The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1931, Page 4

| _faxiver, and the pedestrian. * “safety idea” if any definite progress in automobile ac- An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck + President and Publisher a8 second class mail matter. George D. Mann ...,..... Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, pet year ........+.+ Dally by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year Cn state, outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail outside of North Dakot Weekly by mail in state, per year .... Weekly by mail in state, three years . Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ... 98 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Fifth Epoch Bismarck, on June 2, will enter another epoch in the history of its transportation facilities, for on that day the first regularly-scheduled airmail plane will arrive here and a service in the air will be added to the land and water services of the past. First of all the regular transportation services which this city has known was the steamboat. Plowing up the Missouri, it formed a safe and comparatively easy mode of travel in the days when the prairies were trackless and when a hostile Indian might hide behind any bush. It served well and faithfully and not until the railroads came did the glory of our water transportation dim. ‘Then came the overland stage and freight lines. With the rush to dig gold in the Black Hills, there was no time to wait for railroads to be constructed. Adventurous men poured into the country and transportation was needed to take in supplies. Bismarck has known “bull trains” a mile long. wending their slow and painful way southward to the .crossing of the Missouri river and the cities which the gold discovery built in South Dakota. In the historical society museum may be found pans used in placer mining during that period and scales for weighing the gold which came out of the Black Hills country. It is hard to realize that there was a day when raw gold was as common a medium of ex- change in Bismarck as ever it was in the Klondike. Close on the heels of the bull trains came the rail- roads, pushing westward across the prairies to create this great Northwest Empire. The river boats have gen- erally been discarded, although a few remain with us. ‘There is hope that a renaissance is coming but it ap- pears to be still many years away. The bull trains are gone forever so that the railroad, of all the early means of transportation, is the only one to remain. Because of its facility it may never be replaced for it probably will continue to be the most efficient means of overland transportation for bulky articles in large quantity. Long after the railroads came and within the memory of young persons there came the bus lines, carrying both freight and passengers. They fell in the same gen- eral classification of overland travel as the bull train and the railroad but they used new equipment, offered greater mobility and speed and served a somewhat dif-) ferent purpose / Now comes the airplane, giving scheduled service in an entirely new element. It is the fifth epoch in a drama) which began with the conquering of the west and which! continues to play an important part in the happiness,| well-being and success of the descendants of those early pioneers, for the story of transportation is the story of trade routes and the story of trade routes is the saga of the commercial and cultural development of the world. Bismarck will welcome the new airmail service as one which puts it in the forefront of cities in the Northwest. | Just as the man living in Bismarck now reads the same} books, hears the same music, enjoys the same drama (via the motion picture) as his brother in New York, 50) can he transact business or travel from place to place with the same speed and facility. The airmail will help! to maintain Bismarck’s status as a modern city. For this reason, if for no other, it deserves the sup- port of the community. This city will take pride in help- ing to make this new service successful by its patron- age. But that patronage should not be given for reasons of. pride. It will be much saner for Bismarck and other cities on the new airline to take the advice of Ben F. Myers, federal official who will supervise its operation. ‘When Mr, Myers urged local businessmen to study the airmail and see where they can make best use of it as) an aid to business, he sounded the keynote of the air- mail program in America. To use the airmail once or twice is not enough. If the service is to be worthwhile it should be used regularly and profitably. ‘The business of the great air-mail lines which now form a network across the country is predicated on use- fulness and service, The service to Bismarck should prove to be just as helpful to the people of Bismarck as it has to the people of other communities, The airmail is not a fad byt a permanent part of the transportation system of the country. Bismarck soon will come to recognize it as such, Safety Rests With The Individual During 1930, insurance companies paid out $300,000,000 @s a result of automobile accidents—only a little less) than was paid out for fire loss. The automobile death toll of 32,000 was about 7,000 more than were killed in industrial accidents. In both waste of life and cost to the public—casualty insurance rates are a direct reflection of accident sta- tisties—carelessly and incompetently handled automo- biles constitute one of our foremost problems. At one time it was believed that the ends of safety could be advanced by improved roads, cars and the like. But experience has given this theory a sad blow. It is not uncommon for some new and important develop- ment—such as four-wheel » better tires, or lower center of gravity in a car—to result in more accidents, due to the public overrating the new safety factor. For THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE eo eeeee $7.20 oe 7.20 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931 Peace Gardens Businessmen everywhere are interesting themselves in the project to establish peace gardens along the 4,000 miles which mark the line between Canada and the United States. In so doing they not only demonstrate that feelings but that they have an appreciation of one of the fundamentals of prosperity. would be much lower were it not for the necessity of paying interest and retiring the principal of this huge sum, we get a clear demonstration of the value of peace, for every dollar of that huge debt was piled up during the World war. There were some 12 billions more, but that amount has been paid off since the close of hos- tilities. The peace-garden scheme is to plant, at intervals along the border, gardens of flowers which would bear perpetual witness to the amity and good will prevailing between the people of the two countries. It is a good deal better to have such memorials than to have frown- ing fortresses facing each other on different sides of the international boundary line. ‘The present peace between Canada and the United States has prevailed for 116 years. When last they fought they were children, nationally speaking, and it may be that they were quarrelsome, as children are. Now, however, they are grown folks and the Eagle and Maple Leaf have no difficulty in adjusting their dis- putes. has occurred to upset the peace in those 116 years. When the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was signed | December 24th, 1814, John Quincy Adams, one of the | signatories said, “May the gates of the temple of Janus; | closed here never be opened during the century.” Time! | and again the doors have creaked on their hinges but reason ruled and war was averted. The Rush-Baggot jagreement of 1817—“The most striking international {document on record’—provided for the withdrawal of jall ships of war from the Great Lakes except “four ships ‘for Great Britain ard four for the United States, nonc! |of which should exceed one hundred tons burden nor carry more than one cannon of eighteen pounds.” Six businessmen as a class are capable of the so-called finer | ‘When one stops to think that the public debt of the | United States is now some $16,000,000,000 and that taxes | It would be fallacy, however, to assume that nothing; | {months’ notice in writing by either party could con- ‘clude this agreement, but it has never been and prob- lably never will be abrogated. Prior to the Ashburton Treaty of 1842, tension between jthe United States and Canada was intense and the ar-/ {rangement made by Lord Ashburton for Canada and. |Daniel Webster for the United States was regarded by} {each nation as unjust. Later history proved it to be| |eminently fair to both sides. | In the settlement of the Oregon boundary, the cry of! | “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” elected Polk President. After thinking demands over calmly, both sides agreed to con-| |tinue the boundary along the 49th parallel of latitude. | | The Treaty of Washington in 1871 sought to settle a multitude of minor as well as major disputes. The prin- |cipal question between Great Britain and the United States was as to the extent of damage done to our ship- ping during the Civil War, known as the “Alabama | Claims,” and this was left to arbitration, At Geneva the| | verdict was rendered that Great Britain should pay us) fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars. England | ‘was dumbfounded to be mulcted to such an extent but; {her Prime Minister arose to the occasion and in the |House of Commons, Gladstone sounded the key note of ‘arbitration when he said, “Although I may think the | sentence was harsh in its extent and unjust in its basis, |T regard the fine imposed on this country as dust in the |balance compared with the moral value of the example} |set when these two great nations of England and Amer- |ica, which are the most fiery and most jealous in the world with regard to anything that touches national) 'honor, went in peace and concord before a judicial tri- bunal rather than resort to the arbitrament of the/ sword.” i | | | Some Railroad Statistics Revolutionary changes have taken place within the railroad industry in the last decade, based on a compar- ison between the first two months of 1921 and 1931. | During that period in 1921 the lines earned $876,000,-; 000, and in 1931, $702,500,000—a decline of 20 per cent. Passenger earnings went down almost fifty per cent. $54,250,000 in the same two months of 1931—an increase | of 21 per cent. It will be wondered how the railroads were able to} stay in business in the face of such a record, and at the) same time improve their service to the public. The an- swer is simple—through an intensive program of econ- omy and cost-cutting. Operating expenses were 32 per| cent less in January and February of 1931 than in 1921.) In January, 1921, the railroads had 1,805,000 employes, | and in January, 1931, but 1,334,000—471,000 less. It 4s; estimated that the total unemployed in the nation num-| ber about 5,000,000. Consequently, profitless conditions | within a single great industry have apparently been re-| sponsible for almost 10 per cent of unemployment. | ‘These figures tell a story of interest to every citizen, | them as an argument to justify increased freight rates | answer. It is a man with a true understanding of life and) philosophy who notes that the putt a golfer never fails to count is the one that sinks. Editorial Comment rinted below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- ‘une's policies. Time and Beauty (Minneapolis Journal) At the foot of rapids in the Hisu River, in Japan, the} ; Stream is spanned by a great steel and concrete bridge, of modern design, underneath which the current, passes to a gentle flow between wooded banks. There, on oc- casion, takes place “The Procession of Ten Thousand Lanterns.” As the spectator sits on a tea house balcony,: gazing in the velvet dark through the trees toward the quiet waters, he may see a glowing globe, and then an- other, and another, move down stream from the vicinity of the bridge. Unceasingly these Japanese lanterns, il- lumined with candles within, float down the river, the red glow visible for half a mlie—entrancing, captivating in its soundless beauty, For two hours the procession of the lanterns is visible. Each lantern is on a little wooden float, and they follow steadily in series, without cessation, all of that time—set in motion each by patient hands the same reason removing hazards from a stretch of highway will sometimes result in more accidents oc- curring there as a result of more careless driving. Now sefety authorities recognize that the most im- portant factors are not roads and automobiles, but the They must absorb the eident prevention is to be made. The difficulties in spreading this idea are obvious—at present about 40,000,- 000 people drive the 27,000,000 cars in this country. So the problem comes down to this—a sense of re- sponsibility on the part of the individual motorist and pedestrian. Users of the streets and highways have it in their power to make those streets and highways safe —no one else can do it for them. ‘Well, if the negro population is decreasing in Dixie, machines. that means 8 new market for washing we that never fail to measure time and distance for the lovely effect upon the onlookers. It is an old spectacle, though that is not the word for it, since it partakes wholly of quiet beauty, and not at all of the spectacular. Perhaps the eyes that can see beauty are different eyes, here and there about the world. Perhaps there are widely different conceptions of the beautiful. And perhaps there is explanation, in the variance of taste, for the disappointment of Princess Kikuko of Japan, when she looked upon Niagara, and for the re- mark of a member of Prince Takamatsu’s entourage: ani (ei was somewhat gaudy; it is ike gilding ‘The next tidal wave may be explained by the fact that all the old salts reposing in Davy Jones’ locker are writh- ing in agonized shame over the American bluejacket who, Taxes in 1921 totaled $44,800,000, as compared with) ©' New York, May 28—Notes from a convenient cuff: Margaret Ayers Barnes, winner of this year’s Pulitzer prize for the best novel of the year, did her first writ- ing while propped up in bed following an accident. .... And the drama critics are calling the Pulitzer play award “the surprise” of the year. Morton Downey, the radio balladist, put on “Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?” after all these years—and the other day received letters from a dozen mothers thanking him, and commenting that their own “wander- ing boys” had heard it and came home. . . . Whereas, meeting Amos and Andy a few di go, they told me that after their “sob” sequence about “Ruby Taylor” they had re- ceived, among other things, half a dozen floral wreaths “in case she died.” .. . These two fabulously pop- ular adcasters appeared as mas- ters of ceremony recently at a party for Leo Carillo, who returned to the screen under the Tiffany independent banner. And Amos told that good old yarn about the fellow who had been drink- ing too much prohibition hooch and went to a doctor for an examination. ‘The doctor made a test of his blood and the patient inquired as to what he had found. ... Well, I'll tell you,” said the medico, “I'd be willing to give you $50 a case for your blood as it now stands.” By the way, Carillo promises to bring his favorite role in “Lombardi, Ltd.” to the screen soon. And while this y interest nobody ide of New York, there are now said to be 32,000 speakeasies in Man- hattan, and something like a billion dollars a year are spent in them... . The cost of alleged “protection” is placed at $32,000,000, though I have- n't the slightest idea who gets it. Ran into an odd character the other day. He calls himself “Corn- bread Stokes” and he comes from Harlan, Ky. .. . “Cornbread” is the last of the “bonecracker.” ... And if | you don’t know what that is, well, I had just about forgotten, too..... But many of the old minstrel show fans will recall “Mr. Bones”... and how he rattled the clappers to- gether. Well, “Cornbread” Stokes used to sit in the sunshine of his native state whether or not he is employed by a railroad or owns! and “crack” the bones of cows and railroad stock. The railroads are attempting to use| horses, drying them in the sun and peddling them to showmen and na- tives. .... Rex Cole, the big refrig- to be imposed upon business, and the rest of the business) Gator man, heard about him. and and industrial world is denying that this is a legitimate! prought him on to New York to join the Cole hill-billy band. en to the road this season. without an “Uncle Tom” trot Variety, the theatrical weekly, re- ports that no “Tom” shows have tak- And Hold the Fort, for I Am Coming! By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine ‘The product called insulin, which is an extract of the islands of Langer- hans in the pancreas, is associated in the minds of most people ev- clusively with the treatment of dia- betes. The pancreas is a small organ ly- ing near vne stomach and liver. It develops a secretion which pours into the intestines and aids in the digestion of protein. The islands of a secretion which goes into the blood and which is concerned with the proper use of sugar by the body. suggested that insulin might be used in aiding people who were under- nourished and weak in developing greater energy and increasing their weight. Far more people seem to be concerned with decreasing than with increasing weight, but it is quite likely that there will always be a tremendous number of people who, because of illness of one type or an- other, may want to gain weight rapidly. In some cages there is not suffi- cient fat in the interior of the body to support the organs properly. The development of increased weight in such individuals gives better suppoft to the organs and with better support comes increased health. Recently, Dr. R. D. Metz has made an investigation as to the manner in Langerhans in the pancreas develop | In 1925, a German named Falta; Daily Health Service Insulin Aids Undernourished as Well.as Diabetes Victims which insulin may be employed to bring about increase in weight. In cases in ‘vhich it is most effective, the glands ot internal secretion in the individual do not seem to be acting Properly. The method involves injec- tion into the body of small doses of insulin twice daily, the dose being gradually increased according to the condition of the patient. The patient takes a good dict during the course of the injections and it is important to make certain that he is receiving enough sugar in the diet in order that, he may not develop symptoms of hypoglycemia or lack of sugar, which are fairly serious, |__In hypoglycemia, the pulse becomes rapid and the vision blurred. There is nervousness, hunger, and thirst. These symptoms disappear promptly after the verson is given sugar. The drinking cf considerable quantities of orange jnice or grape juice prompt- Jy causes the symptoms to disappear. Undernourished individuals begin to gain weignt promptly when inject- ed with insulin ag4 the weight in- creases fairly steactty up to a certain point. When this maximum is reach- ed the insulin appears to lose its effect and may, of course, well be discontinued. Cases are reported in | Which undernourished individuals have made average gains of two and one-quarter pounds a week and have been enabled to take up their work and to continue satisfactorily, al- though previously confined to bed papemse of malnutrition and weak- ess. ing through the town, I'd just as soon live in the big city. * * * The army of telescope manipulators who used to let you take a peep at Venus and other planets for five cents find suddenly that their cash cus- tomers now want to look at the spires of the new skyscrapers. Only when night falls is there much interest in the stars. During daylight hours, in- terest is chiefly in casting an eye upon the Chrysler or Empire State peaks. Broadway now has its “quarter-in- the-slot” movie houses, as well as its automatic restaurants. Patrons enter through a turnstile, after dropping their coins in a slot..... They are known as the Trans-Lux theaters, and are ultra-modernistic. . They are to be “little theater: devoted to news reels, the larger of two seat- ing about 200 persons. . . . Projection on the screen is obtained from back of the screen, rather than from the front via a new device known as “daylight” screens. **_* ® In fact, I sometimes think it’s a sort of timidity that keeps gents like myself in the role of eternal reporter. In this guise one can sit back and admire the displays of strength in JOHN PAUL JONES WAS BORN IN SCOTLANO, WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE US, NAVY, SERVED AS A REAR ADMIRAL IN THE RUSSIAN NAVY, OIEO AND WAS BURIED IN FRANCE, AND (00 years LATER WAS REMOVED TO ANNAPOLIS. in @ recent written examination, declared that a sextant officiates at sea funerals, a capstan is the commander of a vessel, and a scupper is a drinking cup.—Washing- ton Evening Star. THIS CURIOUS WORLD other humans and glow with sym- pathy at their weaknesses. __ The reportorial capacity is a highly | impersonal one, requiring chiefly | one’s presence on the sidelines of life; always observing, always watching the parade go by but rarely being part of it; always scratching for the drama that lies beneath most skins. / The old adage should be changed to read, “Scratch 90 per cent of hu- manity and you'll find a drama.” ' GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) —————____ |__Seane oe Popular desires are no criteria of the real need; they can be deter- mined only by deliberative consider- ation, by education, by constructive leadership.—President Hoover, * * * |__ A war can never end wars—Edward E. Spafford. ** * There is a fearful indictment in that word under-consumption, It seems a challenge to our whole sys- tem of civilization—Senator Borah, ** * Lord Astor's interests weren't the same as mine when I married him, but they became so soon afterwards. —Lady Astor. * * : Law cannot be in advance of the moral standard of the community.— Lord Hewart, lord ‘chief justice of England. Swi s a Floor trading on the stock exchange has most of the .characteristics of plain crap shooting and few if any more redeeming features—Melvin A. Traylor. alt SS NOTICE FOR BIDS Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of Mercer, N. D., will receive bids for finishing the interlor of the main floor of their church according to specifications on hand with H, Berg, Trustee, Mercer, N, Dak. Also separate bids for wiring and decorating. Bids to close Monday forenoon at 10:30 a, m. June Ist, 1931. All bids subject to approval or re- jection, 5/20-23-25-28 Stickler Solution i oO i i { If the twelve circles are set as shown in the drawing, with three on a side and additional coin is put on each comer, there will be five coins on each side of the square. au : PITCHING FOOL :-: SYNOPSIS: Harry Rushe, big league Home Run Lape ‘grind to make a “ one ambition is to be itleman and scholar” of his kid brother, Be: Bert's itcher. He quits college and ears love— a big league for six seasons in little bush leagues and some fast minor lea; makes big money on the one girl he wan! its turns him down. the yt = had plenty of luck except And now comes a chance for him to try out for the Chicago Loopers in one of the big leagues. BID to try out for a big league When this Mr. Borden sprang that on me, perhaps he expected me to rush up and give him a hug! ‘And perhaps I felt like it! — But I nodded my head slowly as if thinking it over, and he seemed to read my thoughts, for he showed me his creden- tials. to give me a try. Sometimes a player butts into training in’the hopes of getting in, and perhaps he gets a chance to make good, but it happens more often in fiction than in reality. Being asked to come along with the en ee try out is Cee you are given every oppor’ show what sort of goods you can de- Nou didn't up with Chal “You - mers, did cate ta Borden asked. Sgesey ths previous season, est 1e viot 5 “Not ett agreed to let him know before I signed up anywhere,” T explained. ] Big League! Borden explained a few inside ores about the outfit, “It's been quite a while since the Chicago copped @ pennant and still longer_since they got a World’s Series,” I “The sa reminded him. me, and more of it, goes to Detroit,” he answered, 8 at me. “Are you in any ition to kni a n ow what would be paid if I made it?” “I'm in no position to know how fast you'll play in the training—but you won’t go broke if you don’t even make the team, and you can al- ways fit into some fast minor league outfit. How about it?” “Of course V’ll be there and make a try for it,” I agreed. “That’s O, K.—see you next bush | on the training grounds,” he tol me. “By the way, you say you saw me in a dozen games—what’s your idea of my playing?” . “If I didn’t think there were pos- sibilities I wouldn’t ask you to make a try—you play good minor re ball—but when you get into a big league you get into fast ball, you know that.” “Yes, that’s why they are major leagues, but my brother tells me that he has seen a number of minor league games that were as fast as the big league contests.” “Sure, sure” he agreed, “and the amateur fisherman now and then gets a big one, but the skilled fish- erman gets more and bigger ones in the long run, I can’t make any guess about it, Mr. Rushe. You may be more fit than ever next spring, ‘and you may come down all shot—it depends on your health, ae mode of living and a lot of ings.” We shook hands on it. I didn’t want to seem childishly eager and I certainly didn’t want him to thi I wasn’t interested spough. I've often wondered it ne didn’t think I had @ lot cf gall, ar- guing away like that, instead of ac- cepting his bid at the ‘ery start, with three hearty cheers. The Gothams copped the pennant season. ‘That meant that my _ brother Harry would be in another World's Series. ‘The Pirates also copped the pen- nant, so it would be the Gothams uldn’t af- that. I wished that 1 could — be able to = @ few games where the coopess ed, 80 as to better size up the outfit, ut after a week of practice I ought to get a line on just how fast ball they played. I telephoned Chalmers and told him that I wasn’t signing with either himself or Hadley because I had a bid to try out for the major Icague. “say, why not be a big frog in @ small puddle?” he pleaded. “And pass up a chance for the pig jeasue? Be yourself.” I came acl “But you star in our outfit, why go back and be a rookie again?” “Because I am like quite a lot of ball players, I have an idea that I woul like to be in with the big sh”? PI Nagirally his arguments didn’t preva! Mr. Hadley came down to the midnight train to see me off, along with many of the boys on the team. He hadn't told any of them about my chance to try out for the big Jeague, but he got me aside with Red Flannigan and Pudge Waters, my two friends from the Orange League that I had brought on. “I want these boys next season, Bert,” he said, “so you needn't worry but what they’re all set.” Red and Pudge were delighted, but Pudge seemed to guess wouldn't be with the Al . “Say, Bert, you aren't going to play against us next season, are you?” he asked. " I won't be playing against you,” I assured him. “Wish him luck,” Hadley said. They guessed it at once. Rie Wagid cs 9 Bert? Going 10 the league?” Red asked. “Tve 4 asked to try for it, but never mind telling d.” it around.’ “Try for it? H—, you can make it without halg trying,” Red clared. l Me Marry? 1 And so I hopped the old rattler, Sra nt ane just, how Y would ins rand (in the, bal ball world a year ate. oP weve seemed good to get back N d I had time, as f pints yore to Worcester to see two sisters. My third sister ashington, I saw her, come Uj ‘No, 1 . A ‘y ie ‘buy out our corporation. Tt was too good an oj unity to miss, We ait agreed to sell. I took stage, if une to come up for & 4 e Harry hi ra the Gothams take the World's Series in four straight games from the Pirates. ‘Then I went down to Harry's Place, Cove View, for a few weeks. One day I told him about the Alli- son season—about the forged letter He was a “scout” all right, and evidently had authority —— ee and how I tad agreed to play al, season on a gambie, win the series or get no salary whatever. “You must be rolling in wealth or else a bigger fool than I ever smitfney call mo the pitching fool me the ,” T reminded him. rel . “You don’t have to play ball, you are fixed all right, You've got more eed dat ten men ieee ch in'’t say anything. a plenty, of luck, financially, and couldn’t kick about my success in the game, but luck sure deserted me when it came to winning the girl I wanted. | An Invitation | Dolly Dawson was going to launch a new show. This time she was all set. Her half of the pre- vious show had netted her plenty. But she wrote my lawyer et in touch with me and sent a letter which he forwarded to me. Dolly wanted me to come up for the final rehearsals and to be at the out-of-town opening. “You'll bring me luck, you always have,” she wrote. So I went to New York and saw Dolly. As usual, I made no pretense of knowing (esa | about the show business, but I did know enough to send for experts to work on if if it seemed weak. This time it looked as though Dolly had anothet nice seady “meal ticket” and it would be all her own. I was glad of it. After the dress rehearsal we went out to a place for dinner and re- taxation. Dolly had a couple of drinks, her first since starting rehearsals, and began to get sentimental again. enought baseball, chuek 4e for keeps ough baseball, chucl for keeps. ‘We'll get this show started and then take a run-out powder, what say?” she whispered as we watched the dancers, “I'm wed to baseball, Dolly, and she won't let me go.” Dolly made a little grimace. “Let's take « run around Europe this winter, how about it?” “Got to train—hope to make the big league,” I confided, and told her of my chance. Dolly whispered a naughty little swear-word, leaned over against me and began to coax me to chuck everything and run abroad with her for what she politely termed a “jolly little holiday.” And just then, passing close to me, was Mavis Merrill! At least, it was Mavis. That same man was with her. No doubt he was her husband by this time and her last name was something else. I wanted to spring up and speak to her, but lacked the courage. They ed through the door. Of all times in the world to sce my beloved Mavis. “what's up. Bert—did you see a ghost?” Dolly asked, still holding my hand, “No ghost, Dolly—and I'll con- sider very seriously your proposi- fe hi '—the two of us.” BRAZIL'S WAR MEASURE On May 28, 1917, the Brazilian chamber of deputies passed the first reading of the administration meas- ure revoking Brazil's neutrality in the war between Germany and the United States. The bill was amended to authorize the government to utilize German ships in Brazilian waters. During the debate on the bill, the greatest enthusiasm was shown in the cham- ber. The galleries were crowded with members of the diplomatic corps and other prominent persons. A Pacifist deputy who attempted to speak was interrupted by other deputies who cried, “The Germans are assassins.” On this day in Europe the Germans failed in three attempts to wrest Moronvilliers Heights from the French. The Italians, on their front, were successful in crossing the Timavo estuary and occupying San Giovanni. f BARBS i a... & It is no surprise to read that George Bernard Shaw is writing songs. He has put on airs before. * Kk OK You don’t have to go to Hollywood for screen tests, as anyone who has tried to adjust one on his window will testify. *x** * Wreckless barbers have made more clean cut young men than tailors. * * Then there's the undesirable citi- zen who, told to leave town, turned on his radio to get distance. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) FLAPPER, FANNY SAYs: Lots of girls are only a hop-skip- and-jump from a graceful figure. « 4 mh» a a