Show i washington snapshots third party comes canies to light third parry has haj ovi all other in the national capital this week dwarfing dwar fing such important impo ilant questions as pump priming antimonopoly anti monopoly legislation wage hour legislation and tile the gov business peace moves the reason is that washington lans ians find more of lasting personal importance in third party developments than in the economic illness of john public that is to be expected for the capitals life blood is the brew of the political pots underneath however interest is still very much alive on the current national issues with tile the 1936 edition of the spending spree the biggest issue the governments assets in the camp of enose championing the spending program ram a new idea has boon been hit upon to convince doubters that our national debt picture so bad as its painted almost thirty eight billion dollars now the spending advocates have come up with a set of figures purporting to show that uncle sam sam really in any danger ol of agn because he has anif teen billions in assets they list the assets as public buildings etc cant you just see tile the crowd bidding for the interior departments department S new edifice in in washington or that new postoffice post office podunk or john public st steaming earning off for a vacation in the mouths sout seas aboard a ton battleship lies hes just bought at th the public auctioning auction in An washington fl hose are the e y assets ton book z keepers eeg dug up to offset the liability la I 1 t side of the national ledger edger another defender of the spend ing in scheme has argued thus it if a child had a case of mumps three I 1 years ago and now developed th the e mumps again nt it bo be all a 11 right for the doctor to use the same medicine for treatment again could it be though that the doctor recognize those swollen glands as irritated by previous your portrait free the has come up with another new relief idea it has of immortality on canvas to all public officials whom it deems worthy of preservation for posterity I 1 any public official can have his 1 portrait painted in oil by the I 1 if ho he can prove hi his worthiness to the satisfaction of the more than government rials already have hav had gratified I 1 I 1 their wish to see themselves peri petua ted several hundred others have sent in applications eight artists are at work on the project and says it has enough applications to keep painters busy for a year the paintings remain the property of the government but may be loaned to cities counties and states for display to impress the natives of tile the worthiness of their public officials stranger in ili congress members in the house noticed a newcomer sitting on tile the house floor one day recently ile he was w as absorbed in the debate members assumed after whispering among ihen selve e that ho he was a former member one legislator however ho vever asked the doorkeeper to identify the man ile he know him so they diplomatically asked the stranger if lie he had the privilege of the floor oh no he said my names plunket and im just looking around so to a visiting stranger who will go into the records simply as mr plunkett goes the distinction of being the only sightsee sight see ever to have sat sat in congress even for a few minutes |