Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 11

_e——— Bachelors Are Conspicuous In House, Married Men Boast Number of Offspring. War Records of Members Interesting. “Get-Acquainted This is “get-acquainted day" at the Capitol. The new Congresstonal DI~ rectorles are out and members are reuding the biographies, having toeir first chance to meet their collcarue @5 they know themselves, Many interesting glimpses of ths human side of the 531 members of the Touse and Senate gathered irom all arts of the forty-cight states and territories are found in this latest autoblographical work. A number of the members are conspicuous by the notation “unmarried ™ which appe in thelr biographies, while some of the older marrled men boast of the number of their offspring. The war recards of many members of Congress prove interesting reading. Representative Frank J. MeNulty of ewark, N. J., was born in Ireland in her was a civii war v he was selected 1 tndy n; ot 180 and publ utilities in Scotland by t eration. Lester HHL Is Huby. Tiepresentative Le R clims to be the baby member Longress, (s a ¢ poerat from Alu- hama, twenty -ni ol H. -rved in the A nx the world war and clain e been t Youngest p 4 schoo! bon wver to ki n elected in country. He wa ted presic the Montg ry board of ed when h=: was twenty-three ye age. Ttepre: tor in the last snd was selected as the rry_the returns for Pre Viee President to Washington b wtive Tilman Racon T of Arkansas wa D! tor in 1904 and was the clected o deliver the YVice President in Wash Representative from the rih Dakota Representat f a modern school buile tablishing a high school Rathbone Born Here. Henry R 11 Februai Representative Rathbone republican at large born in Washington, 187, His grandfathe; tates senator from 18 resentative Rathbone's par the guests of President and Mrs. Lin coln in the box at Ford's Theater or the night of Lincoln's. assassination, and his father, an Army officer, w everely wounded by the ' Footh when he endeavored to jiu. -t he President Representative Morton Denison Hull it Illinois is president of the Ray- 1ond Con Compar Represen 4 linois annc a candidate Repre: of Indian teacher, 4 posi principal owner iSvanay, College m wh vraduated. Retiring from work he became an aecountant for a wholesale hardware firm, then secre tary-treasurer of an insurance comw pany, later becoming a certified pph- lic aecountant. During the he was an explosive license Vanderburgh Company, and mem- ber of the Limit Club. *In all politi cal campalgns in which Mr. Wi has taken part he has led his tic his biography says. He is a thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and u iinight of Pythias, a member of the Chamber ™ Commerce, a Presbyter- ian, 4 Rotarian and a Turner. Lawyer and Farmer. Representative Frank Gardner of Indiana, s that “since 1911 he has divided his time between the practice of law- and farming.” Representative Henry C. Canfield, nocrat from Indiana, says he aintained himself and earncd s own way while attending college.” Representative Samuel Caok, aleventh Indiana districr, practi lJaw for eighteen vears end engaged in gome of tne important tion in the circuit and supreme court of the state. Representative H'ram K, Evans of Towa, who was elected to fill the va- cancy caused by the resignation of er to be Governor of rved eighteen and one- £ yoars'as a judge of the district court of the third judicial distric Mrs. Evans is also an ttorne: having becn admitted to practice be ore the supreme court of Jowa and ho United States Supreme Court _Representative W. H. Sproul of Kansus, who succeeds Philip P. Camp- bell, has vorked on the farm and in lead. zino and coal \“has practiced law twenty-nine years and Incidentally engaged ‘n the by ne8d of agriculture, stock raising oil and gas.” mines” He Tydings Is Elaborate, Representative Millard E. Tydings, iocrat, of Maryland, has twenty-s nes of autobiographyy in the directory, fourteen of which are devoted to his Army record. Representative William P. Conner: Jr, of Massachusetts, “entered the th: atrical profession as actor and after- ward became manager.” He enlisted as a_private, served nineteen months in France, taking part in all major, opera. tions, epgagements and battles of the 101st infantry. He was promoted from private to regimental color sergeant for meritorious service. Representative Bob Clancy of Michi- zan, formerly a government clerk in Washington, says he is “not married— resides with parents.” Representative Arthur B. Wi'liams of Michigan is_“interested in farming at his summer home, Gull Lake, Kalamazoo county.” He Is also exsvice president and general counsel of the Postum Cereal Company, and ex-vice president | of the Michigan Manufacturers' ciation Representative Joseph Scott Wolff of Missourj has nine children. Representative. James F. Bulbright o Missourl, “being without means, earned the money to pay his school ex- penses whi'e working on & farm and teaching school.” Leavitt Was Ranger. Representative Scott Leavitt of Mon- tana went to Oregon in 1301, where he took up a homestead in the coast range mountains, meanwhile working ip a sawmill, doing newspaper work and Asso- college | 4 for [t Directory Shows Day” at Capitol. ather minine districts of Navada, In nddition to his mining and other b P he has maintained law offic Reno. Geran Is Unmarried, tive Elmer Hendrickson unmarried.” Representarive George W. of New York “hos local. state and na he attained his maic Represe Lind, active fairs since | | found ft. I THE In Our Town | Some child had left fts ball in the Capitol grounds and A squirrel had Red rubber and gray fur made & say showling| against a fleld of grass starred with | the rusty brown of dead leaves, but it was doubtless, the game that! caused a couple of office-hurrying clerks to stop in their tracks and look on. For It} 2 was a good kame, | V7 all right— Mar- | . auis of Queens-; = berry rules or | something like that. P New v ty. v burg. Va., Fre ciate editor of the Chief city government waekl 1914, during whe mora than 30.00¢ more than 800 »ddr us for worn-out elvil emploves ohn Froneis Quayle married.” and disabled New York ed.” Precident's Sketeh Brief. b of President Coolid its brevity, the lines consuming pace used for and Repres, 1, New York rmur's reids Joneshord M. Mea presentative democr.itic ¥ ka, relutes that he awul age’ 1is * Also it is ard_that he utenaunt of Neb while “holding ¢ aneously ¢ of Tdoward, | ) Neb- ernor | tempo- cditor | Has Eleven names of Children. children of of special pride | > sketeh writers. t. and publican, Jis the { % otes his record i ! | largest producer of wool the @ wide dist| in foot ba Blo Reprosen New York | Liz first ction in athie m is Musie Publixher, ve Sol Bioo, unts that a before ered th 1 bee democrat, building “itative Tull, s the fac Retch that | th nocratic - Reed, republican natirers to recaid, ntative Victor Berer, atist tions Lo ung b ount of hav | wnce of the U Sat | d war and having wriite xpressiug his opinion on th question, conviction the Su- | preme Court reversed entenc twenty 3 2 STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE | { FIELD IS THREATENED | tie ent the i District President Says He Has | i Not Abandoned Hope of i 1 Averting Tie-Up. | —_— | i { By the Asenciated 7 | SCRANTON, ¥ December s of district No. 1, United Mine | Workers, were concerned today over | a threatened strike of about 37,000 (anthracite mine worke district. Rinaldo Cappellini, district | president, said he had not given up | hepe of averting a big tie-up. ! i S thousand employes of | ‘alley Coal Company in i - district demand i them with said te ! other griev. 2, and have call- | snecial meeting for late today to discuss the situation. wenty thousand Hudson Coal Com- any workers, between Forest City { and Plymouth, may vote on Saturday | to strik vances are not | adjusted. Pre to} meet with comy : 3 night in an attempt to keep the men ]Al work SEEKS LOCOMOTIVE WHISTLE CHANGES College Professor Says Single| Shrill Note Directed Down Track Would Save Lives. By the Associnted Press. BLOOMINGTON, Ind,, December 5.— | If locomotive whistles were placed in | | more forwara posttions and adaptea ito a single high-pitched note many lives would be, saved and approxi- mately $5,000,000 annually would be | cut from railroad coal bills, according to Prof.-Arthur L. Foley of Indluna University. Dr. Foley, head of the physics department and of the W terman Institute for. Scientif search, at Indina Uniiersity, made a study of sound intensity and cost of operating locomotive whistles and claims the low pitch or “chimes” whistles are only about one-sixth as effective as a high-pitch signal. The shriek of the present whistle is limited. he explains, because of the smokestack, bell, steam dome, gener- ator-and a' blanket of hot gases in. frong of 1t causing the sound to he broadcast to the side of the track, and not down the right of way toward a cro@sing. i tumble made sn K el Dickstein of | | —except for one 1 AVER AND HARBOR | transportatios | high Ja | dice am in the local | P | stands primar; | “we must co {which he declared himself in favor of uaintance, the investigating ball rolling the squirr and _then The 3 ¢ hls s thing on its haunches and con- Then he flattened out and E Ithy crawls until he ugh the strange hing to it gently with & paw. The rolled forward with | t slown that encouraged the quirrel to try 2 And again. time he nose-rush. 1 over the grass another | from nowhere an pounc the with under. sit bac sider. made 1 came alive r at was with men when_ at the ball t? They play just like hen the crowd had 10 print on its way to work and the Shuirrels had the game to thémselves | zard who luu'q‘di to say to a pat chul gentleman who was raking leaves. “Those squireels really act as it the had sen * And the patriarch b «d on his rake to voice isdom: rou was s well acquainted as 1 am, you'd &now | ha to 4ol more sense . Why, I Lushel of stor-{ as a fe i CONERESSOPENS . C. C. Has Failed in Duty, | President of Body De- clares, in Speech. Measures for the linksing up of the trinity lroads — and waterway were | ussed today at the opening fon of the nineteenth annual con- | ition of the National Rivers and | Tarbe t the New Willard | otel known speakers | e<ented their views on the way to ing about an gamation of trans- sortation by using all three of the transportation agencies, and particu- | riy by removing a declared preju- | t rail and water trans- | wortation combinations. H The Interstate Commerce Commis-| ured up to it duty | d responsibilities in the discharge f the transportation act of 1920, in | the opinion of President John H. “mall of the congress. Rumor hag it, | imall said, that members o the! av been uated in not large. degree by the on that a proper rating be- boat lines and rail lines will deplete the revenue of the with which co-ordination ways unduly railroads is sought Asks Shipper He Helped. The primary duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission, representing the people of the United States, he said, Is not to protect any rail line or any boat line, but to protect and con- serve the interests of the American public. He asserted that when the com: i is presented with a re- ues interchange of tra ind for the stablishment of joing 'l pro- portional rates between u ¥oat line and a railroad the commission should | only consider the rights of the ship- or. AMr. Small declared that Congress for the promotion of water transportation, for the improve- | ment and provision of navigable| channels, for t maintenance of har- bors up to the highest state of ef-! iciency, and the development of means of transportation where, In order to achieve the bast for water transportation and for waterways, ordinate both lines upon these waterw: with the other two instrumentalities of transportation.”: He added that the most serious prob- lem before the Congress and its allied organizations is to devise wayvs lnd]‘ means to the end that the interior waterways of the United States shall | be utilized Iin larger degree and werve more ¢! tively the shippers of the nation. Senator Favers Alms. Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Lou- isiana, former president of the con- gress, declared himself thoroughly in accord with the present aims of the congress. Senator Ransdell dellvered an address on the Panama canal, in free passage of ships through the eca- nal when that agency shall have paid for itself. He alluded to the great in- crease in revenue from the canal, pointing to a growth In revenue of more than 400 per cent Juring the past fiscal year. He sald American vessels should have free pasmsage through the canal, pointing out that 417 Der cent of the busincss of the | canal iast year was from American| intercoastal” trade. i Painting of the names of rivers in this country on bridges crossed by highways and railroads was adve- | cated by Mrs. Louis N. Geidert, na- tional president of the League of American Pen Women, in an address. She sald few Americans know the names of the famous rivers they cross when_traveling. H. B. Cummins of Galyveston, Tex., Representative Cleveland A. Newton of St. Louis, Mo, and Secretary Thompson were the other speakers at the opening session. Representative Samuel E. Winslow | of Massachusetts will address the convention tomorrow morning, while | speakers at the banquet at the New Wiliard _tomorrow night inciude | Masanao Hanihara, Japanese ambas- sador to the United States; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, Samuel Gompers, | president of the American Federation of Labor; Mrs. Maude Woud Park, resident of the National League of teaching schoel until 1907, when he en. i . Whistles should bé standardized and tered the then recently established :the use of similar whistles for other United States forest service as a |DPUrposes prohibit¢d, according to Dr. , Foley. renger.. In 1910 he went to Montana '~ pr Foley has calculated that 2,434, a8 su ervisor of the Lewis and Clark | 92q tons of coal are consumad < or ] i annu- Natlonal Forest dn the Rockies laliy in generating steam to blow the Rpresentative Charles L. Richards, | auilon's locomotice. whistios representative at lurge from-Nevad: 2 claims to be the first native Nevadian to be elected to Congress, He says nhe walked from Austin, a distance of 120 miles to the famous Tonopah | From the New York Sun. mining camp and almost immediately { Smith—Did you do as I suggested was elected to the man size job (asyand tell your wife to repeat Dr. it was at the time of the gold rush) Woman Volers, and Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers, U. 8. A. Thousand Years in Pageant. One thousand years of history was célebrated recently. at Arundel Pail with a pageant in w&lalch ‘l,ill'l‘.) |p(r» sons took part; 6,0 attended as Succeeded Too Well. | spectators and the Duke of Norfolk participated as Knight Marshal of the Lists in the tourney. The seyen | episodes, dated 1070, 1139, 1302, 1380, 1581, 1644 and 1815, went without a , : . 's phrase ten times daily? § . | wwmmmm£M%ww%%%mM$%m“***************************** =S (s o : > e : : ! mining Industries (n the Tonopah m; lor.lh.: like of me, s » & &n&?.&'.f‘fi'."t&n:. ue':t; A o - & W o < . ¥ L X x EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, el i b B oy R 8.0.8.0.0.0.2.0.0.8.0.8.8.0.0.0.28.0080808.¢000 000 ¢ ********************{}***********{**************}************* D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923. - Why The Star Is So niversally Read in Washington The first and foremost function of a newspaper is to publish the news of the world—and The Star—both Evening and Sunday—is a newspaper in the fullest and broadest sense. Its newsgathering facilities include— The great Associated Press—whose organizationen- circles the globe. The Consolidated Press — that keeps its finger on the pulse of current topics and interprets them for quick and understandable reading. The North American Newspaper Alliance — that supplies special features of absorbing interest. 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