Life — May 31, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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a Life in Washington Spy altitude records were broken here recently— the airplane and the tariff. Lieutenant Soucek piloted a Navy machine up to forty thousand feet. As soon as he left the ground he was caught by a strong blast of wind—Congress being in session—that shot him up like a skyrocket. After a while he ran into some fleecy clouds which he mistook for the new woolen schedule, but his altitude registering only four miles, he decided they were something on the free list. At the “ceiling” his goggles were frosted over with what now appears to have been the new sugar duties. As he fell, he thinks he caught sight of Senator Smoot miles above him, piloting the protective tariff for the moon. More seriously, the new tariff bill has just about de- stroyed the Administration’s harmony. So far as I can see, it will offend every nation in the world except Liberia and what is far more important—it may hurt the Republicans at the next elections. The best thing that can be said for it is that it might have: been worse, except that the Senate Finance Committee will undoubt- edly make it so. With the President saying that even the House rates are too high and the Senate defying both him and the House on farm debentures, I look forward to a three-cornered dog-fight that will last all summer. So fascinating is the Senatorial spectacle that Mrs. Long- worth and Mrs. Gann sat through a recent session side by side without once raising the question of precedence. Add “pseudo” to the “don’ts” in your political Emily Post. Senator Fess, Hoover’s whip in the Senate, called Senators Brookhart, Borah and such, “pseudo-Republi- cans” for voting for the farm debentures. Senator Brookhart looked the word up in a dictionary, feeling sure that if it was Greek it was dirty, and found that it meant “lying, false, counterfeit, and spurious.” How- ever, Hoover’s hurried hospitality healed the breach in the party ranks; after Borah and Fess had broken bread at the White House, they declined to break heads in the Upper House. Senator Fess “apologized” by ad- mitting that he hadn't meant to call Brookhart a liar and the question of party orthodoxy was decently buried. They tell me that Secretary Mellon turned green and missed a couple of low discount rates when he read that Winston Churchill had told the House of Commons that, whatever happened, Great Britain wouldn't accept a penny less than she was already getting from Ger- many. I€ Mellon had said anything so unashamedly sensible, the cries of “Shylock!” would still be thunder- ing around the world; as it is, all anybody exclaimed was, “Hear! Hear!” Owen Young is still doing some wonderful broken-field running at the Reparations Con- ference, but there seems to be some doubt as to which team he belongs to and where the goal pasts are. If he gets that International Bank for Mr. Morgan now, he'll have earned it. —]. F. A young man stenographer was hit by a bullet in a holdup. Thinking he was mortally wounded, he whis- pered to a friend: “Write to Mamie, Give her my love, and tell her my last thoughts were of her. Carbon copies to Sadie, Peggy and Kathleen.” —The Lion. Does Your Luggage Furnish Bystanders a Lot of Innocent Amusements? —\ It Won’t If You Travel the Hartmann Way HY SUFFER the embarassment of traveling with VG seedy, old-fashioned luggage? Particularly when sporty, swagger looking Hartmann thoroughbreds are so easily owned. Have them in matched pieces, if you like. Traveling equipment you're proud of— Certain to arouse the envy of the most seasoned globe trotter. You'll like the ease and comfort of traveling with a NEW Hartmann. No need to PACK them. Clothes slip right in and come out looking almost fresher than before. They're light enough to handle easily, yet rugged enough to weather real abuse, You'll find them in 50 sizes and models — the newest colors — and priced to suit you perfectly. Sold almost everywhere. Hartmann Trunk Co. Racine, Wisconsin The Hartmann Tourcbe bolds 3 to 4 suits, accessories, ec., oF equivalent in, women's attire. Price, $20. #0 $70 Hartmann Wardrobe Trauks bold from 3 t0 20 suits or costume changes, Prict, $35. 10 $400. HARTMARN Trunks THE SMARTEST WAY TO TRAVEL comicbooks.com