The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
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w tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Hamlet said to Polonius, said he:
my lord, will you see the players
well bestowed"
He meant that the players should
be well cared for, adding, sagely.
after your death you were better
have bad epitaph than their i'll re-
port while you live"
The players are well bestowed. They
may be worried, but while they hold
their jobs they are right merrily well
bestowed. Good beds and good
provender and much else, withal.
The players of the house and of
the senate, betimes seeking to wend
their way home to fresh engagements
on the hustings, though they may
wear wrinkles in their brows, are well
enough bestowed pending the idea of
| November.
There was no Hamlet to say grand
lines about them as they made their
plans for the meetings with the home
folks. But that is their affair.
The main idea with most of the
members-the players of Washington
is that they keep their jobs intact
and that amid the ravages of the
coming winter they and as many of
their relatives as can be berthed on
the payroll, may be, like the players
of that other day, right well be-
slowed
1t to most others they are "the
abstract and brief chronicles of the
time" they are, to themselves, just
about the most serious business in
the world.
All, we'll, let us not begrudge them
their keep, even if it is more gen
erous than some of them have ever
known. We, too, need our players.
We need, moreover, that serious
and fortnight service that even the
drollest and dullest among them must
sometimes perform, even unwittingly.
We do not malign our congress of
players. We defend them as a true
representation of great people, but
people who cannot spend all their
time trying to be great or even in
living up to the greatness that we
know to be inherent and to rise to
meet every great emergency.
There are times when our congress
reminds us of Kipling's "Boots," I"
when the legislators go plodding with
an awesome determination and per-
sistence after some fine objective.
And times, dear Polonious, when
they forget their measured tread and
romp after nonsense and worse with
out any thought of discipline or de-
cency.
But after all, these players are our
very shadow, our very reflection, and
we do i'll and foolish to expect them to
rise above the level of the sea out of
which they swan to the safety Of
the great Port of Payrolls.
Yea, gentlemen, yea ladies, see that
they are we'll bestowed, for some of
them will never come back, save as
lame ducks for a feeting snuggle
in the old nest.
Some of them will get right prop
erly smacked in the beezer before the
SHOWS fall again to lay their blanket
of purity over a stricken countryside.
And it is fitting that they should
get this inglorious and inelegant sock,
for many of them have played so
fantastically that they we'll deserve
the hook.
But by and large, it is our con-
gress, it is as we make it and there
fore, with all our determination for
improvement, let US not mark too
severely with post-term punishment
the derelictions which any fairly good
prophet could have foretold.