The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1929, Page 12

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington.—There are two Lank- fords in congress now, William C. Lankford of Georgia and Menalcus Lankford of Virginia. One of them is locally unpopular because of his Blue Sunday bill, which would close up everything in Wash- ington on Sunday. You might sup- pose it would be a man with a name like Menalcus who would introduce @ bill like that, but William is the guilty one. Menalcus has just come to congress for the first time. “You bet I will!” replied Menalcus when asked if he would oppose Wil- liam’s bill if and when it ever reached j 5 the floor of the House. of putting more joy into peopie's lives than taking more ot The more we - people alone the better off we'll “T'm in favor Menalcus Lankford is a Republi- can lawyer from Norfolk, Va., a dis- trict which had been Democratic for 40 years, up to last November. He was always a Democrat himself until he enlisted during the war in naval aviation. Then he met many fellows from other sections and got the idea that the south would be better off if it had two functioning political parties instead of one. He kept talk- ing up that idea when he got back and started to run for congress in presidential yea: In 1920 he doubled the previous Republican vote; in 1924 he quadrupled it. In 1928 he won by 5000 majority. Your correspondent asked as po- litely as possible where on earth he acquired such an unusual first name ‘and Lankford replied, equally politely, that it was his grandfather's and that: before that it belonged to a Latin poet who is mentioned in Ovid. The congressman has always felt that he could have done much better had he selected his name himself. But he has had a lot of fun with it and it never handicapped him. zs * & Nice old D. A. R. lady here for the national congress of her order tells “Nevertheless,” the banker inter- rupted Tony, “you are going to make it @ condition of marrying Richard that he support himself and you on that ‘paltry fifty a week.’ Is that right?” “Yes, Mr. Talbot,” Tony agreed. “The reason being that I could not respect my husband if he could not support me without help from his father. As I told you, I want to make Spine of this marriage, if I go into it.” “Hmm!” The banker considered her with narrowed, hostile eyes. “May I ask, young lady, how much your father gives you a month, for spend- ing money?” “My allowance is one hundred dol- lars a month.” Tony admitted. “It does not pay for my clothes.” - “Exactly!” The father's smile was sardonic. “I fear you are being heroic and romantic, rather than practical, my dear. Two young people, accus- tomed to every luxury—” “That goes for Dick, Mr. Talbot, not.for me!” Tony contradicted him flatly. “As you very well know, Pat's —I mean, my father’s small fortune is very recent date. Painfully recent to Mrs. Talbot, I'm afraid. Three years ago my father, Pat Traver, was making exactly forty-eight dollars a ‘week as an automobile mechanic. Out that salary he managed to support family of three and to give me a school education. His invention him sudden prosperity—and than a little unhappiness to my » She was more content on Street than she has ever been ity Boulevard. I'm not at all at the prospect of living on dollars a week—provided Dick I spend now—very freely, I admit—be- cause Pat has plenty of it for me to of an interesting experience crossing the border from Canada by train, She was bringing back a couple of bottles of whiskey for an aged and ailing father. She opened her suit- case and enclosed a note within a rubber band and around the neck of each bottle. One note was a 85 bill and the other simply said: “Be mer- ciful.” Then she retired early. In the morning she found three bottles in her suitcase instead of two—and a note attached to the third which said: “From the tight guy across the aisle. Two senators are suffering from an affliction known as phlebitis, a vein inflammation. It is painful, bother- ne and rather uncommon, The vic- tims are La Follette of Wisconsin and Howell of Nebraska. La Follette’s case is more chronic, dating back nearly three years. Howell has had his since the campaign. Howell contracted his when he slipped while descending a platform. The doctors at the Navy Hospital kept him on his back for nearly six months, to avoid any dangerous ef- fects. He is now able to be back at his office, but has to be very careful of his leg. La Follette’s leg swells every time he uses it and he has to wear a heavy rubber bandage. The trouble has severely hindered him al- most ever since he came to congress, requiring almost constant treatment. A couple of hot campaigns have de- layed any improvement and the young senator had to spend the win- ter recuperating in Florida. He is now back on the job looking better than he has looked for a long time. xk *& Howell, Shipstead of Minnesota and Nye of North Dakota are the only re- maining progressive tenants of the south wing of the first floor of the Senate office building which used to be called “radical row.” La Follette, Norris of Nebraska, Brookhart of Towa and Frazier of North Dakota were all there with them at one time, but they have moved upstairs one by one. La Follette is the latest to de- pal spend and enjoys seeing me spend it. But things have never meant an awful lot to me, Mr. Talbot—” “I'm afraid they have meant a great deal to Richard,” Mr. Talbot cut in, heavily, “The point is, whether they mean more to him than—well, than I do,” Tony retorted. “Or proving himself a man, not just a pampered, spoiled boy. I'm not asking Dick to live in squalor. I can cook plain things very well now, and I'd learn all the time. I can sew. I can keep house. There are pretty little bungalows out in the Enfield Addition—built by Bob Hath- away—that rent for fifty dollars a month, including steam heat from a central point. We could afford one on fifty a week, and later, if Dick earned anything like the salary to which a college education, good brains and a pleasing personality entitled him, we could have a small car and—" Suddenly Dick Talbot sprang to his feet, so violently that his chair was overturned. “Good Lord, Tony! You must be crazy! Either that, or you're just trying to get out of keeping your Promise! If you want to know what I think—” “Richard!” his father thundered, rising and seizing the furious boy's arm in a vise-like grip. “Will you excuse us a moment, my dear?” the banker asked Tony, his voice unexpectedly benignant again. “T'd like to talk things over with Rich- ard.” Tony watched them as, the father's arm across the son’s shoulders, the two crossed Cherry's long living room and took their stand in the seclusion of a deep bay window. She was trembling. NEXT: A decision. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘@| estates. ‘The Times Square hotels are F oeeas EBs 1 heel : feeeeeed i i filled with them. They arrive in Manhattan and settle down as reg- ular guests, Within a rew days they've laid in an assortment of birds from the nearest pet shop and have a couple of geraniums time home life they then proceed to settle down in the big front window and watch the city’s hectic life go by. 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