Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-27
Cultivating Sunflowers in South
Gnarnsu
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
upright, 1924. by the Consolidated Pres
ssociation-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.l

Association-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal)
WASHINGTON, March 24.-Poli-
| les make many strange bed fellows
Ind SO do congressional investiga-
lions. Washington has held a queer
pit Of personalities these last few
weeks and it seems to be getting
3ueerer all the time. Prize fight pro-
[loters, private detectives, dim lights
f the great White Way, oil multi
.1illionaires, ex-cabinet officers-they
! re all the same to the senate mill,
|hroWn into the hopper, shaken down
nd something ground out of them.
| The Investigations are setting up
. n entirely new code of ethics in the
4apital. Before a host or hostess
ends out an invitation to dinner he
+ she must lirst inquire into every
ne Of the activities in which the
proposed guest ever has been en-
aged. Then he or she must send a
st of proposed guests and the quail
cations of each to every other pro-
osed guest. Dinners at the capita
ave grown to be dangerous things.
The scope of the inquiries appa-
emily knows no bounds. They have
3pnroached the stage now where
hey are being joked about and this
very critical stage-critical for
9th parties. If the Investigations
ecome the subject of buffoonery
hey may be laughed out of court and
nuch of the good that otherwise
hight be done will be just so much
TASTED effort. The more far-seeing
mong the Democrats are perfectly
ware Of this and are endeavoring
get the inquiries into certain def
tie lines.
Thus far the Investigations have
cen left more or less to follow their
wn noses. Witnesses have been call
d and excused and recalled and ex-
used again. Perhaps this has been
ue to an effort all along the line to
cover up" and not volunteer any
Information whatsoever. But it
Fould seem that a little more keen
ess on the part of the investigating
ommittees might have made for a
hore orderly and convincing progress.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh. of the
il committee, has complained of lack
{ assistance. He says he has had
D be investigator, prosecutor, judge
md jury. This undoubtedly has ham
CiCd lilo WOths anu III Tie IdCC VI
he obstacles he has met, he has
hown untiring zeal and energy. Sen
Etor Wheeler, of the Daugherty COM
nittee, has started off with a rush
nd has been blessed for, the most
|art, thus far by witnesses who were
uite anxious "to let the Jail out" for
II they ever knew or ever heard
oilSome days probably lie ahead of
e wheeler committee, however
41eA the recalcitrants begin to ap'
He0 and put UP real resistance.
Tt Is rather an odd thing that the
hate of Montana should have fur.
shed the two senators who have
cen providing the capital and the
ountry with the greatest sensations
hey have had in a generation. Both
hen, Of course, are lawyers and seem
b have justified the practice of elect
J. hg so many lawyers to high public
flee. Senator Walsh is a prod
ct of the west. having been born il
Wisconsin. From there he went Il
&outh Dakota and then on to Mon
hna, where he has lived for the pas
hirtyfour years.
Senator Wheeler, on the otheI
and, is a product OF the effete east
f Massachusetts itselc, 'tne home o