The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 10

Saas Sas any fear a ae | WASHINGTON d, LETTER, By ALEENE SUMNER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Dec. 19.—Even Mrs. | Coolidge makes her little joke about the president's taciturnity. She told this one on “my husband,” as she «l- ways calls him, when she w of honor at the annual lunc the Washington Women's Press club. The first Lady never makes a pub- lic address and it is understood that she is never quoted directly any more than is the White House spokesman. But she mingles with the crowd and, the girls can tell a story awfully well. Nor is she at all reticent in telling them on the president of the United States. Young John Coolidge and some friends were talking in the privi White House sitting room. The +o versation veered toward the ser ou: about love and marria: and how a couple know when they're 1 all the deep dish matters of y One of the boys opined t sure test of companionship w two people could sit silently and enjoy it. ‘Then up spake son John, 10: ing, “Well, I gu my father’s com- panionable with a lot of people then." Coolidge stories seem running rife these days. There are many more of them available than Hoover ones —~ possibly because there's a “now-it- | can-be-told” atmosphere about an Administration singing its swi Son There is no little comment on cv dence that the president keeps close watch on more or less personal and social White House matters as on public ones. One senator's wife confides that Mrs. Coolidge told a group of rial ladies that any White House housekeeping problems was wasted, becausc “my husband manages everything. He orders the food, okays the menus, settles the gro- |cery bill and confers with the ser- iy when they need it.” oe ‘There is comment that the presi- dent is serving more lavish meals at his official entertaining this year than ever before—explained as a generous tjgesture before he retires. The dip- jomatic dinner just a week or so ago flaunted ont the most sumptuous m ever eaten in the White House, according to a guest who has ea there during six adminis | 8rew posit eloquent over the baby |lobster thermidor and the whole baby {turkeys served each guest | Guests invited for w eg the idential yacht, the May- flower, are entively a personal matter »|with the presidc his wife | though gene: to see to Jit that at least all the official mem- ‘ber own party get term, invited for thanks,” said y usual frank and jampulsive way. * 1 you came jand I'm glad you enj it. But I Ididn’t invite you, the president did! I ne who's going to be aboard till I'm on myself.” ‘Turkish Ambassador Ahmed Mouk- tar Bey is, without odds, the favorite ! nat of Washineton's official la- And he can't speak a word of ish! But he kno’ tain gal- lant little habits that are the same lin every tongue. He makes a prac- | tice of showering official ladies with | boxes of imported Turkish cigarets— ank and long, 20 to a white Fe “official” and | wrapped in gold paper with the star | and crescent. The official ladies with | such be in their living rooms are | known as “The Sultan's favorites. ee °-. New York, Dec. 19—Along the high- ‘ways and byways of Manhattan las- sies ring bells and laddies with Santa Claus whiskers chant a monctonous “Please help the poor!” And above them, the eye is halted by the red letters of a sign which reads: “Christmas dinners for 35,000 poor families.” Dinners for 35,000! . . . 35,000 people who would have no Christmas, but for the public alms . . . 35,000 is the Population of a good-sized little city. ... It may approximate the popula- tion of the city in which this bit of writing in printed. . . . And that makes one stop and think. . . . Sup- Pose an entire city of 35,000 didn't ; know where its Christmas food was | coming from! see In the holiday season, when lassies ring bells and jiggle coin boxes and when laddics put on Santa Claus whiskers and jiggle gaping iron pots, the newspapers of New York come out with definite information concerning the 35,000 and more who face a char- ity Christmas. You read, for instance, of Alice, aged six, who came with her mother into the office of the Association for Improving Conditions of the Poor. ‘The mother walks to the desk and be- gins her story: “My husband died a year ago and the doctors have told me I must go to the hospital for an! operation. It is not likely I shall live.” A few days ago the mother died. | The child of six is left—her first Christmas alone. The association found her in a grimy apartment house. in charge of persons who ill- treated her and half fed her. ee You read of Jimmy, aged 15. His father is dead. His mother is @ crippled. For five years he has been | | INNEW YORK | ———_——_—__—_——« supporting her, as best he could. He didn't bring home much, to be sure. Just the rewards of paper sell- ing and shoe shining. Recently it was found they couldn't pay the rent. A dispossess notice faced them. It really wasn’t much they were being thrown out of—a dark, unhealthy tenement hole. But it was at least a roof, Jimmy would like some course of training for a Christmas present —something that would give him a | chance to earn more money and go to school. Oh yes, New York will dig into its purses and help him, now that his case is called to the city's attention. New York is almost maudlin in its re- sponse . . . ye it’s careless of the things about 1. It doesn't take the time or trouble to find out how the {other half lives until someone takes the trouble to tell it. eee | There's the case of a woman of 60, | attending a snowy-haired mother of 80—and they lived on $100 for a pe- riod of nine months. Don't ask me how. Ironically enough, their habitat was the tenement belt just around the corner from Wall Street where tens of billions changed hands in the past few weeks—tens of billions changed hands while two old ladies lived for almost a year on $100. Of course, Wall Street doesn’t know who and | what lives just around the corner. oe 8 So the list goes—poverty-stricken children and poverty-stricken families and poverty-stricken old people . . . jliving from day to day and from | hand to mouth . . . somehow! And we who live in New York for- | get they are here .. . or get too busy | to remember, or something, until the | Christmas season comes and lassies g0 into the street with bells and lad- | dies go into the street with Santa | Claus whiskers and a big sign reads: | “Dinners for 35,000 poor families.” | GILBERT SWAN. ‘ (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) 1927 NORTH DAKOTA MATRIMONY IS LESS; DIVORCES INCREASE, State Follows Example of Na- tion, According to Recent Federal Report North Dakota followed the nation in its marriage and divorce stand in 1927, according to a report of mar- 1,000 of the population of .79 as com- pared to .75 in 1926. Eight Marriages Annulled Eight marriage annulments were granted in the state in 1927 as com- {pared to six the preceding year. i There were 1,200,694 marriages per- |formed in the United States during |the year 1927 as compared to 1,202,574 {in 1926, the report shows. These fig- ures represent a decrease of 1,880 marriages or about one-fifth of one per cent. During the year 1927 there were |192.037 divorces granted in the United jStates, as compared with 180,853 in |1926, representing an increase of !11,184, or 6.2 per cent. There e |4252 marriages annulled in 1927, as ‘compared with 3,825 in 1926. The estimated population of con- riages and divorces in the United|tinental United States on July 1, 1927, States for 1926 and 1927 released to-|Was 118,628,000, and on July 1, 1926 day by the Department of Commerce. |117,136,000. On the basis of these es Marriages decreased and divorces |timates the number of marriages per increased .per 1,000 of the population |1,000 of the population was 10.12 in both in the country and this state. |1927, as against 10.27 in 1926, and the Though marriages here in 1927 /number of divorces per 1,000 of the showed a number increase of from | Population was 1.62 in 1927, as against, 3,958 to 3,973, the ratio per 1,000 of |1.54 in 1926. the population showed a decrease| While the net decrease in the num- from 108 in 1926 to 10.6 in 1927. |ber of marriages performed in the Divorces granted in North Dakota |country as a whole was 0.2 per cent, totaled 506 in 1927 as compared to|the relative change in the different 483 in 1926, representing a ratio per |States ranged from a decrease of 25.4 pin es 5 jPer cent in Florida to an increase of agai ~~ |95.3 per cent in Nevada. This in- “@\crease in Nevada, as well as the in- | crease in Arizona, is due largely to a change in the marriage law of Cali- fornia requiring 3 days’ notice to be }eiven before the issuance of a license, which law became effective July 29, 1927. Nevada Leads Honeymooners The rate of marriages per 1,000 of the population, which represents an average of rates in the individual states, ranged from 4.7 in Delaware f LITTLE JOE sissippi and 31.0 in Nevada. In gen- eral, the changes in the number of marriages per 1,000-of the population form a more satisfactory index to and 5.8 in Wisconsin to 16.6 in Mis-: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WHERE 1S ° TOM CARR TWEY TELL Me THAT WILLIE TRICKED YOU OUT OF A DIME Bestia & ‘ = ALEK: Ly SO NEAR To CHRIST- MAS-~ JUST PASS IT BY WITHA BIG6ER I'D LET AI BAD OMe ON THE Nose! 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