Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1917 — SENATOR BANKHEAD CARRIES “BIG STICK” [ARTICLE]

SENATOR BANKHEAD CARRIES “BIG STICK”

Washington. Senator Bankhead of Alabama startled his colleagues by stalking into the chamber just before the recent adjournment with the aid of a hickory stick six feet long. The senator is no lightweight and he towers over the average man. but a prop so entirely out of all accepted proportions caused comment. Senator Knox’s curiosity was such that he demanded an explanation. “It’s the stoutest bit of wood ever cut in Virginia,” said the owner. “Quite a good deal of it,” observed the Pennsylvania senator. “Do you know that if that stick were cut in two, and one of the parts had a nice silver head on it, it would make-a most appropriate gifpfor » friend?” “Not on your life,” responded the gentleman from Alabama, quick to reject the hint. “This was sent to me by a friend. l am going to take it down home if you fellows ever get through wind-jamming here and adjourn. It will be ju;t the thing for me to u;e'iwhen I go prowling around my farm.”