Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1923 — Page 4
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SAVING rviUE Carolina Playmakers are a group of plavFOLK ' I 1 wrights and actors who have not yet had LORE JL and may never have their inning on Broadway. Yet their contribution to American drama will be none the less. These Carolina Playmakers are students of Frederick W. Koch, professor of dramatics at the University of North Carolina, lie has taught them to create new drama out of materials close at hand and to act the roles they originate. First they turned their talents to the folklore of the Carolinas, which has proven rich in dramatic possibilities. It is drama of everyday life, full of human interest, heart-throbs and tense adventure, and above all is a fairly true record of living folks. Under the stately trees of the University campus, they were their own scene painters, stage hands and costumers. That done, they acted their plays with the understanding of those who know first hand the characters they are portraying. The interesting thing about this folk play movement is that it can be used anywhere to foster and preserve the folklore of the different regions of the country. Mr. Koch, when a professor at the University of South Dakota, inspired his students to weave the life of the plains into open-air drama. Out in California, the mission plays depicted the romance of the early Spanish padres among the Indians. Generally speaking. American folklore has been neglected. If this start, in the dramatization of American traditions can spread across the land, America will be the richer for it. STRENGTH TRONGEST man in the world probably is THAT Arthur Giroux, triant French-Canadian conCOUNTS stable. In Montreal he lifts 530 pounds of iron dumb-bells from the ground to the level of his chest. Interesting—but unimportant, for a child can lift more than that with a chain-hoist. If Giroux had lived a few thousand years ago, he would have whipped all comers and by his strength made himself king. But brain muscles are what count today. Place Giroux alongside a slender, graceful, half-effeminate movie star with dreamy eyes, and Giroux wouldn’t get much attention from the ladies. The notion that women are primarily interested in strength in a man is hokum. A boastful strong man probably started the beliefs and other men were afraid to contradict. GOOD - long until we have another business I—I slump? A Wall Street banker tells us his GUESSES JL JL studies of the past show that business cycles (periods of depression or hard times) usually last three to four years. They are shorter or longer when interlered with by wars or changes in the banking system. If this is true, we have at least eighteen months of good t imes ahead of us. For the present revival of industry began late in July, 1921, when the steel industry hit bottom and began climbing back toward normal. A three-year cycle would not end until July, 1924. Add another year, for a four-year cycle. Every natural law has its exceptions. A period of prosperity began in 18 <8 and lasted until 1880. By going ahead seven years before reacting in a slump, it broke the rule. The period of prosperity was abnormally long, because front 1878 to 1885 the national banks were very active. Maybe something will happen to break the rule again and make our current prosperity last, until i 1928 or longer. Business is the most uncertain of all games of chance, measured over long periods, and one guess probably is as good as an other. WHERE A MERICA imported 43,646,948 tons Qf goods FIGURES /\ from other countries, in the fiscal year endIX ed last June 30. In the same time, shipped , abroad only 36.585.004 tons of exports. We teire L this out of a long and complicated Government report. 0n the surface, it looks as if we are losing out in foreign trade. But tons do not tell the full story, any more than monev value. For instance, we’d have to import many tons of lumber to equal one ton of costly chemicals exported. .Statistics tell more j truth than other form of knowledge—also, more lies T T-WU3 SAM reports that over a million ebil. I dreD ’ 30 t 0 15 years old ’ wero “gainfully eraNATION. ployed” in 1919. If we had that situation in a year of record prosperity, think what con-' • litions must be when the pinch of hard times or even normal busi- i ness drives the young into the ranks of child labor. A nation’s degree of civilization is measured by its child labor Situation and by its treatment of women. Progress by inventions is surface stuff, not basic, except as it helps eliminate human slavery.
John Jay of New York Was First Secretary of State
QCESnONS ANSWERED Tou can set an answer to any Question or tact or information by writing to the L Indianapofis Times’ Washington Bureau. %r , New York Are.. Washington. D. C . vnclostng' 2 cents in sianipg. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot Tie given. Unsigned letters cannot be an#*ered. but all letters are confidential and redelve personal replies. Although the bureaW does not require it. lUwill assure prompter replies if readers will confine Questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various sub iects are desired. —Editor. Who was the first Secret art of State* John Jay of New York was the first Secretary of State or Secretary of Foreign Affairs, as it was caJled, under the Confederation, and he continued to act, at the request of Washington, until Jefferson’s arrival, March 21 1790. What are the meanings of the names Lorraine, Ivan. Aralia and Jeanette? Lorraine, “laurel"; Ivan, "grace of God"; Aralia, "golden"; Jeanette, “be . loved of God." Where is the statue of the Goddess of Liberty? The bronze statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, by Bartholdi, the largest statue of modern times, stands on Bedloe Island. New York harbor. Where is Chilian? A castle and fortress of Switzerland, it is situated in the canton of Vaud. It the eastern end of the I>ake Geneva- celebrated in connection with Bourn vard, the Genovun patriot, who
was imprisoned there in one of its underground dungeons from 1530 to 15? C. W here is the Strand Magazine published? 8-11 Southampton St.. London, England. The International News Com \ Pany. 83-85 .Duane St., New York City, j Y., is the American agent. i We long gloves tucked in at the wrists when dining? j No. The majority of authorities ; a K ree that the gloves should be eni tirely removed when dining. The Past By BERTON BRALF.Y M The dowager says, and sighs. "Those old-time maidens would never do A thing that would causa surprise ’ But she failed to recall, in a large degree,' Some things which she saw o< cur— Girls ain't the same as they used to be, And they never were!” ain't the s*me as the men of old," 111 The old man said, with a scowl. , But he didn’t know that the cave man bold. Had put up a similar howl. And they both were right in their sad decree To which we can still demur. With. “Men ain’t at all what they used to be And they never were!” THE past is ever a golden time. . When it’s many a year away, j And the folks who re pretty well past their prime Are always aghast at Today! And they're right, of course, as you plaitily eee In the judgments that they aver. But. “Times ain't at all’ what they used to be. ’ And they never were! iCopyright. 1923. YEA Service)
The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Edttor-in-Chtet. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. ROY W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.
WILHELINA HAS LONGEST REIGN OF LIVING SOVEREIGNS Holland’s Queen May Rival Record of Queen Victoria, By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. lO.—Late next summer the citizens of the little kingdom of Holland will celebrate their Queen Wilhelniina's fortythird birthday and the silver anniversary of her-reign. She is the only woman in Europe who rules a country in her own right and who. did not attain the title by marrying a king. King Alfonso of Spain is the only ruler in Europe who acceded to the ! throne before she did. He became 1 king the day he was born. But since he did not really rule until later, Wilhelmina has had a longer continuous . reign than any living sovereign—-twenty-five years. Is -13 Veal’s Old As she is only 43 and healthy, she bids fair to rival the long reign of Queen Victoria of Britain who mounted the throne in IS3B and held scepter until her death sixty-three years later. The sturdy, independent, semi-repub-lican Dutch say that the best tiling about their queen is that so little is heard about her. She is content to let her ministers and Parliament run the country. Though she leads a simple life in the plain little palace in The Hague, she lias an enormous income from her | crown lands and possessions in the I East Indies. It is estimated she | draws down about five million dollars annually. Womanly Woman When 22 years ago, she married the German Prince Henry of Mecklenburg. I there was a feeling in Holland that she would be very much under Ger- ■ man influence. But Wilhelmina is I still boss and friend husband is even I more In the background than was' Queen Victoria’s German husband. 4t. [is Wilhelmina who has personally j supervised the education and training of their only child, the Princess Juliana, who is heir to the throne.
WATSON SIS OP PROGRESSIVES BV 1924PREBICTI0N Statement That Harding Will Seek Re-election Rouses Primary Advocates, By I ni'if'l Neir* WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.— Progressives have been stirred to action by the recent prediction of Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, an Administration leader, that President Harding would be renominated in 1924. Anticipating an effort by the Harding forces to control the next Republican convention. Progressives are en-b-avoring to make that conclave a more directly representative body by seeking additional presidential preference primary laws in States where Legislatures are In session. Letters indorsing extension of the direct primary method have, been written by Senator Hiram Johnson of California and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. Although loth Johnson and flapper have been mentioned as possible candidates for the presidential nomination next year, both asserted Friday that they had no such purpose in .mind. Harding is an avowed friend of the convention system. Just a year ago, as he was concluding his first year In the White House, he made a speech at a Republican gathering here, lauding the convention method of selecting delegates and candidates as superior to the primary system.
Public Opinion
Thai “Hotel’’ at Pendleton To the Editor of The Timex We have several criminals in Morgan County who wish to make .reservations for rooms when completed in the Governor McCray Hotel Superior at Pendleton. However, we feel that to make the environment more complete and also that the money .of the people shall oe spent for a noble class of thoroughbred citizens of this glorious State, there should also be a private bath, toilet and wash-stand in each room. There should be porter service and we should also be assured that our morning and evening papers would be delivered at our rooms promptly each morning. Os courso the imbeciles, insane, maniac, idiot and other afflicted people who are dependent on the State should have full consideration in due time, but not until at least the favored criminal class has been taken care of and amply provided for. The question now' is just what felony that one can commit will insure the longest stay and the choice of rooms and accommodation while repining at the McCray Hotel Superior. We are strong for the Hotel Superior down in old Morgan. 11. L. M. * Martinsville, Ind. Flower Brims. Small. Mowers are used effectively on the spring hats. Small brims, composed entirely of flowers, are used with crowns of coarse straw'. Usually they are in one color, but shade from light to dark tones.
Doctor Figures Day He ’ll Die and Plans Funeral A Philosophy of Death BATH, Me., Feb. 10.—This is the philosophy of Dr. William M. kouse, who believes he will die Feb. 20: “I didn’t worry about being born, so why should I worry about, dying? I haven’t taken life very seriously, so why should I take death seriously? If it comes, it comes —that’s ail there is about it.”
By NEA Service BATH, Feb. 10.—“I expect to dio on Feb. 20!” says Dr. William M. Rouse. Calmly he waits for death. He has made arrangements for his own funeral. He has bought farewell gifts for Ids grandchildren. The fatal day has been fixed, Dr. Rouse says, by mathematical calculation. This is the basis: His mother, Elvira Winslow Rouse, an’d his grandfather, William Winslow, died exactly forty-three days before their seventy-seventh birthdays. His own seventy-seventh birthday anniversary will be April 4—fortythree days after Feb. 20. No terror chills Dr. Rouse's heart —though he believes ho will be seized with a mysterious malady, its ills mother and grandfather were, literally starving to death as they did. “Ponder this,” he said. "The curious coincidence that my mother’s birthday and my grandfather’s were on the same date, Dec. 2G—that both died on the Nov. 13 preceding their seventy-seventh birthdays! That both died of the same mysterious diseases' "Both were in apparent good health until two days before they died. Suddenly came a stomach infection, in each case. Physicians could find no organic trouble—yet neither could digest food, aqd they starved to death.” The aged, white-bearded doctor keeps the vigil of his own death in three furnished rooms on the second floor of a shabby wooden business block in Front St. "Although I am well today,” he said, "the same trouble may develop within the few weeks left. If It does I shall be expecting it. If death conA>s I shall be ready.” Only the slenderest kind of a pos-
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By HARRY HUNT NEA Staff Correspondent \\ tASHINGTON. Feb. 10 Thirty-hour transcontinental mail service from New York to San Francisco is scheduled as the next step in development of Uncle Sam’s air mail lines. Present plans contemplate inauguration of this thirty-iiour transcontinental service by late Spring or early summer, although no definite date has been set “The route to be followed is that now covered by the air mail service
Shelbyville Will Dedicate School to Charles Major
SHELBYVILIJR3, Ind., Feb. 10.Tribute to this city’s most distinguished citizen and writer is the Immediate plan of the Shelby ville school board, under the direction of which the new Charles Major school was completed last week. The new building, erected in “commemoration of one whose name has brought sig nnl honor to the city .and community," is to be dedicated within the next few' weeks, according to plans. The Charles Major Memorial Tablet, which will be placed In the building later, Is now being cast in bronze. It is artistically modeled with a profile of Mr. Major in medallion at the top and a quotation from "When Knighthood Was in Flower,” with names and dates inscribed. Although the date for unveiling the tablet has not been set, it probably will be before spring. The Majors, although childless, were especially fond of children and were frequent hosts to scores of the younger blood of tho city. Largely through the influence of theso former youngsters, ready listeners to tho compelling tales of a master story-teller, the new memorial school saw its inception. To one of these early friends of the romanticist, D. Wray De Prez, present head of the city school board, is due a largo share of tho credit for the memorial school. De Prez, a Shelbyville merchant. is a colonel in the Indiana National Guard and did responsible work as an officer during the World War. Major, too, held a colonelcy at one time during his life, winning a commission in an unusual way. His father, Judge Major, was a close friend of Governor Oliver P. Morton. Young Major’s chief delight was to annoy, although pleasantly, tho congenial Governor, with Innumerable questions about the Army. One morning the mail carrier brought Charles an envelope containing a commission for him as colonel of the 250th Regiment. That Major’s fame was both undying and destined to strike a popular keynote later is shown in the following extract from the pen of
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DR. WILLIAM M. ROUSE siblllty Ungers in his hands that he may bo wrong in his death prophecy. For he added, as if pronouncing his chance to escape one in 100: “If it doesn’t come I shall not be disappointed." Daily, Dr. Rouse goes about his slmplo routine, broken only by arranging well-ordered plans for his funeral. Since his wife died twentyfive years ago he lias lived the life of a hermit. 11" rises early, builds a fire In the stove, cooks breakfust, does what mending is necessary, and then takes a walk along the water front? feeding the seagulls ho loves so ardently.
i already in operation,” says Carl F. Egge, general superintendent of the | air mail division of the Postoffice Department. "That is front New I York to Cleveland. Chicago, Omaha, | North Platte, Cheyenne, Rock Springs. Stilt Lake City, Elko, Reno, San Francisco. "The lighted airway and entergency landing field', for night riving will be along that part of the rente between Chicago and Cheyenne. [ “Leaving New York at noon rt.e through air mail will reach Chicago
CHARLES MAJOR
Leone Kenton Lowden, his biographer. “ ‘When Knighthood Was in Flower’ was his first book and made him very famous; some day you may see tills in motion pictures, as perimps, you will also see ‘Dorothy Vernon,’ another remarkable success.” To the children and the grownup youngsters, however, Major will he much better remembered for his book, “The Bears of Blue River.” REMEDY FOR DIABETES DISCOVERED BY MEDICS By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—The discovery of insulin as a remedy for diabetes was announced today by Chicago physicians. Dr. F C. Banting, and Prof. J. J. R. McLeod of the .University of Toronto are credited with tho discovery. Insulin is a pancreatic extract.
CHEMIST TO RISK LIFE TO TEST ILI EFFECTS OF GAS * Doctor Will Enter Sealed Chamber to Inhale Poison Fumes, By NEA Service BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.—Risking his life for the sake of science, a man here will soon enter a sealed chamber, which will then be filled with illuminating gas. With him will go a dog. Observers watching through glass panels, will take him out when he shows signs of acute distress. The dog will be taken out —dead. Tt will be the first of a series of experiments conducted by the city authorities to discover what makes Baltimore gas so deadly. In the past year forty-seven persons died from its effects and scores were overcome. Volunteered Job When the health officials, in an attempt to discover the cause, decided on these tests Dr. J. H. Shrader. city chemist, tvas the first to volunteer at the human subject. "There is little danger," lie said. “Besides, we may find out things about this gas which may be of value to the health of the entire nation.” He added that it was possible that thousands of cases of illness attributable to other causes may be due to lowered vitality caused by the inhaling of illuminating gas. Case Explained "French medical experts.” he explained. "report a case in Paris where thirty-six out of forty persons living in one house suffered frem chronic carbon monoxide poisoning. The resultant lowered vitality was favorable to the development in them of tendencies to diseases tthey may have inherited from their parents or of contagions to which they may have Keen exposed. "There is carbon monoxide in the gas served here. If it leaks, a result such ns that found in Paris may develop.” In his experiments Dr. grader will be assisted by Walter M. Berry, engineer of the t'nlted States Bureau of Standards; Dr. W. Mitchell of tho United State Public Health Service, and other Government experts.
l y evening. The SOO mfies between Chicago and Cheyenne will then be covered by night flying. Ont of Cheyenne at daylight the following morning, the mall would be dellvered in Frisco that evening—thirty hours after loaving New York. “Surveying parties are now engaged in locating the landing fields that will bo required for the stretch to be covered by night flying. "-All id.-- planes used in this stretch of the route will be equipped with landing lights to assist In making forced landings at night. These
Valentines to Mother, Dearest Being, Deluge Contest Editor
At 12 o’clock tonight The Times contest for Valentine verses “To Mother" closes. Entries postmarked ; after midnight will not bo considered. I Although tho heap of poems rej ceivod by the Valentine Editor numj hers many more than a thousand, ! postmen today brought in hundreds more. Scores of contributions also wore brought in person. The best verso will win a sls prize; tho five next $2 prizes. Winners will be announced Valentine day. Contestants are limited to one verse of not inoro than eight lines. The verse must be original. John C. Mellett, short story writer. Miss Mary Dyer Lemon of the Indianapolis Public Library, and John S. ! Harrison, head of the Butler College I English department, are the judges. Here are a few of the poems entered; -|. -|. ,|. Mrs. James Davidson, Indianapolis In years as distant as the far horizon. When death stretched forth a scorching-, feverish hand j From out the dismal tarn which lay before us. And struggling life grasped vainly at the sand Trickling- so slowly down the bright beach of existence. Your heroism—grand As that of sentries of Pompeii's portals'— Brought me, near lifeless, to the solid ’and. -I- -I- -IPearl Dnteliens Westfall, 221 E. Fourth St., Bloomington Madonna Beautiful as the Greeian urn. Exquisite as a erystal; Tier words I treasure As the pieces of a mosaic. She made me pure By her teachings. O. heart's Valentine. -I- -!■ -IMiss Helena Deem. 1314 Charles St. 1 made a package of my heart. With ribbon bin* I bound it, I wreathed the blue forget-me-not Around and and ’round it. I filled it up with tender love And sent. It to Mother mine, To say that no one else but you Can be tny Valentine. •I- -I- -IMary E. Brown, 21 E. St. Joe Bt. 'Tie a day of fond greeting, love’s old songs repeating. That sweethearts exchange with each other. But the sweetest word, like the voice of a bird, Is my message of love for ycu. Mother. ’Twas a day of love plighting, old lovers ! delighting In troths they have pledged to another. But the happiest romance recorded in love j chants Is the one that I've had with you. Mother.
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TOM SIMS SAYS: THOSE girls will take anything you leave around the house. * * * t : m We have auto schools. Why / j ", $1 not pedestrian schools? / The flaxseed crop was short last sea- I son. Be very careful about getting \ JBB things in your eves. \ . . . An American will try to win the world’s snooker billiards championship, whatever that is. t t t Bandits are holding up street cars in Indianapolis, but that isn’t what makes them late here. • * $ A Congressman wants to protect oysters, which always have been reticent about speaking for themselves. ♦ * * The main trouble with the young people of today is they are the young people of tonight. * * • A\ ell-formed girls get. before the public eye much more ofteu jthan the well-informed girls. • * • A man gets soaked by the bootlegger and gets soaked on the booze and still the judge soaks him. • • * Ine sad thing about having a wife is she always wants her husband to quit being-so foolish. • • • dhe influenza germ has been discovered and will be isolated. It brought it all on itself. ' # t • Just to show you how ignorant Japanese girls are, 3,000 Japanese men in Korea can’t find wives. • • • Women jurors in Pittsburgh want a smoking room. We thought all rooms in Pittsburgh were smoking rooms. * * * There has been an earthquake in Alaska, which undoubtedly was caused by some seal hunter’s Ties. ♦ • • 1 hev do lUiinv things with radio. Some people even make money. A dog in Washington smokes cigarettes. Better watch him # or he will learn to shoot pool. • • • Oldest national bank in the U. >S. burned, but being in practice they saved all the money. • • • King 1 utankhamen has been gone 3,400 vears, so it can’t make much difference how you pronounce his name.
emergency fields must be about forty acres each with clear approaches. “Every throe miles along this Chlcago-Cheyenno route there will bo a guide light that will alternately flash on and off, so it may not be mistaken for other lights. “With emergency landing fields lighted and ready at intervals of every twenty-five miles and with a lighted airway ab>ng the whole of the route covered by night flying, the difficulties and dangers of night flying will be minimized to, the utmost.”
Mrs. George C. McElroy, 11(37 Sheldon St. Mother dear! My Valentine 1 How slow we are to prove The height and depth and deathfessness of perfect Mother Jove. We take her tender daily care Just as the thoughtless flowers. Book up to God for daily light because we know 'tig ours. But when we miss, from heart and life, the j comfort of her care. Then wo must learn to live without her I t presence and her prayer; j 'Tia then the name of Mother is ot us a ! holy thing. , And hovering low we seem to feel the shelj ter of a wing. •I- -I- -IMrs. Frank Gcyer. 243 Caven St. Birds among the branches flittering Always seem to sing of you. Flowers on my pathway stretching Nod and smile about you. too. Cupid's day of love and gladness Whispers of a joy that a mine. And a thousand glad things tell me You’re my life-time Valentine ! ... -I- -IE. V. Seager. 1938 Holloway Ave. I Thy hair's like rays of golden sunshine, i Thy eyes like snots of Heaven's blue. I Thy checks like clouds of flimsy softness. Thy heart so tender kind and true. I So from thy shining crown of glory. To thy dear feet I love thee so, 1 That to know thee, is like having A bit of Heaven here below. PARIIESIIPE IN VOTING 1 MEASURE Lacking one vote of a Constitutional I majority to pass, the bill providing [for repeal of tho absent voters’ law failed in the Senate late Friday by a vote of 25 to 21. According to rules. Senator, Barker, author of the measure, may call the bill up again for passage any time. Party lines were split in the debate on tho measure. Both sides made efforts to line up absentees, but four Senators were out because of sickness. Senator Barker (Rep.) and Cravens (Deni.) led the fight for the bill, charging wholesale corruption* ;is a result <-f abuse of the law. Senators Gann (Rep.) and Chambers (Dem.) oppose; repeal, aserting it would disfranchise voters whose occupation kept them from home election day.
GRANGE IN LAWS ON IMMIGRATION 1 EXCLUDES ORIENT j Herbert Quick Declares Committee Shows Constructive Statesmanship. By HERBERT QUICK The House Committee on Immigration proposes to change our laws so as to exclude Japanese immigration almost completely, as weU as that of j Chinese and low-caste Hindus, and to i out almost in two immigration from j the rest of the world. I It proposes to do this by admitting | only 2 per cent a year of the number ,of naturalized nationals under the census of IS9O, os against the present 3 per cent of those in the 1910 census This will discriminate In favor of British. Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants—the kind we used to get—and against the southern Europeans, the Balkan countries, the Poles and Russians. Shows Statesmanship The committee shows real construe ; live statesmanship in this. The peo pies most freely admitted if this law passes, will be those whom we hate I shown ourselves able soonest to turn into the best Americans. We are used to them. There are in Europe and Asia millions and millions of aliens who oughfi not to be mixed into our already aaul teratod citizenship, who will move like armies to invade us if allowed. They are not of our sort. Their Imminent invasion is a great national peril. Inferior Race Not Point The question as to whether they are inferior or superior is not the point. They are not demons. They are not demigods. Common imperfections may promote understanding, and if we are to work together as citizens, we must under stand each other. People who are hard for us to understand have beer, coming in too fast recently. The flood should be kept out by the dykes of such laws as the committee is said to have approved. And they should go a step farther. They should exclude completely all immigration of the negro race.
Verse WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Congressional Record is going in for verse. The editor won’t say how much he pays per line, but here are samples of tho latest contribution. This first one by Senator Heflin of Alabama: "As bees on flowers alighting ceasq their hum. Some Senators elected soon grow dumb." Representatß e Thomas of Kentucky resorts to varso to de scribe colleague Blanton of Texas, whom he accuses of believing: "Every day and every minute. The Record’s wrong if I’m not in it.”