The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE’ FRIDAY, MAY. 24, 1929 PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES | THE GUMPS.-THE EMPTY GAME BAG saps } ROUBLE - JHE OLD TRAPPER= RETURNING FROM THE TROUBLE — WOOKS BAITED — SET TRAPS FOR IT — 3 “AND ‘THEN TO MAVE SO LITTLE. OF IT = - AFTER LOOKING %O0 MARD FOR: (T <= You MAVE TROUBLE ? By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, May 24.—The Hon Smith Wildman Brookhart, senator from Iowa, is never mentioned now- adays without use of his middle name. Brookhart is not the brainiest man in the senate, but he has a way of going after firmly entrenched per- sonages, institutions and selfish in- terests which is no more remarkable for the reckless spirit which Brook- hart displays than for his high per- centage of effectiveness. Quite a few persons have learned that it isn't safe to monkey with Brookhart, who never takes anything lying down. Senator Dal F, Steck, Brook- hart's Democratic colleague, who was elected by an anti-Brookhart political combination, found that out a couple of years ago when he charged that Brookhart was a paid lobbyist 1n con- nection with a presidential appoint- ment. By the time Brookhart fin- ished with him, Steck had lost most of his tail feathers and had with- drawn the charge. Attacked Fess, Too Of course Brookhart made Sena- tor Simeon Fess of Ohio look rather silly the other day after the ill-con- sidered Fess letter in which Brook- hart was called a “pseudo-Republi- can” and a marplot. But that hap- pens to Fess almost automatically whenever anyone in the senate un- dertakes to chastise him for cause. Brookhart shines when on the of- fensive and that’s almost all the time. With equal fervor he assails the bankers, the Republican party, the president and the movie indus- try. The conservatives say he's un- couth, but that doesn’t lessen the force of his wallops. It’s true that he was born in a log cabin some 60 years ago and never went to college, but he is ordinarily a quite pleasant and amiable person, with a war rec- ord covering the Spanish-American struggle, Mexican border service and the World war. He is rugged and strong, short and chunky and his smile resembles that of a man who is about to commit a long-anticipated murder of vengeance. Brookhart was on the administra- tion side during the last campaign, but it didn’t last long. Before the conventions he was advocating the nomination of Senator George W. Norris. Now, in farm relief debate, he has become one of President Hoo- ver's bitterest critics, charging that he was misled into making those many speeches to Hoover for the] Mi It became a heartbreaking game that Tony Tarver played there in Sandy Ross's room. with the uncon- Scious, unsuspecting Mary Burns as her opponent. “Mary Burns didn't know him when he made that little three-shelf book- rack in manual training class,” said Tony Tarver, and hugged the book- rack to her breast. “I gave him this farmers last year. His bolt from the Hoover farm program was even more spectacular and vehement than his campaign for the party candidate. All along he has kept on digging up dirt in the Republican party’s major standing scandal, the southern pa- tronage system, showing how G. O. P. politicians in that area have profited handsomely by distribution of federal offices awarded for nothing more than their services at national con- ventions. President Hoover is under- stood to endorse heartily the work of Brookhart’s patronage committee, but its popularity among other Repub- lican politicians is not so much. Another example of Brookhart's propensities for hell-raising is his determination for reforming the movie trust. He is pushing a bill to prohibit blind booking and: block booking of movie films, arbitrary dis- tribution of films to theaters in which producers arc interested and other methods now in use. His announced purpose is to preserve “the remaining vestige of competition” in the indus- try and create possible new compc- tition. Brookhart charges that Will Hays, former chairman of the Republican national committee, was employed as “a ‘fixer’ to protect the industry against any sort of reform or regula- tion through public action.” Hays never did anything to improve the moral tone of the movies, Brookhart says, but has surrounded himself with politicians to engage in continuous warfare against reform measures in congress and state legislatures. He charges, in effect, that Hays has been helpful in keeping the government rom enforcing the law against the ‘Motion Picture Trust.” Charges Attempted Monopoly ‘The other real purpose for which Hays was employed,” he says, “was to end the competition existing among the producers and distributors to pave the way for the monopolization of the entire industry, including the exhibition field. So successful has been the-plan that the producers and distributors of 98 per cent of the films used in this country are now joined in an offensive alliance through the Hays organization. “No combination ever before repre- sented such absolute control of an in- dustry in the economic history of the United States.” Inasmuch as the principal movie magnates are generally staunch Re- publicans, that’s another thing that Mr. Fess and his friends have against Brookhart. After a while she forced herself to lie quietly, with eyes closed against the room which was too full of Sandy. Surely it could not be so very wrong to think of Sandy for a few minutes, in this new way. Her love was en- titled to that luxury, for afterwards if she could manage it, it must be bur- ied so deep that no one, least of all Sandy, could guess that it had ever n. book, and this one, and this one! | bee This is my algebra, stuck away be- tween his ‘Lady of the Lake’ and his United States History. See, Mary Burns? My name is in it! Look—An- toinette Noami Tarver, 1614 Myrtle Street.’ You didn't go to school with him and get your things so mixed up with his that there was no telling which was which!” But the girl who was not there seemed to laugh, that shallow, easy little laugh that had lacerated poor Tony's nerves for an hour and a! half that afternoon, as Mary Burns drawled and chattered about herself and Sandy Ross. “You didn't help him find these funny, foolish, worthless little pebbles nd rocks when he was making his collection of minerals, you Mary Burns!" Tony defied the girl who was not there. “You don't really know him at all, not my Sandy! You just know a six-foot-tall young man who's famous and who looks like a good catch. You haven't played with him and studied with him and grown up with him, as I've done, Mary Burns! What right have you to Sandy Ross?” And then all the Sandy Rosses who had lived in that room—the ten-year- old Sandy, and the twelve-year-old, and the lanky fourteen-year-old in his first long trousers, and the six- teen-year-old Sandy in the oil- smeared khaki overalls of an automo- bile mechanic laughed at her, and she flung herself across his bed, upon the RAPER ETE ttiel i i Sandy. She called him up before the eyes of her heart and looked at him deliberately—the grown-up Sandy, today’s Sandy, not the ten- year-old or the twelve-year-old or any of the other Sandys she had known so well. “Why, you're a man grown, my darling,” she marvelled. “You're nearly twenty-five years old, and I'm twenty-one. Let me look at you as if I'd never known all the other Sandys. How tall you are! Six feet one? You mustn't slouch, my Sandy. Straighten your shoulders, darling! That's the way! And don't grin like that! Ah, yes, do! Did you know I love your grin? And your funny, speckled eyes, all grey and green and brown. And your sand-colored hair, with the lock that's always in your eyes. It always was falling down and getting in your eyes, wasn't it, Sandy? And I love your long, lean face all brown with flying in the face of the sun. Did you say, ‘Yeah’ Sandy? You always said ‘Yeah’ and grinned, San- dy. Oh, Sandy, Sandy, why didn't I know? Why didn't you make me see you grown-up, & man—not my boy-chum any more? Why didn’t you, Sandy? Was it because you didn't want me to love you? Did you want a Mary Burns, not me?” NEXT: A prayer of despair. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) suddenly by “the neighborhood blues.” It seems that the somewhat bois- - | terous German cafes which NE To GET Back ) Harey— TO TWE RANCH AND eteortl WATS ALL |} HAVE IN THIS HOUSE s ALL RIGHT, UNCLE WANT To SEE. HE ABOUT MY COPPER CLAIN? WHY 1 WAS. SUST ABOUT VO SELL OUT ‘TO BRAGG. SIGNED ANY PAPERS YET-EH? 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