Mountain advocate., 1920-06-18
JUST ~. M FROM
'KINGDOM COME
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But l0e GO6Del case anu inc wal
we're to bring Robson to Congress
tho he did not realize it at the time
The end of it was that the party tho
It had paid its debt to Caleb Powers
and induced Judge Robson to take
the field. Mr.. Powers dropped out
but d. c. Edwards, former Congress:
man, ran against Judge Robson IL
the primary. Judge Robson wor
the nomination, and in the election
that followed the Eleventh District
gave him tremendous majority
There was no strict party line when
-. NJ" ran.
The Congressman from Kingdom
Come" likes to tell that his dis
trict gives more than $4,000 Repub
lican majority. He likes to tell, toe
of the loyalty and the patriotism OF
the people there; how one county
over subscribed its quota for the
Liberty Loan more times than any
other county in the nation; how an
other county over subscribed its Red
Cross contribution more than any
other county in the nation; how yet
another county provided more Off
GERS from its quota of men than
any other county in the nation and
how no man, woman or child was
indicted and convicted for disloyalty
during the war.
1t is not usual for a new men,
Der" to do very much, of course,
but Judge Robson has not been hid
ing his light under the Capitol
bushel by any means. He has made
good. He has gone to such impor-
tant committees as those on PEN
sions, mines and mining. roads and
education. This has been fortunate
for the Eleventh District. In the
matter of pensions, for instance, he
has been able to do much for his
constituents, for in the Eleventh
District there are not only 1000
Civil War veterans but thousands of
boys who served in the Spanish
American campaign and the World
War.
His district is a mining country,
or part of it is, and he has found
favor with the miners and operators
because he has given a square deal,
That has made him a useful men,
Der of the Committee on Mines and
Mining. His interest in the Roads
Committee has its root in the Ele-
venth District, for there he has seen
what bad roads mean to a commun-
ity, and realizing that good roads
the country over will be an asset
to the whole country, he has bent
his efforts in that direction and has
introduced legislation looking to-
ward increased Federal aid for good
roads.
Recently his position on the Com
mittee on Education brought him
actively into the investigation of the
work of disabled Ser
vice men of the World War. Con-
gress, by resolution, has asked this
to investigate this matter
Mr.. Robsion's wide experience as a
teacher, business man and lawyer
enabled him to be especially effective
He, more than anyone else on the
tore the veil from the
Federal Board of Vocational Educa-
lion. and his searching examination
II witnesses proved again and again
how far the nations draft of honor
zane from being redeemed as the
work had been carried on by this
BOARD. BY so doing, of course. he
helped 20 save that draft from being
iishonored. The vocational training
II our disabled soldiers and sailors
he refitting of those who were so
Unfortunate as to be injured in the
var, is called the greatest thought !
II the century" and he used the in
of the Federal Board OF |
location as a means to put this
bought into appropriate action.
In Washington Representative
tobsiOn lives but little more
han a stones throw from the Cap
toll. He has brought his family
Cast. his wife and her father and !
lis two children, Miss Daisy S. Rob-
ion and John M. Robson, Jr. When