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THE TAMING OF BILBO
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Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, who threatened to “raise
more hell than Huey” when he arrived in Washington, is
mystifying the capital where he went in advance of the open
ing of Congress to prepare himself for the coming session.
His subdued demeanor gives no indication that he will
make good his threat. Bilbo seems to speak in a monstrous
little voice, and promises, when he gets on the Senate floor,
to do his roaring gently. t.
An explanation offered is that the ranting, if not roar
ing, small man from Huey’s neighboring State has been tak
en under the broadly protecting wing of Senator Pat Harri
son of Mississippi, who is an old head at Washington and
knows what’s what in politics, as well as those things that
are meet for the expansive general welfare.
Another thought is that Bilbo has behaved in the man
ner in which Senator Dill says, in his recent article in the
Saturday Evening Post, is the habit of recalcitrant solons
when they get to Washington. Refractory as they may be
ahead of time, when t,hey.»arrive in the capital they usually
bow to the subduing t^fect of its traditions. The wild be
come tame, forget their threat's to rant and roar and act as
has been customary for other Senators from the beginning
of Congress. Except, of course, Mr. Long.
LIVED IN A PRIMITIVE WAY
John Shell died a while back in his cabin up in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Tennessee. Considerable publicity re
sulted, due to the fact that the old man claimed he had at
tained the age of 121 years. Physicians were interested and
held a post-mortem. They agreed that Mr. Shell had un
doubtedly lived a half-century beyond the “three score and
ten” allotted to humans. They unanimously disagreed,
however, with the contention of neighbors that the old man
was the father of a seven-year-old tyoy. “It is simply not
being done these days” was their verdict regarding his al
leged fatherhood.
From a biological viewpoint Shell’s accomplishment in
weathering so many summers and winters in interesting.
From all others it is of little consequence. The old man liv
ed in obscurity in a primitive way since birth. The simple
routine of his childhood life was his habit throughout his re
maining years on earth. While his country became mighty,
while the world was progressing, during his lifetime, far
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faster than it had in the last two thousand years, John Shell
eked out an existence in his lonely mountain home. He saw
few people, probably thought few thoughts, and in obscurity
finally died. Life may have bored him but his mind was
probably not active enough to experience boredom.
Most normal men of forty have, in reality, lived longer,
seen more and been of greater service to the world than the
patriarch Shell. “We live in deeds, not years.” We live in
thought, feeling, experience and achievement. Most of the
people you know, still young, have lived incomparably long
er than did old John Snell, drowsing through the monoton
ous years—through the suns of summer and the snows of
winter—in his hide-away on the Blue Ridge while a busy
world passed him by.—Exchange.
Newspaper story says “naturalists are at a loss to un
derstand how a kangaroo skeleton could have been found in
Africa.” We‘re not good at solving hard ones like that,
either, but our guess would be that a kangaroo must have
passed on, as they say, somewhere in that neighborhood.
Yes, boys and girls kissed back in 1890; but it resembled
a chicken picking up corn, instead of vulcanizing.—Los An
geles Times.
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Million Paid As
‘Compromise’ Tax
(By The Associated Press) r
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Collec
tion of more than one million dol
lars in “compromise” income taxes
during the year was announced by
Assistant Attorney-General Frank
J. Wideman.
Surveying the work of the justice
department’s tax division, created
January 1 by order of President
Roosveelt, Wideman reported the
unit obtained convictions in 92 per
cent of its criminal action against
tax evaders.
Wideman said compromise settle
ments had been made where evi
dence for a conviction was lacking.
Litigation pending before the div
j ision aggregates more than one hun
dred and sixty-six million dollars in
flaxes, he at^ed. * ■ * J
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