The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-27

Washington.-Sena William Henry King of Utah, who tries harder than anyone else to keep well informed on all public ques- tons, may properly be designated as the great Liberator."
 If there are any oppressed,
 downtrodden or subjugated people whom King has not yet tried to liberate they need only call the
 senator's attention to themselves in
 order to be assured at least of q speech and a bill or resolution in their behalf.
 Thirty-five years ago he was urg- ing intervention to free the Cubans from Spain. To-day he is interest ing himself in the alleged Oppres-
 sion of the Cubans by the dictator Machado.
 FiIipinos, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Thracians, Macedonians, Jews Tn Rumania, Armenians, American In- dians, Czechoslovaks, Jugoslavs, Chinese, Hawaiians William Henry King has raised his voice for them all at one time or another. When d race or a nationality IS promised independence he never lets the world forget 1t,
 Is He Busy?
 I He is one of the busiest men In the world, without doubt. Other senators specialize. King studies and prepares bills dealing with sil- yer, taxation, trusts, oil conserva- 1 ton, District of Columbia affairs. l Federal Reserve, the stock market, radio, tariff, prohibitiOn-anyq ques- | ton, in fact, that is up before con- gress. Day and night he works.
 His recreation is study.
 He is sometimes called the Sem ate's "conscientious objector" be-
 cause he constantly demands to be
 shown that Uncle Sam isn't being
 milked by petty private bills. He has been criticized for his
 versatility, which forces him to
 scatter his fire, but he is obsessed
 by a. thirst for knowledge and has | been since he worked night and
 day to get through college. Sometimes he reads all night
 long. He is extremely fond of the
 beach. He gets into d. bathing suit,
 takes a dip and then lies on the
 beach for hours-with a stack of
 books. In his immense offices are
 vast files. He drives four male sec
 retaries. He somehow finds time
 for society and likes women, ex-
 cept in his office.
 At Brigham Young Academy many years ago he was boy
 friend of Reed Shoot, the other | Utah senator. He was elected to | congress in 1896. was later presi- dent of the Utah legislature and a | judge of the state supreme court. He was a democratic leader, but
 Utah was republican and he didn't
 make the senate until 1916. The democrats, when he was first
 a congressman, sent him to Cuba
 to help decide the party's policy. He returned and urged armed tn-
 tervention. He wrote the first reso- lution for annexation of the Ha-
 waiian islands.
 During the World War he was one of the most voluble kaiser haters and after it one of our lead ing anti -Bolsheviks. But he was
 demanding almost daily the re-
 storation of Thrace and Macedonia | to Greece as well as free Armenia He introduced bills to recognize the | Czechs and the Jugoslavs as de | facto governments and to further their national aspirations. He soon
 landed on the foreign relations | committee.
 Wants Marines Withdrawn He is still fighting for the Ar menians The allies and Turkey definitely promised on Armenian republic; this country recognized such republic in 1920.- President Wilson, the arbiter. awarded 1t | 1000 miles of Turkish territory.