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Show ''The Monkey House" A volume recently published about Washington contains considerable con-siderable criticism of an unusuall frank nature about various public personages ir. Washington. 1 refers to the House of Representatives Represen-tatives as "the monkey house,' and says: "The greatest organized inferiority infer-iority complex in the world . . The 435 members, with a few exceptions, excep-tions, are the lowest common denominator de-nominator of the ignorance, prejudices prej-udices and inhibitions of thei: districts . . Assembled, it looks and acts like a section of the bleachers in a bush league town." We have often - wondered why it was usually the popular thing to criticize Congress in so exaggerated exag-gerated a fashion. While the members of that body may not be the best possible representatives representa-tives of the entire nation, it is safe to say that the great majority seek to enact needed legislation and work seriously towards improving im-proving the nation as a whole. The .critics, if given the chance would hardly do much better individually. in-dividually. Probably one of the reasons why these congres?men are so often ridiculed and abused by every Tom, Dick and Harry is that in their campaigns they show very little independence, for the most part, and usually depend upon t process of taffying the voters t get their votes. This, naturally, causes the voter to rate them lower than if they manfully stood ch their feet in campaigns without with-out begging and cringin to keep their' political jobs. |