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BRITISH TOMMY
WELL SATISFIED
Weisbaden Is “Tophole”
With Comforts and Lux
uries for Soldiers
WEISBADEN—(UP)—Leave It to
Tommy Atkins to pick for himself
a beautiful watering place when he
settled down to 10 years of standing
guard over a few miles of the
Rhine.
English civilians pay dear for just
such comforts and conveniences,
river baths and opera, fireworks and
outdoor sports as Tommy gets as
part of his day's work here. If you
ask any British soldier whether he
wants to evacuate the Rhineland
ahead of time, he will tell you that
he would rather stay, or if he must
go, he will come back here to live
as soon as he gets out of the army.
Tommy likes the Rhineland, and
it is most unfortunate that the
Rhinelanders do not return the love
for Tommy. Since he has to live
in a camp somewhere, be it on the
plains of Aldershot, or somewhere
in India, Egypt or Africa, he will
willingly tell you that "Jerry” Is not
a bad fellow and that the Rhine
land is “a bit of all right.”
The statistics are there to prove
that 6,250 British soldiers are in
this zone to militarily occupy the
area and see that the peace treaty
is faithfully fulfilled. But except
for Weisbaden, you would never be
lieve it. Most of the Tommies blend
well with the landscape. They have
never been known to be self-effac
ing, but they simply do not show up
in this great German civil popula
tion.
Aristocrats Absent
Nestled along one of the foot
hills of the Tannus, Weisbaden la
one of those summer resorts where
you willingly pay well to stay. For
20 miles around are British army
camps, and the Tommies are cer
tainly the luckiest of all the troops
making up the watch on the Rhine.
The presence of the troops has
kept away many of the German
visitors who formerly made pil
grimages for health reasons to this
decorous watering place. In fact
Weisbaden cures very few ailments
these days, but the merchants are
not complaining. They are richer
now than when ailing aristocrats
swarmed there.
TJverywhere, 'Tommy has seen to
his own comfort. He took all the
available sport grounds and tennis
courts for himself. His two cricket
leagues, horse show, tennis tourna
ments, rowing and swimming cham
pionships and soccer keep him in
prime condition.
For the officers there is polo, and
in civilian clothes they are allowed
to attend the races during the
Frankfort turf season. The officers
mix freely in the amusements of the
place, and every cabaret and cafe is
open to them, but the war office has
its own ideas about fraternizing and
women spies, so the officers are for
bidden to dance, even with their
own wives in public.
No Animosity
For the enlisted Tommies, he can
go anywhere except to the cafes re
served for officers. There is no D.
O. R. A. to curtail his drinking, as
is the case at home. He can sit in
front of his beer until midnight, but
he must not dance either.
To show that there is not hard
Ail Alike! Salaries Go Up!
From Time.
Until the labor party first made
Itselt felt, members of parliament
served without x-egular government
salary. A hardship 10 many, the rule
of unsalaried M. P.’s war; popular
with tradition-loving Britons who
felt that, come what might, Eritain
would always be governed by gentle
men.
In 1910, members of parliament
were granted a salary of £400
< $2,000». in the consecutive govern
ment of Stanley Baldwin, largely a
government of gentlemen, the ques
tion of cabinet salaries was not im
portant. To the labor government, of
Ramsay MacDonald it is most im
feeling, the municipality recently
voted to cut the entrance fee to
half for British soldiers desirous of
entering the Casino, In whose gar
dens all summer long there are fetes
and fireworks. Even the movie the
aters eater to him a ad hayy their
subtitles m English ana German.
For Tommy off duty, and most of
them appear to be off duty almost
continuously, there are picnics and
excursions up and down the Rhine.
Just as their eiders, with their dry
humor of the trenches, marked
their Picadilly Circus at a crossing
of trenches in Flanders fields the
younger Tommies have their
“Brighton,” “Cowes” and “Black
pool” on the Rhine banks, having
given those names to their favorite
beaches.
The requisitioning officer knew
what he wanted and took it. The
finest stone mansion in the city,
once the palatial home of a rotund
millionaire who liked plenty of
: room, is now an officers’ club.
Whole streets of stucco-fronted
houses have been requisitioned to
house the non-commissioned offi
cers and their families.
Press Not Received
The troops are housed in former
hotels and sanitariums and are far
more comfortable than their un
fortunate brothers back home. It
may have been irony, or it may
have been a strange sense of humor,
but the British army chose the Ho
henzollern hotel for its General
Staff headquarters and there where
the kaiser used to stop when he
took his cure, now lives Gen. Sir
William Thwaites, commander of
the British troops in Germany.
Around British headquarters,
there seems to be a permanent ban
on newspaper reporters. Every
subaltern will repeat to you the
same thing. “The press is not re
ceived here.” It is not the same
thin§ gygjr at the townhall where
the German officials are wilting,
even eager to talk.
l found an o;d friend at police
headquarters, the director, Herr
Frotzheim, well known tennis inter
national who had played often in
Paris and on the Riviera and hopes
to meet Bill Tilden in the Davis
cup interzone final this summer.
‘There's little I can say abdut the
British occupation,” Herr Frotzheim
said. “If I say nice things about
the British, I will be m trouble with
Berlin. If I say bad things about
the British, General Thwaites will
telephone -
Municipal authorities will tell you
that they are more worried about
balancing their budget than they
are about the evacuation of their
region. They seem to be truly wor
ried by their financial situation.
For many years their budget has
ended in the red, but Weisbaden
comes under the “Zwangsstadt” law
which provides for national finan
cial assistance.
"Sure we would be glad to see the
troops go, if no other reason than
to get back thousands of houses
wherein to house the many Ger
mans who cannot find homes," one
municipal official answered my
query.
"But our trouble is simple; our
tourist season has been a washout.
Living costs are terribly high in
Germany, and business has slowed
up. Germans travel less and spend
less. Many of our hotels would have
closed long ago if it had not been
for the English.”
PERIPATETIC PUSSY
ELM A, WASH—(UP))—A home
loving pussy belonging to Mrs.
George Birdsey tramped a distance
of 80 miles from Auburn to Elma,
portant indeed. When they were in
power five years ago, the labor
ministers pooled their salaries to
help out the most needy among
them. And last week Prime Minister
MacDonald, whose first London job,
at 19 years old, earned him $2.40 a
w’eek for addressing envelopes for a
bicycle touring club, announced in
the commons, in his capacity as
first lord of the treasury, that he
had Increased the salary of Lord
Privy Seal "Jim” Thomas, sharp
tongued onetime engine-wiper, from
$10,000 to $25,000, because of extra
duties as minister in charge of un
employment. Prominent laborltes
agitated last week to increase also
the salaries of the prime minister
after her mistress had placed her in
the care of friends there. The cat
covered the distance in three days
HOOVER MOVE TO
AID CHILD HEALTH
FULFILLS PLEDGE
WASHINGTON—' —Near the
humble little house where he was
born in West Branch, la., Heibert
Hoover publicly pledged his services
last August to the 23,000,000 homes
of America.
That morning the presidential
candidate had visited the old swim
ming hole which had helped lay the
foundation for his own rugged
health.
Now, as chief executive, he pro
poses a great health upbuilding pro
gram for the children of the United
States. As a preliminary he has
Invited some of the most prominent
child welfare and health experts
at the country to serve on a com
mittee which will la ythe ground
work for a White House confer
ence to be held sometime within a
year.
The committee probably will as
semble here late in the summer or
early fall. Dr. Ray Lyman Wil
bur, secretary of the interior, will
direct the work of the conference.
Dr. Harry E. Barnard, formerly
state health commissioner of In
diana, will be executive secretary.
Those invited to serve on the
committee include Dr. S. J. Crum
bine. director of the American
Child Health association, of which
President Hoover is president; Sur
geon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the
United States Public Health ser
vice: Miss Grace Abbott, director
of the Children’s bureau; William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor; Dr. Lee K.
Frankel of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance company; Henry Breck
inridge; Mrs. Lewis P. Slade of
New York; Dr. William F. Snow of
the National Health association;
Mr^ Raymond Robins, noted social
worker; Haily fiuxritt of New York,
and Dr. W, f\ KingT
The conference will be the second
of its kind. Twenty years ago, in
1909, Theodore Roosevelt called a
child welfare meeting, and out of
tftls grew the present Children’s
bureau, created in 1912.
In 1919 an international confer
ence on child health standards was
held here as a result of the war.
Representatives of all the allied
countries attended. Prominent
among them were Sir Arthur and
Lady Newsholme of England.
Exploded Still Proves
Montana Forest Menace
BUTTE, MONT.—(UP)—Careless
campers and smokers are not alone
to blame for forest fires. Another
menace to the giants of the wild
erness has appeared.
A 75-gallon still 10 miles east of
Warm Springs exploded, threaten
ing destruction of several hundred
acres of virgin timber. One of two
other stills were blown 100 feet by
the explosion, and a house was
burned to the ground.
Nearby rangers and ranchers
managed to extinguish the fire be
fore it did more damage to the
forest.
—-44-.
Q. Should food be covered that is
kept in an electric refrigerator? L.
M. T.
A. It is not mere necessary than
in any other type of ice box. It is
better to cover fish and pungent
cheeses. Hot things should be cov
ered when put in to cool.
and chancellor of the exchequer, at
present barely sufficient to pay the
expenses of their official red brick
residences on Downing street.
In spite of the labor ministers*
Justifiable complaints, most British
cabinet salaries are higher than
corresponding United States sal
aries, for example:
Rrltaln
Prime minister, 125,000; Lord Sigh chan
cellor, $50,000: home secretary. $Ci,0O0;
minister of war. $2b,000; first lord if the
udmlralty, $22,500; minister of litxsur,
$10,000.
United State*
President. $76,000 (plus $25,000 enter
tainment fund: vice president, $15,000;
secretary of the interior. $16,000; secretary
of war, $15,000; secretary of navy, $16,'i~l;
secretary of labor. $15,009.
Giant Air Liner Aloft and Afloat
Vacation Cancelled
Above is an aerial view of the great German
Dornier seaplane, D. 0. X., equipped with
twelve motors and capable of carrying 100
passengers, shown afloat on Lake Constance,
Switzerland, proving its seaworthiness. At
left the D. O. X. is shown flying 600 feet over
Lake Constance.
Bit of Old U. S. A.
Here is the United States Consulate at Harbin, where Old
Glory flics. Harbin has been referred to as the nerve center
Northern Manchuria.
(International Newsreel)
Although the United States can*
not afford to have any diplomatic
relations with Soviet Russia be*
cause of not having recognized
that government, J. V. A. Mac
Murray, U. S. Minister to China,
at Pekin, will no doubt postpone
his projected visit to Washing
ton, D. C., if the China-Russian
breach is not healed immediately..
(International Newsreel)
Joins Big Bank
Gerard Swope (above), presiden
of the General Electric Company
was elected a director of the Na
tional City Bank of New York
marking the first occasion o
which he has associated himsell
as a director in any enterpris<
outside the electric field anc
marks also the resumption of at
active association with Charle*
E. Mitchell, chairman of the
bank, the groundwork of which
was laid thirty years ago wher
Mr. Mitchell was assistant gen
eral manager of the Westerr
Electric Company in Chicago
while Mr. Swope was in charge
of the St Louis office.
Mtisic Dowager and Her Proteges
Madame Schumann-Heink returning to Europe with three
young American singers, left to right, Miss Ellen Weekes of
New York, Miss Grace Ellen Hopkins of Kansas City, Mo.,
and Miss Mary Rose Barrons of Kansas City, Mo. She wilf
launch them on their careers in German opera houses. Two
of the diva’s grandchildren, Charlotte Guy, left inset, and Ban
bar* Sdliumann-Heink, right inset, accompanied the grouft
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