The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 16

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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE DID q ALMOST GET RUN OVER BY AN T WHAT A PERSON NEEDS I$ \/ GEE! I'D JUST p ; AUTOMOBILE JUST NOW ? LIKE TO HAVE = - ‘ A RELLOW'S LIFE ISN'T SAFE ANYWHERE-| WE SHOULD NAVE ONE ON OnE, ag NEY DUTCHER duty ch s. Nearly everyone - BETWEEN DODGING STREET CARS TOP OF NIS NEAD — PEN setae Writer) | comntatentBney sabatly ererpone else AND AUTOMOBILES — ONE ON EACH SIDE OF Nis ON THE END, Washington, May 9—In such a|to find out whatever he could anJ re- BRICKS FALLING OFF WEA uae OF MY " ; it result. gossipy town as Washington, the im-| port back promptly—witaout OF BUILDINGS — N THE BACK - penetrable blanket of <ecrecy which | There have been all kinds of trouble NOLDUP AEN ~~ pie aatew 8 FINGER ‘over the sugar rates ever since the ieak. 8 FOLLOWING YOU — SO WWEN | WENT TO THE BALL PARK - 1 COULD STICK IT THROUGN A WOQLE In THE FENCE AND SEE THE GAME AN EYE ON THE END OF YOUR FINGER — WHAT FOR? wa; thrown around the tariff bill 1s cae. Saturally tse nig. sugar initers a phenomenon almost as interesting j y . Principally American producers to the casual omlooker as the Pro-! ooerating in Cuba, came rushing in ton the Republican Ways members | and if the leak was correct then and | the new duties had been fixed as re- ported the duties provided by the bill may be altogether different. | ‘The incident indicates why so much secrecy is maintained. If it were all threshed out in the open there prob- ably never would be any tariff bills. For instance. if word went out one day that the Republican members of the committee were considering rates m1 pottery and glass there would be 0 or 60 people taking a Washington- und train that night. determined to pressure. Life for ways and is committeemen would simply ome unbearable. riff bill is always a purely party position. Minority members can y get in their digs. generally futile, he hearings or on the floc> after | the bill is presented. Represent Industrialists The bulk of the Republican mem- bers are from industrial districts and one, naturally, has a perfectly 1 chance to take care of his home interests. Seven states— York. Pennsylvania, Massa- chusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan—produce 60 per cent of American manufactured products | and each has at least one Republican congressman on ways and means. The apparent reason why there are fewer leaks this year than ever before is that there hasn't been as much pressure for higher duties and ad- vance information. Most protected industries already have higher pro- tection than they used to dream of, having. as some Democrats would say. “reached the limit of their greed.” The more powerful the interests ex- erting tariff pressure, the more leaks. |The various sugar interests have ex- erted the most pressure and made the most noise this year—an: that’s where the leak came. visions of the bill itself are to mem bers of Congress and interested in- dustries. ‘The rates of the various schedules, pending actual introduction of the bill on the floor, have Leen exclusive- ly the property of the Republican members of the house ways and means committee which formulated them. ‘The bill has not been introduced as this is written, and the Democrat members of the committee can onl, uess what may be in it. Other Republican members of house have no information at all, and neither have the interests affected. to whom increased tariffs mean in- creased profits. Congressmen in the Dark Producing interests back naturally, have been writing th congressmen for confidential inform- ation about what would be in the bill with regard to rates on their sched- ules. Some of these congressmen have complained that turned down rather brutally, if not . bY ways and means mem bers approached for the information. “I thought he was a friend of mine!” more than one such congress- man has exclaimed. Old-timers on Capitol there was never a time before when there weren't more leaks from the Ways and means boys. although the Party in power has always tried to Preserve secrecy in framing its tariff bill. Some little flurry was caused by a Supposed leak to the effect that the sugar tariff was being raised. Appar- ently the sugar leak really leak. Tt was the only break, at any rai in a situation which found nearly every- one on the Hill asking nearly every- one else what they'd heard about the Hill say Because of her sudden discovery of how much it meant to her to belong to them, as “‘one of the family.” Crys. tal's hazel eyes were softly luminou and her lips trembling with a shy smile as she faced the living room full of Cherry's Thanksgiving guests. “Who's that girl?” a cracked fal- setto demanded, as the doddering old woman around whom most of the chairs were grouped pointed a gnarled forefinger toward the girl in the door- way. It was Cherry, perched on the arm of her grandmother's chair who an- Swered: “That's Crystal Hathaway, Grandma. One of the family now, You know. Bob's cousin. Don't you remember?" “No! I don't! Nobody ever tells me anything. Reckin all of ye'll be glad when I ain't a burden ye no more —me and your grandpa,” the cracked old voice retorted. “Come here, girl, and let Grandma have a look at ye. Hattie, gimme my specs. . . . My land, ye don't have to poke ‘em clean through my skull,” she scolded, as her dried-up spinster daughter adjusted | C the curved steel bows over her with- ered ears. Feeling horribly shy, but fortified by Cherry's matter-of-fact pro- nouncement, “‘one of the family now,” Crystal crossed the room and stood before Grandma Lane. “Tvve been to your house with Faith and Bob—don’t you remember, they were | Deep-sunken black eyes, still very bright, peered up at the girl. “’Tain't 50,” she contradicted. “Ain't never laid eyes on ye before. They was a fibberty-gibberty little female piece. with paint daubed all over her cheeks and black stuff on her eyelashes. Said her name was Di'mond or Crystal or some such high-falutin’ name.” “It's Crystal all right, Ma,” Aunt Hattie Lane interrupted, with a smile that tried to take the permanent pucker out of her mouth. “Wouldn't hardly a-knowed her myself, though. Sickness was real kind to you, Crystal, even if it did leave you with not enough meat on your bones for a cat's dinner. Reckon Cherry and Faith and that Tarver girl have been giving you a few lessons, too, on how to bait a mantrap.” “Please, Aunt Hattie—” Faith be- gan. “Still holding down the job of pour- ing oil on the family's troubled wa- ters, ain't you, Faith?” Aunt Hattie grinned, but her acid voice had be- come almost tender. “Well, Miss 1 | Hathaway—caught you a fel- t? The Lord knows you was hard enough last time I seen Pa here still brags about how you flirted with him. And not a mite o'g00d me tellin’ him he's an old fool oe that you was just practicin’ on im.” | NEXT: Rkvda under fire. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) 2 space. Here, on any night in the | Freckles and His Friends fir KEEPS US BUSY SUITERING Back AND FoRTA ANO FRECKLES.-- Boosy were Back IN SAN FRANCISCO WERE UNCLE LARRY AND FRECIAES LANE SEEN, SINCE ARRIVING FROM BROSOLULU weeees MARY PLANS WANE DEVELOPED DURING THAT @ TINE ames MOM’N POP START FoR THE RANCH, FRECKLES ° BETWEEN TAG ? . Tm Reacy WHENEVER A TRAIN FOR DEADEVE GULCH? } TWENTY MILES THEY AINT NO TQAIN UP THAR, / ON A MIDGET STRANGER. YOU'LL WAVE ‘T' TRAVEL THE 20 MILES ON ABURRO - Z LET THE ALLIGATORS REST, mute |! ' ~ ‘You an’ TO TE Feray BUILDING SAM AND TAKE CUPID OUTEER| ARE GONNA AMBLE CON @ UTrLe Exercise! THE ANENUE AT A MILD DA : TAKE A LAST Look AT Big BUILDINGS, STREET CARS AND ENERYTIING © NTA A CITY Loo, BECAUSE YOURE GOING WHERE TERE 1S NONE OF TIS, FRECKLES! Y HOE THS BABY KNOWS HIS STUFF, T. CAN'T HELD WENT USAID (AILO Pace, NOT WILO Race! YOURE GOING T THE GREAT OUT DooRS WHERE TINGS ARE JUST AS Across me eay wucae <> TREY'LL BOARD TUG LIMITED IF YOU DON'T MIND,” PAQONER, T'LLEAT MY MEAL RIGHT OFF 7 }| Week. you can see “the rose” peddling | her cheap candies and chewing gum. i IN NEW YORK New York. May 9.—Someone gave them the colorful title c* “breakers.” They're that nondescript army of Broadway hangers-on who remain year after vear, “waiting for the breaks.” That the breaks come to few, if any, should be patent. To cling. like barnacles, to their uncertain ship, they engage in all Sorts of tenuous rackets. They have no trade and if you ask them what they really are waiting for they might have difficulty giving . 1 explanation. ‘The fact is that the Broadway virus is in their blood. They just want to “hang around.” They're the people who would rather be a failure o Broadway than a big hit in the town ps @ come from. And they never go When tley get old, they become the Broadway characters. And the side streets are littered with them. There is one in particular, a disheveled, dilapidated old crone who is called “The Rose of Shubert Alley.” Shubert Alley is an areaway ad- Jolning the Shubert thester, which is variously a chorine She seems never to tire of watching the parade vf show girls come and go. So commonplace a figure is she that only the newcomers shake their heads pityingly. The rest toss her a few coins in exchange for some gum, and prance through the back door. The newcomers may, iike myself, wonder how “the rose” ever got there and why she stays, and stays, and stays.’ s* & There are ragged looking fellows who seem suddenly to slip out of no. where to open your taxicab door. Then they take your handout—if any. Watch them and you'll see them on ‘he fringe of hungry-looking crowds ratching the sons and daughters of fashion and fame hurrying to first night performances. There's another army that “steers” the taxis down certain thoroughfares; There are the street trinket mer- chants and the regular run of “pitch .nen.” There are women, always past middle life, who peddle all sorts of odd articles. ** * And so, they tell me, most of these came to New York t> “lick the big street.” They came with their eyes fixed on the stars. Their © | dreams were pinned to the idea that, somehow or other. they could be- @}come leading ladies and matinee idols. In some small town their Hi if § oe Phat If Australia could of the Japanese era, | Atlantic ocean, it year of the period | space between on January 1, 1929, | Great Britain.

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