Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1927, Page 77

D (Continued from First Page.) Senator White. And as the abashed Mr. Jinks resumed his seat the Sena-| tor continued. “I'm always reminded | of a definition that I think old Tom | Reed once gave: ‘A statesman is a dead politician.’ As for you. let's talk this thing over a my boy. and | maybe T can give you a pointer or two. | T was a voungster here once myself. | In those it wasn't like it is now but 1 sometimes think it might be bet- | ter if it was. In my day a new Con-| man was to be seen, but not | As it 18 now, you youngsters can go over there in the House and | make a speech on the opening day of | zress, and maybe get away with | But I've never noticed it helped much—helped either the country or the Cong | “You spoke ting ass the ways committee, and | You intima it wouldn't dis-| Please you to he put on the appropria- t You hinted th: » job on the & al- | Well. you and about | 434 others feel the same way, but I'm | afraid you're not going to have al Whole lot of picking to do. But nev mind. If vou get on the committee | for the disposition of useless executive | papers or the committee on claims or | indu arts and expositions, don't | 1ot r vou. Better things| will come here vou are in Cc ss respectable, comfortable | ent salary. probably | more than you made back in Ola, and a lot of prestize and thinzs al Now th the job vou want to ma Job is in Con Whethc you are successful depends pretty much on you Now. T suppose vour idea of being | a good 1o stay on the | floor, answer everyeroll call, object | cver you zood chance, never cut a commitice meeting. take | part in ev and treat the| boys to some tory wher you've got a spes 2o down t E vare stor ot vourself strong. tin Put the speech . lock it tight, throw the sin and the box in we River. And do that with ches for the next couple . You'll get along better. I ou want to make a record ng roll calls. There's no harm in it. but 1 doubt whether the country gives much of a hoot whether you answer all the roll calls or not. I guess you've heen studying up on parliamentary law so vou can help the Speaker out when he gets in a snarl. You'd be surprised, but most of the boys think that they're not so bad, yet out of 435 of them, I wouldn't count on more than 20 to help the Epeaker or anybody else when it comes to parliamentary la * k¥ * “There are just two things you've got to do. One is be regular. The other is take care of the folks back home. Do both well and some day the country may allude to you offhand as a s man. By being regular, 1| mean be good. Try to get a desk off Yin some quiet corner on your side of the House chamber and vote the way you're told to vote, do the little jobs you're given to do and don't speak out of turn. Be regular. Attend your committee meetings, don’t always dis- agree with the chairman, don't think the man who does the most talking knows the most, and don't be afraid to take on a hard job even if it does mean you won't get your name in the papers. Don't say anything until you know what to say, and if you think the party's going off on the wrcng track, remember the party’s a whole lot bigger than you are and you can't stop it. Just climb up and tuck your- self away in some cozy corner on the band wagon, and ride it with the rest of them. If you've got something to tell the House, some facts to give the members, some point to make, say your plece and sit down. After a new Congressman treats the House to one or more long spells of oratory you'll notice the newspaper boys in the press mallery all have to smoke about the time he gets the floor and the rest of the members will avoid him like a pole cat. Let a man get a reputa- tion for orating simply because he likes to orate and he's through. All the House wants from you in debate is facts. A man who can state a new fact is worth a whole package of orators. LR e “Sit tight and learn. Do what re told to do. If you think it's s0 much the better. If you | think it's wrong, come over and talk | 10 me, or go to your leaders and talk 0 them, but don't talk out loud. If you’ steady and quiet, and regular, there’ll come a day when the leaders will remember you as a dependable fellow that's nice to have around, and then you can begin talking about jobs on the appropriations committee or ways and means. Ten or 15 men over there in the Capitol run that House. zet about being a statesman for or five years. tut don't forget your home work. at you do here in your office is more important than any hundred speeches you can make on the floor. You can introduce 40 bills, but they Your tour |and tell him vouw'll go right down to ed to|F | in their point of view. |in the House. When a couple is ried won't get you anywhere if you over- look the first duty of a Congressman, and that is to keep the home fires burning. “Get yourself a good secretary. You | are allowed $4.000 a year for clerical hive, and you can spend $3,300 of it m nan Certify vour son or sorebody to draw the other $700 and give it to your secretary, too. 1 he's a zood one he’ll be worth that and more. Never fail to answer a letter. It a constituent wants you to find a job for his feeble-minded son, tell him vou've taken it up personally with the Secretary of the Treasury and will keep him informed of developments. If a voter wants you to find him a wife. answer the letter right away the Woman's Bureau. When you get letter signed by 300 members of the selety for the Prevention of Sending Telegrams on Mother's Day, \ch one of them that you mpathy with the s of stock write to iwre heartily movement in the NYZ Corpe te to tell vou that if corpor taxes were cut dividends would go up, say that vou lunch only this day with an Green of ways and means Chair much interested 1d he seemed ver) “Subscribe to every newspaper printed in your district and clip the records of births, deaths and mar- \ges. When a baby is born, con- ulate the parents and send them 4 bulletin on ‘Care of the Infant. 1f the child should die, write a letter of condglence and say your secretary sent the bulletin while you were over | write them a letter and see if can't find @ helpful bulletin of some sort. Circularize your district with catalogues of Government publications and ask voters to check bulletins de- sired. You've got some 12,000 farmer hulletins at your disposal alone. Don't let any of them go to waste. A horse book 1s better campaign propaganda than a 5000-word specch. You're bound to say something in a speech that somebody won't agree with, but everybody loves a horse book. Make good use vea your attle books and your eulogies. Don't forget your eulogies. 1f a member from your State dies, you get four eulogy hooks. Swap some of your Coast and Geodetic Survey maps for all the eulogies you can get, and send them around. There are a lot of good voters who get a big kick out of read- ing about a dead Congressman. “You'll have visits from your con- stituents. The people from back home are always dropping in. Get them seats in gallery, get them passes to the White House and try to line them up for a handshake with the Presi- dent. Write them a letter that will take them through the Bureau of En- graving and Printing, and direct them to the other public buildings. When they're sitting in the gallery, you might get the floor for two or three minutes and say something apropos of nothing regarding the sterling worth of Arkolinians. “¥ve always found T could use my $1 stationery allowance for station- ery, for I have a heavy correspond- ence. If you want to, you might try getting by on $75 and use $50 to get a lot of little souvenirs, pocket knives and such. and hand them out when the home folks drop in. Or you may be able to bum enough committee stationery—which is free—to get by on, and let the $125 a session accu- mulate. It'll help to send one of the boys to college. “You're in Congress now. Make it your business to stay here, and for- get that statesman stuff. You may be the Big Wind in your own home town, but you're just another Con- gressman here.” * x % x Senator White rose, stretched, and held out his hand. “And remember, son,” he said, in parting, “never tell anybody to go to 23“‘ and don’t high-hat the newspaper From where he sat in his office Congressman-elect Jinks could see the dome of the Capitol rising shadow- like out of the misty dusk. Suddenly a hundred searchlights threw out long, ghostly fingers and lifted it in sharp reliet against the darkening sky. The sheer beauty of it probably accounted for a tear that dropped from the eye of Congressman-elect Jinks and smeared the typewritten sheet of paper_he still held in _his hand. Throat Sore? Be Careful! Results in 2 Hours A sore throat is dangerous. A new discovery, GERM-ORAL, will clear your sore throat quick- ly and kill the disease germs. Sore throat is often the start toward tonsilitis, laryngitis and there is always the danger of it going down into the lungs. 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