South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-08
Seeing America
First
BY Fred Kelly.
By Fred Kelly.

Out of Diary:
Denver has an odd form OF sight
seeing. When a Denver pers, I wants
to be truly hospitahle to the ranger
within his gates he takes over
10 the state capitOl-provided n leg
iSlature is in seSsion-and Its him
have look at the two women legis-
lators, one in the house and the other
in the senate.
a woman senator is. of course, .
novelty, but somehow the sight of a
woman mingling with men folk in
the tobacco-l laden air Of a legislative
chamber is not a thing that produces
the same glow of enthusiasm that
some other conceivable sights might.
At least that was the way it i'm
pressed me. 1t seemed to me that L
would rather have had my father a
state senator than my mother.
A little while ago the wives of the
Colorado state senators arranged to
have a group photograph taken Of
themselves. 1t was TO be a picture,
you understand of the other halves
Of the state senators. Mrs. Helen
Ring Robinson, the woman senator.
however, fell into a natural error,
i'm thinking that the picture was to
be of all women connected with the
senate, and she therefore was on
hand with the others TO be photo
women set up a polite, but vehement
protest.
"Nuh, nuh," said they. I'VE simply
cannot permit you to be in this
picture. There is to be a group of the
other halves Of the senators. The per-
son we want with us is Mr.. Robin
SON"
Having a woman senator brings up
several questions of the niceties of
Hrg-T0QT no "a
Among those present were Sen. and
Mr.. Robinson" or "SenatriX and Mr..
ROBINSON"
Denver makes one think of the town
where the people make their living by
doing one another's washing. People
in Denver either have money, or else
get il by selling things to one another.
There are plenty of elegant stores,
but few factories. Denver must have
smaller factory payroll than any
place OF it's size in the country.
Yet the place is metropolitan
enough For example, it is one of
the boasts OF Denver that it has an
expensive apartment house where one
is not permitted to cook onions.
Imagine paying high price for the
privilege of living in a place where
you couldn't have beefsteak smoth-
cred in onions now and again.
on the way to Denver from Salt
Lake City one sees a lot of the most
elaborate scenery that our continent
provides. In the course Of that jour
ney I saw a man spend practically his
entire day engrossed in railroad
book of timetables such as are FOUND
on a little shelf in sleeping cars.
Rarely if ever did he look up at the
scenery. Instead he wrinkled his
brow and traced trains across dotted
lines with bis index finger. While
others in his party were admiring
huge cliffs or mountain peaks he in
terested himself in looking at the
names of the stations, then at the
guidebook. and then at his watch. lie
was plotting TO prove the train late at
each station. but the crew fooled him.
And that was not all he was doing.
as We later learned. He was laying
plans for still more trips across the
continent. Toward evening he looked
ont of the window for the first time
i'm several hours and remarked TO his
wife:
"The next time we come out west
we'll take the Canadian Pacific. I've
lust been figuring il out here and
End we can make Just about as good
time. and we have only two hours
in Chicago"
And why do you want 10 go that
way?" she inquired.
''Why sternly inquired the man
who had spent the day gazing at the
splendors Of the time schedules IN his
lap. why? For the scenery OF
course"
lust think" I heard a tourist re-
mark in the Denver station. here we
are away out here in Denver Colo.'
and people are still civilized.