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PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES I WASHINGTON! JL By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, June passage of the administration's farm relief bill may be said to hold an element of victory for everyone, ith the possible exception of the farmers. President. Hoover wins because he adopted the measure and said it must stand as was. without any debenture plan or other fixtures. The house of representatives wins because it sees the bill enacted as it passed it.

without the debenture provision demanded by the senate. The senate wins because it held firm and forced the house to take a vote on the debenture The Republicans win alone with Mr. Hoover, for the farm bill was a party measure. The Democrats come out of the farm bill fight in excellent shape because they presented a virtually solid front for the debenture in Congress for the Democrats, is a moral victory any day in the week Jardine's Triumph, Too And. undoubtedly the greatest personal triumph is that of former Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardlne.

who is the undisputed father of the farm relief The administration farm bill is identically what was known in the last previous congress or two as the "Jardine Everybody laughed at it then and it was kicked around most disrespectfully, for both houses wore h-tent on passing the McNary-Haugen bill. Farm state members of congress then regarded the Jardine scheme as totally inadequate and the complaint was made that it only offered tho farmers a chance to get further into debt. Vlhien cnc considers that Jardine was not retained in the cabinet bv President Hoover and will be no more than an interested spectator when the child of his brain is put to work to serve the farmer, it does almost seem that there no justice. The most significant, and to many the most gratifying, thing that has happened in Washington lately, is the complete success of the senate in pulling the hard-boiled, high-hatting Longworth-Tilson-Snell triumvirate of the house off the high horse this trio had mounted when the senate voted for the debenture scheme. The effect is to demonstrate that 41 Both Tony and Crystal felt that it was indecent to stand there staring down upon Callie Barrett, but it seemed equally wrong to wake her to a.

new realization of her grief and desperation. She was a little, thin thing, so pitifully naked now of all the artifices by which she had made herself attractive to Dick Talbot. The pale blonde hair, dry and scant and short, had once had a permanent wave, but it must have been a long time since she had been able to afford the luxury of a water wave to "set" it. Her pinched, narrow fare was so pale that it looked almost green. we wake her Tcnv whispered huskily.

seems such a a Crystal answered in a low votce There's something else And turned toward the scarred golden-oak dresser. There, propped against the speckled mirror, and making the pitiful more pitiful by contrast, was a magnificent portrait of Diek Talbot. On it was written: Dick to Callie." On dresser was an exact duplicate of the picture, except that it was inscribed: my darling, from her Crystal heard Tony draw a deep, sharp breath. It was the last gasp of pain for Dick Talbot that would ever rasp throat. Later she would feel overpowering relief that she had escaped, and contempt for herself as well as for him.

you? What do vou The two girls whirled from the dresser. Callie Barrett, awakened perhaps by the drama taking place in her mean little bedroom, rather than by any noise that the girls had IN NEW YORK New York, June everyone cm the gay white way groans loudest about hard times in the theater, Pat Gain smiles most broadly. Broadway's loss is always his gain. HO it one man who prospers in the midst of failure. For Cain's, as I have had occasion to mention before, is the place where all bad little plays go when they some good enea toot is the warehouse for theatrical failures.

Fat Cain is known on Broadway as a "last He's never yet attended a first night performance, but rarely has he missed a last night. For LITTLE JOE 1 ISHAWMS A HOLE IS A AIOMECW BUT TO A while (he house is more than ever a legislative body gagged and bound, the senate remains irce and Independent. As long as the senate continues to refuse to be bossed cither by the president or the house, the efforts of Speaker Longworth and his lieutenants to establish the supremacy of the house over the senate will continue to fail as miserably as this latest attempt. Few persons are going to shed any tears over that. Regardless of the merits oi the debenture plan or of any other specific measure and despite the fact that some of the world's most distinguished nitwits occupy senate seats, the intellectual superiority of the senate over the house is never seriously challenged.

The facts concerning the senate's defeat of the house arc these: The house passed the farm bill without debentures and the senate voted by a narrow margin to put debentures in. The two bills then went into conference and the house conferees arrogantly refused even to discuss the bill until the debentures provision was thrown out. Longworth. Tilson and Snell had decided that the house wouldn't be allowed to vote on debenture exhibition of steam roller tactics only matched by the way they railroaded the tariff bill through, forcing more than 400 members of tlie house into the position of so many robots. Culling a Big Bluff House leaders were serenely confident that the senate wouldn't dare hold up passage of the farm bill.

President Hoover himself shared this confidence. The general assumption was that, when the ten conferees, among whom only two senators had voted for the debentures, knocked the debentures out of the bill the senate would meekly surrender. The arrogance of the house, however. defeated its own purpose. The senate promptly smashed its bluff by refusing to accept the conference report.

The alacrity with which the house guidance of President tlieir large platter of crow and promised a house vote on debentures was nothing short of funny. They had to. of course. Otherwise they would have been in the position of obstructing passage of the farm bill position in which they thought they had the senate. was sitting up in bed, a lacetrimmed, faded pink voile nightgown tailing away loosely from her hollow chest.

Her pale blue eyes were blared wide with fright and anger. As rapidly and as ronciliatingly as she could. Crystal explained how Colin Grant had sent her. because oi his sympathy for her in her trouble. The girl lay hack on her grayish pillows, the breath coming gaspingly through her bluish lips.

When Crystal had finished her embarrassed explanation, Callie said, her eyes closed: "Mr. a good scout, to bother about me. but. you go back and tell him it's none ef his business, see? not asking charity. Guess I can take care of Crystal was nonpulssed, but Tony understood better.

She sat down on the edgp of the mussed and bent to lay her cool, tirm young cheek against ihc greenish-white one on the pillow. "Don't snub us. please, Callie. We know were butting in, but wc just want to you to know you have are Callie demanded jerkily, but she did not turn her head away. "I'm Tony Tarver, Callie sat up then Tony violently away.

the rieh girl Dirk's goin' to marry, ain't you? she laughed harshly. "I reckon you and me ought-2, be friends. Wc got a lot in common! Maybe we'll have more in common some day. because I'm going to bo mother of Dick's child. Laugh that NEXT: Tony proposes and Callie rejects.

(Copyright. 1929. NEA Service, Inc.) on that last night, Cain "gets the That is to say, he gets the scenery and the stage adornments. Sunday is the busiest day in the show warehouse business, since most failures "fold on Saturday night after battling for life through the week. Pat is one of the closest followers of theater reviews.

Not only does he get critical tips on what he may anticipate, but he gets a kick out of the mention of his name. He doesn't consider himself a Broadwayite, yet he is one of Broadway's famous characters. The drama reviewers for the metropolitan dailies invariably use his name when referring to plays that are likely to fail. They have made Cain synonymous with failure in the show business. There was.

for instance, an oftquoted one-line criticism printed a few seasons back. The name of the play was And the criticism read: voice from gotcha. This criticism has become almost a Broadway classic. The warehouse wherein rest the corpses oi hundreds of dramatic dreams is a five-story building with a cavernous basement. All through the day producers can be seen strolling about looking for bargains.

of road companies are outfitted in the Cain establishment. Everything from Long island gardens to Italian villas can be found there. And through all these assorted ruins the warehouse almost symbolic figure as it climbs over expensive plush chairs or rub 6 its bade against a southern colonial A large pan of milk sits at the foot of Cain's desk, ready for dinner. The Cain office desk is rimost a legend. There are profanity several hundred initials 1b it Freckles and His Friends POP SALESMAN SAM BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES have been told that almost every famous Broadway producer and scores of anonymous ones, have sat upon the desk nervously scratching their initials at some time or other.

Hence the desk has a considerable value as a item. Fresh from our to a boat to bid adieu to Charley Driscoll, also a who has the study of piracy as his hobby and hence is hsadsd for one coastal point in Spain where, according to rtgner. a pirate craft lies at the sea floor. Sad Chat, wont be happy 1 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE he gets it. Which reminds me that this town is overflowing with people who seem to be in their right minds, but who go in for the damdest Thence to meet Dolly Donn Bryne, widow of that amazing young Irish writer who met death in an auto crash about a year ago.

And she was about to leave for the Byrne castle in Ireland, accompanied by a couple of biographers. OILBERT SWAN. Copyright, 1929. NEA Service, Inc.) The spider alters its web every 24 hours. THE GUMPS-YES AND NO Locating the Cause I BABBS I Scientists say changeable weather is best tor us.

true most of us wouldn't have anything to talk about if we have a rain to cool things off once in a while. If the Democrats want a candidate who will run a strong race, why not try George Simpson? Platens Ziegfeld cays the public lent interested in his revues and The Boys Are Worried Too Many Architects Jim Has Company going to quit The trouble is, you can see his revues lroe on the beaches these days. There is only one motor car in Spitsbergen, according to government statistics. Wonder if that fellow feel like taking a chance sometimes when he comes to a red light. fc- John Haynes Holmes says that any man who gets married has to sacrifice 50 per cent of his individual liberty.

interesting to know that any 1 tt'mnnjfijr w' iiin inr exactly'. man has that much liberty left to give. We have no Mount Vesuvius over here, true, but of course always the Senate. SELDOM HEABD OF very seldom hear of a revue girl' kicking because she has to wear scanty clothing in the show. Yet Simone oabard.

former mannequin and last of refused to appear in the show because of the scanty coetumt it THURSDAY, JUNE 20,1929 Tutors WO eavtvuG ntyvjLCTKw called for. The theater took her court and claimed an indemnity ol $325. LABOR PLENTIFUL New New York papers re- cently carried a want ad for applicants, preferably reformed safe era. to conduct a aeries of demonstrations proving the difficulty In robbing newly developed safes and equipment. The Bankers' exposition was the advertiser and a note wu carried with the ad assuring complete confidence and a caution that unreformed robbers need net apply.

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