The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1937, Page 3

‘ T Typical Family Leads a Pleasant Life in Uncle Sam’s Typical Town U.S. Department of Agriculture Survey Names Beaver Dam, Wis. By NEA Service Beaver Dam, Wis.—This is Ameri- ca’s typical city. The U. &. depart- ment of agriculture, which has just completed a survey of 19 small cities, 140 villages and 66 farm counties se- Jected at random over the nation, says it is, The department considers Beaver Dam with its population of 9867 closest to the average in every réspect. Its average family averages 3.6 per- cons, the largest families being either in the highest income brackets or on relief. For the 453 families inter- viewed at random in Beaver Dam by the department’s bureau of home eco- nomics, the average income was $1,300. Only 10 per cent of the fam- illes interviewed have more than one wage earner. During some of the year \etudied, 11 per cent of Beaver Dam’s families had been on relief, Of those independent of relief, 66.9 per cent. received an income of less than $1,500 annually. ‘Wage earning families in Beaver Dam have an average income of $1,219 to spend each year; business ‘and professional families, $1,962; and clerical families, $1,747, the data : eee Fits Average Pattern ‘The way the lives of the\Irving G. > town, “The World's Greatest. County Fair” draws throngs to Beaver Dam each fall, Welch family here fit into design for| after he went to work for local manu- living described by the survey makes | facturers of barn equipment, Welch this father, mother, 11-year-old son,| married Miss Gertrude Brotkowsk!. George, and 65-year-old daughter,| Today she is 31, and he 35 with the Joan, a typical family of this typical | distinction of being one of three “old- timers” among the 110 men employed Twelve years ago, just four years|by his company. For years he has been cupola tender for the plant. And in that span he has become ac- customed to the scorching heat rising from his furnece, which melts all of the iron used in the foundry. Eight years ago the family moved “into the seven-room house they now occupy. Their rent is $20 a month, which is the exact figure which the it found to be the average for its average community. “But it's too much,” says Welch. A little wist- fully, Welch mentions that in 1930 he might have built his own home, but didn’t. This winter his family is to enjoy the comfort of oil burning stoves, which are being installed to replace coal stoves. * * * Home at Lunch Time The typical family spends a busy day.. The alarm clock rings at 7 a. m. Mrs, Welch prepares breakfast and serves it around the kitchen table. George usually starts for St. Peter's parochial school, where he is in the WRAP THIS UP! Chinchillas’ fur is smooth and rare, tt makes @ wrap kings proudly wears And for a drink ft for a king— A call for CALVERT is the thing! CONGRATULATION ou B0v snows A ee CLEAR HEADS {CLEAR HEADED BUYERS] CALL FOR alvert | WHISKIES bread and pastry from the Pat- Mrs, Welch makes sure that daughter, Joan, Bam, Wis. Mrs, Welch makes sure tht daughter, Joan, is getting along all right with supper, while Mr. Welch and son, George, get down to the business of eating. sixth grade, when father leaves for work. Then mother’s day begins in earnest, With little Joan busied with her dolls and their two carriages or rollicking with her puppy “Trixie,” Mrs. Welch washes dishes, bakes, makes beds, picks up last evening’s papers from the overstuffed velour davenport and chairs, cleans, washes or irons, according to weekly schedule. Judging from her basement larder, she cans most of the fruits and veg- etables which the family consumes during the winter. Much of the sup- ply is grown in her own garden. By 12:15 o'clock, she hes dinner ready, and father and George are home again. Afternoons afford time for mother to make all of Joan's clothes, some of George's and a few of her own, using the sewing machine before the dining room window. Bridge isn’t one of her interests. By 5 o'clock her husband and son are home for the day and there's suppe™ to get. Evening is pretty largely hobby- time. Father reads the daily paper which comes into his home. Mother picks up her crocheting or knitting for a few moments of relaxation be- fore tucking Joan into her crib. If George hasn’t a lesson to study for tomorrow, his father lets him work with him in his basement workshop. George's hobbies are his chemistry set and model airplanes, of which ne has at least half a dozen that wit! actually fly. Father does cabinet work, builds minature furniture for the children, knick-knacks. for his wife, and keeps the wagons, bikes, scooters, skates and toys in repair for all the kids in the neighborhood. Sometimes he takes his son hunting or fishing. Occasionally he plays soft ball or bowls. He plays schafkopf with his wife and their friends. Now and then they see a movie at Beaver Dam's one tiaeatte ** Lodge Work Takes Up Much Spare Time When friends come in, the kitchen may become a dance hall for the eve- ning. The Welches and their gues's are just as near to the world’s great- est dance bands as their radio. Per- haps once a month they go with|® friends for an evening of at some nearby roadhouse. Outside his home, which is unmis- takably Welch’s big concern, his inter- est revolves about his lodge. He is now serving his third term as presi- dent: of Aerie No. 1638, Fraternal Order of the Eagles. That responsi- bility (the lodge claims 600 members from the city and surrounding terri- requires considerable travel team. Mrs. Welch is devoted to the Chris- tian’ Mothers Soctety of St. Peter's church, and attends the auxiliary to her husband’s lodge the first and _— ee EE Take home some delicious terson Bakery. We make a spe- cialty of French bread. Four assorted loaves, 25c. BRING IN YOUR Skunks The season is now open We pay highest - market prices Bring them in now! Hides, Furs, Sheep Pelts, Scrap fren, and third Thursdays of every month, while father has his innings at home alone with the children. Like Longfellow's “Village Black- smith,” this typical American man “goes on Sunday to the church.” And 80 does his wife. Their son attends the regular children’s mass, as Joan will when she is old cnough. Both Parents Orphans Politics? Welch always has been a Democrat, and—“As fer as I'm con- cerned Roosevelt is O. K..” he de- clares in no uncertain terms. Bob Elson is Welch’s favorite radio sports announcer, Bing ‘Crosby and Bob Burns star performers in his opinion. Of course the careers of Fred MacMurray of the films, form- e* Beaver Dam boy, and of Madeline Horn, who has earned no mean fame for her ice-skating prowess, never lack in interest for Beaver Damians. Mrs. Welch, although thoroughly American, comes of Polish parent- age. Her husband is a mixture of German and Irish extraction. Welch knows the satisfaction which comes largely from self education. father having been killed, he was forced to leave school after complet- ing the seventh grade to help sup- port his family. But he was not sat- isfied to forget about study. He con- tinued studying and reading at home, took four years of manual training work and an additional three years of metal work at the Beaver Dam vocational school. Mrs. Welch, left an orphan at an early age, never had the privilege of study beyond eighth grade. “But if things go right, the Kids will get an education,” Welch vows. Welch, his wife, and the two children have life insurance. Welch has @ savings account in a local bank, but no checking account. Seek Rosebud Indian Who Slew Own Wife Nov. 12.—(P)— Charles W. Robertson and Frank Wickem, assist- ant federal district attorney, planned tw leave here Friday for Rosebud, 8. D., to arrest Paul Didier, Indian who they said had killed his wife with a club after a quarrel, CS Stray Dog Adopts Unfriendly Police Bismarck’s policemen are in a quandary. Wednesday a little, white fe- male fox terrier came to visit- them and apparently decided to stay, They tried to shoo her away, to send her back home where they feel she belongs. But she won't go. Apparently she thinks, in her canine way, that the big, burly guardians of law and order are her pals and intends to stick by them through thick and thin. Snugly at home in one corner of the station, she looks up at vis- itors and cocks an inquiring head. Police also are inquiring. “Who owns this dog?” they want to know. “And whoever it 1s, won't he—or she—come and take her HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1937 Girl It takes nerve to. prowl around News Photographer at Front 3 HUDSON CAR PLANT IS CLOSED AGAIN 10,000 Employes Stop Work After Protest of Seniority Rights Violation Detroit, Nov. 12—(7)—The Hudson Motor Co. closed ité plant Friday for the second time this week as a result oY a dispute between union workers and the management. More than 10,000 employes stopped work at noon after men employed on the final assembly lines protested against what they claimed was a vio- lation of seniority rights. CIO UNIONS TO MEET Minneapolis, Noy. 12.—(4)—Minne- sota unions affiliated with the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization were called Friday to a state conven- tion to meet in Minneapolis, Dec. 10. the front lines in the Chinese- Ji apanese war, but Joy Lacks, one of NEA Service's photographers covering the fighting, looks as calm in this picture as if she were safely at home washing the supper dishes. Mrs. Lacks, whose hus- band also is a photographer, has covered both the Shanghai and the Nanking fronts, knows what a bomb sounds like at close range and how machine gun bullets hum, Above she “shoots” ver the line while Chinese soldiers relax during a lull in figh Hosford Remains as Coal Body Chairman Washington, Nov, 12-—(#)—Charies F. Hosford, Jr., said after a confer- ence at the White House Friday he would withdraw his resignation and ;|remain indefinitely as chairman of the federal coal commission. Hosford made the statement to newspapermen after conferring with James Roosevelt, Hosford last week turned in his resignation to take effect about Jan- uary 1. Burglars Get Cash, Other Loot in Raid Burglars who broke into the Lucas oli station at 1201 Main Ave., early Thursday morning escaped with $27 in cash in addition to considerable other loot, police said Friday. Besides the money, a wrist watch valued at about $8, a check-writing machine, two peanut venders and a money-changer were taken, police sald. The burglars entered the station by teking off a screen window and broke into a drawer to get at part of the FRESH LOBSTERS AND BLUE POINTS AT THE PAT- TERSO ing Carter's Little Liver Pills money and the money-changer. More money was taken from the unlocked safe, = i cape al wer caves Fn oy Sea First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bismarck, Bismarck, N. D. HOME LOANS—Direct reduction—Principal reduced monthly by installment payments. 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