Paragould soliphone., 1921-06-24
By NED BALDWIN,
Private Secretary to Congressman Nicholas ] Sinnott. of Oregon.
InternasionaI News servIce)

Washington. .A-'' Shes some glfl
 The speakers wer not street cor ner loiterers commenting on a pass ing 1921 display of hosiery, but members of the National Press Club, of Washington, D. C., about as hardheaded and hardboiled bunch as there is in America.
 The comment was made after Miss Alice Robertson, the new Con- gresswoman from Oklahoma, had finished fifteen-minute heart-to- heart talk with the boys of the preas on baby Congressman night. Once each year the newly-elected Senators and Representatives are in- yited to visit the super-reporters Of America and tell why they are on earth ..The lady from Oklahoma" completely won the hearts of the newspaper boys by her sound com mon sense and the pathos and hu- man interest in her wonderful life story
 Just a moment, please, ladies! Well pool our knowledge of what she wore and what she looks like right off
 h dress as well as in every mo- tions.and word this sterling daughter of America gives the impression of 24-karat honesty There isn't an ounce of pretense about her. Right in the middle Of her speech she ad- mitted that she was six and sixty years old.
 Medium CT less in height, rather stocky in build, she gives the inn pression of strength rather than grace Her dress was black. al- most devoid of trimming.
 Her hair is gray, silver gray, al most white She seorns the false even in hair and wears no switch. Age has taken its usual toll and the residue left by the thinning process Of time is gathered up i'll an honest little old ladies knot on the top of her head That she despises some of the shams of the day was shown by little burlesque which she staged at the beginning of her talk.
 After she had mounted the plat form in the Press Club for the ssbaby Congressmen she sat down in a chair and to the amusement and delight of the press boys pulled puff and mirror out of bag and
 
 began to powder her face When the laughter died down, she remark ed '.I never did this before, but can't let these clerks and secretar- ies here in Washington get ahead Of me ' Then she told happy story about the man who took beer by the teaspoonful on doctors prescription and the audience was hers. She has rare sense of humor, the durable kind that has survived life full of struggle.
 She is a militant anti-suffragist- if such can he I'm a paradox, she said, '.vice-president of the anti suffrage league of my State and in Congress by accident We were so busy during the war looking after Liberty Bonds. Red Cross work and helping the soldier boys that the misguided men who didn't go toI war voted suffrage in,
 Miss Alice" as she is spoken of generally about the Capitol and theI House Office Building, has skill s., er ,.,,,nr;eac {l,ot ic worthy of seasoned stump speaker. Here was her next one.
 ''They ask me if I was born in Georgia l tell 'em no, because my grandfather went over the plains into Arkansas just as soon as hel got out of the penitentiary in Geor~ gia.'
 Her grandfather was a missionary to the Indians in the early half of .thn past century. Some sort of charge was trumped up against him that he was fostering sedition among the Indians and he was convicted by the Georgia State courts and put in prison. The case went to the supreme court or the lnlted states 1 and was there decided in his favor but Georgia would not release him 1 for two years.
 Representative Robertson is very very proud of the missionary work 1 of her grandfather, her father and l her mother and her own effort among the Indians, 'l am prouder, " i said she, "of being member of the family which has more years of | service to the Indians to it's credit l than any family in the United States than I am of the accident of being member of congress.
 She spoke interestingly about the hasty marriage of her father and mother in Indian Territory.
 Her father had been sent as a | missionary to the Indians by some society. Her mother taught school | near the scene of his labors The missionary society felt that it was not good for missionary man to T Il 1-1