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Show ABOUT THIS, THAT AND T'OTHER By D. J. G. j There are few things the peopu ran get more enthusiastic over than a good band Consider how proud the several Shrines are oer the bands the take to conventions. Ponder over the amount of newspaper ipa e devoted to the serenading by these bands Think how much more famous fam-ous Sousu is in the eyes of the average aver-age person than Is say Oberhoffer of the Minneapolis orchestra or Stow-kowskl Stow-kowskl of the Philadelphia organisation organi-sation Recall the thrills you find running up and down your chiro-orai chiro-orai tor's keyboard when a finely uniformed uni-formed band, headed by the slide trombones comes ma.'chlng down tre street Ogden has had pretty good bands, but it could have a real good one If given just a little support. Dands-man Dands-man are responsible (haps They dot $10 worth of rehearsing to pla oni concert which nets them three or four dollars. They don't complain, provided there Is an oc asionwl chance to make a sheckcl or two But un- der present conditions a musician WHO buvs sav a bass horn doesn't earn enough In five years to pay for the l horn and If U wasn't for an occasional occa-sional Chinese funeral he ould not pay even the Interest on the investment invest-ment One of the most Interesting feature fea-ture of the I C. T parade one week ago was rhe appearance of So many pretty girls In no way could Brig-ham Brig-ham City, for instance, or the knitting knit-ting store float have attracted more attention than tfcey did by put! nretty girls on their floats Thin prompts the suggestion Why not have a pretty gin coniem " -fall festhal In September Throw the contest open to any community trhlch wishes to enter. Let theie eltle or communities pick their three or four prettiest girls, send them to Ogden and I"' them compete com-pete In this festival beauty contest. The town with the prettiest girls would get a fine prize How will this competition to attract at-tract the automobile, or tin can tour-lot tour-lot as he is called, end ' There la nothing that makes a town more savage sav-age thnn tO learn that another town is routing tourists another direction The desire to Ret these wandering motorists within the municipal gates has led cities to build the most attractive at-tractive public camping places, provide pro-vide vt camp comfort- Imaginable and see that tm profiteer! harm the visitors if these roiling campers get arrogant and suffer from swelled heads, who can blame them ' Royalty Roy-alty In ancient times received no fln-, fln-, i w. Icome Meanwhile the motorist who uses the hotel and perhaps leaves .i larger wad than the tin can tourist must find his way about unaided un-aided He must niake his own bar-galn bar-galn for garage parking space and M-ek out bis a i uommodations. However How-ever moreover, they do say as how th: fellow who sleeps every night In hotel beds and between hotel shoe eating hotel food etc . has it ovjr the poor, deluded soul who claim? that automobile camping tours are enjoyable If we could collect those few Ogden men who do not think a gymnasium serves a useful purpose, give them a trip down to Salt Lake, take them to the Deseret gymnasium, put them In gym suits and let them play volley vol-ley ball for an hour or so with one of the business men's classes, they would return to Ogden so enthusiastic enthusias-tic they would not have another happy moment until the same facilities facili-ties were available to them In the Weber gymnasium ' There was a time when a candidate for political office had to be an orator ora-tor or he had small i hance of getting on the publie payroll That was the day when the public meeting wa.s the best medium through which to present pre-sent a platform. As a result the lawyer, law-yer, who usually is a trained public speaker, dominated the halls of congress. con-gress. Now, however, the orator does not posseNs such an advantage. The business nia-n candidate who can write the English language, correctly Is always al-ways In the running, oven though he cannot orate, for campaigns are won now through paid political advertisements adver-tisements In the newspapers Where the orator and his public meeting reaches hundreds, the advertiser and his concise statements reaches thousands. thou-sands. Congresswoman Robertson and Mayor Oles of Youngstown have shown the campaign managers a thing or two about the effectiveness of newspaper advertising in campaigns. cam-paigns. And furthermore, the orator doesn't stand so blgh now for the public in beginning to feel that many orators are so fond of hearing themselves them-selves talk that they haven't time for the real hard work of public office holdloK. |