The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-29
FIRST ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF INTERIOR ANXIOUS TO
 PAY A HEALTH VISIT.
j. D. Hand, an Annual Visitor Urges Him to Come for Health and Also to Help the Resort

were it not for the fact that Secre- tary of the Interior Lane has been
 called away from his office and the
 first assistant was obliged to keep
 an eye" on that office as well as his I own.
 1 It wasn't the fault of J. ID. Hand, | of Los Vegas, that MT. Jones is not
 in Hot Springs at the present time l for when MT. Hand, who will leave
 this afternon on the l o'clock Rock Island train, after an eight days so- | 1ourn at the Arlington, was in Wash | ington, he noticed, while seated in | the office of his friend, the first as- sistant secretary of the Interior, that | the latter was not looking as well as he did when they were in business
 and politics together in Los Vegas, so Mir. Hand said to MT. Jones' | Look here, Jones, you-all are not | looking any too well. l notice that
 you need a rest. You come down. | to Hot Springs, Ark, with me and | let me boil some of that tired feel | ing out of you and then you can re- turn to your work able to do the work of ten men.
 | "I want you to come down to Hot | Springs for another reason. I've | been there, and those people down l in that city need help. They've got the greatest hot springs in the world, and you want to help them, I too l want you to do something for | the South while you are in office." | "Ill meet you in Hot Springs if | Secretary Lane does not go away, 1 but I am afraid he will be called | from the office." replied MT. Jones.
 While at the Arlington MT. Hand got the telegram from his friend
 stating it was impossible for him to
 leave his duties while his chief was
 away.
 Mir. Hand has been coming to Hot Springs for the past twenty years.
 He has recently disposed of 53,O00
 acres of land in New Mexico he own
 ed, tn eproperty figuring in a big
 real estate deal in Chicago, for he
 secured in this transaction the se-
 lect Paddington Apartments on the
 north shore in Chicago, which is one | of the most exclusive apartment dis,
 tricts in that Metropolis. That
 transaction, however, did not take
 away all the land MT. Hand possess
 es. He still has over 2o,0o0 acres
 left in New Mexico, to say nothing
 of controlling deep waterway rights in Alabama, his native state. .L He is a welcome visitor at the Arlington, where, if one were to ! meet any other resident from New
 Mexico one would not have a diffl- cult time in listening to eulogistic wecitals of Mir. Hand. They would tell you that he is one of the most
 clever and influential politicians in New Mexico. It would be related
 how he was made chairman of the
 committee that went to Washington
 and there battled for five long months until Congress granted ad- mission to the union and statehood lrights 10 New Mexico. 1t would also be related that, while of the most lliberal tendencies, he not only sue , ceeded in doing that but came back
 with a Congressional act that en- ,abled New Mexico, when state, to
 amend its constitution on short no- tice. whenever conditions demanded it. something that a previously pre- pared constitution did not contain.
 That is why the church people like him down there; that is why those who appreciate what MT. Hands
 friend "T. R." of Sa2amore Hill,
 specifics as a square deal, swear
 by him. |, You might also hear it related how Speaker Champ Clark, when a can didate for President, wired MT. Hand to look after his interest. You would be told that thls request came
 just seventeen days before the state
 convention was held in New Mexico, and you would also learn that in that time Mir. Hand secured an instructed delegation for Clark and took them | to the Baltimore convention. He did this because Speaker Clark had help
 
 ed him in his fight to get New Mexi-
 ce into the union. MT. Hand was
 asked about that fight for statehood
 rights.
 Tt was great" he declared, "and
 we had no end of tussel and fun, but we won out We were in Washing ton for five months. We knew we
 could get the bill through in the house, but we lacked three senators.
 l thought of Roosevelt, took train
 to New York and laid the matter be- 1 fore him. He called one of the men We needed up on the long distance i, telephone. When we went back that Senator was with us. We won.
 There's only one way to get any thing from Congress and that is to take a strong committee there and camp right on their trail. You'Ye s..t1 pf