Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-15
SINGLE CONGRESS
MEMBERS LAUDED
BY MARJORIE TAYLOR
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal
DOWNRIGHT 1927

Copyright, 1929
WASHINGTON, June 10. - The
bachelors in congressman there are
a score or more Of then-were warm
ly defended today by Representative
Merrill Moores, of Indiana, who re-
Gently won denomination despite his
state of single blessedness. Mr..
Moores declares it is all wrong that
a man needs a wife to make his way
in Washington. He pictures the
bachelor as the great champion and
defender of women's honor.
While not wishing to mention the
specific wife Of any specific man, Mr..
Moores nevertheless said he recalled
some instances where a mans VIE
had unmade his political career in
stead Of helping him to the heights.
The campaign being made in
Maine against Senator Fred Hale by
State Senator Howard Davies and
his wife on the contention that a
married man would have a better
understanding Of the vexed problems
which arise in national legislation
has caused no end Of argument In
the cloak rooms Of congress as well
as in those high political circles"
which are supposed to know every.
thing and talk about everybody.
10 lnd r.
ticularly today against the assertion
in the Maine campaign that bache-
lors really cannot grasp the things
Of life which are lasting and abid-
ing. and that "eyes accustomed to
brightIights can see nothing but
darkness when they look up at the
stars"
why" he exclaimed, bachelors
are more apt to be idealists than
married men. They are nearly al
ways bachelors because they prefer
to remain steadfast and true to- a
memory, the memory Of some one
woman in their lives and they are
always ready to defend the cause of
all women"
The very derivation Of the word
bachelor ought to enable the voters
to understand them, says the bache-
lor Indiana congressman.
eft comes" he said, from the
word baccalaureus, which means a
wreath of laurel, which in olden
times was placed upon the. brow OF
a newly made knight-bachelor. A
knight-bachelor was an apprentice,
as it were, to knight, and was
the intermediary stage between a
squire and a knight. The young
knight-bachelor took vows of chas'
tity and also swore to redress lnJus'
tees, particularly those against
women"
From all of which it is to~be in
ferred that the women Of the coun
try are to expect a better under
standing of their problems and bet
ter treatment at the hands of the
bachelors in congress than from the
mere married men and widows. Mr.
Moores is not at all gloomy over
the future of the single man in poll
tics. He has had five congressional
| tel ms already himself and feels thai
he sis in" for another.
The congress bachelors admit the
| old saying that a wife can e1the!
make or ruin a man, but they ask
why take chances? The bachelors
always feel they are in danger, how
ever, of becoming enmeshed. Mr.
Moores himself tells of a bachelor
colleague, who in order to be sure o.
himself, took vow each morning tt
remain free from marital entagle
ments during the day. One morninE
he got up late and rushed to his of
flee without registering the VOW. Thu
oversight was fatal. Before nigh
he was engaged.
AS a final word, the bachelors sa,
that Sculptor MacMonnies is right
Civic Virtue ought to be a broaC
shouldered young man, tramping hi
way to the heights over the neck
| Of p LOT of wOlIld-be sirens