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PAGE TWELVE By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, May 25—The big legis lative fight in Washington right now 4s over the sugar tariff. All the rowing over farm relief Jegislation seems like so much shadow boxing, insofar as the ultimate re- sult is concerned. There is no great doubt anywhere that the administra- tion’s $500,000.000 farm measure, with- out the debenture scheme, will eventually become the law. The only other thing congress ts worrying about is the tariff and it is worrying about that a great deal. Tt is worrying all the more as ru- mors spread to the effect that Presi- dent Hoover is likely to veto the Re- publican tariff bill by the time the Senate gets through tacking on a few more higher duties. According to those who have the best reason to spread the word around, Hoover is opposed to any sugar A Real Baitle Pop-guns and cap-pistols are ex- Ploding on all sides over other sec- tions of the tariff bill, but the real artillery is booming at the proposed increase of the duty on foreign sugar to three cents a pound. ‘he attack is being led by American sugar pro- ducers operating in Cuba, with able support from the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, the Cuban government. the American Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, the American Federation of Labor and an assort- ment of other organizations and members of congress. On the other side are the beet. cane and corn sugar producers operating entirely in the United States, who will benefit by any increase, and members of congress from sug ducing states and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Sugar comes into the United States from Cuba, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, but most of it comes from Cuba. With a preferential of 20 per cent Cuban sugar no’ a duty of 1.76 cents a pound proposed three-cent duty it would pay 2.4 cents. The low tariff group arguments in- clude these: That the proposed rate would mean an increased “direct sugar tax” of about $150,000,000 a year for consum- ers in addition to the existing “tax” 000. That it would be in no sense farm relief, but would only benefit. Ameri- TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES) = | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MAY 25, lyzy I ee | THE GUMPS—READY! AIM!! FIRE!!! Sa AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THE HOOKS 'O rf THEY'RE THERE TO HANG CLOTHES ON@ AND THE IBEA OF USING THE DINING ROOM ABLE FOR A WORK BENCH TO BUILD A BIRD HOUSE — a WANT You To COME AND SEE E LATEST — WALK OUT HER N - fou PUT A_WET SowELe in erty TNE LAUNDRY BAG= AND RUINED ALL MY MONOGRAMED PILLOW CASES — TWEY'RE ALL MIL DEWED — AND ANOTHER THING — | WANT You To TAKE A LOOK can sugar manufacturers and lay a new burden on farmers along with other wage earners. That most beet sugar factories are highly prosperous and that the big- gest, the Great Western, pays 30 or 40 per cent on its common stock. Assail Working Conditions That the beet industry, as Presi- dent Green of the A. F. of L. says, employ yvomen, children and Me: can labor at indecent wages and un- der intolerable conditions of employ- ment.” That the carbonated beverage in- dustry, which has to preserve a top rate of a nickel on soda pop, would be “ruined” by higher priced sugar. ‘That the tariff commission reported to President Coolidge that a rate of 1.23 cents would give domestic sugar all the protection it needed. That the investment in Cuban sugar is largely American and that thi along with the interests of the Ci bans themselves, also should be pro- | tected. That further tax on Cuban sugar merely operates as a bounty for Hawaiian and Philippine sugar and that Hawaiian sugar furnishes the real competition for the beet interests. Domestic sugar producers have not 1S THAT A CINDER PATH YOURE MAKING # OR 18 THAT THE STATE HIGHWAY YOU'RE LAYING FROM Freckles and His Friends “What does Sandy see in her?” was the next question, the inevitable question that Tony Tarver's jealousy- swollen heart demanded. So she must Jook at Mary Burns again, look at her closely. But she could not conjure Mary Burns to stand beside Sandy Ross. She would endure that agony —seeing them together in the flesh— soon enough. “Please go away now, Sandy. Step aside,” she begged the mental image of him that stood before her. “But— don't go far away, Sandy. Come let me look at you, you Mary Burns! So you think you are going to marry my Sandy, do you? Who are you, to get | @ man like Sandy Ross? Do you real- ize he’s a famous aviator? That he holds the world's altitude record? ‘That- he's worth a million little silly, shallow-laughing, flirting things like you and me? You think you can get him because he’s never had a girl be- fore? Well, he had me! ... Oh, I was just his chum, was I? Well, you'll be Jealous of Sandy's chum before you die, Mary Burns! You'll try to tear me out of his heart, out of all the lives he's lived before he met you. But you won't! I'm Sandy, and Sandy's me! You couldn't tear San- dy Ross and Tony Tarver apart if you tried a thousand years, and cried a million years! Sandy and I are knit together by so many memories and 60 many days together that all the She was panting as she lay there on Sandy's bed, her eyes closed, her clenched fists beating upon her * i IN NEW YORK | o New York, May 25.—Just to show you what a difference just a few years can make—Hell’s Kitchen, which central point, where the drop of a hat, blossom with flower-laden push toad from the sun by the rs been so voeiferous, but they reply: MATS UP? WASNT GEE -POOR TAGALONG'S BEEN CHEER UP = IT é That foreign sugars have been GFacavons, “Ho TAGALONG ON THE DESCRIBED HIM: KIDNAPPED AND IT's dumped into the American market WAS EXPECTED To TRAIN AFTER ALL 2 eucoe vahotiia stir her cla below cost of ‘production ‘and. that ARQNE AT GAR O IT'S WIS METHOD FADLT«- HERE T WENT AND AAW — WELL sugar was selling at its lowest price in a nas SEEN OF GETTING ENEN || TOLD VAN EVERYTIING AGour SOON KETCH THIS history. ’ A) ‘E FOR = NAT COU! That if relief is not granted the TAKEN OFF OF ThE eine nin! oa T TRAIN WE WAS Peebles domestic industry may have to “sui TRAIN AT THE : 6 ON, AND WHEN HE'D render the field to foreign compet GET HERE--Z NENER THoveuT tion” in which case consumers migl:t WATER TANK, JUST FoR A MINUTE THAT vy, | witness a repetition of 1919-29 prices. BELOW THE BaR O : AN A strong American sugar industry, it STATION \is argued, is the cheapest insurance mE sate nf pinion against’ foreign control and h lhe cs FOREMAN + UNCLE Cuban Control Unshaken WARRY AND FRECKLES t ‘That, regardless of any change in duty, Cuba will continue to control GALLOP Back To the portion of American ae re- TRE RANCH WHERE quirements not supplied by domestic ARE * sources because of her preferential. del NGT By That the increase is too small to affect prices of the commercial foods, consuming half the annual American 7 Aes sugar consumption, including candy, ice cream and beverages. ‘ That the sugar farmers need re- ief. Hawaiian and Philippine sugar pro: ducers, subject to no tariff duty, ni MOM’N P OP turally subscribe to all this. But they reid rad no open part in the big a battle. $000 BD $50,000 \ /uAtuA!sioq000. \ |] THERE YOU ARE, wield ln " DO You BRAGG? WELL My | ( SHOW ME THE CoLOR)]| MISTER BRAGG.cAST swntingseetll het ba —. " CLIENT HASN'T STARTED | (OF YoUP Coin ee : ate Lies ‘ BIDDING YET. TLL WILL YOU TAKE IT OR OFFER $100,000 100.000. YEAH, Leave iT? CASH FoR PoP's, LET'S HAVE A CLAIM. LET'S SEE LOOK AT IT NOU TOP THAT breast, in which her heart hurt with an intolerable pain. But Mary Burns was still there, as plainly to be seen by Tony's closed eyes as if she were actually in the room. “How did you get him to no- tice you, Mary Burns?” Tony cried despairingly in her heart. “He never gave any other girl but me a second i look—and he didn't give that kind of S ~ B 3 % 4 _— rae? \) " look even to me! You frolicked os : = around him, ike a kitten, didn't you? , = IR You flirtes ith him, and made: him COPPER INT! TS, < laugh; made him want to snatch OAS JUST BecU ans . Z “ > 5% thy i ~ your little plump, feminine body and squeeze it till you squealed, didn’t you? And now I love him and it's too late. He's falling in love with you and I'm going to marry Dick Tal- bot... . Oh, go away!” But before the phantom Burns was banished, the bright little black eyes, with their curled-back, Han lashes, twinkled with triumphant. laughter, “She's laughing at me, Sandy,” Tony's heart wailed. “She's laugh- ing at how stupid I was, and at how clever she is. I never let you think ‘Adorable Tony! Beautiful Tony! Girl Tony!’ All the silly boys and men I met thought that. It seemed glorious that there was one man who was my friend, my chum, who didn’t want to kiss me... And all the time I loved you nad didn’t know. :.: + Why didn’t I know, Sandy; There never was anyone else who really counted beside you, at all, at all! And I didn't know. Everyone else knew, but me.” NEXT: Crystal considers mar- (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) aout WH wiewo Raise cain (€ SHE HADDA) (NOW LISSEN HERE, ARS, GUZ2LEI . - ( oe ari Ce ee eae 0 oeT THs Ba Reatize TH BiG EXPENSE AND a ” IWOUS MEASURES-| BLE I'VE GONE TO Ta GET You AN NOW TO GO HOME AN’ GIVE HER A BIG- oOsTRicH PLUME! _ Surerise — OPK emg a < aa ~ > oe Z No BUTS ABOUT IT! I've )(AN' OID t KICK? OH NO! f PROVED “THAT (' @ THoUGHT-|| JUST SMILED, ALL Because! FUL OND KIND HUSBAND — 1 ||OF YOU-AND “THEN FINALLY, Paid $8 COR Lone DisTaNce ||! CLIPPED “TH PLUME OFFA CALLS FROM Sat, an’ $4,671] TH’ BIRD WITH AN EKE— FOR “TELEGRAMS —THEN (T AN HERE (TIS! COST ME $15 TA Have THAT A FOOL GIRO SHIPPED “To Us! WELL, THATS VERY KING Cog Won NEeDiT = ZB scendants of such gangsters as made up the Gopher Tooths, the Hudson Dusters and the Forty Thieves. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, in the 20, or more, blocks which com- prise Hell's Kitchen there are now 5000 youngsters—and no gang shoot- ing has been staged there within my recent memory. Which makes it look as though we would some day have to refer to “the kitchen” as “the nursery.” The Big T ae e own gossip... . When a statue of Nathaniel Hawthorne was unveiled here the other day. by his Breat-granddaughter, it was discov. ered she was Una Hawthorne, a chor- ine in a Broadway musical show. . . . Which goes to show that you never can be sure of the third blond from the left. And a publishing house announces that a theme song will be issued in connection with a there o nD Th ONLY e 8 Z & i it i i ; aul ti April Zatti eiglit A .