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

MHOTHO LIP Eexnvoemeneoanneae eee a@sacea — By RODNEY DUTCHER | (NEA Service Writer)- | ‘Washington, June 28—You could never guess, without being told, why the house decided to place a tariff on snake skins and to continue to give angostura bitters a preferential rate over other bitters. Snake skins have recently come to be used for shoes, handbags and other leather articles, as well as women's hats, clothes, collars and cuffs. Angostura bitters have come to be widely used in the making of cock- tails and are consequently sold in} many delicatessen stores, although they are put up and advertised as a medicine good for the stomach. The Keystone Reptile Tanners, Inc., | led the fight for the snake skin tariff and managed to get a 25 per cent ad | valorem duty on finished and dressed | snake leather for other purposes than use in making footwear, snake leather for that purpose being taxed only 10/ per cent. Huge Quantities Are Imported ‘This duty goes for all kinds of snakes, lizards, pythons, boa con- strictors and other mean animals} whose hides are used for wear or adornment. It was estimated that | about $6,000,000 worth of this leather ‘was being imported each year. The main sources of supply are in| “Indian, Asiatic islands and northern! Africa. It was contended before the ‘ways and means committee that when one of the large American firms went | into the reptile-importing business last year foreign reptile tanners re- duced their prices here 25 or 20 per cent, indicating that they had been gouging our consumers. American snakes have not yet been developed to the point where they folded, so nearly all snake skins now being worn are brought in from In- dia. One learns with pride, however, that the American snake may yet demonstrate his utility. Experiments are being made on snake farms in Florida, Texas and Oklahoma with 100 per cent American rattlers and moccasins to see if they can’t make themselves as valuable as the Indian variety. Similar experiments are be- |. ing carried out on frogs. Of course, as long as they must de- pend on India for snakes, our own reptile tanners do not want any duty on raw snake skins, but only on the cured ones, Inasmuch as our snake farms have not yet developed snakes which can be guaranteed not to shed after skinning, no representatives of that infant industry have come to Washington to demand protection. If the experiments succeed the next tar- iff revision doubtless will produce a battle between the snake raisers and the snake tanners. Now to jump from snake skins to angostura bitters: It will doubtless be interesting to all users of these bitters and instruc- tive to others to learn that they do not contain angostura bark but are only named from the town in which they were first made, Angostura, Ven- -ezuela, A representative of another bitters importing company went before the ways and means committee and pro- tested because in the present tariff act, it is provided that all alcoholic bitters except angostura bitters shall pay duty of $5 a gallon and angos- tura bitters only $2.60 a gallon. Mr. A. Edward Wupperman, repre- senting J. W. Wupperman, Inc., re- plied that their angostura bitters were the most expensive bitters in the world and hence did not compete with American bitters as other imported bitters did. They Aren’t Made There Now Once these bitters were manufac- tured in the place of their birth, An- gostura, but the factory was moved over to Trinidad because of Venezu- ela’s turbulent politics and her tend- ency to impose high taxes. The bit- ters kept their name, of course. The ways and means committee, whose tariff bill was passed by the house, accepted Mr. Wupperman’s ar- gument that classing other bitters with angostura bitters would provide new cheap competition for American bitters. And it saw no reason why angostura bitters should be taxed $5 @ gallon like the others. Thus congress magnanimously re- frained from increasing the cost of stomach aches and cocktails. TRIBUNE’S P HERE ARE A LOT OF WINDOWS ‘THIS HOUSE - YOU KNOW — ARo THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929 AGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES =. | nisin NOW-= DON'T BE GETTING FRESH WiTH THAT A\ ~ Herel IR GUN. AND PEOPLE WITH EYES “THAT DONT WANT THEM PUT OUT, EITHER] 1. WOULDN'T SHOOT AT THAT LITTLE BIRD YF I WERE You — aw! NE'S CHASING ALL THE OTHER BIRDS AROUND HERE — THE GUMPS-— BANG! WELL- BE A GOOD SPORTSMAN — DON'T SNoor HIM WHEN HE'S ir WALKING ~ '™ GONNA WwAYT ‘TILL HE STOPS | YESGA=TLAGALONG RIM PLINE BLIG EATER... 7ASTE THOSE COPS “AND A POTATOES @ Lick UP “ENERY SCRAP Too, KNOB HILL MANOR 1S JUST AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY. Nou'nE UP ABOVE EVERY- THING, WITH FRESH AIR AND FASCINATING LANDSCAPE BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON WHERE TO BUILD DON'T FAIL TO LOOK OVER KNOB HILL MANOR. 17'S THE DARLINGEST NEW TT SEEMS LIKE WE WANT A PLACE WITH A ‘THE VIEW AT KNOB MILL MANOR WE ARE WA‘ iG. AS SIMPLY. DIVINE.vou vent Seum atten te was EVENING ON STEER. LF THS VIEW. 1 GET SO \S SCENERY 1 NEVER WANT TO SICK OF SEEING SEE THE ALPS. THIS WOULD BE 4 THE SAME BRICK SUPERIOR SOMEBODY . WALL IN THE & HOVE SENT US TO AND THEY'VE ALL au24aveaenr Qurks;z BARR PETS wOO*RZUPZzSerO WEQEZayrr Bode Colin Grant shrugged, then hid the | pain around his mouth by raising his coffee cup to ‘his lips. “Well—then she got a divorce in; Paris,” he answered finally. “I stayed | @runk for a week after I heard the | news, and then—‘on my way’ again.” “But,” Crystal protested, “didn't she love you?” “Love?” Colin repeated violently. “What has love got to do with it? Of course she loved me. in a nice, sen- sible, romantic ‘Back Bay’ sort of way, | but I'd have died, just the same, if; Td let her keep me in a cage.” “And—you loved her?” Crystal per- | sisted, although she was torturing herself. Why had no one ever told her that jealousy could be so frightful | that it was nauseating? “Of course I did! Crazy about her.” Colin answered savagely. “But I would have hated her if our love had been enough to keep us together— @ cage—when I wanted to be out away. And it wasn't just a ques- of ‘wanting.’ It was something me, bigger than love, driving . . . . Not ‘wanderlust’ either, usual sense of the word. ‘Life »’ rather—an absolute necessity to all kinds of people, all kinds of | life—and to write it. The supreme .” he added, with bitter humor. And then: “So you see, Miss Crystal Hathaway, I've had my heart broken in quite an orthodox fashion.” “No, you haven't!” Crystal retorted. “You like to think you have, but you're kidding yourself. You two just didn’t ‘belong’; that’s all! If you had been her man, and she your woman, | she'd have followed you barefoot, if | necessary, and not even have known ashe had stone-blisters on her heels!” Colin Grant stared at her, tried to grin, but couldn't. “You—really “i etpee rf i think that, Crystal?” Then he re- covered surrendered ground quickly: “You're a delightfully romantic young lady, as well as a darned good liter- ary critig—says the author of ‘On My ‘Way’. Crystal shrank from him as if he ‘had struck her in the face. “I—must be going,” she managed to say at last. “Separate checks, waiter, please.” She had not yet touched her sandwich. “I'll take the check, waiter,” Colin corrected curtly. “Ham on rye and tea for the lady. That right? And cheese on rye and four cupsa coffee. Rght? Seventy: cents, boss... . Thanky, sir, thanky!” for Colin flung down a dollar bill and stalked off. And so, after their first “date"—if it could be called that—Crystal Hath- away and Colin Grant parted in an- ger. There were no formal good-byes or good-nights between them; just a curt, “So long! See you tomorrow, if I'm still on the job,” from Colin, and a stiff nod from Crystal. The girl did not stare after him, but whirled sharply and started down the street toward a street car to take her home to Serenity Boulevard. He didn't have to seize every single op- Portunity to warn her that he was ‘on his way,’ she told herself with pas- sionate anger. “—If I'm still on the job!” The conceited young puppy! The cruel, ruthless, cynical young ego- ist! Let him go as soon as he pleased, she told herself savagely. And then, | “But, oh, I'll run after you till I cateh up with you, Colin!” her treacherous heart added. And tears were thick in her eyes. ‘ NEXT: A future use for Dick's photograph. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.- BETSY ANN, SO) ‘THE OHIO RIVER—It's a tremend- dive from Broadway into the Ohio And the transition of a subway sar- dine into s passenger aboard the old packet boat, Betsy Ann, is the apothe- osis of something-or-other very pleas- me * river ‘itself is, somehow or .{ broken . hills and towns along its winding trail. There is a sleepy qual- ity in the physical appearance of places which belie this soporific flavor by springing into life the moment the landing plank is lowered. 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