Evening star., 1935-01-28

Despite nearly two years Of the most
rigorous of all peace-time presi-
denotes, Mr.. Roosevelt celebrates his
SD birthday this week in prime ply
sical copdition. To most observers.
F. D. R. seems not a day older than
when he launched the New Deal on
March 4, 1888. His invincible buoy
ancy and virility are a constant
marvel to those who know the ter
rife working pace he insists upon
maintaining. The Washington group
that sees him most regularly-the $50
or 200 newspaper men and women
who beseige the White House Offices
Wednesdays and Fridays-cannot re-
call single occasion on which the
President has exhibited any semblance
of i'll humor or irritation, no matter
how the political wind might be
blowing. Mr.. Roosevelt himself doubt
less ascribes his unchanging vim and
vigor to a worry proof temperament,
which reflects itself in his inveterate
smile and fondneSs for hearty laugh
ter. Unmistakably, like the other
Roosevelt who once occupied the
White House, this one is having the
time of his life" Mid-term finds him
in gayest of spirits and at the top Of
his form.
The Long and Short of 1t in the
Seventy fourth Congress is Huey Of
Louisiana and Dewey of Missouri.
Representative Short, the only Re-
publican left in Congress from Mis-
souri,, arrested the attention of the
House the other day when he f1ayed
it for its submission to the President
on the work-relief bill. II deeply
and sincerely regret" he thundered,
that this body has degenerated into
supine, subservient, soporiflc, super
fluous, Supercilious, pusillanimous
body of nitwits, the greatest ever
gathered beneath the dome of our
National Capitol, who cowardly abb
dicate their powers" ETC., etc. Mr..
Short lives up to his surname in his
Congressional Directory autobiog-
raphy, which reads: Republican, of
Galena, Mo-" The suppressed facts
are that he Is a native of the Ozarks,
still under 40, and serving his second
term in the House. First elected in
1928, he was defeated in 1880 and
reelected in 1884 on an anti-New
Deal platform. A graduate of Baker
University, in Kansas, he once
taught philosophy and ethics at
Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans.
He spent q year at Harvard Law
School and took postgraduate courses
at oxford and Heidelberg.
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Speaker Joe Byrns has learned
through IA consecutive terms in Con-
gress to be tolerant of long -winded-
ness, but his proverbial patience was
once put to a severe test in Nashville.
He was presiding at banquet of the
Sons of the American Revolution and
introduced a woman to present the
greetings of the. D. A. r. She had
been assigned five minutes for the
purpose, but at the end of half an
hour was only warming up to her
subject, and actually held forth for
As minutes. Joe confided, when the
ordeal was over, that only his native
Southern chivalry had prevented him
from nudging the lady and telling
her, in the language of the House,
that her time had expired.
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Bouquets are being showered upon
Representative Patrick j. Boland of
Pennsylvania, new Democratic whip
of the House, for his valiant work in
rounding up New Deal faithful for
roll calls last week when the fortunes
Of the $4,000, ,000, 900 work-relief bill
were at stake. Although the neces-
sary votes were available, members
were not always on hand, and it be-
| came Boland's duty, sometimes on
ments from the cloak rooms. lobhies