Show vetera veteran h utah statesman aa A vr 4 hon HOIL reed ca c A useful S senator enat bris ave know our heroes ni public life but W we p d J I 1 t ways know our benefactor iliev at aie often KI tr tro witch aliv world with ith noble he idl hus toil dpn aches for t example havery little to say about one of ali alie most useful il inen members ibers of the senate reed smoot he is no orator lie seldom makes long spee speeches clies but he lie lias has an slit of tile business to which lie de otes ote if with an tin t v that most men inen keep for their private affairs V i day bif afar t pr dit day Y sen senator A t or smoot sits there to watch bills ancito and to insist upon taking out of them insidious little appropriations artfully concealed in 45 some 0 C cornel 0 ernei it tt is an ail ungrateful tak to be a watchdog of the treasure treasur especially n thebe days when the spending of billions makes U it beom henin hardly worth while to save thousands but senator smoot to it N with ith admirable persistence and lie lias has won flie thereby reby the marked respect of his all fellow I 1 sell senators acors even oven though lie often blocks their pet measures another tiling thing which li senator smoot consistently and resolutely appo opposes es is the indiscriminate printing of public da documents 56 he flo inexorably demands that they be ile first passed upon by the committee on oil printing all this is humdrum work b but lit some one ought to do it ut hr the public interest we ive play add the public ough litto tto be grateful to tho man nian who does do it the foregoing editor ml ial appeared in the now york evening I 1 post ost an tin independent pro administration newspaper of march 26 1920 |