The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Aug. 8—When an or- dinary person dies it’s just too bad end his surviving ions have to figure out how to mect the funcral expenses, But when a member of con- eress passes to his reward his deat! and burial are expensive for the f eral treasury. When a congressman dies an ad- journment is taken in respec eparted brother, resolutions of sor row are drawn up, a committee of 10 er 15 men is appointed to ¢ vemains home, a Sunday is to eulogize the dead man both in the Congressional Record and in a special volume, and the bill may run as $20,000. No matter how ob: member may have been, or how un- Popular, he gets all this attention when he is dead. Of course if a Pacific coast con- gressman dies it’s pretty expe When a California member away a few years ago it cost $. railroad fares alone, for there was 4 committee of 14 and a sergeant-at- arms, and one or two miscellancous | as attendants, as usual, went along with the party. In such instances it 1s sometimes difficult to r committee, but there are u gressmen who have never been to California and appreciate the free ride with expenses paid. The fun committee travels in a private car, and if the death comes toward the end of a session the opportunity to serve and do homage enables a mem- to the | TRIBUNE’ 500. Flowers, gloves for pall- . limousines, and many minor es make the bill pile up. Ci- and such matters are yy members of the com- mittees, Last year the Baltimore & Ohio railroad collected $6,481 for fares, ;berths and food in connection with the funeral of the late Senator Jones of New Mexico. Few ceremonies here are more re- markable than the Sunday eulogy. ‘The senate eulogizes merely its own, but the house always eulogizes a dead *, though it may wait until two years after his death. The om is to eulogize four or > deceased members on the same y, and few attend except those who are to speak. From a half dozen to a score culogies are accorded each one. Sometimes, also. a colleague of the deceased can't wait until eulogy day. Tn the last session one member took the floor to eulogize a departed col- league whom few had ever heard of. His eulogy, as shown in the Record, is crammed with such time-worn phrases grief-stricken yet grateful pub- lic,” “last full measure of devotion,” the transient life of man,” “the mys- al problem of life,” “the innumer- 2 aravan from whose bourne no traveler returns,” “his spirit marches down the aisle of eternity,” “he stands naked before the great white throne of God,” and much more of the same. is typical of congressional eulo- Some great ones have been de- | livered—Senator Jim Reed's tribute to ber to save considerably on his mile- | the late La Follette was a classic—but age allowance if the destination is|many are pretty cheap. Those studded anywhere near his own district | with poetry probably are the worst. ‘The initial expense of a member’s| But they are all bound up in hand- death comes when the widow is paid} some little books, printed in 8,000 $10,000, a year’s salary. Each of his | copies. Fifty, gilt-edged and bound in clerks receives a month lary, and | morocco, go to the family of the de- the cost of eulogy and issuing special | ceased. Nearly 2,000 are given to sen- {Congressional Records containing the | ators and representatives from _ his (fulogies runs into the thousands. The | state, and the other 6,000 go to other burial expenses and all incidental ex- | members for distribution to constitu- , Penses of the committce are paid, and | ents. although members of the house are! Some members have refused con- limited to a $400 casket, there’s no | gressional funerals in advance. There limit on senators. ‘has been no recent agitation to elim- ‘The records show that it cost $2,250 /inate any of the fuss and expense, to place the late Senator Willis of | but several bills were introtuced with {Ohio in a state bronze casket and in- | that purpose late in the last century, ter him in a udylite vault, plus other, when the tendency of funeral com- jeharges and one of $276.50 for broad- | mittees to turn funeral parties into ‘casting the funeral services. The high- | traveling drinking parties became ‘st price yet paid for a senatorial cas- [rather a scandal, GOING PLACES AND SEEING THINGS Hollywood.—All Hollywood, and most of Los Angeles, is one continu- cus and elaborate stage set. | Tho influence of the cinen:: the stage, has a strangle hold country side. Oil stations looz like a second act set of a mu- tical show and cafeterias seck to look Uke romantic old Spanish -nissions. This is a gorgeous land >f mak believe in which most of the res dents play a part. The sense of t fantastic and the unreal becom actuality. Every corner is decorated with a revelation in the art of s . A vague artificiality hangs in -ce air. It is the never-never-land. out of Peter Pan, and is the idea! vacation land for that reason. H The cinema has thrown its .hadow over the realities of life, and the veri- est school girl seeks to live up to the appearance of a cinema st. Hence there is a certain buoyancy which de- fies analysis. Complexions )rov, by the sun, children who seem like young Indians, school girls 1 curled bobs, who dress like popul; movie stars; sport skirts and wh:te flirtatious inti- macy in . . in short, cross between a Broadway chorus action and a motion picture version of @ summer resort pervades th tire atmosphere. To a Broadwayite it is like a mi rage—particularly when one can re call calling this his home. The homes themselves have a romantic unreality. This is the Nirvana for thosc who would run away from themse! and live in a land where unreaiit. 1- most become traves ties or satires on unreality. For instance—there is a place in Hollywood where, upon Wednesde: and Saturdays, the who's whe o/ tie motion picture industry take th lunch. It is called the Montmartre, although it resembles the coloriu! French district as much as coffee sembles malted milk. On these days, “the stars” become the exhibitionists that most of them are. The\girlies dress in their swank- fest clothes and the boys put on their most sheikful raiment. Thus clothed they strut before the crowds of tour- ists and natives who try to find seats at the table. Gencrally, so I am told, if not SCRAMBLED EVIDENCE Neighbor: Why are you painting one side of your car red and the other about 560 “yokeis” gather outside to watch. The stars preen their feathers and behave in a manner becoming a performer, while the spectators fight for seats. The price of a ham sand- wich soars to New York night club status, and mere visitors from Iowa, Nebraska and way points pay the bill without question—quite content with this stellar propinquity. f male stars and near-stars unaccompanied, quite certain there will be any number of lone girlies willing to flirt. And they are not, wrong. | What is surprising is that, with their supposed fabulous salaries, the girlies pay their own checks and seem quite willing to do it. I wish I could get away with that |in New York. * * | Speaking of which, I am amazed lat the attitude of mind here, which causes any number of beautiful girls and women to take on the support of ‘a similar number of families and men. Scores of pretty wives are sup- | Porting their husbands and scores of | beautiful daughters are supporting | mothers and fathi | This, it would seem, is a place | Wherein the woman pays and pays and pays. A iew days after I arrived here, I | met one of the loveliest blond young- sters that my old eyes have ever be- held. She had been brought here as |a golden locked child and a typical “stage mother” had thrust her into |the cinema spotlight, quite certain | that she would become a future Mary Pickford. Years went by in which \the child attempted everything from | toe dancing to chorus work. She now does “bits” in the pictures. “And,” she told me, “I now sup- | Port the whole family. There are thousands of girls like me here. Girls who have had good looks and a family. The family thrusts them into the pictures and then settle back to jlive on their income—if any.” | Which, if I seem a bit bitter, is the | fact. Hollywood and Los Angeles are full of lovely youngsters supporting | someone or other, and crashing the rather difficult gates in hope of a problematic stardom. ij GILBERT SWAN. 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Freckles and His Friends C STAND BACK ALITTLE MORE= I ATED LOTS HOW Do You Line, TUys? ICAU IT TRE FLYING ciReve!! GEE! SHE MAKES YoU on. Sick, So ‘rou WERE PeeK- ) Aw, GEE; G!s OUGHT TO TELL cHick, MOM BUT, JUST THE HAVE A MY SIGNAL YOU GET BUSY AND STOP OR HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF ALWAYS PICKIN’ ON CAUGHT COLD? YOU MUST TAKE SOME COUGH SYRUP.YOUVE BEEN COUGHING ALL DAY. | ( GUESS YOURE RIGHT, Samt (Ve GOTTA CUT (T U. 8. Pat or oe os “TH REST OF ‘YOUR DAYS DEPEND UPON “TH REST OF YOUR NIGHTS! teen years is a long time to wait,|clashed with a strong Harvard out- especially so when it’s a little mat-|fit at Cambridge. The Crimson ter of avenging a football defeat. {boasted such twinklers as Eddie Mahn, “Tacks” Hardwick, Penn Bradlee and others, Michigan ed e Maulbetsch, Hughitt, Raynsford and Splawn as its outs‘ending stars. The Wolverines weren't conceded much of a chance but rather startled the easterners by holding Harvard to a 7 to 0 victory. The star of that fracas was not Mohn, Bradlee or Hardwick. On the contrary, it was ttocky Johnny Maulbetsch, Michi- Years for Rev e of the field with ‘Mr e field wi a0) leather on three aa ‘most the carting . every four ¢*< chem