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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
XMAS CAROLS
TO BE HEARD
OYER RADIO
Quartet of WelI-kn0wn Singers
to Broadcast Songs Of Hol.
iday Season

The revival of interest in Christ.
mas carols, rs indicated in many OF
the radio programs for Christmas
week, will be emphasized by the pro.
gram of famous and historic old
carols in q radio program Christmas
night.
The custom Of singing Christmas
carols is traced by tradition back to
the Virgins first lullaby, the songs
of the shepherds and the chorusing
Of celestial hosts 1t the first Christ
mas morn in Bethlehem.
The carols sung today are largely
Of the Middle Ages, survivals OF the
translations Of well known hymns
naive piety and gladness with which
medieval imagination endowed the
festival. In them tho sober outline
Of the Christmas story CLOVIS with
the shifting colors Of legend and
tradition. u.
One Of the earliest printed collec-
tons Of English carols is that Of
Wynkyn de Worde, in 1921, still
sung each Christmas day at Queens
College, England. Thesearliest spec
linen Of Christmas carol Is Nor
man French noel Of the 18th century
preserved in the English museum,
with collections Of the 18th century
by Ritson, Wright and Sandys; q
small black letter collection in 1912
and another in 1888, containing cur
ious specimens Of songs sung by
English shepherds and ploughmen 1t
Christmas entertainments In farm
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Custom u Ancient
The quaint custom Of little chill.
dren singing old fashioned folk songs
Of the Savior's birth on Christmas
eve and early Christmas morning
goes hack to IN early date. The
waits" who played and sang
Christmas carols in English villages
back in tho. 18th century were the
town musicians who played during
the night hours on wind instruments,
beginning their nightly serenades Z
week bo4oro Christmas. On Christ
mas day they would call ct, the
houses before which they had played
for donations. j wae customary for
the carolers 70 club their money do
nations togather and expend them Ia
social merry making on Twelfth Day,
. fortnight later.
The Old custom Of caroling, how.
ever, d not peculiar to England, but
has been popular ID III Christian
countries, including France. Italy,
pean nations. Ia Germany the carol,
ers included not only the band and
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
MERLE ALCOCK
TO BROADCAST
MONDAY NIGHT
Famous metropolitan Opera
C0ntralto to Feature Christ
mas Radio Program

Miss Merle Alcock, famous Metro
politan opera contr1lto, win be the
vocal star Of Christmas radio pro-
gram which will b broadcast Mon
day evening, Dec. 26, over = chain
Of q stations. beginning at $3.50
Bismarck time.
In addition to Miss Alcock's
singing and to classical and popular
music by the orchestra and band,
the lively, joyous spirit Of Christ
mas will be emphasized by selec-
tions by Joe Green's mArimba band,
which has already popularized itself
in radio programs.
Born and reared in musical OBJ
security at Andover, Mo-, and re-
ceiving her early vocal training at
Drake University in Dies Moines,
Iowa, Miss Alcock has achieved un-
usual fame and fortune with her
rich, golden contralto voice. She
has appeared - soloist SO times
with the New York symphony or
chestra and two years ago made her
debut on the Metropolitan stage, as
"Beppe" in LAmico Fritz, q role
which she sang five times in her
first season, in addition to appear
ing three times in "Coq Dor"
twice as "Albine" In "Thais," and
several times in other operas, such
q ~Le Rol de Lahore" "Tosca" and
Fedora"
A Radio Enthusiast
Miss Alcock is . radio enthusiast
and has . voice whose qualities are
peculiarly adaptable to broadcast
ing. Whenever she has stepped off
the opera stage to the microphone,
her radio audience has been delight
ed at its reception" She never
loses an opportunity to advance the
interests Of radio, which, she says,
is rapidly making America = must
cal nation.
1T won't be long," said Miss Al
cock, "before every city and town
has its own municipal music, en-
gaging its own orchestra and the
best singers, for the entertainment
of its citizens. Radio and the
monograph are creating more and
more demand for good music and it
is not too much to anticipate that
neighboring communities will event.
ually club together to produce COM
munity opera companies to play en-
9agements in the different towns of
their own sections"
The Christmas program has been
divided into three parts. In the
first . special symphony orchestra
Of 40 pieces viii play popular
classics and accompany Miss Alcoc's
In two numbers. The second period
will be devoted TO light musical
features by the marimba band. The
concluding part will offer 2 full
band playing popular and Christ
mas music, with Miss Alcock again
singing two numbers.
The program will be broadcast
over . chain including the following
stations: WTAM, Cleveland; WWJ,
Detroit WSAI, Cincinnati; KSD,
st. Louis; WCCO, Minneapolis-St.
Paul; voc. Davenport; WHO. Des
Moines; WOW, Omaha; WDAF,
Kansas City; WHAS. Louisville;
and WGN, Chicago.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

. quartet consisting Of Betsy Lane
Shepherd, soprano; Elsie Baker,
contralto; Arthur Haclett. Granville,
tenor; and william Simmons, bari.
tone. Their concert begins 1t 6:l6
Bismarck standard time, over net
work Of e stations.
Miss Shepherd, lyric soprano, i,as
appeared IN more than 500 concerts
il this country Ia the past six years.
Miss Baker has also coucertisod
widely end in addition has . netion-
al reputation through her phone
graph records. Mr.. HAckett- Gran
wills has sung with the principal
symphony orchestres and has given
numerous rocitAls abroad. Mr.. Sim
mons. one IS Americas foremost
baritones. has sung 1t many Of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

"Away in : Manger," . popular
hymn BY Martin Luther.
SHARK. the Herald Angels Sing
Of Chafles Wesley, Is another Of the
poems which finds rebirth Ia annual
" recurring song; 70 Little Town
Of Bethlehem," 81 tho late Bishop
Phillips Brooks i another Tor which
new music Is written year 81 year.
Edmond Hamilton Sears TT Came
Upon ! Midnight Clears = also
among the better known Christmas
hymns; also, "The First Noel
"What Child q This ., Jesus of
Nasareth," Ring Ont, Wild Balls >
"Ws Three Kings of Orient Are
{ I'd "Silent Night"
All the above ana others will b
presented in the radio program ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

Christmas eye and morning through
out the United States. Carols sung
annually on Boston Common arr re-
peated about the community Christ
mas trees in hundreds Of towns,
while Tor the past five years the
choir Of the presidents church has
sung carols at tho White House,
Christmas eve.
Popular Carols
Among the carols that have come
down TO dat4 are HCome, All Ye
Faithful" Adeste Fideles), probably
. hymn Of the 18th or 18th century,
q German or French authorship;
GLORY to God in the Highest" (GIo-
ria IN Excelsis). the simple form u
tho hymn being that contained IN
the song of the angels. Luke Il. ii;
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

hut their royal master win SEQ their
faces. But the king was equal to the
job. He had two large automobiles
built to his specifications and even
II the results do look like police
patrol wagons, they serve the pur.
pose.
There are no seats in the harem
cars; twelve queens sit on the floors
Of each one. Carpets and cushions
take up some Of the jolts of travel
ing. HERE are no Window, but only
shuttered slots for air. Electric
fans and water coolers help to keep
the harem cool.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
AUTOS FOR THIS KINGS BIG

Medina, Dec. 2l.-Modern civil
nation has made no change Ia the
polyeamous practices ct tho King Of
Arabia, but e has greatly influenced
the manner IN which he cares for the
- royal wives. For many years
they were taken with him on his long
trips shout the country BY slow
camel. Now they ride IN 460, 900
worth of motor cars.
IT. no small undertaking to motor
several hundred miles with n wo-
men and be assured that no man
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
INVENTION FAILED
At PROPER TINE

Chicago, Dec. 2l.-George Butler,
who had IN aye Tor business, decided
70 60 into the tow-rope market. He
bought up discarded rope. cut it into
lengths, treated It to make Il wealth
er-proof, and sold Il to motorists.
One Of the motorists who bought
= Butler tow-rope tried to use It to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
THAT WILL QUIET HE

Offico Boy: THERE'S = l16v VII &
fully excited.
Editor: Then escort 6er e
composing room. my boy 9anl I
Show. -. =. 10
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

prominent festivals, and has been
widely acclaimed ir previous radio
concerts.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24

represented this page warmly greet their fellow
townsen wishing YOU all the good things in life:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Alta Girl, Ruth!

Ruth Elder, Florida's 23-year-old flying beauty
did not reach Paris as she had SO long hoped and
planned to do, but neither did she wind up in Davy
Jones locker which claimed so many ocean hoppers
before her. For this she and we may be thankful
When she took off from New York in The Amer
lean Girl and went careening eastward over the
moist Atlantic, it no more than an even chance
that she would ever see France Quite as good were
her chances of coming to final pause at the bottom
of the sea.
But good luck and bad shared honors with her.
broken feed line brought her down in the region of
the Azores, but there owly Dutch tanker stand
ing BY SO to speak, to pick her and Captain Halde-
man, her co-pilot, up.
Anyhow, it was wonderful adventure And
though she failed to reach objective she did not
fail to make fine name for herself for her daring
Miss Elder did not have to prove the courage of
her sex. 1t has never been doubted Women have
never finched from any danger at any time or in
any cline. They have unhesitantly done whatever
there was to do.
Our colonial mothers held nursing babies to their
breasts and loaded smoking usets with bullets they
nodded themselves to stave off the indians The
modern girl hops off in an arpane on a fifty-fifry
bet with death-the other side of the sea or the
bottom.
All honor to them, grandmamas and happers, all!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15

of American boosters who but lately arrived from the
ranks of the American Legion"
This sort of thing is not uncommon across the At
lantic, otherwise we would not give it passing
thought, and repeat it here only because it does
more damage in day to Anglo-American relations
than all the school histories even the most biased,
could in lifetime. To picture America as the ma
ton that "colared the spos of else's war;
as this editor did by way of greeting to these
Legonnares to whom the bishop of London addressed
his remarks and to hold up to eers and rdicule the
men who offered their very lives in some one elses
war" betrays a state of mind which certainly could
not be duplcs ted against Britain anywhere in the
United States.
Yesterday we were Shylocks after our pound of
European flesh. Today imperialists, building
vast navy with which to make the world ours.
These are samples of the nonsensical but extremely
damaging and dangerous teachings which Europeans
the British along with the rest--are feeding the
minds of all who read or have ears to hear And
the proof of its eacity to be found in the fact that
in its existence has America been so unpopular
abroad as now. On the other hand let us not forget
that whereas despite nearly $50 years of history
teaching in America, the World War found her at
Englands side.
Here is food for bishops thoughts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
A Saddened City

Today there can be but sorrow and deep
sympathy for the friends and families OF those
who met death so suddenly and SO traglcally
last night.
Tomorrow, or some other day, perhaps there
can be serious thought as to what may be
done to prevent repetition OF these accidents
bv which human life is sacrificed.
But for the hour there can come but the
thought that human life is very precious
thing and that it is also very uncertain mat
ter
There is something SOLDERING in the thought
that gay party Of friends, intent upon pleas
ure. happy in their associations, can be IN
moment blotted from the earth.
A saddened city mourns its loss of human
life. A shocked city stands in numbed silence
before the magnitude of it's tragedy.
And perhaps there will come to some the
thought that life, ever short, ever uncertain
has no room for little hates and little enmities
and is never long enough for friendship and the
llindlier sentiment that are too often delayed
until it is too late.
Life is precious. 1t may be glorious. We may
never learn to protect it from the unforeseen.
We will and must learn how to live it while we
may.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Thnn1b-NaiL
Sketches

Colored Mary opened fevered eyes
on strange surroundings. She lay
on a pad on the floor of jail cell.
Through her parched lips came a
whispered request for water.
So then-she had been deliriouS
again, moaning and crying. Per-
haps she was still delirious for this
was not home. Vaguely she remem-
bered that George had tried to quiet
her. Vaguely too. she remembered
being carried someplace-thinking
that some place was her old home
in Virginia. And then she dropped
off again into that night of the
mind that knows such fleeing
daWnS.
She did not know that her super
stitious neighbors called her Crazy
Mary; thaS her delirious means and
rawlings of late had frightened and
disturbed them. She did not know
that they had called the police ard
told them to take Crazy Mary away
from her dreary little house in
poor section Of the city. But Mary
was not crazy-she was only a poor
victim of advanced tuberculosis, ly-
ing in her bed worrying, during her
conscious moments. because her
George had taken the dread disease
too.
They had carried her off to the
Jail because they had thought she
was crazy, and intended to have her
committed to an insane asylum, but
the doctor who was called. pro-
nounced her hopelessly i'll = not
hopelessly insane.
There was but one place in he
whole city where colored Mary
could be sent-and that was to the
small hospital home of the Woman's
improvement Club. She lived only
few weeks more. but George was
treated for his malady in time, and ;
is regaining his health and his good
nature thanks to the care he re-
ceived through the Woman's I'M
provement Club and the organiza-
ton which supports II.
YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Recognition of Russia

If Bolshevism and Facism are
in the same boat, as the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor con-
tends, 1t naturally follows that
there is ne better reason to re-
fuse recognition of Soviet Russia
than of the Mussolini regime.
The persistence of this Govern
ment in refusing to recognize So
Wet Russia, or at least to permit
the exchange of views which
might lead to such recognition,
represents an attitude that is
hardly in keeping with time-hon-
ored American policies.
The idea that we refuse to rec
ognize Russia because she has re-
pudiated her debts involves the
correlary that we should not turn
a deaf ear to such propositions as
she may be willing to make.
The idea that we refuse to rec
ognize her because of the form
and character of her government
is totally at variance with our
traditions.
Ever since the formation of this
Republic it has recognized gov
ernments that were utterly OPP
posed to its ideals and principles.
Bad as it may be, according to
our way of thinking, the Soviet
form of government is no more
contrary to American principles
than was that of the Gar, or that
of Turkey before the revolution,
or that Of China under the old
regime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Jim Reeds Greed

In his speech at Sedaa, Mo-, Wednesday, Senator
James A. Reed sounded what may well be considered
the keynote of his campaign for the Democratic nom
nation In any case he voiced creed which should
find acceptance in large part, by every other candi-
date Democratic or Republican, who is seeking the
votes of the American people next year.
We don't say it will find such acceptance; we say
it should. Listen to Reeds catalogue of American
rights:
"rhe inaenable rights of the citizen, among which
are liberty of conscience without coercion criticism
or obloquy.
"The right of every man to worship God accord
ing to the dictates of his own conscience and that
none shall make him afraid.
"The right of free speech, free press and peaceabe
cssembage.
1.-THE right of every citizen to regulate his own per-
sonal conduct-chart his course through life
determine his own habits and to control the affairs
Ct his own household free from all restraints save
that in the exercise of these natural privileges he
Will not interfere with the rights of Others"
And his suggestions for course of action:
LET us reassert the truth of the doctrine that if
this people are to remain Free local government
and the sovereignty of the States must be preserved
the Federal power should be brought within the limits
not only of the letter but also within the spirit OF
the Constitution; the march of Capitalization must
be arrested government by boards and breaucracies
must cease.
"Iet us demand the honest administration of gov
crnment; the swift and sure punishment of all public
punderers bride mongers and other malefactors; the
equalization of the burden of taxation the repeal of
all laws creating special privileges the dismissal of
of SPIES snoopers sneaks and informers; the
liberation of honest business from oppressive inter-
ference by governmental agents. the prosecution and
punishment of those who by trusts combinations and
restraints of trade make honest business and
despol the people"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Food for London Bishops Thoughts

81 believe with all my heart" said the bishop of
London to the visiting members of the American
Legion "that the whole future of the world depends
upon our two nations keeping together in bonds of
love, fellowship and understanding" And, he added,
ST perfectly certain that the young people of
your great country are not taught to love Britain
they should do; indeed I have been told they are
taught to hate this country"
This newspaper believes with the good bishop that
British American entente is vital not only to
own future but to the well being of the entire world
But the menace to such an understanding is not
at all where he would seem to-see it. American his
tory doubt, is sometimes distorted but our chill
dren not taught to "hate" England. The writer
of these lines privileged to sample the teachings
of average American schools and universities, but
while he emerged with a somewhat lop-sided view
of certain phases of history, hatred of present.
day Britain not among the inadequate intellectual
luggage he carried away from those institutions.
No, the danger which threatens the tie between
Britain and America comes from quite different
direction. International propaganda altogether too
often inspired by diplomats and statesmen, is the
real menace Public opinion-the minds of grown
ups rather of chldren-s being stuffed with the
poison Of prejudice and transformation, against
another. There lies the peril-not in the tales of
red coats American colonials however lurid or
partial they may be- And it happens that for the
past few years the welsprng of this poison has been
in Europe and its principal victim Uncle Sam.
Nor, sorry to say, have British statesmen
and publcists Jagged behind in this business of fos
terng hate against America. 1t was among them that
the name of Uncle Shylock' was coined and it is
among them today that the DOGGY of American "im-
perialisn" is being conjured up to explain away the
failure Of the naval conference at Geneva.
eff you would find out what the English really
think Of the Americans" said j. w. Drawbel editor
of the Sunday Chronicle a Manchester, England
paper, then talk to former service who met the
doughboys during the war; listen to the laughter and
unyestrained applause at an anti-American joke in
the theater, or join your jeerng countrymen in Lon
don's streets as they watch this paptomirnc parade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
LaW, and Justice
By Dexter NJ. Keezer

Z man promised to marry young woman and
gave her an engagement ring. He went back on his
promise, and she sued him for breach of promise. In
the breach of promise suit he made counter claim
for the return of the engagement ring.
jury found that he had broken the engagement
without cause, awarded damages against him. and
refused to order the engagement ring returned to
him. He appealed the and argued that as long
as the marriage not to take place he entitled
to the return of the engagement ring He contended
that the gift of the ring given in consideration
OF the pending marriage and that calling off the
rage eliminated the consideration and entitled him
to return of the ring
The young woman who had the ring argued that
1T was personal gift, not made subject to the
pletion of the marriage arrangement and that she
entitled to keep it.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Court of Kings Bench
in England decided that the young woman could
keep the ring The court said that the gift of it
personal, and not dependent for its binding force
upon the completion of the marriage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Class Rule in Italy

The theories of Premier Musso-
lini are as contradictory of this
Government as are those Of Nicoli
Lenin.
Both Mtissolini and Lenin stand
for class rule, both are dictators,
both regard democracy as fail
ure, both believe in rule by vio-
lence, both are against freedom of
speech and freedom of the press,
both deny the theory of popular
government, both advocate the re-
preston of individual and COM
munity rights.
The only difference between
them consists in the fact that
Mussolini arrays himself in me-
dieval trappings, while Lenin at
tempts to make the dirty shirt a
badge of aristocracy.
One imposes tyranny from the
top, while the other develops it
from the bottom, but neither has
any use for the great middle class.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
Times Readers Voice Vie7CS

Personally, I am a Protestant,
and the same God, the same
Architect of the Universe and of
all is the same God that I worship,
the same God the Catholics, the
Jews, the Negroes and all God
loving people worship; then what
sense is there to a cry out of the
darkness, 1.-The Wolf. The Wolf"
This circular might be con-
sidered an insult to all creeds. The
very thought of any effort to bring
speakers before the people to try
to antagonize and arouse
religious enmity, because some Of
ficer has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting
Our ancestors settled on this
continent years past, hewed
through the wilderness, fought the
Indians, suffered untold agonies,
miseries and death, with the ever
lasting thought that we through
their beneficence might worship
our God according to the dictates
of our own conscience.
Shame on any ole to try to ex-
cite religious strife!
j. &. MOBLEY,
412 Riley Ave.