The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) his health. pass for a young buck in his fifties. The house’s Indian is Congressman William W. Hastings of Tahlequah, Okla., who is 60 years old and might get by as no more than 45 if he wanted to lie about it. Curtis and Hastings appear to be the only two men in congress who boast Indian blood, though there have been others in recent years, includ- ing former Senator Robert L. Owen of. Oklahoma and the late Congress- 20 years. Incidentally, some of the vice president's Indian ancestors were Oklahomans. ** * Hastings, whose blood is also pre- dominantly white, was reared in the Cherokee tribe, one of the Five Civ- ilized Tribes, and was first educated at the Cherokee seminary. The Cher- okees had an independent government for 75 years, electing they own of- ficials without federal supervision. Hastings was sent away to study law at Vanderbilt university and re- turned to practice in the tribal courts. He often appeared in Washington working for Cherokee interests and was attorney general for the Chero- kee nation from 1891 to 1895. He wound up the legal affairs of the Cherokees after their political status had been changed by congress and when a new congressional district was created in his territory he de- teated the speaker of the Oklahoma legislature and a state senator, who opposed him for the job. Most Cher- skees, of course, voted for Hastings, but Indians are only a small minority in_his district. Hastings has now been here 12 years and has devoted most of his time to agricultural, Indian and high- way legislation. He is on the appro- driations committee. man Charlie Carter, who represented | an Oklahoma district in the house for | He believes the Indian wards of the country have been progressing as Washington, June 4.—Apparently it | rapidly as they can safely go. He takes an Indian to keep his youth and | points out that whereas there were 100,000 members of the Five Civilized The senate’s Indian, Vice President | Tribes, only 8000 of them are now un- Charles Curtis, is 69 years old, but for | der any kind of government super- all his occasional gray hairs he could | vision. Most of these tribesmen, he says, have been making pretty good Progress as farmers. “In 25 years there won't be any Indian problem,” Hastings says. “Eventually the entire Indian popu- lation will be absorbed into the gen- eral population. Down in Oklahoma, as between Indians and whites, the racial question never arises.” The congressman's oldest daughter is named Ahnawake, which means dainty or delicate in the Cherokee tongue. 2 * ® ! ‘rhe great fish mystery in the house goes unsolved. It might almost be described as a question of who put fish in the Fish bill. Aldrich of Rhode Island submitted a committee amendment to the tariff bill, exempt- ing poultry and fish from duty when brought into the country for exhi- bition purposes, which after the word “animals,” would insert the words “poultry and fish.” “Mr. Chairman,” said Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, “I move to strike out the last word.” Fish said he had appealed to the ways and means committee to let poultry in for exhibitions, but could not understand why they “have added fish with poultry” and demanded in- formation. “It was simply for identification purposes,” said Aldrich, who was quite warm and possibly a little sore. “As a matter of fact, there are no fish exhibitions, nor do we bring them in for breeding purposes,” insisted Fish, who appeared to be an expert on fish. The explanation may be that some- one marked the New York congress- man’s name down after a memoran- dum to insert the word “poultry,” just to show whose idea it was and that the fish found their way into the tariff bill inadvertently. WE HAVENT ANY TIME D LOSE, FRECKLES IF TAG 1S ON LIS WAY TO Bano WE BAD T Go \T twsT BE SOMEONE | CAN'T MAKE HIM BELIEVE You'RE NOT HOME - WE SAID NE HEARD YOu TALKING LISTEN! SOUNDS Line FOOTSTEPS = GE REAL QUIET=AND WE'LL Help Wanted | SUPPOSE MLL AEBBE HES SEEN TAG ~-) (@ IF WE COULD ONLY TALE 3 x WAVE To GO OUT AND ‘TEAL HIM SPEAK RIGHT UP AND TELL THEM EXACTLY TWNEVER GO TO WORK BEFORE NINE, WITH “THURSDAYS AND ANSWERING MY AD IN THE BADER. AT LAST Tt GOING To HAVE QNE THING OUT OF THIS {THEY HAVE AN ELECTRIC STOVE, XOASTER, DISHWASHER, VACUUM. CLEANER AND FRUIT SQUEEZER AND THE MEALS MUST It would be so easy, Temptation | rible. I knew before George kissed BE SERVED AT REGULAR said to Crystal Hathaway, as George Pruitt’s arms tightened about her for another embrace and kiss. George was taking her consent for granted, was already happily planning their iife together. If she just would say nothing for a little while, just per- mitted him to plan on and to kiss her now and then, the engagement would be an accomplished thing. George would return to his father that very night and triumphantly an- nounce that it was all settled—that he and Crystal were to be married and were very grateful indeed for his generosity in making their marriage and George's career as an artist pos- sible. As easy as that.... “I've always wanted to travel,” Crystal argued with her heart. “I re- Member saying once to Tony that when I came to die it will make me * sad and angry to think that there is & spot on the globe on which my eyes have not rested and my feet trod. I want to see all Beauty—natural and But she did not want his kisses. Not that George Pruitt was repulsive, me that I wasn’t in love with him, and now I've let him go on and plan not only our wedding but our honey- moon and years of our married life. How can I stop him? And do I really want to stop him? So easy to drift into marriage with George, to be loved and protected and given all the things I've ever wanted—except being in lo It was no use. She struggled in George's arms, pushed his face away from hers with sudden, almost cruel vigor. “Don't, George! Please—I've got to tell you—” she panted. The man’s arms dropped instantly, but very gently he took the desperate | fighting little hands in his and flat- |tened their palms soothingly between | his own. | “What's the matter, Crystal? Have I—kissed you too much? Frightened you a little by being too ardent?” he asked quietly, but in the faint light from the little dashboard bulb she saw that he had gone very pale. “I've been so—hungry for love, you know, dear, but I'll try to be more gentle—" MONEY I'VE DREAMED ALL EVERY OTHER SUNDAY OFF AND AN EIGHT- HOUR DAY BUT THEY REFUSED TO BUY ME AN ELECTRIC NEAT GRINDER SO t GAVE | LESMAN SAM HOURS. 1 W OR WASH WINDOWS OR \ . LINENS WITH ‘THURSDAYS OFF AND-WHAT DAY CAN 1 HAVE THE CAR? SCRUB or even faintly unpleasant to her.| “Oh, George!” she wailed, and (SECC, INE mans LEAVE She liked him, admired him more|turned her face sharply away. It pry jet meats HERE, AN’ Ni than any man she knew. But his | was going to be so much harder than oer tH’ ect coee So Heel ‘oy WHY ER-@H- (A HOME} SICK Boss, AN’ I'VE DE- BEFORE ‘Ya GO THOUGH, MA “@N’ THe: DERN CLEAR OP. SOMETHING “THATS BEEN Be : sis ee — kisses leit her cold, unmoved. “Maybe I'm just bad,” she re- proached herself angrily for having responded to his first kiss. “I was really eager to have him kiss me the first time. It was the same with Pablo Mendoza. I was in a fever until he had kissed me, and every time the fever burned lower until at last it must have gone out entirely, if we'd kept on. And that’s horrible, dis- gusting. . . . I wonder if all girls feel that aching curiosity and eagerness until they know what the first kiss do? It doesn't make it any less ter- will be like... . But what if all girls | ho she had feared. He was so terribly vulnerable, because of Faith, because of his homeliness, because of his gentleness. “You haven't been rough or—or ungentle, dear. It's just—just that—I—oh, George, it's so terribly hard to say! You didn't ask me, you know. If you had—” She drew a sob- bing breath that seemed to cut her swollen throat. “Don't you under- stand, George? I—I don’t love you; enough to—to marry you.” NEXT: Crystal bares her heart and pes. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) o——____________, IN NEW YORK |: ° oo been permitted to scan the diary of ® youngster who, for about two weeks, has been “on her own” in Manhat- tan. And it has told me a lot about the city of which I try to write—for, it seems to me, this may be a more-or- leas typical experience of a girl of New York, June 4.—Recently I have - intelligence who hg cat there. . city. Her shld Texas and. i “Quite by accident I dropped into background sound. Of course she | *,Testaurant here—and she was run- wants to “get along,” and she has a| “ing it. Funny, too, I should have certain amount of timidity, and even | Been ooking toe 5 Blact JP ite . re ‘J couldn’ most of Good sense, * “M8? PAS courage and | ine rooms I suv. And T didnt want | | to them than anyone I have known ; Since coming east. i se ® However—to get back to the diary. T have permission to use a few of the more impersonal extracts... . “Three days in New York. And al- ready I am living with an old Hous- tonian. Funny how small this town can be—and yet seem so large and foreboding. She’s a woman who ran a cafeteria in Houston and I used to zg Fes A gf Pranciscans live within a few | Used Blocks of each other, and I feel losct $e CDE had comme ‘from Dallas, 4 neces She has Wose nallane boo : a = LITTLE JOE | gonad and went nto basins, She ' Jet me rent a room in her apart- r ment. And it's amusing the way she looks after me—and broods like a bats another funny thing abou 5 ‘J it New York—the way people want want in, want to take me in’ ng gi The U. B. +.» "Seen as though I was sl- ture is going the Bouton ‘brew to one of the ed: : ect tear) fore of the New York ‘Telegram. het dtd ‘When I wert to present it, I saw a bo get Ieporter Who had worked in Housoa, pH cad pod ut there, be didnt know 1 was alive Pt SUST UP AN’ QUIT" 4 TH CLL EIRE ME, ORM PU2ZLIN' (RE -ESTERDAN WE HAD ONLY “TWO ALLIGATOR POOLS OUT IN THE ‘aR’ @n' Tay “Were's THRee - tow come ? Way, ( GUESS THaTs mv GOOD ENE TO ALL ci) BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES Babe ; By Martin | 4 Werauir WORRYIN' ag CAULT—-1 WAS OUT SANING he THEY NEARLY CRIED “THEIR, j exes out!