The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 10

Aen em nA nm ame PLACES? AND THINGS GOING SEEING Aboard the Western Air Express, Headed for San cisco.—Leaving Hollywood gives me the same sc tion I have felt when wai to Broadway after secit show. A sense of unreaiity cling long after the curtain has fallen There's something of the land-of- make-believe in the Hollywood at which takes time to accept. ‘The end- less pageant of men and women Garbed as gypsies, princ nd trouba- dours somehow doesn’t fit into the workaday world I have come to liv in. And the thousands of toy hor Sayly painted oil stations and c stores seem, in retrospect, like : tastic and colorful illustrations from a modern fairy tale. Nor do the street crowds help much in bringing me back to reality. Thy s a tropical quality about the thous: of girls which makes them apr super-Ziegfeld selections. The » browned their skins to a very tive brown. Their attire is color-splashed. They go in {01 mer holiday clothes in a big They are eminently conscious of their sex, even at an carly age. and garb titemsetves accordingly. They are a healthy, husky, well-built crew—and what with the summer sun, many seem to be coming down the street in variations on the bathing suit theme. ‘Thanks to the mass rush of beau- ties toward the movies. the hotel lob- bies and the picture sets are jammed with young things who are far too at- tractive for a traveling columnist, for instance. They seem like all the! elegant choruses I have ever beheld in @ vast, parade. However. it might be the climate— these tropical places always did do Strange things to me! eK Ox And they're beginning to tell me that my success at flying can be duc quite as much to lightheadedness as to air-mindedness. Here, 7000 feet above the earth, on an air as quiet as a placid sea, the little old portable rattles along as easily as upon an office desk. @ Were I an artist. I would spend half my time flying between Los Angeles } and San Francisco, and at the end of the tenth trip I'd throw my colors alettes out the window. For 1d, IL doubt if quite so sr and sheer beauty can be aptured = within space of three ! hour y feeling quite so un- ig along the os ina tremend- 3 completely hid- ind below and opalescent un which seeks to dis- red lines of unev below stretches an endless var- icty of pastel shades, which prow cotter in hue as we mount higher. The browned California hills become as huge inverted oyster shells, tinted so at times as to seem unreal. his the illusion that the greens of treetops and fields run the chromatic cale. The salt marshes run from the soft- est lavenders to the deepest imperial purples. ‘Towns disappear and sky- lines vanish. ‘The earth becomes a rainbow of varied tones. dust across from me sits a Britisher, reading his copy of the London ‘Times. A Broadway actress, who came from Jose and graduated from the versity of California, is on her home for a vacation, after tak- time off to look after a job in the ies. A bored furniture salesman ns and tells me he flies too often to get much of a kick out of the view any more, ‘The assistant pilot ap- pears with a thermos bottle filled with orange jui The land and Alameda estu- ries stand suddenly green-blue inst the purple-brown of the soil -the ship circles and settles—the chill salt wind, kelp scented and briskly tonic, whips against you as the door swings open. And if you've ever been here before, you know without looking, that the Golden Gate is not far off. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | A WASHINGTON DAY BOOK __ | By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington, July 31—Contrary to the popular conception, aides to the president of the United States do more than pass sandwiches at white house teas and attend state functions in showy gold-braided uniforms. They do attend white house teas. ‘Their showy uniforms do add “swank” to state occasions. But what the average person for- gets is that all of this outward show takes place “after hours"—after the aide has done a day's work at his of- fice attending to the routine of army and navy business that has been as- signed him. As a matter of fact. the dozen or | more men who serve the president in the capacity of aides are among the most everworked men in Washington. And they get no extra pay. Even th elaborate uniforms are paid for out of their own pockets. * * * Only a casual visit to the offices of these men is sufficient to prove that they do more than idle away their time. Col. Campbell B. Hodges for the Present is tucked away in an office at the state, war and navy building at- tending to infantry business. He is the military aide to the president. Within a short while he and Capt.) Allen Buchanan, the naval aide, are | soon to have desks at the executive | offices of the white house. i Maj. Raymond McQuillan has a/ desk in the office of the chief of cav- | alry, while he serves as information officer. Maj. J. M. Eager of the field artil- lery edits the Field Artillery Journal and acts as chief of the intelligence section. Capt. John C. Drinkwater of the corps of engineers is on duty every day in the rivers and harbors section of the office of the chief of engi- | neers. Lieut. Hugh B. Waddell acts as aide to the chief of staff of the army dur- ing the day. Lieut. John E. Upston has a desk in the office of the chief of the army air corps, and when his time is not taken up there he is hopping across the country on army business. In the office of the quartermaster general, Lieut. Don E. Lowry spends | his day handling transportation mat- | ters. Lieut.-Comdr. John E. Ostrander of | the navy ts in charge of the arma- | ment section of the aviation division, | department of naval aeronautics. Lieut. K. M. Hoeffel handles fuel for the navy in the di- senior aide in the navy group, is the officer in charge of the experimental section of naval ordnance. —_| Capt. John Halla is the recorder of marine corps examining board. . Montague is assistant | in marine corps. 'in and out of their gold-braided trap- pings. ek OK A tall, slender, earnest young man serving his first term as a member of the United States senate has launched a crusade on capitol hill in behalf of the struggling artists of this { country, Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland has appealed to congress to adopt a plan which he is confident will prove a boon to art in America, will offer encouragement for those engaged in this profession, and will secure for the government the works of the country’s most eminent artists, And he thinks $50,000 a year will be all the money required. eeu Senator Tydings’ plan is | this. | Annually, in Washington, there | would be a national exhibition open to all American painters and sculp- | tors. | ‘Those submitting the five best paintings and those submitting the five best objects of sculpture would receive awards: First, $10,000; second, $5,000; third, $2,500; fourth, $1,500; fifth, $1,000. Certificates and medals would also be given the five painters j and five sculptors whose work en- titles them to money awards. * Oe O* The prize-winning works would be- come the property of the United States government. The selections would be made by a | national board of painting and sculp- ; ture, composed of either three or five { men noted for their training and skill. | The senator believes that every | painter and sculptor in the United | States of any promise would contest ‘for the first award. As a result the various phases of American life would ; | be depicted on canvas and on stone. Suppose such a policy had been fol- lowed during the last century. There would now be in the possession of |the government some 500 paintings. : Senator Tydings believes these paint- ‘ings would tell the story of the quar- | ter century past far more eloquently than it could be told in any other way. * * The gold rush, the long covered wa- gon trains across the country, the war with Mexico, the civil war, slave life in the south, the old Robert E. Lee plying up the Mississippi, the great round-ups in the west— The rush to Alaska, life on the frontier, the building up of American industry, the launching of gigantic ships, the development of cities, horse racing, duelling, stirring mo- ments in our national life at Wash- ington, the war with Spain, aviation and the world war— “We have no such story of our country preserved in the national gal- lery at Washington,” says Senator Tydings. “We have net that because | it was never begun. We can begin it Sandeford is com- | now, and at a very little cost.” Officers’ training course at the army war college. Lieut. Edward H. Young has com- mand of the headquarters troops at barracks. xe * the president's idle aides. Ht is easy to see that they have much more to do than merely climb He believes the time has come when the government must do more to en- courage art than merely purchase a statue of some person noted in Amer- ican life. . 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