The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 12

era) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE_ By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, May 4.—T’he one thing | certain about the prospective a: cuitural legislation is that everybody | isn’t going to be satisfied ! ‘The chances al: re that whatever program is enacted will require a considerable period to demonstrate its sueces is suggested by President Hoover is message to congress. Hence there probably will be quite a little moaning and howling for some ime to come. No one is rubbing it in very much, but the old farm bloc appears to be taking the last sound trim- ng pushed administratic cede to the fi more. and nothing Farm Blec The agministration’s mislaught against ee export debenture plan which was bound to be decisive, parently has squelched the f bloc’s last feeble struggle. This year finds a complete reversal of the sit- uation in previous years when fi relief was on the legislat gram. Both houses of cot substantial majorities, twice the old McNar: augen bill with its equalization tee. Twice Coolidge vetoed it and now it isn’t even men- tioned any more. The two largest national far organizations have brought forward their separate specific remedies and cach has been turned down, not by | congress but by the white house.! The American Farm Bureau Federa- tion stood behind the equalization fee and the National Grange sponsored the debenture plan. Of course a majority of members of the old farm bloc are left in a somewhat peculiar position, which would be much more embarrassing to them if they were not such hardened politicians. Only a year ago they were all hollering for the equaliza- tion fee and | insisting that nothing else would do. Then all of them ex- cept Senators Norris, LaFollette and Blaine dashed into the front ranks -of the Hoover parade last summer and fall, assuring the country that all the farmer need do was to trust implicitly in Hoover—the most staunch enemy of the equalization fee. The election result proved either that the farmers believed them or that they didn't want the McNary- Haugen bill especialiy, or both. If Hoover had lost a few farm states to Smith the agricultural legislation sit- uation would now resemble a panic. Some of the farm bloc boys ex- pressed mildly a painful surprise at} the Hoover message to congress on the ground that it didn't go far! enough. But there's nothing they can do about it, apparently. And in view of the circumstances they don't ¢| growers of the crops affected in- ; Nobody knows what will happen if : | $500,000,000 revolving fund is provided PooR MARY — THE ROBIN — AFTER BUILDING A WONDER FUL NEST- YAS LOST IT'S MATE - WHAT wilt POOR ROBIN DO NOW ? Youn G = HANDSOME = ( HIS POCKETS LINED WITH OW WELL ~ ; VRUPPOSE SOME FLAPPER Witt BE COMING ALONG SOME DAY = AND LIGHY ON MR CARR'S SCREEN DOOR = AND LIKE A FLY- KEEP BUZZING AROUND ‘TILL. SNEFINDS*A HOLE To CRAWL THROUGH, THEY'LL FIND A WAY— 5 WHEN ‘THERE'S f, A FEATHERED a We lo 2 dare y very much either. They reall cepted defeat when they sup- ported the Hoover-Curtis ticket. No one ts in any position to show that Hoover's program isn’t the ‘best one or that it won't eventually be the helpful to agriculture. Of me experts have serious doubts about its effectiveness, but Hoover himself was dead right in asserting that any real effort would have to be experimental. The strongest feature about the equalization fee, as compared with measures proposed subsequently to its demise as an issue, was that it represented an attempt to control production. The theory was that if ¢ ed their acreage they would proportionately increase the cost of disposal of surpluses and only soak themselves. The theory was that they would have sense enough to realize that in advance. Eliminates Control Feature But there is no control feature in the administration farm bill. That problem will have to work itself out. farm prices rise and a great increase in planted acreage follows, but there is reason for a strong suspicion that GET OUT! WwHaT ANMAT DID YyouR it won't be anything very nice. One also hears the suggestion in INOULD 746S UNCLE PoP “TELEGRAPH congress that stabilization is bound to create losses and that even if a WILLIE HERE TAINKS IM. STRINGIN' HINA SHONN IAN THE TELEGRAM, that sum is only about four per cent of the farmer's annual income. Some, contrarily, believe the government's farm board may even show a profit. Still another argument undisposed of, however, is to the effect that the ben- efits of higher farm prices will be shared by all producers, whereas the costs or losses of stabilization will be shared only by members of coopera- i who will be thus at a disad- ntage. “I have no confidence,” says Sen- ator Howell of Nebraska, “that a vol- untary co-operative system resulting in part and not all of the producers paying expenses can be permanent.” Amounts to a Subsidy The export debenture scheme would be virtually a direct subsidy. Ex- porters of farm products would be paid either half or the full amount of the tariff duty on their commodity in the form of treasury certificates good for the payment of import duties. There is some argument whether the discount necessary to make these cer- tificates salable to: importers would be sufficient to endanger the rest of the tariff structure. Howell is one who thinks it would. But the main objection to the debenture plan is that it has not been rigged up with any production control feature. The equalization fee had its faults and perhaps its evils, but most of the farm bloc leaders are now convinced that what they are going to get will FR} AZZEO BY MOM BECAUSE HE CANT MAKE 0 way-0u, $5000 WITH GEORGE ( V-va-VES- AND LAWYER HAWK XES (N COPPER. WE'LL AND BUYING THOSE PRETEND TO COPPER CLAIMS INVEST IN THE ? DEAL WITH AFTER THESE CLAIMS 4M BUT I'D RATHER LET MY THINGS WITH POP GUNN MYSELF. YOUR DLANAS: ‘TO GET HIN TO BITE ON THESE COPPER CLAINS, KNOWS T'VE MADE DOUGH FOR TEN VEARS WE'VE BEEN SAVING THAT MONEY FOR A HOME AND NOW YOUVE “THROWN 1T AWAY IN COPPER. THAT'S THE WAY MR. SANTEE AND LEC TOWNSEND : LOST ALL THEIR MONEY. LEE'S WIFE IS TAKING IN WASHING .1 SUPPOSE IF BRAGG WAD OFFERED YO SELL YOU THE BROCKLVN BRIDGE YOU'D HAVE ROUGHT IT not be “something just as good.” ae Harry Blaine had promised to tele- phone Crystal on Monday in regard to the temporary job he hoped to land for her on his paper, The Press, but Monday passed without a word from him. George Pruitt arrived promptly ; at 2 o'clock, to work on the picture for which she was serving as a model —George insisted that it was not merely a portrait. During the third short rest pe- ried for both artist and sitter, Pruitt started toward her impulsively, a strange expression on his kind, ugly face. “Listen Crystal—” he began with husky urgency, then checked himself with an obvious effort. “No —guess I'd better not say anything till the picture's finished. . . Ready again? This light is too gorgeous to waste.” The old Crystal would have pal- pitated and fluttered her lashes and him, with prettily clasped hands, to tell her what he meant. The new Crystal, who had been born out of suffering, sat very still and pondered, without elation or van- ity, just what it was that George Pruitt wanted to tell her when the picture was finished. Tony, Cherry, even Nils had teased her about George * Pruitt and Harry Blaine. Cherry's remarks, not untainted with malice, had pointed out the eco- nomic advantages of a marriage with the son and heir of Lincoln Pruitt, president of the largest wholesale hardware company in the middle ‘west, as opposed to the expectations of a girl marrying a salaried reporter. But Crystal, afraid of stumbling into one of the pitfalls of her old life, as an unpopular girl trying desperately to get a man, had refused to consid- er the possibility of George Pruitt's falling in love with her. It had been easy to tell herself that he belonged to Faith, that he was essentially a that not even But now she could not blink the fact that the first crisis of her new life was almost upon her. Love— not the high flame which ith Lane had unintentionally kindled in his heart, but real love for was to be offered to her finished this picture. len By Anne Austin ™ So" WORRIES. NHEN SHE ‘SOILLS, THE BEANS money. It was no secret that she had tried to do that very thing,.and that her flamboyant beauty had failed in competition with her sister's quiet serenity and goodness. It was one of the things for which Cherry had never quite forgiven Fait | “Well, I haven't tried,” Crystal told | herself. “But even if I haven't, | it would be terrible to hurt him, | He's so kind, so good, so real, The woman he loved and married would ; be wrapped in a cloak of tenderness | and devotion for the rest of her days. It should be easy to love George, but —Faith didn’t. I wonder—” Cherry came in then, with little Hope pattering after her, clutching for the hem of the brief skirt which was almost out of her reach. George laughed and there was no more time for heart-searching. And the next day before she had arrived at any conclusion at all as to her feelings for George Pruitt, Harry Blaine's de- layed telephone call came, filling her with such joyous anticipation of a new work life that there was small place in her thoughts for George Pruitt. " NEXT: Harry Blaine in a new role, (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) OO | Lowden Is Back | ° ° WELL, LETS GO OUT aN’ LoOK TH’ HERD OVER — SOME VISITORS ARE COMIN’ “T’DAY AN’ | WANNA Be sure ENERY THINGS OKAY! i S A CINCH, SINCE Ya TOLD ME “HEY Eat Most ANYTHING f Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Tllinois and recent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, had | is shown as he arrived in New York the other day after four months in Europe. A number of Bismarck people are putting cottages this spring. Come up and let us you some desirable lots. Very desirable a screened in porch can be built HUGH H, MeCULLOCH GEO. H. BALA. Mgr., Wilton, N. D. is : z Owner, Washburn, N. D. “4