENZIE HOTEL BLDG, ONLY ONE STORE the upper intermediate ;grades, gave a patriotic program February 22 at her room in the. public school _ building. | Rev, Baumann opened. the exercises { with prayer. P. E. Spink gave an ad- dress on “The Lives and Character of | Washington and Lincoln,” and Prof. Abel gave a talk on Red Cross work. The Young People’s. Literary club met at the school. house Saturday ev- ening and held their first debate. Both sides did excellent and showed by their work. that they had gone deeply into the subject. A new babv girl came to the home: of Mr. and Mrs. John Hummel last Thursday. Both mother and daughter : are reported as progressing nicely. Mrs. Haas from Forbes has been employed to fill the vacancy in: the school caused by the resignation of Miss Strieb. Miss Haas comes well; recommended and. we trust the school | will now be able to continue its work satisfactorily. Hi. H. Hohenstein, who has accented ; a position as cashier of the State bank | i of Gackle has arrived with his family | | and is located in the south part of | | town in the Hammerstein building. ant buildings in Gackle. Some persor should find a profitable investment in- building a few neat cottages. 2 ‘Miss Mayme Hammerstronr begart, her duties as teacher in the Johnste: school near town last ‘Monday. She! is completing a term of school begun by. Ward Stanley of Oakes who re- signed: x Tribune want ads bring resuits. ———_—_—_——— ‘'SPECIAL—MEN’S. -MAD-- RAS AND PERCALE ‘SHIRTS SOFT CUFFS, DETACHED ~ COLLARS—$1.50 VALUES $1.00. ROSEN’S CLOTHING SHOP McKENZIE. HOTEL BLDG. ONLY ONE STORE There seems to be a scarcity of ten- Wheat Flour saved here The week of March 4th, he may send for the parts he in the field. y N. D. Bismare rope. You can help by mixing 15%'to 259, Barley, Corn Flour or other ey Substitutes with : * and:still ehjoy nourishin Russel-Miller Milling Co. “Bismarck, THEIL nee nuteernsietiseesent NOTICE: — National Farm Implements Inspection and Repair Week + time when we should qirefully examine every farm imple- ment, we expect to use in 1918 crop production and make out _ a list of repairs needed for that machine, if any. Then place this list of repairs needed with your implement dealer, that each machine may be put in worlsing order before it i is needed “Phe earnest. co-operation of every loyal AMERICAN is requested. in. this: movement. ‘ FRENCH & WELCH HARDWARE CO. = means ‘lives: saved:in: Eu eat Flour So encianeneneinanicanieed pS er Dt ‘and cotatable bread: ° jRSUESARAUASLASUNDORPUOAULASROLSEAODOLIUOAUAAOESLOGEONOLONL guanineciaumnesinan eu _Zxnune 1918, has heen selected as the does not have in-stock, so: that estore ad a sare wc