THE
TELEGRAPH SATURDAY
Younger Men In U.S. Senate
By WARREN DUFFEE
THE United States Senate. THE
is getting younger,” The average age of the current Seinte la 67 years and about two months..
Two years ago the average was just over 50.
Republicans are younger than Democrats in the present Senate with an average age of 50,5, to 57.5 for the Democrats.
But although the current crop
is a shade younger on the aver- nge, the nige span
from the
oldest to the youngest is one of the Senate's widest in history----
51 years.
IL goes all the way from the Theodore Senator veteran Francis Green, Democrat Rhode Island, the oldest muin- ber, who is a spry 82, to Senator Ituswell B. long, Democrat, of
who Louisiana,
31 VAA November 3 last.
UNDER 40
of
"When a cop says, 'Where do you think you're going - Monte Carlo Rally?' and you say 'Yus,' you might as well say, 'Please, Mr Policeman, make my speeding fine double'"
-(London Express Service)
On
Long, son of Louisiana's late Kingfish, Huey Long, was elected to the Senate on Novem ber 2, 1040, one day before he reached his 30th birthday,
The Senate has three mont
bers under 40 and unly two
over 80.
"youngsters"
Besides Long,
the
include Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, who is 38, and
My gangster son
HILE
everyone is talking about the
turn of the 20th cen-
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthytury I have à problem of my Republican of
Wisconsin
will be 10 on November 14,
own, and that is the progress
Senator Kenneth McKellar of a gangster aged two and Democrat of Tenneser, president pro tempore, is second to Green half.
in age at BO,
Ham- McCarthy in
Close behind Lotus, the
phrey, and
"youth" contest are
in that
Both recently turned 11.
This juvenile delinquent, this enemy of society that i at home, has en-
Senator harbour
order.
strikes
again!
With the
William E. Jenner, and William tered a new phase of his house full of F. Knowland,
carer down the slippery guests and re- slope. He has given up lation After Green and McKellar in
and other Christmus toy-snatching nge come Senator Clyde. Reed, at 78 and then Senators crimes of violence and taken made
R.
at
he
some
Matthew M. Neely, and James to the confidence trick.. wonderful
barely Murray, Murray E shades Senators Elmer Thomas and Pat McCarran,
"AVERAGE" SIZED UP
thing as an There's no such
and
Boxes hauls. Six months ago he was
of chocolates, simply a muscle man with a Bowery accent that no one gold cigarette could understand. When ases
lay "average senator," but if there people opposed him or mis- parcels of pre- all were he'd be, 57 years old and understood what he said he sents the chances would be about one flew in a rage and beat them around in three he wouldn't smoke.
Also, the odds would be al- most one in four he was born. ilve. states- o! one Massachusetts, South
96
up.
over the place.
and was
. It was a per- But that's all small stuff fect set-up, a Dakota, to him now, and he, is/master crook's
West launching out as a society dream, Alabama, lowa, or
Those five are the crook, a Virginia.
cherubic Raffles nothing of the birthplaces of 22
who enraptures his victims missed by his nimble fingers. senators.
Like a lot of ither people,
about are coy, sume renators their ages and don't list thei in the Compressional Directory. Of the 96 incumbents, 1 left their ages not of their most re cent—biverujului-sketchum-120
the directory.
Incidentally, the
chamber's only
U.S. upper Woman 2092
Chase Maine,
Senator Margaret
Smith, Repubikat of doesn't look her 50 years.
Only six of the 6 hit the average age of 57 with their 1040
George
birthdays - Senators.
Alken,
D.
Paul
| before rubbing them.
Crook's dream
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Each "job"
was planned with cunning and skill. The
GULLIBLE women first think a
take
cats
Lesser fry of the underworld would bolt with their swag, but BERNARD not this boy. He strolls of as
if nothing had happened, and by the time his absence is noted
WICKSTEED the grape is safely inside, skin
reports a cherubic Raffles at work
SMASHER WICKSTEED
about among
small-talk and bow-
are his favourite prey, crook has to do at a party is to When aunts in others-create-confidence and he did this
by moving their the guests making him
he about pussy knees to cuddle doesn't kick them in the wows. shins any more or try to scratch their eyes out.
He allows them to pet B. him because, while theyrege Douglas, Spessard L. Holland, doing it, he can rob their Lester c. Hunt, Leverett Saltonstall, and Kenneth Shandbags and remove their Wherry-United Press.
jewels.
THE DIAM
HORSESHOE
Uncle Charlie discovers Art
AST night I got a 'phone
L call from my Aunt by Billy Rose
Frieda.
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"If you can come quick," she said, "come quick. Your soul of the East Side trying for Uncle Charlie is in trouble," some kind expression. Some day should be a real painter to Half an hour later I was in draw up the neighbourhood.” the flat on the lower East Side "Well, like you know, with where Frieda has been keeping Charlie to think is to do some house and hearth for my uncle thing crazy. The next night he is for the past 30 years, ·
going to the settlement house And In and joining a art class. the room is sitting a fat girl in a
"What's up?"-I asked: · "Charlie in hiding in Brooklyn with his brother," said Frieda.
"Hiding from what???
"From Herman Schloomp, the butcher, who is telling how he going to knock out your unclo's
"What did Charile do Schloomp?"
:
10
"What didn't ho do!" sald Frieda. "But better 1 should tell
to you in sequins.
Daring plan
THE HOUSE detectives, as charmed as everyone else, and as completely deceived, relaxed their watch. and the stage wÊN set for part two of the
-plans a raid
plon. This was as simple as was daring. He went round the room openly with a shopping busket and pinched everything in sight.
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The grown-ups were grussed in themselves, and the other children so busy hunting slippers and thimbles, that ha
up
cleaned noticing, and made his getaway on a fast tricycle.
without anyone
By the time the hue and cry went up he'd cached his swag in the kitchen and was mixing and once again, innocently empty-handed, with the guests,
On Boxing Day he used an accomplice for one of his jobs He couldn't reach the remains of cold turkey on the table 0. he lifted the cat up to get some at it for him. When the four- legged dupe jumped down with a drumstick he took it from her mouth and didn't even give her a share.
"What's the difference so long Women, who love to think as you're healthy," sald Aunt they are reforming a crook, are
ыр covering Frieda. "When Charlio is com-constantly
-his ing from the museum ha la say-crimes. He leaves his finger- ing Today I find out something prints all over the house-in Jam or treacle absolutely hair-racing. This Van strawberry Cook is all his life selling one usually-and Instead, of pre- them for the police women go round rc- pleture for few measly dollars serving but now when he's dead and these can't eat, his paintings is worth moving the evidence with damp 30 million. No wonder he is cut-cloths. ting off his car and they got to drag him to a asylum,'
kimona on platform and the NTEXT day Charlie is going scholars are holding out their "NEX to see our butcher. 'I am thumbs and squinting with the going to paint a muriel on your
eyes..
wall, ho mys,
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Grape-lifter
BENENATATANGAN PERUTALECIONA
AT NIGHT they give film sweets and tell him to be good, and he looks back at them like a blond angel who couldn't do
Yet all the
Lime, wrong. a whole pano-hidden under the blankets of The next day he is going up rama all kinds succulent meats. the cot, he has a regular arsenal town to the Museum for Modern Will be good for the cash re-and burglar's outfit consisting of Art. and when he gets back he gister,"
torches, plastic guns, water pistols, wigs, and, false noses. is all agoggle,
"Schloop says, 'What I got
He's already teaching himself "Frieda, he says, to be a to lase, and so Charlie paints paintner,
don't need him a muriel which he calls by to pick locks. If he could write Spirit of Meat. When I'm sure he'd forge choques, and Perspective. What he needs is name,
of blackmailing plece it is finished, Schloomp is saying his knowledge guitam. A picture can be fruit or a chair with one les- when he sees your uncle he methods is tightening. makes no difference so long as knocks out his øye.--
We might be able to hush all In the corner ja n' gullar..
Was it that bad?” I naked. - this up if he would conino his "So, for the next wook He is "A man could go bankrupt criminal activities to the house, painting gullara-Moon Over from such a pleture," said my but recently he has taken to Stanton Street with Guitars. Aunt Frieda.
In Herman's shop-lifting. The greengrocer
man
44010 happens last summer your Baby on Pushenrt with Guitars, strictly Kosher store your uncle is the principal victim and
uncle and me, we are one and even a pleture. Guliar with is painting on the wall nice cuts gropes his speciality. afternoon taking the air on Gullus.
Rinderbrust chuck steaks, first- Delancey. Street. On the side-
clam plucked chickens, Pajang
There isn't a grape-lifter "in the neighbourhood to touch him.
walk like always, is all kinds ("Then a few weeks later as But in the middle is the ts technique is to wait till his chalk-marks and scratch-ups the crow flies is opening in the from children, which your uncle Metropolitan for 80 cents a show has been seeing all he life from Frenchman Van Glick.
Every touching, says Char Van Goldberg, something.
I suggested. lest. Jarre on the aldowalks the 60 ayan Goght
Spirit of Meat holding a 1815-mother, has engaged the green- You should excuse the expressrocer-in-convervallon-and then to knock off a grape from the graf London: Express: Berulos) | front ofthe, shop/;
lonVirginia, ham..
and all.
Man-traps
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And now five week-end with
SYDNEY
SMITH, born Woodford, Essex). 1771, took Holy Orders, and`ln 1831 war appointed a canon of BL Paul's. Died, 1845 While at Edinburgh, he helped to found the Edinburgh Review, proposing as liu motto "Tenul musam meditamur avena": - "We cultiváto, literature; on a
Killa oatmeal,"
Going to London 'he attracted
aftantian by his lectures and · was taken up by coclety, par- fleularly by the Holland House set. No was a brilliant con-
THE
utes each
conversation · perfectly delight- ful.
NO ONE minds what ceffreys „inys—it' in), not?L
wook, ngouince
Wittiest MEN
Gentlemen, be at your casó--
versationalist the willlect be stendy and quiet. You will
of his day. In his writings he beat Mrs. Partington,
is best in passages of sustain-
cd ridicule which cannot
SALAD
easily be detached from their gydney Smith's rhythed "Rescipt
context.
There is a good blography of hlm by Hesketh Pearson, **The Smith ol Smiths" (1934).
An odd by-product of his genius was the creation of Mrs Part- Ington, famous character In political mythology. She first appeared in a speech he made nt Taunton In 1832. Mere sho
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DAME PARTINGTON
I DO not mean to be dis- respectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm at Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs Partington on that occasion.
1824, In the winter of there set in a great flood upon that town-the tide rose to an incredible height
the waves rushed in upon the houses, and every thing threatened with de- Was
I USED to think my eldur boy had a promising career in crime ahead of him, but he's a sap. an absolute sucker, beside his little brother, who struction! won't even stop at murder.
for 5 Salad" is another example
pectful equator.
Krdi him
fot the
PRAISE
AMONG the
smaller duties
of life, I hardly know any more
Important praising
Que.
than that where 'praiso
SPLINTERS
of not is act
POVERTY is no disgrace to aman, but it is confoundedly. Inconvenient.
WHAT IS childhood but n series of happy delusions?. of his versatile IT REQUIRES a surgicni
thelo talent. It Includes much-quoted lines:-
"Let onion atoms turk within
the bowl,
operation to get a joke welt into a Brotch understanding...
OI, WHEN I have the gout I feel as if I was walking on my
And, half suspected, animate eyeballs.
the whole...
Oli,
Oh, green and plorious! herbaceous treat! Twould tempt a dying an-
chorite to eat: Back to the world he'd turn
fecting sout,
And plunge his fingers in the
salad-bowl!
Serenely full, the epicure
would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have
dined today.”
WIT
He himself sald of wit that he
ma of not DON'T TALK ́19. being able to cough a speaker down; try the whooping-cough."
THERE ARE very few who' would not rather be hated than. laughed at,
I LOOK upen Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland...
HOW CAN a Bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after the service."
YOU NEVER expected. Jus- could no moro define it than tice from a company, did you?.
a soul to he could define the flavour of They have, neither venison. And he not very lose, nor a body to kick. seriously—suggested that A man "by giving up only six hours day to being willy" would "come on prodigiously before midsummer," so that
POLITICS
WHEN I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only his friends would hardly know effect it produces upon me is.
to convince, me that he is an unalt:cable fool.
hlm.
LONDON AND THE COUNTRY
IN THE Country
lived upon the before tea-time.
In the midst of this sublime His first efforts at homicide and terrible storm, Dame Par- fear that creation were crude. He tried to bash people's skulls in with hammers. tington, who Then he took to setting man- traps at the top of the stairs, The idea was that after tripping up you'd fall downstairs break your neck.
•
and
TABLE TALK
always foie gras I will expiro trumpets,
MY IDEA of heaven is eating to the sound of
MADAM, I have been looks- I HAVE no relish for the ing for a person who disliked life; Let us country; it is a kind of healthy ravy, all my
swear eternal friendship, grave.
NO
eat can't I In London A FEW YARDS 1
dissolve or
cement friendship. THE CLERGY The
roused. irs Partington's spirit was up;
THE DEAN of-deserves to but I riced not tell you that the be preached to death by wild contest was unequal. The Atlan- curates.
and the
beach, was peen at the door of her house with a mop and pat- tens, trundling her mop, squeez ing out the seawater, vigorously pushing away But now he has a much better | Atlantic Ocean. · system. He simply creeps in the kitchen or somewhere else where people are at work, turns On the gas taps, and silently creeps out again.
I suppose there's one thing to be thankful for.. By Inw they can't hang him until he's 18,
-(London Express Service)
Atlantic
Was
tic. Ocean beat Mrs Partington.
She was excellent at a slop, or
a puddle, but she should
not
It's too rich for me,
oat-cake.
THANK GOD for teal What would. the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea..
THINK breakfast's SO pleasant because no one is cón- celted before one o'clock.
MEN: OF, LETTERS
"MACAULAY has occasional
I AM convinced digestion 18 the great secret, of life.
have meddled with a tempest. flashes of slience that make his
-(London Express Service)
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A Better Diet may make you FEEL Better!
Inflamed gums or mouth may be cleared up by a simple change of diet!
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I serving of such
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EDDS and CHEISE
I targa serving.
MUTTER
BREAD. whole-grain CIRIALS
bath, every meal
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