Bilbo, Fish

"... The most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate one goldfish for the fish pool at the Governor's mansion. Said Governor Bilbo: "If you adopt this suggestion,

I hope you buy fish of the same size be cause I am tired of seeing big fish swallow up the lature." little ones, especially in the Legislature.