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Show AS! IT tarn WASHINGTON No more mild tempered Christian gentleman holds j a seat In the I'nltcd Sftatcjj Senate than George Norris. senator from, Nebraska. It takes an active Imagina-, tlon to pictun Norrls shoving a gun under the no.se .,r blustering fron-I fron-I tier-town bully, making him stick 1 ' Dp hit hand! and then treating him to a magnified dose of profane abuse such as the bully had been bestowing upon him, But lhat Is whit happened. It I seems, from an anonymous article, i entitled "A Senator's Story' recently : published In the Saturday Evening I Post. Although the article in question nowhere divulges any close clow to just what 1'nlt.d St,,t- Senator wrote1 it. I happen to have heard Norrls recount some of the incidents contained con-tained in the story and nm thus able to Identify the author But the senator'.": disclosures are chiefly interesting in that they lay; bare, from experience of one with 17 years of service In Congress, the grip that party organizations and a' few "leaders" have on the membership member-ship in Congress. The independent. progressive-minded member le;ids a cheerless, dreary life, finds himself hampered and hamstrung In every effort to he guided by his own convictions con-victions and not by the machine and gets nowhere. One of the reasons suffragists wer.e confident Tennessee would ratify suf-frag, suf-frag, because n was Friday the 13th! tha) the Senate voted on it The suffs sa Friday the J3th has always been a lucky day for suffrage." And there is not a militant Who ever consults the ouija bourd. either. Wlllalm Howard Taft, former president, presi-dent, cut off 75 pounds i He quit eating so much potatoes. I bread, sugar, sirup and fat meat. ' To make on for the fnls unit llnp. ! ches he left off he ate more non-start non-start by vegetables and fruits Result, fewer calories and zipp went 75 pounds. What happened was this, by cutting down the calories his system burned up 75 pounds of his own fat. o, |