Show I iy ny BY Y p STEWART STr STr NEA 11 ce tier vice Writer Titer WASHINGTON March larCh 31 21 Some Som congressmen were born to tobe tobe be All congressmen start out as a something else gen gen- generally generally cen as lawyers but these nat nat- nati nat i born nral orn o ones onca es have the th congressional atonal lonal virus In their blood from earliest Infancy and aa oa soon as 1 elected It breaks out all allover allover allover over them Thenceforward they're primar primar- primarIly primarily primarily ily congressmen and doctors law law- lawyers lawyers law lawyer yer or merchants and so forth only Incidentally Others Other before breaking Into politicS become too thoroughly saturated with their various original inal lual callings calling ever to get gH them out or of their systems ms These remain CI- CI c doctors lawyers and mer mer- merchants merchants merchant chants chant and are only secondarily t Blanton of ot Texas for instance Is almost exclusively a congressman He H was a lawyer to begin with but as as s a man congress congress- congressman congressman man he h swallowed himself up as asa asa a 11 lawyer lawer Senator Copeland ot of o New York on on the th the other hand Is ts a striking specimen of ot a doctor who hap hap- happened happened hap happened to be elected to the th senate senale He seldom has anything to say about legislation except oa as a It re- re relates relates re relates lates to questions question of or health sani sani- sanitation sanitation tation or the th practice of ot medicine hes he's he Indifferent For exam Ie the th coal strike Interested him immensely because because It bec Immensely was I giving his hla constituents pneumonia pneumonia monia monta It If Blanton lost his hla hi congressional Job hed he'd dry up and blow away or at any rate hibernate hibernal until h he got It back again a aln If It Dr Copland were retired hed he'd fo go back bacle with a alight alight alight light heart heart to writing medical medica articles Congressman Edgar Howard or of Nebraska ka I Is another one like Sen- Sen Senator Senator Sen Senator ator Copeland Ills His Hi brands brand's brand differ differ- different different ent from Copeland brand but he was branded long be- be before be before fore he h came to congress centre Howard Howarda brand Js Is I the th brand brand rand of ofa ofa a country editor His Interests are wider than Copeland Copeland's An editor has halO ha to be Interested In everything e HowardI le II but his hi Interest Is fe I II a n newspaper newspaperman's newspaperman's mans man's Interest He doesn't doe nt figure much In the take and of debate de- de debate de debate bate but he h has a speech to make makon on nearly every ery very of ot Im- Im Importance Importance Im Importance and It Invariably Bounds lounds exactly like an a editorial editorial a good ono too for he a It very capable editor Howard HO runs the tb Telegram at Columbus Neb At one lime time he h was to William Jennings Bryan and In in appearance I he somewhat suggests suggest a email mall edition of the th not latter latter that hell hes he a little man Inan but he m measure up to the th late Imposing stature slature Ho lie has hu some som harmless little ec- ec cc such lIuch as a II frock cod coat and rather long Ions hair At first youre you're apt to o mistake them for congressional cong but theys they's not They're time old coun coun- coun country country try editorial eccentricities Another thing Howards Howard's rot got be- be sides sidell eccentricities I Is the th time old old e editors editor's sympathy for tor the th under under- underdog underdog under under-dor dog Let somebody om body show bow up at the capItal with a hard luck story lory somebody ody no one on else els has ha any anytime time lime to waste on somebody who's been skinned by the th Interests and It Isn't very safe sat to be b seen talking to and you'll behold him trailing trailing- around with Howard Howard generally centrally Is ll classed among the house hous of representatives representative U tives tive humorists humorist but be he can rip the stuffing Muffing out of a subject when he feels like It I |