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National Press and PudMiami, Fla.—Congrcsj tan get away with an awful lot. It can tax us billions for peacetime armaments, yet not a peep out of Joe iJoakes. It can filibuster some vital piece of legislation, without risking any appreciable how! from the voters. Hut occasionally a denizen of Capitol Hill will rattle off some apparently harmless piece of rhetoric, only to find it explode like an anti-personnel mine.Such a violent explosion was caused in the hallowed halls of Congress recently when one of the duly-elected legislators . . . who shall mercifully remain unnamed ... proposed to inai the use of themails to en-trants in a na- | tionwide fishing contest ‘‘because fishing is purely a matter of luck, making the whole tiling a lottery.*'Luck indeed! IzaakStan McClano \ ^ J 1 0 .n. *► 'clutching hisfamous copy of the Compleat Angler, must have turned over in his grave like a porpoise with acute indigestion at hearing such an utterance.^ Of course, when you’re wetting - your line off an open party boat 1 for hours and catching nothing but ennui, the temptation is great to blame it on dumb luck if other people around you are managing to reel ’em in regularly. We were . h.*/ing just such thoughts here (when Capt. O. L. Hawk, a former * Florida boat captain and fishing i guide, read our minds. »“Let's see your rig,” lie said, dilnimm, we’re both using the [same blood-worms. We’re both('casting into the same spot. I’m catching fish but you’re not. The answerjies in your rig. Fish are
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1950
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