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Vt THE KANSAS CITY TIMES. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1930. 22 WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS CAPTURED. CONEY IS FOR COMFORT Her Duty Done, Mrs.

Oldfield Is Leaving Congress THOUSANDS LOVE RESORT AS A PLACE TO BE THEMSELVES." the creature comforts, but everything else of the expensive spa. He saved $200 for a three months outing and expected this gum to cover all expense. This is a side of the resort those who visit it merely to chase thrills, devour hot dogs and frozen custard rarely see. Bob Garland, dramatic critic of the Telegram, postcards from Galllpolis, The boys around the drug store never heard of you but they know all about you now." I knew someone would eventually spill the beans. median tugged at the reins shouting: Beck, you, Beck, you I Wise-cracking experts furnishing gags for comedians are similar to the gag men of Hollywood.

Their prices vary, but top for a nifty was $1,000 paid by A1 Jolson. He heard it across a cafe table a spontaneous wheeze and peeled off a grand" for tho amazed punster for sole rights. Outstanding nifty tossers are Bugs Baer, Wilson Mizener, Grant Clarke, Arthur Caesar, Joe Frisco and Jack Benny. Some of their best lines were hurled in repartee which collected no royalties. bank checks: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" A doddering grayhead Is entitled to a poetical moment now and then.

This morning I passed the graceful and arresting Harriet Hoctor, the danse use, along Forty-ninth street, and Wordsworth's lines have haunted me since: A dancing shape, an Image gav. To haunt, to atartle and waylay From a California civic magazine: "McIntyre sometimes strikes us as brilliant, other times as so so and now and then positively boring." Make up your mind. We have "second company" nerve as it is .930 I Pleasure Seekers Spend Summer on 1-land Living in Hula With Only Bare Necessities From April to September. 'We Oufilii ioKW Why is a doornail dead Answer: One of the olden writings where the familia-Dead as a Doornail, is to be pT. says the Philadelphia i is in "The Vision or WUltam Cor ing Piers the Plowman.

bv 1 Ungland, somewhere jin t)-. i half of the fourteenth words run as follows: Felth without Feet is feb.f nouht, And ded as a dore-nayle. Feith" is, of course, fam the word feet means rived from the French word c.i gelica feat. There is prohd-u. known1 origin of the phrase 0 -I The old bridge at Compiegne, nearby which the Maid of Orleans was taken prisoner and afterwards put to death.

Sidney Skolsky tells of the comedian dismissed by Martin Beck, vaudeville magnate. Trying vainly to see Beck and express his resentment, he finally hired a horse and cab, donned a coachmans uniform and waited for him. When Beck appeared, the cJt I think Bugs Baer's best was when after entertaining a large group in a nigpt gyp Joint he cried; Waiter, my check and a fright wig!" It was Arthur Caesar who printed across his Read the want ad columns of The Star where more good people meet more good people, in a trading mood, regularly, than any other time or place. FRAIL, rather sad appearing oman h0 wears black 0n all occasions soon will fln-lsh a task In Washington that only a sense of duty prompted her to undertake. She Is Mrs.

Pearl Peden Oldfield Representative Oldfield, member of congress from the second district of Arkansas. In a day when women are striving with all their might for a firmer footing in politics and public affairs, the case of Pearl Peden Oldfield seems strangely out of step. Here is a woman who cares not one whit for her position a woman who from the day she left the little town of Batesville, to come to congress has had but one thing uppermost in mind the day when she could return to the normal life of a woman who was greatly interested In her home and husband and find the satisfaction and contentment she once knew, DISLIKES POLITICS. Mrs. Oldfield is In congress through no choice of her own.

She frankly admits that she found her- Low Salaries Are the Premiums Paid for the White Collar Jobs tt Promises fill no sack 7 it is TASTE and not words you enjoy in a smoke By O. O. McIntyke. New York, Sept. 8.

No spot so successfully turns back the years for me as Coney Island. It is the one amusement resort that transforms the sourest curmudgeon into a Peter Pan. And this past summer Coney did not fail to live up to its chirping anthem: Bigger and Better." There are three distinct classes In this whirling world of make-believe Those who visit it lolling in the pontifical plush of limousines. Others who go to Coney for a lark. And the great, fat and waddling majority who refer to it as Cooney." The latter have the most fun.

They live and play there from April 15 to the closing in September. Coney to them is a seaside resort where studied informality stamps the elect the happy. Mothers and children wear only bathing suits during the entire hegira. To be "smart" at Coney wins an felegant guffawing horse laugh." Tihe seasoned Coney Islanders come nearest to the supreme Joy of beach combing, without its discomforts, that the world knows. The chief charm of Coney is that life is shucked of Its monotonous conventions.

Thousands who swarm the beach from sunup until sundown are housed in mere huts, furnished only with such necessities as a bed, table, chafr and cook stove. The glittering parabola of dips of death and papier mache what-nots are as unknown as Broadway to the real New Yorker. This summer I visited a former chauffeur who, with his wife and three children, occupied a 3-room lean-to on the lower end of the island. His expenses for the first six weeks were less than 815 weekly. He hadnt and in its essence Is distasteful to the white-collar man.

For to the average worker of this class the white tollar is not merely a collar; it is the symbol of security, of individuality and of opportunity; and as such it is incompatible with the standardizing influence of unionization. What has been the gam of the wage earner in recent years has not been the loss of the office worker. While wages have risen for the former opportunity has broadened for the latter, a fact that is borne out every day in the running narrative of the business world." Good English. From the London Times. Surely one of the strangest expressions in common use nowadays is Thanks very much, which seems likely to pass unchallenged Into the language.

Why not, one wonders, Thanks very many or Thank very much either of which forms would seem to be more Intelligible. miMer Simplicity Itself. Call HArrison 1200 an experienced clerk will take your want ad and see that it is prop erly classified. From the New York Herald TrlbiiM. IT would be interesting," writes a contributor, "lTyour financial editor would explain why high wages and low salanes are considered to be among the basic elements of prosperity.

The latest figures show that wages are 104 per cent higher than in 1913, salanes 33 1-3 to 40 per eent higher and the cost of living 60 per cent higher. It is perfectly evident from the above figures why high wages are part of the prospenty structure; but why low salanes should be part of the same structure is puzzling to me." From the manner in which the above question is framed it would appear that the.writer subsenbes to the theory that high wages have been the principal secret of this countrys recent prosperity. That there are many who agree with him is evident from the number of seemingly responsible persons who have recently advocated a general Increase in wages as the quickest way out of the present business slump. Unfortunately, this doctrine is quite as fatuous as a suggestion which we recently received urging that everybody be capitalized at I million dollars and extended loans on the basis of this capitalization." It is perfectly true that wages have risen rapidly In recent years, but that has been but a part of the cause of our unprecedented prosperity. Mass production and the application of capital and power to labor have enormously increased the latters productivity.

Between 1899 and 1923, according to a study prepared by Prof. Paul H. Douglas of Chicago university the productive power of the laborer increased 50 per cent while his real wages were increasing by approximately half that figure. In a period of expansion, when additional output means progressive reductions in costs, industry has found it sound policy to pay high wages, since by so doing It increased the potential demand for its products. When we are passing through a period of declining output and increasing production costs high wages are more likely to be prejudicial to business profits than beneficial.

Fortunately, industry recognizes the psychological desirability of maintaining wages at as high a level as possible, even in such periods, but ttys policy is one that should be clearly distinguished from the economic concept of high wages as an essential part of cheap mass production. If we accept the above as the correct explanation of what we mean by the prosperity cf high wages," then it becomes at once clear that the increase in income of wage earners in recent years has been largely in the nature of a reward for their increased productivity. There are, of course, other reasons, as well, for the improved position of the wage earner. Most prominent among these have been organization and the elimination of the competition of foreign labor As to the plight of the salaried worker, we must admit that we find it extremely difficult speaking generally, of course to work up any great amount of sympathy for him. If there is a considerable spread between his income and that of the wage earner, then that spread can only be interpreted in one way, namely, as the premium that society in our LES POUDRES ims PEARL PEDEN OLDFIELD CONSIDERS HER DUTY AS CONGRESS-WOMAN FULFILLED, AND WILL DEPART NEXT MARCH 4.

i i 3 'n -i i i I "a 7T I a i i i ol fit 'll et it si in ci Pt tt tt hi I i cl 1 Tilt EJ Ci 1 Cf re Pi rt Tv TO yn Be Ik It Bj 1 by rf Fl In itl hi bi pt bi ei COTY One will always stand out! Add stilt greater charm to loveliest Feces. THE Feet Powder that constantly pleases forty million women must be perfect in texture, in shades, in quality and price. ONE DOHA! 1930, Lkcett ft Myths Tobacco Co. COMPACT $1.00 INDELIBLE LIPSTICK $1.00 elf thrust into politics almost without warning, that she doesnt like it, and that her position is not at all in accord with what she believes Is her place in the scheme of things. She represents the second Arkansas district because her husband did before her.

William Allan Oldfield had been in congress from that district since 1909 continuously and was Democratic whip of the house at the time or his death in 1928. Mrs. Oldfield was ISersuaded to take his place. Members of her party named her without opposition. The Republicans of the district decided that they would put no candidate in the field.

And without even so much as issuing a statement in support of her candidacy she was elected not only to fill out her husband's unexpired term, but to serve throughout the seventy-first congress as well. But she will not be in the seventy-second congress. On March 4, 1931, fihe will lock the door to her office on the fourth floor of the house office building and return to Batesville merely as Pearl Peden Oldfield. And that is exactly what she wants. SHE IS NO FEMINIST.

Her activity in the house has been confined mostly to looking after the needs of her constituents. On national Issues she votes regularly with her party. Only once has she attracted moTe than usual attention. It was on the occasion that she cast her first vote only a few hours after she had been Vi, 7 Monday, September 8th, 1930. Announcing CAR A m.

'VVy r-. S' Ov aworn in. On a motion designed to kill the fay P'aces on tbe white col-Fenn reapportionment bill she raised I far That premium is perhaps There May be Poison in YOUR Bowels I higher at present than it ever was be fore, thanks largely to the educational advantages placed at the disposal of our youth advantages which make a continually increasing proportion of her voice and shouted yes when her rame was called. Her yes penetrated the hubbub created by representatives chattering the well. Although she keeps herself in formed concerning affairs, she does Hie latter aspirants for the big Jobs not entertain essentially feminine 'n the business and financial world, views in regard to legislation.

So long as no insurmountable barrier She is firm in her belief that women exists to prevent the free flow of la-fihould be measured on the basis of bor from the salaried field to the field their qualifications and true worth of wage earning, we see no menace in and a Policy for the Future THAT IS DIFFERENT READ THIS CAREFULLY We have been checking all used car advertisements for a week and wd have repriced our entire stock of pleasure and trucks so that we believe every car and truck in our stock is now priced lower than you can buy one of like year and model and condition. We believe these are now the LOWEST PRICES IN KANSAS CITY fti and in addition to this-REMEM BER- zee give you a 90-DAY GUARANTEE rather than on the theory that as women they should be accorded certain privileges. KEY STILL HhlT ISULR MKT. feelings over night will convince you of its merit. Dr.

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When the white-collared worker is no longer adequately compensated for his contribution to our economic progress he will inevitably drift into the more lucrative ranks of the uncollared. As we pointed out in these columns on a previous occasion in discussing the failure of salaries to keep pace with wages, it is not In the nature of things that the white-collar worker Custom MaUei It Kay for JIoue Jrou lers. From hp Coljmbuv Diparh An up-state New York police chief has Lssued a request nay, a plea that householders refrain from hiding will go in on any large scale for fight-the door kov under thp frent porch Ing this trend with the favorite mat when they leave the house Do weapon of the wage earner, organiza-people actually do that in these tlon. This is at best but a palliative, davs? Ii seems impossible. ON GOOD USED CARS AND TRUCKS- Except the Very Cheapest Ones, are BARGAINS Year l)0 A v- Because these And Many Other Good Cart.

Nearly All Makes and Models. Easy Terms. Will Trade Your Car or Truck at Good Price. IS Other rucks Condition Perfect Perfect Perfect Very Good Very Good Perfect Perfect Very Good Perfect Perfect Perfect Perfect Very Good Excellent Very Good Perfect Perfect Very (mod Very Good Very Good Perfect It would be difficult to establish Just the period at wmch this custom was inauejraed. jet for most cf us there probably never was a time when we were not familiar with It.

II mother ran out to the store and expected the children home from school in her absence, she put the key under the mat When father went out to lodge and the rest of the family to a church social, the key was put under the mat so that the first to return could get m. By some mvstfrious process the custom became standardized throughout the country. There were a few sanations, such as UMng the mailbox or a nail driven into the door casing. But usually under the mat was the accepted place for the key in the family's absence, unless all went together and expected to return the eame way. This custom took no cognizance of the fact that most burglars, at some time during their lives, fell under the home Influence and probably practiced the key-under-the-mat habit, too, and wrre therefore fully familiar with it.

So, by watching the departure of a family, all that was necessary to gain admittance was for the burglar to act Just as he did at home. But we had the imprcs.on that people had outgrown the custom. having become wiser to the wavs of criminals and not a little rime-conscious, as It were. But the Nw York chief says not. Can It be that any large portion of the nation's front door keys are under mats Ibis very minute? 1i-Ton Perfect A-Ton Express Perfect l'i-Ton L.W.B.

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