The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, June 5.—The futility of declaring the Democratic party a) corpse after each presidential elec-! tion and seeking to bury it has never | been better demonstrated than it is being demonstrated in Washington right now. Your correspondent has just sat in the new furniture over at the vastly expanded national headquar- tors of the party and very swell fur- niture it © comfortable that if you rit down suddenly you'll bounce. It} ts recommended to all good Demo- crats who desire to revive their faith in the party’s future that they come and see all this handsome walnut and tan leather—and sit down in the chairs and lounges. More impressive than the furniture and the space, however, is Mr. Jouett (pronounced “Jewett”) Shouse (pro- nounced “Sh-house"), the new chair- man of the executive committee, whose job is to keep the party func- tioning and functioning cohesively be- tween campaigns. He's Hard at Work Most impressive about Mr. Shouse was the fact that your correspondent found him working, with two secre- taries and his coat off, on Memorial Day, when nearly every other office in Washington was closed. The rea- son was that Mr. Shouse had work to do, but it was more or less surprising to find a politician, so far in advance of an election, plugging away on a holiday. Mr. Shouse does not appear to be an “easeful executive.” One may sympathize with Mr. Shouse because he has the Democratic party on his hands, but no one need sympathize with the Democrats because they have Mr. Shouse. Mr. Shouse is not going to talk a great deal, will not issue many pub- lic statements and will not attempt to glorify Mr. Shouse, facts which dis- cerning Democrats will appreciate. He will work in close contact with leaders in congress, but will devote himself mainly to organization. In common with most other Demo- crats, he has not observed anything in the first months of the Hoover administration designed to diminish Democratic hopes. He apparently considers it too early to join with others in the party who publicly as- sert that the Republican tariff bill | Hoover Prohibition enforcement pro- gram appears to be non-existent. There will be time enough, Shouse appears to suspect, to talk about s. But he comes from and knows the grain belt, rts confidently that: epublican party has largely if not wholly failed to meet the agri- cultural situation. The results of the Hoover measures will speak for themselves, but the measures and means provided in the Hoover pro- gram are not what the farmers ex- pect and want. The farm issue Is very far from dead. Wheat is now selling lower than the cost of pro- duction, lower than it has been since 1914, and it is worth remembering that the price the farmer gets is 15 per cent lower than the price quoted at Chicago.” Mr. Shouse appears to have few inu: as to the difficulty of the job of being the party's boss welder. He knows that although there are many serious differences in Repub- lican ranks, the G. O. P. has had a stronger party discipline and that most Democrats are individualists. Nevertheless, the reception of his a} pointment within the party has pro- duced no discordant notes and he feels pretty certain of large co-opera- tion, A Tactful Executive He is 50 years old, tall and looks as intelligent as he appears to be. He isn't the table-thumping type of ex- ecutive, but rather the sort one might expect to be chosen for a job requir- ing both tact and decision. He lives quietly here at the Mayflower hotel, which is the unofficial hostelry of the Democrats. There's a smart reception hall at the new Democratic headquarters. large private offices for Shouse and his secretary, a still larger room for the executive committee, where the committee will meet once a month and which will be used as a lounge by visiting Democrats in between times. Further along are offices for a pub- licity department, a research depart- ment and a woman's division. There are about ten offices in the suite and @ large filing room elsewhere. In the past, the party's Washing- ton headquarters has been manned by only two or three persons. In the future the peacetime strength will be about a dozen workers, who, according to Shouse, will operate along business will be a bad boomerang and that the } lines. When Crystal had spoken, George's | stand I wanted to marry you, George, body sagged as if the life had sud-| wanted to almost enough. So did denly gone out of it. His hands were | Faith. Because you're—a very won- so limp that her own were no longer | derful person, so much bigger and imprisoned between his palms. She finer and stronger than Iam. But— drew them away, very gently, but! we don't belong together so inevit- she might have snatched them an he would not have known. out a hand and reversed the k starter, upon which he had crashed down a foot, chugged twice, then was still. abiy that nothing under God’s. sun jcould have kept us apart, once we'd Suddenly his body grew taut, and| met. It’s not to be like that for me, before she knew what he was about to | George, or I'll have missed the biggest do he was bending toward the dash-| thing in life. And to have married board, switching on the ignition of the | you would have been to cheat you of Just as impulsi je thrust | that biggest thing.” As he was silent, The | she groped in a long pause for con- . “George, Rhoda Jon- ‘on has just became engaged to Ben Grayson. It was a revelation to see “Please, George!” she begged, tears | them together. making her voice rough. i—So | solutely. And they know it deeply. awfully sorry—and sad. Don't make }I want that same sort of belonging. it harder for both of us by refusing to talk. I want—” She would not have recognized his | voice as he answered roughly: “What's the use, Crystal? I've loved again and failed again. I shan't try another time. Might as well acknowledge that for some reason—pretty obvious to others, I guess—I'm not a man a ‘woman can love. That's about all there is to be said, isn't it?” “No!” she cried. “Because it’s not true! You've only asked two women to marry you. Two failures mean Rothing. Don't you think I was tempted, that I could picture how wonderful a husband you would have been? You'll be glad 1 didn’t marry George, when you find her, wherever she is—” “It isn’t rot, George,” she pleaded “Why, I'd want to,die right now if I didn’t believe that somewhere my man is waiting for me—” “Do you have to talk about him now?” he asked savagely. “Yes, I do! To make you under- Cherry and Nils belong—” George Pruitt snorted. “Oh, I know Cherry flirts and makes @ little fool of herself,” Crys- tal conceded eagerly, “but threaten her with the loss of Nils and she's wild. She'd murder for him, lie for him, steal for him—but she won't give up flirting for him, until his pa- tience is exhausted and she is about to lose him. Faith and Bob—” ‘or God's sake!” George groaned. ‘I wasn't to say that Faith and Bob belong,” Crystal assured him. “I'm not so sure they do, for he loves her a little less, at least, than she loves him—which isn’t perfectly be- longing. There don't seem to be many of those perfect, inevitable mat- ings, but I want one! If it comes, I must be free. If it never comes, I hope T'll have the courage to go lone- ly to my grave. So—please thank me for not marrying you, George—for your own sake! NEXT: A new dawn. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) oT | INNEW YORK ° e ° New York, June 5.—Visitors, I note, are generally amazed to find that the Sabbath in Manhattan is even as the elsewhere. With the exception of such films as might be found in most modern Main streets, a few concerts and various vaudeville concoctions, the playshops are slammed tight. One may go to Luna park, the Zoo or the songfests. But the theater doors are as dark as blue law town and nightclub- has ended about the hour of an mass. years efforts have been made evade the Sunday laws. The con- LITTLE JOE 1 certs have been made to paraphrase vaudeville or the music shows inso- far as possible. The leading names of the revues are borrowed and the stars twinkle in their own sweet way. x * * But just now the spirit of rebellion stirs. 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