The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-03
LETTING GEORGE DO
IT IN WASHINGTON
(By Lowell C. Frost of the
Vigilantes)

Vigilantes)
YOU: Morning, Old Man, What's
the good word?
l: Good word? Say, just tell me
how you manage to wear that 1913
smile in this year of our war, 1917?
Everything's going to the bad-ex-
cept prices. And now oCngress-a
lot of fussy old women trying to
YOU: What's the trouble? Don't
you like what they're doing?
l: What are they doing? Do you
know? Do they know? While one
of 'em is introducing a bill to give
medals to three heroes in his home
town who are thinking of enlisting,
the next man is trying to authorize
President Wilson to ask the Kaiser
to tea at the White House and so
stop the horrid war. Approve? How
can any sane man approve the pro.
cedings of that Matteawan Debating
Society?
YOU: Well, have you any plan to
improve matters?
1: Plan? Well, haven't been
thinking Of nothing else for year
or so without getting one or two
things straight! Smith, Jones, Jones,
and Robinson have been meeting at
my house every Thursday night
since the break with Germany, work
ing out the very problems the peo-
pie in Washington are all up in the
air about. We have decided that
what's the use of talking? These
congressman are about as likely to
get down to business as
| YOU: Let's see; who's the Con-
gressman from your district any
way?
l: Why, er-er-I guess-isn't it
Tompkins? Or was he the one who
was thrown out last election? It's
Jenkins, isn't it Mo-. jenkins is
the Senator Thompson! That's the
man, | remember now; he's voted
wrong on every bill this season.
YOU: What does he say when you
write to him about it?
1: Write to him? What for?
haven't got any pull.
YOU: Well, he's your representa-
tive in Congress, isn't he? You vot-
ed for him to represent you, didn't
you?
L. Why, yes, / voted for him all
right, but l never saw him or heard
him speak-don't know thing about
him, in fact.
YOU: You don't mean to say that
you picked out a man you didn't
know, and voted for him, elected
him. sent him to Washington with
a blank signed check and blanket
power of attorney to use any old way,
and then never kept any tabs on him
at all?
! 1: Well, you see
YOU: my Goodness? Do you call
yourself business man!
I: See here! Are you trying to be
funny?
YOU: How can Thompson repre-
sent you when he's never heard of
you, or from you?
/: He can't, 1 suppose.
YON: OF course he can't IL you
really want representative. you've
got to give him something and some
body to represent or course, il you
don't want to be bothered, why then
go ahead as you've done up to now
and elect delegate, and let him use
your delegated authority just as il
suits him, spend your money the
same way-and forget it and him
If you don't make him represent you
then he's only a delegate, and you
should worry! Let George do it!
I:But, confound it. Old Man. here's
this plan of ours that's got to be put
through. or there1l be the Kaiser to
: pay.-Say, give me that fellow
2 Thompson's initials and address, will
I you? l think I'd better write to hin
5 right away about this thing. And
, by Jove, I'll make Smith, Jones, anC
Robinson write him, too, and tell hin
a where he gets off, William B.
= Thanks. So long.