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Mabel Wayne is responsible
for 'sRomona, which bright
ened the Dolores Del Rio pic
ture of that title, and is now
engaged in thinking out tunes
for more films.
+ Wolfe Gilbert and Nathan
iel Shilkret wrote the song
which follows through the &C
ton of Colleen Moore in Lilac
Time" and which is already
listed as a best seller.
I understand that the canny
AL .Jolson has financial in.
terest in the company which
will publish the songs featured
in his new Warner Brothers
release, "The Singin' Fool.
The sound pictures or the
synchronized films whichever
you prefer, have opened up I'M
limited new possibilities for the
popular tunesmiths. Hereto
fore the accepted method of
popuIarizing ditty consisted of
substituting vaudeville enter
tainers. radio jazz bands, night
club orchestras and plain ordi-
nary song pluggers. The piano
rolls and machine records also
played their. part in getting a
nation humming.
But the movie house synchro-
nized score tops them all CONF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-11

bined in stimulating the sale of
sheet music. The particular adj
vantage is that the melody is
played over and over again and
the exiting audience takes home
haunting strains. The tune is
refreshed by radio repetition
until finally the ukulele players,
banjo experts, one-fingered piano
artists, saxophoners, fidolers and
harmonica blowers all know IT
by heart. mot forgetting the
tenors and sopranos.
This is all very well unless it
becomes a musical nuisance.
Already there are signs that The
movie producers are eager to
attack a theme song to any
silent film and send it forth as
sound picture, 1t makes not
particle of difference whether
the vocal interpretations are IN
iected at an appropriate moment
or whether they are necessary
You get them any way. It's a
sound picture.
Out of it all comes fat royal
ties and sunny days for the song
mposer Maestro Erno
Rapee, of the Roxy Theater,
makes more on the side frofn
movie music than he does from
his main occupation as a baton
expert. Hugo Resented has
found a young fortune in de-
vising scores with popular theme
tunes and fit ing them to pic
lures. Everybody in Tin Pan
Allev is doing it. Or awaits the
chance to do it Of course there
are a few who still cling &c
musical comedy.
I never expected that Char
lotte Greenwood would have a
rival until it was my good TOR
tune to scan the he mountain
that Bucky Harris has signed.
This man, ".Tiny" Weaver, IS
cut full measure with a couple
of feet added for altitude. AS
an added attraction to the fare
well game yesterday he raised
one. leg Greenwood style) and
low-bridged Ed Kenna, the
catcher, who is no Singers mid
get. ! suggest that Nick Altrock
and AL Schacht add "Tiny" to
their vaudeville act. Why not a
male Charlotte
Surely the theater has fallen
upon sad days. Henry Diyey
Cremember him as star of tine
Man On the Box") spends the
night in Brooklyn Jail after a
r ride in the paddy wagon with
the author, producer, and nine
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" O away glooml
There isn't room in town
for you ! while merry
Marion Davies cavorts IN
this new screen screaml
Funnier than The Fan
COED" and The Patsy
and that's saying a lot!
AS charming as a June
romance and that's put
ting it mildly. Broadway
cheered the stage play.
You'll cheer the screen
play. And we believe
you'll vote it the happi-
est visit you've made in
months to any motion
picture.
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Russian Actors

John Barrymore's Tempest"
iS. one Russian movie with some
Russians in 1t. Boris de Fas,
who plays the part Of the peddler.
is so Russian that Sam Taylor
had to direct him through an
Interpreter. This interpreter was
the busiest man on the lot be.
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Record Crowds

According TO the Fox Theater
adding machines close to LOG, 900
neople saw "Street Angel IN the
first seven days OF the run. So
many were turned away that
Major John Zandt waived his SET
policv OF one week for all fea.
sture films and booked Street
Angel for the second -week be-
ginning today
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cause every time Taylor spotted
a beard he would shout for the
Russian interpreter He should
have yelled for d barber. The
picture Is at Loew's Columbia
now
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-11

Counties created in the days when the United
States had much land and few people. They made
small in to spare the people long journeys to the
courts and office and to simplify county adminstra
ton These arguments for many small counties cannot
be advanced today. Good roads and automobiles and
other Of communication and transportation have
wrought the change.
Consolidation of counties will result. In fact two
Tennessee counties already have merged. No doubt
there would be many such consultations but for the pol
iticans who see in these moves the abolition Of high
salaried public offices. The county is
fruitful tree Of political patronage.
The Tennessee merger was successful. James county
poor and sparsey settled The neighboring county
IF Hamilton rich and thcky populated. Since the
consolidation, the section that James county has
Increased its mprovedroads mileage from one and
half mile to five miles. The taxpayers Of Hamilton
county are paying large part of the bill but they
now drive through what James county good
roads and expect benefit through the development of
that section which is bound to with highway i'm
provements.
There re in every state "pauper counties" Of
them in precarious condition financially and many
actually dependent upon the state. There is no longer
necessity for many political subdivisions and economy
and efficiency demand reduction.
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FRANCE RECOGNIZES THE DEBT

The proposal that European debtors trade some Of
their colonies to the United States for the cancellation
of their war debts has been made several times
peans but has received no official consideration far
as the public knows.
A former French consul-general at New York is the
latest to make the suggestion. He asks why the United
States and France do not settle the tcksh question Of
French war debts which already has aroused much
ill feeling and is likely to by having the
French cede certain of their colonies to the United
States in return for cancellation of part all Of
Frances debt.
America insists that the war debts be paid, but she
wants them paid in gold not in unwilling subjects. This
nation is not in the market for additional territory 1t
now has more than it knows what to do WITH Exper-
fence has taught the American people that cancellation
Of the French debt might prove cheaper than assum-
ing some of her troublesome colonial obligations.
From every angle the proposal would be bad deal
for the United States. 1t would liability crown
ing liability, compromising of debt.
The offer u.s. in respect. not disaseful to Amer-
It reflects happy change in Frances debt pol
icy. few months ago she demanding cancellation
and offering nothing but insults in exchange. Today
she is willing to pay her debt with land At last she
admits it is an honest debt That in itself will restore
friendly feelings between the two peoples because the
United States exercising the greatest charity and
thence toward her debtors.
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SHORTENING THE INTERIM

Under tn. election laws as they stand presidential
candidates nominated in June notified of their
nomination in August campaign three months until the
election in November and enter office the following
March. The presdentelect is q nonentity in the ma
tional for four months after his election
He sees lame duck congress enacting legislation
and hears the retiring president read message
gress between the time of his election and inaugura
ton
There were for these delays in early days
when communication difficult Then required two
months to notify man Of his nomination and cam
pagn Of three months was short And the result Of
presidential election not known for weeks after
The election. Today the radio and telegraph make it
possible to determine the outcome within forty
hours after the polls close and the victor could reach
Washington from the Pacific coast in few hours by
plane or in few days by railroad.
So there is rising tide Of agitation for modfica-
ion OF these laws to reduce the period Of the whole
DISQUALIFICATION process from nine months to three
four months Three months from nomination to cleo.
ton and thirty days from election to Inauguration would
be ample.
Congress should effect these changes to give quicker
effect to the will of the people expressed in the
ton and out Of fairness to the president-elect.
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ONE OF THE LAST
(0maha Wnrld.Hara1dl

Some of our younger sophsticates are inclined to
at what is commonly called Victorianism and the
Victorian era. There was good deal that seems
pretty ridiculous about the mores of that period Its
the whskery absurdity Of its men, were pretty funny
in the light Of modern manners.
It age Of inhibtons and repressions, many Of
them silly enough goodness Knows, but not so sitting
as some people would have US think. For instead Of
being dark dusty, unprogressve age it an age in
which genius lowered, genius in statecraft in tera-
ture in drama. in art inventive genius creative genius
and interpretive genius.
Ellen Terry, dead at the age Of &c. was product
Of that ge. She Of the last survivors Of its
galaxy Of brilliant greatness Like Hardy she one
OF that group OF it's famous characters who spanned the
gap and fingered long into the new era dignfed and
stately reminders Of the glories Of the old
Dame Terry she called in her old age because of
decoration conferred upon her by king who came to
recognize what his subjects and known for many years
that here was woman above women. The decoration
added nothing to her fame, but the title fit her we'll
had the flavor that belongs with the per-
iod of her triumphs.
Her name will live through the ages as long as dra-
matte art exists.
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Editorial Comment
RIGHT OF WAY FOR GRAIN
(St. Paul Disnatch.l

After September /, grain for export will have the
right of way all other freight the Upper River
barge line officials Of the Minnesota River Improve
mel, grain will be the privileged though not the only
cargo Of the barges from St. Paul New Orleans and
is estimated that million bushels will be carried in
that period Of time.
million bushels, it all wheat would seem
small quantity in comparison with the 20 million BUSH
els Ct wheat raised in Minnesota this year the 10
millions grown in North Dakota. But Of the hard
spring wheat little is exported. Certainly it is small
fraction Of the American surplus that is exported. It
palate.
The barge line is getting its share Of the export gran
and has become already important factor in that
trade. When points the lower river are equipped
to handle grain shipments it will become the highway
over which the South will receive its bread grains
and grains for livestock Then the capacity of
the barge line will be tested to the full and the trans
portation costs saved will be reflected in the price
paid to the farmer.
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ence of the states voters, hope the
La Toilette voters will turn to
Smith.
There is nothing to show as yet
that Democratic supremacy is i'm
periled in the south or that the Re-
publicans are likely to lose anything
in the farm belt. There is q tend
ency to class North Carolina for the
present as doubtful, along with the
border states Of Kentucky, Tonnes
see, Oklahoma and Missouri. Farm
er George N. Peek's leap into the
Smith camp may be the most i'm
portant break of the sort to date,
but it is quite as likely that Farmer
Peek's jump isn't important at all.
Although most Of the political
dope at this stage is mere specula-
ton, it may do no harm to point out
that the progressive element, which
has lately held the balance Of power
in the Senate, may exert some sim
liar influence on the election. If
Smith holds the South and breaks
into the East as he hopes to do, the
possibility becomes q likelihood.
Nebraska voters are also expert
at splitting their tickets. Charlie
Bryan, who carried the state by &c.
900 for governor in 1922, is out after
his old job and has publicly swal-
lowed Smith. Senator George Nor
ris has publicly expressed his dis
gust with his party-or, rather, with
the Republican party. Nebraska is
one Of those states where the COM
bined La Toilette and Davis vote IN
1924 exceeded the Coolidge vote.
Like La Toilette and Shipstead, both
Bryan and Norris are Progressives.
Iowa and Kansas are safe for
Hoover and probably both Dakotas.
Progressives among members Of
Congress from those states show no
to spoil the Hoover show.
Montana, from this distance,
seems likely to 60 for Smith.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, the
most independent progressive Dem
ocrat in the Senate, IS q source Of
much less worry to his friends since
the Democratic primary. Wheeler,
Senator Tom Walsh and National
Committeeman Bruce Kremer are
all pulling hard for Smith and, bar
ring bad breaks, ought to put him
over.
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Spear, woman advertising specialist;
Deems Taylor, the composer of "The
Kings Henchman," and q score Of
others, including woody" Cowan,
who draws "Mom and Pop"
Woodstock is another "farm
colony" center, made ND largely of
artists and esthetic dancers. In this
district the summer places scatter
from Is to 20 miles from the village
proper.
Plovincetown is perhaps the oldest
and most famous of the summer art
colonies. Here the houseboat and
cottage take the place Of the farm.
Here it was, some years back, that
the "Dock theater" was established
pioneer Of the little theatcl" move
ment and progenitor Of the Prov
incetown Theater. Here it was that
Eugene O'Neill started on his road
to fame; here Susan Glaspcll pre-
scented her "InheritOrs," "Trif;es''
and other plays; here Mary Hcaton
Worse wrote most os her novels;
here Phyllis Duggane writes today
and Frank Shay, "old ,nan of the
little theater," still operates his
summer dramas; here Will Irwin
and 1nez Irwin may be found.
Croton, started as s:radical COL
ony," is today the site Of the show
places Of the celebrated theatrical
folk. OF q warm afternoon you
may come across Lenore Uric now
ing her lawn. Here Holbrcok Blinn
lived in his famous Trails End" es-
tate until his recent death: here
Gloria Swanson still keeps her sum-
mer home; here Dudley Field Malone
and Arthur Garfield Hays, famous
in the legal world, have their
country estates.
Floyd Dell and Max Eastman and
others Of the old "Masscs" and the
early days Of Greenwich Village
built their shacks in the years before
the great war.
There are innumerable actors col
onies, many Of them in Maine or
along the Hudson or scattered up
and down the Atlantic seaboard.
These maintain tiny theatces where
many IN actor, whose name looms
none too large on Broadway, gets an
opportunity to expand before the
summer resorters.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
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ACCORDING TO FORMULA
Helena Mont RArnrd- un~elAN

For party harmony the Democratic party was driven
to the adoption Of . platform comparatively equiv
ocal on every major issue Of the Forthcoming cam
paign Only hopeles:ly weak and evasive campaign
could have won the united endorsement Of groups %
bitterly hostile the several factions Of the Demo-
cratic party One strong plank on any Of the major
issues to be decided in November would have split the
party beyond repair Sweet words that commit the
party to nothing are the soothing syrup the party Of
fers the farmer. It's agricultural plank does not even
give assurance that the great body Of taxpayers in
which the wheat corn and cotton growers are in the
minority, will not be burdened with farm-relief tax
for the benefit Of handful Of spectators in farm
lands The Democratic ticket and platform present
the ludicrous spectacle Of . presidential nominee
pledged TO support prohibition plank to which he is
antagonstie Governor Smith is for repeal Of the VOL
stead law and has vigorous, opposed state enforce
ment in New York state; Six years tardy is Demo-
cracy in ts war on "pillags and privilege" Presi-
dent Coolidge and his party accomplished six years
ago what the Democrats promise to. do now. The
Democratic convention, keynote speech and platform
present picture Of IN enterprising boy throwing
mud on clean rug that he may have the Job Of clean.
nG it. The platform was drawn according to the tradi-
tional Democratic formula-nine parts condemnation
q everything Republican tosene part political bunk
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
(NEA Service Writerl

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE nation
is playing politics and it appears to
be more than customarily interested
in the game. Hoover or Smith
seems to mean something to nearly
everyone and as many as 5000, 900
ballots may be cast in November.
Things are beginning to happen
and to be brought about, but a sur
vey of the visible developments cast
little light on the probable result.
The betting odds are on Hoover and
no Smith gambler ought to take
even money, but it seems as if the
Democrats were in stronger po-
sition than at any time since 1916
and it is generally believed that
Smith is sure to get more electoral
votes than either Cox or Davis.
The situation probably will not be-
gin to jell, however, before October.
Take Minnesota. Unprecedented
opinion generally is that Henrik
Shipstead, who is running again on
the Farmer Labor ticket, will get
himself reelected to the Senate.
The three or four hundred thousand
voters who elect Shipstead will be
virtual independents; there is no
Farmer Labor presidential ticket.
Minnesota Democrats are hoping
that, with wet sentiment and farm
discomfort, they can get the bulk of
the Shipstead voters, who could
carry the state for Smith.
Criticizes Coolidge
Shipstead has avoided the presi-
Dental issue, but is criticizing the
Coolidge McNary Haugen veto and
spoke recently from the same plat
form with Frank Murphy, farm
leader and a delegate to the Repub-
lican convention who has bolted to
Smith.
Wisconsin exhibits a somewhat
similar situation. The state may go
for Smith. For one thing, there is
more wet sentiment there. And
Senator Young Bob La Toilette,
whose reelection is expected, appar-
emily isn't worrying about what hap
pens to Hoover, La Toilette and his
followers have no love for the Cool
idge policies which Hoover has
promised to continue and Wisconsin
Democrats, knowing the independ-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-11
CAUSES OF INSANITY

A great majority of those Of un-
sound mind may be clRssed in the
dementia praecox group. AS in hys-
terra, one Of the principal causes
of this trouble must be considered
the result Of congestion within the
pelvis, either Of the uterus or pros
tate. Displacement of the abb
nominal organs and constipation are
contributory causes to this conges-
ton caused by functional inactivity
and negative emotional desires.
There is often a history Of an un-
happy love affair.
Every cause of dementia praecox
should be given q few days. fruit
fast, In order to assist in the blood
cleansing processes and also to re-
lieve pelvic pressure caused by a
prolapsus of the stomach and in
testines, since, when the prolapsed
digestive organs are comparatively
free from food, there is much less
pressure upon the organs and nerve
plexuses of the lower abdomen.
Many cases Of mental instability,
accompanied by illusions and hallu-
cinations have. been shown by
psychoanalysis to be due to mental
repressions and incoordination of
thought. Besides these mental COM
plexes. there are some other causes
Of a distinctly material nature, such
as brain irritation from poisons,
traumatic injuries, surgical shocks,
and venereal diseases.
The wasting of nervous energy has
very decided effect in contributing
to the formation of these diseases.
For example, eye strain may pro-
duce disorders in parts of the body
seeming to have no direct connec-
ton with the organs Of vision. In
digestion, constipation, general eye
weakness, and mental irritability
can be entirely caused by an eye
strain which does not impart any
pronounced indication in the region
of the eyes.
That which is termed nervous
ness" has its origin in some mental
or physical irritation, aggravated by
fatigue and general enervation, the
symptoms coming from some weak
spot in the nervous system. Actual
disease and destruction of the nerve
cells are very rare, and do not usu-
ally occur until the body becomes
exceedingly toxic.
If you wish to overcome nervous
ness, you must understand the num-
erous causes producing it. If the
reason lies in your eyestrain, see
your optometrist. If you are eating
indiscreetly, you must earnestly
strive to correct your mistakes and
substitute good habits for those you
find to be bad. If you are over
working mentally, it will be neces-
sary to cut down on the mental
work, and substitute more physical
exercise. If you are enervating
yourself with destructive habits of
thought, as Of fear, criticism,
jealousy, worry, or malice, you can
Immediately enjoy a miraculous
change by tuning out these destruc-
tive thoughts and tuning in their
constructive opposites - courage,
tolerance, confidence, repose and
love.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, August 1.-THE most
metropolitan of New Workers. have
taken to "going rural" during the
summer season.
Whereas the moneyed folk have
for generation had their country
estates, the vogue among artists,
writers and such is to own q farm.
Hundreds now live on farms for
several months Of the year, and
scores actually attempt to lead q
farm life as q reaction from the
exactions Of Manhattan life.
The great open spaces Of Connec-
ticut, New Jersey and New York
have rapidly been surrendering to
the demand that suddenly has re-
suited. Abandoned farms in Con-
necticut, with histories that date
back to the Revolution, have taken
on an artificial value. Scouts have
gone hither and thither, buying up
the remnants of tumble-down and
ramshackle old places. IMPROVE
dent owners, who had long since
given up hope Of struggling with
stubborn soil, rub their eyes as
the bids for the supposedly worth
less property soar INTO the tens of
thousands.
Throughout the countrysides the
farm folk have been getting wise.
This season farms brought prices
hitherto unheard Of, and colonies Of
the intellectual "who's who" have
sprung up. In many such groups
the farms lay miles apart, as good
farms should and do in rural COM
munities. On q Sunday afternoon,
with q farm party" underway, one
is likely to encounter half the celeb
rites Of the writing, painting and
theater world. The grand old Gus
tom Of hayrides has been restored.
And "neighbors" 60 calling Of eve
nings in their flivvers.
John Held Jr.. the artist, was Z
pioneer Of the farm" idea in West
port, Conn, which today is one Of
the largest colonies.
Held went at il quite seriously.
He started with . kennel Of dogs and
added Q stable Of cattle and many
acres Of waving grain. ! am told
that while this young artist is
among the most prosperous in the
business, his farm keeps his nose to
the grindstone.
In this same neighborhood are F..
p. A. Frank Adams), the famous
Photographer; George Bye, the liter
ary agent; Murdoch Pemberton, the
Broadway producer and playwright;
J. p. McEvoy, the writer; Lee Town
send, the cowboy" artist; Rose
O'Neil Of 'ekewpie" fame; May