Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-06
MANY AGREE WITH HIM

MANI hUnLE WITH HIM ~
Excerpts from the advance" Oh
the Michigan members daily blasCi|
against the CLIO, Communists and
sometimes the American Fedora
ton of Labor as well. may or may
not find their way into the news
But printed or not, rain on
shine, Hoffman will arise somel|
time early in the afternoon, waikiki
TO, the well of the House and
there toss his verbal brickbats at
one or more Of his pet antipathiess
And you'd be surprised"
fel low correspondents fr o m
other states will remark, how
many people think that fellow
is right" II
Directly beneath the note to.
correspondents in the manuscript
sent to the press galleries II q
one-page index of its highlights.
The quotations from the speech
may run six or 60 pages.
IDEAS MORALISTIC
The one on the West Penn Hos
pital strike was SO typewritten
pages long. The ideas are moral
istic, the language pungent. ct
times poetic. Here is a sample:
"Mr. Speaker, in America
where we have 50 much fer
which to thank our Creator,
where we are supposed to b.
civilized and Christianized. men
are exhibiting the cruelty a.
savages who torture those who
oppose them.
''Here in America where H.
spires of moro than o,ooo
churches point the way to tho 4
GTeat Beyond, where the bells
! In the towers call women o01
men to thank God that ChFist
was born, and that We have
hope of eternal salvation, nseo
and women cause other men,
other women, confined upo0
beds by infirmities, siclxness o.
blindness, to suffer for want e
food. care and the ministratioas
which civilization has taught -
are the birthright of all VIE
suffer, of all who are weak Ar
unable to care for themselves.
/ SEEK TO AID SUFFEREHS
'Tn Pittsburgh. In the prospse. 4
Gus and wealthy county Of Al
legheny. while white-clad, 20
tient nuns sit In silence count. 4
ing their rosaries by the 49,
sides of stricken patients, wh11o
prayerful Protestant nurses eeeoE !.
to comfort frightened, crying /
children and minister to the slc0k
and dying, wives Of doctors a04
orderlies, charitable women froW
the neighborhood, moved TO ceGD-
passion by the agonies and sul-
fering of helpless patients caused
by the selfishness, the heartlaoo-
ness of men masquerading -
labor leaders, attempt to pre-
pare the food, launder the 1ineus
scrub the floors. Yes, IL
unbelievable has como to pass.s
+ Labor spokesman in the national
capital laugh, or dismiss him with
shrug. In Michigan they pass
resolutions condemning him.
! But Congressman Clare Holfs
man still rises each day to make
his speech. Each day. If time u too
limited to allow him to read II In
full, he gets permission to have Il
printed in the Congressional Rec
ord. Each day he prepares for The
morrow by reading. studying
writing. that the world may know
and be warned of the dangers
which he believes beset the Amer.
lean people.
CAN'T BE SILENCED
AS with the man in the fable
who cried, Wolff Wolff" so often
no one needed him when the wo11
finally appeared, the Michigan
Legislator talks too much by ordi-
nary standards for his own politi.
cal reputation or the good Of The
causes to which he devotes hio
public life.
But silence him no one can. The
man is believer. He has convic-
tions. He is in earnest. And he VIII
not quit.
There are no pockets in his
clothes. He won't have them. He
found years ago. as all men d.
that their pockets. while conven-
lent, accumulate unne cessary
Junk" So he solved his own prob
lem by doing away with them.
He practices law.
"Tye turned my practice over
TO my two sons" he says. IF I
tried to keep II up, every 60
WIN came IN the offL~a ~AsnR