The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-21
HUMAN NATURE IN WASHINGTON
By FRED C. KELLY.

Senator Terrell. former governor OF
Georgia. who has succeeded the late
Senator Clay. says he got started on his
way 10 fame in consequence Of a boy
hood longing for some nice. easy oceupa-
ton. he was not like the boys one reads
about who yearn for things TO accom-
plish All he wanted was some calling
that offered fair remuneration In return
for light, congenial labor So he decided
to study law. And that was his step
ping-stone 10 political success. He had
been brought up on a farm and had
worked so hard all his life that his soul
painted for something that would include
good clothes and leisure. The only peo-
pie who had such things within the range
Of his observation were the lawyers. He
began 10 frequent the cOurtrooms where
the lawyers in long black coats. with
dandruff on the collars, were breathing
heavily over their cases, and the legal
profession looked so inviting that IL SEEM
ed foolish TO stay out. Down In Georgia,
| Terrelfs friends jolingly declare that he
left a team OF mules standing at the piow
when he suddenly took a notion to join
the leisure class. as lawyers were re-
garded at that time. But the story, he
| says. is slightly exaggerated.
He had stopped school at fourteen 20
devote his whole energies to harassiaG
tho soil on his fathers farm, and ne was
nineteen when he got the notion to be a
lawyer. so that he could take things
! easy. Some fifteen months later nc was
regular lawyer. But he didn't take
things easy. as he had planned to. In
| fact. he worked hard. and it wasn't long
until he went TO the State legislature.
Then he became attorney general, and
| later on went to the governors chair
Now that he is a United States Sena-
| tor, he bases the success of his career
on the fact that farm work looked 50
/ hard and the lawyers life so easy when
| he was a youngster behind the plow.
When Champ Clark becomes Speaker
of the House. those who like to bewai
/ the passing of the ancient tongues. such
as Latin and Greek, viii have new
champion to talk about. For Champ
| Clark is about as good an offhand Latin
scholar as one would ind. He keeps
reading enough Latin from time to time
TO prevent himself from getting rusty or
/ the subject, and. if need be, he could
reeite from Horace or Virgil, word for
word, just as long as anybody would lis
/ ten. on one occasion. during the last ses-
( sion. another member of the House
sprung a passage from the jevial Horace
/ in the original text. And about half Of 81
was wrong. Speaker Cannon was oceu-
/ pied at the moment and didn't notice tht
| slip, bat Champ Clark was on his feel
/ in a second with the observation that il
/ one must quote Latin he would insist
/ that It be given just as IL was IN the
/ hook Ard at the request OF the mem
/ Der who was In error, Cousin ChamT
quoted the entire passage correctly with
/ all the informal ease OF the head OF a
| family asking a blessing that he's being
/ using all his life
Dick Lewis. the colored man who has
charge OF the pay barber shop in the Sen
/ ate wing OF the Capitol, is watching tbs
papers closely for the pictures Of al