The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-07-09


Pampered and Flatterod.
Senator Elkins' mind Is hroadrn"i
only IN the scusc hat il has been pam
p"rrt and BATTERED BY his associates i"r
:, * inevitable that a young man with
a million dollar fountain pen ana
, hlGhly developed tast" for tho pleasures
OF l!fr should receive relative amount
OF such mundane homage. The othcr
side OF Davis E!kinS' mind. the serious
side has never received tho proper cdu-
cation and exercise for Developments ne
never had any necessity Tor serious
thinking: he always had enough money
10 h!rr someone else 10 do TINS Tor h'i"
He has never done anything worthy o.
mention or even If 4 constructive ma
tur" and consequently his thoughts are
only i,ncstul. In the vernacu!ar OF
Greenwich Village moral'StS. the convex
OF Davis EikiuS nature tells hun that
H., - a I'nI"d E,at"s senator. but MS
M, 'ural impulses "ountcract his convex.
Tho haSi" Thought running through
Senator E,ikinS' mind typiheS EVA
TlnruHv.S famous remark. Il don't
care Mad he doesn't care. His thoughts
49,, fundamentally selfish IN that h" al
ways cons .dcrs himself in everything
he does He $ even tired of playing
gulf with 'l'rcsiden, Harding because II
has brought him no personal benefit; h"
docs no; consider the diversion ana
pleasure his presence gives the prrS'-
dent and l%tGdi" Roy. no. his interests
com. first Th. mornings sun does not
hrlar him any :nspIrauonal thoughts
ar.d 10 does not hop out OF bed with his
fn,c :aii4nt with tn" zeal OF publI>
scryIrudr and his mind anxious for the
work O! N" day
What a SenAtor Thinks.
No. DAVIS Elkins' thoughts do not run
that WAY. He wakes in the morning
with bad taste in ms mouth. and ms
aching thoughts are just as brown. run
uing something like this: "Oh. well |
might as wrN Get up and go down 10 The
Office: ,hc-" IS nothing there for me 10
do, though. hut maybe somebody VIII
drop in ought 20 see. wish l could
find some place | have never been he q
fore where I could go and rest up 4
bat. Washington Is awful at this tim:
Of the year. hut don't care. | am i
senator. and might just as we'll stick "
OUT on. Lord. what a taste
Down nj the ONCE he Nnds things, just
a. he had thought: an efficient secretary
had taken care OF what routine business
there was. and Davis Elkins had moth
Ing Ia do but read 4 few letters ana
newspaper clippings.
Again hr Soliloquizes TO himself II
wonder what they are doing over in tho
sruate--Scn!e bird shooting on lot OF
hot air. 7 suppose. Well, let him shoot
g. They don't catch me IN such stuff?
place on a hot day ike this | will stick
around hero Cor Il while and see what
turns NJ. Maybe Sutherland and some
ii "a" ganS will drop IN and We can
stir up something. We might take
drive down the bay and cool or-any-
think don't care much what II Is. just
So | can re: away from this plac" where
every body and his brother are bother
inE me about appointments or some
other fool thing. II there was only
something 20 do"
Just about this time or a little later
Senator E!k!ns gets n long distance call
from New York. His face brtGhtcnS. He
talks Jcyously. Gone IS that tired feel
Ing. Con" Is that air Of boredom. His
troubles are ended. He jumps up from
his chair, thruSts his hca> INTO the
outer office and says 70 his secretary:
If anybody wants me. say that ! have
gone 20 New York on business and that
VIII y" hack tho second Tuesday Of
next week"