The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929 | TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES | ieee are «ALK ABOUT YOUR TOUGH LUCK = VLL NEVER GET A FISH LIKE THAT ON MY LINE AGAIN — OH, 1 WOULDN'T GIVE UP = WHy WORRY = SS KNOw=— THINGS ARE NOT AS } By RODNEY DUTCHER | / (NEA Service Writer) } Washin=: 1, Aug. 17.—Our national | hall of fame, officially known as Stat- | uary hall, is getting overcrowded, and something will have to be done! Fa about it. This condition is not traceable to, any apparent overproduction of great | men. In fact, most of the gents who have had their memor! in marble or bronze and un in Statuary hall with reverent ‘mony are men who doubtless still enjoy} « F. Wellington Ruckstull, the sculp- tor, has made a preliminary sketch of h id which have found some These call for a building 540 x and 340 feet wide with a 0 feet in diameter. Charles E. ator of the capitol, ackstull plan with all ate trimmings. It may be interesting to see just what the government has on hand in jtl> way of here’; and statesmen to put in this new hall of fame, if it is i First off, it might be mentioned | that the present collection includes ce! dome posthumous celebrity in their own! ° home towns but whose names mean little or nothing to the rest of this forgetful country. | The trouble is that cach s authorized to contribute two of distinguished sons, and that r an expected total of 98, whereas there | in is comfortable room for no more thar | Hl 60 pedestals. Already there are St] V Statues standing in the hal!, wh just south of the capitol’s rotunda. ; The hall was originally the house of representatives, but it was out- grown. In 1864 congress authorized the president to invite each state to eontribute marble or bronze figu Of two of her most notable sons, of | military, civic or histori the few years previously the old hall had become an eyesore and filled with apple stands and huc The floors were covered often with roticn apple cores and tobacco juice. ‘lard, the y Illinois any Warriors in Hall ood crop of generals and v Indian fighters. The generals lude three presidents, Washington, on and Garfield—turned in by , Tennessee and Ohio, Others, or Civil war vintage, Smith, Lew Wallace, Ke Y. is, Wheeler, Lec, and G One also observes Sam Hous- ton, Carroll of Maryland, and Ethan Allen Quite a few e ent, as often as not nators are pres- landing as if to fame. In| orate on behalf of a railroad grab, with hands on their chests. At least two pI cians—Dr. Crawford Long of . discoverer of ether as an an- inetic, and Ephraim McDowell of Kentucky, a surgeon. Florida, pro- Population Increasing ‘ducer of fruits and vegetables, sub- ‘The place was redecorated, and the| mitted a statue of John Gorrie, in- first statue, that of General Nathanicl Greene, presented by Rhode Island ‘was accepted in 1874. In recent ye: the statues have been coming in mort they are already beginning {> | rather thick in their restricted qui ters. Congressman George Holden ‘Tink- ham of Massachusetts has introduced | @ bill authorizing all concerned— capitol architects, the public buildii and parks dircctor, and various con gressional committee chairmen — to confer with architects, engineers and | » builders and plan for erection of mew and separate “Hall of Fame. Tinkham thinks it would be a good venter of the ice machine and me- chanical refrigeration, If there's a new hall of fame vari- might use the added space nt brief biographies of their from other states, tip- atuary hall and gaz- it these majestic fig- no idea who's rep- bearing such dd, Austin, Cramp- Vance, Stark, Pierpont. nna, Rose, Allen ike, Hanson, Rice, \d Stockton. Generally these cribed only with the st name and the pre- s At least a score of them might well wear large placards fidea to give each state a separate! demanding “Who am I?” i | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | GOING PLACESF AND SEEING Amarillo, Texas—This is the land @f Jim Williams and Will Rogers : nd, more recently, of Gene Howe, Stherwise identified as “Old Tack. Rogers and Williams are both boys from the vast ranges hereabouts who have traveled far indeed since they shook the prairie dust from their éaddles. Fortunately they have never | gucceeded in getting the sagebrush completely out of their hair, a happy circumstance which has kept them 4n_contact with their native soil. The natives puff out their chest: just a bit when referring to th ‘two favorite sons. Over at the Mi Donald outfit where, so you hea Jim Williams “rode cattle,” the old: timers will tell you many tales of the days before Jim took to draw- ing his “Out Our Way” cartoons. And those cartoons decorate many @ shack and fence post. And they'll also tell you of the time when Will Rogers came home ‘after many years’ absence and re called how he once drove steers from Amarillo to Dodge City. The trail used in the old range days has long, since disappeared. Someone asked Rogers if he thought he could find it and follow it again. Without a mo- ment’s hesitation, the wisecracking comic swung on his horse and started off, leading a band of astonished fol- lowers over the exact route. se * Howe is, in a sense, an “outsider.” ‘He drifted in from Kansas, where his ; father, Ed Howe, had built an envi- able reputation as an editor. But he has been adopted by this entire countryside. His appearance in any nearby town takes on the importance and interest of a presidential call or ‘the passing through of the Prince of Wales. es are made to his Mewspaper office by school children and itaries, by farmers, rangers » and workers. column in his paper which he signs “Old Tack.” His humanity, humor and courage have created this amaz- 4ng following which is as loyal as any ‘army ever was to its general. 2 eee | ‘The editorial pranks of Howe have many and varied. By me tf Company,” which came into being 98 & sort of burlesque on the flota- ef highly dangerous oil stock the Texas and Oklahoma is something of a classic. Not @id Mundreds of readers take company seriously, but they to its stock and when, venture ‘And he's done it all through a| THINGS And well out on the plains—about 15 miles from the y—one of na- ture’s odd freaks gives the vicinity an odd playground. Here, where all ms a limitless and unbroken stretch of ranch and grazing land, a deep and lovely canyon yawns with the sudden unexpectedness of a dip- lomat at an international conference. Some 10,000 acres of prairie Ne on either side and some 300 acres of the old Harding ranch have been turned into a public picnic and playground. e astounding contrast of the anyon bed with the surrounding side makes this spot a geologist’s happy hunting ground. Somewhere, back in an indistinct past, a leisurely traveled through this terri- 'y, carrying sand from the sea, and soil and rock toreign to the prairie country, ame Just a few miles away, the newest of America’s wheat belts rears a group of earnest young agriculturists, fresh from the universities. Here young Ed Carter, at the age of 21, rules he boy wheat king of the south’ Vast fleets of combines crawl through the fields; where cattle roved, the sunburned piles lie wait- ing for the market places. Surveyors for the railroads roam about secking new outlets and inlets for their trains. A sense of tremendous progress and growth just around the corner per- vades the air. The town folk whisper you're not inclined to doubt them. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) YOUR — CHILDREN Voronin toes “John, Buddy ran off again today. What shall I do with him?” _ I don’t know. He's your child. |Train him,” says John, deep in the stock news. It is unfair for one parent to put all the moral responsibility of bring- ing up the children on the other. Team work in pulling the family | load is necessary. It is a rare thing, however, and that is very much to be deplored, as probably there isn't an- other vocation in the world that de- mands as much cooperation as this matter of parentage. In getting a family of little children through life to a stage of self-de- pendence there is always more or less “dirty” work to be done. What This Constitutes Oh, no, I don’t mean wa@hing and cleaning and all that. But denying them when they want things, dis- ciplining them when they need it, prodding them to do tasks they don't like, making ther study, and last but not at all least, instilling into them the thousand and one character traits that will make them desirable human to you that this will be the next me-j} beings. Now, it’s a tremendous task at best needs two people working to- © WAD HIM RIGHT IN AND WE GOT AWAY = VLL GIVE UP FISHING WHY! ITS A OZULELE SENT To ME BY SOME ONE OVER In HAWAIN f THAT-A-GIRL, PHYLLIS! RAISE MY BOAT THAT'S THE THIRD BIG FISH I'VE LOST TODAY — FOREVER If THAT HAPPENS AGAIN — SAY! ISNT TAT Fine! BAD A UWULELE IS WHAT THE WANANANS PLAay= TREY MAKE THE SWEETEST NUSIC You AS THEY SEEM = LISTEN TO TLISPLINA Ang. ALL RIGHT= Now You'll HEAR MUSIC THAT IS @ MUSIC» BOY! IT WAS NICE OF “TEM To SEND ME This” The Green Monster SO YOURE CHEWING TAFFY AGAIN AND NOUVE HAD A SODA. 1 CAN SEE BY THE CHOCOLATE STAINS DOWN YOUR DRESS. AND T'VE AN IDEA WHERE YOu GOT THE MONEY TO BUY {T WITH. THAT MOB OF BOOBS ON THE PORCH FURNISHED SOME OF THE BOODLE , DIDN'T THEN 9 OUT AND AN HOUR OR SO HIKES BY — YOU TELL MOM? 1M THE ONE WHO OVLGHT THO SOME SQUEALI WHO GAVE YOU THE IDEA TO WALK PHYLLIS DOWN TO THE CORNER AND INTRODUCE HER TO TINY 2 THAT'S THE REASON YOU DIDN'T NEED My MONEY ANY MORE Cook of Bismarck, Mr. and Mrs.| August 21, which will be the annual BLT THEY SEEM To BE iTS ALL OUT OF TUNE — AND SHE'S ACCEPTED BRIBES -MONEYIMOM. FROM THAT GANG OF HARMONY HOUNDS, TO INTRODUCE PHYLLIS. AND. RIGHT WHEN TVE BEEN TRYING TO PICK GOOD COMPANY FOR HER Reus byt Pat. Of. ; Copyright, ee ans lee IT SOUNDS LIKE ¢ AN, NO WONDER, TAKE YOUR Dos ANIAY AND ITLL SOUND ALL RIGHT mM VLUL SPEAK To HER ABOUT IT, CHICK BOT WHY, DON'T YOU GO OUT AND Join, THEM ON TRE PORCH @N' 1 KNEW DERN WELLE COULDN'T GET IT IN @& LOWER BERTH! ‘John Lybeck and family, Mr. and | meeting. 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