The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 10

ene By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washinzton, April 9.—"If prohibi- ton adds to the efficiency of workers we will have to have prohibition, too, in self-defense,” said St. John Ervine, the British author and playwright, as he sailed away to his own merry Eng- land, “We resent that possibility,” he added. If Ervine had been the first and only foreigner to talk like that it might not be worth mentioning, but he wasn't. There are more factors than temporary resentment over such incidents as the sinking of the I'm Alone by the coast guard to indicate that, as the- world becomes more closely knit as. an international com- munity, the rest of the world’s atti- tude toward prohibition is worth con- sidering. In the rest of the world there are minor dry movements, almost all of which have been unsuccessful. There are also found a few persons who agree with President Hoover that prohibition is “an experiment, noble in purpose,” and who divide over the question whether our prohibition has proved to be a colossal flop or whether it may not yet work out as a success. Sympathy or Ridicule But your correspondent's contacts with foreigners force him to believe that the mass of peoples abroad are inelined elther to sympathize with or to ridicule Americans because they are under laws restricting personal habits which are totally outside their conceptions of how life ought to be lived. All of which would be more inter- esting than important were it not that certain foreign governments are likely to take advantage of it in their dealings with our country. For in- stance, the cables have recently re- vealed that many Englishmen were pretty sore about the I'm Alone sink- ing with its loss of a life, especially since the vessel's captain was a Brit- ish war hero. It so happens that American relations are a real issue in the British election campaign and that the office-holding Tories, now faced with probable defeat, have lead- ers less friendly to the United States than the Laborites and Liberals ex- pected to succeed them. By refusing to overlook the I'm Alone incident and making it plain that it was re- , WASHINGTON LETTER, garded as serious the British govern- ment was able to play upon national- istic feelings in British hearts to its own advantage. Now Canada has officially taken up the case at a time when relations are strained by threats of tariff revision which will seriously affect her exports. Canada has been unwilling to play ball with us in any respect. until she knew how badly our forthcoming new tariff law was going to hurt. If she comes out on the short end she prob- ably will be quite mean about the I'm Alone if she has half a case. With nothing further to lose she can afford to be as nasty as she likes. And further Canadian cooperation toward hampering border rum-running would be just about hopeless. Foreign politicians are generally too anxious to please the United States to make a great point of picturing us as a ruthless, machine- and dollar-wor- shiping nation willing to deprive her citizens of their liberties in order to bring poverty to other peoples through superior efficiency. But only their present conception of self-interest re- strains them. And meanwhile foreign diplomats enjoy kidding their American guests as the American guests enjoy drink- ing whatever is put before them. Guests at the foreign embassies and legations are not exactly rowdies or persons of no importance, but not one in a hundred is a teetotaler. Much Drinking Abroad Similarly, American travelers abroad patronize bars and cafes so affection- ately that many foreigners wonder what's the matter with us. And whether it’s in Paris, London, Berlin, Shanghai, Peking, Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires, the resident American colonies give off the impression that they are there principally to drink without much restraint. American missionaries and touring theological students are only a dry grain of sand in a bucket of suds, and they are gen- erally in Palestine or the African or Asiatic interior. If other unsympathetic nations, with neither industries nor large re- ligious groups willing to fight for pro- hibition, don’t get the point of Ameri- can prohibition, it is probably our own fault. | But the fact is that they don't. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘There was a note of wicked excite- ment in the laughter with which Cherry received Dick Talbot's blankly questioning echo of her own words. A sudden, tense silence wiped out the deeultory conversation about the Jonson luncheon table, Cherry's gleeful love of mischief-making was 80 well-known that not one of her guests could escape a thrill of un- easiness when Cherry laughed in that way, When Cherry's topaz eyes glit- tered with that devilish fire... . “Then if you don’t owe a grocery bill, Dick,” Cherry pretended to be genuinely puzzled after her tinkle of Jaughter, “I do wondes what that Baspy-voiced girl meant by saying you were to telephone her at the grocery store. I thought surely her grocer- Papa was going bankrupt if you could not be induced to pay what you owed.” A slow, deep red flush crept over the almost too-handsome face of the dark young man who sat next to Tony Tarver. His nostrils flared with anger. “I really don’t know what you're talking about, Mrs. Jonson!” “Use that line in your play, Harry!” Cherry laughed. “With stage direc- tions—‘outraged young hero puts hostess in her place'— “Don't carry a joke too far, honey,” Nils advised her, with deceptive ami- ability, belied by the warning flash of his blue eyes. “I'm merely trying, in my poor way, to give Dick—or must I say ‘Mr. Tal- bot'?—a telephone message,” Cherry retorted. “It does seem a pretty poor way,” ‘Nils suggested mildly. “Suppose you simply tell Dick what the message is.” “Very well! I know my master’s voice when I hear it! Cherry cried furiously. phoned from Stanton this morning, Dick. She said it was terribly important that you oe IN NEW YORK | New York, April 9.—Just a couple show you that “life it they were staging de France for Joan literary figure. call Callie at the grocery store, The message struck me as—well, funny, and I was merely trying to—’ She stopped abruptly, choked on tears. The uncomfortable silence was broken by Dick Talbot's low voice. “Thanks, Cherry. It's quite all right. | Sorry. I was nasty, but I really don't know what it’s all about.” “A practical joke, probably,” Tony cut in. “One of the crowd trying to get a rise out of you, Dick ... Hooray! Southern fried chicken! Vengeance on the gizzard and a drumstick!" “Pig!” Harry Blaine apostrophized her, and the tension was broken. Very soon after lunch the party set out for Darrow and the movie treat which Cherry had planned. At the last minute Rhoda placidly announced that she was not going. Crystal say the instant dismay on Tony's face. Rhoda's deflection meant that she and Dick's roadster, since Harry Blaine, Nils and Cherry were already assigned to the Jonson se- dan, The dormant worry in Crys- tal’s heart sprang to life again. “Don't worry about Tony, Crystal,” George Pruitt, beside her on the Porch, said gently. “George,” Crystal interrupted, “do you know who ‘Callie’ is? It wasn't one of the crowd kidding Dick. I was here when the call came, and Cherry insisted on imitating her voice for Harry and me... . You do know! I can tell by your face—” “I've never met a girl named Cal- le,” George answered, with such an obvious attempt at evasion that Crys- tal flushed and dropped the subject. “Shall I pose for you now?” she asked coldly. NEXT: Crystal arrives at a startling deduction. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) all about the newspaper camera men were banging their flashlights. “Now I ask you,” she said, as we passed the deck underadiffused moon, “can you beat it? 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