The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929 TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES Y DUTCHER Writer) One of the gs in Washing- Washington, Au most interesting thi ton is the bureau of s can take one look at the president and you thing. But vou can at the burt nples of radium and znd be sur t and The bures amples acres of ) samples of avenue 3 tists is ¢ veloping, standards used ing, industr The to “fix the st weigh measures” and today these sci are measuring a one-millionth inch and determini how muc five-inch stecl bar bends when ) Press your fingers What It The bureau of s other important things, @ new currency paper ment with 50 per cent | duced the first pract the earth induct in long distance radiobeacon which gives pilot a visual indication wh following the correct cor the first’ latitude labor measuring airplane engine pert: ance under flight conc out processes for c other metals with « hardest known metal, « of printing plates usc ment, discovered er tanning mate from paper mills, developed a treat- d ment which made good rubber out of In o cheap rubber, establi the corn an sugar industry, made three of planeness thick do worki engincer- of 500 samples long with chemical tests. ayout of the bureau that it cannot be dese t in addition to for tests of weight mi i , time, pressure and re building with plants quid air and hydrogen. Done s of ordinary sub- ft. rubber nd used to driv wind tunne mometer building ain are tested before being li- the department of com- d there are automotive pow- ants, where automobile parts are tested. The basement of one un experimental foundry -sized paper mill is found Ati their Own Weather ifi ainstorms ¢ produced. A large in the industrial of 10,000,000 pounds. The kiln hot makes optical glass for the Ni binoe gun sights and peri: as W try—for a telescope ly improving the proc optical glass, ruled scales directly from light mill and an experimental sugar plant. discovered a coatin: greatly reduce And that doesn’t begin to be the half the atmospheric corrosion of dur- of it. aluminum, the airplane metal. The government often asks the bu- In a single year, according to bu- for the seemingly impossible— reau statistics, it tested ument to measure ship-~ ly 2200 electrical m - shore distance when the ship can’t ments, 2600 clectrie batte » seen, for a photographic plate electric 5 ich will take pictures through fog, chases of a method of deciphering burnt ernment — 2500 aus ents, and so on. Sooner or later, of gauge steel, 6500 weight the bureau ly solves such ances, 950 scales, 300 timepieces, 13000 problems as i GOING PLACESF SEEING THINGS Hellywood.—Not even the Wil-|¢ ia and Estelle and Nancy as helmstrasse sp; nuld dupli-' though they were members of the eate the underground \ circuit tamily—or old friends—and, in a that seems to spread endlessly just nse, the re. The mere residents seem satisfied to enjoy the debata- ble propinquity of the mighty ones. Y and eycles-with-, bout the ramified a complete cotton no new “di hotel lobby gossipers. scandal are among the f: leading industries. The v vator boy can tell you, with a wink, that Gerty de Puyster has dyed her hair. Or the bell hop as he carries t yu ir bag to your hotel room will in- f 1 the dirt” as the * quire casually whether or not you ” + as the out-of-town- have heard about that new mansion er on Broadway demands a look at being built by H. Sherman Mega- Texas Guinan, s the new arriv- phone for the cute little Russian st h ‘y at once for a that “hit the coast” a few weeks ago. er with Mary Pick- The barber, as he shaves you, will and all the let you in on the domestic difficul 1 Guinan ties that beset the famous Offen but it isn’t so sim- Onns. ple to crash the gates into the sacred Before you have traveled hetween presence of the film elect. your hotel and the nearest Holly The faithful followers know this wood production plant your cars full well—and hence the amazing will fairly burst with “low down.” demonstration that trails in the It’s part of the natural course of wake of some public occasion which events in a city which has chosen will bring the screen celebrities to live in glass houses. Those who out. of their hiding places, would have cinema followers from Thus, at a typical premiere per- Dubuque, Ia., to Tokyo, n. ust formance the other evening, report-+ project themselves into a spotlight ¢ and visiting newspaper folk— that has no beginn no ending. such as myself—were handed var- They must stand in it, and for i i dges identifying us ‘And it takes a good mathemati- as and signs to hang on cian to figure out the correct an- windsh so that we might make swers. Divide by ten almost any- our vi ways through the thing that you hear and subtract crow It was like the occasion of the source of the information, and some v and impressive pageant you may get some slight approxima-|—a presidential inauguration, for. tion of what to believe. instance. And the size of the crowd xe Oe was about as great. Police pressed It may be that neighbors gossip!in and ticket holders battled their about each other, as they do in most way to the door. parts of the world. But this uni-! Meanwhile, all the mob seemed to versal form of diversion must be- care for nothing but a fleeting come dull indeed and commonplace! glimpse of someone-or-other. } fn the presence of so many juicy) Though heaven knows why—I! tidbits concerning film folk whose don’t! names are housebold words through- IL) out the realm. Why should they be (Copyright, 1 Service, Inc.) bothered with the goings-on of Mary Jones, when Dottie Twinkletoes is} threatening a divorce which seems— ut least according to chatter—to be! YOUR mee eened with scandalous pos- | CHILDREN PE cd of ehere, good | Housshoiders yw, or even have looked upon— Ci save on the screen—the personali- ©, ve Roberts Sarton ties whose names they use so glibly | be plunge eager! r game, None 1 T SWAN. Row DIO Z KNow THAT NEDA WAS SC GOOD AT TUROWIN' A LARIAT 22 WELL THERE'S ONE “THING L CAN ARE You SURE You CAN WAT : \— HO! M'BROTHER] SAY, 1 CHICK GIVES MY DAD To MoM, | WES ME AMY as Been | A DAY TO PROMISED! |DO ANYTHING) TACT GOOD log apay | 1 WANT AROUND HIS BY CHICK | WITH IT GIRL THAT'S. For Goop STAYIN’ AT BEHAVIOR OUR HOUSE. AROUND SEE PHVLLIS. = SO, FOR AWE FIRST TIME IN HER LiFe, Amy's SWEET TOOTH IS GETTING ts FUL ~@-~- AN SAM “Es, MRS. GU22 Lee — IN His Oreice! { BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES Fou r Minds With One Thought | Once upon a time in my room at and familiarly. They speak of school I had a crafty little girl. abe ee i LITTLE JOE S| ‘T've tad all, sorts of unfortunate eo ° children to deal with, sneaky ones, : untruthfui ones, dishonest ones (I RD ycar FoR He always think of such children as un: WHOSE ortunate rather than bad), but I’ 1S IN CREASES. never come across one quite s0 fae ~ INCREASES. smooth as this youngster. 1 Se I never caught her cheating; 1 wo never knew her actually to be lying; I never had anything more than a Positive conviction that everything she did was a pose. Several years later in continuation school she got into some sori of trouble and I saw her name in the newspaper. I for- get now what it was but it verified my suspicions that in that child I had the world’s greatest actor. All-such children are to be great- ly pitied for in a way they are not uncommon. Because the; uldn’t The worst af itis You teal 20"balp ie wore! is you feel so hel take hold of. Nothing you can Eavironment? RIDIN’ A Horsel! 1¢ I HAD A Horse HERE TD Slow HER Some RIDIN’ THAT SnE'D LL NENER ge ( | asennad SARS Te THE GUMPS—THE WIDOW ZANDER AKAYBE YOU COULD GET HER DAD To LET You RIDE One oo HY DONT You asi Z| In? “7” 2 ft AER OED \T SOUNDS LIKE STOMACH TROUBLE V'D Uke Ta dave @& FEW WoRds WITH YouR BLESS TD WILL GEE! ft CANT LET ANY GIRL GET © NYOULD YOO CARE To RIDE AY Pony ?? HES AS GENTLE AS YOUR TONGUE \S ALL COATED. WHAT HAVE “OU BEEN EATING? YOU WERE MONCHING SOMETHING ALL WE HAD NOTHING AT DINNER TO AFFECT YOU THIS WAY. 1 WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU GOT ALL THIS CANDY AND JUNK YOUVE BEEN, TOF FING YOURSELF MATH, LATELY } —1 ATE OO MUCH DINNER BUT WOULD YA MIND WAITING TILL TH’ MISSUS HAS HAD HERS © environment, her home experience! mental picture of that little girl with had evidently been of a sort to fos-|her butter-would-melt-in-her-mouth a ony co of pargraigd o expression, trying so hard to con- ut on getting out in world, | vince le that she in the decent venting serienoment AndI esd that the ate Rivoset c2 the seh had 1 that she h gzmart enough {0 ase the necessity of| ts A he oe ee a rent part—or head—that ‘was occu] a Pretending to, She had ae neglected and abused her. Her entire special reason, but I still have alcould reach her mark in the art of counterfeiting. Her Counterpart dare to expose to the world the peo-|Even ple we really are with all our faults |that, , |and meanne: Why do. speak of her now? Be-|& bad thing. ause recently I ran into another child who reminded me of her—a/a mirror without tricks paeat of well-to-do parents, family, More every Something’s wrong when a little |sity for t row she had no|child has. to cover his tracks ‘and |tidants ef their A child’s mind W/O many n dishonesty is better than it is the most despicable trait But in a child it is |! know. NOTE ASTHMA VICTIMS should be open— and subter-| London.—In an effort to investi- of good |fuges and cunnning, I feel more and | gate and , malady day the wf seth i te oe ex! neces- world, the Asthma Pals and con-| Research Council juesting It is the | sufferers fo fill ins tamiie ly’ history Sp SaaS sunprabip epee ct Yee: ear, wey te: Keep fer Binpiied ty Shee. It is hoped I suppose we all turn. into’ actors less, in time, We wouldn't ‘strictness that causes craftiness,| valuable inf certainly it can't be anything else. | influence of heres | Tt must be too much will give tion regarding the in this