The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 12

ees as sos THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, By ALLENE SUMNER | (NEA Service Writer) | Washington, Dec. 10.—Mrs. W. A Oldfield, our fifth congresswoman | in the present session of Congress | and fourth widow of a congressman | who will sit in our next Congress, not sure that che approves-the prac tice of assigning deceased congress- men’s seats to their widows. Congressman W. A. Oldfield of Arkansas, Democratic whip of the House; died in Washington late in| November. He was serving his eleventh term. His widow's name was immediately placed in nomina- | tion by the Arkansas state central | committee and submitted to the gov- | ernor of her state for consideration | at a special election. The special election required 30 days’ notice. But the word has gone out that there is no shadow of doubt that pretty Mrs, Oldfield will be the fifth con- gresswoman and take her seat the first of the year. “ But the fifth congresswoman is not sure that she wants the honor, nor that she believes in it, though | she does appreciate it. “It merely means that the appoint- ment is given through sympathy, and not because of ability or fitness for the job,”” she said to me. “One can’t but be touched by the loyalty and honor and tribute to the services of one’s husband, of course, but I do wonder if it’s just the thing. “Here am I, for instance, a wom- an who firmly believes and has al- days practiced the belief that wom- an’s career is in her home and hus- band, and that if she does that job well she has no time for outside things, nor is needed in the outside world. “Because of my domestic interests almost solely I am utterly unpre- pared for this job. I know my hus- band’s interests, of course, and will try to carry them out as well as I I know some appointments he ited made to West Point and An- napolis, and I will take care of those. But as a congresswoman with any general vital interests in affairs of the nation, I just won’t be capable and why should I have the job when there are so many women who are?” Mrs, Oldfield is very sure that she would never consider another term, and passes off the suggestion that now with her husband gone she may be glad to develop a new out-| side interest. “A home woman is always just | that,” she says. “The outside! world frightens me a little. I am | one of those women who live hap- pily only through personal human relationship. ! have an old moth- er who will be my one job and in- terest as soon as this unexpired term ends. "I seriously raise this question of whether widows should be appointed to their husbands’ congressional seats. I raise it on the grounds of whether we are competent and whether a woman can be expected at such a time to submerge personal grief enough to apply herself to im- personal issues and problems.” we ie Mrs, Oldfield is not the first per- son to raise this question. Femin- ists in general and many male poli- ticians have decried the custom of sending widows to Congress “on a rain check.” Those who do uphold the plan point with pride to Mrs. Florence Kahn, E Nourse Rogers and Mrs. William Langley, present congres- sional widows, who seem to be doing a job comparable with that of their male colleagues. [IN NEW YORK || ———— OF New York, Dec. 10.—Just before Christmas, Fifth avenue is like the figure in the Riley poem—that is, it’s as good as it can be. Just before Christmas, the Fifth avenue windows fairly shriek of lux- \ury and prosperity. They tell many stories—they tell of petted, spoiled and pampered women; they tell of extravagance, wealth and social com- petition; they tell of human frailty, vanity and ridiculous fadisms, If you care for window shopping, come along for a few blocks—Here in the window of a_ tobacconist’s shop are “petal-tipped” cigarets of every hue for “the delicate lips of beauty.” One is assured that the “taste of the flower petals clings to the tip.” apiece, or thereabouts, such cigar- ets can be purchased and, by the hundred, the price drops to $17.50. Next there is a neat little dia- mond-set pipe for a few hundred dollars. Imagine grandpa enjoying the fragrance of his diamond-studded corncob! see A few doors beyond a s shoppe reveals embroidered hos $50 a pair. Then there's the cock- tail shaker that has the music box attachment, striking up a tune when the cover is removed. There the neat little folding bar, which can also be turned into a bridge table by a simple twist of the wrist “The modern home cannot be —says the window card. Well— maybe not. There are bridge tables with automatic score keepers—that is, there are numbers inset in corners which can be adjusted and readjusted according to the score. There are— of all things—displays of airplane luggage. You just can’t travel in a plane without the airplane bag- gage! There are bejeweled safety razors, priced into the hundreds. Trick lighters appear in every shape and pri They're out now in varied shapes. In one a tiny human head springs off at the neck and sets off the flame—that is, when it works. There are little animal heads that spring off, and one has a neatly shaped leg that is snapped when a light is desired. And so it goes. Jewelry at stag- gering and bewildering figures— Vanity cases at $165,000 and a cig- aret case at $25,000, Where does the money come from? And who gets the $145,000 brace- lets? So many questions clutter the mind as you walk along Fifth ave- nue just before Christmas and smile, just a bit bitterly, at the human absurdities. 7? Just across town—20 minutes away as the taxi flies—the push- carts of Grand street are showing their Christmas wares. Like Fifth avenue and the figure in the Riley poems, the push carts of Grand street are also as good ** They ate piled high with are piled high with gewgaws and dolls and jacks-in-the-box and cheap toys and cheap ornaments. It’s rather difficult to spend more than 50 cents on any given article. ; And it’s rather hard for the average customer to spend that much. The crowds go bargain hunting from cart to cart, picking up trinkets at For a mere 20 cents |® 10 cents and 20 cents and a quarter. They’re the sort of articles—well, that this writer associated with Christmas when he was a kid—funny little games that you play with marbles and tops; tin soldiers and wooden soldiers; books made from nontearable paper; musical tops; parcheesi, lotto, authors, and all the rest. Just across town from Fifth ave- nue, the Christmas wares seem, somehow, like Christmas wares. There is a gaity about them—or is it a familiarity! Certain it is, I could never feel comfortable with a diamond-stud- ded pipe. GILBERT SWAN. 928, NEA Service, Inc.) [AT THE MOVIES | (Copyright, ——# ELTINGE THEATRE Charles (Buddy) Rogers with Mary Brian as the girl will be seen at the Eltinge today and Tuesday in “Someone to Love.” They are as- sisted by the able comedy team of William Austin who is a show in himself and Jack Oakie last seen at the Eltinge with Clara Bow in “The Fleet's In” and James Kirkwood long absent from the screen. Although he has never been in love, is not engaged and doesn’t in- tend to be fi e time, Charles (Buddy) Rog. in the art of wooin, love to some of Ameri tiful women, including, among oth- ers, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll and Mary Brian, In “Someone to Love,” his latest pic- ture, he finds himself being wooed by fifty of the most beautiful girls in Hollywood. not an amateur These affairs of the heart in which Rogers has participated have been all a part of his work as a motion picture star. His affair of the heart with Mary Pickford was in her production, “My Best Girl.” He made love to Clara Bow in the air epic, “Wings,” and again in “Get Your Man.” Not only did he woo Nancy Car- roll in Anne Nichols’ “Abie’s Irish Rose,” but he was married to her. CAPITOL THEATRE ‘The Duncan Sisters, Rosetta and Vivian, make their screen debut in film version of 1 comedy stage suc- cess, at the Capitol theatre tonight. “Topsy and Eva” has become widely known through its engagements in twenty-three key cities during four years of continuous stage presenta- tion. United Artists presents the first Duncan Sisters’ film, which Del Lord directed from the continuity of Scott Darling. The film is based on the play by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. A comedy filmed on a scale unus- ual for that type of picture, “Topsy and Eva” is a black and white study in laughter, possessing that colorful handful of characters which Harriet Beecher Stowe drew in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” but sending those characters through <dventures that have never been imprisoned in the covers o} book. 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