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TEXAS DAILY TRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives
Dallas, Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building.
Kansas City, Mo., 306 Coca Cola Building.
Chicago, 111., Association Building.
New York, 350 Madison Avenue.
St. Louis, 502 Star Building.
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318 Kohl Building, San Francisco, Cal.
507 Leary Building. Seattle, Wash.
Opposing the Public Will
Texas is a democratic state, and the fundamental
precept of democracy is majority rule. That this pre
cept has not been impressed upon various members
of the house of representatives was demonstrated
Monday when a small minority succeeded in defeat
ing submission of the proposed constitutional amend
ment which would be the basis upon which the state
could issue bonds for highway improvement.
The vote stood 97 to 28. three short of the required
two-thirds majority of the entire vote of the house.
Those 28 legislators succeeded in defeating a pro
posal which had the endorsement of practically ev
ery community in the state. Unless action is taken
during the last days of the session, which nowr ap
pears hopeless. Texas must wait two years before em
barking upon construction of a connected system of
state highways, and the loss that will accrue to the
state will affect every individual and industry.
Why those 28 members should refuse to permit the
proposed amendment to the constitution to go be
fore the voters is one of the enigmas of the session.
It is true that most of them are ardent exponents of
the “pay-as-you-go" plan of highway financing, but
inasmuch as the taxpayers of the state are the ones
who are footing the bill, they might at least have
condescended to give the taxpayers a voice in th"
matter. If the people of Texas were not satisfied
with the constitutional amendment as proposed they
would have had the opportunity, had it been submit
i ted. to so express themselves at the polls.
Had the legislature submitted the amendment, op
ponents of the bond plan for financing the state
highway system would have been at liberty to take
their cause to the voters. If the plan lacks merit
they could have pointed this out. Apparently, they
are obsessed with the idea that the voters of Texas
are not competent to look after their own welfare
and that it is their duty to assume the position of
guardians.
Regardless of what action the legislature may
take, the highway bond proposal will be an issue in
Ithe next campaign, and some of those legislators who
have adrogated to themselves the power of guardian
ship for the voters of Texas may feel the sting of
wll-merited rebuke.
Teeth in the Federal Law
The Jones bill, recently passed by congress and
popularly known as the dry penalty bill, has put real
teeth in the prohibition law, was the verdict of New
York attorneys who met last week to discuss its pro
visions.
Their verdict, like that of prohibition officials and
the assistant, attorney general, was that the law ap
plied with equal vigor to the pocket flask carrier,
home brew manufacturer, speakeasy propidetor and
wholesale bootlegger.
The measure, which was one of the last signed bi
former President Coolidge. makes no distinction be
tween the citizen who carries a pint of whiskey in a
pocket flask from the speakeasy to his home and the
manufacturer who sells liquor in carload lots. The
new law makes it mandatory that any person ac
cused of cardying liquor, regardless of the amount,
must face a felony charge and be liable to a maxi
mum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000
fine.
The Jones act has but one loophole, was the ver
dict of the New York attorneys. That is possession.
Manufacture, sale, transportation, importation and
exportation of any alcoholic beverage is a felony, but
possession remains a misdemeanor, the maximum
fine for which is $500 Lawyers were of the opinion
that this would impair the effectiveness of the law
in some cases.
The effect of the drastic provisions of the law
will be felt from homes to the roots of the bootleg
ging business, was the claim of one attorney. He
asserted that he had talked with ten bootleggers con
cerning the new law, and that all of them were either
planning to go out of business temporarily, or to
change their manner of operation. He added that
the moral effect of the law1 was exerting a marked
influence among proprietors of speakeasies and night
clubs and that liquor prices would skyrocket for a
time.
If the law proves as effective as the New York
attorneys predict it will be of great value in cleaning
| up such conditions as exist in New York City. Chica
go, Philadelphia and other large centers of popula
tion where bootlegging heretofore has been carried on
almost openly. Application of the federal law in
those cities has proved unavailing so far as stopping
distribution is concerned the bootlegger, if captured,
paying a small fine, which he charged to general ex
penses. Under the new law he not only will run the
risk of a lengthy prison sentence, but also may re
ceive a fine which would cut of a large portion of his
profits, this fine to be graded at the discretion of the
court.
BRAINS AND GENIUS
(New York Times).
In one of his recent lectures before the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. Sir Arthur Keith spoke of the
Studies which anatomists had made of the brains of
men of genius. As a general rule, the mass of the
brain is a good indication of unusual intellectual
power of some sort. But the particular development
and delicate organization of certain regions of the
brain appear to be of more importance than mere
size.
Sir Arthur referred to several anomalies which had
presented themselves in the pursuit of these inquiries.
One was the case of Anatole France. He certainly
Was a man of genius, under any tolerable definition,
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yet he had a small brain. Its total weight was found
to be only 36 ounces, which is, as Sir Arthur Keith
said, “12 ounces short of the allowance usually given
to a farm laborer.”
There could hardly be a sharper reminder that
quality counts here, too, as well as quantity. The
lecturer went on to say that the common notion is
that a large brain has been given to man in order
that he might pass examinations or become an expert
of one sort or another. But perhaps the true theory
is that it was designed to yield enjoyment of Ufa. By
that test perhaps many obscure farmers got more
satisfaction out of their brains than did Anatole
France.
ONLY ELEVEN QUIT
(Dallas News).
Dartmouth announces that only 11 freshmen had
quit at the end of the first semester on account of
failure to pass examinations. This is the lowest rec
ord in nine years. Dartmouth picks its freshmen
now. Applicants are chosen on the basis of their
likelihood to make good students. The authorities j
feel that they have reason for the new policy.
It is not unusual for several hundred first-year
students in Texas colleges and universities to fall by
the wayside. Some of these schools are more soft
hearted than others about allowing the “lame ducks"
to linger on. but the casualties postponed are usually
casualties none the less as the months go by.
There may be some advantages in “exposing"
young people to education, whether they 6how an\
aptitude for it or not. But tax-supported institutions
are scarcely legitimate places for this expensive prac
tice. Dartmouth feels that the privately maintained
college is not the place for it, either. Both the school
and the student suffer by it to some extent. Waste
usually imposes a greater penalty than is directly in
volved. Especially is that true of wasted time and
opportunity.
-——
When you see a gentleman rolling a peanut along
the highway with his nose, that is punishment for
not reading The Literary Digest—Los Angeles Times.
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By Charles P. Driaeoll
AN IDEA FOR TOWN FI-ANNERS
Radburn is a new town, just coming into being in
New Jersey, within the metropolitan commuting zone
of New York City. It is only a dozen miles by motor
from the Jersey end of the new Hudson river bridge,
now building.
Radburn will be almost perfect as a modern town.
What it lacks of perfection will be due to the crowd
ed conditions of metropolitan population that sur
round its site. In Des Moines or Kansas City or
Minneapolis or St. Paul or Milwaukee, where these
crowded conditions do not exist to any such extent,
the Radburn idea could be worked out to perfection
for a suburban residence section.
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Radburn is being built upon a plant radically dif
fering from that of any city in the urodld. It will
contain at least twenty-five thousand inhabitants al
most as soon as the building is finished. Thanks to
the pressure of population in the big city, there will
be no lack of occupants for the cozy homes of Rad
burn.
Houses do not face the streets in long rows, with
the backs of the houses looking upon alleys or into a
scanty hollow square.
The houses front upon large front yards. Each
house fronts upon two front yards, in fact. for. in
stead of having back yards, up against one another,
there are no back yards, and the front yards face one
another across a walkway.
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There are six hundred houses to a block. In the
center of each of these blocks is ample park space,
tennis courts, playgrounds, and shaded walks. No
streets within the block.
The six hundred houses, well built of brick, are
grouped in sixteen little strings, each string having
its paved driveway, with dead end, for delivery serv
ice and other essential traffic pertaining to the fam
ilies living in those groups.
The backs of the houses look upon these private
driveways.
On the whole, Radburn ought to be an attractive
little town. It would be ideal if it were farther away
from a big city, and not surrounded by less desirable
towns. I’d like to see the Radburn block plan tried
in a big way as a western city suburb.
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HERBERT HOOVER’S FUTURE ANALYZED
By RABBI A. H. SILVER
Of The Temple. Cleveland. Ohio.
(Abba Hillel Silver was born at Neinstadt,
Schirwindt, Lithuania. Jan. 28. 1893. He is a
graduate of the University of Cincinnati and He
brew- Union college. From 1915 to 1917 he was
rabbi of Congregation L'Shem Shamayim at
Wheeling. W. Va. Since that time he has been
rabbi of The Temple at Cleveland . He was in
France during the World war at the request of
the United States and French governments).
The American people l*epe to find in the incom
ing presidential administration those qualities of
vision, leadership and sympathetic understanding of
the needs of our country’s great masses which w-ere
lacking in the previous administration.
Herbert Hoover will bring to his administration
his expert know-ledge as an engineer, which will un
doubtedly help him in many of his problems. The
presidency of the United States, however, is more
than an engineering job. It is a job of statesman
ship and leadership.
We are entering upon an era of decreasing eco
nomic opportunities for the rank and file. The
economically independent middle class is being
crushed out of existence by the vast mergers which
are going on at a namazing rate. We are facing the
prospect of becoming a nation of employes, wherein
a very small group w-ill definitely control our indus
trial life and w-ith it. of course, our political life as
well. How- far shall this concentration of power go
on? How shall the people be safeguarded against a
possible abuse of such power?
The American people hope for some guidance
from the new administration in this vast perplexity.
They hope that Main street will have at least as easy
access to the White House as Wall street and that
the toilers of the earth, the miners and farmers and
mill workers will find in the new president at least
as understanding a friend and guide as organized
capital.
Mr. Hoover is internationally minded. He knows
that no nation can go it alone. Building 15 or 50
cruisers w-ill not make us secure from attack or from
defeat. We cannot arm against the world. Nor can
any other nation. The American people hope that
Mr. Hoover w-ill bring back into our life a bit of the
international idealism of Wilson’s day. The Ameri
can people are not tired of Idealism.
CHILDREN! CHILDREN!
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A OIRLWHO MADE
MEN LIKE HER
° By ROE FULKERSON by Central Press Association, Ine. j
READ THIS FIRST:
Betty Brown, dancer, goes riding
with a friend of her dancing career
and has her leg dislocated in an ac
cident. Andy Adair, who drives her,
does not come to the hospital to see
her, but George Harris, who disap
proves of her dancing, pays her hos
pital bills, and makes her cashier in
his restaurant. Later she has an
operation which cures the limp
which resulted from the accident.
While working for George Harris
she takes a business course. In her
first position as a secretary she and
her employer dance with glee over a
contract secured: but his wife ar
rives on this scene and has her dis
charged.
(Now Go On With The Story)
CHAPTER XLVII
A discouraged and weary Betty
went back to the restaurant the
morning after she had received her
letter of recommendation from the
kindly Mr. Smith. She was eating
her breakfast when George Harris
arrived. She motioned him to join
her.
"I have lost my nice position,
George!” she announced.
“What was the matter? I thought
you were delightfully situated."
“I wras, but something came up
which made it impossible for Mr.
Smith to keep me. Look what a nice
letter of recommendation he gave
me.” She handed it across the table
for him to read.
"That is wonderful,” agreed
George, diverted from his inquiry as
to w'hy she left. "You can have your
position back if you like. I am al
ways for you. Betty, you know*. Our
lives are linked for always. I be
lieve.”
"Yes, George, you are the kindest
person in the world. But I wrould
like to try once more. Let me just
go on as I have, attending to the
cash at dinner time. That will leave i
me the entire day to hunt another
position. It should not be hard with
this letter to recommend me.”
"Just as you prefer.” he said.
Betty was glad when some minor
matter took him away from tht
table and ended the conversation.
After breakfast she walked to a
nearby park and sat down to think
seriously over her affairs. She was
much discouraged and almost ready
to tell George Hp.rris she w’ould
marry him whenever he wanted.
She smiled in spite of her trouble:
George had never proposed to her
in so many words! But she felt she
knew* George and his ways so well;
he wras just waiting for the oppor-,
tunity. All he needed was a little
encouragement.
On at least three occasions he had
approached the subject. She had
diverted him. knowing she could not
refuse him. but wanting to put off
the time as long as she could.
George had certainly stood staunch
ly bv on etverv occasion when she
had needed a friend!
She imagined she could sense the
workings of that slow', methodical
mind. He was waiting for her to
exhaust this desire for secretarial
wmrk just as he had waited for her
to see the follv of dancing. Per
haps he thought if she h*d experi
ence with other people, she would
be more able to appreciate him and
his life.
The inevitahleness nf it rrad°
Betty impatient. She felt to s^me
degree at fault for dancing in Mr.
Smith’s office, but justified her
self; any other girl would have done
the same thing nn^er the circum
stances. Mr. Smith had not thought
sh° was wrong.
She determine^ to make good at
the new work. She had pleased Mr.
Smith: there were other nice men in
business to whom she could make
herself necesarv. She arose to eo
to the comer, buy a paper and hunt
ar^he*- rtosiMnn.
The Help Wanted column showed
only one advertisement which look
ed like a good prosnect. jit was for
a stenographer and tvfist In an
“Let’s play hookey, then.”
insurance office. As usual, it told
applicants to call at nine o'clock.
At the office it was evident they
were experienced employers. As soon
as she enteerd she was handed a
blank to fill out. It seemed to cov
er everything but its wording did
not make it necessary for her to tell
that she had been a dancer. She
filled it out, signed it, attached her
i letter of recommendation, and took
a seat with a dozen other girls.
On two occasions a young lady
clerk came to ask for one of the ap
plicants by name, telling them that
they need not wait. They would be
sent for if needed. Another girl was
called to come into an inner office;
a few minutes later Betty followed
by request.
She was given dictation and a
typing speed test. At its conclusion
she was told that she was satisfac
tory. She was asked if she could
go to work at once and assented.
The girl who had her in charge
took her to the stenographic depart
ment and introduced her to its
head. Miss Atkins, who was brisk,
curt and businesslike. Forty typists
worked in this room, a supervisor
passing constantly up and down be
tween the>i. She looked over the
typists’ shoulders, and from time to
time gathered up their work and in
spected it. Betty was hardly seated
when she came to say: "Go to Mr.
Montgomery's office for dictation.
I will show you the way.”
She led her to another office.
Betty seated herself beside a man
who began to dictate letters without
looking at her. She took four, and
as shp passed out was directed to
another office, where shp took two
more from an equally absorbed and
indifferent man.
Back at her desk she transcribed
as fast as she could. The last letter
was hardly finished until she was
sent to another man. who dictated
to her for an hour: legal matter and
difficult. When the luncheon hour
came the girl at the next desk told
her to coma to the cafeteria con
ducted by the office, where lunch
was supplied by the company at
cost.
She asked this girl about the work.
Only the president of the company
had a secretary. When other of
ficers wanted a stenographer they
mished a button and one was sent
into them. The same girl was not
likely to take dictation from the
same man once a wek. Everything
was so systematized that stenog
raphers came and went every day;
there was little, if any. prospect Of
advancement.
Betty finished out the afternoon
in the office. When she went back
to the restaurant for her dinner she
asked George to wait a bit with her
after dinner.
He came to her desk and sat down
on one of the stools when the rush
was over. Betty again had occasion
to smile at the spiteful way in which
the head waitress slammed the door
as she went out. George did not
seem to notice it, however, so Betty
said nothing.
She explained conditions in the
insurance office and asked George’s
advice about staying.
“I don’t believe I would stay,” he
said, after weighing the matter. “I
can see their reasons for arranging
their work in that way, but it elim
inates all possibility of any stenog
rapher making a name for herself
or getting any promotions. Report
for duty in the morning and explain
your reasons for not staying.”
His advice was in line with Betty's
own feelings, so she followed it. The
efficient Miss Atkins told her she
was sorry. Her work of the day be
fore had been satisfactory. Finding
Betty’s mind was made up, she told
her to come back on the first of the
month and get her one day’s pay.
Betty was again part of the vast
army of unemployed, and so much
discouraged she did not try any
more that day. She was again un
decided if it was worth while to go
on. She was inclined to go back to
the restaurant, take up her position
ns cashier, and await the inevitable.
As she strolled down the street,
however, she met Jimmy Smith, her
late employer. He insisted on tak
ing her to a soda fountain with him.
When they had ordered, seated at
one of the small tables, he told her
how sorry he was about the occur
rence in his office.
“But I am married to her, you
know,” he ended, pathetically.
“I understand perfectly,” soothed
Betty. “I blame no one but myself.”
“Have you another position?” he
asked.
She explained to him why she left
the position in the insurance office.
He thought she was right about it,
and said he would keep his eves open
and see if he couldn’t find her a
place.
"I wish I could see you now and
then.” he sighed, “but, of course, I
can't. People misunderstand so eas
NEW YORK, March 1*.—Some
of us were grouped in a night club
comer early this yawning and dis
cussed a Broadway lass who re
cently wedded a well known man
who is rich. It appears that the ru
mor speaders are positive that the
marriage didn’t take.
“Isn’t it a shame?” remarked
one, “her young life is ruined, al
ready.”
“Oh. I dunnosaid another, “she
may not acquire any happiness
with him. but eventually she’ll get
some swell alimony, and stocks and
bonds.”
"Mebbeso,” mebbeso’d the first,
“but did you ever sit home alone
on a rainy Sunday hnd count cou
pons? It’s a dull diversion.”
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ROTHSTEfN’S GHOST WALKS
The ghost of Arnold Rothstein
again stalked the boards when
members of the cast of “Keen
Shuffling” asked, through Actors’
Equitp, two weeks’ pay from the
Beckman Credit Corporation, con
trolled by the late gambling czar.
The demand was made in an arbi
tration hearing under the rules of
the American Arbitration associa
tion. and the actors ere awarded
$4,257.63 of a total claim of $6.
920.75 for salaries and carfare from
Chicago.
As though sufficient publicity
had not. attended the multifarious
activities of Rothstein. Ivy Lee,
noted publicity ace. was chairman
of the board of arbitration, which
included H. S. Kraft, producer
manager, and Walter Hingham,
actor.
Herman Finkelstein of the Na
than Berkan offices, representing
the Rothstein estate, contended the
Equity’s Chicago agent had
breached a verbal contract to per
mit the cast of “Keep Shuffling”
to “go commonwealth” in Chicago
and halted the show aft°r a single
performance in tb^ last week of the
run had been given. Equity said
the troune was withdrawn because
salaries had been unpaid for the
week previous. A number of the
members of the happy-go-lucky,
all-colored cast testified.
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EVENING MATTERS
Broadway hasn't forgotten the
so-called feud via printer’s ink of
George Jean Nathan and Alexander
Woollcott, the critics. After a
series of pokes at each other,
Nathan tagged Woollcott “The
Seidlitz Powder of Times Square."
Not long after Woollcott was in
Ithica, N. Y„ and called r.\ the
ed |->r of the Cornell Widow,
which Nathan managed when he
was at that, college.
“I ill give you SlO.non for all of
George Jean Nathan’s writings in
your college publication,” bargained
Woollcott.
“But why?” asked the intrigued
.editor.
“Because I can get $20,000 for
them in New York from Nathan,
who probably wants them sup
pressed!” was the snooty retort.
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INCIDENTALLY
Speaking of Woollcott recalls his
debut as a dramatic reviewer. It
was in 1914 when the N. Y. Times
promoted him from the reporter
ranks. He succeeded Adolph Kiau
ily. It seems impossible for a mar
ried man to have even a perfectly
innocent friendship with a girl. I
sure do miss you in the office,
Betty.”
“Not half as much as I miss the
office, Jimmy." She felt better
about using his first name, now that
he was no longer her employer. “I
have never been as happy anywhere
as I was in your office.”
“You weren't happy before you
came there?” he asked, in surprise.
“No, nor now! I am getting des
perate. I guess I’ll have to get mar
ried!” She laughed to take thp con
versation out of its serious veoin.
“Oh. my gosh! Don’t do that!
No matter how desperate your
straits, don't do that!"
They ’Tighed, and at her sugges
tion he left the place alone, lest they
meet his wife and get him into more
trouble.
(TO BE CONTINUED' i
ber, whose wife is Jane Cowl, the
star.
The day after his appointment
Woollcott grumbled to well-wish
ers: “I'm little disappointed,” he
said. “I accepted under a mis
apprehension. I thought Miss
Cowl went with the job.”
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A HOOFER’S REMINISCENCES
O. M. Samuels, t.fe' New Orleans
representative and critic for Va
riety, who gives actors the mis
eries. He is a prosperous house
wrecker there, but reviews theatri
cals for diversion. He hasn't ac
cepted a wage in 15 years.
The molar whitening used by
actors whose teeth are not so hot.
The Winnipeg manager’s wife
who also heads the local Gerry
Society and prosecutes parents
who have children in their act.
Irene Martin, who was Gus Ed
wards' best looker in 1910. George
Jessel. then 11, awakened her ev
ery morn and ran her errands.
She married Skeets Gallagher a
few years later, and Jessel fainted
at the news.
The photo of Marilyn Miller at
the age of four, which hangs in
the green room in the cellar at the
Bijou, Lansing. Mich.
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Who an I? Who is soon to be my
son-in-law? How many children
hive I?
What is a minaret?
Who purchased Manhattan Island
from the Indians?
‘B° ye therefore ready also: for
the Son of man cometh at an hour
when ye think not.” Where is this *
passage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are great
workers. They do net conserve their
energy. ; *
STAR LORE
Fy Arthur DpV. Carpenter
How many stars can you see in
all the sky? There are about 20
stars of the first magnitude, and
the number increases per magnitude
in about the ratio of 3 to 1. That
is. there are 20 stars of the first
magnitude; about 60 of the second;
180 of the third; 540 of the fourth;
1.620 of the fifth; and 4.860 stars of
the sixth magnitude. The actual
number differs but little from this.
There are actually 4.850 sixth mag
nitude stars. Thus we see there are,
roughly, about 7.000 stars in the en
tire heavens visible to the unaided
eye.
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow;
Charles A. Lindbergh: four.
2. Tower of a mosque.
3. Peter Minuit. *
4. St Luke xii,. 40.
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Bv CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON. March 13.—To
speak of Senator Curtis of Kansas
as “Charley” always has been con
sidered absolutely the correct thing.
I never heard the former senator
actually say. “Call me Charley,” but
everybody did it, and it evidently
was no shock to him. No public
man ever wore senatorial honors
more unostentatiously than the Sun
flower state solon.
Vice President Curtis seems likely
to be quite a different individual.
To the whole senate's surprise, the
Kansan takes his new position with
great seriousness. Hp is the same
kindly old man that he was previ
ously, but it has been clear ever
since election day that he felt he
had a much more important part
than formerly to live up to.
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Mr .Hoover's understudy has re
buked no one, to be sure, for ad
dressing him as “Charley,” but there
is a subtle something in his man
ner which indicates that he resents
it a trifle now, as disrespectful, not
to himself, but to the vice presiden
tial office.
All the senators are practicing, to
acquire the new habit. It is rather
difficult, after nearly 30 years of
nothing but “Charley.” and they
forget occasionally, whereupon a
hurt look* comes into his eyes, and
the indivfaual who made the break
stammers land corrects himself.
Vice Pfsident Curtis will be ac
corded a j the deference he may im
ply thaf he would like to have
shown tm him. for every soul on
Capitol Mill has a real afection for
him andlx-ants to please him—only,
who woufi have imagined that he’d
care two poppers?
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The vie president usually is
thought oAin Washington as a good
deal of a Political idler—a person
ality of nfc particular importance,
except, of fcourse. by virtue of the
fact that, |t any time, the next
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a
minute may make him the most im
portant one in the country.
This assuredly is the feeling that
the senate itself has toward its pre
siding officer.
The supposition was that Senator
Curtis, in running for the vice presi
dency, was virtually retiring—that
he planned to drop out of active
public life and yet had a fancy for
remaining in his old friends’ com
pany as a kind of an emeritus. It
was taken for granted that victory
would please him. much in the way
that he would prize a loving cup or
some such pieve of bric-a-brac, in
token of remembrance—but to have
him accept it as genuinely valuable
—the “Hill’ half smiles and is half
touched by it.
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Vice President Dawes unquestion- I
ably supposed he was stepping into ]
a highly significant post when he
dealt the desk before him its iniWl
smash four years ago, and that Be
viewed as unqualifiedly fun be
cause Dawes did not real now
badly mistaken he was.
Vive President Curtis, however,
knows the senate gavel for exactly
what it is worth, and his satisfaction
in coming into possession of it has
an element of the naive about it,
sugestive of the thought that any
one so easily gratified ought to be
encouraged to get all the enjoyment
he ran out of his plaything.
So. if the new vice president
chooses to feel that he has been pro
moted. there will be none to say
him nay in the United States senate
—or to call him “Charley,” either, as
soon as they all can get out of the
way of it.
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Vice President Curtis cannot pos
sibly be anything else than a good
natured presiding officer.
At the same time, he obviously is
going to stand no nonsense.
There will be -discipline in the
senate while he occupies the ros
trum.
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