Home Thoughts (Cont'd)

Many a hermit who with his whole soul has forsworn the world, the flesh & the devil, has found himself repeatedly tempted by thoughts of all three. Democratic Congressmen who, without more than half a heart, forswore their summer vacation in favor of passing wealth-distributing taxes last week found that, like hermits, their instincts were hard to suppress.

P:In the House arose beefy, benign Republican Representative Allen Treadway of Stockbridge, Mass, to declaim: "I think it's time to prepare a motion to adjourn Congress, which is what this country wants. It doesn't want all these 'must' bills that are being brought in here." There should have been a cat's concert of hisses from the Democratic seats. Instead there came a thunder of unregenerate applause.

P:Broadcasting from Washington one afternoon, Republican Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas told the people of the U. S. that the people of the U. S. want Congress to "quit and go home." Broadcasting from Washington the same evening David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts gave the people of the U. S. a Democratic Senator's view of the question: "Congress should adjourn."

P:A believer in direct action, Representative Percy L. Gassaway packed his baggage, his wife Lillian, his children, Betty

Jo, Peggy Jane and Jim, into his automobile. Then climbing in with his household, he headed home toward Coalgate, Okla., leaving his less spirited colleagues to sulk in Washington.

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