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Show Newspaper Men at the Crib. Comparatively recently a good many Washington correspondents have left the newspaper service, temporarily at any rale, to loin the force of government govern-ment laborers. The lit of dally paper pa-per rlters who from the beginnings of WuKhlngton correspondent! who have been taken over by Uncle Sam Is a long one. Year after year the going out continues, but also year after year there In a coming back. One or two of theHe newspaper men who have stepped from the "write path" temporarily have been mentioned In these dlnpatches before, but only briefly, gome of tbetn have been drafted draft-ed Into the ranks of government employes em-ployes because they know how to write to the point. Representative Victor Merger. Socialist member of congress from Milwaukee, expressed one reason In another connection the other day. He eiIJ that If the bills which are Introduced Into congress were written by newspaper men the substancy of them would be put In ten lines and everybody would understand what they meaut. |