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wrrnroTro mxtt: trtbttnt!, rFDronn, mr.aov. frrvn.w, rnTL 1, 192s. COWBOY HUMORIST TODAY Wtf! ttojers J Will Rogers' well-known atti tude on congress Is exemplified In his big comedy tpeclal, "A Texas Hteer," now showing ut Hunt's Crutorlau. The story is that he Wiim elected without his knowledge while- he was on the range. His Hocially-anibitioiiH wife I .on 1st yuzenihi) had been liberal will) Ills money in buying votes with the help of three Texas politicians. Jlrag. Tell nnd Jllow. "I'a, you're elected," 1h Ma's greeting to him. 'Elected to what!" exclaims 1'n. 'To congress. " "Hell, 1 ain't Roin' to be n con gressman." ' Monte Carlo's Rival WASHINGTON, J). I'.. Mar, l!l. -lOuropean promo; . rs hope to make ancient Tangier a modern resort. ln the Bhndow of venerable mosques nnd minarets und keyhole like Moorish archways, they plan to build modern hid els, . bath houses and casinos that will rlv.il the Itlvieia and vie with Monte Carlo. "Although Tangier Is but a few hours ferry rid" from Oilu -a It a, the city has maintained Its ancient charm," says a bulletin from the Washington, I), , headquarters of the National Geographic soci ety. Streets Mere Passageways "For many centuries It has nc cupicd a reserved seat on the African side of the Strait of Gi braltar, In full view of the parade of commerce to and from Mediter ranean ports, but today its unim proved harbor does not permit docking of larger ocean-going ves sels. "From the anchorage, Tangier resembles n white sheet spread from the seashore up the African slopes. Tho spot less white walls, glistening In the sunlight, suggest that 'clean-up, paint-up week' is perpetually observed there and thai the city fathers wilt allow nothing but white paint or white wash to be used. As one nears the shore, however, dashes of yel low, green and red mark the en croachment of modern builders. "Once Inside the city walls the traveler Is bewildered by the maze of lanes which the Tanglerians cll their streets. So narrow are' they that wheeled ehicles have never rumbled over the cobbles nnd pedestrians are cmnpcllt-d to Jump into doorways to avoid bring side-swiped or trampled upon by huge, moth-eaten camels and don keys. Whose bulging loads spread nearly from wall In wall. High Walls fomvnl Garden mill l'arinyiirils "In the business section coffee FILM COUPLE TO 7jr v v-;tu 4 B-1 I I -; ; ..: ..... L j Movie fn in the United States won't got a peak at the betrothal 'eeremonlei of Aolph Menjou, screen star, and Kaihryn Carver, also a movio actress, for they have chosen Jaris as the scene of jheir wedding.. 7hText Steer' I "Yes, you are. I spent n lot of - money gettln you elected and you i can't back out now." I The Texas politicians are Indlg nant. "What do you mean, you're, not going to congress. I's boys hero have been winking our heudri off," argues Hiag (Mack Swain), clinch ing his point by ills playing two huge revolvers. ' "Well," Hogors sputters. "I'll go , on one condition I don't want any one to even find out wheru I am. j My poor old mother und father ! told me never to Join the circus, land here I am elected to the big IgHst one In the world." 'houses offer the principal Tangier recreation. 1'atrons sit In groups 'on the floor, playing with odd- marked curds, or lean against the walls sipping a beverage, smoking their pipes, ami sometimes singing to the tune of a native orcheslru. Next door nn unkempt shopkeeper seemingly more interested in keep ing his long-stemmed pipe lighted t han In ma k ing a su le, presides j over a cupboardltke shop display ing pottery, biasswaro and trin- keis. "Ileggars are more Importunate. 'They beg for alms and often fol ' low a 'prospect' until he yields a ! coin. Shouts of camel men and (street verniers and chatter of pe destrians make a monotonous din, broken oecaslonully by the weird strains of a 'holy' orchestra com posed of dervishes who parade .about the streets with Moslem 'banners, begging contributions for the mosques. j "An American's description of a Tangier residential district would ; be 'more narrow winding lanes , hemmed In by high while walls,' The walls are blank except for , doorways leading into courts. A peep through an open door reveals some of the. city's garden spots flower beds surrounding fountains, shaded by lofty palms. Some 1 coin ts are also used as miniature farmyards where cattle u nd fowl 'are fattened for the market. , Market Plniv Side Shows t "Most travelers ugree that a visit to the large market, lying just outside of tho city wall, is well worth n trip to Tatmior. There city folk mingle with the rural folk from the fertile regions In the vicinity. Men, women and chil dren, camels, horses, donkeys, dogs and fowl, alt are huddled together in the dust amid piles of oranges, baskets of cuk. casks of olives und improvised stands for nuts, dales, candies, kitchen utensils and home made shoes. The country women wear broad -brimmed straw ha Is The Moslems wear kerchiefs, half WED IN PARIS , V . V; ' MA I J covering Iht-ir fucvu, j "Around the ede of the market I pluce letter writna and fortune ItflU'i'H ply their iirofeNHionn; black, t portly Sudanese m-tcmpii in tuttem i dance tu the tune of metal eyni jlml and dtHcn ditiiKlliiK utxiut their I hudtf-H, and the fit H-enter und innukt) chfirmpr amaze throng with j thrir cltiver trickM. "Of all the Hide hIiowh the miake churnier, pern u pit, In utiangeHt. Ah hia HWHiMtunt beatH a doleful totn- ; toni, he draws a hiK-slng reptile j ' front a Back, nllmvn it to hite bin ; luriKUA and wipeit away the blood 1 , with a handful of hIirvIiikh- After convincing hi audience that he 1h really wounded, he rollH the wet NhuviiiKH Into a pellet which he i places in dry hIiuvIdkh. Then he blow 1 on the maun until It KinokeK j arid later hur.stH into flarnea. Your native guide wHl ay 'he 1h a very j i holy han.' " Million Laughs Hero for Night Rialto Today The smnll town sap gets tne best of the city slicker in a rollicking farce-comedy, "A Hero for a Night," playing today at the Kiaito theatre. Cilenn Tyron as the "Hap" tries to win a beautiful 1'utsy I Ruth Miller, hy hl wIh..-1.1h." disturbing and II111UHII1K llli-UK'Ills before he makes any headway. It is said to be one of the most laughable farce comedies uf the year and deals with the efforts of a correspondence school aviator fly across the Atlantic ocean. He does eventually, but not when he intends to and not before he has enough thrilling experience keep him awake for months. to 'Pied Piper" Is Coming Here 1 ! Next Wedne8dcLVsimXXar ( m" wts,' imohwhhk "Pled Piper of Hamelln" that rid the city of rats und dogs Is to visit Medford Wednesday, April 4. bringing his bagpipes and playing tin same old tunes. The Piper will visit Kidd's shoe Htore, All the children together with their parents, will be wel comed to go and meet him. To every visitor he will give n souvenir. Thousands of horns made in his own factory aro to be distributed. He will givo away caps similar to his own and every kiddie visitor will also re ceive one of the little books con taining thu story of his visit to Hamelin. t in addition to play Ins on his wonderful horn he will tell the children the story of his life and It Is it most thrilling one. The Pied Piper will arrivo at the Kidds stole at promptly -1 o'clock. Coming Attractions Mllluil (ili.li. Hunt's Ontfi'lnll l.lllliin (lish romps to Hunt's CiatiTlan Thursday In lnr first inodrrn rolt on lh seivfn. llt'i-etoforo thi' famous star has always lived in tho past, no far ns hi'r plays wmv connr-mi'd; In fact. It was ol'ti'ii held thai Iiit typo of wistful appeal rould only ho hroiiKht out In period plays nnd stories hark i no- h-i,.!, t ,x t)..i . . " " "'-i Itut In "The Knemy." she throws all precedent lo the wind, to dress in the clothes of today. It is n vivid story of Austria. hinKinii on the danger of war hat reds and war hysteria, and lays bare n woman's soul in a series of heart -KilppinK episodes. GROWTH PASI YEAR: Tn n rolallvolv brief period th" ionoral Insurance company of Amorloa has hunt up a premium income of over $.100,000 a month. The annual financial statement of January I. 1 Ill's, shews that the tlenoial wit hits allied companies has resources of $i.ttil.l40 and comldncd policyholders' surplus of IL'. HOB. 70S. The Allied companies an the ttoneral t'asualty t'o. of America and tho Western Insur ance Company of America, while a ftuhslilluiy company ts the Amer ican Insurance ARenry. Tho General, n distinctly Pacific Northwest inslltiiilon. now has ;oo iiRcnts In tho three Pacific north' west states, and IsiIoIuk business thiuout tho entire oountiy and the Dominion of Canada. "The (ionoral now writes more insurance in the combined states t Uashlncton. OreRon nnd than any other of moro than -00 fire Insurance companies entered In tho three states," says C. Y. ToiiKWaM. local atsent for M.dford. "In tho year .lust closed the as sets of the (ionoral Inoreasod H.STfi.TJ'l lo n total of S.i 5IS44S. Tho loss ratio dropped 7 It per cent from l!i:6 nnd roachlnR the low mark of 31.3 per cent for la:;. This Is. I helteve, n lower loss ratio company. "As the (Ionoral Is founded upnSv' ine prnvipio or a Renorselectlon of fire risks, nnd n lil.u. portion "f all savltiKs no hack to partlcl pnline pollcyholdors In dividends, this low loss ratio Is nn Item of keen interest to all our policyhol ders. "Tho year III'.' pWinlsos lo place (Ionoral of America cninp.tn les still farther In tho lead In tho I'nelfir northwest, with excellent limit res thrnURhout the count' v. " State beRinf war on ndvertlln itfiu un iui roud tiufy of way. VAUDEVILLE HUNT'S CRATERIAN The Franklin Troupe- Headlining next Wednesday's bill The Winning of WASHINGTON, I). '., Mar. 31, A French Dominion almost as huge us Canada, and a unified 1 fi,,,,,.!,, i, u .. i lh, , ,, , I ,.. ,. Kl.-n. h l l,.,l,..r ..t II..... 1 - I '"' ' nliliiln an Hiiiijirlutiin. l in- i nuiulier voted the c(Ulva- lent of half a million dollars for " ! fn.m TiiL'i'iit-r i ik a u.,i to Wagadugu, which railroad would link European Franco und her African colonies. "The Tuggurt-Wagadugu and j Sara ha railroad is an enterprise comparable to the completion ,,f j the first transcontinental railroad I in the I'nited States," .says a bul- lettn from the Washington. I). l, j heaquarters of the National Geo ' irranhie Snefetv some respects, to that of the Tutt ed States in joining the netted East with the' pioneer West. The Uis- lunee from TugKun lo Wagadugu is th mii on as no m.-i. Joseph. Mo., to Sun Francisco. Whiten ing ox and buffalo bones marked l he route West--will I en ing camel bones mark the caravan and fut ure rulhoad route south through the Sahara. The goal of thu ",,ir"ltt" i.iiooimi was.gom, too goai oi me j-reach protect cot ton. on our West- "The watcr-ho ern trails find a counterpart in the Sahara's oases and wells. The frontier fort protected against the Apache as the Sahara n white- "UMl" J Kuitnis aK.iinst raids lowed the route whieh tile rall- o f di'sei t marauders. 1'ranee, road prol.alily will take. Indeed studyliiR Ami-iiea'H Indian Jiroh-1 the stations on the future rail lem, aheaily dohatos methods of I road aro fixed now have hoen presei vlriK fi om elvlllzallon s ail- , flxoil f,.i urles hy wells and vanee the TuaioKs, lhat piefcuroK- i sprlnBS. The 'Hand Dune Kx- ciue aim iiercn uerlier trine whoso men wenr veil's yet carry spears and leather shields Cru.sailer style. Tho Sahara's "IK-mli Viilloy" "The I'nited Slates' t ransconl in- entnl lines had to cross the Hock- les and the Sierra Nevadas l-'ranoe must drive her railroad across the llnars whose peaks rise 8.000 feet in the mid-Sahara And as A m erica lis bra veil Ieath Valley, the French must brave t he Tanezruft, which swallows up whole caravans, "The objection to this compar ison which naturally nrises Is that .Norm America s arid reir ons are . . ' . ' """"" I i tiai is true, with reservation. The Sahara must not he thought nf as a seu of sami. h m,.s inate but one-tenth of tho entire area of ihe Sahara hesen. K.,n v tho Sahara is a seashore of fei ing nil the variety between a smoth Dnylona llo.ieh' and i rock- ooumi .ew rau'laml coast. Tlio Cniuols of liotnny "ln some remonH rain comes hut once In elKht or ton years. The plants adapt themselves to lotiB waits l e t w o o n di inks. Italn promptly sinks lo undeiKrouml rivers. In-Saiah. which will he u' Lust year there were 41.234 or sort nf Salt Lake I'ily on the Kanlzod 4-11 cluhs. with a total l-'reneh railroad, supports thous- ' momliershii of approximately amis of date palms with water : SOO.Ono farm hoys and ulrls. Tho from sui-h an undot-:round rivor. j ntajir irojeets undertaken were "What will New l-'rance he when itho rnislns of dairy and hoof cattle. a tr.'ins-Sahst'an railroad with ex- swine, sheep and poultry: and sde- THE NEW RIALTO & Tllflavl 0NEnlDyAY "I 3 Day. Starts I h m iuuut; Continuous 12:30 to II p.m. It's a Great Outburst of Laughter by the Screen's Coming Comedian. GLENN TRY0N l i "A i Good Added I B Short Features France's South tensions consolidates the mother ! country nnd colonies? Kirst, there is France proper. I . . ! " r,: A,c n.. .u. -u, . " o. III.- mo Jtlhl' IB, U"! l-llll-l MH l ,if Krpni-h Xorth AfiUii whlroh Is . n domain as liirge u the Amerl- ctm .Middle Went anil South. Freneh North Africa borders on French West Africa, a raw pio neer country of untapped re-1 sources mvnicu into the colonies of Senegal. French Sudan, I'pper Volta, French1 Guinea, Ivory i 'oast, Dahomey, .Muuretunlu and Niger. Still farther south and east Is the great jungle posses sion of French Equatorial Af rica. The Size of Afrit-nn Franco "When all this territory knits together with the iron thread of ruiVroads France will be ft, 000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide. Measured by America the empire which F r a n r o wnnhl unify stretches n distance equal to that r,oin t he. 'Stinlis uf It.-ll.. ll.. north of Newfoundland to Per namhueo, Hrazil. At Its widest through the Sahara the empire is nearly the distance from New Vork to San Francisco. "In 1.H9S a French pxnPiUttun from Algiers took two years to ach the Niger. The annual camel caravan from Timbuktu reaches Tuggurt in seven to eight months. In 191:4 an expedition of four specially constructed tractors crossed the desert in the remark able time of I'll days. They fol- ! loess' should make the 'lour dnvs m the nmot trip In siBhts nf the "Sanil Done Kvpn-HN" "Nortli Africa has already lured t the winter tourist. A railroad through the, Sahara mnv call him south. Parts of tho desert are ilrah nnd dull other parts nro hewilderim-K. l ntif.i i..n,. at dawn, sunset and in the moon- UkM. lino traveler says no one Who has not been in the Sahara under a rull moon can understand I the word "silence. Silence be- t nines something tangible, a force , like gravitation "or temperature. , Itluish moonlight bath the in- immobile plains and the I crav rocks. . "At sunrise the dunes become , pink, mauve ami blue. Some seem to be lacquered or enameled; j others tremble in tho morning light like living things. On the horizon !he dune seem t. hnv above the solid ground like in flated sails." Farm Pointers MILTON SILLS In Jack London's Big Alaskan , Novel "BltftNING DAYLIGHT" Hero for a Night" Me starts for New York in a broken down air ship and wakes up in the morning doing a dance for the Russians. Rothermel's Music The boy with the pleasing Tunes ; ! qtliilu 0iit:ll)i; WUH oin 1 moBt Impuitant iihaei) if the ut me I wui k. j Typical of the financial aid vol- untei-red last year to the cluba was ithe offer of the (iohen (Indiana) t'nuniy Hank aHMoclutinn to fi j nance dairy. and suine projt-cts to , the extent of $10,000. A count . wide meeting was called early in jthe y-ar. Kiht boy and five bIiIh i enrolled in the dairy club, and i twenty-three boys and seven girl.- I in the ttwine club. The association loaned the . money to club member, taking their iiotcH tlue in three years on wlne and five years on dairy cat ! lie, with interewt at H per cent. The no tea were endorsed by the fathers or guardians of the bor rower, nnd in every instance the numey waH used for the purchase of fine atoek approved by the county agricultural agent n. 1 "'gg; mm.imi' "'" j"-r " " 1 """ 1 "' "" "tw I I i - - in inn in mini mm n fi n 1 Vfl Be Posted yUfiSV. 3 DAYS if nlTT IVWVlTMk STARTS ! 1 1 V CONGRESS HERE WE COME! M A Rogers b I ju ua.vi f. THF WORLD'S MOST POPULAR i M TSL 6 -HUMORIST, in I BrrvJi C SR Texas , fijj VlI( teerM k if II jVix S. Texas.tO'Congress Farce. Era lW- L Wi" 8ays: A'ter you see this 13 W Kly-Frrf comedy you'll know why the M I Yfft TlPyjr Democrate are always trying SS'" iK Gd Admission . , W 1 ' i'' SV&S'fi Features Eves 10 & 50 feJi?.WA 'iVkV'- WuHitzer" iF'" Pi P l V ing m pf 4A1 ijj "WSouth"W'1 1 FREE TO THE RIALTO THEATRE Will be given to school children submitting the best car toons of MAGGIE and JIGGS during the MAIL I Watch the Daily Appearance of Maggie and Jiggs in the Mail Tribune j for Ideas AND DON'T MISS THEM IN THE COMEDY OF A MILLION LAUGHS "Bringing Up Father Starring Marie Dressier, Polly Moran . J, Farrell MacDonald Prizes o 0 Passes to Rialto 0 First 30 Days Second 3 Weeks Thjy-d 2 Weeks Fourth . . . 1 Week Q FOREIGN TRADE AND THE AnalywiH of the world trade of the I'nited States fur the year liZ'. by the foreign commerce de partment of the 'hamber of "ommere of the Tniled States. hhowH that the cotton grower, the automobile manufacturer and the wheat grower supply almost 3'' per cent f the total exports of M.Hti4.S05,7?3 which this country sold to other parts of the world. The automobile bus become firmly sandwiched between cotton and wheat as an important port commodity und the year Just j Promised fire Insurance reduc dosed hows that it Is constantly Hons will save Oregon $1,000,000 moving upward in the. sc:tle. Auto- a year. toiaugn sWjy lUUttl I TICKETS TRIBUNE RIALTO BRINGING UP FATHER" CONTEST 91 At the Rialto Theatre Otfe Saturday, April mobile expoi U Increased from 3:(M79,00U in ly-ti to $383,314, OuO in ia27, an increase of 21.3 pt-rcHiit. This is greater than th increase for any other of the more important export commodities during 1 1C7. Singularly enough, exports of automobile tlref in creased In exactly the same pro portion, going from $1' 7,5 1 tl,0(jQ in .42ti to $33,737,000 in 1927. The review of foreign trado for the year also confirms the asser tinti that the I'nited States Is ex porting more of manufactured urt- tries .x ports of finished manu- Ilu.tures junied from Jl.0u6.7S4. 000 in lfi'ti to $1, 000. oito ln iy:.7t a Bajn of nearly $l!0.uoo.- ou0. .More than half the total exports for 192 7 came under the two groups, finished manufac tures. and Day Only 7 o o Rules of Contest All school children u n d r r 12 years of aire elisjihle. Send ear toons to Mail Tribune office. Cartoons of Marine. Jicrsrs or Loth. ' " Contest Starts Sat., March 31 Ends Friday Night, April 6 V. T 'Tho HncUrt' J IllMT M"'l Im n tiinmiy in-