The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 10

RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, April 3.—Well, anyway, che organized wets have finally ar- rived on the battlefield. After sniping from the trees for these many years, they have sent out a small battery to fire a broadside of propaganda, of course, but one of the same type which has poured from the never-resting _ printing pre of the Anti-Saloon League at Westerville, O. The hard facts about prohibition and s enforcement probably will win the battle for one side or the other if there is ever to be any win- ning of it, and it must be in recogni- tion of that fact that the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, after a long period of rather inactive existence, has hired itself a research director and launched its first major propaganda attacks. “Prohibition Scandals” A 40-page pamphlet entitled Scan- dals of Prohibition Enforcement has appeared. The association also pub- lished a study of the Quebec liquor control plan and now has in prep- aration a study of the Bratt system of control in Sweden, another of liquor control in six Canadian provinces and one of prohibition in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It will sur- vey killings by prohibition agents, analyze federal statistics on enforce- ment and study the growth of the illicit liquor industry and of intem- perance and crime in separate pam- phiets. All this may not seem frightfully important, but it at least presents a changed situation. The wets are go- ing to have official textbooks. Occa- sionally in the past they have issued & pamphlet on some particular phase of prohibition, but it has soon be- come outdated. Wet snipers in Con- gress have sometimes rounded up sets of figures to hurl at the drys, but who reads the Congressional Record? The Anti-Saloon League sent out millions of copies of its pamphlets purporting to give Al Smith's legis- lative record in the last campaign. Neither the Democratic committee nor the organized wets had anything jin the nature of a counter-attack ex~ cept details and Smith's own wet speeches would have been vastly more effective if they had been based on careful research. ‘The first big blast of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, just published, purports to be proof of William Howard Taft's dole- phecy as to the probable seri- ults of the eighteenth amend- It sets out by reviewing gross cor- ruption, closely tied in with prohibi- tion, in Philadelphia, Chicago, = burgh, Detroit and Buffalo. appalling stor assembled together, although it not demonstrate, of course, thi conditions must necessa under prohibition. Nationwide conditior urveyed and of graft and official corrup- tion are cited from more than a score of American citie: In I than eight years, it states, some 1291 pro- hibition agents have been separated from their jobs—principal cause being graft, . List Alleged Abuses Other claims are: Deaths from alcoholism increased 300 per cent be- tween 1920 and 1927. Arrests for drunkenness in 518 communities rose from 279,939 in 1920 to 668,324 in 1927, an increase of more than 125 per cent even when population increase is counted in. Marked increases in the number of alcoholic insanity pa- tients are cited and in the number of drunken drivers Also huge increases in the number of stills seized. More than 8,000,000 gallons of mash were seized in 1923 and more than 26,000,- 000 gallons in 1928. Law enforcers seized 15,416 pieces of distilling apparatus in 1920 and 216,000 in 1928. Liquor seizure jumped from 153,000 gallons in 1920 to 32,000,- 000 in 1928. On top of that the association cites large increases in enforcement ap- propriations, liquor imports from Canada, figures showing the relative wetness of “dry” states, abuses by law enforcers, and cruel punishments and court congestion. WELL- TOM- HERES GREAT NEWS FoR YOU- You'vE BEEN DOING TIME FOR A CRIME You NEVER COMMITTED - A PARTY NAMED HENRY J. AUSSTINN HAS MADE A COMPLETE CONFESSION OF GUILT- THE GOVERNOR NAS JUST WIRED YOUR IMMEDIATE RELEASE YOURE A FREE MAN! } ALWAYS THOUGHT 7, You: WERE INNOCENT a \ GO- AND \eoe BLESS You = THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE vAMA CIRCUMSTANCE= A TnL SHE RE ALL WORN bers " ATOLLS MOCKERY — WHERE CAN | PAST HANGS OVER MY FUTURE LIKE A SWORD OF DA A CONSTANT THREAT To MY PEACE OF MINDO= OW THAT | COULD GO AWAY THE GUMPS—THE GATES AJAR FREEDOM? YES- BUT AT WHATA PRICE! BROKE AND DISCREDITED = = ( : RY LOST TO FOREVER — MY REPUTATION STAINED WITH Thi MARY LOS ME hele) E PAWN IN MAY HEART WOU! } WAVE | FOR HAI bel QUT] F NESS ? 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POD, TLL BET I// I'VE NEVER -KNOWN « FORGOT TO EMPTY THE 7 TO FAIL. EVERY TIME M (CE PANS YES SIR, // WE START OUT ANY. PRT TURTe SHETIFTOR Fa TDw! WHERE. YOU HIVE TO MAKE A DETOUR BACK wow S46 RIGHT BACK AND MAKE SURE,] . GAOW ALONG Mute TD RATHER DO THAT THAN /, NOW DONT BEARD YOU'LL NEVER BURN A HOLE IN MY HEAR THE FINAL BCHO NICE COPPER KETTLE ; WEY, FOLKS! | Pop's BEEN UP To ws EARS we NAMES FoR DONT TELL ME YOU'VE FORGOTTEN Tony Tarver flung up her gallant | vinced you that he really loves you SORETUNG | Byronic little head and fixed Crystal with challenging, blue eyes: “Crys what sort of a girl would you say I am?” “You're not easy to put on a thumbnail, Tony,” Crystal replied. “ can give you a list of adjectives that I have heard applied to you and which fit perfectly: gay, gallant, courageous, square-shooter, beautiful, without a scrap of conceit— “That's enough!” Tony interrupted, ‘with odd curtness. Then, her lovely mouth twisting with a bitterness that Crystal had never seen on it before: “So much for adjectives, Crys—and thanks! Now—how do these nouns strike you? Cheater, thrill-glutton, teaser, poor sport— “And that’s enough!” Crystal cried. “Did you let Dick Talbot call you those names and—live?” Tony laughed, a queer, harsh sound. es—and agreed with him, I believe. Oh—with slight reserva- tions, of course! Didn't I intimate a while ago that I'd been—hurt?” “Oh, Tony! This can’t be you!” stal . “To think that Pect that he'd gone deadly serious about it tonight at dinner. He made all my plans for having you snare ignoring him look in't he? And it would even a month she shrugged, slipped in a big way, you lef him prove it by calling you vile names?” “Right!” Tony agreed. “There was ait adjective you forgot to include in your gorgeous list, Crys—one I've been sort of fond of tacking on to myself. Fair-minded. Rather a mas- culine trait, but I’ve always thought I had it. Pat thinks so, too,” she added wistfully. ‘“Fair-minded. .. . You see, Crys,” she bezan again, after a long pause, very slowly, when she had sat down to the dressing table and dipped her fingertips into a squat, black jar of cold cream, “Jook- ing at it from Dick’s viewpoint, he has a perfect right to make out a strong case against me. I have let him make love to me almost as much and often as he pleased, without be- ing @ good enough sport—as he puts it—to finish what I started.” Crystal's pale face blazed with anger. “The rotten little cad! You've told him a dozen times, at least, that you would not marry him! He knew you meant it—” “Which,” Tony interrupted, in an oddly dispassionate voice, “is ex- actly the crux of the matter, darling. Dick contends—if that's a strong enough word—that I've given him every right to think I preferred another and less public and binding relationship. Quite a genteel way to express it, isn't it? But Dick’s way ” She shrugged a bare shoulder, “Hence when I flashed the Stop signal tonight, it all came tumbling out. One modern young man’s frank opinion of the modern girl who issues Promissory notes and refuses to pay.” NEXT: Crystal considers two answers to a‘terrible question. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) their wisdom teeth here, Eddie Can- tor, the millionaire comedian, was a graduate. It was-the birthplace of American “‘variety’—or vaudeville, as we gall it today. It was the home of the melodrama thrillers. It was the spot upon which fame came to such near-immortals as David Warfield, McIntyre and Heath, the Rogers Brothers, Francis Wilson, Sam Ber- nard, Lillian Russell and the parents * | of George M. Cohan. * * Ox T have no doubt that the news of * | the burning of Miner's Bowery thea- ter has by this time spread from one end of the land tq the other. Its de- struction came on the very eve of its revival. A Broadway group was re- constructing it—even to the resuscita- tion of the old beer bar which ad- joined it. It was the intention to produce the same old plays which thrilled grandfathers thing like 115 years ago. * *k * Legends and tradition have haunted the grand old place for'many a year. ieee af FOR SOMETHING NOU'VE FORGOTTEN RETURNED TO] HIND TH’ CATCHER —WHO CAN Ter? ule DASTANCE , WHICH Vo ESSENTIAL IND LANDING , TAKING CFF ETC Ete (\vaddA Ye MEAN HE'S out? wuy, HE AIN'T EVEN TH’ TWO WEEKS SUT WE JUST Bie ME THAT HE'D START Pring vances, W's Next MONDAY i. Wee, tt (TLL Make IT ANY © CLEARER TO'Ya — HE'S 4 UNCONSCIOUS: .