The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1929, Page 16

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1926 WASHINGTON LETTER ag | ‘Washington—Atter inhe : unsolved problems } Nef and prohibition enforc: cal worri ® passion for ver recently tool date from conzres coldly turned down h Iihe flexible provisions b the tariff bil od in Vance or lov as 50 pe tions of r com- mission. Ti uid have abolished the bi- isan na the commission so ident power to stac as he liked. M i for It Was Coolidge’s Fault But the Senate back at th 7 Sdministration of 1 Mr. Coolidge, and Dem¢ gressives decided } too tempting to Presidents with it any fact is that Mr. Cooli * stingy to let the tariff Play with the thing: 1 cajole and threaten the unc members into letting him use it as he saw fit. His ion was so remarkably thorough t the senate from Mr. Hoover. up some of the old | Hoover defeat will be eas b H ei This scandal was effective » Hoover will @ no control over du- / tles except his power to veto the bill confines action recommendation The manhandling of the flexible Provision began with the commission's | Sugar investigation bez g in 19: } Coolidge and his friends on the com- mission, Marvin and Burgess, did all they could to delay the stigation, Was pushed by Com ners Costigan, Culbertson and Lewis, as if ware that the commission would Tecommend a rate reduction, as it fin- ally did. Coolidge appoinied the sixth commissioncr one Henry H * and examined by doctors; he is lifted | A all the while Se bi Pw wr res “1 Glassie of Louisiana, who admitted that his wife and her brothers held domestic sugar stocks. C ed on sitting on the sugar case and Coolidge backed him up. | The question of ethics was heavily i Congress had to pass a pep Glassie out of the ase, Which left Costigan, Cul- wis in a majority. ic insisted that in on the case until of the fiscal year. Dilatory continued. demanded that on suspend all other work te on a butter investi- nan Marvin at once y from the sug delibera- s in obedience, demon ting pal- erence. ge undertook three recal- ant conn He summoned on and cited to him a com- unt that he had violated the law | < commissioners from ac- employment by lectur- wn Foreign Serv- Institute of Poli- Harding and Coolidge had s. but Coolidge better see the © department about it. Costi- called there and were on had little to fear. Coolidge ordered Attorney his report on ite house and Culbertson of chnically vi- The president said ¢ to have the sugar re- and ¢ the majority sugar re- president and soon 1e term of Lewis expired him a recess appointment, ge tried to get Lewis to write qualified resignation and leave he white house. Lewis refused Coolidge simply refused to reap- point him a few months later, despite < support behind him. Tf Lewis ad compiled he presumably would have been retained with the resigna- tion dangling over his head. | Finally Ignored Commission Coolidge waited seven months and then announced refusal to carry out the commission's recommendations. ‘The commission asked permission to int its report. The president: pre- ferred to hold it unpublished. Publi- cation was finaily forced by the im- minence of a congressional investiga- tion. Senator La Follette pointed to this | and other similar instances in his at- tack on the flexible provision, citing extraordinarily protracted delay” and the fact that reductions under it affected only bobwhite quail, paint- hh handles, cresylic acid and phenol—requiring four or five years of | labor in the last two cases named. NEW YORK New York, Oct. 10.—In a long list ef Broadway oddities, something ap- ‘ proximating the last word is achieved by one Jack Lee. dack Lee, to all intents and pur- Poses, is an actor. As an actor he is asked to be a cor} Jong acts. And corpse he is fur- ther asked to sit rigid and unmoving + in a seat. He never gets to utter a line, for the opus in which he appears | « is a mystery play and he passes from > life in the first few minutes after the ' Gurtain’s rise. The presumption is that he has been electrocuted while riding in a subway train. ‘Thereafter he becomes the center , of attention, both to players and @udience. He is poked by detectives by policemen and sat down again— he must appear as frozen stiff by the electric he does it, no one on Broadway finally, he is carried off few seconds before the cur- ‘on the solution, he is nightly with applause such as is re- no actor who has remained and moving. Perhaps, the first time in nals that a corpse has show,” gathering to him- use which amounts to a * * * of difficult jobs in Man- to me that Miss Eve- jould occupy a spot near the head of the list. ary to Mayor Jimmy ‘Miss Wagner's job to try Jimmy on time for his vari engagements. As most of knows by this time, Man- holds the world's rec- number of times late at fuk i E fe €ver was on time. Miss Wagner, from , 18 presumed to keep wisecracking. dapper lit- and guide him on his ** * thend the number of that a mayor of New York attend—and the vast. number he just can't attend, but where T ogreroggl is insisted upon. this dodging of engagements the arrangement of an itinerary fl ae BE : if i | ‘4 j, that makes the social secretary's job ' e for three fairly | In fact, there is no} the tough spot that. it is. A mayor is routed by his secretary like a parade. There are times when 100 invita- tions a day pour over the official desk. Obviously, no single person can be a hundred places in a limited num- ber of hours—nor can he always have | Tepresentatives. But it’s up to his sec- | retary to square things. In making out an itinerary, the Secretary naturally seeks to group places to be visited according to their locations—so that they can be hopped j to and from as quickly as possible. The average social engagements of importance which are religiously kept | Would come to 100 a week, or there- abouts. And this is over and above | the personal visits of foreigners and | dignitaries from elsewhere. To say | nothing of benefits, charities, build- ing dedications, club events and such like. | ** * Another New Yorker who gets my E is. strangely enough, a press His boss, a quite famous pro- lives out of town and seldom r after a premiere. Early on the morning following the production of one of his plays, this theater man demands that his employe read him ! all the critical reviews over the long distance phone. It so happens that the last several | dramas have been greeted with little | favor, and since the producer is given to stormy outbursts when criticism is unfavorable, the poor fellow who reads him the bad news must prepare | to spend an uncomfortable morning and then account for a telephone bill sufficiently large to hire a good star. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | YOUR | CHILDREN i | oa O28 by NBA Gervica ine ‘There are numerous causes for dis- nce. When a mother goes to a Specialist for advice on the subject and asks point blank, “Why don't my child obey me?” it will be practically impossible for him to be of service un- til he finds out by careful question- ing of both mother and child every intimable detail of living conditions and their attitude to each other. To enumerate some of these causes here may be of help to mothers who are likewise TRIBUNE'S ) SAW _STHE NEW MOON OVER MY Richy SHOULDER — AND RIGHT AWAY LOOK whi. 1 FIND = ) HAVEN'T WORN SWESE PANTS FOR YEARS AND THAT'S AN OLD POCKET BOOK THAT | THOUGHT WAS LOST= AND YESTERDAY, \ FOUND A WORSE SHOE — WE'LL LOOK INSIDE AND SEE WHAT THAT MEANS = # GOING To SHAVE NYSELF UKE MOM’N POP OUR COMPANY. We weer rais HEY, Jud MANUFACTURES THE) \S THE TOP. 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