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DON'T QUOTE ME By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, Dec -When Vice President Curtis Monday announced he wasn't going to run for the senate, the next question which came rolling in from Kansas was "how about Harold McGugin?" Not many people Washington knew much about Harold McGugin. Kansas interest in him started an investigation as to who, where and what he was. To get the question out of the way, McGugin said he wasn't announcing himself for the senate from Kansas. But that's not the interesting thing. The interesting thing is that McGugin once thought about a mince pie. He was young man and was sent to the Kansas legislature. He had been overseas with the army and had learned to countenance cigaret smoking. Kansas had a law against cigaret smoking. McGugin thought that it was considerable of a nuisance. It was when fellow legislators disagreed with him on the cigaret question that he thought about the mince pie. He introduced bill in the Kansas legislature forbidding the eating of mince pie. It had the desired effect. When the session was over the laws of Kansas had been 50 changed that people could both eat mince pie and smoke cigarets It made McGugin a well known character in Kansas There came chance for him to run for congress and he ran. He spoke to the people in every village and hamlet in the third district. "Talking to people keeps them he said. He got himself elected and came to Washington. Whereupon he arranged to continue talking to the folks back in the third district via the long distance telephone and radio. Kansans realize that "freshman" congressmen are supposed to be seen and not heard. But they doubt if that rule will apply to McGugin. They think he'll keep right on talking and that maybe he'll run for the senate. Secretary of War Hurley is accused of having brought this one back from his last trip to Oklahoma and of having told it to ome of the capital's leading orators. A man walked into an Oklahoma sheriff's office announcing: surrender.' "What for?" asked the sheriff. "I was at dinner." the man said. "The mayor got up and talked for 30 minutes. He sat down and state senator got up and talked for 30 minutes. He sat down and 8 congressman got up and began to talk. shot him.' "You're in the wrong office," answered the sheriff. "Go over to the clerk's office. That's where they pay bounties on after dinner speak- MAY BEORGANIZE BANK LINCOLNVILLE, Kan., Dec. A plan to reorganize the closed Lincelnville State bank is under way here. The new institution probably will be opened within 30 days, it was said, and depositers of the closed bank will lose no money. The bank was forced to close after & heavy run, officials