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Show j BEVERLY HILLS. 'Well all I know 13 just what I read in the papers, or what I see as I prowl, ami Brother the last K A ''-) week or so I prowled. I like to tell of okl friends that I run onto. Of course Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. is my alley when it comes to running run-ning into men I have known an 3 admired tor years. Now take Ex Senator Jim Reed of Missouri. Will this genera-tionrecord genera-tionrecord a moredynamic, fearless, and moro colorful career? Noe, no. Well I had a fine visit at their hotel rooms with he and his charming young wife. They livs in Kansas City and she has a very big ladies dress goods factory, not factory dresses as we know em, but real designs by Paris architects, which just happened hap-pened to be made in her (not factory) fac-tory) overgrown shop. Jim Reed come as near being President as any man in America that dident, and he would have made a good one. Anion G Carter, the Ft Worth lobbyist, lob-byist, of course he was here. Ft Worth has just been left off the Army air mail, and he was making arangements to run it in by Pony Express from Washington via Ft Worth to the West Coast. He was of course making all the arrangements arrange-ments that Ft Worth would be the main stable where they harbored the horses. The riders were to come through Dallas in a high lope and not stop. Going to use the landing field there for a corrall. With those horses back in Ft Worth, it will regain re-gain much of its lost glory, like it was before some durt yahoo started start-ed bringing Fords into town. Sam Fordyce, a country lawyer from St Louis, Mo. was another old acquaintance that pitched forward out of the Mayflower elevator door as it was opened. I once made a tour of the great King-Kleberg Ranch of South Texas with Senor Fordyce in a private railroad car that he had momentarily purloined from a client to attend the Houston Democratic Clinic in. Sam had no brief case with him in Washington, so he was evidently doing his lobbying from memory. Chip Roberts, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the only athlete to ever be trusted with such a larder full of gold, Chip comes from Atlanta, At-lanta, and was loaned to the cause by Major Cohn one o" the original signers 'of the newspaper code. Major Cohn at one time in his life voluntarily promised a dying Senator Sena-tor that he would go in and serve out the remainder of his stretch in order to return citizenship to the mans family. The Major not only promised, but be did it, and to thi3 day they are still delousing him. A very charming lady on an Irish Hunter named Dusty Foot come charging over the political barriers, and was the cynosure, (that word may be spelled wrong but its meant well) of all eyes. I recognized her as a Lady from the polo fields who had galloped into Washington between chuckers to lend succor to another Long Island constituent who was temporarily incarcerated in the N. R.A. calaboose. The First lady in person was "Lizzie" Whitney who had come in from her silver foz farms. (They wont chase a fox unless un-less its on a gold or silver standard). stand-ard). The farm is in the smoked ham state of Virginia, sah. Elizabeth Eliza-beth knows horses, but she couldent make head or tails of these politicians. politi-cians. All these, as I say, were just people peo-ple met in the Lobby, along, too, with Mr Pecora, the little Italian lawyer that has asked more embarrassing em-barrassing questions ques-tions of millionaires million-aires than any man living. Men love to get rich, but this little Pecora has made it so discouraging dis-couraging to em trying to tell how they got rich, that he has 1 1 really dis- couraged em, that Is unless they did it honestly and thats such a task nowadays that its not worth the effort. ef-fort. I have knuwu him a long time, mil always attend his shows, for be Invariably has a great cast. The last time 1 attended one of his performances perform-ances he had J. P. Morgan and a midget in the cast. This time be had l half billion dollar cast. Huey Long is no longer in tha Lobby of the notel, he has been segregated out to edge of the city limits, but he found me and pinned a button on me, called "Every man a king," and it said everybody was to divide their wealth. I am working with him on a percentage. Up to now nobody ha? Jivided, but we will get cm. In fact I think the taxes will get em befon Huey and I do. Well, thats enough folks to see in .mis Lobby, so we will close the door ;."'. I'iA'Bij-i S ) ate. lie |
