The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 12

—— BY RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, May 28—Most Amer- {cans appear to be opposed to kill- ing bootleggers. Even when they try to escape and are shot down there are few to cheer the policemen and Prohibition agents who do the job. Congressman Charles H. Brand of Athens, Ga., is now convinced of that. It was Brand who, after voting dry all his life, arose in the house to assert that the killing of a fleeing Prohibition law violator by an officer of the law was actually murder. In saying that, Brand was defying the powerful Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who had publicly bestowed his benediction on dry congressmen who had applauded the killi f a sup- Posed Washington bootlecger by aj policeman and had referred to the | applause as the “healthiest sign he | had observed in a long time. Brand Is Surprised ‘ But Bishop Cannon has been left; almost alone, with his little group of | cheering congressmen, while nearly | everyone else who has had anything to say about it has piled onto Brand's side. Your correspondent found Brand, | a small, mild-mannered former su- | perior court judge, more or les: smothered with letters and news- paper editorials endorsing the stand he took on prohibition killings. He had received more personal congrat- ulations from his fellow members than the ordinary congressman i likely to get here in ten years of set | ice. Judge Brand is also considerably astonished at the fact that if one word of criticism has reached his Office. Naturally, he expected some. He was wondering what the folks down home would when he re- turned to Athens recently, now that he had spoken so frankly. But two clergymen stopped him on the street there to congratulate him, numerous ‘women assured him he was dead right and all his friends agreed. Brand concludes that most people are willing to agree with him that reckless and ruthless killings are too It had beer! arranged between them on Saturday afternoon, when George Pruitt bundled up the picture which he called simply “Crystal” to take it to his father, that George was to call for Crystal Sunday afternoon to drive her back to Stanton. Her work on The Press, under Harry Blaine as city editor, was to start early Mon- day morning, a prospect. which filled oa with nervous elation and fore- ing. She slept bad! night, for her mind was a welter of questions. What was Tony doing? There had been only a brief tele- Phone conversation between the chums, in which Tony had informed Crystal of Mrs. Ross's accident and of her own determination to nurse her through the week, until the very day before her marriage to Dick Tal- bot. How would Sandy Ross's return from New York, his presence in the house with Tony that last week of her life as Tony Tarver, affect the girl who was quixotically marrying a man she did not love? Would Tony suddenly realize that it was Sandy Ross she loved? And would such a revelation be devastating enough to force Tony into breaking off her mar- Tiage with Dick Talbot? But much as Crystal loved Tony she did not think of her during all those sleepless hours of Saturday night. It was only natural that she should think of herself and of George Pruitt, and of that it was not simply vanity and over-eagerness to believe he was going to say to her on Sun- day. He had warned her that he had something to tell her when the pic- that Saturday; ture was finished. She had known for days that his proposing to her de- pended upon his father's verdict as to the picture's worth. If old Lincoln Pruitt—recognized lover and conhos- much to pay for the kind of prohibi- tion enforcement they are getting now. He has not declared for any change in the existing la but he will if the killings continue. “Not one person in a million is satisfied with prohibition enforce- ment,” he say “I think whatever President Hoover's commission reports will have a profound effect on the tuation. What we need is some- thing which public sentiment will support. You can’t blame the people for not supporting the kind of en- forcement we have not Brand would like to see some “acid of prohibition enforcement, but es no hope of Congress provid- ra national referendum. The reason for that, although he did not bother to explain in the interview, is that the dry organizations oppose such a referendum and most con- gressmen dare not defy them, though many wish they could get rid of pro- hibition as an issue. ‘The Georgia congressman did not get up to shed a few tears over a pro- hibition killing. He arose to state his conception of the law on killings of men fleeing from arrest. He cited a number of judicial decisions to prove his gencral contention that “it would be a rape of the law and a flagrant miscarriage of justice to justify or excuse an officer for killing a prohib- ition violator in order to effect his arrest except, of course, when done in self-defense, Has Always Voted Dry Besides being now a bank president, Brand has been concerned with the law all ife. No one has success- fully contradicted his statement of the law as it applies to killing boot- leggers to prevent their escape. He began the practice of law in 1882 and served in the Georgia state senate in the following decade. From 1896 to 1904, by election, he was solicitor general in Georgia's western judicial circuit. The governor appointed him a superior court judge in 1906, 1910 and 1914, holding it until he was elected to congress in 1916. In his first charge to a jury many years ago, Brand dwelt on the evils of drunkenness and has never missed a chance to vote dry. seur of art—pronounced the picture great, or even “promising,” would George Pruitt, the artist, forget the man's desires for a wife and home and children, and start out alone on the long, hard road to fame? That he cared little for money success in art Crystal had intuition enough to guess. And if the verdict of his father was that he was free of com- mercial life, free to continue his career as an artist, would it not be insane of him to burden himself with a wife? On the other hand—she considered very deliberately—if the verdict of Lincoln Pruitt was thumbs down on art, then George Pruitt, forced to con- tinue in the commercial life he hated, would need her sorely as an escape, as a palliative for thwarted hopes. She could see him making a career of marriage and of life, creating Beauty out of necessity, since he must. always create something in order to bear the drudgery of office life. And she—Crystal Hathaway—might be the very mainspring of that life of the defeated artist. An adored wife. Plenty of money; a beautiful, shel- tered life and social position; a hus- band who had a genius for devotion, as his long allegiance to Faith Lane Hathaway testified. ‘But—do I love him?” Crystal's heart cried at last, sweeping aside ruthlessly all the pros and cons, which after all did not matter the snap of & finger beside the one big question. “Do I love him? Oh, I want to love him! I want to make him happy, because he has suffered from loving Faith and because he's kind and good and strong and tender. But— do I? Do 1?” ” NEXT—Lincoln Pruitt's verdict on the picture. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) $$$ rr NEA Service, Inc.) Dunn County District Court Opens Tuesday Manning, N. hegre ee Pune county opened y term of dis- trict court here at 10 a. m. today. Judge H. L. Berry, Mandan, is pre- siding. Jurors, ordered to report at 1 p. m. today, follow: V. T. Cupp, O. A. suepen. ne Owe Johnson, all of lanning; yton George, George Hamilton, Ralph Kopp, Sam ‘Krive- bok, Clifford LeRoy, and Walter Mer- rill, all of Killdeer; Magnus Fugel- seth, Anton Grenet, Jason Haggard, Jacob Huber, Kohn Kisse, C. C. Law- baugh, James McNamara, John Selle, Albert Strand, and Gottlieb Weide- meyer, all of Halliday; Otto Buehner, John Mittelstedt, Joseph H. Olson, Thomas B. Olson, Wallace Pelton, and Frank Ficek, Jr., New Hradec; @| Ole E. Dyrland and Lewis Dinehart, Emerson; L. H. 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