The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929 By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) | Washington, July 12-—The probier of what to do with our ex-preside: may remain baffling and poignan but the ex-secretaries of president ere never in any doubt concern! their futures after they white house. upposed to have Comfortable law office: 4 d Slemp and Ev- fees await them in Wast li another Coolidge sec- where hundreds of lawyer c wonderfully well without ¢ ticing any law at all. Onl: minority of the thousand pants of “law offices” with court cases. M are commonly re; or “fixers,” who exert the and personal influence o and the government behalf of prosperou The several presi taries now doing busines: all practiced law in thet are not unwilling to go int but they have joined thi tamily of ex-cabinet me! st the inheritance Shoals. Very recently after unsatisfactory h the state department collect some hun- f dollars of which Secks Tariff Boosts entered the Washington of- 1 of Secretary of ich specializes in id has represented ywer Co. Lately San- nted the plate glass nt a tariff increase. ige's erstwhile pri- 5 installed himself new office buildings Tumuity, Woe nous secretary, has here for eight years. He ators, ex-congressmen 2 I din contact with govern- government officials whos e tments and attended the here has been largely depen 1 the Walsh public utilitie: ne name “Tumulty” was one of the telegrams of power lobby here, but s never been accused of widespread belief specially qualified to w Very rarely is it spe that one of these gents ha official contacts improper probably quite natural tha should go into business w are best known and where their m favorable opportunities appear to | that’s not unethical. In do doubtless no unworthy thouz enters their heads. i But it is only natural that they are | promptly sought out when outside in- ' terests go after legislative or admin istrative favors. Little or no know edge of law is essential for such bh ness. These boys know the ‘They know the people to s the cases of ex-membc: B Pre: Cortelyou, former sec- ident Roosevelt, has tacked as a lobbyist, resident of the Con- N ‘dine Is on the Job recent spokesmen for cor- interested in the tariff bill s ex-Secretary of Agriculture Wil- m M. Jardine, who also represents some powerful radio interests here ardine told the senate finance ¢ how badly the beet sugar necded a sugar tariff boost. ve been engaged lately r fight are Gen. Enoch H. former ambassador to Cuba, Major Gen. Frank Mcintyre, chief of the bureau of insular Of course there is no sense aut and calling people lobbyists unic: everyone is agreed as to just what lobbyist is. The dictionary says lobbyist is one who solicits legislato: for votes. It is hard to draw a line are full of ex-senators men who are being ‘king favors for one another. id IT. Walsh of Mas- ‘oposed a Senate in- Seek to influence official decisions, | cor] as in tax cases. Many do both. | If a lobbyist is one who sceks tariff |: favors for special interests, then at | vestiga javish corporation ex- least two presidential ex-sccretarics |p ditures in the tariff fight and the quality. V1 retainers alleged to have been C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary | paid to important Republicans for to President Coolidge, has been repre- | use of their influence. Several bills senting firms interested in metal! have been introduced in congress re- schedules. Slemp and his law part-| quiring registration of all lobbyists ner have frequently been concerned jand one of these probably will be in big money cases here in which the | pushed at the next regular session. The managing editor, Horton, had} indeed wanted to “extra” on S: Ross's take-off for Nicaragua 3 Colin Grant had been quite right| tir when he prophesied that Crystal | Hathaway would be asked to do the lead feature story on the sensational flight. A wild-eyed man, whom she hardly Tecognized as the cold, calm manaz- ing editor of whom she had only y terday stood in awe, snapped at her! her breathless arrival with | Grant in the city room “Blaine says you're a friend of Ro: and the Tarver girl, Know all about | before. him, eh? . . . Shoot us a column—j| There was Sandy's plane—‘Number Personal stuff: byline. Make ‘em read | One’—and beside it a shrinking lit- it and weep!" i tle old woman with the ecstacy of And for an hour after that anj hope in her eves, And beside her, amazing activity had the city room! very tall and lean and slouching a of The Press in its grip, with Crystal | little, was Sandy Ross. A picture of ‘in his hand arn is a wow. greeted the ps ten seconds Crystal's es clung to the magic words, al Hathaway.” But she did the time to read her own The completeness of The Press's oh med a miraculous thing to than an hour and a half had been waving good-bye to andy Ross, yet here in her hands the whole story, such a prodigal it of pictures as she had never * an important nucleus around | Bill Purvis, too, secured in some mys- ich city editor, copy boys and re- | terious way known to newspapermen. posite eddied in a mad whir! A round-cheeked, snub-nosed, grin- As a as the typed half sheets | ning boy, in the uniform of the ma- were torn from her typewriter a copy | rines, his cap cocked rakishly over his Bee es them un and rushed to] right eye. A boy who was dying of pean ene ben: ane | satus n and to whom his mother vield | was flying. . . . his black-leaded pencil. numbering | ‘The ‘Star crowd's feeling them, changing a word here and| sick,” Colin chuckled. “Listen to the ers, cutting a line par ty ing up the | newsboys howl! We've beat ‘em to » they were shot to the here | the street by at least half an hour, posing room, sebere an imperturbable | and to say nothing of these pictures, pained converted them into! ae Well, ready for a bite to celebrate, met: ry: At half past ten Colin Grant, black | sta hair wilder than ever, but a happy} NEXT: Colin Gi light in his usually furious black| accolade. eam veeene e eyes, slouched across the city room | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) GOING PLACES ROLEING THINGS cehoera “the Chief” Crossing New) on a Kansas prairie and waking up to find that you're out where t Observations from a train window. | has been beginning for a Me time. «+. Here is where the red streaked) Watching the subtle changes of color- buttes and mesas bid you an unex- | ing as you approach the “painted pected good morning. There’s some- desert,” it’s difficult to understand thing of @ shock about going to sleep! how the lights of Broadway ever ———-—- | seemed alluring. The lights, at best can only advertise some man-made OLD GUMP — WELL~ ANDY INVITED ME To COME JO LAKE GENEVA THIS SUMMER = AND THAT INVITATION WAS JUST LIKE THROWING A HOOK BAITED with A NICE Juicy CHUB To A HUNGRY PICKEREL — \E HE WAS ANGLING HE CAUGHT: HIS FISH = AND HE DON'T NEED ANY LANDING NET = 'w ON MY WAT Freckles and His Friends DAN AND FRECKLES AND HIS WOLF 006, SEEMINGLY vusT DROPPED FRom “Me Face oF | . ThE EaRTu=— IT'S BEGINNING TO Look LIKE FINDING THEM 1S » NEXT To HOPELESS MOM’N POP You CAN THROW THOSE OUT. THEY RE NOTHING BUT A LOT OF OLD Books WE NEVER LOOK AT FROM ONE NEARS END TO ANOTHER WERE TAS AND I CAME OUT WERE FoR A NICE NACATION-" AN’ NOW WANE BEEN SEARCH: LOOK Low! IT'S TURNED ING FoR TAGALONG OUTas 1 WISH WE'D Bom STAYED AT IT LOOKS Live US To Do, JAKE HIS JAR OF APPLE TWERES ONLY ONE THING LEFT ER AND. SAY HELLO Jo ANDY GROW = FATTEN UP- \VE GOT THE 81 ONES PRETTY WELL CLEANED uP. You KNOW = Where Ignorance Is Bliss SOME CF THESE Leow Lint | SALESMAN SAM HERE YA ARE SON! TH’ BIGGEST Lele. IN “TH! STORE! (© YA can EK THAT BEFORE TH! COUNT OF TE! MOU'LL BE A CHAMP — a ° | Products. It takes nature to intro- duce you to God-made things. ° see Scattered villages of primitive adobe, enclosed by crude fences. They De us! aN Oud MEDICAL BSCKe= TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES @ (WELL- MOTHER= ILL JUST BE GONE A SNORT WHILE — ITLL DO THE FISH UP HERE A LOT OF GOOD — JHEY NEED A REST — AND BESIDES BARS GURP 7 WiLL GIVE THEM A CNANCE with MY _ COMPLIMENTS = f3 Gfrarric cops = LOOK OUT FOR THIS MAN= - WHAT ARE You 2 THIS WHOLE AFFAIR REETS “= OFTEN THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF THiS DREAD DISEASE ARE SPOTS BEFORE THE EVES ~ A COATED TONGUE - LESS OF AMBITION. CASES ARE WELL KNOWN WHERE ‘THE VICTIMS SLEPT WH THs nt UNDER THEIR How It Happened WELL, THAT YOUNG ) ‘YEAH, BUT | AL= STER WENT OUTA TH store HaPeY, WAYS FEEL SORRY FOR. TH KID — HIS SOLO MAN OLED FROM HARD DRINK! HE O10, HoH! ae ill : i t are il Hi ON NY SHOULDERS AN’ To acer Har LIKE THIS ONCLE ALMOST GOSH! THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME LEPROSY WAY BACK IN-MY FAMILY— AND 1 HANE EVERY ONE OF THE SYMDTOMS TWIS BOOK DESCRIBES ! & CAKE OF ICE FELL ON HIM! spate eeig screenees aati tiga aoe