The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1929, Page 16

i By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, April 11—The Hon. James W. Good, who has sometimes been called “Sunny Jim” and is now secretary of war, has made a good enough impression during his first few weeks as a cabinet member to gag those of his critics who insisted he was only a mere politician. There were some in the War De- partment who thought it would be fine for the army to have a secretary who knew congress so well and Hoover so well. Then there were others who thought it was too bad that the job should be given as a political reward and that politicians should be cared for elsewhere. At this writing, how- ever, both groups seem to agree that Mr. Good is a nice fellow, intelligent and anxious to work, and quite able. They say Good has put more per- sonality into the job, that he is more given to making his own decisions, that he answers more letters himself, that he has given a ‘more personal touch to routine letters and that be- fore long he is going to know his whole department inside out. ves Worried Good has acted as counsel for one or two electric power companies and as secretary of war is a member of the Federal Power Commission, a combination which worries the pro- gressives. But. unless he gives some- one an opportunity to charge him with favoritism to the power interests the growing suspicion is that he will be “a good secretary of war.” Incidentally. there was some ques- tion in Good's own family as to his ability to swing the job. When his 11-year-old son Robert heard about it he came running in with a pair of boxing gloves and demanded: “Well, if you're going to be secretary of war, let's see if you can fight!” Army officers are impressed with his promptness in. making decisions. One such decision concerned the policy of shifting heads of branches in the department. Good decided it was best for efficiency if these heads were changed every four years. Gen- eral Amos Fries, the red-hunting chief of the Chemical Warfare Serv- ice, had had that job nearly 10 years and would have been glad to have stayed on. Chemical interests over the country brought pressure on Good seeking his retention. But Good ignored them and turned the job over to Colonel Harry L. Gilchrist. The critics ought to admit that Good is at least an extraordinarily effective politician. He had charge of the Republican congressional cam- Paign in 1920, worked for Coolidge Officially in 1924 and was western manager for Hoover in 1928. He always did a workmanlike job. And he was far from unprepared for his cabinet post. Originally he was “just a farm boy” in Iowa. When he entered Coe College he enrolled in Company C of the Iowa National Guard—"just to get the benefit of the discipline,” he says. In Congress he was for 10 years a member of the appropriations com- mittee and for more than two years chairman of it. He was chairman when the committee had the tre- mendous war-time appropriations and he had always studied the War De- partment’s needs and problems along with the others. Likes Horseback Riding Good plays golf when he gets the time, but he reminisces fondly of old days when he rode horseback on the farm. “A country boy never gets away from his affection for farms,” he told your correspondent. “He develops an attachment for domestic animals that always stays with him.” “Is there any particular domestic animal you're especially fond of?” he was asked. : “No, I'm fond of all of them.” “Don't you like cows better than horses, or vice versa?” “No, just the same—and sheep, too. “There's nothing more interesting than the barnyard!” . “Did you have a deadly time, poor darling?” Tony asked sympathetically, as the two girls entered their bedroom to dress for dinner and dancing. “Far from deadly,” Crystal an- swered. “Quite exciting, in fact. I posed for George for an hour and a half, with conversational rests in be- tween—” “Hope—” Crystal began, as she lifted her daytime frock over her “Hope!” Tony interrupted incredu- lously. “Hope that George would—?” “Oh, quit kidding me about George!” Crystal begged. “I meant Cherry's baby, Hope, of course. Lena brought her into the living room about four o'clock, ‘all dewy-eyed and Sweet and talcum-powdery from her nap and: bath. I took her on my lap, and George began to sketch furiously. Said he had a great idea for a picture, if he could only get her to sit still Jong enough each day. He's going to ask Cherry's permission at dinner to- night. That's all—but it was exciting. ‘Hope is the most beautiful baby I ever saw in my life, and to have her sit there so contentedly, cuddling against me—.” A slow flush crept across the pallor of her cheeks. “I know,” Tony admitted. “I've felt the same way when I was holding Faith's baby, Robin. We modern girls are about as modern as Eve " ‘aid I'm going -marriage com- Plex doesn’t mix very well with an old-fashioned maternal instinct.” She darted abruptly into the bath- room, turned on the water and came o f IN NEW YORK | New York, April 11—To Mr. Philip Sinnott, manager of the NEA Service Pacific Coast bureau, San Francisco, It’s been so long since I was in California, that I've almost forgotten how to alibi for a fog and admire the sunshine. Instead, I've adopted an old New York custom of talking about myself. When you can go down a , Street talking to yourself, then you have completed the Manhattan cycle if you are a little bit nutty. I havent forgotten lessons in Califor- tell the teacher right Pardealer state where Eg fe - E et ih >| Par back whistling. Crystal watched her furtively. “And your afternoon, Tony?” Cry- stal asked at last, when that blithe whistling could be borne no longer. “Good movie?” Rotten!” Tony retorted cheerfully. ‘Thay not tho, Thuthie!’” she imi- tated obligingly the li voice of the “talkie.” Dick has figured out wi Phone call must have meant “Yes?” Crystal managed a con- ss. Was her theory about Dick and the mysterious “Callie” to come to naught? “It came to him in a flash while we were driving to Darrow who this Callie person is,” Tony went on, as she stripped for her bath. “You know his father owns two or three tearooms, as a sort of recreation from banking. Takes a deep personal interest in them, too, Dick says. Well, this Callie girl—Wait a minute till I turn off the water!” In a moment she returned, but in that moment Crystal had turned her back and was rummaging in the big clothes closet. “As I was saying, this little Callie person is a waitress in one of the tearooms. I gather that Dick usually sat at her table, when he was short of cash, and ate in the tearoom where he could sign his theck. The last time he ate there the girl looked pretty sick, he said, and told him she was afraid she would be fired.” ee ee NEXT: A near quarrel and a strange “insult.” (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Mayor Walker was certain to be out in his latest cutaway for the Easter ‘ade. So, it being Easter morning, it oc- curred to us to show the New York bugs what a well-dressed bug should wear. However, they ritzed him after the best fashion of a New Yorker with a visiting fireman. Then, to our horror, we noted that Apis was threatening to go the way of most visitors. He abandoned his Poppies and made straight for the gay Ninth avenue tulips we put in the window. But it merely shows you what the metropolis will do to a bug that spent his life in a poppy field. And I wish you'd ask him to come home. I'd make the suggestion, but it doesn’t seem the right thing for a host to do. After all, I’ve stood for more bothersome “firemen.” GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) |Our Yesterdays] v FORTY YEARS AGO ‘There was a pleasant gathering of BILLS MOTHER - BO ~ BILLS = BLS MY WHAT GRIEF THAT: AUSSTINN CAU bee IT WOULD TAKE + AT LEAST £10,000 2 To PAY MY DEBTS= AND THAT NOTE COMING BUE IN A FEW DAYS — THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —__ ‘AND TO THINK WE OVERHEARD TOM CARR YELLING TWAT HE GOT OVER %169,000.— FOR HIS LAST. MONTH'S ROYALTIES LITTLE FOOL eto: We TAT IN AN BOUR OR SO-YOULL BE FLYING OVER LANA TUBES } TRM HIM, foe TRIES To FAD A MARKET PR THe HARVEST OF EXTRALNAMES GOLLY= THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY~ WOW MUCH DID YOU SAY 7 $169,000" FOR ONE. MONTH — TIMAT'S “MORE “THAN THE PRESIDENT, OF THE UNITED STATES GETS IN TWO YEARS= UST TAKE 4 PENCIL AND PAPER. AND FIGURE IT OvT— SEE HOw MUCH THAT IS AT 6h , ® ABOUT EIGAT HUNDRED FEET, LEO-S0 WIE CAN GET A GOOD Loox. 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