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By RODNEY DUTCHER H (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, Sept. 14 ©. Thaddeus H. Caraway Ar } sel icult to predict the . Ee : Lo . : : as _ NOv WONDER : : ; WHY 2] will resume his campo tion in congi | the Washington lobby ring st ad. After a bill is ee next regular session of cons : nough for these spe- : ee ee ginning in December 1 ves to claim much of : oes o ! : WE DON'T GET. Caraway says the lobb; isi ther any belongs to 5 e ‘ ness here is pretty lar Ih not oe ALON(g timizing people over untry who he r re that s ‘ . ‘ are paying oui m t i a comes Which doesn’t ox 1ome. > people who “t know a hundred people nak to the Lions District of Columbia who have been clubs, R 1 nd chambers of fe ct : and plant- h more im- we have here. s were espe- ays, : when we had “And not one of them has 2 k- | tt “ to abolish the Pull- P, a ing acquaintance with a do: 1 a People who hardly M public life or t a were persuaded influence anywhere ) congress. Letters 4 Wants Them to Register ss from eve 1 Caraway s r a t of 1 were worded quire all paid lobbyists 1s themselves and tell who the r S$ n see, the regular | for and how much they a lobby in Washington applies to any lobbyist Sas us the fifth wheel on a neh sf j the national congress,” a a ing as “any effort to influ Spee up——and at one time action of congres group ntained intelli- coming before it, whether it be by s of men here. Organized la- WELL -\WHEN ARE You WELL! TUS 16 A ME of conctes. or inter: [nau nly of niformation touch: FELLAS STARTIN' UP To | ‘SALL OFF! | /coapoice!! war) pomcueo we WuEN plans STAY IN THE House SHE HEARD Z Was NY AON CAN PUNISH = or seeking to interview indi- ts. These m YouR UNCLE CLEMS ae members of either the house ci 2 ALL OFF... ; Fepresentatives or the senate” and they are usually fair and helpful RANCH, OSSité 3 A. a“ PLANNING ON US ° , y AWHILE ‘SHE was ‘This bill has been passed by the ‘The for a while had a fine 3 Z \WORSE THAN You senate, which presumably will pass group of men representing them here bee ALL GOIN’ ouT [| r 7 NER UcaRD TAKING HER on it again. but their efforts were finally nullified aye 2 ‘ t Z 1 j 4 OF “Pd-like to get those autocrats in, when the Mc -Haugen bill was 5 Lm —_— the house to let it go through. too,” vetoed by the white house.” Caraway says. “There's no reason why There are others in congress who congress should let these fellows be | believe that the lobbyists accomplish protected in their practice of milking | more than Caraway gives them credit '. The “power lobby,” for instance, , has on occasion seemed extraordinarily e effective. At the same time, scores of Had st if EY . _ EEE ITE ete ATMA AE IS MEL RET New York, Sept. 14—He had occu-| ‘The man who debonairly ané with pied palatial cabins aboard the At-| Tare socia tion wheedled 1 saikorv ear. fae around the card |, lantic liners of yesteryear. He had! ‘elon qinees AnH j sat around the game tables with| ¢ fe wandered lie a Caettes { princes and pikers. He had been the | wraith about a hotel lobby through g suavest of the oldtime international ; which drifted, day in and day out 1 KNOW SEE, NOW YOU : T 1] 4 + eard sharpers. | the constant n of Manhattan's OVERCOAT_AND 1 A way SO PUT YOUR ARM THROUGH Bh the a pray WAY, IT'S BIDE or ot ‘Yet, when it came time for Frankie | transients, SuST GOT (tT FROM 7? | WE BOTH CAN THAT SLEEVE AND TLL WITH AY CLEAN ae stem LIKE WE'RE: ‘Dwyer to die, his bed was a very ordi- Ok OK THE TAILOR'S FOR CARRY IT PUT MINE THROUGH ‘Sf CARRWIN' ANN-THING "2; mary one, such as may be found in| In Frankie's prime, the sea-going HIM. OOF IT'S SO BIG CASY AS BIE THIS ONE ANY THING. ATALL an e®; any of the lower priced Broadway | confidence man was one of the most TL CAN HARDLY + belt rooming houses and hotels. With | colorful figures in that particular + all his high stakes, Frankie's end was of nether world that lived by CARRY IT of most of men why trifle Wits. A few spectacular figures, ‘ | like Frankie, became known in every foreign capital and their appearance upon a ip w ” signal for precau- tion, y belonged to the semi-fic- tional clan which E. Phillips Oppen- eyes were beginning to| heim made so popular. feol him and his hands were not so) As for Frankie himself—he was of nimble. The “other fellow” was be- | the stouitish, ingratiating, hale fellow ginning to get a break once in a whi! type who could mingle with the dis- * And that’s no game for a sure-thing and transatlantic gambler. eK % a little game” with y ch would have made him in- imate occupation. r s all over—when him was watched in eve the deck, he wa: |. capital. And the police of Me alone, a5 so many have been. tan clapped eyes on him whenev * * O* a9 liner dropped anchor in New York! Age has found most of the “racket Ss Ma. harbor. If and when word came of manipulators of Manhattan “lone @ome particularly lucrative swindle, wolves” at the end. Their world has coppers would nose around to} heen a world in which they played find out what this sieck and stocky | the ainst the crowd. They | little fellow had been up to. They i lost . _ | mabbed him many a time, but they! And they say of Frankie that he “THAN ICELAND UP HERE, WAS SUST OUTSIDE M. mever convicted him. Frankie was died with little money in his pockets : ant IT? “TW House — pretty slick—or his reputation was | because he gave so lavishly to all and ss ‘worse than his deeds. sundry. It's a peculiar and senti- 3 * * * | mental twist about such fellows— Still, with all his experience in men charity and fellows down on their ‘and manners, Frankie died a lonely | iuck generally find them tremendous- man. When they checked up at his ly liberal. hotel they found that only rarely did | GILBERT SWAN. Of course, the day of Frankie's The Place for It WHEW! GOLLY, ITS COLDER. he have a visitor. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) i i the corner lot to help John attain his heart's desire. Not All Like That well, when it works out according to Hoyle. But all hands nnot be dealt according to the book, mi LLY HAIL) ’ ; which John is able to make his an- __, Philosophers interested in the young Ge aan he doesn’t know hy tm recent years have been urging par- | what ne wants to do # ents to allow their children to fol-| This is what. very likely; John is i Gow their natural impulses in choos- | #llowed more time. ‘The corner lot is shen | 0/4 just the same and John is sent fgg & profession or vocation when | to college to get a good general edu- they grow up. | cation. When he comes out he'll only | # And taking these good people at| be twenty-one or twenty-two, and} | their word, parents have followed this | P¢*haps by that time he'll have more | ‘dvice pretty closely. It has been the | “finite ideas about his future. j Now this is all very fine and I, f general custom lately to wait until the - Pin a teed tee sisi moved John to be a lawyer, ot » OF an electrical engine making any attempt to shape ‘educational end in any particular the Med yscsind that young ‘appears ai akfast touched the divine fire that gives him into the future, and an- the family that now he 1s exactly what he wants to do, one, am a believer in a good firm background of general academic edu- {cation for any special work. But j Without doubt it seems that two | things should be done. The first lies with the parents. I believe that there was more than 4 little virtue in the old-fashioned method of helping John to make up his mind, and rather early at that, as to his future efforts to look out for himself. “My boy is to be a so-and- EE et §3 age ait father to figure on sellii so” was probably condemned too * RUDE aeicxly” by. Gna” eeliseeneeinn: ——-—— | What if there is no self-expression? Unless a boy has shown decided pref- erence or ability to be one thing (and in that case most certainly he should be trained along that line) then I be- lieve his parents should take things | in their own hands and say, “We wish our son to be a doctor—or a lawyer— or a teacher—or a business man,” and start cut to educate-him with that end definitely in view. All Aren't Genuises It will probably relieve the greatly at that. want to be Ff eé : [ fl i : E : ‘ if i LH i iy } i I i tf! ine ies ill eet i i i on ti Ltn EF i ley i i ‘3 i g G55 ge i | i i $ E ! i te i i i | i if E 8 i z z i il : | i ‘to i Zi A il tH 5 wee hr i Z i ae i “ ae