Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1921, Page 11

Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. It 1t be true that the youth of the Tnited States of today are attracted to ramble in intellectual fields because they see there great gridirons laid vat, towering goal posts, the earth skinned in diamond shape, then it inay reasonably be supposed that they will eagerly follow the leadership of the new commissioner of education— because he is an internationally noted athlete, though college president when only twenty-seven years of age. e is now thirty-nine. T John James Tigert, while winning all sorts of academic, classical and jurisprudnece and oratorical honors ut Vanderbilt University and Oxford, yet won equal honors on the athletic Gelds. At Vanderbilt—which, by the way, was founded as a result of a visit by Tigert's grandfather many ~ears ago to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom he induced to make ~ contribution of a million dollars for shat purpose—Tigert was on the ~arsity foot ball team for three years, un_ all-southern full-back, and thres vears on the varsity basket ball team. Veing captain of both foot ball and \asket ball teams. While at Oxford Wo represented Pembroke College in vowing, tennis and cricket and was a wember of the All-Rhodes base ball team. During the world war he spent_two years overseas, going over for educational work with the Young Men’s Christian Association and wind- ing up as lecturer with the army of occupation. Throughout the entire government service when Uncle Sam has been woking for good men he has picked of whom own their own askar, head of the Ship- Board, who owned and_edited s own paper when only fourteen— among those who bélong to the cat army of government employes. hey are scattered through the entire “deral_service, but one illustration ill suffice. There's William A. Coun- iryman, in the division of manufac- ire, census bureau, Department of ommerce. Countryman was at one rime managing editor of the Hartford Post and in the early’ nineties one of the best known newspaper men in 1he Connecticut valley. He gained a utation for speed as well as per- acy as a reporter. and” and only the cubs were start- ing in to use the typewriter. It was u somewhat envious boast among his fellow scribes that “Country” could urn out a column (about 1.300 words) in an_hour and hold that pace for ihree hours. Members of the Federal Trade Com- sion, sometimes erroneously called the business court,” are really very human fellows. John Garland Pollard, Who has just retired. will long be re- membered as “a ty ileman” and at Jolly good fellow. picture—on: ttorney general of Vir- ia, wi ar-strung tradition for th pure white hair, al- though Le is only forty-nine in years and much younger in Spirit. Now the Federal Trade Commission -:as a club where the employes fra- tcrnize, getting up that morale spirit that won the war, and continuing the zood work during the problem-filled 1ys of peace in Uncle Sam’s work- | ied the Fedi-Tra-Com. r clubroom they have a nlayer-piano, and one of the “greatest them across —your courteous gentleman of the d school from Virginia, who is very uch up to date when it comes to not alone—there also ormerly United es senator—a two-fisted, six-foot ASKS AID IN OBTAINING WORLD DISARMAMENT President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, writ- ing in the currewt issue of the Amer- ican Federationist, reiterates the stand of the federation and asks foy “help to realize world disarmament.’ ‘The help suggested by President Gompers is support of the conference on limitation of arms to be held here during the coming month. Regard- ing this point, President Gompers sa; “Whether the issuance of President Harding’s invitation to the gre: powers, following the adoption of 1. bor's declaration in Denver, was matter of cause and effect or not, bor is pleased to support the move ment, because it has from the begin- ning been committed to the cause of disarmament as one of its cardinal principles and paramount demands. “The effort to promote the cause of disarmament is not something which can wait. The issua is one having to do with today. The inter- national conference is a response of public opinion to the protests of the people of the world against burdens of armament and burdens of taxation caused by the continued building of armament and by the debts which are the results of past wars.’ — e Fed-Tra-Com Club assuring him that they had enjoyed his good fellowshi and wished him well—for the clul ga;veh» “blow-out” in his honor last wee! Husted Thompson, another member of the Federal Trade Commission, i¢ a great exercise-for-health apostle. He's a wind and raln athlete, deligh! ing in nothing more than to battle thegelements. Thompson has quite some record as a mountain climber and while on his vacation this season dragged himself up an unbelievable .| number of miles of mountainside. He took his bathing suit along and no matter how cold the lake or how far above the clouds, he always took his swim. Forty-five years on one job for Uncle Sam is the record of W. A. Smith—better known as “Andy’ who has his office behind a raflin in statuary hall. It is “Andy’s” jol to keep a record of the coples of the Congressional Record that 'h mem- ber of the House and Senate is e: titled to, and to take charge of their speeches for insertion in the Record There are 33,000 copies of the Rec- ord printed daily. This is the word for word story of what passes day ,by day in the House and Senate. There are six official stenographers in each house of Congress. They work in ten-minute shifts. In the House they get $5,000, and in the Senate are paid a contract price. After they have transcribed their not hey submit {the copies to the various members who have spoken for correction and revision. A special messenger from the government printing office is al- ways waiting for the copy. At the government printing office they go to work on the Record at 7:30 p.m., set- ting up, proof reading, etc. The Rec- ord goes to press at 1 or 2 a.m. dail Wrappers are all ready for the mail- iing list and the Records are sent out on the first mail trains about 6 a.m. Frequently memb. of the House get permission to “extend their re- marks,” which is permission to print in the Record speeches not actually made on the floor. This permission is seldom—almost never—granted in the 1 Senate. These “extensions” are print- |ed in the back part of the Record. { to correct any errors that may appei {in the daily record. After two wee | the daily is made over for the perma- nent bound record. About 6,000 coples lare printed of the permanent Record. ! Each member of the House i I titled to fitty-nine copies of t! {and each senator to eighty: Those who do not dispose o r | entire quota of the daily Record have the residue sent to them bound. Each member is allowed to have ex- tracts from the Record printed in llow, who hails from the big spaces some tripper Pollard didn’t get away without the —Requires 9 Balls Minerva Shetland Wool at 25¢. $3.25 in all. Instructions Free. aristocratic circles, and mounces that It is also announced sister and chief aide, R e o 2, T e 2 e Culture. 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