Evening star., 1927-12-04
New Congressman Gets Advice

S.. won't get you anywhere IL you over
look the first duty of a Congressman.
and that is to keep the home fires
burning.
Get yourself good secretary. You
are allowed $4,000 a year for clerical
hire. and you can spend $4,000 Of 1t
| ,n one n an Certify your son or
sor ,ebody to draw the other $500 and
give il to your secretary. too. III heS
a good one he'll be worth that and
more. Never fail to answer "A letter.
! II constituent wants you to find a
, lob for his feeble-minded son, tell him
| YOU We taken it up personally with the
Secretary of the Treasury and will
keep him informed of developments.
| If a voter wants you 10 ma MIN
wife. answer the letter right away
and tell him you'll go right down TO
the Womans Bureau. When you get
a letter signed by 300 members or the
Society for the Prevention OF SendinS
Form kilograms on Mothers DAY.
write TO each one of them that you
are heartily in sympathy with the
movement. When ga holders of stock
in the N.Y. Corporation write to tell
Won that if corporation taxes were
cut dividends would go up, say that
Won took lunch only this day with
Chairman Green of ways and means
and he seemed very much interested
in their point OF view.
"SubScribe to every newspaper
printed in your district and clip the
records Of births. deaths and mar
riages. When a baby is born. con-
gratulate the parents and send them
bulletin on Care OF the Infant. III
the child should die. write letter OF
condolence and say your secretary
sent the bulletin while you were over
in the House. When couple is married
write them letter and see II you
can't find helpful bulletin or some
sort. Circularize your district with
catalogues of Government publications
and ask voters to check bulletins de-
sired. You've got some 10000 farmer
bulletins at your disposal alone. Don't
let any of them go to waste. A horse
book is better campaign propaganda
than a 5,000-word speech. You're
bound to say something in a speech
that somebody won't agree with. but
everybody loves horse book. Make
good use of your year books. your
cattle books and your eulogies. Don't
forget your euiogies If a member
from your State dies. you get four
eulogy books. Swap some or your
Coast and Geodetic Survey maps Tor
all the eulogies you can get, and send
them around. There are lot of good
voters who get big kick out of read
you'll have visits from your con-
stituents. The people from back home
are always dropping in. Get them
seats in gallery. get them passes to
the White House and try to line them
up for handshake with the Presi-
dent. Write them a letter that will
take them through the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, and direct them
to the other public buildings. When
they're sitting in the gallery. you
might get the floor for two or three
minutes and say something apropos
of nothing regarding the sterling
worth of Arkolinians.
I've always found I could use my
S125 stationery allowance for station.
cry, for / have a heavy correspond.
ence. If you want to, you might try
getting by on SIS and use $50 to get
lot of little souvenirs, pocket knives
and SUCH and hand them out when
the home folks drop in. Or you may
be able to bum enough committee
stationery is free-to get by
on, and let the SIPS a session accu.
mulate. It'll help to send one of the
boys to college.
You're in Congress now. Make it
your business to stay here, and for.
get that statesman stuff. You may
be the Big Wind in your own home
town. but you're just another Con.
gresham here
Senator White rose, stretched, and
held out his hand.
And remember, son. he said, In
parting, never tell anybody to go to
hell, and don't high-hat the newspaper
boys
From where he sat in his Office
Congressman-elect Jinks could see the
dome of the Capitol rising shadow.
like out of the misty dusk. Suddenly
hundred searchlights threw out long,
ghostly fingers and lifted it in sharp
relief against the darkening sky. The
sheer beauty of it probably accounted
for tear that dropped from the
eye of Congressman-elect Jinks and
smeared the typewriter sheet Of
paper he still held in his hand.