Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-01-28

while there will be great, and in some
instances, astonishing improvement in
health and relief from rheumatism and
other uric acid diseases. There is no
doubt whatever that the people of this
country are the most wasteful of all
peoples in the matter of food. They
eat too much, they throw away what
would support an equal number of PEG
pie of India, China or Japan and thee
is not the least eXaggeration in the
statement that the cost of what the
average man in America eats in one
day, would keep an inhabitant of China
or India in food for two weeks. This
is temperate statement. know ii
to be true from personal observation on
the spot.
Whether one favors or disapproves
female suffrage there can scarcely be
but one answer to the question OF IA
vociferous suffragette who points to
Congress and asks. s'Could any body
of women waste more time in words ~
Congress with more work laid out than
could be accomplished in a whole year
of daily sessions has as yet not even be-
gun on one of the important items OF
its lengthy program. Everything waits
while the insurgents surge and Speaker
Cannon smokes and sits tight in the
chair from which they would pry HIM
loose. The Balllnger-Pinchot case
which was to be investigated" has not
had a preliminary airing and knowing
Congress it is safe to predict that when
it is introduced we will have a repeti-
ton of the Brownsville Investigation,
the taking of endless testimony, the
examination of innumerable witnesses
until the public will have forgotten the
original issue. The immigration COM
mittee hoped to spring sensation on
the public by the introduction of the
White Slave bill and few Represen-
tatives have worked themselves into a
fine fury over 1t but the public so far as
one can Judge it from the Capital shows
no acceleration of pulse. Southern
members embrace the opportunity to
saw the air and pow WOW about 'tht
disgrace to our glorious womenkind'
but cooler blooded statesmen and smart
New York millionaires lounge about
and think refiectively upon subject moi
one-half of which can be told.
In searching for an explanation O
! the general inefectiveness of Congress
too much stress cannot be laid upon thu
obvious fact that that body has becom,
huge social centre and that the Con
gressional session is regarded more serl
ously as social season than a periot
set aside for the transaction of natlona
business. Everyone is familiar WIFE
the fact that the majority of members
are engaged in grinding their own axe
and that many are the tools of corpora
tions that have elected them but asid
from this it is clear that social ambl
tons sap the energy and spirit of prac
tically all of them. Washington ha
become centre of fashion and extrava
gance The social pace is set by
yearly increasing colony of millionaire
with nothing to do but amuse them
selves. Congressman whose sole IN
come is their salary are endeayoring L
keep up and spending all their none.
and much of their energy in the effort
In any other city they would not al
tempt it but having here a vague sc
cial position accorded them by reaSo
of their office they become infected b.
the prevailing malady TO be in Tia
smartest set.