Show ELECT AS STUDENT L E s' s sT T w T-w 7 i I r Q a. a Dr Elbert D D. Thomas Utah's United States senator-elect senator has his caled no preference with regard to his committee assignments or other duties when he goes noes oes to Washington He is shown here with a tome o of one of ot his his' favorite subjects for study however the however the far ea east t. t Senatorial Toga Causes No Flurry Utah's New Solon Refuses t to Become Excited Over Political Career Utah's United States Senator elect Elbert D. D Thomas is more concerned at present with m making king a success o ohis of his job as professor of political sc sd ence at the University of Utah tha than he is over the prospect of a political politic career This quiet amiable man who a accomplished accomplished ac ac- the thc seemingly impossible by defeating the veteran Senator Senate Reed Smoot at the polls on November 8 refuses to become excited over o h his future in Washington I haven't dreamed of being sen sentor sena sena- tor ton as yet he said in an interview with The Telegram Tuesday I It just hasn't dawned on me If It you you'd lived thirty years of Smoot bus busness business business busi- busi ness you wouldn't have believed it possible he could be defeated Dr Thomas Thom s his feet cock cocked d on a chair in his office where the walls wal are lined with books on the far tar cas cast political science and international r relations relations re- re lations on which he is considered a an authority talked at length on public issues but asserted he has not given give givena a thought to what committee assignments assign assign- ments he pe will seek in the senate senat WILL HAVE OPINION i Only thing I can say now is that tha Ill I'll be a Democrat he remarked wit wita with witha a chuckle but rest assured that anyone any any- one who is a school teacher will baven have hav an n opinion on everything Dr Thomas Thomasl personally a dry but bu with firm intentions of at t. t sustaining President elect Roosevelt's prohibition tion program believes any member o of congress can be a n good Democrat am amstand and stand for repeal only of the second section of the eighteenth amendment The reason prohibition has failed he declared is that prohibitions prohibitionists have mixed bad government wit with their endeavor enc The trouble with th the prohibition people is that they ge get temperance prohibition the eight amendment and the act net all mixed up and think of all four In synonymous terms Prohibition is not an emotional question It must be settled by someone someone some some- one who knows something about gov gov- is a discussion discussion discus discus- I Ision It really only a sion of good and bad government I IThe The eighteenth amendment was no not I honest in it its conception concepti n. n in the op opinion opine in inon I ion on of Dr Thomas and was only a compromise se He p- p pointed out that the th provision which vIi ich allowed overlapping state and federal enforcement anvil ed dishonesty and shifting of r spon- spon While he did not commit himself definitely Dr Thomas made it clear he le favors cancellation of war debts RECALLS BOXER CASE He lIe recalled that President Theodone Theodore Theo- Theo done dore ore Roosevelt was called a good Christian because he eliminated the Boxer indemnities after alter the Boxer rebellion But the fact was he added he kneW he couldn't get them anyway If It we cant can't collect anything from anyone and dont don't propose to get it dont don't you think its it's a a good thing to tobe tobe tobe be called good Christians' Christians President Coolidge said Didn hey hire the money And shouldn't they hey pay it back The question is who are they And who are going to o be bethey they 65 years from now Dr Thomas has long been a student stu stu- stu dent of international relations and affairs in the far tar east He served a mission for tor the L. L D. D S. S church in Jaan Japan Ja Ja- Ja pan an nn from September 1907 to April Apri 27 1913 and was president of the mission for two years He is the author of ot the widely discussed discussed dis dis- dis cussed Chinese Chines Political Thought which is used as a text at nt the university university university sity and at many other leading I On numerous occasions Dr Thomas has been asked to translate various church and historical documents from Japanese into English and from English English En En- glish gUsh into Japanese |