Show Senate Continues to Justify 4 Significance of Name Old Men Despite the injection of at young youngblood blood alood from time to time the United States senate continues to justify the derivation of at Its name old name old men There are only four of or the 96 who might be termed youthful in years Huey Long of Louisiana Millard Tydings Tydings Tydings' Tydings ings ings' of Maryland Young Bob La LaFollette LaFollette LaFollette Follette of at Wisconsin and Gerald Nye Nyc of at North Dakota alone can boast of birth dates in the OOs There are also four senators whose I birth dates go back to the They are Fletcher of Florida Kendrick of Wyoming Glass of Virginia and Walsh of Montana The Thel others range between There are almost 30 of at the decade of the COs more than 30 born in the and not more than 15 born In the O Of them all Kendrick of at Wyoming is the oldest at 75 But age doesn't seem to slow up these four old timers At least two of them are among the most active men in the senate Walsh senate Walsh and Glass Walsh probably shows his advancing ing years lears ears less than any cf ct the four His is one of those slender physiques which defy the piling poundage with which the years slow up so many men He has seemed to thrive on hard work Glass wiry and small has an energy energy energy en en- ergy that elicits perennial comment Those who watched him during the thelast thelast thelast last session of ot congress marveled at athis athis athis his endurance Almost single handedly hand handedly edly at times he carried the tremendous tremendous tremendous dous burdens attending the important important tant hint banking relief legislation Senator Kendrick the oldest of them all while perhaps not as active in the senate as Glass or Walsh nevertheless nev nevertheless carries his years remarkably remark remarkS ably welL Life in the open has helped Between Be tween sessions of the senate he never fails ails to ride the roundup on his huge cattle ranch in Wyoming and eat from the chuck wagon agon The white haired soft voiced Fletcher yields t to none of his co col I- I J leagues when it comes to work Re ReIs He Re- Hes Is s one of the most constant of senators senators' in n attendance at sessions The rankIng ranking rank rank- i Ing Democrat on the banking and currency cur cur- rency committee as well as on commerce commerce com corn merce and military affairs he Is an indefatigable worker on the hill bill He sits down close on the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic side directly across from Smoot of at Utah who is In his hb seventy seventy- first year Fletcher enters actively Into debates on all legislation Nothing Noth Noth- ing tag seems to escape his attention |