The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 10

— By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Feb. 15.—Two old men, William Cabell Bruce of Maryland and James A. Reed of Missouri, now leave the senate. Those two repre- sent the sole claim of the wets to leadership in the upper house of congress. Whether they will have worthy suc- sessors is a speculative question. There has been no rivalry for Jeader- ship of the minority bloc. Bruce and Reed appeared to be the only ones who had their hearts in it. ‘This writer expects that the coming wet leader will be Senator Blaine of Wisconsin. Bruce doesn’t know, but he has hopes for Senator David I. ‘Walsh of Massachusetts and his pres- ent colleague, Senator Millard Tyd- ings of Maryland. ** * Reed has been a worthy foeman to ‘any cause he has opposed. His han- dling of the famous beer hearings was the most terriffic attack on prohibi- tion that the Volstead era has pro- duced. And if its effect was merely cumulative, one may observe that cer- tainly no man and perhaps no com- bination of men ever will defeat pro- hibition. But Reed has many other interests nd many other fights. Prohibition is only one of his numerous hates. ‘Then again, from the viewpoint of the wets, Reed fell by the wayside last spring when he hid away their banner and in effect asked the drys ‘of the Democratic party to let bygones be bygones while they supported him for the presidential nomination. ee * It is “old Senator Bruce,” now 68 and a year older than Reed, who has devoted himself unflaggingly and almost exclusively to the restoration of what he considers personal liberty. For six years Senator Bruce has de- livered speech after speech on the floor, designed to expose prohibition as a most damnable thing in all its effects. Fate, figures and personal views he has hurled at empty seats with sublime disregard of the Sen- ‘ate’s nearly complete disinterest. Senator Bruce has not been ex- actly an inspirational figure. He is @ kindly person, a man of culture and high ethical sensibilities who has written worthy biographies, but there are those who regard him as rather ® bore. As an orator he invariably sounds as if he were contending against a mouth full of hot mush and he has @ noteworthy record for driv- ‘ng senators to the cloakroom for the BISMARCK TRIBUNE CAREFUL NOW-CHESTER= THIS IS MARY GOLD'S WEDDING GIFT = FROM You- MAMA AND WHAT? - TWAT BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE VASE = | ir Cost ME . 15,00 — WAIT ‘Tun HE COMES Back duration of his lengthy anti-prohibi- tion speeches. Nevertheless, for sincerity and per- sistency Senator Bruce has had no superior. He knows the anti-prohi- bition case by heart and is fillea with the urge to speak it out. His social position is high and his son married Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's daughter, but he has never hesitated to blat loudly of Washington society's drinking habits or even to assert, as he once did, that he could put all the personally dry senators into a taxi- cab. * * * Failure of his politically wet com- rades to support him vigorously has been a disappointment to “old Sen- ator Bruce.” Elected as wets, they proceed to forget all about the pro- hibition issue, he says, and he regards that as dereliction in duty to their constitutents. But he admits thet many of them must think of reelec- tion and realize that the only strong- ly organized force against them is the drys. Bruce feels that this lack of organization is the great wet weak- ness and he intends to become ac- tively interested in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment when he leaves office. He will also resume law practice and writing. He does not profess to know what will happen to prohibition, but he submits that it cannot remain as at present indefinitely. x * “Things are coming, to-a_ crisis,” says Bruce. “It has been demon- strated that only huge expenditures can prevent the situation from be- coming even worse and some of the wisest prohibitionists fear the effects of increased cost. “All I hope now is that Hoover will appoint a splendid commission. If the commission goes into every phase of the situation I think some good practical results will follow, for the investigation will show a steady rise in the arrests for drunkenness, deaths from alcoholism and official graft. “Any honest report is bound to make Hoover call for a change in the law. I hope that he will recommend a change in the Volstead act allow- ing palatable and non-intoxicating beer. Then I think we will come to FRECKLES COMIN’ HONE FROM THE MOM’N POP the Canadian plan of handling the liquor problem, which I have always supported. “If the president makes no attempt to modify prohibition. conditions will merely get worse before better.” DON'T BE SILLY, MOM, THE WIND BLEW THE VASE OVER AND \T FELL ON THE KEYS. ROBBERS ? BAH! THERE'S WELL, You'D BETTER GO AND SEE IF IT'S THERE. SOMEONE WAS IN THIS HOUSE LAST NIGHT AND DON'T TELL ME DIFFERENT. t 6 OW MOM . /_ sx ws wasic BRON OF W'S. Gone ff ENVELOPE’ ARE You SURE YOU DIDN'T PieK IT UP AND PUT IT SOME TM PosiTWwE 1 PUT IT IN they get Others besides Harry Blaine made belated but none the less sincere resolutions to make Crystal Hatha- way’s life happier—if she lived. Bob Hathaway, who scarcely left the hos- pital in which his cousin lay at the point of death, said little, but his haggard, white face, with his deeply shadowed blue eyes, told Faith more Plainly than words that her husband was suffering agonies of remorse for the cavalier fashion in which he had treated the girl to whom he had re- {uctantly given sanctuary after her nother’s death. “Got to show the girl a good time she gets well,” was all he said, ith understood. tho was never absent more than an hour for brief hours which her to spend in bed— all taken rooms at the Hotel in Darrow—over- ’s gruffly spoken resolu- “Pat wants to give Crystal a month’s rest cure in the South, if— whenshegets well,” Tony volunteered, her voice breaking on that fatal “if” and snatching desperately at the more hopeful “when.” “He says he'll @ trained nurse and me along to see that she behaves herself.” Harry Blaine, also a member of that anxious group in the hospital BE Fa 27.8 e6e nt i for Crystal Hathaway, then NOTHING Fi HEM Ti ‘OR Ti ie! TAKE, ONE OF THESE EXCEPT THAT $500 BROUGHT FROM THe OFFICE AND THAT WAS IN OUR. com. DUNE 2. - FIVE. HUNDRED THEN BUMPED INTO THE Bu (a CKSEAND- TLL HANE ‘IANO AND KNOCKED THis NASE OFF AND THAT'S WHEN WE HEARD THEM - looked vastly relicved as Bob vetoed the idea flatly: “Thanks, Tony. Your father’s more than generous. But looking after Crystal is my job—even if I have filled it pretty badly in the past. If the doctor thinks she'll be better off in a warmer climate for a month, T'll send her myself. Othcrwise. Faith and I will look after her at home, and be glad of the privilege.” Tony flashed him a brilliant smile through sudden tears. “Attaboy, Bob! I wish Crystal could hear you.” Cherry Jonson stretched weary arms above her tousled copper-and- gold curls, and the ghost of her tink- ling laugh rang out in the death- suggesting quiet of the room. “Aren't we all funny? If we make good half our promises, Crystal will be the worst spoiled invalid as well as the best-advertised heroine in Stanton!” At that moment a nurse stepped into the room. It was almost mid- night on Monday—just a week after Crystal's flight from her cousin's home. “Miss Hathaway has just regained consciousness and she’s calling for “Me?” Tony Tarver and Faith Hathaway spoke in unison, with joy- i ous relief. The nurse smiled and shook her head. “For Mr. Blaine.” WIGOSH! GU2ZLEMS STORE. (S Wert eT THe OTHER END O' “WH TowN —WHaT @ JoeB! QAWGONAIT! | KNEW 1'O HEVE OU, WELL —TUS 1S Easter THAN PUSHIN’ “RoveLE re Pre pele Te DRRNED THING - NOW (€ ( Can sust ° At) an NEXT: Out of the shadows, (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) pardon seekers. day said: “Hundreds of pardon seekers daily besiege the White House. They crowd into the ante-room and are ushered into the President's presence; if found all right on the record, they are par- doned, otherwise not. President Johnson is still busy pardoning south- erners who are worth more than $20,- 000, about 3,000 having taken out their papers, while about 50,000 ap- Plications have been made.” ‘The press of the period laments the entrance of women into politics in the role of lobbyists: is a noticeable fact, and by @ credit to the age, that A newspaper of the TRE MY PLBLK, OVER AT TH SHOPPE , FOR DINNER “THIS PM. W227 be = S — é at A ae =U VAT ha a — NS a SU Ai . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929