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WNU 1\U 1 U ' \ U Service Servlcc Scrvlce 1616 Ere Bye Eye Street Strcct Strect N W , . , i iWashington Washing-ton Washing ton Washington - D C CI CThere CThere CThere I There was something rather pa paI pa1het pathet pathet I hen I hcard heard hcardthe heardthe heardthe 1het thet c about it to roe me " , when the President say two words thatmarked that thatmarked . marked fhe P1e obit obitJ obituary obituary thatI I ' - uary of a long longcareer longcareer , . tersef \ -J J Juary career The tersereply terse f ' " Ireply reply was made madea madec I a : ? . , , ' " LI t,1 t1 t,1I c x + t ta tat 'j j 'jat at a presidentIal ' . \ . , , f fprCSS I press prCSS radio con conTerence conterencc \ . ference Terence when a ay areporter areporter y reporter as.ed ased asked as.edMr askedMr askedMr ) . 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' er . was v.as vas defeate defeated defeated defeatedby defeatedby ; by Leif Lelf rrlcksonThere EricksonThere : Enckson rrlckson Erickson EncksonThere There Thereas was \\as as \ nothing nothmg more that thePresident the thePresident thePresident President could say He already alreadybad alreadyhad alreadyhad bad had endorsed endorscd Wheeler with that re remarkable remarkable remarkable markable loyalty that he has for forhis forhis forhis his frlends-a frlends a friends-a friends friends - a airtue \irtue irtue "Irtue virtue \ " " , which hlch eas ly lymay lymay lymay may go down dovm In history blstory as one of ofhis ofhis olhis his faults faultsWheeler Wheeler gave the freshman sena senator senator senator tor Harry Truman bis hIs fir t oppor opportun opportun opportun tun ty to show his mettle by lettinghim lettIng lettIngrum lettinghim rum him bat for him bun as chairman of the theimportant theimportant theimportant important Interstate Interstatc Co nmcrce nmerce nmcrcecommIttee nmercecommittee nmcrcecommittee commIttee Truman made good goodmJd goodand goodand mJd and a warm friendship developedBut developedBut developed developedBut But even presidential aid couldn tsave t tsave tsave save Wheeler Whecler WheclerThe WheelerThe WheelerThe The other day I v . was as looking 100l.1I1g 100l1I1g . OHr o'Wer oWer OHrthe o'Werthe oveithe ' the autographed photographs Wlth with Wlthhlch withwhich wittwhich [ \\hlch hlch which \ Harold McGrath supenntendent superIn superIntendent superintendent tendent of o1 the senate radio radlo gallery gallerybad galleryhad galleryhad bad had decorated the walls It was wasjust wasjust wasjust ' ' just about the time that things be began began began gan to look bad tor for the senator We Wecommented Wecommented Wtcommented commented on the senators we had hadknown hadknown hadknown known who had ended long careers careersin careersin careersIn in defeat defeatOf Of course Sen . . . George Norn Norris Norriswas Norriswas ; ! was the classic example Fi\ Fi F1\ F1 Fn Fiterms F1e F1terms \ \ e eterms < ' terms Then heas he \ was \\as as replaced by an anantI ananti aranti ' antI Roosei Roose\ Roose Rooseelt \ eit elt man Sen r.enncth renncth Kenneth r.enncthWherry KennethWherry . KenncO-Wherry KenncO Wherry KenncOWherrySenator - ' Wherry WherrySenator Senator f.orrls forrls Aorris . ms closest contender contenderfor contenderfor contendeilor for the longe\ity longe ity 10ngeHty longe'ity longeity \ ' record in m rccent recent rccentyears recentyears rcceniyears years was Elhson Ellison ( ( Cotton Ed ) ) Smith of South Soutb Carolina Carolma v olentIy olently olentIyanti olentlyanti olentiantiNev } anti Ne v DeaL He uas I\as I as was \ defeated defeatedby defeatedby defeatccby by a pro Roosevelt man the yeaiafter year yearafter yearafter after Norns Norris lost outUp outUp out outUp Up on the rad o 0 gallery I ' lall 'Wall Wall all is a apicture apicture spicture ' picture of o1 Henry Ashurst the sen senator senator I Iator ator atorhose \ whose \\hose hose those tongu tongue fairly flurly dr pped ppedepigrams ppecepigrams , epigrams He came to the senate senatewhen senatewhen ' "hen hen when " New Mexico was admitted to tothe tothe Uthe the Union Umon . . That was 1912 . . . He left leftIn leflin leftin In 1840 1940 serving servmg five terms plus five fiveyears fiveyears fiveyears fiveyearsThe years yearsThe The year 1940 was a bad one for forveteransbesides forveteransbesides forveterans veterans-besides veterans besides - - besides Asburst Ashurst Will am amKIDg amKing amKing KIDg King of Utah left us having served servedSlllce servedsince servedsince Slllce since 191 " ' and L Lnn Lynn ; ) nn Frazer of ofNorth ofNorth olNorth ' North Dakota Dah.ota Dahota . who came to Wash Washington Washington Washington ington in m 19 19"3Senator 193 19"3 193Senator " ' ' 3 3Senator Senator Wheeler served only four fourterms fourterms tomterms terms but his vivid personalIty personalItymade personalitymade personalitymade made it seem longer He made many manyenemies manyenemies manyenemies enemies Many people d sapprove sapproveof sapprovcof of his isolationism isolatlomsm and some of his hisother hisother hi : ; other views most thoroughly But Butthere Bu'there Buthere Butthere ' there are many even among hi his hisdetractors hisdetractors ; ; detractorsbo detractors \ who \\bo bo oho respect him blm for hIS hISintegrIty hisintegrity hi ; ; integrity for his ab abd abil ty as a leg s slator slator slater lator something somethmg which perhaps is isunderstood isunderstood i : ; understood in Washington Washmgton bette better betterthan betterthan : . than elsewhere and also because becausethey becausithey becausethey > they consider his rus pacifism sincere smcere sincereI smcereI I remember a conversat on I had hadi hadWlth hadwith ha < i with Wlth repIresentabve Jerry 0 O Connell former rep-I rep I rep- rep representative representative - . - resentabve resentative who tried trued to take Wheeler Wheel Wheeler er s seat m In a campaign somewhat somewhatsum somewhasim I slm sum lar jar to the one which brought broughtvictory broughtvictory broughvictory victory to Enckson Erickson Jerry was pret pretty pretty pretty ty sore rore He had a copy of the Ana Anacond AnaGonda Anaconda cond Gonda Standard in m his rus hand as well wellas wellas welas as a clipping clJppmg The cl pp ng was a areport areport ] report of one of Senator Wheeler s scampa scamps : ; campa camps gn speeches made early in inhis inhis lihis i his career I can t ren rcm ember thiphraseology the thephraseology thephraseology , phraseology but the general idea ideaexpressed ideaexpressed ide ; i ( expressed by Wheeler ) ) was that If Ifthe S Sthe ithe 1 t the Anaconda Standard which was wassupposed wassupposed wasupposed s supposed to represent the senti sentiments sentiments sentJments ments of the big copper interest mterests interests mterestse interestse.er ; e e\er e er e.er eer \ . er praised Wheeler it \ would ould be bea ba b ba e a gn that he was no longerorthy longer \\orthy orthy worthof \ worth orthyof Y : of the support of o1 the people of Mon Mon1ana Montana Mortana 1ana tana 1anao tanaO 0 o Connell read that to me Then Thenbe Thenbe The n ; he be p eked cked up lIP his ills copy of the Stand Standard Standand Standard ' ard and and read from it some very verkind , verykind kind words for Senator WheelerHowever WheelerHowever Wheeler WheelerHowever However I think it lt would be begrossly b bgrossly bgrossly e grossly unfair to say that Senator Senator'lheeler SenatorWheeler r \'lheeler 'lheeler lheeler Wheeler \ SenateWheeler ' ever sold out even flg fig fljuratively flguraUvely figuratively Afar Astar uraUvely uratively to any interests mterests As A s 5 tar far as I kno\ kno kno'W knoW knohe \ ' he is as sincere smcere to ( tday today day ag 118 as he was v hen he made his first firs & t &TEfight TEfight firsttight firsfight tight fight on whatever issue had a side sideunpopular sid sidunpopular sidunpopular e unpopular himIn enough to attract him IonInterview longinterview loneInterview In February of 1935 I had a long lone g Wheelerhave Ibave interview with Senator Wheeler I 1 bave have the yellowing yellowmg cl el ppmg pping before beforeme befor beforme bctorffle e me It is illustrated witha with a huge hug e hugphotograph hugephotograpb photograpb photograph photograpbmore photographmore thatext thantext ( more picture than tha n fistclenched text ) showing Wheeler his fl fist fis fisclenched ; t clenched about to drive it into his hispalma hi hipalma hpalm is s palm-a palm a - a favorite gesture I remen remem remern i I ' her ber berhen \ when \\hen hen then the p cture was taken takenHere takenHere takenHere Here are two t\\O t O \ paragraphs from fromthe fromthe from.the fromthe . the story Last storyLast autumn ( ( remember t11ls this thiswas thiswas was \ as written in February Fcbruary 1935) 1935 ) cltl citi cltlzens citizens citizcns zens of ot Montaf3scnt Montana Montaf\3 Montaf 3 Montart'a Montarta \ ' sent scnt the same sameoung sameyoung sameloung young ) oung man to Washington Wasrungton as a sen sea senator seaator senI I ator tor for h s third term with the thelargest thelargest thelargest largest majority ever gh ghcn gt'ien gtien ' cn a can candldate candrdate candidate dldate drdate by the Mountain State StateI StateA StateA I A decade passes and new ncw voters votersgrow votersgrow votersgrow grow upWheeler up upWheeler upWheelcr Wheeler Wheelcr I ( ( I observed this in m the thesame thesame thesame same interv mterv ecame ew e\\ e et \ ) came back to h s soffice soffice soffice office in the Senate Scnate building with thep the thep thep p ctures of ot the high mount mountains aIDs and andthe andthe andthe the deep valleys of his rus adopted state stateon stateon stateon on the \ walls Calls alls and a victory measured measuredin _ in the same magn flcent fJcent ficent d mensions menslOns menslOnsHIS mensionsHis HIS hair IS a lIttie little tbmner thinner than it " was "as as but he can echoes ecnoes echoesWith ecnoeswith With the same thunder he released releasedwhen releasedwhen releasedwhen when be he first arrived He is st 11 U 11up Uup Uup up and at cm em And the higher theyfly they theyfly theyfly fly the more an . anxious lOUS he is 1S to make makethem makethem makethem them tall fall fallWheeler falLWheeler . Wheeler Norns Norris Ashurst-they Ashurst they Ashursttheyioo Ashursttheyoo Ashurst - they theyloo loo ioo } oo flew flcw flow high . . . M Matron atron UpsetsSolon's UpsetsSolons Upsets UpsetsSolon's Solon's Solons ' Aplomb AplombIt It was during the day and nightsenate night nightsenate nightsenate senate sessions on OPA The senate senatereces senaterecessed senaterecessed reces recessed ed at 6 p m to continue contmue de de1 1 berat ons at 8 p m Republican RepublicanSen RepublicanSen Sen Styles Bridges of ot New Hamp Hamp- Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire - - shire b tier tter OPA opponent and andMrs andMrs andMrs Mrs Bridges Bndges went to a restaurant restaurantfor restaurantfor for d nner Coming Commg out they werecaught werecaught were caught by a sudden sharp ram rain ramstorm rainstorm ramstorm storm The dapper dapperhltelmen white-linensuited white linensuited \\hlte-lmen hlte lmen thrte-linen thrte linen thrtelinensuited \ hltelmensUited - - - sUited senator hailed halled a passing caband caband cab and he and his rus wife pled p led lD . in . . Be Before Before Before fore they could shut the door ( and andin andin andin in accordance with Washington s sgroup sgroup sgroup group riding rldmg ) a huge and very damp dampLabrador dampLabrador dampLabrador Labrador retriever bounded in inland inland inland land ng in the senatorial senatorlai lap Thedog Thedog The dog was follo\\ follo followed folloed \ ed by his rus corpulentmistress corpulentmistress corpulent mistress Some moments elapsed elapsedas as the quartet arranged themselvesn themselves n the cab :0 0 & : back bach . seat The dog con cont contnued cont t tnued nued to snuggle and drip dnp on the theII the"h thett II " "h h h te to 1 I nen su t tSuddenly tSuddenly tSuddenly Suddenly the corpulent lady ladyI ladyglancmg ladyglancing ladyglancing glancmg glancing sharply at the senator senatorbj senatoras I oJ as : d Why Yhy you re Senator Bndges bridges Bndgesaren Bridgesaren bridgesaren aren t you } ou ou7 ou7or ? ' . or eor z.r zr dges pleased to be rccogmzed recognized rccogmzednodded recognizednodded recognizednodded nodded graciously Vi \ \ ell sa d the lady jerking Jerkmg the thesycophant thesycophant thesycophant sycophant c can ne a vay from tbe the tbeI tbeRepublIcan theRepublican theRepublican RepublIcan senator I m a registered regls regis reglstered registered tered DemocratSchwellenbach Democrat I . . . Schwellenbach SchwellenbachYearns i Yearns for West WestThere WestThere WestThere There s a persistent rumor that thatLabor thatLabor thatLabor Labor Secretary Schwellenbach Schwellenbachwould Schwellenbachwould Schwellenbachwould would 1 I ke to desert the Potomac forPuget forPuget for Puget Sound That s not hard to un understand understand understand derstand since smce heavy pressure is isbemg isbeing isbeing bemg being e everted exerted erted to make drastic drasticchanges drasticchanges drasticchanges changes in m the labor department departmentand departmentand departmentand and s nee nce Schwellenbach is as pop popular popular popular ular as he is1 I is ' in m his ills home state stateIn stateIn stateIn In 1934 when he was runn ruin runnng ng forthe for the United Umted States senate LewSchwellenbach LewSchwellenbach Lew Schwellenbach carried carned every countyof county of the state-the state the state - the first time tune this everbad everhad ever had bad happenedVicariously happenedVicariously happened happenedVicariously Vicariously as shown in ID the recent recent re cent resounding resoundlDg success of hisbrother hisbrother his brother Edgar Sch Schvellenbach vellenbach in m mWlnDIDg inwinning winning WlnDIDg the Supreme court jus just just t ceship CeShlP reship of o1 the sta state-his state his state te-hls te hls - - his popular popularIty popularity ity persists today Edgar Sch Sth vellenbach vellenbach vel lenbach almost unkno vn cuts outs dehis dehis de dehis his own community commumty filed against agamst the themcumbent theincumbent incumbent mcumbent . . The court elections elcctlons usu usually , ally don t draw a very heavy voteIyet voteyet vote voteyet -yet yet - yet the man with the former sen senator senator senator I-yet I yet ator s name received more votes votesthan votesthan than were cast for the Repubhcan Republican Repubhcanand Republicanand and Democrat c cand rand dates for thesenate thesenate the senate * . * . * . Senator in forHappy for Happy Returns , The eyes of Wash ngton Post Postreaders readers bugged out recent1 recently wher when whenthey whenthey wherthey they read in m a story describing descrlbmg sen senatonal senatorlal senatonal atonal atorlal wives experiences with ns ris nsI nsmg I ing mg prices that Mrs Glen 'raylor raylor Taylor ' 'raylorI 'raylorbuys I buys grocer es tor for a family of 10 10the 10the the ( he youngest oftshom of uhom tshom \ hom was an 18- 18 IS- IS ISI ISear 18year 18ear - - - I year } ) ear old baby I understood im immedIately mediately that the reporter hac had hadmeant hadmeant imI I meant 18 DAY old baby because becauseJust becauselust just lust two \ weeks eeks before I had the thepleasure thepleasure th < pleasure |