The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-05
ROTARIANS LEARN
WHY some YANKEES
ARE HATED ABROAD
Or. IaRose Gives a Travelogue
on Irish Tour; Il. F.. O'Hare
Gets C.. NJ. 7. G. Job

DR.. ". J. LaRose gave his impress
sions Of q tour Of the British Isles
and the western countries of the con-
tinent Of Europe at the Rotary lunch
con, at noon, today.
The tour was made last summer
and the doctor ran into a lot of ILL
feeling toward America, he said. He
got into arguments with combative
English officers on the steamer over
the war debts and was taunted with
boasts that Britain would never pay
the war loans.
There were sneers for the part this
country took In the war, said the doc
tor, and he was informed that Amer
lea was q negligible factor in winning
It, except for the use Of its money to
finance the allied armies and opera
tions. England had won the war in
its first six months he was told.
The doctor spent q good deal of
his travelling time in Ireland. the
homeland of his and Mrs. LaRose's
parents. He even had a handful of
Irish Free State coins which he
passed around, the various industries
of the land being represented in an
emblem, as a horse, q fish or a fowl
on n side, with 'the harp that once
in Tara's halls the soul of music she'd
on the other side.
Meets Bismarck Hero Of Fight
In Ireland, he said, he met Mike
Tavin. q former resident Of Bismarck
but now q member of parliament, at
"a. Mike wanted the doctor to search
through The Tribune of 1883 and get
a copy Of the story Of his prize fight
with Ike Hays, q negro. Ike was q
a professional Of fistiana, which Mike
did not know until they got into the
ring, whereupon he was so scared over
the outcome that he nearly beat the
negro to death in his panic.
The doctor deplored the bad man
nerS Of many Americans abroad.
which merely increase the antagon-
istic feeling toward this country. In
Belgium, for instance, said the doctor,
it was considered a great joke when
the paper money was deprecated, to
paste it on suit cases and car win
dows. which hurt the feelings Of the
SENSITIVE BelglanS.
Finds Orderly Drinking
The doctor also gave the club the
benefit Of his observations on liquor
control in Quebec and in England. He
said he saw no drunkenness, but q
respect for law in the way in which
the liquor was imbibed.
The travelling in Irelapd Is mostly
by horse, jaunting a and bicycle, he
said. Taxes on cars are too high to
permit owning them, about $50 per
horsepower annually.
Another interesting observation he
made was that Holland is getting
tired of supporting a royal family and
would like to make q change to a more
economical regime.
O'Hare Endorsed for G. M. +. C.
The club Endorsed Herbert O'Hare
for G. M. T. G. commissioner for
North Dakota. solely on the ground
that as the summer military camp Is
held at Fort Lincoln, the commission
err should be a Bismarck resident. MI.
O'Hare is q veteran of the Spanish
American var and already has been
Endorsed by the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars. The work of Commissioner w.
G. MacFadden, of Fargo. last year,
was commended at the same time.
President Harry Brandes announced
Tuesday. March Is, selected for farm
ers night.
A letter from Rev. Paul s. Wright
complimented Phil Meyer. head Of the
church committee. on the increased
church attendance in the club. He
mentioned q number Of the Bismarck
club members appearing in his church
in Minneapolis during visits there.
A souvenir folder was received from
Henry J.. Duemeland from Honolulu,
where the Duemelands are sojourning
several months. Another card was
sent in greeting from Medicine Hat,
Alberta.
Guests Of the day included r.. G.
Newcomer and Robert Rea, Mandan;
Henry Klein. Hazen: E. Holt, Sanish;
Harry Safely, Minot: and w. H. Stuts-
man. Mandan.