JACK GARNER VICE-PRESIDENT.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 10

JACK GARNER VICE-PRESIDENT.

Plage,— Somo of your American news is hot, some not so hot. To help ensure a decent average here is a note or two-oil John Nance Garner, tho new Vice-Pre-fiident; John is a trick .. . has always been. Ho plays poker so clovcrly* that in just one session, of Congress ho cleaned up 15,000 dollars. His suits cost l^iin around about six guineas, his wild ties fifty cents each. His nick» names include "Texas1 Jack," "Cactus Jack," "Texas Tiger," "Pepper Pot," and the '' Chapparal Cock of the Frio." He is a barrister, a banker, big laudlord, and rancher; in tho last-named capacity he owns the largest herd o£ goats in the world, not to mention hundreds of beehives." He passed five years in Congress once without eve? making a speech. He has had somebody run against him only twice irt thirty years. On. Sunday, if he doesn't work, he visits the Washington Zoo. Garner states emphatically that he isn't tho man for the V.-P. "I.Trill make the worst Vice-President this country ever had," he declares. "About the only thing the Vice has to do is to attend dinners five or six nights a week. I can't do that and go to bed at my regular bedtime (ft'oclock), so-I',can't go to dinners." Jack high, this Texang to my mind. . . ...