The Washington herald., 1913-04-11

Dick Austin, Representative from
Knoxville, Term is one of the leading
kidders in the lower House of Congress.
He kids strangers in a quiet, serious
manner that has made his work highly
successful. Take, for example, the
hearings of the Committee on PUBIC
Buildings and Grounds, of which Austin
is a member Total strangers to Aus
tin come before the committee to show
cause why a building in their locality
should be a certain size-usuaily four or
five full sizes larger than the town. Aus
tin begins to ask questions in slow,
fatherly way, that gives the impression
that he is going to take the visitor by
the hand and buy him dollars worth
of pop corn as soon as the hearing is
over.
Let me see. now. if / understand You,
said Austin to one man. You are as
Stunning that the Republican party will
be restored to power presently. and you
want the building large enough to take
care of the increased business activity
that such a change will bring about? Is
that the idea2" That's the kind of stuff
he pulls.
And the visitor not knowing whether
Austin himself is Republican, Demo-
crat, Bull Moose. suffragist. doesn't
know what to say, and simply looks
foolish.
Franklin Roosevelt, the new assistant
Secretary of the Navy, does not mind
having people buttonhole him to inquire
Just what relation he is to the oyster
Bay Roosevelts. He is tree to admit
that he Is proud of the relationship and
II gives him great pleasure to explain
his family tree to the humblest citizen.
Franklin and Theodore are fifth cousins.
or Whereabouts, and to add to the compli-
cations, Franklin took out papers a rev
years ago and married L. RS niece.
Soon after that he ceased calling him
Cousin theodore ana began ADDRESSING
him haIf-facetiously as Uncle Ted. L.
X. stood for 1t and they get along with
perfect amity, though of different poll
teal faith. one being a Democrat ana
The other a prominent Bull Mooser.
David F.. Houston, Secretary of Agri-
culture, is calm citizen. who tons away
with much diligence but refuses to be
hitched up like horse, and driven. He
absolutely and unqualif1edly declines TO
sit up half the night fretiing himsefr ana
growing hysterical about the Job he has
stepped into.
He permits hordes of job-hunters and
morbid curiosity-Seekers to swoop in on
him as long as he can. Then ne tries
to clear his desk and sign up a few
fathoms of letters. when ne mas plugged
away in this fashion until time for the
whistle to blow and still with no sign
of getting through, does he lean mack
in his chair and scream and begin to
throw things?
No. he simply does TINS: lie calmly
puts on his hat. and goes out into the
fresh air to clarity his mind ana forget
about work until the morrow.
George NJ Young. new member OFT
Congress from North Dakota, once spent
two hours as Governor of his State. He
probably holds the minimum record at
Governorship
Here's how it happened: Along in the
summer of 1901-LGov. John Burke-now
United States TreasurerAwas absent
from the State for a short time on bust
ness. The next in succession was Lieu
tenant Gov. r. s. Lewis. One lot after
noon an automobile load of iovial c;ti-
zens came along and insisted that Lewis
take a little ride with them over across
the Minnesota line. Lewis went