Judge — March 1938 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE SENATOR AT LARGE Gory Glory; Red Furniture; Mileage Dimes ET there be no doubt that for the letting of blood, perfected may. hem, assault and battery, pyrotechnics, volcanic disturbances, drouths, floods, and hurricanes, the politically barometric low-pressure area of the entire world covers four states whose boundaries touch. They are Ohio, Indiana, Ken. tucky, and Pennsylvania. Charles Sawyer, Democratic National Committeeman from Ohio, threw his javelin straight at the bridge of Gov- enor Davey’s nose at a Jackson Day banquet in Columbus a few weeks ago. The Governor pulled it out, dipped it in some Billingsgate, and threw it back. Sawyer caught it, tied his announcement of candidacy for the Governorship against Davey with a beautiful ribbon of sarcasm, pitched it into the air, and didn’t wait to see where it fell. Former Governor George White wig- gled a “Here I come’ at Senior Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with his announce- ment of candidacy in the coming pri- maries. The wise men of the Buckeye State will lay you even money that Davey will announce for the Senator- ship instead of running again for Gov- emor, slip in between White and Bulk- ley, and try to slap them both around. In the length and breadth of this fair and peaceful land there are not four better campaigners. They know all the tricks and all the brick-holds developed since the days of William H. Harrison. Unless they get John L. Lewis quieted down on his Tom Kennedy ideas in Pennsylvania, he is going to use the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, who, he insists, should have the nomination to succeed Governor Earle, as just some- thing to elect a Republican. Governor Chandler, in Kentucky, has taken on the Administration's favorite Senator, Alvin Barkley, and that means a fight that will have the Blue Grass roots turned to the sun, come November. Paul McNutt can be counted on vigor. ously to disturb the calm in Indiana now that he is back from the Philippines to take personal charge. There will be gory glory enough for everybody. Senator A. Evan Reames from Ore- gon and Senator Guffey from Pennsyl- vania might like to know what became March, 1938 of that red furniture that was in Senator Steiwer's old office in the Senate Office Building when Guffey first looked the office over, and which wasn’t there when the new tenant moved in. Well, it's across the hall in Pat McCarran’s office, and we hope nobody's mad about it. Senator Steiwer of Oregon decided he had enough toga-wearing to suit him for awhile, and not enough money, so he decided to take off his toga on the 31st of January and go to work for seri- ous pay. He was one of the sixteen Re- publicans left in the Senate; now there are only fifteen. Anyhow, Senator Steiw- er had the only set of red furniture in the entire United States Senate. Two of the chairs had been inherited from Sen. ator Dill, who also voluntarily retired from the Senate, and Steiwer had the set made to match. McCarran liked it. Is this red furniture a symbol of fu- ture voluntary retirement by the user? A superstition may grow up in the Sen- ate about it. But the new Senator from Oregon doesn’t need such a symbol; his is only an interim appointment. The perennial fuss about mileage al- lowance in the Senate is on again. Two pretty able newspaper men at Washing. ton are examining very carefully the mileage collections of one gentleman who has ridden on a railroad pass for a good many years, and whose traveling expenses are limited to the meagre tips he gives the Pullman porter. A lid is about to blow on this one. Again Congressional secretaries are trying to have traveling allowances made for them as they pursue their employers from the old home grounds to the Capi- tol and back. They are satisfied to take a nickel per mile, which isn’t too much. It's a funny thing that nobody has yet suggested they take a nickel off the Con. gressmen’s dime and give it to the secre. taries. —HWN. ) He gett oFE Q - “WOULD YOU MIND IF I WENT IN TO MAKE A PHONE CALL?” 15 comicbooks.com