The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
hIs Soldiers May Challenge Com
 parison With World.
DESERVE BETTER TREATMENT
Legislators Applaud Perfection Os Drill But Refuse Adequate EmOIU- nent-About the DeviIfish
 and New Congressman.
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BlYo an C4ulDlLlOu QIlll III tue IAu4AB hall every Friday afternoon. The de mand for tickets each week is thrice greater than the halls seating ca- pacity. Senators, representatives, non-omcials and their wives. mothers, cousins, daughters and sweethearts attend to witness a performance. given without money and without price, that is better than any play.
 The officers at Fort Myer had the thought originally that the drill would get the civilian and the soldier into closer touch, and that by showing what the enlisted men of the army are trained to do, and can do, the of ncials among the spectators might b0 induced to see that justice is done the service in the halls of congress.
 Senators and representatives, and the others as well, cheer the drilling and so away saying wonderful" and ready to admit to anyone who aska that the men are a fine lot and that the country ought to be proud of them. However, when it comes to a question of voting an increase of pay for the fine Iot'' in order that 1t may be kept in the service of the country, the senators and representatives shake their heads and go on the ex- tremely doubtful list.
 At this Fort Myer drill Q troop of cavalry does everything that it ts possible for cavalry to do, and the bat tery of field artillery follows suit. Fine men and fine soldiers, straight soldierly drilling, with fanciful ma neuvers that no one would believe possible of accomplishment arc thrown in for good measure.
 The men who ride the horses and bring in the feldpieces fin battery" and to action rear" and action front" are not picked men. The cay airy troop and the batteries alter nate Rt the work week in and week out, and never a man but can ride standing on his head (this literally and never a man but can pick up . handkerchief from the ground with his hand, with his horse going q charge speed.
 Splendid Work Poorly Rewarded.
 The whole thing is a seemingly i'm possible thing, but yet possible to these young fellows who are being paid something less than 50 cents q day by the order of the congress of the United States.
 It may go almost without saying that no new representative comes to Washington without holding the hope in his heart that firmly impressed upon the minds of his constituents ia the feeling that he is to be as no other congressman ever was. It may be that even the older representatives never entirely banish the dream that their fellow townsmen and fellow dis trict men sit at home through the long winter evenings thinking only of the gallant fight that the absent one to whom they have intrusted their representation is putting up for them against the powers of darkness
 A cartoonist, who put his cartoons in Q book and published them, shad owed forth in black and white side lights the terrible path of tempta tion" trodden by the new member who comes to Washington to ind nj not the City Beautiful, but the den oi q devilfsh with tentacles manifold The new congressman wants it to bG understood at home that he walks uR afraid the straight path, with never a slipping aside toward the pitfaIll where the monsters turk in hiding.
 Few Caught by DeVIIf1sh.
 It is a fine spirit of rectitude that possesses the souls of these new ones Truth is that the men of the lower house at least do not meet the devil fish unless they seek him, and ir seeking him they discover that the devilhsh is exceedingly shy and that he will make no forward movement unless he sees that which may pasa for a sign of welcome. Not many members of the lower house have been caught by the devilfsh, and it is a fine thing for the country that this may be written. One day the devilhsh will be dead, everlastingJ dead
 It has been discovered that Davy Crockett, when he was a member Of congress, wrote book making all the charges against Andrew Jackson that since have been made against other presidents, which goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. Davy charged Andrew with seeking to perpetuate his own influence in the administration through a man favored for the succession"
 The coon-skin-capped Tennesseean was known in his day as something of a humorist when he talked, but the element of humor is sadly lack ing in his book, a fact that has brought deep disappointment to the men who thought that they had made a literary discovery worth while, and that DaEy's characteristics were to live again in it's pages.
 In truth the book is pretty poor | stuff, useful only as showing that po-