The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-09-30
TELLS LIONS
OF VACATION
In EUROPE
STUDENT MUSICIANS EARN
PASSAGE THEN TOUR
OLD WORLD
LOCAL BOY HEADS FAMOUS
MINI. U BAND; HOME
ON VISIT

Europe is an interesting place
to visit provided you are sure OF
a way to come back. Thirteen
hundred miles aboard a bicycle
through France, Germany and
Switzerland leave lasting impress
sions of these European countries.
and give valuable lessons in bud
getting travelling funds against ex-
penses. French gendarmes are
strict and inclined to be suspicious
of foreigners. The Germans are
much more friendly. Just the sight
of the red cover of an American
passport will get you by almost
anyplace in Germany or Switzer4
land. The common, workaday peo-
pie of Germany still do not under
stand why Americans Joined the
allies against Germany. These com
mon people do not understand the
inside wheels of government and
war. After wandering for weeks
among totally strange scenes and
people, and your funds, in spite of
all possible economies, have dwind-
led to somewhere near the vanish
ing point, the sight of the ship on
which your passage home is paid,
is one of the grandest aver beheld.
But the statue of Liberty, and the
New York skyline look still better.
A musical education applied to
natural talent has wonderful pos
Utilities for a boy or girl. 1t was
such that took Harold Shipman, a
Wolf Point high school product,
and four other young men to Euro
pc this summer. Shipman is be-
ginning his fourth year at Mime
sofa U. He ranks high among the
outstanding cornetists of the North
west and plays several other in
struments. He has played in the
u band for three years, served as
treasurer of the band association,
and is now it's president. The band
has up to $50 members but its
marching number is held to 80, to
fit planned maneuvers.
Early last summer Shipman, two
other u boys, and two Minneapolis
boys, formed a five piece orches-
ira and entered into an agreement
with the American Express Co.
to furnish music on board ships
going to Europe and returning. The
dates left them several weeks to
themselves in Europe. They went
to Paris first, leaving their must
cal instruments at the port in com
pliance with the law. No Compe-
tition with the native musicians
allowed.
Harold and two others decided
on a tour and bought three BIZ
cycles, SIS per. They pumped the
bikes 1900 miles and them near
the close of the tour fell in with
a couple of young Germans, bound
for Africa on scientific work, who
told them they were foolish to
bother with wheels when they
might just as we'll h%itch-hike. The
Germans demonstrated their theory
bv hailing the next truck and get
ting rides for all five of them,
bikes and all.
IIora1I and hic nnthnr MrC H
l.. Shipman, were guests Of the
Lions club Monday noon and he
told of some of the more interest
ing and amusing incidents of the
vacation trip. The story was well
told and kept the Lions roaring. {
Many things happened to the boys ]
that are all right to laugh about t
its all over but which were
rather serious at the time. 1t is
0 k to ask for a ride on a truck |
or car but lays one open to arrest
to hitch on behind for a free tow.
It is all right to bunk in a sheep t
pasture provided you wake UP earl S
Ter than the anu lHe L
sheep. But usually the Americans J
slept inside an inn, a bed costing S
only about 20 cents. a
They roamed through many fam
1us cities-Geneva, Bern, Heidel- a
berg. Freiberg, Baden Baden and a a
lot more too hard to spell. In y
they explored battlefields, s
out some were fenced to keep the a
;ightseers from the danger of old f
i
France appears to be prosper u
Jus. Germany is deep in the de- h
preston and thousands are idle g
everywhere. existing on doles from t
he government II cities but most +
them. cheerful. Some people who {
lad been to America and could f
aaI1x como Tn ulicb u-ora met Some o.