Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-13
HunldI,iSn1S
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

THE most celebrated digit on the Pacific
l. coast. the long. pointing foretingcr OF
Sam Shortridgc. Of San Francisco has come
to the United States Senate.
The new senator is very tall. very distin
guished, very facilc of speech. very ami
mated. He has spent his life in the court
ROOM where hc considers himself an advo-
cate. He has defended many n man charged
with many n crime. He claims that he has
cleared more newspapermen charged with
libel than has any other attorney in the
country
And when hc is engaged in any contro-
vcrsial discourse he covers his opponent with
that long, inordinately long. index finger,
and wherever that opponent moves the hnger
follows him as does the pistol of the mau
with the mask which used to appear on
tho billboards.
am laying wager that the first man
10 be covered by that finger will be he who,
in tariff discussions that are soon to come,
darcs to raise his voice against adequate
protection for the products of California.
Twenty five years ago a slender lad by
the name Of Tasker Odde was working as
clerk in a wholesale grocery store in New
York city.
He studied law at night and got n job
as an administrative for mining company
in Nevada He gave this up and Joined the
desert rats. those intrepid spirits who
gamble with death in search of gold in that
part of the world.
With Jim Butler, another prospcctor. he
struck it rich at Tonopah, The two and
one other started operating a mine and
building n town on II capital Of SO All
became millionares.
OddiC was then thirty years of age. lie
has developed many camps since. has made
and lost fortunes. He has been governor
of his state.
Now he has come down to Washington
as United States senator. And he doesn't
look n bit like Bill Hart He wears tailored
clothes instead of chaps, is well -mapicured,
bald. suave. modest. Instead of being
bronzed he is positively pink.
It's shame the way these rough people
from the woOlly West refuse to live mp 10
the popular conceptions Of them.
When the Woman's party was having its
final jubilee before disbandng. various
speakers appeared before II and made bids
that its influence be- diverted to them.
1t is not unnatural that at n woman
convention the element of clothes should
have elected some interest. So. when Simeon
ID. Fcss. congressman from Ohio, himself
an educator and author, appeared to make
the bid of the Republican party. II was
misfortune that his necktie should have
worked around under his ear. The fGmi
nine mind could concentrate on nothing but
that uecktie, could employ itself only with
wondering If Mrs Frss was present aud
with indugng in an overwhelming sympathy
for her.
Then j. II. Hopkins. representing that
committee Of forty eight which made such
strenuous efforts TO organize n new party
at Chicago, appeared aud again the per
sOnal appearance equation spoiled every
thing. Mr.. Hopkins was so fnwrHs IN per
Sonnl appearance, every marcel Of his
gray halr was So perfect. his proportions >"
ideal, his clothes so marveIously correct thar
admiration for the man as n work of art
crowded out all consideration of what he
said.
At about this stage of the program the
scout Of II motion picture news service cir
culatcd among those present. asking repre-
sentative delegates to pose. They could use
only those woman, the scout said. who had
short skirts and smiles
When Mr.. Roosevelt was President VIII
liam NJ. Mooney. new chief clerk of the
Postotfirc Department. was lesser govern
mcnt official. but very popular at the White
IIOuS" because he was amateur boxing cham
Don of the nation.
Mr.. Mooney probably had the gloves Oh
with Mr.. Roosevelt as frequently aS any
man Of that time.
The other day he was telling Of having
gone over to the White House with his
brother. The executive offices were hll"d
with important people waiting to nrr IN"
President, but the Mooney brothers were
Immediately admitted. The President
plunged into n discussion of the fistic battles
Mooney had fought-kncw just how Nach
blow that meant victory had been landed
This led to u discussion of the merits Of
blows and their demonstration. Boxing
talk led tn wrestling talk Soon the Presi,
dent and the athlete had their coats OF anN
4.,.. Nh. i,ss AaaR
out theiT theories
Two hour thrs passed before the roudn-