Show A WASHINGTON I BYSTANDER I S. S 13 BY HERBERT C. C PLUMMER W WAShiNGTON-Ask WAShiNGTON anyone anone on 0 Capitol lull hm to name the junior senator sena- sena will VIiI tor br front flOm Idaho and you ou than likely be met with a. a a blank st st-e. In nine out of ten cases cases tIme 0 a 11 o e must consult the congressIonal dl di- 55 before he be S Ing able to answer S lov as far faor as the gen general ral pul public knows Idaho has hasS has'S S 'S only emily one senator knows S S William E. E Doran DOman but very very S tow few w S 5 J 0 Ii h n Thomas S There are two meah tea mea h sons for thIs In Inthe the first place llac a aman 5 5 5 5 man like HERB C. C would overshadow almost any colleague lie he might have lIe Is not only outstanding In the United States senate but throughout through through- out ut the world And Amid in time the place lo mt care n. n apS ap an S cr he is known 11 to the public Ot 01 not HONORS UNASKED 1 1 didn't ask for my seat In the senate he told this the ether da day Jim In fact act I had never thought of such a thing thing- until the governor called me on the telephone and said sald that he wanted me to fill the term teim of the late Senator Prank Frank TI It Gooding In iii all my life T J have never sought n. n public office Of I served d das as ch chairman hm n of the Republican central committee of Idaho fo for four years and was a a. member of the republican re- re publican national committee for two t terms te but I entered no contest for these posts S SAil An of my life lIe I have ha been a country banker and a lI lIstek farmer Politics interested ted me but never neve to the extent that It does others Senator Thomas when he told of of his appointment appoint appoint- merit ment to the bringing In a clam clam- oring from the tho newspapers for lam I a 1 W rc They couldn't find a single one he said for the 1116 reason th that t there was none a They even had a hard time finding something something some some- thing to write rite about ut inc me I hall had neVer been interviewed many times by reporters I was just simply unknown Thomas will to conduct himself in the dt days s that ahead lie he has In those that have passed lie He has hal been bee by the people ot of Idaho to fIll the un- un expired teri of Senator Goodin GodIng and there are fur years left Theres nothing big I can d do in inthe inthe the United States senate enate he said Th Theres eres nothing I ant n-ant reformed ell r shall jut Just simply stick sUek to m my seat vote ote whichever way vay I think right bt and let it go at that Imn m just an ave AmerIcan d Izen well satisfied with the and content to let them remain tomain to- to main as they are PREFERS HIS BUSINESS Willie the Idaho senator ates the distinction ana honor of hi his position one feels after aftem talking to hIm that he would much rat rather e r be beback beback back in Idaho in the office ot of his country bank or looking after the Inte interests In- In te egts of his large livestock ranch He has seve severed ed an all connections with his big bank banI but holds hollis on to his dairy farm that r I might have ha something to do 10 when l am home Its a mone money malting making proposition my busine s he said I cant can't get accustomed to the Idea of oC pen ing so mUlch mitch of f my time away from It |