Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-10-25
CONGRESSMAN BOWERS
TAKES TRIP
(By Charles Brooks Smith.)

| WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct.
| 22.-Congressmen George M.
Bowers, the popular and able
representative in. the House of
the Second district, will sail
from "a Pacific port" in a week
for avisit to the Hawaiian
Islands. He will be one of a
party of congressman, members
of the important committee on
fisheries and marine, that is go
ing to islands to inspect first
hand important government
work that is contemplated there.
The committee has before it bills
covering these extensive i'm
|provements proposed, and they
were deemed important enough
to have a subcommittee person
ally Investigate and report to the
full committee when Congress
convenes December A. The party
goes at its own expense and will
return December 10.
During his absence, the Off
cial routine affairs of his office,
which is large, will be attended
to by the congressman's son,
Mead Bowers, and his efficient
stenographer and office clerk,
Miss M. A. Adams. During the
past few weeks, ever since the
adjournment of the special ses-
sion, Congressman Bowers has
been kept busily at work getting
his business, public and person
al, in shape to leave it in the
handsof his competentemployes
While the trip to the islands
is strictly one undertaken for
| the good of the governments af-
fairs in that insuar possession,
there will be a lot of pleasure af-
| forded by it, and an opportunity
given the members of the party
to rest up and recuperate from
the strain of long and import
ant session, which imposed long
er hours and more important
duties upon the individual men,
Der than any Congress that was
ever held. Like all the others,
| Congressman Bowers has felt
effects of it, and welcome the OPP
portunity this trip on govern
ment business affords to get in
shape for another long session,
starting next December, which
it seems now will be equally as
! important and long-dawn-out as
the special war-session recently
| concluded.
Taking this journey at their
own expense shows how import
ant the members of the COM
mittee on fisheries and marine
regard the contemplated gov
eminent work in the Hawaiian
Islands that is before them, and
how seriously modern of Con-
gress regards tina tpart Of the
duties of this great government
that allotted to him to perform.
There is no member who is more
/ conscientious, more energetic,
nor more successful in handling
those affairs which come to him
by reason of his position, than
the genial and affable banker
and business man, as well as
shrewd and stalwart Republican
Header, who holds the commits
sion of the people of the Second
district to represent them in the
House. Always on the job,
alert and interested, experience
led in the ways Of official life in
the Capital by years of service,
familiar with the intricate
meanderings Of officia red tape
and knowing how best to quick
ly get to the end of it and accom-
pish what he has in mind to do,
George M. Bowers is a power
and influence in the great body
of which he is an honored and
| respected member, and reflects
credit upon his district and his
State by the fine record he has
made.
His friends here and through
out the district will wish him
on voyage, a safe return, ready
and physically fit to take up his
duties in the next Congress, and
able, as he will no doubt be, to
apply the knowledge gained by
his journey to the governments
welfare and the progress and i'm
provement of Uncle Sans val
liable Pacific insular possessions.