Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-23
Rx ALLENE SUMMER

CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 22.-The first
| rs years of bachelorhood-
They're so easy that Theodore
Elijah Burton would choose them
anew if he had the opportunity.
To Burton's three-score and fifteen
years of matelessness is to be added
of American congressman when his
qualifications as critic are weighed.
The cynic's handbook strikes no
responsive chord in the statesman's
breast when it rates matrimony as
something which everybody who has
it doesn't want, and everybody who
hasn't it wants it,
81 believe would be bachelor
again if I had my life to live over"
Theodore Elijah Burton told me.
He Uses No VernacuIar
He did not exactly say in the
vernacular of the times that mar
riage is the bunk
In fact, meditating deeply, pacing
back and forth, he judiciously opined
that he was not sure that he "cared
to go upon record in any minutes
of the day" as discussing matrimony-
Il really know little about it. /
am a man who has confined his study
to a few grave subjects, and a man
who never speaks except upon a
subject with which he is thoroughly
familiar. On matrimony 1 am not
so informed, save from more or less
casual observation"
The state of bachelorhood, how
ever, the senator" does know--he
title Of hsenator" still being worn
gracefully by Theodore Burton be-
cause of one term he served in the
more august congressional body.
Seventy-five years worth of first
hand information and personal re-
search embolden him to speak it's
worth
FREEDOM! EFFICIENCY! n
First of ALL said he, his eyes
smiling from under white bushy
brows, his scholars fingers building
bridges in his lap, his feet in law
ender tinged socks wiggling away
as great mems feet will wiggle when
in the throes of reflection
"First of all, bachelorhood gives
man the possibility of intense
application to any branch of work.
re udS COulplCCG IIcSuOIl IIOII CHS
cares and responsibilities of domestic
life IIe is more efficient"
Here the political habit of accuracy
, asserted itself, and he revised his
statement
Presumably, a bachelor is more
efficient.
There is no doubt in my own
mind that | have been able to work
with single intensity of purpose to
goal which has satisfied myself
and been found commendable by
others as / could not have worked
if l had been a family man.
| The imposing array of men who
have achieved big things even with
the encumbrance of wife and family
does not cause this famous bachelor
| to vince.
| His back is to produce James
| Buchanan, the one bachelor president
of the United States, and label him
our "Titan president, the best
equipped man for the job that the
White House ever has seen"-intensity
! OF purpose again!
/ "On the other hand" admits Theo-
/ dore Elijah Burton, his lips pursed
f! JudlclouSly, women PROBABLY 90 nave
an intuitive judgment about men. and
women that we men lack. Perhaps
wife-no I won't say that at all
| bachelorhood has absolutely no handi-
caps!
Home Life? No Lack Of 1t
"Home life? Well, why does one
need wife in order to have a
home? I have probably had as much
! CHEEKY, pleasant home life with vari-
Gus relatives as most men with a
wife,
At what age, I wondered, did he
deliberately choose bachelorhood as
against matrimony,
mo man." replied Theodore Elijah