The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-26
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

golf. went shopping, played bridge, attended baseball games and traveied with President He attended concerto, theatres, went shopping with and helped Mrs. Taft at her teas He din- ed and lunched at White House al- most every time the President gave A party; he helped make up the invitation lists for the state re- ceptions and dances, and knew how to fix the gramophone when it got out of order. He was the best liked and the most popular man in Washington"
 have reserved MT. Lowry's DOT. trait of our own Senator, Oscar W. Underwood, until the very last be- cause it is one of the most interest ing, appearing under the title or .'Underwood who Supplies Balm to Gilead.'
 MT. Lowry begins by saving;
 Tt is always grateful and refresh ing and particularly so on steam ing hot and humid July aiternoon' to wander into the Senate galleries and observe the Honorable oscar W Underwood, senator from the sov- eretRn state of Alabama, purveytng balm to the noble army of martyrs in the windowless and shut-in cham her below. He speaks to them In words of truth and soberness; long ago he discovered that word fitly f spoken is like apples of gold, in pie lures of silver; to him It was net said in vain, let your speech be al- ways with grace seasoned with salt. Such is his habit; he is at his best when
 Dire combustion and confused events New matched to the woful time"
 must be confronted, smoothed over and the wrinkles taken out. In such troubled and angry crises, 1t Is his invariable role and his natural tn- clination to
 Speak gently; 'tis little thing
 Dropped in the hearts deep we'll;
 The good. the joy, that 1t may bring Eternity shall tell"
 In fine 1t is Senator Underwood'e great talent to bring men to be or one mind in a house. That Is why he naturally and seemingly, without effort rises to the leadership of any free assemblage of men.
 But all this is aside from Mr. Underwood; he is normal; normal pulse, normal temperature, normal respiration, everything normal; he is conservative too, but no more so than the Tropic of Cancer; he is in- digenous to the north temperate zone with mild, equable temperament. and if there is such thing as a salu- brious disposition, his is.s
 Several stories of Senator Under woods great popularity in his home state Mir. Lowry relates with grace and charm, declaring that for many years, I am told, there has been saying in Alabama that no man ever became acquainted with Oscar Under wood without wanting to do some thing for him. No man in politics or in public life could ask for greater asset. It comes near telling the whole story of Underwood's successful and pleasant carer in politics"
 MT. Lowry constantly refers tc Senator Underwood as presidential timber" saying that as it seems to be the custom to elect alternately a peppery, lively. President, and then sedate calm. and placid. one, proba- bv Mr. Underwood won't have chance until 1928. but it seems a safe bet that he will be voted for again in Democratic National convention"
 Al ths point" says MT. Lowry, and without further delay, I must have a special paragraph devoted to the Underwood hair. No sketch or him is complete without 1t. It is al ways done even by the apprentice biographers. not yet in the union. One might as well write of Mr. Roosevelt and say nothing of his teeth. or MT. Hughes and leave out his whiskers. or MT. Taft and not mention girth and his judicial tenn perament, It simply can't be done"
 Very well then; Mir. Underwoods hair is sleek and slick and always parted very precisely; there is a line for every hair and every hair in its line. Nothing but his shaving mir TOT ever saw hair of his head out of place. No matter how hot it is, or how cold, or how the stormy winds may blow, the barometric pressure on the Underwood hair never varies It is commonly supposed by the less observant that Mir. Underwood partS his hair in the middle: this is not ac curate: I have looked down on the top of his head for fifteen years from the galleries of the House and Senate and I ought to know; he does not pa.'t his hair in the middle. on the 90th meridian Or Greenwich mean time. but a little to one side. say. daylight saving time then he slicks it straight down and 1t stays put. So much for | that"
 There are two sentences says Plu- | tarch inscribed upon the Delphio ora cle hugely accommodated to the uses of mans life" says MT. Lowry. Moth | in.y too much, and upon these all other precepts depend. Always says 1 George M. Conan leave 'em happy when you say good-by'-and upon these three precepts is founded the successful career of Oscar W. Under wood who supplies Balm to Gilead.'