The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929 By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, July 26—-The way to learn the secrets of being a great statesman is to watch some of them in action. One of the most important secrets appears to be the art of saying some- thing important that can be taken either way—something on an impor- tant issue which each opposing fac- tion can construe favorably in its own fashion and which will permit every- one to love the speaker as much as ever. The benefits of this secret of statesmanship are obvious enough. 1 enables the statesman to or thing whenever his silenc come: embarrassing and it enables him to 1 appear to have taken a definite a tude on the issue without putt foot some place whence it ¢ tricated. In the last couple of year: have been at least three conspic examples of this sort of thing. Coo.udge Purzied 'E I do not choose to run, vin Coolidge. and right up to cor tion time, eight months later. } ticlans were still arguing about what he meant. Each one had } dh own interpretation on it those who said Coolidge ha ly counted himself out and those who insisted that he had left the door wide open for his nomination. To this day no one knows definitely whether or not Coolidge made that atatement with the pious hope that he would be renominated without having to “run” for the honors. Then Mr. Hoover, spoke of prohibition ment, noble in purpose. say something and that was what he said. To this day the wets are getting comfort from his use of the word “ex- periment” and the drys still dwell fondly on the word “noble.” Inci- dentally, Mr. Hoover also referred to “grave abuses” in connection with en- forcement, failing to explain whet he meant that the prohibition laws had been abused by bootlezgers and seofflaws or by the prohibition en- forcers themselves. And no one to- day can find any definte evidence as to whether Mr. Hoover is satisfied to have the prohibition laws kept in a candidate, an “experi- He had to r a \ TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES [THE GUMPS—WANTED—A TON OF COAL | the statutes as is. Now we come to the third case, which is that of the Hon. George chairman of Hoovei on law enfore to Governor ad at the gdv- | ernors’ conference. he said: “If the national government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in inter- commerce of intoxicants, the nternal police reg- prevent sale, saloons, and so forth, the national be modified so :bly enforceable, ource of demoralizing ly profitable crime re- ate: und to become nd c eat that statement some anded = Wickersham’s rys have confessed have a yelled 5 are enthusias- ain unimpressed rsham refuses to elu- | rial Balloon” has refused to jam's letter, £0 correspondent un- in what Wickersham neral assumption in ngton is that Hoover knows a5 as anyone, It 4s commonly ed that the letter was meant fecler” or “trial balloon.” But is from personal convers many perfectly good drys ss are convinced that prohibi- as brought about a scandalous . the only eventual solution of 1 may be modification. Nobody wants to go back to the old saloon ; it is assumed that there is some out much preferable to that. But these doubting drys don't know just what it is and so they merely their heads, refusing to express : doubts for fear of kicking up Of course, there is some nized dry lead- the trouble comfort for the o: ers in the thought that by the time members of congress are ready to openly give voice to their personal opinions prohibition enforcement will have taken a turn for the better. GOING SEEING Oxnard, Calif —tIf you have any de- |could tell by them, that some day you sire to become suddenly old before reaching the age of 40, just follow my articular trail. Start back for scenes which f) ‘ed {a your youth and look up a couple of rirls who, once upon a time, were “all the world to you.” At the time it ceemed incredible that you could ever live without them. Somehow you And when you ring the doorbell. a tall, good-looking lad of some 17) years answers the door. You look him up and down. He's just about the | size and the age you were—once upon | atime. He has that shy look that you've forgotten. Suddenly you hear him saying . . “Oh, wait a minute, I'll call mother. T’m sure she'll be terribly glad to see you. I've heard her speak of you so often....” | a That spinning dizzy PLACES? AND feeling you | sat in the back of the store helping THINGS would be a writer. you to see them tremble a_ bit the better of you bring them out. ing— So this you? reat heaven! Suddenly tne letters that ever were introduced at “heart balm” trials go dancing before your eyes. Sup- y tomorrow you should write such 4 And yet, they're so ter- heart- Would't it amuse . Inwardly you curiosity gets So you let her And you start read- But I found myself in the street, foal ing toward the busy little business ion. Like Rip Van Winkle, it had nged for me. Everything was er and autos lined the streets. 's candy store still be yesterday that a lad Dip You SEE TWAT? 1GOT IM — 3 : 4 { SEVEN TIMES MES TAKEN WES ON AGAIN= MELP, -” mY BAIT~ ' CAN'T HOLD HIM |. Oe TT MOST BE A WHALE~ GET THAT HOOK = : ; bht BET FROM ‘TNE WAY WHERE'S THE ner? i" NO JOKING Tey oF TIMER = ; 1 @oTTA FIRW- , ae y b }! 4 7 af GEE. I WONDER IF AN 2 DOING IT THROW A , 1 COULD Do war, RiguT ? Now WIDER aRcLE- : 4 GET YouR ay IF You'D TRY To LIGKT 4 A MATCH ON A CAKE . 4 ‘J % : a} creat cacsael Yan, DAS —,, HAT Bane Me f° BUT, FALOA TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE QUIET ABOUT YOUR WORK BUT AVE CAN'T SE QUIET WHEN AVE BREAK TWO PLATES © fi S c= | find possessing your head has noth- | to make candy canes and those brittle ing to do with the heat of the day. | nuggets with strawberries dyed in the Then a matronly woman—about | center? Yes—there it was—but ex- your own age—appears. There is a | panded many times end with booths cordial greeting—and then—. “You've | along the side. Cute young things Already met my boy. Isn't he | re giggling from behind the booth splendid, handsome fellow?” | fences. Of course he is—! Somehow, you} “You don't remember me, of course,” try to talk of this and that... . of this | you find yourself saying to the active girl and that boy . . . and all the time | man whose hair has turned gray. To you're haunted by a 17-year-old lad, |save embarrassment you recall the who sits quietly in the corner and who finally excuses himself to go down to the drug store. You know why he’s going! He's going for the same reason you once went. The girls ‘will be dropping by for ice cream and then they'll go to the movies .. . and he'll be meeting the “only girl in the ‘world”—someone he just couldn't live ‘There sits the boy you once were ... And take it from a hard-boiled man from Manhattan, if you ‘want to have your heart broken in a hurry—just try that on your next day off. eee If it had only ended there! After @ while, a kindly white-haired old lady comes in and throws her arms about you. You are assured that she “You really were .. and all that. could you have feared her so , once upon a time? you. hear her asking. do remember when you used to come Sundays and play the piano and “Beautiful-Garden of Roses”... only does that daze you. but is slightly. You begin to fourth hour of an air- A a2 itt ere alone, and the girl how all these years she ® couple of letters you once them because she YOUR ILDREN ll i : |cub reporter of yesteryear— “Yeh, I remember you all right. Suppose you've come back a million- aire, like they all do in the movies—" | You had, by accident, a couple of j dollars in your hand with which to buy a box of candy— “Yeh, got money now. Remember when you snitched candy off the kitchen table—” he goes on to wait on some customers. That's all. You're not a millionaire and you don’t want to be. You're so darn glad to be back there, you could shout — and this is the perfunctory welcome! The rich city slicker comes back to the old town—Great grief, what a role in which to be cast! ; Finally you timidly ask about so- and-so— “That’s»her daughter sitting over there in the booth,” says the voice— You give a hasty glance. There, for all the world sits the girl you once took to the ice cream store when you had the money—Her daughter! If | You're like me, you grab your hat and }run, | woe I'm not sure I haven't had enough. I'm not so certain at the moment that I want to recapture my youth! Somehow, I wish Lagomarsino’s bar was operating. I'm afraid I need a stimulant. GILBERT SWAN. , (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Perhaps we look out at our own children playing in the front yard or | on the street and say, “Well, we can't | do anything. We can't get out of the heat ourselves. We can't afford ® va- cation, either. 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