Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-03

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He is a very tall man whose st
Or four in height he steps like m,
His height in a way symbol
i,ation's business. When it comes
else in the Senate. His little stride
On the floor of the Senate.
Smoot is no debator. Inferi
Aim down. They have more aggres,
las no followers. In no sense of the
With his fellows. The recent tariff
asked man who knows him we'll
Why. =
"Well," he said, eff any one puts
m a bill to bridge a creek, Smoot
Immediately jumps to his feet and
mys that the bridge should be fifty
feet further up the creek or fifty feet
further down it. He moves an
amendment and he produces a mass
Of figures to show why the bridge
should not be where the Senator
wants it. A good fellow let's his
colleagues have their bridges where
they will"
Now, it was so with the Tariff
Bill. Smoot had his own ideas about
every schedule in that bill. He was
hot content to write the schedules
Ne was chiefly interested in. He
wanted to rewrite the schedules
Everybody else was interested in.
And he had a heap of facts and
figures to show why he should re-
write them.
The bill would probably have been
! better bill if he had rewritten the
whole Of it. But kind Of senatorial
courtesy requires you to keep off the
tther fellows pet schedules.
That is one reason. There is an
other. A man who saw Smoot for
the first time the other day said to
me: "He reminds me walking about
the Senate floor of a Sunday School
librarian delivering books to scholars
during the lesson" Oddly enough,
very one seeking a comparison for
Smoot resorts to the church. "A
Deacon" "a village elder" are the
eommonest phrases. Now deacons
se all right in their places, but we
like them better in church than out
o. church. A little worldliness would
% Smoot good. You can not imagine
: greater contrast to Penrose than
me man who will soon take his old
place.
Adding Machine in Breecl,es
Without a Sense of Hun0r
The Senator from Utah has
'en'e Of sin in public that he never
quite forgets. The sin that troubles
INN most is waste. Every dollar that
yves astray weighs on his conscience.
"aa as he speaks with a certain
Suefulous note in his voice of the
useless expenditures on white paper,
,a'eaves :, to print, on unread reports.
.Vu Know that he is prophet who
AA0"s that his lamentations fall on
"s VI. that are not only deaf, but
ahghtly rcscntful.
"hen you try to give human in
"'''' 10 picture Of Smoot you
'.''ouhter difficulties. These are no
wires about Smoot. First, this is
1'.suse he has no sense of humor
-"u second because he is an adding
..''nlne in breeches. 1t is hard to
s"e human interest to an adding
'aaenine in breeches.
. this: '' 0"'
on figures.
N goes to the Senate and springs
sureS at frequent intervals upon his
associates in debate.
ne goes home to dinner and set.
fsurss. "s"'S "ofA o"
u. a's does not belong to the dining
~s, W. 'et in the Senate. He goes to
!, %A'!e House dinners and to dinners
si,' some Cabinet members. He in
prss;ji.ew pss lew to his house. He had the
ese'' there recently, but no one
v,,ts sou will observe that he does not
ins 'ti t;nnm 1'mS, e, And it is only by vast.
tOlId ',me ah that you have good stories
Ents,aIpout spout you and become humanlv
moa. mates waste of time or money
An |'. OF US hate industry. Now
I'M - gong to defend waste AS n
VI economy. Smoot would be 4