The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929 TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES | WASHINGTON THE GUMPS—FOR FIRE—CALL ‘ WI- LETTER E a f] READY WITH By RODNEY DUTCHER it would tend to stiffen resistance to WW “NEA Service Writer) | the prohibition laws by automatically MEL Lo! 1S THIS MR GUMP? YOUR MONEY - ba i 5.—Unless the | creating the largest class of law- iis jailaae Roeeaatem sc deveun cout tees, breakers with which any government LONG DISTANCE I$ CALLING YOU 75¢ PLEASE Seed die | et cl to deal. ' hich they seldom do, Senator s as experts of the prohibition bu- JAMES been beled h a= Prunk! Plunk? rds bill to brand the buyer reau say that while such a law might CALLING FROM LAKE GENEV. ‘ Hor as equally euilty with the s suit in more confictions, its prin- Z $ probably will turn out to be al effect upon the community MOLD THE WIRE issue in the most important prohibi- uid be as a method of moral sua- f 1 n. Some of them are convinced t would result in a large reduc- virtually noth tion of the amount of liquor con- bo ask tor in the way of le umed and that tt would tend im- excepting measures r ntly to make abstinence “re- . i @ one has previously con pectable.” dvisable to press, The Both the drys and the prohibition nted with heavier per entorcers are emphatic in the con- hey put over t! put | tention that the purchaser is ly ts jardly anyone i : yas the vendor. “The differ- J > > Ses e s Pussyfoot Johnson, “is the 4/1) @ Giff Pr ence between the inmate and 4 * ff £A frequenter of a disorderly house.” 2 4 some ¢ 7 But. in the past the drys haven't 11 be allowed to die | felt that a law covering purchasers Quiet death. It docs not appear to, was worth fighting for. Wayne B. ‘ present the cons Wheeler and his companions decided B ] ey salen; the dry organizati to let it ride when they framed the ff by The Chiao approval of Bishop Cannon, who} Voistead Act and passed it. The act 5 . the strongest indi E provides that no one shall buy liquor Mong them. Some of the most im- | without obtaining a permit, and of portant dry leaders ure x course the permits are unobtainable. ly, explaining that th ‘be act doesn’t make the provision \ t to determine the po: 1 stick by applying any penalty. : les to a law covering | Concentrate on Bootleggers a which may indicate It does provide against transporta- te e od 1S TAKING BUT Theres A GOON! Twas IN Bea esire first to observe | tion and possession with penalties and \TTLE GREEK HISToR' fon toward the measure |the drys have always figured that TMS Year - Loourr Y BEEN A STRONG | STRONGEST MAN MAN AS STRONG |THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS In this connection it is interesting | buyers could be adequately prosecuted AR = Tar FELLA T DO MATS | IN THE woRLD, AS HE was, OUT / ALL SUMMER! Bosh! 9 note that some of the strongest | for illegal possession or transporta- MAMAN HOLDING UP THE Boy! ID Live To : 4 drys in congress are opposed to the | tion. ‘They would rather convict one |. WORLD THAT'S IN THE Rocwy |} Wo ENER TOLD bill. Although a few of those who! booticgger than a dozen customers, © RTE | Le, NOUNTAIN! " Nou Muar ? have already declared against it may | although they believe examples ig ‘ fehange their minds under Anti-Sa-! should be made of some of the ¢ we. by n League pressure, a vote in cith and more prominent scoff- house is likely to roll up the Jaws, ” minority vote since the pas: They are now giving serious con- the Volstead act. ideration to the Sheppard bill and ‘The effect of such a law is the most | promising among other things that if Mportant point for everyone con-| passed it will provide an immunity ned to think about and there you h for government witnesses, in- @ views diametrically opposed cluding prohibition agents. 4 | Some drys believe that millions of | But none of them seem wildly ex- |Am $ would stop patronizing | cited about it. They are pinning their otleg » unwilling to join a class! faith much more on changes in en- i Jast recognized as criminal by the! forcement personnel and on their be- tes. | lief that President Hoover will force Others fear that it would have no| more honest and efficient ‘administra- euch effect and that, on the contrary, | tion of the law. ; i rene RACHUTE } 1 SUPPOSE JUD COND = New York, Oct. 15. gins to enter. The law of every-man- Piensa tae WELLCR JUMPED Secrgd ayermtee she basi ony a Suet se 5 Ree a ; es pyc WONT GO INTO THIS THING. DIDN'T WANT HELLO, 1S THIS THE MWorld famous mob scene can be tound | ior-himself begins to apply. Top hats T'S A CHANCE INA OFF A STEEPLE TO ~ HEAVY, EA? WELL, WE'LL TORISK HI ENENING lat its peak about 8:30 in the evening.| and gorgeous gowns mean nothing, LIFE-TIME TOCLEAN / SHOW NOU! WELL. . iS ING BUGLE? ‘The surging surf of humans which | The with the $50,000 diamond ‘ E ; SEC. 1 GOT AN IDEA THATLL POLL ON A WELL, GIVE HE : vs 3 8 as UP ATAILLION. UM MOURE NOT GOING TO “ Teaches a million or more individuals ace is just as likely as not to be GOING TO PUT Me Sink OUR BANK ROLL = SHOW Witt THAT HE'S IN TRICK ‘WE Citw EDITOR \ Fat flood tide, begins about an hour | shoved out from under a theater LAST DOLLAR BACK AN ANY TRICK PARACHUTE =@4 CLEAR UP TO HIS CHIN RIGHT \NVENTION earlier. And all over r | marquee into the rain or the sleet and OF WELLER'S ADVENTURE. “OU CAN NOW AND HE'S GOING TO Like Y rade | the frantic shelter seckers are likely v he Jasts but a couple of hours to behave like stampeding cattle or elles gir bier agg It’s the relatively small area into) like danger-scenting wild animals. Which this million pours itself that | Some rather qwakes this particular panorama. ro | likely to happer fpectacular. The horde is set. loose | kk ® ” foot, in taxicab and private car| Returning for a moment to statis- 19 stampede a range not more than 16 | tics, by way of giving a slight im- bloct:s long. 1 of mid-Broadway confusion, As the subway mouths open which have reached my and the lanes begin to jam | desk from Commissioner Whalen’s traffic at the zer r in the Broad- | traffic tangic department. show that Way belt, the vast m grows slug- | at a single busy corner within a single ish with congestion. Some statis-| busy hour, nearly 700 taxi cabs are tician has figured out t even with | clicked off by the stop watches. To \ /® well-organized distribution of the | keep the traffic moving, if possible, q \ crowds—wh: of course, there isn't during this hour practically 200 po- —-the average person would have but licemen are needed in a very few little more than five square feet to. blocks. _ i kk Oe . The'fact is that. because some areas | ‘This is the hour, by the way, when @re more jammed than others, this | ihe whining-voiced panhandlers come Space is greatly reduced and the mobs from every which way and work the ie carry themselves along idewalks near the theater fronts. » except on rainy or blizzardy | They figure tl he cry “for a cu Mette this ts @ merry, carnivalian | of coffer, mister,” sill appeal to ‘ yy . C'MON, YOU HUNTERS , FORK OVER! Parade, with a minimum of bad tecl- crowd on pleasure bent and that, at SKINS ARE WORTH E50 a Gece! ing an extraordinary lack of the | ‘y'll be able to approach the . ' - 9 bickering one might expect. A gen- | greatest number of people. SKIN NA SECCL eee IL SSCLIN' uns! eral polity good nature seems to | xe 8 Pervade the scene. And with all the angely enough, there are few 2 Ts t elbowing and shoving, with ail the is in this period of rush. Time THATS A GO: PILE Some toe-stepping and ankle-kicking, there | was when pickpockets would have ON WH BACK Ga! I'LL | 45 a give-and-take about it wnich | been abroad in the land in large HIKE RIGHT OUT An Seems more than passingly remark- | numbers, using the congestion for a . Secu'em! » Z : able. Particularly when one consid- ' little fancy lifting. I am told by the iz : ‘. é . "y ers that many of the individuals arc | police that pocket-picking is quite an a - 2, Yeally trying to get somewhere and | old-fashioned occupation and that Many more are tired and touchy. | few complaints come in today. When storms come, the scene is not | GILBERT SWAN. 60 pleasant. A predatory element be- | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) \ aes. ~ lowing children to have too much of ‘ their own company. When I said that t they should be taught to play in ay ILDRE ‘oups, I meant just that. But ANS aught” is different from “march- PM i | ing.” It isn't a good thing for chil- dren to get into the habit of playing alone, it’s true, but on the other hand, O88 by Serviceine §—__ it isn't much better to force a shy lit- . tle girl into the company of a hard- Taare eel aid about) bolied erowd and expect her to be fi making Fs and play | happy playing with them. ‘with other children. I marched my Betty May right out and made her “Handle With Care” 4 with the children next door. But| It isn't wise to “march” her into was trouble right away. She|4ny crowd indeed, when even one ‘started to cry and they made fun of | *tranger suddenly sprung on her may “her, and she ran home. Now I can't | Make her utterly confused, frightened 4 her budge ott of the house at | and miserable. j What had I better do?” No, if you have a Betty or a Bobby Iwas afraid when I wrote that par- | either, who is backward about other ast urging children to play in| Children, the safest thing to do in sre and not entirely alone, that | breaking the shell of their shyness, is Z into hot water. But space! to gradually get them accustomed to and my topic was long. and | One new child at a time, and to see ho opportunity to explain or| that each of these children is the ‘My general subject that day | Tight sort to make your own child On secrecy and the mistake of al- | happy. This doesn't mean that they should ~ | give in to your child or spoil him. Not y “ = all! That is a bad thing. too. No— WY ' i - = Z 4 i set 3 Ht ti teat, ak lt a4 ii