The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1928, Page 4

to haul linens about hotel floors came back not empty- handed. They were loaded with bottles, containers, but shadows of their former selves, yet significant. Perhaps some inkling of the real situation reached Al Smith. Perhaps he felt that in view of all these things the party would welcome a declaration for mod- ification following its after-Houston headache. There is nothing like seizing a present opportunity. The south is pretty dry as a rule. Yet many a touthern gentleman stirs a mint julep, while reading his Bible and esteems it not a sin. He may be person- ally wet, yet he is politically dry. And many a north- ern gentleman is his prototype. The wets are bent, of course, on saving us, north and south, from our hyprocrisies. But they never will. .2 The Bismarck Tribune e THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER be (Eetadlished 1873) Published ‘he Bismarck Tribune C mpsay, Bis- XN Daan anterea at the postettioe at Bis George Ds Sana, cvecreceeveesPPoai@ent anc Publisher Gubseription Rates Payable in Advance by mail, in state, per year ...,++° eekly by mall, :2 state, three years for 4 Weakly by mail, outside of North Deko &, 50 Member Audit Bureae of Circulation Member of The Assceiated Press THE CELEBRATION Bismarck demonstrated yesterday and Tuesday that it knows how to entertain. It gave its Fourth of July visitors a splendid and varied program. All of them enjoyed their visit here. There is always a great deal of work about such affeirs. Somebody’ has to finance them, somebody has to plan them, somebody has to see that they are carried out to the last detail. In the case of the celebration just closed all con- nected with it did a good job. They are to be con- gratulated. The men who worked for the success was realized, did it because they believe in this city, are proud of it, and in discharging a social obliga- tion to its neighbors have no disposition to be stingy. They worked without pay, which is a real test of eivie spirit. : Just about every business house in Bismarck had some part in the Fourth of July program. That is why it was so successful. And the soldiers at Fort Lincoln helped. They added a real touch to the splendid parade. Bismarck owes a vote of thanks to the boys and their officers, Yesterday was a big day for everybody. | Editorial Comment | YOUTH AND OLD CARS (The Pathfinder) , Flaming youth buys a decrepit motor car. No in- surance is taken out and the car is driven recklessly. Because the car isn’t worth anything its owner doesn’t particularly care what happens. He may even court collision in the hope of collecting from the other fel- low. But if he hits another car or runs down a pedes- trian nothing can be collected from him. He has nothing, and nothing from nothing leaves nothing. Such a driver is held to ke a menace to our highways. And his number is constantly growing under the pa- tronage of motor car dealers anxious to make what little they can on junk cars. In this class of driver the motor car trade thinks it has found a partial solution to its used car problem. But the real er to the problem, if we believe Massachusetts officials, is compulsory motor car_in- surance. The form of insurance with which the Bay bigs si se for republication of Of ‘to it oF wot otherwise cred : of 6 fa ease an riahts of re ~- appa of al) other mat- ter herein are also res Foreign Representatives : . LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY oH Naw TORE -- > Fith Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO Peta ower Bids. —— (Offieial City. State and County Newspaper) A TIME OLD CUSTOM There are various ways of celébrating the Decl ve tion of Independence, and this nation, in the 152 years of of its existence, has tried just about all of them. There ¢ is one of them, however, that has never been exercised t} to the extent desirable. It conaists simply in reading @ that time-worn document anew and devoting a few P. minutes to pondering what it really says. i, -1n the old days the reading of the Declaration of In- P dependence was a regular part of every Fourth of July St celebration. The town’s leading orator, warm but re- T splendent in frock coat and top hat, would mount the flag-draped rostrum, clear his throat magnificently, and fling forth the words that once told the world of the defiance of the American colonies. This event, sandwiched in between a selection by the band and a patriotic recitation by some harassed school boy, was always greeted with tumultuous ap- plause; but it is to be doubted if the listeners ever really gave very much thought to the sense of the words they were hearing. And that is a pity. There are few things this nation could do with better profit. The Declaration, at times, comes close to being & downright radical affair. What does it say? Simply this: that governments are instituted to protect the in- dividual citizen’s mborn rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that such governments can draw their power only from the consent of the gov- erned. Furthermore, it expressly adds that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these | other states contemplate adopting, is intended to send ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.” genet ea lealerck echt ve ee : ills ren mart Those are strong statements. The Declaration of 1- avers ust the Diivaes law has :checked other crim- dependence is not a milk and water affair. It was not inals. For reckless driving is considered to be the written and signed by men who lived in consiuu. ..«: | crime of the age. of a change in the existing order. It holds seant com- fort for the super-patriot of today who would deny the common rights of free speech and free assemblage to all who do not share his own social and economic views. There has been much loose talk about “sticking to the principles of the founders of the country.” Fine; Yet’s do it, by all means. But first let’s see just what those principles were. We may be « bit surprised, but that will be good for us. One of the best ways to go about it is to re-read the Declaration of Independence. It would be @ good thing if every adult citizen could take the time teday to do that, pondering on the implications of the document's } statements as he did so. a ate Ad met oOteo one cuny BUSINESS COURTESY (New York Times) In teaching good manners to those employes of any institution who are constantly in contact with the pub- eo mind. sons he devise a slog: }sumably in other lands, the rule is the same. semi wae at the instruction teaching politenes: for instruction i sychology.” what he preaches. He woul his pupils that they need to be taught to be mannerly, UNWISE COUNSEL George N. Peek, cheirman of the executive com- : mittee of the Corn Belt Corfferenee, militant for the . MeNary-Haugen bill, has issued a statement urging + farmers to vote the Democratic ticket in November. He bases his advice on the grounds that the Re- publican party turned its back on the farmers at « Kansas City. ‘ He declares it added insult to injury by nominat- ‘ §mg for president “the arch enemy of s square deal for American agriculture.” i Mr. Peek’s position is perfectly consistent with all * bis activities in the farm equality fight. It is a mat- ter on which, in all fairness, he is especially privil- eged to speak, for he has behind him a long record of constructive efforts on behalf of farm equality. Yet he is jumping at conclusions. Al Smith has just established the precedent that it is cal a psycholog: a rn is that “‘the cu: In the bi ing know that “the tation companies in Berlin. uest is always right.” to doors, bells and brakes. would improve on the casual methods of America. The unconsidered factors which are often of supreme im- portance are recognized in Berlin. Imagination as well as obedience led for. There are of course the ordi exhort: ‘Be courteous always and diplomatic,” w! ich fication “at times. member your passengers ma: through business worries. Maybe they night or their morning coffee wi id.” .| like seeing our subways after th & few hours of such instruction. more raucous shouts, no more pushing more “Watch the doors!” All would go smoothly and agreeably. All, that is, except the trains, which would probably not go at all. Herbert Hoover has already announced that he is giving study to the farm equality problem and in due time will have something to say. Condemnation of Mr. Hoover as the arch-enemy of agriculture, as Mr. Peek has called him, is hasty and AGRICULTURE IN THE PLATFORMS 3 Democratic party pled; And he will find that at least as well taken care | the McNai of the Republican patty, especial. | d¢nt Coolid D with Senators Frasier and Nye, ; the Democratic group, without representa- tion here and with prospect most remote of getting it. and there would have been no round-abo of the equalization fee, a description can include anything or nothing. ut description 80 vague that it NEWS FROM HOUSTON enough in dealing with Republican achievements to- i farm relief. Mention is made of help given co- of disquieting nuwspeper reports gptrative | associations, “of © farm ape eau pp np gd and 00. The has been revised in the farm- interest, it is Hed, and direct aid has ve 2 sections of the country. The Kansas peosiegtsss |B: Prtmass schtinned “Sot nrsaste yeti ptze inued and increasing support of co- ig operative marketing associations, plentiful te and tax relief. It is vaguest when it skirts the question that scores of | of cro; Sorplaes and stabilization. If we did not know suffering from| that Mr. r, like Mr. Coolidge, believes the Mc- Nary idea’ unsound we could read scheme in the Republican statement. is that to the platform makers of both par- of farm relief was too hot to handle have been guilty of evasion. of June will not continue through Octo- candidates must translate the platform cir- into spe wh, Seem aes Gs ecaH ions e ions of we believe such farmers as propor to controlling issue and who are looking for to make up thei: minds as to which greater hope of relief. support of the state has been experimenting for a year and which lic, the employer invariably keeps two principles in He must conceal from his people that the les- gives are instructions in courtesy, and he must in. A moment's reflection brings to mind many instances in this country. In Germany, and ee e 7,000 street car conductors in Berlin are attending classes in the crenings: Any one may see by glancing eets that they are designed for But the men are called together The lecturer practices not be so rude as to tell Salespeople in the department stores in this country te store school to learn how to handle customers. The first and mer can’t be A ig hotels, maids, waiters, bell boys and all other employes of more than three days’ stand- Transpor- lew York are not behind those of ir men may not attend regular classes, but they are told through placards printed in large type and words of one syllable how many accidents have bean avoided through their painstaking attention It was to be expected that German thoroughness be suave is followed by the subtle quali- i This suggests that harshness or even a well-directed blow would be forgiven at other times. The supreme plea of the street car psychologist eredits the conductors with great penetration. Re- have jarred nerves had a bad One would and shoving, no is not borne out by the facts. The leaders of Cee fe organizations be- The question is one upon which Mr. Peek no doubt hire athe Pane catic latform somnls a Smith of . Yet his statement at this ti poses | New York City and his party to t lcNary-Haugen se Sagi ¥ ie si a" oar ri pe Pro paid bill. The significant passage from the platform reads: | their prejudices, if any they have. That is not good] goive “alt eSblem of the ‘Sstribation at Soe NE ee eee ee a, a, series es a ee ee ee ees forms offer larmer it y such asist- Jpore than plaiitodincus sella. Mr. Peck “ & srast anoe. as tolation see tele peoblers waakd evel uy. farm leader, but he has made a mistake. The fight t will be | for a square deal for the farmer must go on, of sae re ill be ate co an pledge esha course. But counseling farmers .to vote their prej-|believe it is such a pledge. The language is the dieses will accomplish nothing. ienmuage. of concealment. TE the jpemorrns hed ‘poen : : eager for alization fee pla i ge farmer should vote his econemic interest, not | relief they would have said something like thie The i Prejudices. 8 itself to tl enactment of ‘Haugen bill which was vetoed by Presi- There would have been no talk of “earnest endeavor” The Republican platform is no better. It is specific exceeding short term credits of another e ‘ been ven when natural disasters such as flood and drought SY RED, WHITE, AND BLUE BLOOD The heart is a very industrious organ, working vigorously from sev- eral months before our births till our deaths. It has no reat except the very slight, almost imperceptible pause between the beats. In infants the heart beats about 120 per minute, and in adults the average is 72, but there is a large margin of variation. Doctors can often tell whether ‘a mother is going to have a boy or girl baby before it is born by coynt- ing the fetal heart beats. This is because a girl baby’s heart usually beats faster than a boy’ The heart has its impulses to con- tract and relax within itself, and if all nerves leading to it are severed, it will continue to beat for a short time. (Fishermen sometimes ob- serve a shark’s heart beating for two hours or longer after it has been cut out of the body.) There are two sets of nerves lead- ing to the heart; one to mi it beat faster and the other to make it beat slower. One acts like a brake and the other as a whip. doc- tor can press on these nerves and control (within certain limits) the speed of the heart. The contractic s of the heart are called systole, and the dilations are termed dia:tole. Before birth there is an opening between the right and left sides of the heart so that the blood will ot be forced into the lungs but will pass directly back into the circulat’sn. With the first gasp of air, this opening closes and the contraction then star. the blood flowing through the lungs so that the oxygen is absorbed. Occasion- ally this onening fails to close and we have what is called a “blue baby,” it having blue color because the blood is not forced through to the lungs to absorb the oxygen. As you know, the venous blood is blue and the arterial bloo red. This is because the venous is laden with carbon dioxide gas which is thrown CHAPTER 1 of the great adventure, one guessed it. not by she was. friends. they razs me!” she thought. Lou Ward. Tomorrow she. wou! become Mrs, Rod Bryer, Questions, the fears and again—a clear-eyed, Sap who believed in fairy tales. it, you know.” dom, eee since she bad gone to bed. sun-tanned legs over the crossed the bare floor and gro) tle Lou, is that you?” ft meant to have a little girl ting married on the morrow. & glass of ice water?” tle im the refrigerator. water run a while.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE site Se Saat Mey. ¥<> RUTH DEWEY GROVES OnSite Bets LOU stood on the brink She was thrilled to the core of her youth-firm, little body. And no Her own mother had not been Permitted to see behind the mask of sophistication she wore to con- ceal her shy, dreaming soul. And en Rod had known how hap- For Bertie Lou would not talk about it. She was afraid of being sappy. So she posed behind an ar- mor of hoots and jibes for the weakness of sentiment. It was the code of her day among her But tonight she could not jeer at her happiness. It made her feel like @ traitor to the other girls— this being so old-fashionedly pal- pitating and concerned. “Wouldn't She knew she ought to be asleep. Marriage was @ million years old nothing to get excited about. And she was excited. No use trying to be blase for her own benefit. Not on this, her last night as Bertie She let herself dwell upon the) event with much the same thoughts that might have filled the mind of any maiden of yore on the eve of her wedding day. The influence of her friends melted away before the wonder in her heart—the thousand eagerness. ‘That was only for tonight. The mext day she would be modern ; know-what- {t’s-all-about miss, No one would have to know that she had been misty-eyed and hesitantly prayer ful the night before—just like any She thought of the advice 17-year-old Solon bad given ra “Don't let it get you, Bertle Lou. {f you don't like it you can chuck “But it does get you—no matter how wise you are,” Bertie Lou whispered into the warm darkness of her room. And that was the nearest she ever had come to wis- S#2 lay @ little longer, lost in the enchantment of standing on the threshold of a new life, before the heat of the summer night Pressed unbearably in upon her. The Uttle breeze that bad sprung up at sundown had died down again. Her room had grown sultry Bertie Lou threw back the sheet that covered her and slipped ber the bed. She felt around with ie toes for her oo Se and thrust They clattered a little as she Pe wedding it,” thought, picking it up. “Sharp as ber way down the hall to the ‘esi. devil i Her mother called to her: “Be Bertie Lou halted in surprise. Her mother was a sound’ sleeper. But Bertie Lou did not know what get Perhaps ber mother was suffer. ing trom the heat. “I'm going down for a drink,” she answered. “Want “Don’t drink ice water, boney. There's some lemvuu juice in & bot Lat the Exercise and massage will speed up the flow of the lymphatics. The colors of our flag were select- ed before very much was known about anatomy of the blood stream, and it is interesting that the colors ilar to those i our body. We have red blood in * - arteries, | blue-like blood in our veins, andj. white fluid in our lymphatic vessels, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Mrs. O. H. asks: “What cE Coy name which has been given to the avocado, but this 1..me should not be used, as it does not describe the avocado. It is not a sweet fruit as the name “pear™ suggests, but a salad fruit of a nut-like, ieeoat a flesh, rich in vegetable oil, witl also some proteins and carbohy- drates. This fruit may be used at almost any meal, and combines well with any other article of food. Question: Mrs. C. writes: “I|she is human, and extraordinari! have palpitation of the heart, but |kind. And the women who cut, and all the doctor does is to give me /fit, and really carry on the work of some medicine to use whenever the |the place adore her. trouble becomes bad. know I am| She is very particular about the worse whenever I have Fe on my {girls she allows to be her man- stomach. Please mark off the gassy |nequins, and all of them are really foods I should not eat. I am en-jfine girls, who live at home and closing a list.” who model for fun—except Helen, {veins traveling between the lungs People up at Madame Elsie’s shop. Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, { care of the Tribune. Eneloge a stamped addressed envelope for reply. herself is a character. and a French name and a French patrons bluffed is marvelous. and the heart are an exception to this color scheme. Ther: the veins have red blood, and the arteries blue. In addition to this red and blue blood circulation, we have a white fluid stream traveling toward the heart and emptying into vei1s deep in the right and left sioulders. This is the lymphatic circulation, which is the protective filter m of the} Answer: As you ‘id not give me|who happens to be the loveliest body against many disease germs |your name a.d address I could not | model of all—and is the most sought and toxins. All alon# the lymph|send you a dicect answer, so will/after one in town. vessels are lympiatic glands or nodes, which are the filters. In|listed which are often found to be cases of blood poisoning and various 'gas producers with those who ‘lave diseases, these glands iiay become |this tendency: Brow. or white enormously engorged and swollen | bread, potatoes, apple pie, cake, por- with toxins so that they are easily |ridge, lettuce, beets, bananas, peas, felt from the outside lost of these |corn, and chocolates. Glands are grouped in the neck,| Question: J. H. J. writes: “Just under the arms, and ir. the groins. clearing my throat without any ef- You will undoubtedly b. able to feel |fort brings up little sacs of clear some of these on yourself. These |mucus. Do you think this neces- ‘ lymph capillaries collect the liquid jsarily a forerunner of tuberculosis?” |me flat, I'll just officiate at a meet- that has soaked through the blood} Answer: The little sacs you men- jing between him and her—and so capillaries around the cells, and/tion are simply the exudation of |long as I want him myself, I'll see carry the fluid back “o ihe heart.|catarrhal phlegm and cannot be con-|that he never meets her. You can see that this lymph only|sidered the forerunner of tubercu-| Madame Elsie is very much wor- flows one way—towar. the heart. |losis. Of course, an extreme catar- ried for fear she may lose her looks, iIt does not return in lymph vessels,!rhal condition may develop into | because of her late hours. And yet but may soak back avain from the |tuberculosis, but your problem now |she isthebestadvertisement the shop blood. When these lymph ves..1s jis to get rid of your catarrh, which |has ever had, for every time she do not drain the tissués properly, the |vou can do by living on a mucusless appears at a night club in a new fluid collects and may form a drop- | diet. frock, a line forms on the right the sical condition. next morning for duplicate orders. The lymphatic vessels from the To look at Helen, you would think small intestine ha\2 a special func-;oned from the January of the y hat she had generations of aristoc- tion. The sugars and proteins of |in which it was born; thus a horse|racy behind her—yet she told me d' estion enter the bluod capillaries burn in December, and actually but | quite frankly that her mother was a of the intestinal villi, but the fatty}a month old the following January,|washwoman, and that she herself element. enter the lymph cayllaries. | would officially be a year old. had never known what a square meal merely name those foods you have| Helen is the most amazing char- acter you have ever seen. She looks like an angel—her hair parted in the middle and coiled on her neck, blue eyes, wide apart, and a mouth that is everything a mouth should be, and a figure like nothing I ever even aspired to. Helen is simply pursued by the richest men in town—married or single. If I ever want Alan to leave In racing a horse’s a oo UT LIM MUU NS WW Nw ns Vb EUK LWU frequent wistful references. to @ great mistake. ° ERTIB LOU slammed the door of the dining room with a bang. Lila bad spoiled her night. When she offered the lemonade to her mother Mrs, Ward said: “Your hand ts hot, honey; don’t you feel well?” : “It's awfully close, Mums; do you think it will rain tomorrow?” Bertie Lou evaded. “Maybe it will rain before morn- ing and cool things off. Can't you sleep?” “I’m too excited"—that was a slip—“I mean there are so many darned things to think about when you have a wedding. I wish Rod and I had eloped. What a lot of trouble it will save when people who want to get married just walk upto a mountain top and shout their union to the four winds.” She had raised her voice, Her father, sleeping beside her mother, stirred restlessly. Bertie Lou be came quiet. “Want me to come and talk to you?” her mother whispered anx- fously. It had disappointed her vaguely that Bertie Lou had not come to her with confidences and questions. “You need your sleep, Mums. Tl read,” Gertie Lou replied and slipped out of the room. Back in her own flower-papered bower, stripped of rugs and hangings for coolness, she threw her pillows down by the window and knelt up on them, arms‘crossed on the win- dow sijll, curly head upon them. It was more restful than her bed. And the orchestration of myriad summer insects soothed her. She didn’t believe she would sleep that night. Rod, who kissed her as if he'd been hungry all his life for her lips. “The whole water supply is hot; The rich blood in her cheeks be- enough to boil an egg,” Bertie Lou | tokened consciousness of Lila’s im- replied, and went down the stairs | portance and the darkened eyes ex- on the banister. She didn’t do this | pressed her will to stand firmly on for sport—it was too old a habit | her own ground. + for that—but to save time, es as Rod's girl ig She made a glass of lemonade | belonged to his past. Moderns for her mother after she'd had her | d!dn’t trouble about a person's past. own and started back upstairs with | That is, they didn’t acknowledge ft. On the way she passed the hall|that they did. But Bertie Lou door leading to the dining room| new Lila—had known her for and 8 sudden wish to take a peek | Years. Lila was @ menace. She'd at the wedding presents seized her. | !ways played the game by ber own She put the lemonade on a stand| ‘ules. She never gave another girl and opened the door. The light |® Sporting chance. from the hall shone in upon the cia at gift-covered dining table and Ber- BERte LOU wasn’t going to be tie Lou stood looking at the array Jealous of Rod’s past. But his with frank pleasure in the gener-| future belonged to her, at least in- osity of her friends, sofar as Lila was concerned. Lila Since the family supper on the|had bad her chance. She'd turned screened back porch she had been| Rod down because he wasn’t mak- too busy to view the gifts and she|ing enough money. And she did not know that one had arrived | couldn’t see any chance for a book- which she had not yet seen. keeper in Wayville to leap into.a ‘uk pear es in @ leather ob- | fortune. ng Ww Satin Mining, Mra.| Of course it was all right for Ward had put it down on the edge| Lila to send a present. Bertie Lou of the table, with the case open. | conceded that. But why a dagger? ‘The light struck softly on @ dull From anyone else it would have meant nothing. But coming from Lila it might mean anything, That was the rub. Bertie Lou didn’t know. Lila hadn't gone eee At six her mother woke her, scolding. “You'll be as stiff asa ramrod. Go and take a hot bath, real hot. Yes, I know it’s @ hot day, but you do as I say. i off with a shower if you like but - don’t stand there rubbing your eyes out.” Mother feelings hiding behind bustling authority. Bertie Lou had @ better tdea: She went down and put on a phono graph record and limbered up with the Black Bottom and a stomp. didn’t like, them. She mig’ well luxzuriate, Couldn't pack s nearly empty bottle. She was well seeped in rose per fume by the time she was ready for the cold shower. Then came breakfast. It slightly cooler on the shaded porch and Bertie Lou's mother bad pro bronze blade and caught Bertie Lon’s eves. “Eureka! Another one!” she ejaculated and went in to examine it and the card of the sender. aan e things without rebuke. Bertie tar art ta Ray steadily with any boy since Rod.|tery to her family. pt But she wasn’t lonely by any |covered had been her mother’s means, She was popular, What |Cblef concern and activity for sev- if she wanted Rod? eral years. Bertie Lou bad openly subscribed | Her dad grunted at her, Mngered to that overworked declaration |® bit over bis second cup of coffee, about keeping no strings on any-|80¢ then took bimeelf off to bis one, “If he wants to go, he may. |cafpenter shop to work. until ine If any other girl can take him, |to come back and dress for the wed-, she’s welcome.” ding. He wanted to say something ‘That was before she fell in love|to Bertie Lou. He didn’t know with Rod. Now she knew that a| What it was but s man didn't bave possessive, fighting strain ran side by side with her pride. ‘Bhe would keep Rod if she could. could stop loving tim. She didat could stop loving him. She dido’ believe Lila bad. Lila had instilled | fused him. é the {dee by @ pose of sadness. an” (Continued on classified page) the devil!” Then she looked at the card. ‘ “Miss Lila Marsh.” Bertie Lou dropped the paper cutter quickly into the case. Her face, already flushed with heat and excitement, grew a trifle warmer fn color and her eyes darkened. Always the name of Lila Marsh at- fected her in some way. If others were present she managed some how to keep s poker face but if, as Row, she was unobserved, sho showed ber true feelings toward cat who had refused to marry out through the lungs and the oxy-|is an alligator pear?” Dear Mom: gen absorbed makes it rei. As you * “Allipat omy ar ais i. ah by. this, the Clabes and Answer: ligator pear” is a italy ie uel writing to you elf, that I have never told you about the interesting In the first place, Madame Elsie With no particular background, she has as- sumed the manners of a duchess, accent, and the way she has her But to the people here in the make Ma THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928 until began to work in the railroad restaurant back in her home town. A few years ago, Madame Elsie was touring through the town, and saw Helen, and according to Helen sheyis the product of Madame Elsie’s own hands. She brought her to the city, allowed her to’ work in the shop part of the day, and to piece out her education that had stopped in the fifth grade in the evening. She corrected her language, taught her to observe how smart women talk- ed, and dressed, and today Helen is actually the toast of the town. Her heaviest suitor is the son of the richest man in town, and he is dying to marry her—and she is in love with a penniless young boy who writes music—and will prob- ably never have a dime. Isn’t life contradictory ? MARYE. NEXT: Mom has an idea. tN NEW YORK 1 a | New York, July 5.—Autograph collectors have become the mott prevalent nuisance in Manhattan. Their favorite haunt is the Broad- way theatre lobby, where they ap- pear between acts on first nights, their little autograph book hidden in a pocket or under a coat flap. Here they stalk their prey centering their attention on notables or near not- ables; personalities of stage, screen, literature or public life. They op- erate in packs, and even herds; though some lone wolf often seems to “scoop” the others. This simple, if brazen pastime ap- pears to have caught on during the past winter arid, with the fair nights, the autograph hounds are out in packs. Like newsreel camera men, nothing seems to ae them. If they are litely turn down by a “celeb” who is otherwise engat in conversation with his friends, they often grow insulting and toss some such comment as: “Well, ya don’t need to be so high hat about it.” One gets the impression that many of them have the notion that they are conferring a favor upon the good- natured signers. They are generally headed by an underslung young woman with a mass of curly hair, who goes hat- less winter or summer and who possesses a voice that can shout down a lobbyful of people. When she has “cracked the ice,” the others follow. More than frequently they have no idea of the identity of a person whose signature they are getting. One of the herd sees another pounce upon an innocent celebrity, and rushes up. The other night I saw “AE,” the celebrated British critic, in the proc- ess of being swamped. A kindly, rather shy giant of a man with an impressive dark beard, the visiting critic protested that he was nobody of importance. “Well, sign it anyway,” demanded the pack-leader. “Better birds than you have spat their John Henry’s in this book.’ eae Tin Pan Alley is reluctantly bow- ing to a young woman jazz com- poser—the first to hit their hard boiled highway for “the big money.” She is Mabel Wayne, who wrote last season’s hit, “In a Little Span- ish Town.” And now’s she’s cutting hanks to the success of For many a "bee! no feminine name found itself attached to the popular jazz themes. There was even a legend that women couldn’t do that sort of thing. They were “all right for love stuff and ballads and waltz songs,” but, you heard them say, “they can’t turn out a knockover.” And, to all intents and purposes, they couldn't. But in the background all the time was Miss Wayne, who n @ vaudeville pianist. She had to her credit, “Three O’Clock in the Morn- ing,” which was “one of those wal things you’d expect of a woman.’ More recently. she’s done, “There Must be a Silver Lining,” and “Baby : | Your Mother.” Such “numbers” make even Tin Pan Alley sit up. Only Walter Donaldson, who wrote “Blue Heaven,” is likely to be a compet- itor for big sales records. Mabel works with another young woman in the composition of her hits. She is Dolly Morse, who start- ed out to conquer Tin Pan Alley at the age of 14. She was Dolly Terris, then, just out of a Brooklyn public school, walked in on Theodore Morse, the music publisher, who was so dumbfounded at her naive assur- ance that he began to take an in- terest. A few years later he mar- ried the youngster. Chalk up another of those Broadway romances that ally ha i laces GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) —— | BARBS | o We called on a Republican friend of ours the other night. His radio hasn’t been working since the night lof Claude Bowers’ keynote speech in Houston. Pe Department of Agriculture figures show the national. spring Pig cro) about 7 per cent under that of 1927. That is encouraging. George Remus, former Cincinnati bootlegger, has gone to Chicago to sue for property left by the wife he killed. It is to be hoped Chicago will not permit any miscarriage of justice in Mr. Remus’ case. One of the Scotch delegates at Houston, when told by the hotel clerk that he could have a nice hotel room for $24 a day, asked what it would be without the cover charge, as he didn’t think he'd need any. of aris compliance with our ed annually during 10 weather some terete thing, we wish to report today that S. J. Risk is an insurance agent at Muskegon, Mich, These red golf balls are bound to be a failure. it anaes ever would be able to find his ball after missing a two-foot putt? A former box office ticket man bought a seat in the Stock Exchange for $315,000. We hope it’s just in front of a couple of talkers. ioe petites. ae fhe Saturday Bre: ni chides the newspapers for the wee what yt ‘wants, the 8,000,000 circulation Post proves it is something not want. A taxicab driver in New York has sued for damages because a patron shot him in the collar bone. Before you shoot a taxicab driver always ask him where he prefers to be shot.