Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 14 1034 Something About the President Congress Rain and Football and Dissipation Concerning Women BY KATHLEEN NORRIS Men Are Beginning to By WILL ROGERS Say That Even on Their Old Stronghold That of Sheer Physical Endurance Their Supremacy Is Being Challenged by Women Can women stand dissipation better than' men would htva been a queer q es tion to ask when I waa a girl when men did almost all the drinking and such a thing as What we know aa night We— dancing supper clubs night clubs cabaret shows and all the rest of Jt— waa unknown No decent girl went' to anything but safe and chaperoned (lances m the Gay Nineties The boys and men of the family disappeared into legions unknown to sow what wild oats had to be sown The for girls waited their pretty hour of Kathleen Nerrla engagement trousseau marriage wifehood sweet little new nest and new baby and In a few years would no more have conaldered dancing In public aa within the ranrfe of their normal pleasures than atandlng upon their bonneted and matronly heads At 32 they were photographed In demure ruffles' the baby a cascade of fine pleating and embroideries upon the maternal lap the ' oldest son atandlng alightly behind the oldest daughter's ringlets tumbling affectionately upon motner’a shoulder the younger children's candy striped legs doubled into stiff attitudes they crouched or knelt in the foreground There was no question ef how much dissipation darling Ediths could ’itand because in the course of a blameless life she never put the matter to the teat About 20 yean ago all Chat began to change Some women think our prohlbl- tion experiment had much to do in the demoralization of our daughters I don't think prohibition had anything to do with it but I do think that the “votes for women" movement following ss it did the increasing financial independence of women began it and there is no question that the great war tore our once modest and dependent sex once and for all from Its base Women learned In that war as women to a greater or lesser extent have in every war that they had been underestimating their 'own atrength By on of those queer little twists those trifling mistakes that guide ua into wrong paths same ruler some sultan gome authority centuries ago decided that women were uninteliectual physically weak unimportant negligible naturally subject to the male and down through the egea the mistake has strengthened and deepened binding women within iron limitations that were as fundamentally false as if women by aome fhance had similarly limited men Accidentally placed upon thrones women have invariably made better rulers than men end there arc primitive communitlea today without wars tortures prisons extremes of poverty or wealth well ruled entirely by women But despite these exceptions the Idea itlU holds that somehow women ere inferior and the license claimed by women— Indeed given to women at the time of the war—chocks men much more then any excesses of their own ever have Prohibition bas been a convenient peg upon which to hang the fact that girls dissipate today in e way their mothers never dreamed of dissipating but the fact that all over Europe the same condition prevail— that English society and French society know the same changes that in the colonial groups of China and India the same women are reaching for ths same cocktails and clgareta going to the same night dubs end defying the old code In the same exact fashion rather exempts the eighteenth amendment Anyone who his seen the concluding scenes of Noel Coward's magnificent ' “Cavalcade” need no longer fear that eur American women have a monopoly on these unfortunate new fashions In any case we have made no noble experiments to keep them from smoking and petting end Jazzing and dancing ell night and they do all these things to an extent that Indicates that some real Well all I know is just what I read in the papers I been e watching Congress like a cat at a rat hole and you knowa everyconsidering thing they have been acting pretty nice Mr Roosevelt'4 made em an awful pretty speech when the jslay opened applause biggest was when he said little Finland had paid us every cFlit owed us they Course it was only about two dollais and six bits but the of the thing w as worth much more than that He said he was going to ' have something to ' W ill Rogers say on the debts a If he waits till we are little later on paid anything before he says anything about em It will be later on He had a little sly dig In there at La Belle France but I tell you it takes more than digs to make'Trance dig She has been dunned by better nations than us He also had a kind of another little sly crack in there on Morgan if I haven’t got my geography mixed He told of big men evading the tax “If not the law itself or the letter of it but they sure evaded the spirit of it ’’ There is one thing about this fellow Roosevelt he dont play any favorites Now they dont come mOch bigger than France and J P Morgan but he dives for their ankles I dont care how big they are This fellow is really trying to get a readjustment of some of our ills While he hasent exactly got it in for big moneyed interests he has got it in for some of their modes of doing business and he is making Christians out of some of em too Here a little while back they was raring up and defying him but he spirit By o o McIntyre Some letters "I have gone through three of those Vell that’s the last of Tammany1’ periods We are indulging one now Never worry about Tammany’s demise The tiger will be roaring again and how Tammany knows its onion While enemies are patting themselves on the back Tammany la rebuilding Tammany works every minute of the day every day m the year Its enemies wofk up a spurt of energy every four years or so"— R H F the Bronx You know what you are talking about Girls can dance' longer drink more smoke more keep going longer than men can 'At 4 o'clock in the morning they're all for starting something and they will show up the next day as fresh as daisies (vTviwi ffV vY t $ F I w ' IHI if r iv' ‘Wi :UT‘ ' i HO' u iYw 4 I !?' ) ' S’ Landscape by Ernest Lawson on display in V connection A g with k ? ' ‘v L Ji t V f $-- 'V II mmLrnJ With responses arriving daily from the nearly X90 artists to whom Invitations hsve been sent and with several collections already received the thirty-seconannual exhibition of the Utah Art Institute promises to equal in quantity and Interest any of its predecessors The Institute board of which Harry P Poll is president is hopeful of having a broad representation of Utah’s art product both jasldent artists and Utahns from all ever I V Vj Sinn X SxJLsiSr the country An effort has been made to reach every Utahn doing creative work in thu field in order to make it as rep-- resents tiv as possible' The entry period for the exhibition closes Saturday January 20 receiving days at the custodian’s office of the eapltot where the show -- is to be held being between the hours of 2 end 4 pm on that day and the two days preceding Fictureg will be jtcejved and held in safe A ’ - : S' custody' prior to that date however Mr Poll urges that all artists will endeavor to have them pictures entered by those days in order to facilitate the arrangement of the show Id connection with the general exhibition it is planned to have a display of student work a section of the gatteres being devoted to that purpose and aiso 'for the display of work by young painters beyond the student class and perhaps "You constantly write as though you were some Methuselah with a beard Listen fella I sht directly behind you at a movie opening With sleek black hair you could pass for one of those boy s who dance with married women in Pans hotels A lot of juveniles show their age more I’m on the stage and should know”— Miss J New York Quit or you’ll have me scooting around on a kiddie car “I have lived in New York for 15 years at a stretch Also in Rome Pans and St Petersburg before the war So where do you think I live now and wouldn’t trade for all the cities named? None other than San Diego Cal I know what you think— old fogie rocking on a The veranda dwelling on his aches real picture: ’I’m 54 play golf every on little in the year (try that your day old Manhattan island) fish once or twice a month and wear light summer clothes the year around and haven’t had an ache in II years”— L San Diego Move over) “Why don’t theater managers learn P- - not quite within the professional class A department of arts and crafts will also be a part of the exhibition designed for the showing of interesting work of varied description such ss copper and brass ornamental leather goods batik and similar creations Visitors to this annual show should not fall to view the state’s Alice Art collection and the group of paintings belonging to the State Fair association both of which will be on display on the fourth floor Many people are not aware of what extremely valuable and beautiful paintings are contained in the state collection acquired in the days when a yearly appropriation made it possible to offer a prize at the annual exhibitions It would be a generous and helpful act should some person contribute a sum for such an award in the forthcoming show There are few examples available of the ‘work of Donald Beauregard one of Utah's finest artists who died some decades ago but two of his paintings are Lorus to be seen in this collection Pratt one of the earlier painters is rep-- ' Daniel resented by a Jordan river scene Weggeland who has been called “the father of Utah art" will be found well ‘exemplified in a “Pioneer Camp”: John Hkfen H L A Culmer George M men of note in the state's art history but who laid down their brushes years ago have contributed some of their best work here and there are other artists represented whose work is now seldom seen Several famous names will be found also on the roster artists who are not Utahns but who have been seen in past The state possesses a canvas exhibits by Arthur B Davies one of the most distinguished of American artists a Charles Woodbury landscape "Atlantic Billow” and others by nationally known painters as well as fine paintings by today’s Utah artists who will be seen in the annual exhibit The Ernest Lawson landscape we have reproduced here will g’ve eirtndicatiorf of 'the superior things that will make worth while a visit to the upper gallery of the capitor during (his coming exhibit er at capitoL "- -w t — ' An- nual Exhibit ''' extradition of Sam Insull I was there and knew the answer Qreece openly laughed at the idea The story is take it Jot what it is worth Insull has a gigantic fortune cached there The livest wire the country has ever had his contributions to charity are enormous He went always with a bodyguard He did not fear local citizens or banditti He feared aome ruined investor in America jtught cross the seas to get him”— H A Chicago III Think of having that rascal’s conscience! (Copyright 1934 King Features Syndicate Inc ) £ 1 J - “Four months -- before Greece denied desolated flat to another It Is usually mother who carries the actual brunt pf the nightmarish day Dad quite customarily collapses as soon as the davenport has been placed with a pitiful groan that when there is any supper he'll be ready Mother gets someone to help her set up beds manages to break out sheets and blankets opens cans of tomatoes and sends someone for eggs “and 1 believe daddy would like a good hot cup of coffee he’s just all tired put!" “I have done the lion's share of this move" some man said years ago It was a child’s innocent voice that piped up: “Do lions ever do anything but loar dad?” The lions have been roaring for a long time But now some of the European scientists over here where I am writing this letter are on record as actually fearing a time when women will come into aa full a power as men have known for all the year that ever have been But that way would be as bad as the old way The new world will erne when men and women rule together when a happy state like a happy family will be governed by the power and sanity of both Meanwhile it la a strange thing to realize that in their general eager demonstration of equality or superiority the girls have not hesitated to prove themselves Just as adept just as foolish and blind and determined in the matter of sowing wild oats as ever their brothers were eers Its injustices Its wounded Its staggering loads of debt Women—and I say this confidently because of my knowledge of women— would never agree to another war on any terms and if American women say all together “Why do we propose fighting?” when there is serious talk of another war it won’t take place And now men are beginning to say that even on their old stronghold that of sheer physical endurance their suThey say that premacy & challenged the girls can dance longer drink more smoke more keep going longer than they can “By gosh they wear us out" a CallfornUucollege man wrote recently “At 4 o'clock in the morning they’re all for starting something and they'll show up in the classroom the next day as fresh as daisies!" Years ago I noticed something c! this It is obvious to sort with children every mother that the girls will stay in swimming long after the boys have edme out to fling themselves exhausted on the sand that the girls will go on with tennis when the young gentlemen are snoring In the hammocks On mountain climbs It is not the girls who begin to cry aloud for rest and food "Gee how much farther is It?" usually comes in the voice of a young male - On picnics to be sure the loads are earned down to the beach or up to the dam by the boys after which they fling themselves about in positions of complete relaxation and the girls set happily about the opening of boxes broiling and toasting and brewing for the next hour When the family moves too from one reason exists back of this sudden abandonment of code - - — --— Emancipation fdr women was rapidly approaching in 1910 They had made themselves financially independent They were getting the vote Marriage was no longer the life sentence that it proved to eo many of our grandmothers And perhaps most significant of all moral indiscretions were no longer attended by the fears and dangers that gave us the stories of Teas and Netty Sorrel and their long train of weeping sisters But women would not have reached their present state of complete independence for another hundred years and might then have reached It with a better balance with a saner appreciation it war it had not been for the war-t- he that rooted them In so many of the ' places men would otherwise have filled that removed 30 millions of male workers et everything everywhere If men know wnat wars cost their sex and how wars shove the other sex into they prominence and independence would quit simply end rationally reof the" one is from frain wars But it things that makes me feel in my secret heart tpat women are quite the equals of men end that what women have to contribute to the progress of real civlllza--tio- n is quite as valuable as anything men have ever developed I say that I am sure of this because men never DO see the costly aimless brainless folly of war They go on like sheep arter one war to the next knowing that the next will have its little privileged lieutenants ordering them about its profit Fine Canvas From State Collection 5- (Copyright 1934 by the McNaught Syndicate Inc) Some Letters to a Columnist And Something About People Per-sonil- ly is - has got em wagging their tails and looknow ing up at him longingly 1 told you anything Say 1 dont believe about the big flood we had out heie a couple of weeks ago did I? Well for about 38 hours the old Heavens just opened up and give us both barrells You never saw as much water in your lile All a fellow needed was an ark for old Hollywood would have been a great place to get two of every kind of animals in It But it was no joking-matte- r Fire is tough but I dont know you can put it out but water its got to go Some place It happened the ddybcfore the big celebration of Ne W Yea rs in Pasadena Well they got a kind of tradition there that no matter how rainy or wet it is they never postpone because the Committee that decides it its in the stand with a ram coat and umbrella and the poor girls ride up every street in town on a decorated truck In a chiffon dress Thfc Committee gets the glory of having braved the elements and gone through with it and the girls get the pheuno-moni- a But its a fine parade And then comes the big football game In what Is humorously called the Rose Bowl There is not a rose in a half mile of it In fact its the only place 1 know of in Cal where there is not some semblance of flowers but there amt even a hollyhawk or a johnny jump up in ten blocks Well themorning of the game in the Bowl while it dident have any roses It did have sixteen inches of water all over it Well they started to pump if out but there was nowhere to pump it too There waS more on'the outside than there was "on the inside Finally Columbia come in there and they just splashed it i lght m these poor Stanford boys who hadent seen any rain in years Playing in the rain for them was just like putting snow shoes on a Zulu But it was a great game and it wps well played on both sides But I did miss Nicholas Murry Butler -- 4 Art Projects Now Being Executed to Government Plans ' Plans for Utah under the Public Works cf Art project initiated by the Civil Works administration for the encouragement of the fine arts are well under way and ten artists are already employed on the commissions that have been set for the state and inaugurated by the regional committee for Utah So wide are the possibilities in this region under this movement the task of selecting the art features to be executed end the assignment of workers has been difficult “We feel that ten commissions aie in no way sufficient to assign the state" the committee declares “as we have so many artists worthy and competent for these engagements end there is an unlimited field for such projects as have been outlined by the federal advisory committee Wa hope It may be possible 'tJ arrange that further commissions be granted to Utah" The projects already begun in Utah ss announced by Miss Helen Sheets subchairman for Utah include a mural decoration to be placed in the band around the dome oi the capitol for which the state has never had funds to provide This is to be in bas relief and Lee Greene Richards is at work on sketches for the design Another piece of work in line with the purpose of embellishment of federal end publio buildings is to be removable pictorial designs for wall space in the Veterans’ hospital upon which Edwin Evans Is engaged The execution of pictorial records of old Utah historic buildings and features such as the old wall surrounding the Brigham Young farm which have disappeared has been assigned to Carlos Anderson and a pictorial map of Utah valley is the project on which Florence Ware is at work Gallery pieces depicting Utah h story are to be executed by James T and a second gallery pece is a Irptjrch of Utah scenerv by Henri Moser Another phase of the federal plan calls lor records in jculpture and Har-ioo- 1 - d that such plays as ‘One Sunday Afternoon’ withoui a speck of dirt or sex suggestion are what the public wants? It holds the longest run record Yet they will continue to give us filth naked women speakeasy banter and psychopath themes and blame the decadence on the movies" — T W New Yoik They never learn! Things not to worry about- The fake Prince M'ke Romanoff worked a week as master of ceremony in a night club and didn’t get paid - Blanche Yurka hit a high spot of the theatrical season in a play wherein’ she stands on her head and sings a Puccini aria The drama! t The biggest loser in the repeal is Canada Her night clubs are dying off like flies Hotels thdt had a big week-entrade now have plenty of rooms tq spare Of course the licensed liquor stores are very badly hit Although Canada had been expecting it for some time and making plans they never realized exactly what a severe blow it would be d whoop-’em-u- p The rascal who has been poisoning dogs off Fifth Madison and Park avenues is known to dog owneis And the police! Hooray! Short shavings: Ursula Parrott likes cafeterias A crack mystery “The Mystery of the Siamese Twins” (Stokes) G K Chesterton deplores the tendency m America to surround gangsters and other criminal with pomp and lux“The Crimson Queen” is Danury iel Hertderson’s swell biography of Mary Tudor Simile: “As frequent as a Gandhi fast!” They jeer Huey Long now Two publishing houses are coming out with books in defense of Hitler 7 Bankers hate La Guardia for his 1932 crack: “It takes more than a pair of spats and a Park avenue love nest to make a banker” Frankie Bailey past 70 is hostess m a Hollywood night club Not cne of the big New York bankers opened up their winter homes this winter Emil Ludwig is to write a biography of the of Wales prince Heywood Broun still wants to be an actor E H Sothern was "Ned” to Julia Marlowe Only five plays this season have made profits Gilbert Miller has crossed the ocean 256 times The next big investigation said to be inspired from high quarters will concern certain lawyers in New York The Bronx zoo has the only African bongo in captivity The famous Mdivant brothers jiere brought to America by the late Will Hogg who was a friend of their father a fine Georgian gentleman The London Savoy has done the biggest business The fellow who sued since the war movie producers for libel as Chuck Conners’ son was proved to be his nephew and is facing perjury charges Since the pope's recent dictum attendance by women at New York boxing ma'tches has suffered a big slump Leo Carillo introduced Floyd Gibbons for his first public speech on the New York library Marlen E Pew editor of Editor steps and Publisher alid a famed newspaper man is on the warpath of the high He says they sell priced press agent space they do not own and deprive Frank Crum-i- it newspapers of aevenue- raises Bostons as a hobbv “The Last Round Up" tune netted $200000 for publishers Mickey Nlelan once offered Mae West tQ all the motion picture companies without a single nibble The John Chapmans lived for several vears In the Paris Latin quarter Harrlman the indicted supposed to be broke had one of the (inert rooms on the tenth floor of New York's most expensive hospital (Copyright 1934 McNaught Syndicate Inc) on canvas of the old fast vanishing Indian tribes to augment the material already In possession of the government Sculptural records of the Ute and Piute tvoes are being made bv Caroline Pf rry whose headquarter are at Cedar City end at Fort Duchesne by Millard F Malta and Gordon Cope working in clay water colors and crayons A roving commission has been g:ven Ranch Kimball for pictorial records of national activities and Mr Kimball is visiting the conservation and reforesta-- t on camos for this purpose Unless the federal committee grants six weeks bejond the time as-- s gned for completion which was- - February 15 not all of tjiese plans can be completed |