The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 10

i a = By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) But until they learn just how serious the effect of the law will be, 27—Whatever | they are taking unprecedented pre- Reta teiher iy be in store during | Cautions. Those who have ever had the extra session of Congress begin- unpleasant contact with the law en- rene calm | forcers are changing their headquar- Ae in washington, A ihe moment, | ters or their telephones or their auto- There is a great deal of back-stairs mobiles, or all three, and hiring new delivery men whose faces are unfa- maneuvering going on in connection | nitiar to the law. with the tariff bill and this is the Most of them have raised prices, time when conflicting interests are! but some of them not at all exorbi- really doing their most important) tantiy, ‘They explain to customers work on that legislation, but no one! that the “men higher up” in the busi- is publicly squawking about anything ness have raised the wholesale price yet and the lasting bitterness which} ang that they must pass it along. it was feared might have been cre- They deeply resent any insinuation ated by the presidential campaign | that the Jones law has been made a apparently has faded away. pretext for profiteering. It is going There is a general satisfied feeling | to cost a lot more, they insist, to buy with the first weeks of the Hoover] protection from prohibition gents administration. The president has} and the police. Immunity is now more done a number of things which have | valuable. evoked cheers from all quarters and nothing, as yet. that proved at all * * Oe When Congressman George Hud- unpopular. Nearly every day some-| qiestone of Alabama joins up with thing has been announced which| Congressman Cordell Hull of Ten- tended to disappoint those who hoped nessee to fight the tariff bill, as he and predicted that Hoover would} presumably will, an ancient alliance make a poor president. Of course, he| again will have been resumed. may have immense trouble with the Nearly thirty years ago Hull and extraordinary session. But he is off| tuddleston were classmates in the to a beautiful start. Day after day,| jaw school of Cumberland University he has even been pleasing the pro-| at Lebanon, Tenn. At that time the gressives and the Democrats. His} highest honors which could come to order for publicity for income tax} jaw students there were the senior refunds and for an end of the spy) class presidency and the judgeship of |. system in federal penitentiarles, for} the “Moot Court,” in which the stud- Instance. Also his new oil conserva-| ents tried law cases for practice. tion policy, his acceptance of Indian One afternoon Huddleston trudged Commissioner Burke's resignation! , mile through the rain to suggest to and his new policy of relations with | tun what was probably a first “po- the press, to mention a few. ek * litical deal” for each. They ought to combine forces, Huddleston said, and The bootleggers are apparently the | capture those two jobs. Hull agreed. only unhappy group in Washington | Neither was a member of a Greek let- today. Due probably both to the] ter society at Cumberland and mem- drastic Jones law penalties and|bers of these societies generally di- Hoover's understood desires to dry up | vided the honors between them. But Washington, they are actually wor-|the Hull-Huddleston ticket played the ried. fraternities against each other and Many of them believe that every-| lined up all the non-members. Hud- thing will straighten itself out for} dleston was elected president and Hull awhile; some of them think condi-| judge. They were the only students tions in the booze industry will be] of their period to arrive later in Con- stabilized by the present situation. gress. There was one good thing about | tering highlights against the soft Cherry's gay casualness as a hostess: | pink-and-blue old-fashioned chintz, @ convalescent guest of hers was in no | her eyes stared, round and wide with danger of being smothered by kind-| dreams, upon the November land- ness. “Do anything you darn please, scape outside the window, How long she lay there, spell-bound, girls!” she said to Tony and Crystal | Crystal did not know, but at last a when. they appeared in the farm-| low voice cut gently across her wak- house living room in the middle of|ing dreams: “Please don't move. the afternoon. “But don't expect me | Don't even turn your head. I can't to flutter about and act the perfect | bear to see you break the pose.” hostess. I'm going to help Nils work “Hello, George!” Crystal answered, on his dairy records—hot stuff, like | obeying him to the extent of not how much butter-fat Bossy Belle | turning her head or moving her and Lady of the Lake produced this| hands. “But how long am I to be last year. You're welcome to the| condemned to immobili car, the radio, the half dozen parior “Until I can get my easel set up games, we've got stacked away in the | and my charcoal out of my_ kit,” library, and anything else you can| George Pruitt answered promptly. Jay hands on to amuse yourselves|“If I had posed you fifty times my- with.” : “Thanks, Cherry,” Tony answered.| half so good. : . self, I couldn't have hit on a pose . Of course you “I think both Crys and I are all set | know,” he added, with affected cas- for the rest of the afternoon. Crys} ualness, “that I came out here solely wants to read and Rhoda and I have | for the purpose of starting that por- conspired to stir up a batch of black | trait for you. I was so excited about walnut fudge.” it that I couldn't sleep last night. 1 “When Cherry Lane Jonson comes! knew vaguely what I wanted, of to die,” Tony remarked after Cherry | course, but now I see the finished had dancéd joyously out of the room,| pieture. It’s to be called simply “she'll give a new significance to that | ‘Crystal’ of course, and would be, even trite phrase, ‘Flirting with death.’ And | if your name happened to be Agnes.” ‘Meow’ for me. I go to make fudge “Why ‘Crystal, of course’? the girl with which to lure poor, unwitting} asked in genuine wonder. males into my clutches. .. . Sure you teally want to read, darling?” “Because that’s what you are—crys- tal, clear, sparkling crystal.” George “Very sure,” Crystal smiled, but| answered. He was setting up his when Tony had left her, comfortably | working materials with eager swift- enthroned in a big arm-chair set in| ness. “How long are you going to be the flood of sunshine from a deep] here? ... Ten days? Good! If I'm bay window, she did not open the| lucky to catch this western sun even book in her fap. Her slim, fragile hands, no longer five days out of ten—” “Has your father fired you, too? her only beauty, lay palm-upward on| I seem to remember that you have a the arms of the chair, the fingers} slight connection with the time clock curled so that, in the brilliant sun-|of the Lincoln Pruitt light, her hands looked like twin ala- | Company.” Hardware bowls, slightly tinted with pink. — Her head thrown back, the smooth} NEXT: A past is sealed. «Cr bronze of her long bob showing glit- aS rs... And it F : to Ka mai had given so} in life. 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) 2] on the human equation, I stopped at {| @ luncheon for Lupe Velez, the little Mexican girl who was discovered by Douglas Fairbanks and had come to town as a $3000-a-week star... . She was being put on display before @ hundred critical young men and women of the Broadway cinema world. ... 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