The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 10

~ a ———— * By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, March 30.—When rival tugar interests get to warring over the tariff it’s a sweet fight. They're doing that now and the ramifica- tions are as thick as petals on a hrysanthemum. ‘The beet sugar interests, sup- ported by the Louisiana cane sugar interests, demand a higher tariff on Cuban sugar. The duty there now stands at 1.76 cents a pound and any- thing between 2 and 3 cents would ratisfy the domestic producers. American companies raising sugar in Cuba, whence comes 50 per cent of the sugar America eats, are work- ing with the Cuban government against a boost and have even ap- plied for ‘a reduction. Both rival groups would like to sock the Filipinos by restricting duty- free imports of Philippine sugar to 300,000 or 500,000 tons a year. Con- gressman Timberlake of Colorado has introduced a bill to limit them to 500,000. * * * ‘The Filipinos say that in case of such a restriction they must have in- dependence and, if they aren't re- stricted, naturally would be quite happy, along with the bect people. to see a higher duty slapped on sugar from Cuba. ‘The battle is being fought out both in the open and under cover. Some- how, all the conflicting interests have come together under the roof of the National Press club building, which is perhaps as good a place as any from which to fire publicity barrages. The United States Sugar Associa- tion, a billion-dollar combination of 25 American and Cuban companies, has its main offices uptown, but has opened publicity headquarters in the Press building. The U. S. Beet Sugar Association has a sumptuous suite on the same floor. The Domestic Sugar Producers’ Association has _elabor- ately furnished offices on the floor below and the Philippine Press Bu- reau, now vitally interested in both sugar and independence, functions on the floor above. The big tariff fight, of course, con- cerns Cuban sugar. The U. S. Sugar Association says the present duty rate is equivalent to 93 per cent ad valorem, far higher than that on any [other common food item and an im- portant factor in the annual national sugar bill of $650,000,000. * * Cuba already receives @ preferen- tial rate. But being a theoretically sovereign state, she hasn't the ad- vantage of free trade as have Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico. Sugar means so much to Cuba herself, as well as to the American interests concerned, that her government has been making the most frantic efforts \to prevent what might be a domestic debacle if the duty on it were raised She has offered to make tariff con- cessions on her imports from the United States in return for an in- crease of her present. sugar tariff dif- ferential of 20 per cent to 40 per cent. The sugar tariff is the worst of her troubles, but she also worries about possible incréases on tobacco, to say nothing of various minor agricultural exports. It is reported that Senator Smoot, powerful chairman of the Senate fi- nance committee and champion of the beet sugar interests, recently sent | word to Ambassador Ferrara of Cuba, warning him to make less noise. Soon afterward the ambassador left for Cuba President Hoover is said to favor the position of the American-Cuban interests, but with Smoot and the Filipinos on the other side he may decide to favor a status quo. Politi- cally, it might be dangerous to antag- onize Cuba. x * * The beet interests demand tariff protection for a domestic industry and then, in common with the Cuban faction, hasten to whoop against the Filipino menace. They point out that the Philippines produced 84,000 tons in 1904 and 600,000 tons in 1928, a 600 per cent increase, and shudder at the thought that the islands have less than 20 per cent of their good soil under cultivation. \ The Philippines are sending a boat- load of their most prominent officials, politicians and business men to argue that tariff restrictions on their pro- ducts are unthinkable. They are pre- pared to make the loudest squawk heard at the capital in modern times. All puns aside, it’s a sweet fight. Although Crystal had unwillingly promised Tony to pique Dick Tal- bot’s vanity by ignoring him and be- ing conspicuously annoyed by any attempts he made to engage her at- tention, it became quite evident at dinner that her task would be an Dick Talbot beat her too easy one. it by ignoring her, Cherry and Rhoda. His handsome black eyes, romanti- cally somber, were fixed upon Tony Tarver every minute of the dinner hour. “Are you practicing the role of re- Jected suitor, brooding upon suicide methods?” Cherry rallied him, with her gay, cruel lack of tact. Darling Dick, you're letter perfect!” Instead of answering, Dick Talbot turned hurt, reproachful black eyes upon his tormentor, held her topaz ones for a long minute, then smiled wistfully. “Hold my hand quick, Nils!” Cherry “I'm slipping again. Boy howdy, but you pack an awful ‘wallop in those black eyes of yours, Mr. Richard Warrington Talbot! I cried, laughing. don't see how Tony resists you.” “Oh, I don't,” Tony corrected her cheerfully. “I'm ga-ga over Dick. «+. Please Nils, may I have some nice brown, + Do eat your . dinner, Dickie, and quit staring at me. Of course T love you, if that's “what your mournful eyes are asking. ‘These mushrooms are gorgeous, Tore roast beef? A crackly end piece. . After dinner, Harry Blaine determ- inedly sequestered Crystal Hathaway, taking her away from George Pruitt with scant ceremony. “I've a good mind to lock the door,” he grinned, when he had settled her “If so your undivided attention. What the devil has come over old George, any- way?” “art,” Crystal smiled. “He's paint- ing my portrait, or, rather, is using me as a model for a symbolic pic- ture.” “A clever excuse to get you all to himself,” Harry Blaine grumbled. “And say, what's eating on Tony? That dinner table stuff wasn’t like our Tony. I'd say she was riding Dick Talbot pretty hard, if she really cares for him—” “She does care, in a way, and doesn’t want to,” Crystal explained. “Now—what's on your mind, Harry? You seem to be bursting with news.” “Ab,” Harry Blaine acknowledged, straddling a little Windsor chair he had dragged up to hers. “Listen, Crys, want a job?” “Of course!” Crystal answered eagerly, “What is it? When do 1 begin?” “Hold on, woman!” the young re- porter admonished her. “You are still a semi-invalid, you know. But this is the big idea: ‘The Press is about ready to fire the first gun in its regular ‘Christmas-for-the-poor’ cam- paign, ending up with a big Christ- mas benefit theatrical performance. And we'll need a real sob-sister for full-time publicity work. Want to tackle it, beginning about one week from Monday?” “Do I?” Crystal cried, her cheeks flushed, her eyes shining. “Of course, there'll be one draw- back,” Harry grinned. “You will , | have to work under my direction, and consequently be pestered with a lot of my society....I guess George ”| Pruitt isn’t the only clever man in these parts!” tenderly in a big arm chair in the library off the living room. “That’s ebout the only way I can be sure of ‘IN NEW YORK f e organized industry in New York. Don't shudder! New York, March 30.—Blood is an great city. word, the “blood industry” is furnish blood if and There is no in- NEXT: Cherry gets a “job” too. Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc) | go out and within a few minutes re- || Hef is on its way. * OK OK All this is not as simple as it sounds. For there are grades of blood as there are grades of men. And there have to be experts con- stantly at work keeping a record of blood donors. These donors must be carefully classified. 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