The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 12

pene = { By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Aug. 29—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt’s little row with James Francis Burke of the Republi- can national committee, involving th question whether the best minds of the party caused her to whoop up the Methodists against Al Smith last year spondent to rest favorite dispatches and give it some new trimmings. This is the story of the touching way in which the women of the country have been so signally rewa ed for their very lari in keeping the Republican par office. It's a story that alwa terests the female audience They Expected Much While Mrs. Willebrandt wa ally running prohibition enforcem the women of the countr to one woman who was do! standing job in the public sc suggest hopefully that, after administration was in, othe would be given similar opportunities by Mr. Hoover and his grateful party Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be working out that way. As usual, the men politicians have copped all the jobs newly available. Even Mrs. Wille- brandt has quit, after her receive any reward except a gentle quest to pipe down, and althou: there is a woman member of the civil service commission your correspondent doubts whether there is now one in the entire government service—out- side congress—whose name is familiar to one person in a hundred. ‘There are at least two reasons. One is that male politicians want to keep all the jobs for thems and will do just that as long as they can get away with it. You can guess for your= self what the other is. Perhaps it's an inherent fear that women are likely to upset apple-carts if placed in re- sponsible posts. ‘Take Mabel Willebrandt. Although she insists that she was the goat in so far as those campaign incidents were ————_————— NEW YORK New York, Aug. 29.—Little old New York again—not so little and not so Redcaps all but trampling you down as they rush to grab your grips! . And the crush, push and pandemon- jum of that nether world below Grand Central station! . . . Somehow crowd seems to pick you up and c you along with it. That funny seu of helplessness that you lost some- where out in the open spaces comes ack. As far as I am concerned, it's elways good for a thrill. Somehow, though, I never have got over the feeling of being out of place. Vaguely I find myself wondering what I'm do- ing there. = * And after weeks of cobalt hills and dazzling distances and mist-hung horizons, I find myself a bit_ more confused than usual. Vainly I look about for a tree or a shrub, but only the massive and impressive monoliths of steel and stone press in. Grime and dust bite the nose lining. Taxi- cabs appear in a dizzy parade. People move helter-skelter. Yes, there's only one New York— just as there is only one Hollywood one San Francisco bay, one blind- ing “white desert” at Salt Lake, one Royal Gorge, one Kansas wheat belt, one clear-skied and prairie-haunted southwest. ** * ‘The trouble with being gone from Manhattan for two months lies chief- ly in the difficulty of catching up 1, and most persons here be- | despite denials, it is obvious she just couldn't hold herself in ring her connection with the gov and with polities. She did fairly well for years, though frequent- ly she ta publicly with too much kness for male Republican office- y she has been <pill- a few lar Now a man might have done the same thing, but the answer 1s seldom docs. Consider the ¢ | General ‘oln C. Andrews, who cer- tainly had as much to te ably more, Andrews rest of boss prohibition officer in disgust but he hasn't ever even been inter- viewed in the two or more subsequent teadfastly refused to s. Tt can be argued negly that her volubility »in the public interest than her nity—but not to the ordinary 1, who doesn’t want the pub- titude is well ¢x- ed by Frank Kent in the Balti- Sun, describing the search for the Republican, national committee's | female vice chi nan. First and fore- me ys he, “She must be entirely cor not ac ed io independent po! thoueht or action, content to be gently led, satisfied to be a sym- bol.” The same thing applies to the ordinary federal plum, automatically ing many © t of the women apable of taking over such jobs. Women make a better showing in the more lowly strata of the govern- icc, but there, too, it ap- that the men still get the | breaks. The popular theory that most | eovernment werkers in Washington | are girl stenographers or secretaries ts erroneous. In the District of Columbia 000 women federal em- 900 men. Of the 511.000 ‘s outside Washing- ton only 55,000 are women. The wom- jen’s bureau made a study three or | fo s ago and found that women wore civen neither equality of oppor- | tunity nor equal pay for equal work. | ploye: | government wor {station when I started west, some | workmen seemed to be digging a hole. I swung into my taxi, the steel ps of new Chrysler building soared to dazzling heights. And a | huge sign told me that the “tallest building” was rising there. Just two months ago a book en- |titied “All Quict on the Western Front” had been bowling the city 4n the interim a new publishing on had started. People were talk- | ing about publications I hadn't heard of. T entrained with Jim Monahan, of the Century concern, for a day at the beach and it took me a two-hour | ride to get hints of all the things that had happened in the literary | world alone. It seemed that a novel, he Wave,” had been received as a | work of genius, and I didn't know it | had been published. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gia. “They Stooped to Folly” and heaven knows what—had come along. Broadway's signs had completely | |changed. The film hits when I left | had been supplanted by others. ‘They | were talking of new plays and new) | names had shot up into the big lights. |The ascension of iittle Ruby Keeler | to stardom in a Ziegfeld show had been quite a discussed morsel when my train pulled out. Now she was out of the performance, lay ill in a hos- pital, and Dorothy Stone was queen | of the walk. All of which is but an item in the total! “% ® ‘with what has happened in your ab-| sence—and, of course, getting read-| After all. it isn't speed alone that is makes this town step. It really isn't ‘Two months—a mere fraction in an! speedy in motion. It’s transition— ‘average lifetime. Little happens in 0 | change, change, eternal change—that brief a span. Yet it will probably | makes the brain fairly whirl in an ef- take me two months to put together | fort to keep up with it. The fact is again the various fragments of| few New Yorkers do. They couldn't. . | As a seribe who is supposed to : ‘When I left, a steel skeleton was | up with the da} per eee Een Just outside the office window. \ nea knows—and must admit Returning, I find that the biggest | myself licked. hotel in the world is all wrapped and GILBERT SWAN. ready for mailing. At Grand Central | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) YOUR have gone modernistic, and hard to recognize, but I have ma doots, That jisn’t the kind of slot that Johnny's ickels are most familiar with now. | When Father Weakens {| On the other hand, are these weekly | allowances the discipline they are sup- | | posea to be? If Johnny says “I want| . 0 £0 to ¢ movies toni; " | Giving cniidren a small allowance / allowance is all Me ae es Be each week is nothing out of the or-/| father likely to dig down for another gd Peacey®. gitee are Teale: | quarter? more and more the necessity of| The only way to put son learning the value of money | Alenearese be eo aie eons ‘and the limitations of its buying! figure up approximately what his power when they are young. | needs are from Saturday to Saturday. I believe this is several steps in the| An allowance that you know won't right direction beyond the old-fash- | half cover what he spends each week bank that stood on the end of| is certainly missing the mark alto- gether. n If he is to learh budgeting or di- 's head, or just plain bank, / viding his income cue farices to be rather too obsolete? It’s | for his various expenses, his allowance too long.a time since I've seen! should cover everything; that ts, ‘ome to know. Of course, they may) everything you allow him to’ buy for himself. | Say that he is young and you still will wish to reserve the matter of clothes for your own judgment. All | right, then. What is he going to need outside of clothes, discounting amuse- ment and a sundae or two? There will be pencils and little school necessities. Or he may need fishhooks. nails for his building, medicine for his sick dog, birdseed, mucilage to fix a toy, 2 birthday present to give friend. church-school contributions, carfare mantelpiece. But isn’t the old money-pig, or THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929 we MUST BE ON THE WRONG & TWS LOOKS LIKE A SIGN AKEAD. SLOW UP A AITTLE, ONLY TEN MILES TO THE NEXT ALREADY GONE FIFTEEN So TOUR LETTER FROM SAM YMERELY That HE Was SONS HES FINALLY REACHED {TOO COLD TO WRITE TH EAR NORTH, HUH — WHET ELSE OOES HE SAY? THE GUMPS—ON AGAIN—OFF AGAIN Dip YOU SEE THAT? we WAS ‘THAT & LONG = AND 1 Lowy GEE-1 WATE TO pee t Gee FLECIAES = G'BLYE TLAGALONG !! 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