| Show Underwood Relishes Fried Mush 0 00 0 00 0 o-O o 0 0 0 C Senator a Candidate Methodical t ir 1 a e S j tt I t r k S ii t 4 A t t q qS J 1 S u i I i t d ti tie e I iy t f e S 4 r 4 S o 4 Top Mrs frs Oscar W V Underwood l left and Senator bottom Oscar V IV Und Jr left John Jom Lewis Lc Underwood and John Lewis Lc By NEA Service GHA f Ala Dec 22 22 B I Talk is with Ith Oscar W or listen to one of his speeches on onon onon onon on the tho floor of the Senate and OU get an on impression of an able pow pow- powerful powerful erful nature logical nature logical and above e all ondo endowed ed with a large largo share shore of ot com com- common com com- common common mon sense oense Southern In all of ot his him antecedents educational dents dents educational political and the economical the senator front from Ala Ala- Alabama ama barns bama now nosy that he lias ha throw i his hat into th the 1921 1924 arena arna r the hope of ot the Solid South for tor tora fora tora a PI Ho Jle combines the manner of the traditionaL southern gentleman with the logic poise and ond force or of orthe the highly hig trained executive Un- Un Un Unfailingly failingly polite and friendly ho he hoI heI heIs I not what hat could go ge termed eff sive u ehe e i As a United States senator Un- Un Underwood Un Underwood der derwood derood has many friends but un-I un te few pals His HI closest companions companion ar are I his wife who ho drives s him hint to and from his office in m the tho United State capitol capital each day and hi his Ger Ocr German German man police dog Otto Olto von Eidel- Eidel welsa wel wels Otto Is la the senators senator's play play- playfellow playfellow fellow at homo and companion on e expeditions These conch conch- constitute tute Under Underwood s a chief exercise FOOD Underwood Is as democratic In his mode moda of living as ho Is In hIs I politics He lie Is wears business suits BulL and frequently bow ties Ho lIe like likes tried fried apples fried ham and alid fried nn and Is of a dog fancier RB It if ever eser er does Underwood make a set speech All hI his talk talks are extemporaneous vet ot et when ho rises on the floor of ot the Senate Senat hiS colleagues uee and the press gal gal- gal lerl come coma to prompt attention here Is si where hero here his hits possession ot of cold logic Is demonstrated others may be his superior but his hia lii arguments argument are indisputable time timo and andl again ho he hohas hohas has bas battered down th the tha flowery speeches of others by the tha th beer force If 1 his reasoning He Jle has the tho faculty of marshaling his facts and making makinI them thorn march In tn ordered ar- ar array array ar array ray METHODICAL MAN N MANIn In his senatorial routine Under Under- Underwood Underwood wood Is 10 most mosi methodical All the and business reaching his ot- ot otIc of office flee fice Ic each day Is cleaned up that day No questions aro are let left hang bang bangIng hanging ing IlIg over This Titia habit of o maintain maintain- maintainIng maintaining maintaining ing a 0 clean cleon desk leaves leases loa cs him addi addi- additional addi- addi additional additional time for tor reading and study Ho He prefers the quiet life Ufa to tiA t of the political mixer Few ew men In public has ha haw 10 jo even evena evena a temper so eo little of ot temperament He Ito never gets ruffled or flurried never exhibits pique or angor anger nov nov- neVer n v- v jer or er In even the bitterest debates raises hi his voice above tI the slow dow suave rather nasal drawl In which 1 he peaks He may Y be bo Sarcastic even cuttinglY caustic In debate but hi his words w ill III come In th the came ame slow calmly emotionless voice In which he would present a a summary And for tor statistics especially tl- tl fi financial figures th the tha Birmingham senator has quit quito quite a 1 B predilection Ne He Is equally fond of His Hl dally daily regimen caUs calls for tor or an ear ear- early ear early ly Iy and leisurely breakfast and during th the meal h he carefully reads and ond studies the news new of ot the day Under Underwood has haa given hi his nam name to a great greot tariff mea measure u reo which has lived and will be remembered H did this In the tho House Rouse of Representatives and It mad made him hint th the famous leader of the Ute Democratic party porty on he ho floor As majority leader there during during- the tha first Wll- Wll Wilson son on on he hll was waa wa chair man men man of ot the Wale Wa s and Means Meine com corn committee committee which drafts th the revenue bills When he hc becam became senator h ha he wu was placed on the Senate Appropriation Appropriations Appropriations tion committee As Aa ho put It p When When I came caine to the Senate I stopped raising raising- money and nd sent nt to spending It LEGAL LIGAL G Underwood Is a a II lawver Jawer For many ea ears eam however howver he has been I Identified with the Woodward Woodwards among nionE the most moot successful Independent dent coal and Iron producers of othe Ua the south and one of o the Wood Wood- ward ard girls became Mrs Under Under- Underwood Underwood Underwood wood woodlie He lie was waa born at Louisville Ky KyIn In 1862 and was as educated there completing his law course In the of o Virginia He lie law In Birmingham at the tho start of ot his his partner at one timo being Judge E K Campbell now chief justice of th the court of claims at Washington Underwood early took an ac- ac ac active th tive lie part In Alabama politics and a as chairman of ot tho the Demo Demo- Democratic DemoCratic Democratic cratic Executive committe of ot th the ninth district of the state tato as his first public office He Ic was ILS later chaIrman of th the campaign commit commit- committee committee laterI I tee teo which adopted the present con con- con constitution of ot the tha state HP lie wee was a member of the and con con- con congresses nn and was elevated ele to th the sen- sen senate sen senate ate ato In 1915 1916 No matter mattor how bow far tar his bid for forth forthe th the Democratic nomination gets gels Underwood Is at least leut assured the support of ot his hia horn home state tate For Fora Fora Fora a recent law enacted In ma requires that an ono filing with that state legislature a petition for tor forthe forthe the tho presidential nomination must bo be a noth native natlie of ot Alabama And It If th the state approves his candidacy h he w will Ill lii choose th the states state's deles delegates to the national cons con CHILDREN CHILDREN- Ills HIs two children John Lewis Un- Un Underwood Underwood Un Underwood derwood 35 and Oscar W V Jr 33 are both married The former mar roar mar married ned ried the daughter of Judge Camp Camp- bell Senator Underwood's Unde former law partner th the latter Miss MIs MI s ElIe Ellen Pr Pratt tt of ot Prattville Ala His only grandchild th the daughter of ot John JohnLo JohnLouis Lo Louis LoIs Is died when hen she sho ho was 8 B Senator Underwood ha has ben been married twice his first s wife If Ife being Miss Mils Eun Massi of yule Va Ya She died In 1900 In 1904 he married MI Miss Mis Bertha Woodward ot of Birmingham The Tho Alabaman I Is a casual golfer taking this game In the some same die die- dis dispassionate passionate manner he ho takes most pleasures In summers and be- be beI be be I tweeD sessions he likes to slip sill a away way I to Underwood Cabin In th the wilds of th the Blue Ridge near Tate Springs Tenn There he hunts I fishes and anI commune communes with nature His Ills Birmingham home I Is plain and ond simple According According- to William I major domo for tor th the Underwood theros thero's nobody any finer than Senator 1 I |
