The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 12

te ~ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929 _ TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES LETTER [paaly + THERE'S A SHOE HAVE You ” wee mre: REESE THAT FITS YOU SOMETHING JUST You WANT A SHOE LARG i = By RODNEY DUTCHER Hampden Watch company of Canton, - PERFECTLY ~ LER? MAt'S AV TRACTIVE = & NRIDE ‘ (NEA Service Writer) ©. will similarly be moved over to RI A BIT SMALLER ? rete And " Washington, Sept. 26.—-American make a million dollar watches an- SNUG AND STILL GIVES er, u SMALL and American man stipend Tue FOOT PLENTY TY suok - Ste pour into Rueda’ with in. OF ROOM To MOVE ASMALL SHOE Oe ty mae. AROUND — ar plan of economy at 15 months. ansion is being cost $50,000,000. Nizhni- tious), e ae rod is to become the Russian rant for next year calls a There the Ford Motor com- increase in » will build a plant to make 2 a year, and another fac- 0.009 tractors. The ‘on the contract be built around Ss after European bidders would require four Purchases in the supplied by the Ri cureau in Wa ‘iseal year: Ss anything are tech- lance contracts which the s made with about 30 Amer- 1926. For instance, Russia plans 1926-27 her coal production in three 1927-28. er latest technical asstst- made th the Allea company, provides for the nee of 28 American engineers First 10 mont ear, $84,000,000. forec of about $100,090,000 ‘The pre-war figure sian coal fields, 1 $25,000,000. Getting Expert Advier Much of this incre | healthy internal development for Rus- Other teehnical assistance contracts sia. Two 5 ago sho bh provide that Ford shall give technical | 182,500,000 worth of Aime a rc trial machinery. In the t re struction of the tomobile factory; 1 erecting fer- WELL-1 LEAR TWAT You AN’ OSSIE BURIED fehinery for the same period si i Y TE UATCHET= suRE-- se from $7,090,000 to $21.0 § =" E Atsoog the Soviets i 5 to cost a a billion dollars. THATS THE WAy— ing contracts with Amer r Ci r & Co. in constructin; YOU CANT GET me Mave been a $30,000,000 order wi Dnieper hydroelectric power BEST OF d Motor company for ¢ ant with 800,000 horsepower capac- Hin 8 in the next four y - ity—largest in Europe—at a cost of $000,000 order with the Balc $100,000,000; Stuart, James & Cook in Motive works, a large contr rebuilding old coal mines and open- the Westinghouse company, a deal for ing ones; Radio Corporation of $26,000,000 worth of equipment General Electric, and something li $10,000,000 worth of tractor: tional Harves! Tractor compani Russia is now fourth among foreigy BUT IF ANYMuNe | | 7 SEE YOU AN YES, YENOU NOMA ENER cones uP | |/156 AGE FRIGNOS ) ALWAYS TOLD ME AGAIN TN GONNA Gi ASS) A SOFT ANSWER ° @ she is regarded as the prospective market for ted machinery and equipment. Her a $2 10,000 apartment house and public buildings program for Moscow. Other American concerns will engage on of more than $1,509,000,000 in c ying out irrigation projects, in 1930 alone, and of $8.000,000,000 for building baking plants, erecting sew- 1929-33. ing A check of the facts and figures Soviet aniline industry, building roads, to indicate that Russia is de-/ constructing foundries, and various d to build up her whole other enterprises. r A number of parties of engineers, numbering from three or four to a ffrom the Ansonia Clock company of score or more, have already left for THE PAPERS SAY YOU WHY THAT'S THE PBrooklyn, which will be moved to Moscow under these contracts. WERE ATTACKEO OR ke BOY WHO PULLED US Russia to manufacture a million Incidentally, of about 1,000 tourists SOMETHING BY A NUT QUT OF THE MUD WITH larm clocks and half a million wall| who visited Moscow last year some 93 IN “OUR OFFICE. IT'S 7 ‘clocks a year. A plant of the Ducber-| per cent were Americans. ALL OVER THE FRONT PAGE WITH HIS PICTORE nd New York, Sept. 26—In the world can believe a few midgets, a snake ‘of bearded ladies, midgets. giants and | ch : er ane some other ee: a P __ | perform here are one or two legi- ther freaks—as in the social world te half-men-half-women. There there once was a ‘400. | may be a few more, These bona fide “strange people.” But the good people who pay their from Zipp the What-Is-It to Tom! dimes and walk through the gate 'Thumb, constituted the aristocracy of | have found this freak a particularly earnivalia. They might e been | alluring one. The paid customers go a attooed ; about wondering whether it is a man from their} or a woman and invariably buy the Mows—but they were legiti- | little sealed books which promise to Mately “queer, odd and unusual.” Inj “tell them the secret '‘® word, they were freaks. Their sal- | former's life. aries were in keeping with their * * * traction values. They did not “pla At Dreamland Park. for instance, pthe street fairs and the a the girl with the elephant skin, the Pa rubber man and Woo Foo arc among They traveled to the | the leading revolters. Harry, the man corners of the earth. The cap- | who is turning to stone, isn’t turning 3 of Europe were as common to | so fast but what he has time to resent them as Coney Island. The major | i s bid for their presence. It seems that the slick inventors Alas, there came a synthetic era! | have figured out some very interest- Gin was synthetic, food was synthetic | ing illusions. There can seem to be (—and, invention being what it is, a double-bodied lady, for instance, f became synthetic. Racketeers | where actually there is but one single- ‘stepped into a grand old business, | bodied femme. Coney has at least one /Placed on the map by P. T. Barnum. | place where a large number of the “these strange and unusual peo- | ange people” are strange only be- found themselves competing | cause mirrors make them so, and the ith manufactured and fake “won- | show manager doesn’t deny his triek- : of the worl ery. __ Wherefore, those corners of Broad-| But what's the use of being born y and those side strects of Coney, | with two heads, an elephant skin, an benches of Luna and those /| ostrich beak or a third eye if these hs of Steeplechase, where gather in | peculiarities can be—and are—repro- ner time the cream of freakdom, | duced by illusion? boiling with rumors of impend-| Hence the particular revolt of the war. Up in the Broadway office | freaks, with promise of trouble ahead. mgs where the better-class GILBERT SWAN. do business and around the | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc. of Coney, the word has been [passed that the aristocracy of freak- * Will not stand for the syntivesie| YOUR ya sion ae furting their racket; u freax business. Beeatine bre tne rier won:| CHILDREN the up-and-up freaks of America likely to organize and name a y of Will Hays of reakdor, mak. & Alerts ipg sure that only dyed-in-the-wool oma Gerveales get “spots” on the important be) Often the causes of anger tantrums ee | are obscure in children. When this 4 you, me and the sidestow , is the case, they are pretty hard to mb, it's the amazing invasion of | deal with for often the cause can be alf. half-woman freaks that's | traced back to some real trouble that the most trouble. Sex being | seemed to make no impression at the fs, in the sideshow world as; time it happened. Novels or the plays, the half-| Then later on, for apparently no Mf-woman stunt has been aj reason at all, or because of some attraction. And, so I'm told, | trifling irritation, the storm bursts in of the easiest to fake. all its fury of the per- cba thst it. THY | what we Retained After all, child to nurse | anger better if he than nce, or better silt be Te 1 is child # 8 fond thing and i f Pi i igs nu 7 q sen} fs