The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1929, Page 10

1, WASHINGTON iu LETTER NEY DUTCHER i, rvice Writer) s Washington, Oct. 11—If it had not } fen for the active efforts of a vet- }etan American newspaperman, Prin Minister MacDonald prob: t znot have made his importz ( ythe United States. Ap | 2 gidea never occurred to anyone else H ¢ Mr. Edward Price Bell, who was for Hees years correspondent in Loncon * qXor the Chicago Da ews, sold the | } suggestion to MacDon: # fyfirst to advise Preside: 9" ¢MacDonald would like to c 19. Bell is a man about 60 j bord Northcliffe called hi 4 ylournalist America ev 4 gfope.” After studying and writi 4 ¢ bout international 4 's for thr 1 decades, Bell came to the conclusion S| g® Year ago that Anglo can P ) ¢#ions were in an unu } ga@nd that it was very much worth + ge@omebody's while to to head off ble war between the two cour fries which might in time develop if tahe situation were allowed to go from bad to worse. Sounded Out S' j, He talked to Hoover : it most of the more ‘an and British is- | men. gdinderstanding and near distrust be- yween the two countries were deplor- | ible. Hoover thought it was largely pup to the newspapers to change pub- Bie opinion. Incidentally, former # President Coolidge once expressed an ¢fdentical idea to your correspondent. { Hoover told Bell that he w: ly anxious to sec nav: reduced in both countr that increased armaments we: an unjustifiable economic felt the same wa) sailed for London, talking a ¢ route with former Secr Kelloge. Bell was on a journalistic mission good will. thought that if the heads of the | 1 WAS JUST READING IN THE PAPER ABOUT AN OLD SCHOOL MATE OF MINE THAT MADE MILLIONS — THAT'S ANOTHER ONE. ae: WHAT'S THE MATTER W! — ate i) cuckoo — oR WS THIS FELLOW WAS JUST A NUMB SKULL — KNEW NOTHING = HOW DO THESE FELLOWS WITH NO BRAINS AT ALL. GET THERE - AND ME WITH ALL THE BRAINS 1 GET NOWNERE= | two governments didn't have brains | enough and power enough to keep us |out of war, something was very | wrong,” he told your correspondent. “Until we could establish the prin- cipie that no war could occur between us we were in greater or lesser peril.” He found an impression in England | that Hoover was unfriendly to the British and set out to correct it. He recruited many of his old friends on the British press, including the fam- ous J. L. Garvin of the London Ob- server, to help in the effort to create a better understanding of American motives. vin credited Bell with g away a general misconcep- led him “the best unof- mbassador the American peo- | ple t to our people.” Other | British newspapers heaped praises on him. SAX |'VE GOT MORE SENSE THAN ALL THOSE FELLOWS EVER THOUGHT OF — BRAINS , ANDY -| BUT You DON'T USE SENSE = 1 MAVEN'T ANY, SENSE ? Bell first proposed the Washington | trip to Prime Minister Stanley Bald- | win, who said that he would “love | see the president and go over f interest to our two peo- cards face up on the Baldwin regarded “a frank xe of views of the greatest and authorized Bell to re- to Hoover. Bell did. Sir mberlain, minister of for- was enthusiastic over the were other British states- " the exception of Lloyd GEE=SINCE IVE BEEN SO MANY PLACES WiTA UNCLE HARRY & LIKE W\STORY AND GeosRaPpy BETTER THAN ALL THE REST OF NY STUDIES PUT TOGETHER — with George. MacDonald Was Eager Baldwin was voted from office in he elections and Bell turned to the ‘new premier, MacDonald, who told him to tell Hoover that he was eager | to go to Washington. Bell promptly sailed for the United States and de a full report to Hoover. Unof- messages were then exchanged ‘en the two capitals and Mac- | Donald's journcy was arranged. Bell was born in Parke county, Ind., <lucated at Wabash College and newspaper work in Terre a He has covered wars, rebel- ions and race riots and has lectured NY WARDEST SWUDY =6ee! T KNOW TUL FAIL IN IT y of | widely in English public schools about y the importance of Anglo-American | friendship. He continues to hold a high position with the Chicago Daily News. : New York, Oct. 11.—Ninety per cent | q0f all women visitors to New York e7 an immediate becline for Fifth @venue and its very feminine shops. »» And thousands come from every aWhich way with no other intention to buy some smart clothes, and haps to take in a few shows. , Fifth avenue, more than glad to is prepared to a mortgage on athe family farm—if possible. But eWhether or not they go in for heavy e¢Pendinz, women secm—for some or other—to get a consider- pAble thrill out of merely looking things which cost a lot of moncy A recent check on such matters, un- in some first hand and startling da On what a “sugar papa” can expect to spend if his “sweet cookie” decides gt? Tun wild. s* * bY For instance, there was a shop there $18-a-pair chiffon hose hap- wPened to be merely “a specialty.” So fragile they were that almost any qitlight accident would have caused at $7.50 worth of damage. a. Of course, if you care to be a bit meemevacent. this same place could Produce similar hose with lace in- Slee 2 815 to $250 0 One was a at $500. Imagine eetting a ; fun in a $500 pair of stockings! * ay Arriving at the top floor of one of (the ultra-ultra booteries, we discoy- ered little trifles in evening rs outfit. So that a little item of $1800 is not unusual at this place, so i was informed. Grandma's flannel night-gown may cost all of two-bits, considering - gothat it was probably made upon the ‘yiamily sewing machine. But the next ‘at $150 a pair. Of course, the well- ! — girlie must have a pair for Servieg.ins small wonder that children time about learning inde- » Every ounce of initiative might possess, as a rule, is kept by our over-civilized meth- of caring for our off-spring, and they attain their majority heads because they the way we expected. as sensible to water until Placo we visited showed nighties at $125 and upward. If you wished to sec something “reaily very nice,” the price was $250. 13 THAT SO? WELL, SUST LISTEN XO THIS—" ANYONE WITHOUT EVES, CAN SEE THAT, TEN YEARS FROM NOW, GOING PLACES IN A FUVVER WILL BE AS ANTIQUATED AS TAKING A TRIP IN AN OXCART \S TO-DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD 1S BECOMING AIR=MIND ” WHO WROTE It? SOME PUBLICITY AGENT WORKING FOR THE AIRPLANE 1S WHERE THE MOTOR CAR WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO WHEN FORD WAS TELLING LIVERY STABLES TO SELL THEIR HOSSES AND ek Perhaps I had no business looking INSTALL FLIVVERS at such theses-end-those in the first \place, and it may have served me |right—but when TI discovered the \ cheapest one was $85, I didn't care \if T never saw them again. Whereas a mere corset was to be | had from $100 up. * * * Once you get into the fur depart- ment, prepare to crack a safe. An ermine by any other name is just as high, Oh yes, you can leave quite a few edd dimes from the penny bank if you start out to do Fifth avenue | “right.” ANEW AIRPLANE. STOCK ISSUE? se * Speaking of ermine reminds me that Broadway's most. erminesque events are invariably under the direction of Gilbert Miller, a play producer who moved over to London and, hence, no longer looks upon the result of what he started. A Gilbert Miller first night in the theater is always a signal to take out all the expensive appointments men- tioned above and show them off be- fore an equally swanky set of neigh- bors. se & The story goes of two Broadway- ese boys who were standing in front of a Miller opening one night. “Dot's a two million dollar house tonight,” said the first. “You're mashooka—dot house only hold a fifty thousand dollar top—at five bucks a seat.” agreed the gent with the box office mind. “Noo-noo—I dun't mean what they | | paid to see the show. I mean what they paid to be the show.” GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929,:NEA Service, Inc.) most convincing truth that children are slower about developing initiative and independence in countries that | lead in civilization and in classes that | are supposed to lead in education and culture, Character Built Too Late Either civilization has gone off at tangent in allowing its youth to ma. ture late—in character, I mean—or it is still in that crude state of perfec- tion that leaves much to be desired in handling its children. 1 am inclined to think that the lat- ter is the case; furthermore, I be- lieve that radical though some of the new methods of child training may seem, they are on the right track and the new idea of self-expression will, when properly understood, rec- press | tify much of what has heretofore have my doubts about what -we call civiliza- race, for it is a been very, very wrong. I wish that mothers could read the word “self-expression” without the in- evitable reservation it has been treated to since its inception. Self-expression doesn’t mean pull- ing the dog's tail, rmashing the china, or robbing the ice box. It doesn't mean license. It does, however, mean liberty. We'll not call the solicitous care the child receives, iP 8 i wie 1 DON'T SAY THAT YOU HAVEN'T SENSE — BUT YOUR SENSE 1% TOO FINE = oo EXALTED — WHICH 18 NOT HALF AS USEFUL AS COMMON, \FYOU HAD FINS YOUD BE HOOKED ON “OUR FIRST Swim. Four QuT OF EVERY FivE- WHO PLAY THER MONEY OW AVIATION WILL SOME CUT WITH A SURT ON — WE WAS IN AIS NOU HAVE A NICE LITTLE $18,000 NEST-EGG,5S0 DON'T GO UP IN ‘THE AIR AND THROW YOUR GOLDEN, HUMPTY: DUMPTY OVERBOARD IN A. TRICK PARACHUTE, FOR IT'S rs ONE: THOUSAND TO ONE THAT ITLL Get ~e SCRAMBLED - A