Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-08
TOM HELM AND
jim WATSON BIG
|. MEN WITH BIG VOICES
They Were the Loudest-Lunged
Orators On the Stump in
Campaign
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.-1he
two loadest-lunged orators on the
stump in the campaign just closed
doubtless were the Honorable James
f. Watson, senior senator form In
diana, for the Republicans, and
Senator James Thomas Helm of
Alabama for the Democrats.
Helm and Watson did the
provinces" for 5heir respective
parties, each being a master of the
style of oratory that * considered
most, effective in the rural
deestricts.
Upstanding, statueslue gentle
men leach standing better thar six
feet in his socks, and tipping the
scales at more than zoe pounds,
Watson and Heflin typify usually
to their audineces the sort of stall
wart 'big men" the folk back home
like to think represent them al the
national capital.
Of the two, Watson is perhaps
the better oratorical flagwaver. He
also outpoints Helm in pointing
with pride"
AS pointer Helm is handicap
ped by the fact that his party Las
been in power only 10 years in the
last so, but he has developed, as an
offset to this condition, a brand of
caustic criticism guaranteed to
make even the thtckest-skinned
party rivals vince. This he varies
skillfully with roughhewn jokes and
q cutting humor of not too subtle
sort.
In the recent campaign Heflin
made good use of a story about a
passage at arms between himself
and Watson on the floor of the
Senate last winter.
Helm was in the midst of one
of his ear-bursting denunciations
of the Republican party when Wat
son, raising his powerful voice
above the din, demanded attention.
evil She gentleman yield?"
Watson asked, his tone and bear
ing making it plain that he ckal-
lenged Heflin to yield.
Being a brave southern gentle
man, Tom took the dare.
II yield" he said
'Does the gentleman from Ala
hama not know" Watson demand
ed in his most finished forensic
style, chat the American people
rejected his party in the last ma
tional election by majority of
more than 100000 votes?"
Eyes" countered Helm, With
out batting an eye, 81 do. And 1
also know that in 1912 when Mr..
Taft was the Republican candidate,
they made it almost unanimous"
IS
DR.. JOHN J. Tigert, U. S. commia-
sioner of education, believes teach
ers will do well to capitalize the
popular interest of their pupils in
a radio as means of putting across
their school studies,
He cites the case of one teacher
who asked Willie to locate num-
Der of cities.
q can't locate 'em,' Willie re-
plieN, "but I can tune in on every
one Of 'em.'
"The teacher who will get across
to his pupils the idea that in his
various studies he is simply 'tun-
ing in on life, that The different
lessons are simply different wave
lengths in the broadcasting of
knowledge, will find new atti-
tude and a keener interest de-
veloped in a large part of his
pupils" Tigert says.
The queerest divorce action
ever brought in the District of Co
lumbia courts is that between two
deaf mutes whose matrimonial bark
went on the rocks because of 800
much quarreling."
Exasperated because Ills wife's
nimble fingers always had the last
word, hubby finally slapped her.
Then she filed suit.
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