The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1929, Page 12

WASHINGTON 4 LETTER WELL — HERE WE ARE@= \ AND LOOK AT THAT SWIMMING POOL BACK IN THE CITY AGAIN — HOME INDOORS — RIGHT IN YOUR OWN HoutE AND ‘THERE ARE NO WEEDS IN ‘WE BOTTOM: (NEA Service Writer Washington, Sept. 6.—General | sae around here is that the Wilbur suggestion of tun the public lands over to the states wil not get very far. Some kind of scandal has arisen on virtually every occasion when congres: has monkeyed with public lands 3 there will be plenty of instinctiy Position to the idea on that bh The government now f By RODNEY DU rR Jand, and the Was once estimated as high Thus far no one seems to be v enthusiastic over the over Secretary of the Inte bur’s apparent t away the natior thing else or over the presidi vised proposal to cive the pub! states control of surface ri not the mineral rights States May Not Want It Undoubtedly there will be western politicians, both here and Who will whoop for the p But there is also opposition on ground that unless the federal gov- @rnment concedes mineral rights along with the surface rights, it will be unloading a white elephant on the | states affected. In fact, opposition has been voiced on all kinds of | grounds, some of them diamctricalls opposite in theory. ‘The old-school conservationists de- clare that the plan is “hal a | ‘and that it undoes the Roosevelt con- servation policies which were designed | to save the last remnant of national | F resources from selfish exploitation. | They deny Mr. Hoover's contention | that the states are more competent | to handle such lands. They r ‘ein the * blithely turned | tions millions of acres of the most yaluable land in the world. have been notoriously ‘weak when corporation lobbyists came | ‘round with grasping hands. | ‘That sort of thing went on for : position from both Roosevelt and ! such a state of affairs tury, States obtained school land other land grants from congress then vied with the federal gov- ment to see which could unload st valuable land to railroad, nining and other corporations in the est time, The Montana legislature ied the Anaconda Copper com- with school lands. The Mesahe . where the U. S. Steel Cor- ion has the world’s largest tron once part of a grant given of Minnesota for school 4z public lands are said | nothing but grazing, but | ationists say that tens of | acres have never even been that no one knows just Most of the 193,- s is grazing land, but the domain imeludes all types of ge ervationists of the Roosevelt hought their fight was all n the repeated attempts to is to the states, nd 1910, finally came end as the result of vigorous op- Tatt, ‘They are not now content to see such a m effected. regard- s of what { put on mineral resources. There Are Two Sides Senator Borah described Wilbur proposal as a htmare” and other western sen have joined with editorial writ- ing general snort, there are argu- ments on the other side. It is pointed out that about 75 per cent of Nevada, 40 per cent of Utah, 30 per cent of Wyoming and 20 per cent of Cali- forn| nd Oregon are now under federal control. No one is surprised at objections from these states to Nevertheless, the general lack of support for the Hoover-Wilbur plan seems to indicate that, nothing will be cone about it in the near future, re- gardiess of the recommendations of Pr ent Hoover's proposed commis- which would try to work out a lution, New York, Sept. 6—Just a few steps | from the spot where the modern | Croesus has his castles, you'll find | America’s best Toonerville trolley. | Zt may not make ail trains, but it | ‘makes all stops and it’s typical of the | incongruity of Manhattan that a ood old one-man trolley line should oper- | te through some of Manhatt ibd winding up its run at Ci street in the shadow of the stecl | of lower New York. | have called it the “phantom | ,” for seldom does it carry pas- | Most folk have no time to | along in an old cahoos>, preferring subways and taxicabs. But Enis reli of another cay keeps in|, operation because the car company doesn't want to lose a franchise. | soe. ¢ Daniel Connors is the veteran uav- | In the best tradition of the ural one-horse cars he takes it to! the barn and puts it to bed about 6 * @clock in the evening—the franchise it having been kept—unless. course, traffic demands anoth Few trips from Cortland street edge of the Polo Grounds rate i il s 4 Mi i full feathers and = an Indian chief, who | “pallyhoo” man for a new res on Thirty-third street, | s-* * just a few nights ago, a) motion picture emporium the “living electric sign,”| had its birth in Hollywood. The ; te ul the ami nent of the street crowds, liv usual flare of bright lights, but added to this a complete chorus of girlies, dressed in the “very-very.” But New York's climate being more uncertain than California's the first night out came a rainstorm and so ruffled their plumage and so drenched their more-or-less tights that they had to call for umbrellas, much to and finally had to retire from their perches. old-fashioned tramp to work the “bally” in front of innumerable sideshow conces- and help attract the crowds from one place to another. Despite his make-up, it seemed to ne this particular “bally” showed a istline not in keeping with a trick cyclist—that is to say, it was fast approximating the girth of M. Paul Whiteman. Making inquiry, learned that this gent was none other than Harry Fisher, who 30 years ago was the daredevil who rode down the chute-the-chutes on a bieyele, a ve tion learned to walk on its hands up- on the wings of a soaring airplane. He's been in burlesque for years— and now, with age creeping on, he's back at the old ballyhoot. The show ‘acket’s like that * * * And speaking of girth, there's a gag going round to the effect that when Whiteman went, on the 18-day diet he lost. three musicians. GILBERT SWAN. | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘YOUR LDREN Barkan | Serviceine ‘Consternation reigns in the realms | because it appears that cer- called astrophysicists. (1/ I have it spelled right) have that all these centuries been going around in a cir- units don't strike electrons they should, or don’t strike at all, it seems. and instead of the great Secret of Life as ‘these worthy gentlemén | get when he could get it, as much as he could hold at one sitting without bursting. Moreover, if the food was there, he ate it; if it was there and he didn't crave it, he didn't eat it, whether it was six o'clock or not. We can use our imaginations now and en- large on the subject. If certain roughage in the way of tree bark didn’t agree with him we may surmise that this Cro-Mangan or Neolithic man _ probably tried gravel, and if the gravel was too herioc, he'd stop and cogitate some- thing like this: “By heck! Maybe I| don’t need roughage. Maybe all my | neighbors need roughage, but not) me.” So he got off roughage and went back to nice smooth mud for a digestive. : In other words, he used common sense, and ate as Nature permitt and dictated. pies To be very, very serious, isn't there more than a grain of common sense in the same article when the writer sug- gests that if children are started right when very young, they will instinc- tively know more about choosing their | foods than all the scientific books to date can tell us? Believe Your Appetite Tf they overeat something, their ap- ple something their system has no immediate use for. If nature puts five’ iF IT'S. 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