Senator Ashurst's Brother

Until last week, U. S. citizens could reasonably assume that Arizona's pentecostal Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst was a nonpareil when it came to dressed-up language. Advices from Oregon showed that it ran in the family.

Up for re-election as circuit judge in Klamath Falls, Ore. is none other than Henry Ashurst's brother, Edward Bates Ashurst. Slight, dapper Judge Ashurst first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst.

Sample (announcing his candidacy): "l SHALL EVER STAND ON THE SIDE OF LEGITIMATE BUSINESS, COMMON DECENCY AND THE HOME.

". . . No matter how many furies may frown or how fierce may be the bludgeonings of fate, I shall continue with a persevering faith to cling to those ideals which those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them. . . ."

The Brothers Ashurst think up their own stuff, do no ghosting for each other. Says Brother Henry of Brother Edward: "He's a corker. He will say to a man he is sending to jail, 'My dear sir, I hate to do this when there are so many guilty men roaming the streets.' "

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