The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 2

a PAGE TWO le rt i { City’s Christmas Cheer Forces Enjoy Sight of Happy Youngsters - [/ nvlands Now Avcibiiop Entvoned SUGAR BEET TRAIN (SOLDIERS AT FORT | TO BOOST CROP IN | GIVEN CHRISTMAS RED RIVER VALLEY} BAGS BY RED CROSS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, lyza SANTA GLAUS SETS [St DE GLaNcES ~~ ty George Glare JLIONS ENTERTAIN =) | BOYSAND SCOUTS BY | 1500-2000 KIDDIES | | CHRISTMAS DINNER AGOG IN AUDITORIUM: i i Community Gift Distribution Handled Like Army Maneu- ver by Lion Leaders THRILL TO NICK IN FURS Merry Old Saint Arrives in Auto and Makes Diverting Speech to Children Between 1,500 and 2,000 Bismarck children enjoyed the initial thrill of | Christmas in the community celebra- tion at the municipal auditorium, Monday afternoon. They packed the lower floor and the galleries up stairs. For an hour they were in the magic land of Santa Claus, joining in the singing of Christmas hymns, listening | to recitations and solo singing and breaking out in amused excitement over the antics of Old Nick in snowy whiskers, red fur-trimmed garb, goloshes and other attire from the land of the igloo and the Eskimo. | ‘When they passed out from this, they were each handed a package of door. Lions Handled it Finely Members of the Lions club handled children, while Clyde L. Young, as chairman of the community commit- tee which planned the affair, presided. All moved with the precision of clock- work, ani the volatility of Young America was kept in hand all through the exercises, so that the celebration was put through with all the aplomb of army drill. The hour for the celebration to open ‘was 3. Before the hands of the clock had gotten around to that, a vast throng of children was jammed on the tront sidewalk of the auditorium. The older ones were there footloose, but the little boys and girls were for the most part accompanied by a par- ent. Once the doors were thrown open, the throng began to untangle in orderly lines through the passageways into the house. The orderliness of the celebration was, in fact, a feature at every turn and stage of the proceed- ings. Chairman Young got the program going as soon as the children had been packed away in the sections of seats by Lion ushers. Each member of the club committee had a place and @ task to perform and each stuck close to it. ‘Warm Up on Hymns A screen was let down on the stage and on this a spotlight threw the words of the several hymns sung. The Opening number was “Jingle Bells” and “Joy to the World,” after which the Rev. Walter E. Vater spoke the invocation, the audience, especially the children, joining with him in the Lord’s prayer at the close. Marian Sandin sang “The Birthday of a King,” as a solo, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. R. E. Morris, who also was accompanist to the massed singing, which Henry Halver- son led. Emily Belk dressed up in Santa cos- tume, recited “Coming Christmas Morn.” The children gave her a great salvo of applause as she ended, then the lights were turned off again and the audience sang “Hark, the Herald Angels” and “Holy Night.” The young- sters’ enthusiasm was mounting and they sang these numbers with a vim and exactitude, led by Henry Halver- son, that was electrifying. Santa Arrives Asicep, ‘Now came the peak of the celebra- tion. Chairman Young announced that Santa Claus was about to arrive. ‘The rear doors of the stage were thrown open and in through them and out to the middle of the stage burst @ car with a jolly fat figure in red in the front seat and a chauffeur by his side. The chauffeur alighted, but Santa failed to show any signs of life. Sleepily rubbing his eyes to get the “sand” out of them, he finally crawled out and greeted the children with a shout, which was re- echoed in a great chorus from the Young folks all over the house. Good Children Were Plenty Santa soon had his young friends in shivers of delight. He inquired Place this was and the chauf- feur told him it was Bismarck. “Any good boys and girls here?” he next inquired. A deafening chorus of “Yes!” an- from the body of the jan a speech, dilating cold trip he had had North Pole and tell- at icicles that he had to whiskers before he got summer, he said, he had making toys for good chil- come to bring some , Jimmy and Mary Jane, who been assured, were good chil- 4 ip é d i i 5 aeeaeege fee z #3 i t laugh went up when he told lown the chimney at night, couldn't get in that way there children to be remembered wiggling through the & little bit of i : i dee 4 r} g 3 i i PERCE et il : § a tf i af F 5 3 g a : y if : i z & FA i g z E & E : i 5g ote Christmas sweets and nuts at Wal | | Bier 3 i Hy | | | | (O11920, ay wth seRvice, INC. AEG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.” “Wonder what all these fel lows are doing up so late.” Ralph Wenzel Awarded First Prize of $5, Elsie Uelson $3, William Erlenmeyer $2 Winners were announced at the high school, Friday evening, in the November presidential election by the “Why I Should Vote.” The winners were Ralph Wenzel, first prize, $5; Elsie May Nelson, second prize, $3; and william Erlenmeyer, third prize, $2. Members of the supreme court were the judges who picked the winners from among the entire membership of the fourth class in English at the high school. Mrs. C. W. Moses was chair- man of the contest and the awards were conferred by Miss Anna Burr, treasurer of the Fortnightly. test was to inspire ideals of good cit- izenship. The winning e: covered that which received the highest award, by Ralph Wenzel, had these arguments to present as reasons for exercising the privilege and duty of the ballot: eee WHY I SHOULD VOTE By Ralph Wenzel United States will be given one of the greatest privileges that can be be- stowed upon a citizen of a country by his government: The power of vot- ing. The right to vote is indeed a great honor and every true-blooded American citizen should take advant- age of it. The right to select their own officers and the right to choose the men to conduct the affairs of government is one of the things for which men have struggled since time Grafted Millions by ‘U.S. Methods’ Mme. Martha Hanau, top, went into big business in a big way. She prom- ised thousands of investors all over Prance dividends of 15 to 80 per cent in her fictional corporations. Priests, small business men, even government officials were victims of ®@ stupendous swindle that left the with known i Winners in Voting Essay Contest By Fortnightly essay contest sponsored prior to the! Fortnightly club, on the subject of! The idea of the topic gnd the con- | those points pretty thoroughly and | On November 6 every citizen of the | With “American methods” as a model, | Club Announced| immemorial and at present is an op-/ {portunity open to every American. There are many reasons why a per- son should vote and I will give the | cnes which I consider most worthy. \ Voting Is Duty ; On November 6 I should go to the | polls and vote because: 1. It is first and foremost the duty of every good citizen to vote. Voting is a task placed in the hands of the people of the United States to ‘select officers and men to carry on; the business of government. The | government is a business organiza- {tion and men that are best qualified jto carry on the business of govern- }ment should be selected to hold of- fices in its organization. Every citi- zen has enough interest in the gov- jernment that he should see that these |men are given the positions and the | only way this can be done is by go- ing to the polls and voting. 2. Because a big vote is the only | rue means of learning what the peo- | ple desire. If only a small portion of the peo- | ple were to vote it is very probable that principles may be injected into | the government which are contrary to |the will of the people. This is not right, because the foundation of our government is the belief that our government should be run according to the beliefs of the majority. How- ever, the only way the sentiments of ; the majority can be established is by |a vote of the whole people. 3. A big vote will force the candi- dates to discuss worthwhile issues. If the voting problem in this coun- try were handled in such a way that everyone would be forced to vote, the candidates before them for election would be forced to discuss issues in which the people were really inter- ested and not mere vote-getting ones, such as can be used when only a | small percentage of the people vote. | Big Vote Ends Buying ’Em. |. 4. A big vote means a cleaner elec- | tion than a small one. If the different parties knew that on election day everyone in the coun- | try would go to the polls, much of the | graft money spent on elections would | not be used. Paying people to vote, | using money to get people to the polls | and such methods would not be used. All in all, a much cleaner election would be the result. 5. Voting gives the voter an inter- | est and feeling that he has something | to do with the government. | _ Voting is the one other interest, be- sides paying taxes, that most people jhave in the government. By voting | they discharge their obligation to it and express their interest in it. By voting they feelthattheyare indirectly | Partly resppnsible for the conduct of | the government, good or bad as it may |be, and they can pride or reproach | themselves for their judgment in vot- | ing the way they did. Privilege Should Be Honored 6. It is a privilege that should be 1 {entertained the other | boys showed that they got a big re- 1 Every Little Guest Shares in | Three Gift Distributions iGOVERNOR MAKES SPEECH \State's Attorney McCurdy Puts | Ambition to Make School | Grades in "Em | Fifty-five boys of the city enter-/ tained the Lions club, Christmas day, by eating a turkey dinner at the den as guests of the organization. Well, it may have been “50-50” as to who fellow. The action out of it, while the Lions hosts | said, “We're really the fellows who are enjoying this.” The boys were young charges of Miss Mary Cashel, of the Red Cross, and 12 members of the Lions Boy Scout troop, No. 12, of the Richholt school. The scouts were there under their scoutmaster, Frank Walbert, and his assistant, Roy Roberts. The other boys had been told where to come and they found the way without jany guide to show them, assembling in the Grand Pacific till the hour of 1, which was the signal for charging on the den. Fine Dinner Served Governor Walter Maddock also was | there, as a Lion and governor, to greet, the boys and say a few words to them out of the bright lexicon of youth. President Strauss and most of the members of the club were on hand to serve as waiters as well as hosts, and H, K. Pederson put on a concert of piano solos throughout the feast. The chief dish of the dinner was turkey and plenty of it. A lot of other good things from tomato consomme to dessert were.served. After the boys had gorged themselves on the high- class Christmas delicacies, the Lions began passing presents. There were three servings of these. Every boy got a pocket knife, and it would be hard to imagine anything that could give greater joy than was displayed over these gifts. Each boy also got a book. And then there were packages with nuts and candy and some toy airplanes and such other toy things @s appeal to a boy's heart. Also Get Show Tickets When the feast had been concluded and the presents passed around, Dr. Strauss announced that there was still something else to distribute. On behalf of Manager Simons, of the El- tinge, he passed out free tickets to the Wednesday and Thursday mati- nees at the theater. F. E. McCurdy got the boys quieted down a bit to put in a good influence for their school work. He had all who had made their grades stand up. The Lions gave the boys a “They're all right” cheer and the state’s attorney admonished all the boys who had made their grades to keep on pulling out ahead, while the others were ad- vised to dig in and catch up. Before the boys were dismissed, Gov. ; Maddock made a little talk to them. He said he remembered the time when he sold papers on the streets of West Superior, Wisconsin, and he found this reference made a hit with the youngsters, as many of them are Bis- marck newsboys. He advised the boys to fight the battles of their| young lives manfully and ever to be ready to extend a peaceful and broth- erly hand to the other fellow with whom they have clashed and pos- sibly “licked.” The time to growl, he told them, would not arrive until they became Lions, but in this case smiles always go with the growl, he added. The boys gave the governor an en- thusiastic “He's all right” cheer. When the dinner was concluded Manager Peterson, of the hotel, also @ member of the club, found that there had been more preparation to entertain than there had been boys. So he decided to send the remaining packages of gifts and nuts and can- dies to the hospitals, to be passed out to any children thet may be there as patients, The Blue and White taxi service had cars on hand for the boys who were willing to be taken home in an- other form of Christmas gift, a free ride, and many of them thus had an- other happy Christmas sensation. BiG HIT OF MUSICAL. carefully guarded. As I have said before, voting is a privilege for which men have struggled. Even today, I imagine, if | any movement to take away the right ; to vote were started, howls of rage | and protest would be raised on all ; Sides. Let us, then, on November 6, show that we appreciate the honor the government has given us and get out and vote. ‘There is the last and final reason why I should vote and that is to do my bit to see that the government is run according to my beliefs, Let us take a concrete example from the coming election between Smith and Hoover. Smith wishes to allow im- migration from the southern Euro- pean countries, Hoover favors that of the northern countries. I may be @ laborer and feel that southern immi- gration may drive me out of work, are always principles on which can- didates disagree and you should vote for 2 man in whom you believe. All in all, I shall vote for all the above mentioned ri ‘and to ful- {11 my obligations to the government which protects me and to insure the carrying out of principles in which believe, and you too, Mr. Voter, should vote efor the man in whom Neve and Heve, and for whose principles COMEDY ON TONIGHT Auditorium Staging ‘Hit the Deck,’ With Haunting Mel- ody Song Gems One of the finest musical comedies of this and many other seasons past is Vincent Youmans’ international musical comedy success, “Hit the Deck,” which is scheduled for local Presentation at the auditorium this ‘Wednesday evening, when its two fam- ous tunes, “Hallelujah,” and “Some- times I'm Happy,” will be heard here for the first time from the stage. Vincent Youmans, that youngest of American song wizards, who is chiefly known by hig “No, No, Nanette,” and “Wildflower” music, has fairly out- done his previous efforts in his score of “Hit the Deck,” which bristles with Po dad tunes and lies, Besides the “Hallelujah” and “Sometimes I'm ong, Friends?” “Nothing Could be Swect- To ay and “If He'll Come Back iets Feast Served and| | With impressive ceremonies and in crow aiter his enthronement. Betty Benton, Rita Carita, John Robb, George Scully, The Mannequin Four, Lois Landis, Dan De Leo, Butler Mid- dleton, not forgetting a veritable beauty chorus up to New York stand- ards, a male double octet and an aug- mented orchestra. Seats went on sale Monday at Har- | ris and Woodmansee's. | HOLSTEIN BREEDERS TO MEET AT FARGO Guernsey Men of State to Or- ganize Similarly at Farm Week Exercises 1 i Fargo, N. D., Dec. 26.—About 100! Holstein breeders are expected to at- tend the annual meeting of the) North Dakota Holstein Breeders as- sociation at the Agricultural college, Jan. 17, according to A. 8. Albertson, secretary of the organization. Last year 60 attended the meeting, which is held as part of Farmers’ Week at | the college. A representative of the National | Holstein-Friesian association will be} the principal speaker at the gather- | ing, while J. H. Shepperd, head of the | college animal husbandry department, will also give a talk. Friday, Jan. 18, the Guernsey breeders of the state will meet for the purpose of forming an association similay, to the Holstein organization. No such club has yet been organized, but plans are expected to be com- pleted at the meeting which will feature a talk by C. B. Finley, St.; Paul, of the American Guernsey Cat- tle club. JUST WHAT WE NEED! Berlin, Dec. 26.—What the motoring Public has been crying for ever since the first automobile came home @ wreck has been developed by a Ger- man inventor. It is a rubber bumper, attached to a car with movable steel rims. In recent tests two autos equipped with it crashed at 30 mile, an hgur, without doing any damage. “Leave your dog in the cloakroom” reads a sign in a Paris cinema thea- ter. Lapdogs and wolfhounds can howl their loudest in the kennel in which the management has arranged to keep them from annoying the au- Cosmo Gordon Lang, Jate Archbishop of York, was enthroned as bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England. Here is a view of the that gathered outside the ancient cathedral to receive the blessing Inset shows the new Archbishop pronouncing the benediction. the presence of 5,000 pilgrims, Dr. Arch- UNIVERSITY GROWS WHILE OTHERS LAG IN STUDENT TOTAL Enrollment Now Exceeds 2400 and Expected to Reach 2700 March Next Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 26.—Stead- ily increasing enrollment ranging | from 2 to 17 per cent yearly since 1918 is indicated for the University of North Dakota by figures released from the office of R. O. Wilson, school registrar. Total registration in all courses for terms of school since March 1, 1928, now exceeds 2,400, and expectations are that by March 1, 1929, the enroll- ment will top 2,700. The 2,400 figure includes students taking work in the extension division, those attending the 1928 summer session and those enrolled in the present semester term. This past year, 1927-28, according to the registrar's figures, shows the greatest per cent of increase since 1922-23 in college enrollment. In this same year period, data released by the Association of American Universi- ties and Colleges shows a decided slump in college attendance. Further facts revealed by the association were that North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin were the only three schools to increase the college student body over that of a year ago. Further indication of the univers- ity’s rapid growth, according to Regis- trar Wilson, is that North Dakota in- creased its enrollment this past year 10.14 per cent. The average increase in 214 colleges was revealed as only 2 per cent, the smallest growth since the World war. Total college, or regularly enrolled students at the university now num- ber 1651, states the report. But per- sons enrolled in correspondence courses, special work, and graduate study, together with students attend- ing the 1928 summer session brings the total enrollment figure to date to 2,420, the report concludes. dience. 'Great Northern, Porthern Pa- cific and American Com- pany to Demonstrate St. Paul, Dec. 26—An eight-car special train, conceived to stimulate better sugar beet growing, will make @ four-weeks swing through the Red River valley, beginning at East Grand Forks early Monday, January 7. Forty-six exhibit stops, of at least two and one-half hours each, are scheduled in Minnesota and North Dakota by this train, which is the most pretentious ever to be devoted to educational purposes in the beet growing industry. The train will carry four cars of educational exhibits and demonstrations, one assembly coach, a dynamo-baggage car and two coaches to accommodate ists and field representatives of the Amer- ican Sugar Beet company, agricultural development agents of the railroads and successful beet growers of the valley, who will accompany the train to explain their experiences in sugar beet production. The plans for the operation of this special train were announced by L. E. Flink, manager of the East Grand Forks and Chaska, Minn., plants of the American Beet Sugar company; J. B. Bingham, assistant manager of the East Grand Forks plant; John W. Haw, director of the agricultural development department of the Northern Pacific; and E. C. Leedy, general agricultural agent of the Great Northern. Cooperating in this enterprise are the American Beet Sugar company, the plant of which at East Grand Forks provides a mar- ket for Red River valley beets, and the railroads, as well as representa- tive citizens in the communities to be visited by the train. At some of the points on the schedule, arrange- ments are being made for elaborate community-wide gatherings, with banquets and programs featuring farming, the valley's principal indus- try. Until January 24 the special train will be on the lines of the Great Northern, and, at Horace, N. D., Jan- uary 25, the special will be handled by the Northern Pacific until it con- cludes its mission February 2. The beet sugar company officials en route will announce the increased price to be paid for beets at their East Grand Forks factory in 1929, ac- cording to the announcement. “The growing of sugar beets reacts beneficially to crops planted on the same ground in succeeding years,” John Haw said. “And this train, with its exhibits, will afford a vehicle to demonstrate this fact and also how to grow larger tonnages of beets at lower Production costs. The best cultural Practices in beet production will be sHown. Sugar beet growing is adapt- ed to mixed farming. Beet growing gives a large amount of succulent feed for livestock in the tops and pulps. Red River valley soil is suited to large beet production. Some of the per- sons sponsoring the train forecast growth of the industry to the extent that in the future more sugar manu- facturing plants will be constructed.” IT’S THE BROG'S LEGS Shreveport, La., Dec. 26.—Such big frog catches are being made in Lou- isiana swamps this year that the sup- ply of this amphibian’s hindquarters is more than the demand. Louisiana supplies the world with about 2,000,000 frogs a year. PLEASANT FAMILY London, Dec. 26.—Five little fuzzy, awkward ducklings recently wondered away from an Essex farm. Several days later they were found attached to the brood of a wild hen pheasant. The family was getting along fine. WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT? London, Dec. 26.—Despite the fact that no member of either family has met the other personally, a family in Sheerness has been corresponding with a family in North Ireland since 1855, over 70 years. The act of speaking calls into operation forty-four different mus- cles. HA-HA!-You Guys BUSTER, MUST BEEA UNDER -TH CERTAINLY Look LIKE A NATIONAL, HOLIDAY I Aaaalid A ssete ~~ WHOEVER PICKED HAT SHIRT AN’ STRANGLE FoR Yous HAVE OF YOURS “To A MASQUERADE , | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern wwe NEMHER OF Nol) WILL DARE ZA. WEAR “THOSE — ATROCITIES OUTSIDE UNTIL AFTER TH’ SMU AEAATE AN' PASS OFF AS A CASE OF 1 DELIRIUM “TREMENS ! 5 \DEA OF North Dakota Organization Ap- plies National Idea; Post Has Tree in Gym 4 The soldiers of the Fourth Infan try held their Christmas celebration. on the eve of the merry day. Gathered about a tree in the post gymnasium, they joined with the children of the post ‘n receiving gifts. Some of these were sent from kin to individual enlisted men, about half of them being remembered by mother, sister or the “girl I left behind me.” The bulk of the gifts, however, came from the thoughtful North Da- kota Red Cross. Miss Mary Cashel, recalled from her ex in Red Cross work on the Atlantic coast, some years ago, that the Red Cross always sees to it that the men on foreign stations receive bags contain- ing presents at Christmas. She thought it might be a pat idea to in- troduce at Fort Lincoln. Especially as she learned that sometimes the en- listed men get hardly any Christmas remembrances. The nations’ Red Cross organiza- tion was consulted and sanction was given the North Dakota organization to go ahead with such a plan. Word ‘was sent over the state and the Red Cross leaders had pretty bags of cre- tonne made and filled with such things as a soldier would appreciate at Christmas. The inevitable pack- agp of cigarettes was there. Also some sweets, handkerchiefs and other kit articles. The Red Cross sent 300 of these bags to the post, Monday evening, and the officers passed them out at the Chirstmas tree celebration in the evening. Some of the men were not there to receive theirs, as those who have homes not so far from Bismarck were givén furloughs to make a Christmas visit to their folks. The bags were a surprise to the men and they gave a very happy touch to the celebration of the holiday. ! The tree celebration was enlivened by violin music, but otherwise it was' made as informal as possible. . Christmas day each company mess had a special dinner at which turkey was the chief feature. The men made merry in soldier way and will con- tinue their holiday for the remainder of the week, with freedom from all duties except guard mount and some minor necessary tasks. he S Little Jane Hoover, aged 11, whe gave her address as E. Lberty, Pa., when police fot in the picture, started off all alone to visit “Uncle Herbert” in Washington. Niece Jane did not seem to be sufficiently in the family confidence to know that “Uncle Her- bert” wasn’t living in the White House yet. Police found Jane and her sole eleven cents at Shamokin, Pa., when she attempted to register at a hotel. Jane reminds us of the litte girl who went to Washngton to visit “Un- cle Warren” during the Harding ministration and insisted on the re- lationship even when the president didn’t seem to know her. Somehow when a little girl is just 11 one finds ¥ this romantic streak rather delightful. eee MARRIAGE PAYS “Not one woman in a thousand could earn a better living by her own efforts than she receives as a wife. The married womman has all the better of the material side of the bargain.” So writes Mrs. K. Norman Hillson, described as “prominent in fashion- able circles of New York and London,” under the pen name of Diana Bour- | This sounds sane and sensible. Breathes there a poor worrking girl with soul so dead. who never to her- self has said “I will arise and go forth and cop me @ man and find surcease from this life of drudgery”? The average marriage assures the average woman of her “keep” without 4 too much worry about it; but it’s the unusual and above-average marriage which does much more than that for her, and when Diana Bourbon con- tinues to explain that the average wife does not even earn her “keep,” and that “we need to discard the sanctified halo that used to go with wifehood in generations when it had that is no short-cut to an easier job than |typing or filing. ~ coe | ¢ MODERN PITFALLS Judge Jean Norris of the woman's day court of New York says that girls brought before her for working at «‘ commercialized vice are much younger than the same type of offender before prohibition. Chiefs of police in most 33 5B" g i g Ee 3 i i s