Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

call Tom Connally of Marlin. Tex,
the last of Une long-haired sem
atorS. All the others let the bar
berS cut around their ears and run
the clippers up their neckS. or are
SO baldish they don't even make
it interesting for a tonsorial artist
who really loves his work
Tom doesn't.reVeal his age in the
Congressional Directory, but he was
a soldier in the Spanish-American
War and from other sources comes
the word that he will soon be 65.
And if you, gentle male reader OF 80
or over could grow hair like the
senior senator from Texas, you'd
make the BARRIERS be discreet too.
Get even a distant look at big Tom
on the Capitol grounds under his
d-brimmed black three gallon
hat and you know that there, by
golly, goes a statesman, even If he
doesn't wear a frock coat.
Maybe, like Samson, his strength
is in that hair. AT any rate, he has
the strength of a longhorn steer
and its courage too. and when he
starts PAWN the ground, stam-
pede can start anytime and its just
as well to get for the top rails Of
the corral fence.
NO YAWNS FOR TOM
The Senate of the United States
can be the dullest of deliberate as
semblieS when some of the dema-
gogS start droning, but when the
senator from Texas takes the floor
it can be livelier than barn dance.
Likewise, a Senate committee can
bore YOU to insensibility, but when
the gentleman from Texas asking
questions of a witness who doesn't
want to be too specific or doesn't
know exactly what he's talking
about YOU wake up quick
Talkin' Texas, droppin gs all
over the carpet and flattenin' his
as all over the table, he is again
the prosccutin' attorney from Falls
county with a barbed-Wire fail
at the tip of his tongue. He can
make bureaucrat squirm through
his testimony like a coyote in the
sagebrush. its tail between its legs
headin' for the hills
Old Tom-you call him old"
affectionately, for he is a lovable
cuSS with q magnificent sense of
sarcastic humor-has been in un-
usually fine form this last week
OF SO backing his amendment to the
Selccuve service law to permit the
President to take over strike
bound plants, and ripping into the
Aluminium Company of America as
its officials came before the Tru-
man committee Investigate ma
tional defense, la5hing at every
thing which Savored of bunk or
didn't make sense to his Texas
mind.
The senator from Ohio is q
statesman Connally cracked at
Taft in debate. He does not think
this bill is any good but he is for
it,"
A moment later. Taft tried to
make the point that Connally's
amendment would not prevent men
from striking against the United
States government, that a strike
simply meant the men ceased to
work.
oh, they can quit if they want
to- agreed Connally, and they
can go plumb to Ohio
When Senator Maloney offered
an amendment, Connally accepted
it but when Maloney came back
with another, Connally ducked it
with n gaglinc: Il have accepted
orc amcrdmcnU from the senator
from Connecticut he said, and
the quota today is only one amend
ment per senator
IRKED BY DELAYS
The debate was on for three days,
and Connally, fighting every min
ute, kept peppering his argument
with a salty humor that kept his
colleagues and the gallery grinning
II am not in favor of putting in
to the bill a great number of ifs
ends, butts, and 'Wait-a minute
clauses, he stormed Il want the
government to step in whenever
necessary, Withou, having to wait
around until three or four walking
delegates decide when and if the
government may act"
Connallv is, as mentioned, fear
less. And in threatening to take