The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1929, Page 10

st" be ee 1A od WASHINGTON Beas x - a~ IZ weno! - (17 ano Now’ YourRE WONDERING)! [7 1 KNow HOW / A : ; LL ANYWAY <= ccs ELLO. MR. CARR ? WHY IM CALLING YOU UP= "IP VALUABLE TIME IS « we plyehion (NEA Service Writer) tin 3 appears to have been Goud COAST a YS THIS MR. TOM CARR? You THINK IT'S VERY NERVY To AMAN IN YOUR La Washington, Sept. 17—For mo: 1 Howard had a ae WELL- VLL BET You oF ME— POSITION = You WAVE AN than a year now, Senator Bro s | § : al assistant a 379 52 4 BuT |} HAVE AM BUT | WOULD : APPOINTMENT WITH dipatine CANT GUESS WHO MATTER THAT cane an n Pe pape CouLD } SPEAK ; THIS IS — TALK Yo You APPRECIATE IT SO “Tom CARR. opeice © ABouT=— | Reeehe panctce and ft teder teat 3 To MR. THREE GUESSES — OUR CLUB I$ STARTING IF YOU COULD WUST SNTURDAY e and sale 0 : RINE = Hy) oS offices which everyone k1 him TOM CARR - | WELL = THIS 18 +e Hh 60 AND ber i SPARE ME A AT 2:15PM low the surface but which no had ever exposed before in a large | bin f . PLEASE ? : WENRIETTA ZANDER = LET ME DROP INTO FEW SECONDS = way. fos M) The investication has b re or | signed > “thos te YOUR OFFICE F* less coincident with re t a an & ee AND EXPLAIN change of patro 1 fl d Patt riend g : fo qe IT 10 You= » part of the admiz 1 he jc a ‘ : : : result has been 5 : ae bosses in the south are fir Pickings instead of thei ) profitable assessments on fed Bq ficeholders who owe them their The Brookhart committee has i ally been into Geors sitting in Washington, has - nesses from South Carolina, Florida, | tifi ‘ ' Mississippi ad Kentuc Iso. eee Ny Investigating a Ic | $31,000 z ESN re First off, the committee it into; ton, above b a ani firirn Georgia. The investigation o ty; In the sy: Was aimed at conditions th : . D Ni * z mg; ators George and Har m1 , who vigorously Freckles and His Friends mj the suicide of a postmaster cl imony that contributor: ] to have been sorely ssed | ised their money © for political contributions, demar : O. P. didn’t get jobs for - Px? it and Senator ge introduced the ° a ol Y'ksow wat you OUGUTA 1 WAS JUST TELLING ) resolution on which the inquiry t Hart 7 Do, FRECKLES S WRITE FRECKLES THAT HE m a ach, U tie A STORY on Your ex ) KATA GAD sacle ouew add the committee found four or an, § m PERIENCES IN WAWAII ss ITE UP WIS ‘men who had set up shop the 5 RI a Mean party of Georgia, headed | admitted that, 982 federal offic AN’ ON YouR UNCLE ronal ea by Ben Davis, Republican natior r dg ' WARRYS RANcH AN’ committeeman. Davis was drawing 457 had made a S, $280 a month, ‘The state treasurer | but insisted that they were outnum- ee ee drew the same. The committee seiz: 5 stance by non-of- & > @n assortment of cards which gave | fice! sreager denied that of- the names of postmasters and post- ficcholde ‘d 10 per cent mistresses and their periodical pay- of their to the “party.” This was tt fi money that went to pa ies and | A witnes' Expenses were incurred | the committee that National Com- when a collector went around and muitteeman Joseph W. Tolbert had @ sounded up the delinquents. Alsojsiven him to understand aiter the [when Ben Davis used to have to xo jing election that 20 per cent of to Washington to sce about the fed- all s s would have to be paid in i eral appointments. subj i «It was charged that as much as g 9600 had been paid for a single rural | the wi rt, Evidence w: Me letter carrier's job. It was testified, x f i nents. Tolbert m for instance. that John W. e ha affidavits eq treasurer of the Republican s' in which vy, tral committee, had offered a reap-| nothing was ge pointment of one postm s for a} “purely voluntary” contributions. E., contribution, mentioning the sum of ‘cei postir who made one $800. The money wasn’t paid and | of the affidavits wrote to the commit- MOM’N POP there was no reappointment. In| tee as follow mM Georgia, as in other states, there “I cannot slecp at night. IT want ‘ax Was testimony that federal jobs were | to 1 my peace with God. I will 1 CAN'T KEEP A OB! Dartered on a basis of returned con- | tell how mitch T paid for the postof- WING (IN THE ICE-Bo¥ hd LDUT THREE. PIECES OF Gee! LOINT Hoe tributions if the contributor didn't | fice as well as other WITHOUT THAT CHILD AMY = CAKE IN THE ICE-BOK. HOW SEE THE OTHER 9 the job. Sometimes the jobse ‘he Brookhart committee, which is Be Bet the Job Sey back in suc likely to continie its anquiry tndet= GETTING INTO IT! COME HERE Se eee PECE,MOM cases and sometimes not. initely, will be glad to hear from oth- TWIS MINOT + |. What Happencd in Mi er postmasters, marshals and other : cphaaaleg , _ Partly through the committee and | federal officials who have paid poli- we. partly through the depariment of j 5 for their jobs. New York, Sept. 17.—The world of | they sei, Fare old books contain more fanthstic cul: we tales than the books themselves. “Jumpin’ Jeh "or perhaps ‘Tae tireless efforts with which col-! stronger language—"Say, what'll you ¢ for this?” r the sleuthir “They're all marked at a dollar,” lock Holmes. Now and then some | said the old dealer. much-desired volume gets lost in the; ‘The young man, who knew a great its adventures arc{deal about rare editions, hopped a taxi that he might reach his office ‘eee more hurriedly, Almost a-tremble he Buch a tale came to me the other | checked up his sources—yes, there it] eM day, over a lunch table where the | Was! boys and girls of the literary world| He had bought a first edition of tgather. And the strangest part of it | Poe's “Fall of the House of Usher” for “fs, it appears to be true. {s$1. There are but two such first Te goes something like this: ay ution loose in the world. Fourth street, where the book shops "m told that, knowing his market, L flourish—I mean the San he at once got on the phone and TAKE. TH EURS OFFA there was for years a little | called Colonel Owen Young. And I'm ‘ Qntnacs ? i by one of those with-|told that the price was $20,000. I'm tiered and bent old fellows who move also told that Colonel Young has t through old book and furniture stores | Since refused $75,000 for it. like ghosts of another day. There is | * Oe OF @ raggedness about them, indicating a| Th Q ht sequel to this story: Tiday to day struggle for existence. : r : the young man had fanciers can prow! by the hour ; picked up his dollar bargain, the old y in their stores, and the ; book dealer fell ill. He had to close fellows do not press them for a! his shop, and not having enough ‘They live in a dusty world of | money to buy decent medical care for volumes and yellowing pages. | himself, he died—not so many weeks | proprietors somehow come | ago. The books in his store were ‘a strange kinship. They | peddled off to pay his funeral ex- to look alike after a time. ; penses. them wearing aged coats! He had had $75,000 in,his grasp for perfectly the faded | a few hours—and hadnt known it. GILBERT SWA! old chap traded in li-| (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc. il as in single volumes. = an eccentric old gent ind who had died, leav- YOUR hich the hei heirs h dealer looked he titles and made ; N ae the lot. The} and the books were dy lie Roberts Barkow into New York. | & lve Roberts * * | ©F928 by NEA Servicetan. days later the entire library; yy, i in the cheap book racks | ,, When children are little usually decorate the fronts of all such} {icy are in a neighborhood where ‘There they were mauled and other families live a more or less in- over by the usual crowd of timate community life. The street, y who edge up to bargain the front yards, the back yards are ae club Browns of See sale hey cannot help forming very cl me were grabbed up, and some aniances and anything that befalls aes one betalls all. noo e story of childhe is insepar- It 80 mareeond that a xounz man | able from the annals of companions SE cosas was ace eae oF Children are companions. Almost i avent ithe ase eal int hopped levery impulse or action is originated A pidge barga! Rae tase titles, | PY Some sort of social urge or emo- (As his eyes glance@ eS, | tion generated by contact with other ——__—— | children. We're largely what our ex- periences in childhood make us. How then can any mother expect that her treatment of her own chil- dren will not be felt beyond the front door? A Natural Consequence As a matter of fact, what any ij i 4 : f in alt ain aE att ne gi, DEEPER? if iF 4 5 He ieee