Show UNCLE JOE CANNON The House of Representatives ad ad adjourned adjourned its busi business ess' ess the other t er day in that its members might thare in celebrating the eighty hf if- if th birthday of Uncle Joe Can Cannan an Need i it be said that such a procedure ure would not have been possible except ex- ex cep for the fact th that t the men in Congress w with th Mr Nr Cannon love him And the old statesman is evidence tha that with yearS yearS' a rich life begins the spirit 11 mellows lows Ripe age gives tone to violins wine and goo good l fel e l lows Uncle Joe Cannon s s one of ol th the finest studies alive live in ink human humin Iun m in- in in interest interest terest b because cau e he radiates radl R rp u- u al nl sunshine and good Age has mellowed him but he ha has not soured not soured Of course Tennyson was wasP was right when he said that old oId lit men rijen en mu must t t. die or orthe orthe I the world would gr grow W mouldy it is a fine th thing ng t to tp have havea av ava a national character like c l Mr M. Cannon I I who proves prove his philosophy days da s sin in the year that men arc are just as young as they feel I Of course Uncle Joe was was was' not always popular In In th thc Roosevelt days he was ris' ris s Speaker Speak r Czar Cannon anH anil moth mothers rs I used to toscar scare scar their naughty children hildren by telling telling telling tell tell- ing them tieni about hobgoblins and C Cannon Can Cn- n- n non bon and his vile cigar Cannon was almost hated just as lt li was later on Then The the tile p people ople b began ban gan to I like Roosevelt and and he died died and they lov loved d him a great deal n more ore Cannon beat his old enemy by living and being loved while he rem ine in the flesh All of which leads up to another a act t in th the drama bein being continually continually continually con con- pulled on lifes life's stage and It it will be interesting to note wh whit what t another dozen years years' will do to Woodrow Wilson r r rand rin and Warren Warron n G G. Harding two Harding-two two gentlemen regarded as as- the leading citizens of Washington Wash I in ington tori toriI I |