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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-03-18
School Election

Saturday, April 8, an election
will be held for the selection of one
school trustee for district No. As.
This will be to fill the vacancy
created with the expiration of the
term of DR.. ]. R. Burgess. The
term of the trustee to be elected
will be for three years.
The high school building will be
the voting place with the voting
booths placed in the front hall
near the entrance. Any registered
voter is entitled to vote.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
THEATERS
AIRDOME-

AIRDOME-A tornado of fun is
promised at the Airdomc tomorrow
rirht whom "Sevcn Sinners opens
there. This new Warner Brothers
picture X the one that the critics in
other cities have been raving over
md that the public everywhere has
been jamming in to see. Marie Pre-
Vost IS the star, and this vivacious
little actress, with her gaWinc fas-
cinations is said To have scored her
biggest bit in the role of the most
important sinner of the seven.
The seven in question are daring
crooks who invade mansion ON
Long Island. when the underworld
grapevine spreads the news that
the place is moccupicd. Each IS
working separately and each leaps
for protection to the masquerade of
a probable person to be in the house.
In this way they become guests, ser
wants. and one, even, impersonates
the owner. They are all working
against each other in a game of
wits, when they find themselves
made prisoners in the house. From
then on the situations are said to
bc continuously and hilariously
amusing.
Marie Provost appears as Molly
Brain. IN expert safe cracker, heart
breaker, and laugh maker. Give
Brook, who is featured in support
of the star, plays Jerry Winters,
suavc. debonair aristocrat among
the light fingered gentry, and
Hcinic Conklin, john Patrick, Claude
Gjllngwatcr. Mathildc Brundagc
aud Fred Kelsey complete the list
Of seven crooks.
The picture is the first to be di-
rcctcd by Lewis Milestone, hereto
fore prominent as a screen writer,
and Milestone is said 80 have
achieved smashing success. In
cola boration with Daryl Francis
Zanuck, he is also responsible for
the sto.y. which is an original con
tributim to the screen.
The Los Angeles critics are man-
im0uS in declaring that Milestone
has arrived as one of the big com
cdv directors of the screen. The
uicturc. says the Film Mercury,
- has so many good gags IN IT that
thcv should be cut ont and saved
for weaker piece that needs them
mOr' -
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
MORE ELECTRIC POWER

Here are three more big power projects going for
ward:
The Boulder Dam is going to be built the Colo
rado, and two other great enterprises under way
On the Susquehanna river in Maryland, dam
nearly mile long, forming reservoir of 5000
and power plant to develop $4,000 horsepower.
That is power than the Muscle Shoals plant has.
to Philadelphia.
The Gatineau Power Company, by contract sign
ed with the Hydro-Ee Commission of Ontario, will
furnish 100000 horsepower produced the Gatineau
River, transmitting it 24O miles to Toronto. This is
not entirely project, but present facilities
to be greatly extended, with an ultimate development
of perhaps 100000 horsepower.
Electrifcation of this continent is coming
more rapidly than the publis realizes. Add to the
white coal projects the coal burning plants being
tabshed in the coal fields and the present
development is tremendous.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
SILK HATS AND FINES

Visitors to Eaton England, speak of the surprise
they get from seeing the boys in the famous school
there engaging in their regular fire drill.
The lads, at the sound of the gong rush to the
windows and jump into nets below scrupously atired
in their traditional costume of Eaton Jackets, striped
trousers and patent leather Shoes with their eternal
plug hats jammed tightly on their heads. They
would fight fire in the same attire
That is the costume they wear all public occa-
sions AS far the outside world could tell they may
it to sleep in Those young kids wearing silk
hats, when their kind elsewhere would straws
caps, is sight never to be forgotten.
It'is of course, the height of absurdity. 1t is
silly to plug hats and patent feathers at fire
it would be to fire helmet and rubber coat at
dignified party overals to church. To be well
dressed is to be dressed in clothing suited to the
sion, adapted to the work play intended. 1t would
be fine thing for human comfort and efficiency if all
styles of dress could be brought to this rational
standard
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

lie wants us to stop and tell him
about our city visit said Uncle
Wiggily to his wife.
Don t you dare stop. warncl
the rabbit lgdy. "AIl hr wants to
do is to eaten You 50 he can nibble
Your ears.
..Ha. Well do l know that said
Unce Wiggily, and he hopped ON
faster and faster But still on cam
the Fox and he was now 50 close to
MIR. and Mrs. LQngcars that they
could feel his hot breath on the
backs Of their uecks.
1T was Il sorry day we came
homc," sighed Mrs. Longears. II
shall never see my little rabbits
again, The fox will eat mo,''
But just then. all Of Il sudden, the
Fox stopped chasing the rabbit cou-
pie. He began dancing around on
one leg and bowling; ''Ouch! Ouch
Cuch,'
"What happened to the Fox
asked Mrs. LongearS as she aud her
husband hurried on toward then
bungalow, which they safely reach
I'd.
"Oh, | guess he must have step
ped on the sharp, pointed lackstonc>
| dropped, . said Uncle Wiggily with
a laugh.
"Ha, Ha," chucllled Mrs. Long
ears. "Jackstones how Gomez
II bought a lot of jackstoncS fo;
our little rabbit girls to play with,
said Mr.. Longcars, looking back To
where the Fox was still dancing
about and howling, "And ] just let
some of them fall. for | had more
than enough The Fox stepped on
them and they hurt his feet. "
And that 5 just what happened.
And because the Fox had such sore
paws he couldn t chase the bunny
gentleman and his wife any nor"
and they got safely home to their
little rabbits. SO this teaches us
that after you have been visiting
ii is good to come back. And if
the tack pullcr doesn't push The
lemon pic in the icc box whore il
catches cold II tell You next about
Uncle Wiggily's scashorc.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
Gtar1ct
Bullseyes, Blindfolded

..Tf,n he would ALLOW YOU to
blirdfold him bv holding a carl
back of the sight Of tn" rife, so
he could not see either the sights or
the target. And he would fire the
rest Of his clip, hitting the bulIS"y'
every time. You would turn up
YOUR nose ut such StcadincsS + you
met il in fiction. woldn t YOU
Zone of the best ef all j. the
famous boomerang bullet which ac=
tGauv went it's course il Denver
saloon. 1t missed the man ii was
aimed Mt and killed the one who
fired It. 1t took u billiard ball
course. ricochetins from two onyx
balls and the brass bar rail and back
to the heart of its author.
THE old time mining camps and
though frontier towns developed
characters. too, which bordered on
tbr incredible. There was Jack
MAYNARD in Denver. He was a
sort of king of the underworld and
lad big diamond set in his front
teeth. but he died broke.
Chapters in tine authentic political
history of the state are colorfui
enough. Vale points out, to dls-
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
Jazz Carrying
Race Back to
Caveman Era
By United Press Leased Wire

LONDON, July 10.-Jazz music
is carrying the present generation
back to the instincts of cavemen
and savages, DR.. Henry Coward,
prominent English composer. and
musical authority, told the United
Press i'll an interview today.
DIR. Coward declared that modern
dances such as the exaggerated fox
trot and the Charleston, which fol
lowed the introduction OF jazz as u
fixed Standard of music, have
turned back pages of progress to
the drunken revclry or lesser
brceds.'
lit is not the noise, lack Of
rhythm or the ugly cleverncss of
jazz that | object to, DIR. Coward
said, "but it is the exploitation Of
this class of ambitious gaiety which
has been injected upon all people
as fixed standard of music for
all occasions.
1.-The jerky rhythms; the hooting,
out-of-tone saXaphones; the plong-
plong beats of the banjos and the
grotesque howlings and boistcrous
banging of toys and kitchen utcn-
sils is degrading to all artistic sense
and possesses atavistic tendencies
in carrying civilization back to the
first stages of music.
The antics of bodily movement
which have been devised to fit
/ these humbdrum sounds can only
! be compared with the oddity of the
i dances of the plantation slaves of
| 50 years ago. Jazz music and Jazz
dancing is the outgrowth of a de-
graded taste for art in the Ietter
class of people, with the result that
the lesser classes saw the acccp.
tance of jazz by people who should
know better and felt that they
should immediately accept this form
of orgy to be proper
"The effect Of such wild rcvci.
! rics which have followed in tho
wake of this so-called music, upon
| the thought, life, action, dress, NOR.
ais and speech of the young people
of today is difficult to conceive, es.
| pecially upon stage of civilization
which should be very much above
such plane.
"fhe sooner We return to the
music of our grandfathers, the soon
cr will we be able To maintain Il
better standard of art, OF morality
snch rs NANNY parent now wisErs
for Il son or daus hter.'
DIR. Coward 5 rccta,t criticisms .:
moderr Music has brougE- him to
/ the fore - pfotcstcr against
jazz. - He : s;ted the Ul;t-d
states with hi: t:inous sheffield
Choir of 30 icrSons in 19G8 and
again in 1?li. Turing these tours
i"ograms were giru y Chicago,
, rctroit. Eccht'tcr, "ommius. Clevc-
sland, st. Louis, Cincinnati st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
MOTOR TAX CUT

The congressional proposal to cut the federal tax
on motor from per cent to per cent is hailed
with JOY by nearly 2O,000000 automobile owners. 1t
pleases especially the prospective buyer of
for this tax applies only purchases The motor car
manufacturers have all pledged themselves to pass
along the saving to their customers. This should
mean an average saving Of SIS to $40 car.
In view of the fact that automobiles are subject
to more taxes federal and state together, than any
other form of property, very good argument be
made for aboshing this federal tax altogether, there
by beneftting the average automobile purchaser to
the extent Of $40 or $50
Perhaps the finest thing, however about the pro-
posed reduction is the manufacturers pledge of good
faith. This example is that might be followed
more generally in industries benefittng by federal
tax remission
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
BY NEA Service

WASHINGTON, July 10-Fact is
So all tired much stranger than fic.
tion that often il has to be diluted
OF avoided entirely if the story
teller 5 warm is to sound convincing.
This somewhat shopworn truth is
the practical hard luck of Congress
man William y. Vailc of Denver,
Colo. He takes his relaxation from
politics by writing short stories and
novels of the western scene. II"
finds a rich ore of literary material
il the gulches, mountain peaks and
mining towns of his district, but
many of the old legends, Naile be-
licvcs, are too good to sound true.
Sees Man Frozen
Take, for instance, the ease of
Il man standing in his office door
way in his shirt sleeves on the
Fourth of July and watching an
other freeze to death, says Nailo.
lit would take lot of qualifying
and explaining to use that in Il story
but ii actually happened, and the
man who saw the sight was John X.
Smith, Denver lawyer and fl,cnd
OF mine. 1t was up at Westclift,
Colo. where The mountains tower
very sharply above the town and
one easily can see what is going on
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

Wiggily was bringing as many as
he could carry.
All of sudden. as the two bunny
rabbits were hopping along beneath
some evergreen trees, there was n
queer, woofing, whiting sound and
Mrs. Longears exclaimed:
"What's thato''
"a trolley ear, perhaps, an
swcred Uncle Wiggily.
1--WE aren I in the city now; we re
in the woods where they don t have
trolley cars went on the lady rab-
bit. THAT sounded to me like a
Fox sniffling,' and, surely enough
1t was. The next moment the Fuz-
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD &. GAEIS
Copyright, 1926. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY GOES HOME

Uncle Wiggily and his wife, the
two country rabbits who mad been
visiting their city cousin, Mr.. Har",
had decided to hop back home.
This city life is too exciting for
me, said the country rabbit lady,
speaking to Mrs. Hare. ''Why, when
Wig sent out to post a letter, the
other day, they sent q fire engine to
get it.
That : because he pulled the fire
alarm box by mistake. said MI.
Hare with laugh.
''Well, I think, myself, that we
had better 20 home, said Mrs.
Longears. II have had a very good
time but not what could really call
an adventure. | haven t been chas-
ed by fox.
"Dou you call tnat fun" asked
Mrs. Hare.
Not exactly fun, perhaps, - re-
piled Uncle Wiggily with a twinkle
Of his pink nose, .'but it gives me
something to think about. and to get
away from Fox or Bob Cat | must
hop fast, which is good for my
health. -
"Wcll, come again and visit us.
invited Mrs. Hare as Uncle Wiggily
and his wife started back home to
their hollow stump bungalow III
Woodland near the Orange lee
Mountains.
II do hope We find the children
all right said Mrs. Longcars as
they hoped toward the forest.
"Oh, Nurse Jane will be sure to
take good care of them. - answered
Uncle Wiggilv, as he looked at the
bundles in his paws, for of course
each one of the forty 'lcvcn little
bunny boys and girls had to have
a present from the city. Uncle
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

~ Fox popped out of the bushes
and raced after the two rabbits.
Hop fast. Hop fast cried Tn
Gle Wiggily to his wife.
81 am hopping as fast a> can
20, she answered. ''But living IN
the city for week has made ne
lazy, guess, | can't run half as
fast as could before we left home.
Still Uncle Wiggily and his wife
did very well. but 50 did the Fox
and he came on and after them,
bowling:
"Wait for me. Where have YOU
been have missed seeing you for
the last week, Tell me about it.'
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
European Money
Slumping Again
Hy United Press Leased Wire

LONDON, July II. French, Bel.
gian and Italian exchange slumpcd
sharply today on the local boursc.
apparently forcshawoding another
week Of record breaking dcprecia-
tion of continental currcncies.
Belgian frames fell away to 224H
TO the pound sterling compared with
Saturdays close Of 207x. French
francs were quoted at 19ls com.
pared with l87c Saturday, and Ital.
ian lire at l43% compared with
l40%.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
IMPERIAL
By Press STAFF COrrespon,lent

IMPERIAL, Julv II. Mrs. II. G.
Miller and daughter Joan motorcd
to San Diego Wednesday. Mrs
Miller will return to the valley in
II few days leaving her daughter
there to spend the summer with rcla-
tiVeS.
Frank Hoffman has returned from
a short trip to Los Angeles.
Mrs. Sclla Lincoln and son John
spent the weekend in Jewel Val
cy.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Thomas have
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
VERA REYNOLDS MAKES
GOOD IN STELLAR ROLES

HOLLYWOOD, July 12.--Nera
Reynolds has madc good as "A star
Cecil B. De Mile and his studio Of.
fcials are 50 enthusiastic over her
work in Sunny Side Up and
I" Risky Business her first two
stellar features that, although
neither of these pictures have yet
been shown to the public, they vol.
unfairly tore up her old contract
and awarded her new one for II
long term at substantial increase
in salary.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

at mile greater altitude.
ION this warm summer afternoon
Smith saw two men ON the mountain
side ovcrtakcn by a storm. One
kept to the roads the other was
confused in the snow squall. They
sent up rescucrs from the town, aud
when they got to the second man he
was frozen.
THE exploits of expert marks
men and the freaks of accidental
shots arc even more incredible. In
one of my stories hinge the plot on
a remarkable pistol shot. But there
was mv tcntmatc. Jack Dahlenc'
when was u lieutenant in the ma
tional guard on the Mexican border.
He would set the sling of his rifle
firmly around his arm and fire one
or two shots into the bullseye OF a
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

ng to retouch them. But they would
furnish backgrounds, if one can i'm
agine Fiction gay enough to ha:-
monizc with the setting.
A Fiery Governor
lone of my favoritc stories of
early Colorado is about Governor
Waite 5 attempt to oust the fire and
police board in Dcnvcr,' he says.
"Thc board Houdn t submit, and
the governor called out battery of
;,rtillrry and trained it on the city
hall to carry war directly uIon the
enemy.
"Thcn there's the story of th"
Colorado troops early in the Civil
war who captured quite large
number of confcderates in borde"
fighting. Thc1 brought them home
end patolled them upon condition
that they stay there and fight the
Itdiam> while the unioniSts wcr"
away in the army. And that is how
many OF our best southern families
got there.
II But for weird characters and in
cIdcnts that sound incredible, of
roursc, one doeSn t have to seek any
farther than congress, right here.
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service lnc.D
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

The fish trust is accused of max
ing 400 per cent profits. Those back
of the combine must be ellis.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

Last week Los Angeles received
ten carloads Of bahamas shipped all
the way from Mexico by rail.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
Monday, July II, 1926

been spending few days with rcla'
tives in San Diego.
Mrs. kathrine kendricks left res
Gently for Los Angeles where she
will spend the summer. with resa-
tives.
Bob Boone has returned from
week S visit on the coast
II. Nanstan af HoltNllie was ah
Imperial visitor Thursday.
Mrs. J. I. Ellis of Heber IS cong
substitute WORK ut the post off'cc'
Walter Smith has returned from
short trip to San Diego.
William Macarthur is on tie SICK
list this week.
Mrs. Il. C.. Robinson and chldrrh
let Thursday to spend the summer
with relatives in Paris, Arkansas.
Washington all upset over tue
Tacna-Arica snarl. But the average
citizen thinks it : some sort of salNc.
/ The saNophonc was invented "
. 1910 bv Adolphe sax. He escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

college professor finds that prison conVicts are
more eager to study than college students. Maybe
that's because they're not overWorked like students.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

We hate to seem over-suspicous but il doesn't
seem altogether preposterous that this prophecy that
next winter is to be the coolest inspired by
The coal industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

Free verse SENS to have died d natural death be-
cause the poets were allowed to do their worst.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

That German vote of II to / for confiscation of
royal estates must look to the Kaiser like dornick
thrown at Doom.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12
GERMANY PAYS

Germany made her payments during the past win
ter with difficulty, because of unemployment and bus
mess failuresv-but she paid
Seymour Gilbert, the American agent-general
whose Job is collect and distribute German repara
ton money under the Dawes plan, pays Germany SIN
cere compliment During the first nine months of the
second year under that pan ending June 81, he
ports Germany paid more than any conquered nation
before ever paid her visitors, meeting all her obliga
tions and meeting them entirely out of her own re-
sources.
1t was not such great judged by American
standards, but it great for Germany, everything
considered 1t amounted to 821 100000 gold marks,
over $500. 100000. That is divided among II
countries-Germanys creditors-and the thing of
particular interest in America is that country gets
part of it,
The American portion is small, only S7,OOO,OOO.
Yet it is something cheer about when America gets
ANYTHING at all out Of Germany after all the billions
the Kaiser and his crowd forced this country to spend
in making safe for Americans and the world safe
for-well, whatever 1t that we made 1t safe Tor.
Sometimes, observing all these relationships and
sorshps and one thing and another, we're not quite
sure about it.
Now that the Turks have discarded the fez for the
straw hat, what's poor Shriner going to do?
That German of 27 to l for confiscaton of
royal estates must look to the Kaiser like dornick
thrown at Doom.
Free verse SENS to have died natural death be-
the poets were allowed to do their worst.
college professor finds that prison convcts are
more eager to study than college students Maybe
that's because they're not overworked like students
We hate to seem .over-suspicious; but it doesn't
seem altogether preposterous that this prophecy that
next winter is to be the coolest ever inspired by
The coal industry.
Scientists say they've discovered an invisible ray
that throws light on all creation but we can't quite
see it.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

Now that the Turks have discarded the fez for the
straw hat, what's poor Shriner going to do?
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

The saxophonc was invented Hn
$40 by Adolphe sax. lie escaped
Imperial Valley press., 1926-07-12

Scientists say they've discovered an invisible ray
that throws light on all creation, but can't quite
A.
The Washington times., 1926-04-27
Going Up---Going Down

Mr. Clarence Mackay, much liked and admired for his
social graces business ability and other qualities showed
considerable peevihnes when newspapers suggested
they believed be excellent grounds that reconca
ton arranged between himself and his daughter
En recently married Irving Berlin the talented young
Jewish musician.
Mr. Mackay for strange reason appeared to think
hat his daughter lowered herself socially when she married
Irving Berlin.
The aristocratic Duer family Of New York. had the
ridiculous idea when Of their girls married Clarence
Mackay. They distinguished socially Mr. Mackay
not Katherine Duers father in the Union Club and in
everything else that grand Mr. Mackay at that time
was only in the Windsor Hotel which had yet burned
down.
But he along socially at once, like goldfish in
glass bowl he married Miss Duer Those who
had said that she lowering herself socially repened
sackoh and ashes and wanted to be invited to Mr. Mac
kay's parties.
Mr. Mackay had brains his father had great fortune
He worthy and fit to anybody the daughter
of the Ahkoond of Swat, if he had a daughter.
Irving Berlin has brains and talent He has plenty of
money and doesn't need Mr. Mackays millions being able
TO make three hundred thousand dollars year for
himself, enough for economical young musician.
When Mr.. Hershfield, who makes the ABE Kabbble
pictures heard that his friend Irving Berlin married and
would not Of the of Mr. Macay who the
Postal Telegraph Company Hershed sent to Berlin the
following telegram the Postal: Dear Irving: This
telegram represents thtyfive that you will
get" But that didn make Berlin feel badly.
good Catholics like their daughters marry
Jews On the other hand good Jews do not like their
marry Catholics ty-fifty This, after all,
American melting pot We have all got get together
and forget racial and religious preudices day
WHY NOT NOW?