Show l 1 W T nY JL JJ CONGRESS GETS READY TO TRADE A FEW HW WALLOPS By CHARLES P STEWART NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON Jan Con 26 26 cress Con gress Is beginning to warm up The session began rather ther tamely There was a 11 little verbal sword swordplay swordplay pIa play but only with buttons on the contenders foils Coils Exhibition bouts may bo be mildly t I Interesting but l ut they dont don't thrill In tho the last lat tew few days however some somo ot of the tho scrapping has been the real thing For Instance one senator re- re referred r to a fellow member ot of o the upper house as a demagogue meaning one on who plays an In Insincere sincere role rol In pu public life lit for lor the sake ot ot of political influence or of- of office of office fice He named ho no no n name m but every every- everybody everybody body knew who ho meant Theres There's nothing playful about that Theres There's every reason to believe believeth the muss will ibl get worse Those next Novembers November's congressional congressional congressional elections are ar in sight Now's the time for one side or the other to be bo put In bad Of Ot course for the th present the tha outs position Is pleasanter than the ins Tho The outs have everything to gain and little to lose They can afford to be bo as as rambunctious as they know how To the tb disinterested non parti nonpartisan nonpartisan san bystander Its It's a lot of ot tun fun What does he h care car how bow the politicians rave All AU hes he's con con- concerned concerned con concerned in from the tb sate sat vantage ot of a ringside seat Is that tuat Its It's good sport for for him I Ita a to him as a resident how the th coun coun- country's country's country's try's run but he h knows from long experience that to whomsoever whomsoever ever eyer the task may be b assIgned they'll do a botch job So why not get some som amuse amuse- amusement ment meat out of ol th tb rookus while hUe Its It's goIng ont on t Politics Is 19 one on thing Person Person- Personalities Personalities are something else A congressional congressional debater on one side can speak ot of the opposItion en masse as mighty hard bird citi- citi citizens citi citizens zens and Its It's all right They know he doesn't mean It and ex expresses presses himself simply In a political political cal sense But lInt let him point out some som par par- particular particular Individual as lIS a scalawag and naturally the latter gets sore To Illustrate During During the Gerald P Nye Ny con con- contest contest con contest test In the tho ho senate Senator Neely raked up the th seating ot of o Truman H Newberry four tour or five years ago said It was tyas an Infamous performance arid and then proceeded to recite the names of oC all the th pres pies present present ent eat senators who voted for it It jt The Th average man resents an ac accusation of having had a share In InI something senators Infamous infamous and representatives es as much as i asi anybody else It means genuine bad feeling That's what's developing de In con con- congress congress congress gress now tow Thus f far r more of It has devel- devel developed devel developed In the upper house than In Inthe inthe Inthe the lower house That's natural The former farmer is evenly divided The different groups have hav to tight fight hard The Th latter is overwhelm overwhelmingly one ono way It Isn't worth the th majority's while to fly mad It doesn't do the th minority any good Nevertheless cn c even among the representatives Congressman flab Ral ney Kal-ney ney did stir up considerable of ot a 11 arow arow row by his sarcastic cracks at the Italian war I debt settlement deal |