Show I How Col Lyon Created a Federal Job 131 i ill l1 I CECIL LYON of Texas Is a millionaire COL lionaire ranchman who plays politics poli-tics for tho fun of It and who plays so well ho Is now credltejJ with the ownership own-ership of the Republican party of Texas When Col Lyon gets up out of a chair ho opens up like a carpenters rule a section at a time When he talks you can stay out In tho next room and miss nono of tho story for Col LyonIs typical of his big state Col Lyon sat In tho Press club In Washington ono evening and told of tho job ho got In Texas for a young ontleman of color who wanted to work for tho government Lyon looked over tho pay roll oC p u employee at tho federal building at homo Thero were no vacancies amp most of tho Jobs had a long waiting list of applicants Lyon looked abroad mat m-at the lists of employes In other fed oral buildings Ho found a Job he didnt know about It was tho Job of a char woman r Col Lyon looked It up In the dictionary i dic-tionary nnd found that a char woniau t was one who polished doorknobs and things There woro plenty of knobs In the federal building back home but his man was not a woman and tho dictionaries made no mention jf char men This did not stop Col Lyon or Texas Ho created tho omCO of char man tho only ono In existence so far r as Washington knows and the young man who wanted to work for the gOY fi7 eminent polishing knobs with great eclat 1 7 vi d |