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The Washington times., 1932-07-29

tn IRE a ELSIE ROBINSON
great show-perhaps the smart
est show the human race has
ever put on-and they have no
end of points over the young
things of our day, partner.
For one thing. they're incom-
parably more decorative. No
body gave Nature a hand when
I was a girl. If you were born
with a face like the underdone
side of a pancake, you stayed
that way. Clothes were built
for durability only, and had
all the subtle chic of a saddle
bag. You rated according to
your good deeds, not your
haberdashery. Nice girls were
never scenic.
But these kids now are all
an eyeful! Know those crazy,
exquisite blow-glass animals you
see in shop windows, some of
'em filled with perfume? 1ri-
descent deer and moonglow
1IS11, anu IIl1llSo UlAdu 4OUN AhC
Observation-Disclosures done in star
light?
Sweet POsies!
Well, that's what these young
sters remind me of-even what
passes nowadays for males.
Wouldn't be a bit surprised,
if you cracked one, to have
him leak essence of gardenia.
And it isn't just the way
they look and dress. There's
a sort of brittle iridescence
about the way they talk and
act, too. The things they say.
The way they say them. Re
member how we used to try to
swallow our tonsils and climb
up our shins, when we had
to tackle conversation, old
timer? These young moderns
have all the coy reluctance of
a machine gun!
No use denying it! They
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

TVERYONE hopes that
- conditions economically
are better; but no one with
memories reaching b a C k
three years will take the
stock market as barometer.
When the United States
Steel stock goes up at a
time when it is known that
the earnings are lower than
ever before in the long his
tory Of the corporation, sane
people will wonder at the
"sharp rise. " Other stocks
have gone up; and unless
the businesses behiAd these
stocks have also gone up
sensible people, remembering
1923 and 1929, will think it
a bit mysterious.
Millions of A m orleans
learned something about the
manipulation of stocks three
and four years agO-and to
their loss or ruin.
Stocks may go up to the
grotesque figures Of 1923
and 1929, but there will be
no returning prosperity un-
less there is a corresponding
increase in trade-on which
prosperity depends alone.
It will be interesting to
watch the market during
the rest of the presidential
campaign to compare the
prices of stocks with the
extent of trade; for every
effort will be made by the
market minded statesman
ship Of the Administration
to play the sorry game
played by the same people
in 1928 when certain ruin
was being prepared for US.
Unless this "sharp secur-
ity advance increases the
trade Of the merchant and
puts great numbers of the
ten million bread winners
back to work it will mean
nothing as far as the restora-
ton of prosperity is con-
cerned.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
The Feeling of Friendship

The Feeling of Friendship
You may not be satisfied
with some of your sons or
daughters pals.
You may think they exercise
poor judgment in selection of
intimates.
You want them to choose
from what you think of as a
higher grade of society than
that in which they move.
Your children should culti-
vate the acquaintance of the
prominent persons in your city,
through their sons and
daughters, as you put it.
Because they do not. you are
displeased and cenSure them.
Do you, yourself, follow the
principle of choosing your
friends because of their social
and financial standing?
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
Mr.. Hoover Opened the
Door to the Idea

Wilson and Coolidge put
their feet down cmphatically
on the suggestion of trans
ferring the d e b is Mr..
Hoover opened the door to
the idea, consciously or un-
consciously. Personally we
have no doubt it was done
consciously. The Adminis-
tration began to shift its
position after the voice Of
the people reached the White
House.
There is no doubt but that
Laval, the French premier,
when here, got the impress
sion from his secret confer
ences with Mr.. Hoover that
the A merican taxpayers
would take over the debts.
That is the reason he was re-
ceived with such acclaim on
his return to Paris.
just where Mr.. Hoover
stands now no one knows.
What we do know is that the
Republican platform was
dictated by Ogden Mills, act
ing for the President, and
that the cancellation" ques-
tion, which is very prominent
in the public mind, was not
mentioned.
The Democratic platform
is quite clear-it is against
cancellation. "
1t remains to be seen
whether Mr.. Hoover, in his
speech Of acceptance, dis
cusses the subject his plat
form, at his instance, ig-
nOred.
But, we read, that there is
"fear" lest the attitude of
Borah force the issue into the
campaign. And we read:
"A strong desire to steer
away from any discussion of
war-debt revision or cancel
lation until the elections are
over was manifest" in Wash
ington.
Note the significance of
the phrase-"until the cleo
tions are over"
Why "until the elections
are over?"
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

think 10 times quicker than
we ever did. and they're hep
to things some of us haven't
heard of even yet. They've
been around. They know all
the answers. And if you don't
like the answers, that's just
your bad luck. Who asked
your approval, any way? They
can take care of themselves.
This last, by the way, is no
idle boast. Most of them are
taking care of themselves in
some sort of a job. Naturally,
they also chisel on dad; but
even lacking dads, they man.
age. And they look with scorn
on us oldsters who weren't our
own bosses at 18.
Plenty of Brass
Moreover, these fragile flop
pits seem afraid of nothing.
No automobile is too fast. no
aeroplane too dizzy for them.
They're the whizz-bang kids,
and all they want is plenty of
action and lots of risk. Sez
they! And yet, 1 wonder
They can dish it out, and
how!
BUT CAN THEY TAKE IT!
How much of their stuff is
real; how much synthetic?
They sparkle and speed; but
is that because they're lit up
and het up from inside-or is
it because Messrs. Edison,
Wright, Chryslel and Carroll
equipped them with mean
descents, wings, motors and
wise cracks?
A Nervy Lot
Do they know the answers
because they think 'em out?
Or because the radios and
vaudeville wise 'em up?
Do they go places because
they have the nerVe-or be-
cause they have the gasoline?
And how much of a show
could they put on If the indus"
trial age hadn't supplied them
with the makings?
Suppose they were tumbled
out to start at scratch, as we
we're, how swift or how smart
would they be? How much OF
a beating could they take? How
much monotony could they
stand? How much hardship
could their skinny, pampered,
little moonbeam bodies endure?
They can dish it out!
And as I watch them, I'm
Just like you. They get my
goat. 7 decide they're a rude,
Vulger, shallow, selfish, spineless
bunch of young smarties-that
they're a disgrace to the human
race and I'd like to slap them
down.
Which was what intended to
do when 1 started to write this
article, and then-I look them
over again. I think of some
of the things I've seen them do.
I remember one of them, who
wise cracked through 21 years
of agony, and went down to
death with his mocking eyes
unfaltering, and I'm not so
sure.
It's true they look and talk
and act like a lot of blown
glass bubbles and they dish it
out till they're a pain in the
neck. And yet, if you put
them up against it
COULD THEY TAKE IT?
DARN IT; I BET THEY
COULD!
copyright. 1892. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

lZe about hui
mans. They
always run as
sorted. B u t
there's a char
a C t e r S t ic
trend in every
G e n e + alton,
a n d L m
thinking now
of the flip
young ScampS
W hO m W e
know as Flam-
ing Youth.
You've got
to a d m j t
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

people, has taken its stand
and there is no weakening
in that quarter as far as we
can see. Nor is it partisan.
Senator Bingham has just
said:
While Borah is making
this appalling proposal is
he also proposing that all
persons who hold Liberty
bonds and victory bonds,
bought to furnish the funds
which Europe borrowed,
shall cancel these bonds?
That is the only way the
proposal could logically be
carried out, and as a mat
ter of fact it is the Amer
lean taxpayer who must pay
the bill anyway"
IhlS is a question we have
asked many times; a point
we have made many times.
There can be no cancella-
ton; only a transfer of the
debts from the people of the
nations that borrowed the
money to the people of this
country that loaned the
money.
The only way unless the
owners of the Liberty and
Victory bonds are ready to
cancel them and wipe out
the war obligations.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
WISE WORDS

Silks and satins put out the
kitchen fire,
Burn not your house to
frighten mice.
Courtesy all on one side can
not last long.
Who pays beforehand Is
served behindhand.
hanks is the poor mans
money.
Great men seem to be part
of the infinite, brothers Of the
mountains and the seas.
Fools live poor to die rich.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
In the Hands
Of the Bankers

These bonds no longer are
in the hands of the smal
purchaser. Most of these
disposed of them, of neces-
sity, long ago. They are in
the hands of the bankers
and the very rich. This,
therefore, is a sacred OBJ
ligation'' and cancellation
would be "shameless repudi-
alton. "
SO there will be no "scal-
ing down." no reduction"
no cancellation" here-for
it would mean a loss to the
people who are the real in
spiration here of the plan
to transfer the foreign debts
to our own taxpayers. These
want the transfer made to
relieve the debtor nations of
their obligations to America
so that less difficulty will
be found in collecting the
private loans they have
made at handsome interest.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
Transfer of the
Debt Talk

anw lille the propa-
ganda, powerfully supported
in America and unanimously
supported by A m e ri c a s
debtors among the European
nations, to transfer the debts
to the American taxpayers,
is on full force. The Rorah
speech has given impetus to
the movement.
We are getting to be a
strange country. No one in
France sneers at France; no
one in England sneers at
England; no one In Italy
sneers at Italy, but interna-
tional banking groups and
the so-called "intelligentsia "
in America sneer constantly
at America.
1t is this which makes pos
sible the transfer of the debt
talk here which would never
be heard in any of these
other nations were the con-
ditions reversed.
But Congress, directly and
speedily answerable to the
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

and darn his socks-instead of
yearning to be some rich old
mans darling.
cts been a wholesome thing
for the married women, too.
Many a spoiled and pampered
wife, who was lolling around
expensive summer hotels, wor-
rying about her figure and so
bored to death that she was
headed straight for Reno and
the gigolo-game, has had to
pitch in and put on a kitchen
apron or go downtown and get
a job-and thereby has escaped
elephantiasis and fatty degener-
alton of the brain, and is find
ing life interesting again.
I'm short, all mollusks and
barnacles and lightWeights and
short measures that cluttered
this world-all the playboys and
playgirls-are either being elimi-
mated or being transformed into
responsible human beings.
Everybody is getting his Cor
herr eyes open, perceiving what
a fool he was making of him.
self, and settling down to a
healthier and more normal ex-
istence.
THE jazz age is over! Easy
money is no more! Bounders
and grafters and snobs and
fourflushers are OUT of the
picture. Velvet and silk-plush
ITS GONG GdsaA
K-A Aoms 70 I!NA
q Il M1My Fgg
e. :/@1 |
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
Preparing the HarpOOn
For the People
Bu Claude G.. BOWers-

Author Of PERIOD he Struggle
for Democracy in America" Jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
"How They Can Dish 1t Out
But Can They Take IT."

I'm keenly curious about
these modern youngsters. Of
course, you can't ever general
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

THE prompt way in which
husbands come home to dinner
is, in itself, revelation! Many
a man who used to be the life
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

jobs and feather-bed existences
are almost unknown. And I'm
not sorry for it-1'm glad of it!
1T isn't poverty and struggle,
and hard work that wreck a
man, a woman or a nation. It's
too much money and prosperity
and ease and luxury"
Copyright. 1892. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
The Good New Days

"There are lots of bright spots
appearing on our cloudy hori-
zon these days." remarked the
golf widow. Lots of compen.
sations, mean.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

Another delightful sign of
the time is the passing of the
elderly Don Juans and Casa
novas. Those dear, old middle
aged girl charmers who once
thought themselves things of
beauty and joys forever, with
too much T to waste on any
one woman, have had their van
ity painfully punctured. They
have discovered that no amount
of sex appeal will offset a flat
pocketbook; and that. next to
scrambled eggs, nothing cools
and hardens so quickly as a
flapper's heart when daddy has
nothing to offer but love!
GAS for the flapper-ah,
where ARE the flappers of yes
teryear? I'll tell you where.
Half of them have found jobs
and gone to work, and the rest
are in business schools learning
how to be REGULAR women
and useful citizens, and hoping
to marry some poor young man
The Washington times., 1932-07-29
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
By T. E. Powers

and darn his socks-instead of
yearning to be some rich old
mans darling.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

of the speakeasy and the light
of the night clubs is now sane
and sober little fireside compan-
ion, with whom his wife is get
ting acquainted all over again.
When a man has no money for
whoopee palaces. poker or golf,
his wife gets lots more of his
society.
The Washington times., 1932-07-29

THE jazz age is over! Easy
money is no more! Bounders
and grafters and snobs and
fourflushers are OUT of the
picture. Velvet and silk plush
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
Livestock
SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK
South st. Paul, August 12.-(AP-
U. S. d. A)-Cattle 100; generally
steady market: long yearlings and
weighty steers to 8.75; latter fat but
slightly on plain order; palmer fed
offerings 100 to 8.25; short fed and
warmed ups down to $50; grassers to.
$50: grass cows $50 to $50; heifers
800 to 4.50: cutters largely $50 to
ESQ; medium grade bulls firm; bulk
$50 to 2.85; feeders and stockers un-
changed; calves 1900: vealers steady
but sorting rigid; medium to choice
grades ..rgely 400 to 600; selected
to $50.
Hogs 1000; moderately active;
steady to .05 higher; top ATS; paid
for closely sorted 10000 lbs: bulk
better l60-240 lbs; 4.50-75; 240-325
lbs, 3.9O-4.5O: 1Oo-150 lbs, 4.OO-5O;
light and nediumweight packing sows
3.50-75; heavyweights down to 1928
and below: average cost Thursday
3.97; weight 264.
Sheep $500; run includes IL cars
MontanaS and five cars holdover
range lambs; early bids on native
lambs Is lower of 500 down; holding
best native lambs around SIS: and
best westerns around 600; few sales
choice ewes Its down: late Thursday
II cars choice S0-82 lbs, range lambs
SOS; sorted 10 to 20 per cent, and five
cars 81 lbs, averages sorted so per
cent at $50 with throwouts to feeders
at $50.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
r. o N T l N u E ID
from page one.
BOardDelays Action on
Junior College Proposal

the possible future cost II the school
Is established.
Another suggestion, which probably
will be considered by the board, is
that the project be declared an
emergency measure and that the au-
thorization which might be asked to
open the college would expire at the
end of definite period, say two
years. At that time another vote
could be taken and the people given
the opportunity to decide If they
wished to continue the college and if
so on what terms.
Up to School Board
Under the law authorizing the Gre
alton of junior colleges, no restrictions
are placed on the school board and
the members could present the ques-
ton in practically any form they
wish.
Frank Cave, spokesman for the
committee of parents sponsoring the
project, announced Friday that u
meeting of all persons interested will
be held at o'clock tonight in the
World War Memorial building to ar
range for the survey. He asked
everyone interested to come and
those who have children who would
attend the school to notify him.
Bids on coal for use in school build
ings, received Thursday night, were
slightly higher than those received
last year. For lump coal the board
paid 1925 ton last year and this
years bids are from $3.50 to $3.75.
Slack coal cost $40 last year and
this years bids range from $3.50 to
$3.50. Crushed coal cost $3.50 last
year and the new bids range from
$3.50 to $500.
An offer to heat one or more school
buildings with gas provided q sliding
scale beginning at 80 cents per thou
sand for the first 10000 cubic feet.
IS cents for the next 100000 and 22h
cents for all over 100000. Gas now
Is used to heat the high school build.
ing.
The coal bids, submitted by the
Wachter Transfer company. Occident
Elevator company and the Washburn
Coal company. were taken under ad-
visement, along with the gas COM
pany's offer.
Discussion of the age rule for school
children resulted in tentative decision
to make no change. Under the pres
ent rule child must be six years old
on or before November in order to
be eligible to admittance to the frs!
grade.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
WHEAT FUTURES TRADE
PROVES THIN AND WEAK

Minneapolis, Aug 12.-(P-Wheat
futures trade was thin and weak most
of the session here Friday because of
a change in sentiment and news.
Gables were weak and the stock
market softened appreciably.
Towards the close there was
sharp secondary break on rumor
the Ottawa conference had agreed
upon a three cent preferential favor
ing empire wheat moving to the
United Kingdom. All grains followed
the lead of wheat but not fully.
September wheat closed 21sc lower,
and December 2asc.
September oats closed sc lower,
December NC; September Rye 15sc,
December lac; Sept. Barley sc; De-
cember sc: Sept. Flax &c; Dec. IL c.
Cash wheat was unsettled but on
the average seemed to be strong
There was good demand for offer
ings and scattered sales were made
at an advance. Receipts were liberal
Durum was in good demand and firm
to strong. Winter was unsettled with
the South Dakota type one cent lower
Cash corn demand was steady and
the market was firm. Oats demand
slackened. Rye demand was fair
to good. Barley was unsettled and
medium to lower grades were easy to
1c lower. Flax offerings were heav-
Ter. Demand was fair.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
Trib,lne's Grain, Livestock and
Market Report for FRI, Aug IL
STOCK MART Still
WAIVERS; TRADERS
REMAIN UNCERTAIN
Wet Stocks Bid Up Following
Hoover's Announcement
on Prohibition

New York, August 12.-(P)-The
stock market continued to waver Fri
day, evidently reflecting uncertainty
in trading quarters as to whether the
advance could be pressed further
without the aid of more general i'm
provement in business conditions.
President Hoover's accep ance
speech was widely discussed in Wall
Street, but there was no agreement in
speculative quarters as to its influ-
ence as a market factor. The market
had a substantial setback in the
morning. But Hoover suportpers said
it had been entitled to it in view of
the violence of the recent advance,
and were inclined to praise the presi-
dents avoidance of any glowing COM
ment on business which might have
stimulated speculation.
Some OF the so-called "wet" stocks
were bid up, and so were some of the
power issues, possibly rejecting the
presidents reiteration of his stand
against putting the government into
the power business. Issues getting
up a point or two, after the morning
setback, included National Distillers,
U. S. Industrial Alcohol, Stone &
Webster, Standard Gas, Gillette,
Alaska Juneau. and st. Joseph Lead
Some of the low price oils were also
bought. Morning losses of l to S
points were largely regained. Case
and international Harvester dropped
about S and 4 points when wheat
opened lower. Among issues which
had been off 2 to were U. S. Steel,
American Telephone, Bethlehem, Du-
Pont, Coca Cola, American Tobacco
3D." Santa Fe, Westinghouse and
others.
The closing tone was weak. Trans
fers Appropriated 100000.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
MANDAN NEWS
M|NOT PLAYER TO
DEFEND CROWN AT
SLOPE TOURNAMENT
Tennis at Mandan Expected to
Attract rs Contest
ants

Tennis players from throughout
North Dakota will gather at Mandan
Sept. 3, 4 and for matches in the
annual Missouri Slope tournament.
it was announced Friday by A. G..
Rooth, chairman Of the committee in
charge of the event.
Approximately Is players are ex-
pected to compete.
Nearly 60 entries from the Slope
already have been received IN addi-
ton to several from Fargo, Minot and
Grand Forks.
Read Wooledge of Minot. last years
singles champion. will defend his
crown and will be paired with
Shimsta, fellow townsman, in the
defense of the doubles title.
Invitations for the tournament will
probably be sent out soon after Au'
gust Is, with entry lists closing a.
noon, Sept. 3, the first day of the
tournament.
Singles and doubles events will be
scheduled as the main events of the
tourney, with classes for both men
and women players. There will be
no mixed doubles play.
An attempt will be made to have
the new city courts opened for the
event, nearly doubling the tourna-
ment facilities and raising the num-
Der of courts from five to nine. Di-
rectors of the tournament are not
certain that the courts can be fin
ished in time. If not the play will
be held on the club experiment sta
ton and training school courts.
No definite date has been set fol
the annual city tournament. but IL
will probably be delayed until after
the Missouri Slope event, Rooth said
At any event it will be held in the
early part of September at the latest
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12
LATE RALLY FAILS
TO Bring STRENGTH
TO WHEAT MARKET
Confidence Manifested of Late
BY Operators Apparently
Has Diminished

Chicago, August 12.-(P-Despite
late transient rally ascribed to east
ern buying, wheat displayed weakness
Friday.
There was not the confidence
manifest which many operators have
shown Of late. Trade summaries in
dicated large exportable surplus Of
wheat In North America, and good
rains were reported in parts Of the
Canadian northwest.
Wheat closed unstable at the days
bottom level, Ia to 2 So under
Thursdays finish, Sept. old 50 IA
to 3-8, Dec. Sc to Sc 1-8. Corn Ia to
So down, Sept. 81 ga to 7-8, Dec.
80 Ia to Ia. Oats 1-8 to 3-8 off,
and provisions varying from cents
decline to an equal advance.
Wheat prices fell about two cents
q klshel before downturnsj were
checked. Increased commission house
selling at the outset and afterwarj
disclosed that the market was with :
out any aggressive buying export
Consequent declines forced StoplosS
orders into execution and the market
showed but little power to rally.
Liverpool reported only meager de-
mand for actual wheat and various
Chicago trade authorities. heretofore
friendly of late to the buying side
suggested waiting the appearance of
export taking before becoming pro-
nounced speculative purchasers. It
was asserted that there was an excel
lent background for bullish belief but
that the one essential feature was ex-
port demand. A statement from one
large concern said that were there no
tariff the United States was at pres
cnt nearer to an import than an eX-
port basis. Corn and oats prices
gave way with wheat.
Provisions were steadied by hog
market upturns.