The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1929, Page 10

CO ee eas LETTER WASHINGTON Bovey | f EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the of three articles by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspond- emt for The Tribune and NEA Service, discussing “prohibition education work. =e & By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Sept. 11—The Anti- | Saloon league, reporting on prohi- bition conditions over the country in fits 1929 year book, prefaces its re- Ports on each state with citation of | Presidential election results for ‘November, regarding the greatly p: Ponderant number of Hoover vic- tories as triumphs for prohibition. Reports of the state leagues, which ‘re being summarized in this and a Previous story, sometimes fail to de- scribe enforcement conditions from the dry standpoint in states where the league opinion might be the most interesting. Thus the Mic’ Jeague, doubtless aware of extensive Miquor smuggling from Ontario, fails | to mention that situation. Other state reports, continued in brief, are: Minnesota—A new wet congressman ‘was elected, with reduction of wet strength in state House of Represent- | atives. Observance of state's tem- perance law leaves much to be de- atred. Mississippi—State law limits pos- session of liquor to one quart. \—Now has one dry senator ‘and 13 drys among 16 cong: en and a drastic state enforcement law. Montana—Drys fighting to regain ground lost in popular referendum t Fepeal state enforcement laws in 1925 ‘and defeat of proposal for new law in 1928. Nebraska—State enforcement offi- cers have recently noticeably in- ereased their activity, resulting in eng convictions and heavier penal- Nevada—Enforcement badly handi- capped through lack of state law. tate has fewer than 40 churches, ‘which cramps Anti-Saloon leaguc. New Hampshire—Enforcement of- Mleers are doing good work, but state supreme court decision has made it practically impossible to deal with bootleggers on charge of illegal pos- session. | New Jersey—Drys look forward to | @ reasonable degree of enforcement as |a result of Governor Larson's elec- Mexico — Nothing to worry ew York—Has been the storm cen- | ter of opposition for prohibition. En- forcement situation not likely to | change without enactment of a state dry law. | North Dakota—Wets plan to pro- | mote another referendum in 1930 af- defeat in 1928, Ohio—Enforcement made more dif- ficult by court decision against jur- isdiction of mayors and justices of | pe in violation, and overwhelming | 1927 referendum defeat of proposed drastic enforcement law. Oklahoma—State enforcement code has been strengthened from time to time. Oregon—Enforcement __ conditions improving, despite some difficulties. Pennsylvania—Better control over indu: 1 alcohol and closing of some illicit breweries. Rhode Island—Has always been @ ge consumer of beverage liquor. State police have greatly strengthened enforcement. South Carolina—Enforcement con- ditions improving steadily with more and heavier sentences. South Dakota—Enforcement fairly good, lacking appropriations. Texas—Shows a 25 per cent in- crease in number of imprisoned boot- leggers. Virginia—More fines and more stills and liquor seized. Trial and con- viction under state law quicker and more certain than under Volstead act. ashington — Enforcement condi-, tions considerably improved in three years, |" Wisconsin—Most recent of the states to repeal enforcement laws. Continues to be “a center of anti- prohibition agitation.” ‘Wyoming—No gain; no loss. Drys anticipate better days. NEW YorRK 94 New York, Sept. 11—At the first 4 @lush of the new theatrical season, the picturesque Provincetown Play- thouse of Greenwich Village, brave pi- omeer of the “little theater” move- ment in America, made it known that ‘would move during the winter to a target distance of the belt. Re if you please, writes “finis” to an old stable which lived lory of truly regal it last of a prevalent as “arty.” Provincetown direc- abandoned by those brought it into the world ipon the doorsteps of Mac- t, went in for art in too The trouble was that come along who were merely artistic, and had not only; @urvived—but actually had thrived. oe 8 One by one the big parade of “lit- for @ moment and then} compromised with its neighbors. instance, was the fate of - Buch, for the Grand Street little theater group, which hid itself away behind the ) pushcarts of the old ghetto and now seasonally with its “Grand Follies’—once an impish and satire of the metropolitan om. Alas and alack, its last geemared could never have passed mone-too-difficult muster of the “commercial” theater. zs* ¢ had mothered and found the Theater only thrives, but its dramatic roots through- saints of the theater, in their pockets but dreams, met on a cer- so many years ago toss stones at the Broadway wildcats. 4 their ten-dollar bills, "t afew remnants of the Provincetown dra- matists and gave Eugene O'Neill in the very spot that the Provincetown Players will occupy—if and when they see fit to start toward Broad- way. Now the Guild owns two of the finest playhouses in the city and sub- sidizes one or two and gives the city —_ hits and aos iia Meanwhile the Provincetownians, who really began at the end of a wharf in an art colony on “the cape,” have scattered to the four winds. ‘They have become figures in the writ- | ing world to be conjured with. Here O'Neill got his hearing when | the uptown snecred at his works, and | managers held their noses upon the ‘arrival of his manuscripts. Here his excellent one-act sea plays got their chance. And today Broadway wise- acres still scratch their heads over the phenomenon of “Strange Inter- lude,” which held New York for prac- tically two years, From here came Susan Glaspell, with her one-act classics; and Ther- esa Heilburn, who now dominates the | } Theater Guild; and Edna 8t. Vincent Millay, whose “Aria de Capo” was then a mere infant; Floyd Dell and Rosco MacGowan and Cleon Throck- morton and a score of others. All of them have come to touch their own particular stars. never given up the ghost and a new | group of young rebels will doubtless move into the old Provincetown and carry on. For, after all, it was in the Neighborhood Playhouse that Du- sany’s “A Night at the Inn” was seen; and at the Bramhall that “The Play- boy of the Western World” drifted in from Ireland and at the Cherry Lane that an obscure group gave “The ‘Waltz of the Dogs.” GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) feeling of safety and purity for not | only ourselves, but our friends. In. j deed, to make doubly sure, we bought | |apdeectic molaten nad pestis ant lution and e | movable was sunned in the yard, or {burned because we were not sure which books had been handled when the disease was still incubating. Changing Times 4 few years later, another child had scarlet fever—a very severe case H Sy BEGET HH i pan ii ealesitl d > HERE WE SEE YOM CARR AGAIN] BUY WHAT A DIFFERENT TOM "ROM EAR Aco OFA mt WHEN HE PENITENTIARY STARED NIM IN THE FACE FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT= AND THEN THE DEATH OF POOR MARY = .. THOSE WERE HARSH CRUEL DAYS = AO KIDDING, ossie!! 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