Show j Dont Quote Me j c I By United Press 1 These words are arc tho ones most frequently heard by W f J ton correspondents Items which never appear In the regu regular ar f I patches and little intimate pictures of or public characters rs f jy appear in this column from time to time WASHINGTON Jan 16 Senator Hiram W W. Johnson inc trie W stands for Warren of California is in his clement element these days He is having another fling at the international bankers President Hoover on whom Johnson wastes no affection is la beset by many troubles Everything that happens seems to be down Johnsons Johnson's alley Some arc are even askin asking him to torun torun torun and the lowdown run for president and president on that is that hell he'll let them ask him himi but he doesn't fool himself for lor a moment into thinking he can win I Johnson is one of the most interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting men of ot the senate enate He comes from a n politically minded family out in California His father the late Grove Groe 1 L. L Johnson was a Republican for years in the California Cali Call fornia legislature When Johnson first ran for governor of California his father then still active in politics did not look with favor faVOl on the onslaughts onslaughts onslaughts on on- of his son upon the existing Republican on organization Johnson started as a court reporter re re- re porter He studied lay law lavin in his fathers father's office After the San Francisco earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake and fire there e came a political and social reaction which resulted in inthe inthe inthe the notorious San Francisco graft prosecution He was on the prosecutors prosecutor's start stalL Then Francis J 3 Hene Hency special prosecutor prosecutor prosecutor prose prose- was shot In the courtroom one afternoon Johnson who until hen then was chiefly known as a pretty good lawyer stepped into his place He sent scat Abe Ruef the California boss to prison In 1910 he ran for lor governor of oC Cali Call He had little financial h ing but he charged up a and down dow state shouting that he would kick Southern Pacific tJ out of H won Johnson was born with wilh an Im ment in his speech He calls ii it tongue tongue lied His uncle for tor for Who Who- he was vas named spent hours him In the pronunciation of or I Now Novi he has the fastest and the plainest deliveries in the one ti ot The senate stenographers like Jike to bW Johnsons Johnson's speeches because of n the clarity charity of his pronunciation his r rhetoric and arid his knack of or rom r out completely every sentence He uses long lone sentences but hut ut arc welt well spoken with wilh the in the right place He fans the Jr r with outstretched palms and i es av his arms like a shadow boxer wf He has tremendous endurance H HA kc twice a day for tor a fortnight du durm the London nav naval ll treaty debt deba without as one man who heard it an all describes it dropping a syllable or or misusing an adverb o His office is one o of the ideal hid 1 dt- dt 1 of the tile capitol It can vl be reached only through a tortuous tat pa with an entrance so EO it is impossible to direct anyone s to toR it In the senate senale his seat scat is in th the mid die of the first row He is more th than average regular in attendance and i k attentive to what goes oes on His brain works so last fast and his tongue Is so sharp that none in the senate ever deliberately invites a tilt lilt with v him hla And he doesn't have very hi high h regard regard re re- gard ard for Senator Samuel M. M T short sh ridge his colleague from California |