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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1929 TRIBUNE 4, WASHINGTON Bessa A LETTER pial announced a $50,000 operative Grange ion exchange of Ith- keting fa- ‘The board has to the ie Fed ‘ru I By RODNEY DUTCHER | (NEA Service Writer) ion ‘Washington, Sept The f ! board has been throv out the | _ e-lines in a few instan but th tion of its job has not yet he = ate, Of the Eventually it will tackle the whol nce half rderly marketing in griculture on such P , will need little fu Evsislative aid from Wa Thus far the board has f its time listening to comp! uggestions, s S presenting cimergenci tounced and berun to nain general polic: of 90 per cent o! i on whieh a p whe ied for loans from federal ks are to be y the board's time loans 0 cotton co- board has nt of the on which the as: ; have fixed a definite price, oups in Chicago and @ farmers’ grain-m: an organizat 2Tormed as the Farm tion, and the bo pr ‘aking to bring about a similar con- dation in cotton. ¥ ‘The initial loans poYhough no actual cash has ‘The board agreed to advance $300, 00 for the citrus fruit industry of @Plorida for the purchase of facilities to comply with the depart- follows et been are ai cent of the fixed of cotton, A stippiomental 10 per ent advance sly pledged wlue will permit HEnent of agriculturc’s quarantine re- the cooperative to advance to its irements against the Mediterr: members 75 per cent of the cotton’: fruit fly. value at time of delivery by the mem- uM ‘The next advance agreed to was no- ber of the c itive © gotiated with the Sun-Maid raisin) Meanwhile board has movd ‘Szrowers of Californ Phe board and from the Mayflower hotel into per- intermediate credit banks will manent headquarters on the seventh lend half of $9,000,000 to this , Yepresenting a loan to grape ers of 3 cents a pound. It has © agreed to lend the Federal Grape tion $500,000 to deal with the h grape market, but it has been ded to use this money to advances M extra cent a pound to growers of Muscat grapes. floor of the old building on Pennsyl- : ecently vacated by the iy. Its administration ed into four divisions: ting, banking, public mation, and Ie ar only abe 0 persons are on the payroll, but the personnel is going to he expanded. oa, NEW YORK New York. Sept 23.—The wagon! mendicant that made him different S of flowers which are heaped) from all others and caused tales to nd in the | be built about him in after y $5 , nights of ths c nings of important play ning and join the revelers in fably sent to the sick rooms of M: hours. His income from his phattan hospitals. ‘The star performers, who receive j-these elaborate tribute: ne@ fleet of taxicabs to ca icers to their apartmenis—even if the: wanted them all. As a mattor of f tb the average stage star is grateful t Diriends sent the overflowing makes note of the donors and c: lis home one or two of the bouquct: But they are aware that, s over the city are scores of f@ciresses out of jobs ancl ill Y | night of tk folk lying in hospitals, to whom one | cveri 2 these casually-tossed gifts would | pec teseem fabulously gencrous. The invalids seldom know wher the flowers came from, s th Bttaches dump them upon t jorder them scattered about in Onumber of hospitals. At the most oreent musical show opening 10 wa Joads of posies were waiting at door at the close of the f x * x Of all the cafes dear to the hea ¥ y round y recalled. ‘was a gathering place for the writ Bohemians and troubadors y Was probably of many of those ie cafe, And when he ¢ blind man became one the place, He nd “set ‘em bles. The mystery plays have been tak- such queer turns within the past when a man fell murder dra people seated near him ex- to become part of the ssed before those did anything aited patiently for upon the stage to a ould somehow con- Ss man with the story. When appened, they summoned an It developed that the in- tense heat had caused the theater- S| gocr’s death. him tthe the 4) one of * oe * Shinese restaurants on Broadway— 3, and there are more chop suey resorts of| along the White Way than in several Chinatowns combined—are quick to Pounce upon any entertainment lace, which bout, whom built, was at certain groups ingly interested irituals and folk songs, the | Chinese have been the first to bring ve, the street musician! such singers to the Broadway cafes. his most sentimental | Whereas, up in Harlem, where one spenders, being in fine | might expect to find spiritual singers, would invariably leave | they are hard, indeed. to locate. rewards in his tin cup. GILBERT SWAN. point about this particular | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) When the bibulou: with little education save the good i re a | Y YOUR old school of experience, are finding pret it, isn't the awe-inspiring thing they had supposed it to be? Have they discovered its weak points? Do 'y think it a sham? Because the by Servcelnn graduates of high schools and col- ‘ leges, Why should I have heard within Aa ei week recently the same remark by | se eee pe en men? “Why is it that a umn right,” he sé ing. Certainly, if @tine machine ever it from three, a good man must be saying it. Merely coincidence? If, howeve I | that modern education as we inter- criticism I heard was directed at : i fellow People are so ignorant?” they Wanted to know. _ It complaint is universal, what i: Young men used to be good writers— had to be if they wanted a job in a | aR office. I haven't a really ” ‘, , 00d penman in my office now. . fad gan. oid persica. a4 “I find ignorance of the common- always ol ol of young | °St things,” he declared, “and it’s get- expect ae tactics Pats ed | ting worse every year!” Wire the dita of ma-| ., Another man took it out on the own. iit agi ible—ol iq | Sitls. “What's the matter with your 9 isi | schools?” he demanded, 1 tried to On young shoulders—or what? must be @ reason. 35 waive entire responsibility for all the Is Education Weak? Now, can it be that these older men schools in America, but he would be heard. “I have a college girl for my secretary, She goes through the motions of being, a secretary and does all right in a way, but if I mention moss-grown line of poetry. or some | up-to-date happening, it’s all the same, she’s completely down and out. It's all Greek to her. She couldn't tell me a single person in public of- fice thi inute. She doesn’t know anythin And he, too, said “ignor- ant." But what he meant was that she lacked information, I rather im- agine, 5 ‘They're Up a Tree ‘The third man was more general. He declared that the lack of ticn of what he —— Se e ‘'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES) = ee THE GUMPS— OUT OF LUCK : } WHAT a WHAT'S THE MATTER ? « Teak , cue een OW NOTHIN J aie cos Ge at “? HADN'T WHAT AILS You ? y wisn | WASN'T IT GOOD ? EATEN [TofS STL NADN'T EATEN WAT PIECE OF CAKE = (S$ ALL — Boy! THAT WAS SONE STORM WE HAD LAST NIGUT--TLL 60 OVER AN SEE IF IT KEPT FRECKLES AWAKE !! Look! Some TRuck }) Tuck NUTHIN' = MOSTA BROKE THIS Y WE STORM DID “THAT LAST AIGHT, Oscar! Danconiut! waty DIDNT MOM WAKE ME? SHE Knows 2 CANT SLEEP DURING Yo OIONT HEAR ( THONDER AMD LIGHTNING LasT Niet? Boy! You NENER saw SUCH LIGHTNING! ‘MR. GUNN, LBELIEVE. LDIDN'T BOTHER TO SEND MY NAME IN BECAUSE I'VE GOT A BIG THING ON ICE FOR YOU. MY COMPANY \S ISSUING A NEW POLICY AND WE'RE JUST LETTING A FEW PROMINENT MEN IN ON \T= JUST THE BIG FELLOWS. BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO WORK FAST NOT WANTING TO SEND IN HIS: NAME. I'D BETTER LOOK DOGGING HIS FOOTSTEPS, POP COMES FACE TO FACE WITHA BIG SURPRISE ~o-~~ EINE! ('A GOIN’ OUTSIDE FER & MINUTE-I'VE GOT A SMART (DEA! GOOD BUSINESS ON EURS So FAR, SAM ~ LETS Take TH’ OAyY OFe AN’ come! re. HELLO, Fos | HELLO! HELLO!