Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-02
HuruniSmS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
MOT long ago the congressional delegation
~ from Oklahoma went to pay Its respects

MOT long ago the congressional delegation
~ from Oklahoma went to pay its respects
to President Harding.
When II entered the Chief Executives
Office the men came first and Miss Alice
Robertson, the congrcssw oman, brought up
the rear.
This is fine how do you do said Mr..
Harding. 'Whats the idea OF all you men
preceding yonr distinguished woman asso-
ciate?'
But Miss Robertson came to the rescua
with her explanation. The men went first
in submission TO her will, she said. 1t was
a custom peculiar to Oklahoma. q hodover
from the old Indian days. When Indian
men and women entered any building the
men went first and the women followed. II
was not that the men were given prece.
dencc. Quite the contrary. The Indian
woman furnished the will that guided the
movements of such parties. When cattle
are driven down the road by cowboys they
60 first, not as a matter Of precedence. but
because Of the stronger will behind which
impels them.
That the all'important thing in the at
tainment Of success is environment is dem.
onstratcd anew nearly every day. There is
the case of the I.aporte brothers. for in
IWinG HHu '.IOyV. WHO arc SIrlklnr
examples OF youngsters who have goue fast.
The Laporte brothers grew up in the
Jackson Hole country. in Wyoming, wher"
fhe elk from Yellowstone Park starve 10
death every winter. This is the widest
most isolated, farthest- from n railroad
community in continental United States. II
is entirely filled with mountains and soi-
tude.
SO Ewing Laporte came down out Of these
mountains and, at the age of twenty seven.
found himself an assistant secretary of the
treasury at Wasbington--the Youngest man
who had ever held that post. Cloyd Laporte
likewise emerged from the solitudcs and cs-
tabIishcd new scholastic record at Har
ward, became president of the Harvard Law
Review aud th" national head of the Phi
Beta Kappa fraternity. His record was
such that he could pick the law firm of them
oil which he wanted TO enter. He chose
that of which Elhu Root is member and
Is digging away In New York.
So would the lesson handed back BY these
two youngsters seem TO be that there Is
possibility Of any boy anywhere climbing
wight out of his obscurity into the biggest
sort of success.
DR.. George Otis Smith. chief of the geo.
logical survey. is an ardent BAPTIST Not
long age, however, be talked popular science
before class of young men at n Metho-
dist church in Washington. His subject
was electric power.
Wouldn't 1t be wonderful. the Methodist
minister said aftcrward drawing a moral,
if tho personnel of the church could be elec
trifed, set tingle with energy, yitalized.
tlc believed the Baptists had found the
means 10 this end.
What is the source he asked Dr.
Smith. from which the Baptists get their
enss!ESy;' s!&a 5.o.ns .. u..... . :, H..
geologist.
Senator Samuel y. Nicholson, Of Colo.
RADIO who used to work as an underground
miner, has arrived in Washington and with
| him has brought the reputation of being the
best dressed man on the Pacific coast
And with his coming there has arisen in
the breast of Senator Thomas Heflin, Of
| Alabama, who tells more and better darky
stories than anybody else in Congress a
mighty we'll Of jealousy. Senator Helm
| aspires to be the bartorisl idol of the upper
house, now that jim Ham Lewis has re-
tired, and this novice from the West is
! horning in.
So the gentleman from Alabama has
sought to forcStall his rival and has designed
| and had made coat which Is unlike any
coat on Capitol Hill. and which will lend
it's wcarcr distinction at least until tsilors
| have had time TO copy II.
| The Helm coat is ample OF skirt. but can
! b" classified mother as n Cutaway nor
! frocE, \ single button ut the lapels restrain,
| II when rude Winds would convert il into
! NNg. Tine tailoring is such that IL drRprs
| gracefully over the statesmaD's equator,
/ then fuls away IN q line that is midway
/ between Greenwich aud the 1S0th meridian
say along about 81. Louis II is dare
! aud n defy, and he who surpasses IL may
carry OF the palm.