The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 12

; By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, July 18—Mr. Rudolph Spreckels, the sugar magnate, who ij. the only man in town wearing a col- lar which resembles President Hoo- ver's, is trying to promote a s tariff plan which will make ev body happy. Mr. Spreckels is auth of one of the numerous sliding seal now being proposed as a method of sliding out from under the outburst of criticism which met the provision in the House tariff bill which boosted L. the sugar duty to three cents—or 2.40 cents on Cuban sugar, which is most. concerned. EC Mr. Spreckels is a sugar refiner and | president of the Spreckels Sugar cor- , Poration. He believes that his scheme will protect’ the domestic beet cane producers, the Cubans, the Fi pinos, the Porto Ricans and even the 1 consumers themselves ‘ Another Millionaire i Anyone who professes to be benevolent as all that naturally himself open to suspicion. But it relatively easy to believe in the sin- cerity of Mr. Spreckels. He is a mil- lionaire, but he doesn’t belong to the union. He turned in his card when he participated actively and ex- Pensively in the LaFollette presi- dential campaign of 1924. Mr. Spreckels says Ought to be done: 1. Domestic producers and con- sumers ought to be protected by a sliding scale which would raise the tariff on sugar when the price Gropped and lower it when the price rose. 2. ‘The sugar industry ought to be protected from the ruthless compe- { tition of Hawaiian planters, who, he | says, provide the most serious men- ace to the domestic producers. ‘Hawaiian sugar, he says, is the nigger in the wood-pile. “I realize that the protection theory is desirable and necessary,” he says, “but I am opposed to a flat duty be- cause it must inevitably do ipjustice to the consuming public. When the world market on raw sugar went up the cost of raw sugar plus the duty two things | LOOK AT HERE — SWAT BAIT = THE Jand plus refining costs would make ‘a prohibitive price for sugar | “With the sliding scale, the world | price goes up and the duty comes n. Inevitably the world price of r is going up, for the Cubans are to restrict production and es- ic scliing agency. They <a proper price tof produc- ins, the Filipinos are making a profit ve no duty to pay on sie wh rg BAT THEIR OOK AT " WEADS AGAINST THAT LIGHT BULB = ~~ * are favored above ise they send their r to their own refinery in Cali- ‘Their western territory can- e all the refined sugar hich they produce by refining at i capacity and so they have | reached out into what normally would ling territory of the beet That's where the find their real com- rhe Hawaiian planters make suf- ficient profit on raw sugar to fore- refiner’s profit. Domestic cane sugar doesn't compete paid raw sugar. It_com- with refined sugar. If the aiians sell without any refining ofits they can sell below everyone | else. | Suggests a Refiners’ Tax “The way to give the domestic pro- | ducers the protection which congress | wants to give them is to establish a | compensatory tax, which the govern- | ment would collect in the form of a refiners’ tax based on the margin between the cost of duty-paid sugar and the cost of refining. “The Hawaiians refine 700,000 tons ugar a year in California. We a 50 per cent refining over- | capacity and the rest of us curtail to a certain percentage of the total to ve our situation, while the Hawaii- jans operate at full capacity and j thereby reduce refining costs 30 per cent.” Spreckels has legal opinion uphold- | ing the constitutionality of his re- | finers’ margin proposal. The senate I finance committee is considering it. i | WELL, THESE TRACKS ARE LINDY'S ALL RIGUTa= LOOKS LIKE MEBBE Tt was not merely pride which made Crystal Hathaway avoid Colin Grant 60 adroitly but emphatically the next two days. Her love for him was so genuine and so unselfish that she honestly wanted to make their part- ing as easy for him as possible. was not an atom of conceit behind her firm conviction that he loved her—loved her so much that he was tormented into something like frenzy. But just as absolute was her knowledge that he did not want to be married again, did not want to be tied to any woman or to any spot on earth. His face was a battleground of con- flicting desires and emotions those two days, as Crystal's occasional glimpses of him told her. weanonne a awannnna ages, and spoke fiercely to Cry: “What have you done to Colin, tal? Have you turned him down? ; “He hasn't proposed,” Crystal an- 4 swered unflinchingly. z “Well, then, for heaven's sake give him a chance to,” Harry commanded irritably. “His work's shot, and he 4 looks as if he'd been on a drunk for & month. No wonder Horton doesn't lke girl reporters!” But Crystal had no intention of obeying her city editor, who was also her friend, and who had once hoped to be more than a friend. Not even the leased wire bulletin ‘which announced the joyful news that, Sandy Ross and his passenger, Mrs. Purvis, had landed safely in Nic- softened her determination. ‘While the city room was in a state of wild enthusiasm and frantic hurry . to get out the “Extra” which would ~ merely put into print what the radio announcers had already clamored to the world, Colin made straight for Crystal's desk, grim determination in his harassed black eyes. if \ ROLEING Los Angeles.—Rambling notes of a ‘women wear browned bare legs with their evening dresses. And very be- coming, too! Distance is too commonplace to friends are likely to live within fly- ing distance. Asked to lunch the oth- er day by Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey, I left the hotel and found nearly 55 miles away in the ‘Monica hills before the dinner Tang. And that, I was told, was “close in.” What's commuting any- where else in the world is just going > Even Harry Blaine noticed the rav- ! *; meant to love as Tony loved Sandy, ya |GOING PLACES THINGS roving reporter—the film and society | Jend enchantment here. Your closest | SICK THAN TAM! AND T DON'T INTEND TO PUT OFF MOVING THIS FURNITURE SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE LETTING YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD “Let’s go over to Charlie's Coffee Pot and celebrate.” he invited so fiercely that she grinned. “That would be nics coolly, “but I have ment. Tony Tarver—" “Don't bother to tell the rest of e fib,” he shut her up grimly. What's the matter, anyway? You ven't given me a chance to speak a dozen words to you since half five this morning, and it’s eight ociock now. Why are you avoiding me?” | She s matic WAVE PASSED ON POP'S PHYSICAL CONDITION, HE STILL BELIEVES HE HAS SYMPTOMS OF SOME DISEASE THAT HE READ ABOUT \N THE OLD FAMILY MEDICAL ‘BOOK {h niled a little at the melodra- is, but her eyes were very hey looked into his. “Be- e, Colin, you really want to be ided, no matter what you may think you want at this minute.” And she turned her back on him, though it was the hardest thing she jhad ever done in her life. Walked out of the office, without a back- ward glance at his furious, ravaged face and his clenched hands. She had not been lying to him about her engagement with Tony Tarver. She took a street car out jo the Ross house and gazed with heartbroken envy upon the glory in Tony's eyes. There would never be such ecstasy, such glory in her own eyes, now that she had given up Colin Grant. But she knew what it. | SALESMAN SAM )and her understanding was precious to | the girl whose only fear now was that Sandy Ross might crash on the gruelling homeward journey from Nicaragua. He was to start back on Friday morning, weather permitting— alone, leaving his passenger at the bedside of her stricken son, whose condition had noticeably improved since his mother's arrival. ‘XT: The Showdown. ht, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) (Copy jcalling here. That world-famous | pest, Los Angeles booster, used to tell us how the city would grow. But the old time booster has just about disappeared. Broadwayites would be astounded could they hear their home town boys and gals rave on. For them it's better than the ‘49 days. They get ‘their gold and they don't have to dig very hard for it. 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