The Dermott news., 1919-06-19

] many cases much earlier, and does mol l eud certainly until 6 o'clock, and ire 1 quently does not see its finish until after midnight
 What does representative or T hours? Well, he has plenty to dc. much ot which he would not have to do If he could turn cold shoulder or n stern face to q lot of visitors, but a politician has to be polite, and in n way be all things t0 all men. and so il Is that he feels it necessary to talk with every person who comes to his 1 office even if that persons errand Is to spend m hour in proving that he can turn grain of sand into Il gold dollar by new process about to be patented. or is convinced that he has scheme which If put into legislative form will make all men and al nations of men brothers In heart and soul in the twinkling of an eye.
 The anteroom of the office of nearly every representative and senator has within II three or four waiting per sons at nearly all hours of the day. They go in one by one; each Is listened to patiently md generally is sent away good .natured even if he hns been refused the favor which he wished to have granted. or has seen that his ad vice while receye'I pleasantly. has no remote chance ef being acted upon.
 Correspondence is Heavy
 nrtN tnr sentative receives scores of letters every dny from individual constituents. men. women and children Every letter has to be answered. Now n good many of these letters are answered by the cungresSman's secretary without reference at all to the chief until the times comes for his signature to he affixed but there k always close study of each communication made to make certain that II properly can be so answered and that there Is no chance of offensc being given.
 While tho secretary and the stenog raphers are busy all day long with correspondence and other things II must not he tnken for granted that the man inside" is free from bother some letters. Scores of the letters are of such n nature that while the see retnry might wish Ia answer them he does not feel That Inc should do so lest he overlook something which might present itself to the Watchful eye of tho boss"
 Virtually every senator and repre- sentative has to make speeches in this town. and. of course he k called on te speak elsewhere in the United States on many occasions. provided he k Il nam well known to the country The capital hnS thousands cf different kinds of organizations. and not one of them is content unless its weekly or monthly meeting x addressed by man ef state.
 The eeusreS~Han.S life may he an interesting one. hut II k not lazy one. lf he i< lazv his constituents find II auf, and thes kuov h,w Ia apply the remedy
 Press Gallery Guardians.
 \ hrief current Washington news fem rcads like fhis
 "Thc Washington correspondents yesterday crec'ed this standing com mfJtec. Gu~ l Karsrr. Cincinnati Times Star, chairman Harry = Ste venS. Minneapolis Journal Charles <. Alheri New Anrk World: Ben F. Allen, Cleveland Plain Draler and Ar- thnr x. fleming Chicago Tribune.
 on the face of things II might ap- pear th8t this elcction k of no partic- ular moment to the renders of the newspapers of the Unifcd States. but nevertheless l. means much to them. fnr it k through the stauding commit tee that the Washington correspond ents safeguard he interests ot them selves and of the readinE public ot the United States
 There arc Il great many Washing ;on correspondents who are not allow cd to enter the press galleries, for the privileges ot entering thereto are confined tn correspondents who send telegraphic news dispatches and who can subscribe In the rules and rcgula- tons governing admission.
 There are many writers here who eonfine their fields of usefulness to magazines or to other publications which require no telesraphie service, Thc men who are connected with newspapers or .lth press associations wha do nse the wire are so numerous that the press galleries are we'll filled. When II k said that the standing committee of correspondents safe guards the neW Spaper men and tho rendins public. exactly what Is writ ten k meant There arc men and women who come to Washington to write stufr which k intended to help private ar corporation interests Their cffort k to put in the most plausible way before such readers as they can i command the supposed beauties of ! ihiS Legislation ar that legistlation in. | tended to benefit some great business concern, ar some individual scheme ot