Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-03
By HERBERT COREY.
. ON MILLER says he thinks of
himself as the president Of a
trust company.

jIN ON MILLER says he thinks or
! himself as the president Of
! trust company.
| But he does not look like the
president of a trust company. Most
!: trust company president look like a
great deal of money surrounding a
horrid case of indigestion. Miller
looks like a soldier in civies who
Hikes his job, and good-deal like an
enrolling mill man who is still
healthy, and not unlike person who
can shoe a horse. I have no inside
information. but I'd bet a button that
! from time to time he has skinned
his knuckles on the kind faces of the
opposition.
! Every one speaks of him as Tom
Miller. Not as Col. Thomas w. Mil
Ter or as the custodian of alien prop
erty or as former Representative Mil
| with some of his ideas violently, but
he remains Tom Miller. He doesn't
have to advertise that first name,
either. 1t isn't necessary for him to
put warm hand on the shoulder of a
! caller and say:
| Call me Tom"
He isn't belligerent or scrappy, but
he assuredly has the courage of his
| convictions. When he was n kid he
| ranched and mined in Nevada. Then
f! Charley SchWab's rolling mills in
| Pittsburgh. Being about the size OF
a dressed beef and with a pair OF i'm
pressive shoulders. he got along very
\ well pushing around large hunks Of
i molten steel. Then he became fore
man. He explains that he owed his
| nice new job to the fact that he was
able to measure pig iron within one
slxty,fourth Of an inch. That is what
an education will do for a man. After
! which he moved eastward again to
his native state of Delaware. His
! rather was about TO run for governor.
! Turned Down, But Elected.
| II think I'd like to be congress-
man." said Tom Miller.
| The politicians patted him on the
head, those who could reach up that
high. and told him to run along like
| a nice boy. They said that two
Millers on the same ticket, especially
in a small state like Delaware, sim
ply would not do. SO Tom ran for
| congressman and was elected on the
same ticket on which his father be-
| came governor. He was. l think, the
youngest congressman in the House.
| Maybe the youngest on record. This
story did not come from him, and !
have been afraid to ask him about il
A., for fear he would make heavy noise.
He is candid person. Two of his
clerks disappeared from the office one
day, and the custodian of alien funds
| accidently discovered them talking
| foot ball and smoking cigarettes in
| a distant entryway.
| You have heard of how the army
! talked terribly in Flanders" That's
| the way the custodian talked to the
| chatterers.
! Maybe his own service in Flanders.
: plus that term on a Nevada ranch
| plus the associations of a rolling mill
gave him eloquence. When the war
/ began he took a course at PlattSburg
! training camp, and when we got into
! it he enlisted as a private. He fin
| ished the war as a lieutenant colonel
after eleven months on the line dur
! ing which period he had received
, citations for gallantry in action and
! especially meritorious conduct. Which
! recalls bit of gossip which did not
come from Col. Miller and the publi-
! cation of which he is apt to resent
! Anyhow, the story goes that President
/! Harding offered him the post of as
| sistant secretary of war.
Thank YOU" said Gel. Miller. II
don't want it. ! would not mind be-
| ing Secretary of War, for then
| could boss Pershing. But 1 am not