The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-26
|. O. p. WOULD LIKE
 ID FORGET TARIFF
 BILLS AT PRESENT.
Times Out of Joint For Tram ing Permanent Measure. Big Business Demands
 Immediate Action
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau, The Age-Herald.
 800 Davidson Buildin

| M hAninGIOn hufchut 1nN 800 Davidson Building Washington, April 25.-(Speetal.).- The republicans approach the enact ment of the Fordney- McCumher tariff as galley slaves scourged to their labor. But for the insistenee of "big business" 1t is generally be- lieved that they would forego all tariff legislation.
 For it is recognized by republican leaders that for the passage of per manent tariff statutes, the times are peculiarly out of joint. Whereas Tn other days, the United States was a borrowing nation, it is now the creditor nation of the world, and l possesses more than half the gold supply of the world.
 And Europe cannot pay it's enor- nous obligation amounting to more than Sll .OOO, ,O0O. .0o0-and thus re- store American prosperity-unless Europe is permitted to scale the tariff wall with it's merchandise.
 Forced To Proceed While republican leaders recognize the foregoing facts, they are forced nevertheless to proceed. Big bus : mess" 8 most insistent. Big bus mess" has chafed under inordinate delay which has already attended re- publican efforts. The whips are cracking and the republicans are pro- ceeding. but slowly and totally with out enthusiasm.
 The consuming public is already registering it's protests. The repub- lican press is already scoring the measure which bends before the Sem ate. The New York Herald. the New York Globe, the New York Tribune, the Brooklyn Eagle. the Philadelphia Public Ledger the Chicago News, and other notable publications which gen ally subscribe to the republican paternoster, have displayed bitter ness.
 But the chief contributing factor 10 republican trepidation is the fact that the public, not only democratic but republican public, indicates unmls- takably that it will not stand Tor for he has written me beautiful let ter"
 ''of course he has, my dear. They all do. And did you answer Ill? queried sophisticated Kitty.
 ''No. I thought I would at first but decided that I would wait until saw him on the set"
 Good Lord, Virgie, No one would think you were so clever to LOOK al you. Where did you learn never to put anything on paperT
 That was a new idea 10 me put l thought it best to change the con versaton SO I asked;
 What happened to you, Kitty. You seem happier tonight than usual after a day at the studio
 well we had considerable fun on the set today. We have two musici- ans whose music is supposed to give the proper emotional atmosphere and I have a scene where I am sitting al the piano Tony Melville, who was perhaps more temperamental than usual this morning, asked me 10 play something with lots of emotion in lt. So I strummed lightly The Sunshine Of Your Smile. It is the only thing l know, Virgie.
 "Ihat didn't please Tony at all and he said: Don't do that, Kitty. Play Hearts and Flowers
 "Virgie, all morning long he had those musicians droning out Hearts and Flowers until thought l should die.
 And I said, Tony don't know it.
 And, Virgie, what do you think he said? He told be: You go on with your Sunshine of Your Smile." and I'll have the musicians play Hearts and Flowers
 Can you imagine me trying to keep a saddened. interpretive ex- pression while 1 was drumming Sun shine of Your Smile on the piano and the musicians were doing their best to drown me out with Hearts and | Flowers? It was a scream, Virgie. | and to cap the climax Tony Melville, if you please. turned his back upon me and the camera and, using both arms in sweeping gestures, he faced ! the musicians and led them as though he had bet on them to win out in the musical battle.
 q simply howled with laughter. Had my life depended on It couldn't have stopped. The scene, instead or being a little tragic interlude, was the laughing climax of a Ben Turpin comedy. Even Julian smiled for tn. first time I have seen him." "Oh, Kitty, was Julian there to- day?"
 "Yes, and he avoided me. caught day in secluded corner giving him. self 8 shot in the arm
 "Oh how horrible. Kitty!" And, somehow, l feel that the worst is yet to come" Kitty's in tuitive fear was flippantly expressed as usual.
 Tomorrow-virginia Meets Julian Thorndyke.
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