The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 12

{ By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, March 29.—If your un- fortunate correspondent cannot find any interesting news it is because wherever he goes looking for it in Washington people always insist on talking about prohibition, especially with reference to the Jones law. No one mentions the weather any more. Here it is 10 years and more since we first had prohibition and people have been more excited about it dur- ing this last year, between the politi- cal campaign and the Jones law, than ever before. That may not go for the rest of the country, but it certainly goes for the capital. x * * An enterprising reporter has been mean enough to turn out a story raising the question whether Ameri- can diplomats abroad should observe the spirit of prohibition laws at home. Most emphatically it may be said that his enterprise is not appreciated by the state department, the white house or the diplomats themselves. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, the dry leader, has said that our diplomats should not serve intoxicating bever- ‘ages in their embassies and legations and that real loyal 100-per cent American diplomats won't accept it if offered outside their homes. But in order to make that effective Mr. Hoover himself would have to do something about it and he is not ex- pected to do anything of the sort. There may be diplomats who rigidly observe the Volstead act in other national capitals, but if so their secret has not leaked out in Washing- ton. The unofficial attitude of the state department is that they ought to be diplomats first and prohibi- tionists afterward. ** * Foreign diplomats in Washington are not worried lest their diplomatic liquor immunity be taken away from | them, but some of them are annoyed at the thought that their truckloads from Baltimore may be temporarily halted by the police. There is inter- wnittent agitation in Congress for elimination cf the privilege and ‘ome irresponsible members have charged that diplomatic liquor was “Oh, 60 that's the icca?” Tony peered interestedly into the kettle which Rhoda had lifted from the stove. “You let it cool before beat- ing it, do you? Maybe that’s the reason mine was always too grainy. I began to punish it furiously as soon as it was done. . . Here, let me help you chop those walnuts. . . You're such @ wow of a cook and seem so thoroughly at home in the kitchen that I find it hard to picture you all decked out in jools and a blonde wig, warbling ‘Marguerite’ on a grand Opera stage. Of course Schumann- Heink likes to cook, too—” “’m no Schumann-Heink,” Rhoda interrupted placidly, sighing. “I find it just as hard to picture myself in grand opera as you do, Tony. And just between you and me—only don't tell Cherry, of course—I don't believe ‘we need strain our imaginations. I'll Probably never be there.” “You're not getting cold feet at the prospect of this audition before the Metropolitan Big-wig. are you, honey?” Tony gibed. “You look 50 calm always—” “I'm calm about my singing be- cause it doesn't seem important enough to get excited over,” Rhoda answered. “But I haven't. T'm just a good imitator of the way artists sing. You know how it in “Minnesote, and passed pee eke the voices on records s0 you couldn't tell the difference. But I being bootlegged, but any actual change which would shut off the supply is a quite unthinkable thing to the diplomats themselves. One truck was held up and its con- tents unloaded by the police—that of the Siamese legation. All those who might have been instrumental in the act have since sought to duck re- sponsibility for the interference. “Why on earth did they pick on the poor Siamese?” an ambassador asked your correspondent the other day. “Why not the British or the French?” From another diplomatic source one hears that the British embassy is holding up a cargo in Baltimore until it has positive assurance from the state department that no one will molest it en route. ek * Cheer for prohibitionists is cited by the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, which quotes Professor Irving Fisher of Yale to show that there is no large consumption of liquor-because people can't afford it. Fisher calls attention to the fact that 99 per cent of all incomes of people in the United States are less than $9000 a year and that 80 per cent are less than $1500 a year. He concludes that those who “drink as much as before national prohibition, or more” must be confined to a nar- rowly restricted class, mostly among those whose income ranges from $2100 up, because of the high price of drinks. wrk * As is generally known, there are some highly placed federal officials here who have stopped serving liquor in their homes lest it queer them with President Hoover. These offi- cials and their families are known as the “new drys.” A story in circulation here says that a nationally famous person went to a bridge party at the home of a “little cabinet” member, pulled a pint of whiskey from his pocket, stood it down beside his chair and grimly announced: “There are two classes among the guests of the new drys. A: Them as brings their own liquor. B: Them as don’t. And them as don’t are not go- ing to get any from them as does.” couldn't ‘create’ a role, as they call it T haven't the imagination, or the feel- ings inside me. Maybe,” she suggested hopefully, “this Metropolitan impres- sario will realize that and let me go.” “You have other plans for Rhoda Jonson,” Tony suggested with sudden understanding. “You want to get married and have lots of babies and cook marvelous dishes for your fam- ily. Right?” Rhoda nodded blushing. “I guess this fudge is cool enough to beat now.” “A girl doesn’t blush when an ab- stract ambition is mentioned,” Tony laughed, putting her arms about the girl and hugging her ecstatically. “You've got the prospective father Picked out, haven't you, you darling?” “Ben might not like being called a Prospective father, when he’s hardly used to the idea of being engaged yet,” Rhoda laughed. “It’s Ben Gray- son, you know. They have the farm next to ours.” “Oh, you're delicious!” Tony cried kissing her. “And no one knows— not even Cherry?” “No, not even Nils. Of course you won't tell. Ben won't marry me if I do get a contract with the Metro- Politan. That's why I don’t want one,” Rhoda confessed placidly. “Do you think it would be very wicked of me not to try very hard to sing well?” “I think,” Tony said very solemnly ‘that it would be a sin against pos- terity for you to be anything but the wife and mother God intended you to be. Life is so beautifully simple for you, isn't it, Rhoda?” she added wistfully. “All you have to do is to i your voice crack on high C, while NEXT: Harry Blaine demands Crystal's attention. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) with reading rooms and lounge rooms. || Far above the world so high, the atmosphere of the country club is carried out in so far as possible. There is a tennis court, croquet grounds, handball court and prac- tice golf course. 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