Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-12

Well, today came the big noise All
the newsboys in Bismarck were guests
of The Bismarck Tribune at the Bijou
- see Noodles Pagan, the world ia.
nous newsboy. The newsboys, headed
by Noodles" paraded through the
business district and then proceeded
to the Bijou, where seats were re-
served for the boys. They heard
Noodles" in his famous stunt and
heard him give his monologue, and
will see the whole show tonight.
And tonight comes the big carnival
on the stage. In this the boys them
selves will do stunts and the audience
will have an oportunity Of seeing how
the newsies can enjoy themselves
when they cut loose. There will be
dancing and singing by the boys-and
there are some good dancers and sing
ers among them-and there Will be
contests of all sorts.
Noodles Lecture ffwftns Young Audi
enee To-day.
It began with an illustrated descrip'
ton of all sorts of queer folk over
seas that talk of Noodles" Pagan at
the Bijou theater today, at which
many boys and girls and no small num-
ber of grown-ups were the guests OF
The Daily Tribune. But 1t ended,
Noodles lecture" with the biggest
volley of cheers and yells and hand
clappings and boot-poundings and
Whistles that was ever shot of In this
playhouse. For there on the magic
lantern screen was the Liberty Bell.
and the national guard encampment
at Gettysburg Washington cross
ing the Delaware, and Old Glory.
The audience. every man Jack OF
them-every Billy and Teddy and Mike
and Giuseppe and Ivan and Ludov1c
in the bunch-stccd w in their seats
and lhowled. And Noodles" couldn't
have stopped them if he'd wanted to:
He hadn't. he explained afterward' the
slightest desire to try.
Noodles" waited until they were all
quiet again-it was a good five min. |
utes. And then, with the Liberty Bell
still on the screen in front of them, (
the left "The Travels of the World.
that had formed the fascinating topic
of his talk, and began to speak to them
of something very different indeed.
"Au Americans"
"You know what that is. boys, don't !
you?" said Noodles. "And you know
what it means, every fellow down
there? OF course you do.
"There's not a boy down there in
that audience. no matter where you
were born or what country your par |
ents came from, that isn't an Amer |
ican. and that doesn't know what the
Liberty Bell stands for, and what Old
Glory means.
"It's a pretty good old country to
live in, isn't it, fellows? And you are
mighty glad you are Americans, aren't |
you? OF course you are, every one.
"But it isn't enough to be glad. |
You've got to work for your country. !
Every single one of you newsboys is
a citizen. You're little citizens now,
and you're going to grow up to be big
citizens some day. And now it's up to
YOU to be the sort of boys your coun-
try wants, and the sort of men she
needs, and to work hard to keep Amer
ica the best nation on earth.
"You can't do these things by tax
ing fellows. You've got to work
You've got to get your cheering into :
your lives. See that?'
They saw. They called back their
answer to Noodles question. Tley
overfowed every nook and corner IN
the theater, and they were all telling
Noodles" as loud as they could how
they "saw" what he meant and now
they were going to remember 1t, toe. |
Eut that little talk on patriotism
isn't the only thing that the boys are
going to remember. There was so
much else in Noodles straight
talk" today that the boys are think
ing about. just because it's all too jolly
and interesting to forget.
Why, how were the boys to know
that some funny Indian women way
ont in Arizona or Colorado or some
far-off place painted their faces with
stove blacking and thought they looked
nice if Noodles hadn't told them.
Wasn't that the funniest thing? L
"Noodles" said he didn't think it
was much sillier for red women to put
stove polish on their faces than 1or
girls with white faces to put corn
starch on their cheeks. And that was
even funnier, wasn't it?
Newsies Amazed.
And there was that man in HAWAII
that was 125 years old. and was SELL
ing things just like newsooy''