The Washington times., 1921-08-24

Fatima showed off the jewel in her nose and lots
OF famous folk frolic, and he said to me:
puppy. here's HUMANIsM for you"
And he said he was going down the street and
he into Senator Ashurst of Arizona, and he
says. says he:
"Hullo."
And the Senator says:
And he says to the Senator:N
''Whacher doing to pass the time away"
And the Senator says:
Playing golf" f.H
And he says to the Senator
II suppose you pretty good. How many
does 1t take you to go around?'
"Oh, don't know" said the Senator FIFTY,
or a hundred, maybe hundred and fifty.
very fond Of golf. 1 may be styled an en-.
thusiast But never keep track of the strokes.
1 Just play for the love of the game"
John Roscoe Davis past fifty, for
two decades an employee of the Government, a
law clerk of the Bureau of Pensions at 81, 400
year. ..H
Then the war came Davis was too old for
military service, but he watched many younger
about him give up their work for a uni
form. In the Government the need of lawyers
increased. Davis had gone to night school, and
had long been admitted to practice. He was
transferred to the Bureau OF Internal Revenue
at $1,000 year-Davis. who long before had
given up the hope OF promotion.
\ There was much doing in Internal Revenue,
and Davis given important work. He made
good. splendid legal mind had been buried
through those decades. Soon he was getting
$1,000 year, then $4,000, then $4,000. finally
$4,000. 1t all happened in two years Today Davis
Revenue. that agency with an income of $4,000
600, 900 year, the biggest business organization
in all the world. Y
All of which might be used text from
which to preach sermon of hope to the pigeon
holers and of admontion to big chiefs to examine
stock on hand before buying in the market.
was talking Of books with Samuel NJ. Short
ridge. of California one Of the classical students
of the upper House.
He said that he had taken an examination to
teach school before he eighteen and would
have made the highest mark IL he had not for
gotten the IS" in ''viscid."
Then he went to teach in a little village named
Rutherford and in IL dwelt judge who had been
the fret chief justice OF Iowa and who was after
ward the first chief justice of California. And
this splendid gentleman led him into his library
and gave him a key to 1t, and the reading OF the
school, was the most valuable thing that ever
came into his life.
And told him OF living in an isolated com
n,unity in Arizona and of starting at the age of
miles overland. And one of these farmers was
named Pendegrast and the other named Bill
Smith. And Bill Smith had never gone to school
nor seen an elephant.
And these two farmers got into a contest quot
ing the classics. And Smith recited THE Lady
of the Lake and Pendegrast retorted with the
Rape of the Lock-" Smith came back with
"Iocksley Hall and Pendegrast rendered "Othel-
To-" to which Smith retorted with Hamlet" For
ten hours the battle went and neither hesitated
for a moment and neither even repeated himself.
And Senator Shortridge agreed with me that
7 had probably known the best classic students
I would meet in lifetime there on the pig trail
to Maricopa.
Warren C. Harding is the first son Of civil
veteran to become President OF the United
States.
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