Irishmen's Grandson

POLITICAL NOTES

There were once two Irishmen who lived in Missouri. One was named Joe Long, the other John Short. They never knew it, but they were the grandfathers of a nominee for the Vice-Presidency of the U. S.

The little shaver had something, right from the start. At ten he had a nice business as a jenny driver, was getting a reputation as the boy orator of the Ozarks. After high school at Galena, Mo. he went to Harvard, Heidelberg and Oxford, returned, taught school, served as pastor in a Springfield, Mo. church, finally got to Congress.

During the last three of his four terms he was the only Republican Representative from Missouri. Baby of the Congress in 1929, he acquired a pretty young wife in 1937, turned 41 last April. With a whirling-dervish delivery, a mastery of alliteration, invective, wit, he packed them in.

When proponents of the Reorganization bill were attempting to convince the House that Mr. Roosevelt did not seek to be a dictator, he rose to answer them in his best form: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley on a dark night."

So last week the Missouri Republican State Committee took another nip of Bear Holler Rocky Hill Dew and joined "with the citizens of the nation" in holding up the hand--as a candidate for nomination as Vice President of the U. S. at the forthcoming Republican National Convention--of the happy, the surprised Dewey Short.

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