The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 12

| BY RODNEY DUTCHER t (NEA Service Writer) " Washington, May 31—The so-called power trust, which the Federal Trade Commission has shown to be engaged in newspaper financing and to be trying to fill the columns of others with propaganda, sometimes under- takes to put a newspaper out of business when it fights the trust, according to Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. He says Maine “is perhaps the most hard-ridden state by the power trust that there is in the Union.” “Up in Maine, if you want to go into business, see Insull of Chicago,” Norris says. “If you want to estab- lish a newspaper, sce Insull of Chi- cago. If you want to advertise in a newspaper, see Insull of Chicago. If you_want to run for office, see Insull of Chicago.” s* * Norris says Dr. Ernest Gruening went to Portland to establish the Evening News and met with an adver- tising boycott. “The story of the struggle of the | Evening News reads like a romance,” he says, “another place where the power trust existing in Maine, as I have outlined it, used its wealth, its | influence, and the old-established newspapers to try to browbeat and sie this man out of the newspaper eld.” Norris cites Gruening's charges that the power magnates, through personal influence and banking pres- sure, have dissuaded Portland's prin- cipal merchants, especially depart- ment stores, from advertising in the Evening News. “I think the proof exists,” Norris says, “that the connections of the trust, through its banking institu- tions, have called notes against busi- hess men who refused to follow their advice and decline to advertise in the Evening News.” ** * Norris does not pretend that the situation prevailing in Portland ts a common one in this country, but he points to it as what he considers an example of what the power trust can and will do when it gets its hooks in. “Insull owns the papers of Maine,” “The capital of Maine is Augusta. Mr. Wyman, vice president | of one of these large power companies ‘connected with the Insull group, the group that controls the papers in that state, owns the largest hotel in Augusta, Not only have the power interests boycotted the News by re- fusing to advertise, or let anybody else they can control advertise in its columns, but this man Wyman, who owns the largest hotel in Augusta, will not permit the Evening News to be sold by a newsboy tn the lobby of his hotel.” * ke * Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts and Senator William H. King of Utah supported the Norris charges, with warm praise for the Portland Evening News and its editor, Dr. Gruening, “Dr. Gruening,” Walsh said, “is in every sense of the word a liberal, in- dependent-thinking, high-class news- paperman, and in my judgment has been and is rendering a great public service by the type of newspaper he is printing and editing in the state of Maine.” Norris expressed the hope that the Portland newspaper situation would be investigated by the Federal Trade commission, which would open up a new line of study of the power in- terest’s attempt to mold public opinion in their favor. “The type of opposition which Gruening has encountered is intoler- able in a free country,” said Senator King, explaining that he was familiar with the situation. Crystal was too stunned to speak, ‘and George stumbled on, his voice thick and uneven with emotion. “I'm not much good at words, Crystal, so I can't hope to make you understand ‘what a quandary I was in yesterday, when I was on my way to Dad with the picture. I—knew it was good, better than anything I had ever hoped to do, without more long years of study and experiment. And yet, knowing that it was good I wanted to destroy it. I raised my foot once to thrust it through the canvas, but— T couldn't—quite—" Crystal got her breath then. Her protest was too vehement. “Destroy it? Of course you couldn't. Gcorge. ‘That would have been criminal, in- “I felt insane,” George interrupted grimly. “I knew so well that it was good that I knew Dad would think 80, too. I had made my bargain with him. If this picture was worthwhile in his eyes, I was to be given a small allowance, plenty for myself alone, to study in Paris and Rome. You un- derstand, Crystal? I—no_ longer wanted to study in Paris—alone.” ‘There was no stopping him now, Crystal knew. “When I first started the picture,” George went on, jerkily, “there wasn't ‘any battle. I simply wanted more than anything in the world to paint the picture you had made me sec. I ‘was on fire with it. Then, as the days ‘went on, and the picture grew, with you sitting there so still and serene— and beautiful, so like a crystal image waiting for—for love to fill you up, like—like dark red wine poured into @ decanter, I—well, you know—you IN NEW YORK | ® York, May 31—A skyscraper devoted entirely to the arts is rising in the mid-Fifties. And therein lies a tale of Manhat- ’s strange ways—for it is a tale of immigrant lad who lived to build a Loren it to his thwarted artistic bE - =e E ze William H. Silk was a typical New offspring—the child of Italians America. He was the one of four. He wanted but there was not give him an educa- He alti pace thus it came about that New gloomier brown-stone dwell- i must have known for days, my dai ling, that I—fell in love with you. Still Crystal said nothing, but she made no attempt to prevent him when his cold, trembling hands reached for hers and gripped them as they had gripped the steering wheel. ‘The picture was half finished when T realized what it would mean to me— to us,” George went on huskily. “I wanted to spoil it then in the making, but something stronger than my will had me in its grip. I had to paint for all I was worth, even though I was deathly afraid the picture would cost me—you. You see, darling, I couldn't ask you to marry me on the small allowance Dad was willing to make me, and yet I couldn't paint you badly in order to be able to ask you to marry me. Do you see?” Crystal, who had seen it all, from every angle, the night before, nodded gravely. He raised her hands then, and kissed them passionately, press- ing her lax fingers against his lips, ee hot cheeks, then bringing them back to his lips again. | At last he raised his head and drew a deep breath. She turned her face from him and closed her eyes. | “When I showed the picture to Dad I had already made up my mind that ‘no matter what he said about it, no matter if he thought it more than good, I would tell him that I had changed my mind, that I wanted to stay on in the business, because I—I wanted to be married, if the girl I loved would have me. But Dad—God bless him!—was bigger and finer than I knew. He's not just willing, he's anxious for you to marry me and go with me. Will you, Crystal, my dar- ling? Look at me, Crystal!” NEXT: A bewildering kiss. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) and to turn them into apartments. In doing so he started a fortune. ss & Noting the number of bachelors about New York, he got the bright idea of introducing “club hotels’— —taverns fitted with swimming pools, billiard rooms and reading rooms for men only. So came the Allerton string of hotels. He turned next to a hotel for “business women,” and hence the Barbizon. But in the Barbizon Silk stumbled upon still another idea. At the Sun- day concerts given there, he found that there was any amount of talent going about the great city without engagements. As any concert manager could have told him, thousands of young women drift into the city each year in search THE GuntPS—TWo BIRDS Wit THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ° ee MAY 31, 1929 THE GUMPS—TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE THAT? ACING THE, FLOOR CIKE ( W A COME TO ek - . DON'T (ou KNOw IT'S 3 OCLOCK? 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