28, 1922
LEA" lAN
. i; Goodmg,junior Republican
from Idaho and former Gov-
._ Wat State.
LDWIN C. HILL.
‘ I'mrm-pomlrnrc.)
\VASHINHTHX. Snturday.
. «l'lcll some individual previ-
uul'cninritztbie or at least un-
:‘.~i tops; the grade of fame
limit lie was born in that
portability,namely,Brooklyn,
tho river from the “Big City."
iIlllIil Directory, interesting
i. mporary fiction though it be.
wruvious in any number of
ions. You would be surprised.
"li'lllll:h the commendatory sta-
tollet-tion of autobiographies.
ow many of. our present day
. look their origin somewhere
,‘i livmk.
lilo-wt?
(illi' time Brooklynites is
to l'nited States Senator from the
:1 State of Nevada, the Hon. (as the
‘ ,lh it.) Tasker Lowndes Oddie. dls~
’l‘onopah. There! The secret
While many and various distinc-
"I lv-r round the noble brows of our
-, Uddle, so far as I know, is the
1 .- \\ ho ever discovered a whole flock
m :‘Tlll gold mines. This was in 1898,
(Millie and his partner prospector.
lzillnr, combined their capital and
mi up to $25 in real money.
Kililitys it would not be polite to ask
how much he is worth. He owns
ranches, kind faced old Hereford
by the thousand, real estate and the
table documents that must be clipped
o 11 year to keep them in good con-
on.
Xent West for His Health
Soon After He Was 16
Beginning with llrooklyn,sincc one must,
Mlle addrd one to the population on the
-‘h tiny of October, 1870. It is a date that
.l‘v
:nla Tt'lllClanrS pridefully, even if
.klyn has forgotten all about it. He
all the education that could be
.niod into him up to the age of 16 and
l tho doctors gave the family the alter-
.s» of buying a railroad ticket or a plot
miwnwood Cemetery for a very sick
So young Oddie went to Nebraska.
hit lungs with sunshine and ozone.
“ml cows for the fun of it and came
l: irii a he man.
.ozvistanccs edged him into real es-
:mnl the study of law, but he had the
t-i‘ tho West in his blood. The East
' tame. The Stokes family of New
m hing mining properties in Nevada
moulded that they were being de-
vi h»- rascals in their employ, hired
:.. 1'4) nut to Nevada and investigate.
z n\cre(i, through private detective
rxlmfilng him to sudden death by
....~..iiing, that the Stokeses hadn't
'wl the half of it. lie tleaned up the
. took his pay. got interested in
.; for its own sake and went into
.u-lo-ush n prospecting.
.. knows what it is to sleep in the
iill‘lt'r the stars, lulled by the sooth-
t:-- of sidewinders and the plaints
" ' ~holy burros singing to the in-
.- ‘ v' rnoon. Hi this existence he
4 * aim-d a knowledge of rock and of
union came in very handy pres-
(vi. a,
wt piece of luck that befell him
“ 'lng 0111 Jim Butler. . The pros-
i» ~mpicious, and rightly, of most
I, . r wk a liking to the young fellow
l H.» East and presently revealed a
' “mt many persons too “wise" to Le
12' . Lt had laughed at. Old Jim
rumples of ore that assayers bad
'“ ' or rather had declined to waste
t.::w ”v in their crucibles. They said
r ‘ :ol gold could, fiOt possibly be
um- Y‘zticr said he had located crop-
i it inst couldn't be and that ended
w . . it didn't do old Jim‘anY-Kood
4 l the wiseacres that gold and
where you found them. The?
much,
Th" Mizpah Mine of Tonopalz
And It Was Sold for 3350.000
win fortunately, was not so sure of
h.< Hm:
ilmn r
wlence. He induced a young 35‘
Myer i'.l ml of his to put the fire to Old
.lh;. . m .lvlt‘s and when the result showed
Pin-l r i! ning $60 to $600 to the ton Oddifi
H thn to secrecy and lit out With his
WWW" f-vr the claims in the desert. All
'h‘n hall was the little they could carry—-
r» .3 ~.-. no tent, no fuel except sage-
tin”:
Water had to be hauled for miles.
this “as the Mizpah mine of the future
“Mich. and in 1900 the partners sold it
for 8350.000. Their first check was tor
Wm after they had broken out their first
load of ore. Oddie remembers that the
I
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J
m scorn Nunwm' some seams
ADVENTURE AND GRIT LED THESE
;_.N TO
Life Histories- of Six. Juniors Are Vivid
Personal. Stories _of Little Known (Members Show Wide Human Experience Took Them to High
Place in Nation’s Council and ‘Records Prove No Accident. Brought Them Into Power'— '
Hitherto Unpublished Facts About Six High” Representatives of Widely Scattered States
check came as a lifesaver. Tonopah be-
came rapidly one of the greatest mining
camps in history, both gold and silver,
and Goldfield came into being as a result
of Tonopah. '
Oddie got into politics about that time
and was elected Governor of the State in
1911. Last year, running for the Senate,
be upset a strong Democratic majority and
pulled through by better than a thousand
votes. That's 'a lot in Nevada, where the
total vote is less than 25,000—-—equivalent
to 100,000 in New York. He delights in a
big ranch in southern Nevada, upon which
he breeds Herefords. His political strength
Peter Norbcck of South Dakota is
one of the strong men from the farm
States in the Senate.
in the Sagebrush State is built upon his
reputation as a square mining man.
idaho stands for Borah and Borah for
Idaho, somehow. The Hon. William Edgar
lends himself to advertisement with singu-
lar facility. He fills the eye and the ear.
too. for that matter, colorful person all
around. But Borah isn't the only Senator
from that State. The Constitution is re-
spected. Idaho possesses the usual num-
ber, two. '
How about the other, Frank R. flooding,
Who came in with the rest of the new
crew in the general Republican uprising
last year?
Who is this person Gooding that a col-
lege should be named after him? He went
a long way around to get to Idaho and the
United States Senate, beginning in Devon-
shire, England. Ordinarily we do not im-
port Senators from England. so this acci-
dent of birth is not of special importance.
As the obituaries say, he "moved to the
l’nited States with his parents at an early
age." You always form a mental picture
after reading this phrase of a. precocious,
determined child dragging mother and
father after him as he dashes ahead into a
new country. .
Family Went to Michigan,
But West Lured the Youth
At all chnts, the Goodings, good Devon
folk, became good Americans.’settling in a
Michigan village, which rejoiced. does still
no doubt. in the name of. Paw Paw. But
the West lured young Goodlng long before
he was out of his 'teens. He went to
California, didn't like it, and finally landed
in Idaho to become a contractor in mlners'
supplies and in developing mining prop-
erties. He made money in a steady. plug-
ging sort of Way. got into politics to help
clean up a'deal of crookedness. was Gov-
ernor of the State twice and finally won
promotion to the Senate.
Now he owns ranches in the Snake River
country and takes greatest pride in hav-
ing converted some hundreds of sagebrush
acres into a college campus, Goodlng College.
Ticket Choppers Now
New YORK, Saturday.
HF: auhway is fast. being outfitted with
I orop-a-nickel-ln-the-slot turnstiles.
Thus the inventive brain of man
LOl‘LJlUt‘ to make less necessary the hand
of man. This time it is the ticket, chopper
who is eliminated.
The ticket chopper has long been an un-
picturesque figure in the subterranean life
of Manhattan. Histbusiness. as the name
suggests, has been to chop up the little paper
tickets that millions of New Yorkers have
dropped each year into hundreds of trans:
parent glass repositories located at ”all flu
wgnfiimé was, of course, duly celebrated
by the literary bureau of the Inter-borough.
Nothing is kept secret from us these days.
We e told all. We know the number-.0:
miles of track there are in Manhattan.
Brooklyn and The Bronx. We know the
per capita cost of hauling.
nurnber of passengers that may be
into a single our without greasing the
1—0 the passengers.
$2353 tit-apartment of the literary buretai‘u
is going to publish the ring recozdrsmot th:
husky gentlemen who ”1:12pm 4 3
act as 8’11
ruggsltzggsxnt up mysteriously 'overnight
announcing that there would be No More
' in Line.” .
snfiiifiiiir' handsome of them,-
eh'?” said
ker. Ho“
B gs. 81333 is a normal New Yo:-
deixplorea the subway to his neighbors and
Some day {35.
' business contact
During a blizzard in '89 his wife and him-
self nearly froze to death in a cabin which
stood where Gooding College stands now.
He is short. stout. bald and slow of speech.
Devonshire cropping out in him. He he-
lieves in the Bible, the Constitution of
the United States hnd a protective tariff.
and is not altogether convinced that the
Bible and the Constitution are more essen-
tial to the nation's welfare than protection
of the McKinley variety.
Before Edwin Freemont Ladd of North
Dakota came to the Senate that body re-
joiced in about every profession and trade
except that of chemist. There were doc-
tors. lawyers. schooi teachers. merchants.
cowboys, gold miners, sheepmen?" rich
men's sons, authors, journalists, bankers.
Early in 1920 Edwin Freemont Ladd
decided that the profession of chemistry
should be honored with a seat in the Sen»
ate. The point of view did not appeal to
the regular Republicans of the State, whose
imagination had not risen above a lawyer.
but it was a case of be nice to Ladd or be
left out in the cold. Dr. Ladd, you see, is
n Non-Partisan Leaguer, concerned with
the very origin of that movement in the
Northwest, and since the Non-Partisan
League controlled more votes than the Re—
publican party the Republicans compro-
mised by nominating Ladd.
Senator Ladd, Expert Chemist.
Was Native Son of Maine
There has been nothing especially ad-
venturous m exciting in his life, but he
knows all there is to know about chemis-
try, especially in the. application of this
science toward the production of food. The
list of chemical societies and associations
to which he belongs is a yard long.
Maine sent him into the world, the little
town of Starks, and he is just turned 62.
He is a solid, substantial looking person.
reminding you of a doctor of medicine with
a fat practice. Ills eyes are keen. He
glances sharply, though amiably, at hls
callers. He wears a. beard. carefully
trimmed to a point and graying very
rapidly.
Ills main desire is to see the farmers of
the country get all that is coming to them,
and that those persons who prey on the
artless agriculturist shall get all that's
coming to them, also. He interests him-
self in problems of taxation as well as in
farm legislation and is the kind of man
the Senate will get a lot of work out of
in the laborious duties of committees. His
home is at Fargo, where the North Dakota
Agricultural College where he is yet pro-
fessor of chemistry is located. Eight chil-
dren received Christmas presents from him.
“I'm a well driller and the luckiest man
in America," said Peter Norbeck, new Sen-
ator. Republican of course, from South
Dakota. "1 have never been beaten in con-
testing for office and have always been
lucky in picking the right time to go after
the place I wanted. Three tlmes State
Senator, a term as Lieutenant-Governor,
twice Governor. then United States Sen-
ator. No special merit in it, just luck.”
Sounds nice and modest, but that isn‘t
what they think about it out nin South
Dakota. I have been there and I know.
The men and women who have kept Nor-
beck in office for something like twenty
years without a vacation say that he is a
man they can lie to. In the last election
the Non-Partisan League people assailed
Norbeck savagely. They had reason to dis-
like him. He prevented South Dakota from
being overrun with them, as North Dakota.
for its sins, has been. In fact, Norbeck
threatened to hang some choice specimens
to diScourage their peculiar methods when
they sought to capture his State.
An Able War Governor,
Did Much for the Nation
lie was wartime Governor, and wartime
Governors out in that section of the coun-
try did not have it so easy. There was
(oolneSS and even hostility toward Gov-
ernment war measures. It took a firm man
and a good upstanding. patriot to abolish
such people and neutralize their influence.
That was Norbeck‘s main job and he did
it in a fashion which commended him to
the country in general.
About 1918 newspapers in the East be-
gan to take an interest in him. They
asked: “Who is this vigorous person, any-
way?" and began to print pieces about him
which make him blush. He wears the
complexion of. modesty very easily. When
it came time for the South Dakotans to
select a Republican to hold the Senate seat
against the Non-Partisan Leagucrs there
was only one choice. and Norbeck got far
more votes than the leaguer and the Demo-
crat combined.
He was born in Dakota Territory, 51
years ago, and has grown up with his
State. turning from farmer to well driller
and trouble shooter, and then, somehow,
to politician. He is married and has four
children. For the rest he Wei hs 240
pounds, shows a reddish face and a mus-
tache getting gray, and vaunts that he can
go out and do two men’s work any day. ‘
Coming East, by way of Ohio. we might
pause at the metropolis of Lewis Center,
Delaware county, to hear the old inhabi-
tants reminisce about Frank B. \‘v‘illis,
who occupies in the Senate the seat so
President Harding‘s successor in the
United States Senate is Frank B.
Willis of Ohio.
Senator O. E. Weller of Maryland,
“doctor of sick corporations," is a
business man on the nation's jcb.
business associates and'boasts about it to
visiting friends and relatives.
“You will observe." he continued. "there is
nothing said abOut no more standing. Just
no more standing in line. Yessir, they
aren't going to make us stand in line. Hand-
some, 'what?" ~
The ticket chopper, we fear, will not be
much missed. He was never permitted.
much less expected, to develop any particular
personality while on the ‘- He stood or
sat. in summer or winter. spring or fall. a
rather pasty faced. sllent'Cerberus—with a
look of southern Europe—who seemed to
have been handed an_Interborough coat and
but before he was fairly of! the boat.
There is no evidence that it ever was
necessary for a. tihket chopper . to speak
English. So far as that‘goes. there is no
evidence that it 48-11mm. for the.‘3:on-;
doctors on the subway tx-ainq t9 speaking-,7:
lien. They use a kind of boiler! potato.
dialect of their own and trust; tattle: signs.
We know the * The posts.- ,. . .
Wie'gqfi the ticket chopper had to do was to
witness that every one whacamudqwu into.-
tho mm of 'the subway drama :32}.
--or had some one r
intb the box at the 3
children social d
his a . So much of our on
caught ye. is on an eyo’hto-eyb‘; bus!t .1.
but thetlcket chopper was no «a. a,
fluidmmga- He came to know more about
feet than tacos. It mndeed. on We
nr-nl- success as I. social mini-l. -
never authoritatively doclnro whether in
' box. ,Itdidmukeaman
W?» 1m. by frho flew York Harold.
Have to Go
pretty lady was endowed with heavenly blue
or bewildering brown eyes. The only thing
he felt sure of was whether she was
addicted to soft col-us.
Sometimes during the inactive hours—so
greatly regretted by the Interborough ofil-
cials—he would abandon his post altogether. '
These were times that tested the mettle o!
the prospective passenger. The field was
unguarded. It always looked like a splendid
chance to score a. touchdown. It was more
apparent than real. The ticket chopper could
be counted upon to be hiding behind a. cor.-
venient pillar or a. billboard. At the slightest
hesitation the ticketcho per poked ”ms head
into ~the Open. gazing ' ' denly at the 819-53
\ feel uncomfortable.
, It may be that the ticket chopper was a
socinl*rullure,—beuune his work was never
done.. A, ,railivay conductor or a tugboat
“plain. m, f prove"‘the most delightful .ot,
wppanlonlmhfi-ronflneis gamma».
rue ticket cfionpor'm routine;..never was.
seem-j 1a.: site: he had spent-.333.
minutes chopping up all the. tickets that 200.
personu-_droppbd. home. lowlife, would .como-
do!!! “Quart-thumbing all over again. . Be.
was chopping on a. treadmill. Futility—«dew
lpalr—.. manor-haunt...
Small wonder .mt. .the ticket ch per.
aims seemed to hnns‘hia head—613mg}: it,»
may he tint. the Iain-borough cap didn't fit;
Boon all the new turnstiles will be in and.
New York winter-get that there ever was,
the hump equation when lino ot vision
contrived to me him 3 rather lonelyand
unenviahlo figure of contemporary life. .
willingly vacated by Warren Gamaliel
Harding of Marion. Believe it or not,
there is aestory in Lewis Center that the
old women predicted within a few weeks
after VVillis's birth that he would be a
great man. There is another story that he
began making speeches when he was four.
\Ve do not have to believe the legend that
on the day of his birth he greeted callers
at the Willis bonse as “Fellow citizens."
Talked Himself Into Seat
By His Fervid Oratory
Vt'illis has talked himself into the Senate.—
He has no superior at ground and lofty
Dr. E. F. Ladd, Senator from North
Dakota, is the first chemist to sit in
the upper house.
l»
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i
M5“ - mamas:
oratory. lie has made speeches two hours
long about. every stripe and every star in
the ting. No_orator out of Ohio was ever
able to roll out the name of the State as
\Villis can do it, 0-HI-O! stunning the
helpless echoes. He hardened his political
muscle wrestling with Cox. the same James
Iii. Cox who, it may be recalled dimly.
walked for President against the present
incumbent.
Willis usually got beaten, but he won
once or twice, enough to keep him hopeful
and cheerful. and then came a. bit of luck.
Harding nominated for and elected as
President, and a vacant seat. Ohio had
heard so many of Willis‘s speeches that
the people out there naturally wanted to
give others an opportunity.
So they sent him to the Senate, where
Lodngicts him talk a few minutes now
and then. He is kept in reserve as a valu-
able asset in case the opposition needs
severe treatment, a four hour long speech.
' He is 50 years of age and has served
time in the House twice. He is tall, square
. FIVE
ENAT .7
Brooklyn, N. Y., is the birthplace of 1.
Taskcr L. Oddie, Nevada’s Senator, |
who once was a prospector.
. E3 HARRIS r, rm”;
%
shouldered, very dark of romplcxion, can
rics a mane of black hair, which he
clutches violently in the throes of speech-
making, and owns a voice which wiivers
the stars in their courses.
.laryland, caught in the Republican tor-
rent last year. eluted a': her junior cha~
tor a tthor of unique practice, 0. ii \Vel-
ier. lie is, or has been, one should suj, a.
doctor of sick corporations. 1-‘i.i.‘.n l-es,
alarmed over the state of health of ailing
concerns, sent for Weller. lie hastened
t0 the bedside, felt the pulse, took the,
temperature and wrote the prtst-ription
that did the business.
The new Senator from Maryland is the
not particularly common combination of
keen lawyer and keen business man. After
he had practiced law for a time he got into
the habit of applying legal acumen and
hard sense to business, and in that way
earned repute as a skillful physitian for
sick corporations.
Spent $16,000,050 for Roads
And Never iii/es Criticized
The achievem-‘Lt h: as puss-T- of is
spending $16,000,000 in ‘alrryland's ,ood
road system without, a lumen.“ fr -.-. iii-.21
always watchful l~c‘:.i\cr'yl‘_c 24.11152 Hit
was president of the Stat.- W Commis-
sion for several years .._d \v.: c.~'~,.t for;
~lnaking every d‘dar of the 51': 000,00‘: do
an honest dollar's v. or k. _.a was in politics
off and on buiore he came to the Senate.
but he was beaten iicr Cove tour in a close
race six years ago.
In 1916 he managed John TV. \l'ecks‘s
campaign for the Republican Presidential
nomination. Last year he gave former
Ssnatcr John \l’allcr Smith the only de-
feat that statesman ever suffered in thir—
tyrtwo years.
\N'uilcr is 59, tall. snare. sharp as a knife
blade. liis abihiics. lif‘ii’l' showy. are
highly respected by the solid men of the
Senate. He is especially interested in
naval affairs and in the well being of the
Naval Academy. from which he was gradu-
ated in 1881, the small navy days when
there was no future in the service for a
bright young man.
.'3
Girls Braver Than Boys,
‘ Noted Authority Finds
observation made by Dr. Edward E
Bigelow, nature study guide of the
Camp Fire Girls of America and formerly
,scout naturalist of the Boy Scouts Associa-
tion. Dr. Blgelow includes in this category
girls from 10 to 15. After that age he says
they acouire the fears and inconsistencies
THAT girls are braver than boys is the
of women.
"The average woman does not understand
girls." This is another of Dr. Bigelow's
unique statements and a discovery he has
made in his quarter of a century of experi-
ence as an educator of girls. He has dis-
covered that not only do they not understand
them but also that they are unsympathetic
toward them.
Dr, Blselow for the last twenty—five years
has been associated with select private
schools for girls as a nature lecturer and
guide. He is Well known as a naturalist
guide in girls’ camps, also as president of
the Agassiz Association at Sound Beach.
Conn. "And—I am of age—60 my last birth-
day," he says laughingly. "So wise enough
to speak only of what I know.
“Girls are not only braver than boys.
They are the bravest of the four sexes,
namely, men, boys, women and girls," says
Dr. Blgelow.
Dr. Bigelow illustrates this by instanclng
his experiences with parties who come to
visit his apiarles at Arcadia, Sound Beach,
Conn—the home of the Agassiz Association,
Dr. Blgelow knows that bees will not sting’
if they are handled with gentleness and
understanding. And he proves this by taking
the comhsrfrom the hives while the bees are
actively working on them.
Dr. Blzelow encourages his visitors to
handle the combo. S'Boll up your cleaves:
. and came along? he says Simulatiy as he-
tell a boy even if he were dressed as a girl,”
says Dr. Bigelow, “is by quickly and unex«
pectedly running my fingers through his hair
and saying -brusquely, 'Do you want your
hair cut off?’ A boy will always shrink back
and pull away. A girl never does. She
simply laughs and remains still. Yet it is
to be supposed that a girl values her hair
much more than a bay values his. Of course
~the reason fordhe girl’s lack of fear may be
that she intuitively reads character better
than the hey does."
The‘glrl is much franker than the boy.
In fact, says Dr. Blgelow, no one in the
world is as frank as the girl between 10 and
15. She says exactly what she thinks. The
boy, on the other hand, rarely does.
But the girl's frankness and bravery do
not last. According to Dr. Bigelow, as she
develops into womanhood these qualities. are
replaced by the art of dissembling and by
the fears supposedly appropriate to woman-
hood. .
"Because girls get the poorest deal," says
Dr. Bigelow, "men regard them as a future
marrlagcable proposition which still must
conform to a certain pattern. Women un-
consciously regard them with suspicion,
fearing that they will not become cast in the
molds or that pattern. And so under the
pressure of these preconceived attitudes the
frank. brave girls become inconsistent women
who in turn regard girls with suspicion."
"Women on the whole are not in favor
or sending their daughters to camp," said the
naturalist. "They cannot understand healthy.
animal instincts in girls. That a. boy should
want to go to camp is quite natural and
right, but to let ‘my daughter’ got—at first
the idea is unthinkable. 'Why.‘ one mother
said to me recently when the subject was
W; at» would-she ‘ absolute 'cruelty to
take-myewmtrom-me for two month;
summe- ' “Abe-best friend she
_leads.hls..party.-to the beehives; .But. all do: -thEms,M,.,m.hmm. know What
not come along, and alL'do not roll up their.
sleeves: The women run to the furthest part.
at the field. The manure stoktehrngiheir.
shoulders; say that it is nothing to handler
beeshutrdo not‘go too near them. The boys.
mi Dr. Elsinore; pull their coats about their:
ransom} sheeplshty shrink away. protesting.
-"an!.~.~1 don’t want to touch them."
But—the ’_glrls!“ Invariabi‘y, .. says Dr..
Bigelowrgthoiy» rusheseagerly. forward, crying
out, “Oh, Daddy. Bl'geiow. let me do it.” And
motelyunazmla them-each into the hives
animals: out the combs. .. ‘ . . *
- rAnother test by which :.I could
«always ‘
4:1" _,‘.V
Wuacué-whar good times V.
have together). ., ~
rm =ao-muelkdesire-for girl corn-
huwtorboy‘companlon- ‘
pm
ship."- ”mum: ~Dr.‘ Blgelow can. the
“gum! Wm nrpeople. , An‘d thi-
to—dayr hound-snot. expressed in afternoon
M‘Mflé“ .«m , so much as it is
mmm-W— ’ outdoor-life of freedom
ammo-to. Hue-muons and bravery hr.
not Museum like and unbeco‘ min;
Here the Mean be themselves 11::th
by the
view. ‘
projection of the odult'l' point of
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