Show 1 7 durant mr wh ton h I 1 b ag dw by gu e t 60 annl CAPITOL HILL by LEON HENDERSON read head ol of office ol of price administration senator barkley and speaker rayburn both came as congles con congressmen gres with th the wilson administration in 1912 1012 recently they jovially debated rank barkley because B Is alphabetically higher than R 11 was named to committee memberships a head ahead of rayburn hayburn but sam claims precedence now because it if he should die the president would attend his funeral bu but t would not be obligated to do so if alben passed on senator barkley as perpetual keynoter claims to be an authority on key words word sAt at the 1932 chicago democratic convention he says ays it wash was be erIn in phil philadelphia d alphi 1936 it was new deal at chicago again in 1940 it was roosevelt our tomorrows look brighter because of a growing group of 0 young southern southe M congressmen such as hale boggs al gore wllbur wilbur mills and mike to mention only a handful i I 1 wonder if ff the american public will VJ ever realize the debt they owe to senator prentiss brown of michigan washington VIGNETTE recently don nelson and I 1 acknowledged tribute to td scotch grand mothers for or their training in discipline sidney weinberg thought tho u we overdid overbid it in a bridge ga game me later when sidney set me two tricks he gleed your scotch grandmother Is no help in bridge against a brooklyn ward leader like my dad was I 1 interview rny my share ot of rubber substitute inventors as do all members because I 1 believe in miracles I 1 ought to I 1 married one but one long haired scientist took the cake these other fellows make synthetic mr henderson my proc fess ess makes REAL rubber one of my rationing staff heard complaints daily for two weeks from traveling business men two weeks with the traveling salesmen he reported and not a single new risque joke the solution of our transportation problem requires a miracle worker and joe eastman is the guy who can bojt ait THINGS I 1 NEVER KNEW TILL NOW that according to the squawks th there ere are more landlords than telf ants lt it be that there really are a high percentage ol of i statesmen in co congress that its amazing what you can get for nothing nowadays it would cost us millions to get the services that our rationing boards are giving us lor for nothing and it be as good that a staff of can 9 get one into disproportionately more trouble than a staff of ten that claude is really a topnotch corn hog producer that the average height of three of m my deputies Is 6 feet 5 inches if they were laid end to end the lawyers say a lot lotof of people would cheer and the deputies say that if all the lawyers were laid end to end reach no conclusion how fast a 1 a year man can become becom n e a t temporary en bureaucrat that hat M ma ria A alencastro r 0 at the brazill brazilian an embassy bass y would be a star on an any y radio radi program that senate sec ec ed halsey was such a peacemaker patent pacemaker aker and life saver that 16 per cent of the people had no gallup opinion on OPA since it sometimes seems like everyone has w written rl t ten to me and the mail was 77 per cent favorable like gallup indicates dica tea either some days THOUGHTS WHILE STROLLING ON CONN AVE AT MIDNIGHT what this country needs Is a good I 1 five cent nickel I 1 wonder where I 1 can get a good secondhand second hand tire lor for lube I 1 wonder whether our rent division can keep me from being dispossessed its good to see marvin mcintyre with so much zing again I 1 expect sidney hillman 1 to dozing zing again it be lun fun it if harold harol d ickes was in the senate if OPA can only get by the canning season and the elections wait till our new pursuit job ties in with the zero sure was funny ab bout 0 ut the male tenant from pittsburgh b ur gh who reported on form 2 that he be shared a bathtub with his landlady I 1 wonder what ever became of the KRA visitors who wanted a floor under prices it true that don nelson and general somervell and always made up big men I 1 wonder if the mayos will check up on charlie mi chael cha elsons sotis no trump play while hes there I 1 miss pat boland dick lansburgh general johnson what some of these wage debates need is jerry frank and S sumner amner pike elkei I 1 wonder where the peoria chamber of commerce found my australian hat bat I 1 gave it to sir cuve clive baillieu and I 1 dared wear it who trained victory gardener leon junior age four to asame ask me botjo not jo ration seeds my candidate for the united nations beauty conte contest st mrs soong |