Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, MEMOIRS OE UNCLE JOE CANNON "4s Told to L. WHITE BUSBEY, His Confidential Secretary for Many Years. N tallment of ph_G. Cannon. for f a century one of the most pictur- ue characters in American public life. o reminegences were told, from time 1o usbey, for mans d after be: [OTE—This is the rst i B Gabitiie Star, q CHAPTER L CARE not a rap about the re- “I ports of clashes and the pre- dictions of clashes between i vou and me. We can handle that matter ourselves. Come up some evening for a long talk, Tues- day or Wednesday or Thursday eve- ning about , if you can, so that we shall be fres from interruption, and let me know when to expect you.” Uncle Joe Cannon selected this from a pile of notes written him by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and handed it over to me. “That one,” he said, *‘was writ- ten at the time when the newspapers were full of stories about how the President and the Speaker were elther tearing each other’s hair out or about to do so. It's a good ex- ample of a good many others. For that matter, the papers never did give up the fear or hope that some day we would commit bodily violence on each other Passes On Suggestions. He handed over some more. were addressed “Mr. Speaker,” n,” some “Dear and some Some some end,"” “Mr. Cann n “Czar some “Uncl Joe,"” varying @ 100d and the formality of the Many of them in luded made to him, ridiculous in but offered in all serious- ness, which so appealed to his sense l'of humor that he just had to pass 'them along to Mr. Cannon. At one time the newspapers were reporting that while everything was serene on {the surface, the President was mak- fing “confidential but pre-emptory” de- mands on the Speaker; and this so |tickled Roosevelt that he would scrawl 'in large letters the words “Private— Purely” on the most commonplace and matter-of-fact communications to Cannon, dealing with subjects that !might without harm have been shout- ed from. the housetops. Of course, as his secretary through- lout his speakership, I had been fa- miliar with these characteristic let- ters from Mr. Roosevelt, but Mr, Can- jmon wanted me to lock them over lagain to remind me of the’deadly {war that was so often reported to have been raging between these two lehtet official figures of that day. Sent for Uncle Joe. “Sometimes,” he went on, “they took the other track and reported that 7 was exercising ‘influence’ over the President. That was because of the frequency of my calls at the ‘White House, but almost invariably I called at his request and did not seek the appointment. When Congress was in ‘session he used to send for me two or three times a week, and sometimes @aily. "ésualzy it was in the evening tHEt 1 visited him, especially ;when he wented to be sure we would be undis- ‘turbed, and then, sitting about the fire in his study, we would talk things over until midnight or later. . Now don't for heaven's sake get the idea that we always talked shop. 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Association will ‘be the Association, 620 F street P.w. on Wednesday, May 4th,” 1927, FPolls ‘open from 9 am. to 5 p.m. R, £ & osterkitye wiReRdiiy 3 TRING _ AUTOMOBILE AT B A ARD 70 PAY REPAIR AND STOR- TON CHARG bath lived too lively lives for that. ‘Why, sometimes when he sent for me to talk over some matter of official business he would start in with a story about the West; and when he did that he was as likely as not to ask me if I didn’t recall some parallel to it, in the early days in Indiana— for he knew the history of the West better than any historian I ever met. “Then, too, I often got the impres- slon, when Roosevelt started a discus- sion over some governmental policy, that what he was really doing was trying it out—sometimes arguing the question so as to find out what opposi- tion there would be to his ideas, and sometimes just to clarify his own views by thrashing the subject out from every point of view. More Often Disagreed. “Don’t get the idea that we gener- ally agreed; as a matter of fact, we more often disagreed in the talks we had in those seven years. There were many new advances then in legisla- tion and administration, and we ap- proached them from two different angles. We hardly ever disagreed in principle, but very often about prac- tical methods. He had the outlook of an executive, ambitious to do things; I had that of a legislator, concerned with how to do them—and how to pay for them. So these talks of ours were the presentation of two different - schools of government by men of opposite theories, both of whom recognized that there were two sides to every question.”. I smiled. *Yes,” said Uncle Joe, in- terpreting it and smiling too, “lots of people wouldn't believe that last about either one of us; but it was true just the same, as you know. And I think that was one of the chief reasons why Roosevelt wanted to thrash things out with me 8o often and so long. “In fact, I know he often brought up things he knew I would oppose, so that he could hear my reasons. These were generally suggestions made to him by others which he liked the look of; and in such cases, even when I convinced him that they wouldn’t work, he would defend them to draw out everything I had to say. Some- times I actually didn't know whether he was defending them in earnest or Just to get the last drop of argument that they were impracticable. e o B ave, bW 103 Weschler's, 92 ve. D.W., o B e e CELEVENTH OF T AT TEN O'CLOCK AM.. 10 < Jien “for repair ‘and storage Packard touring automobile. he name interestod one 3736 GA. left wilh us in Robinson. Parties notice. b UTO WRECKERS CO.. 00 , St S.E. Notice 18 hereby xivel bonds num;‘w‘rm’! A h{fil;"fi:r‘cr 2 1o hundre y-three e adve m}un-d by a certain deed of 1 the sixth day of August. : Taskin and wite. 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Ca “The President’s office was like a magnet to draw to it every one with new theorles of Federal power. Roose- | velt would listen to any one who had an original idea, or thought he had, no matter how absurd; but in telling me about them he used to laugh over the way in which he had permitted the latest genius to present something entirely new, so new, in fact, that he had read about it when a boy in school and had long since forgotten it. “The thing back of all these con- ferences, though, was that in dealing with me he was dealing with the House. That is not true of the speak- ership now, but it was then, for the Speaker was a spokesman; he spoke with authority for the majority of the Representatives. Under the sys- tem that then governed, the Speaker was their voice. The legislation pend- ing before the House committees was brought to the Speaker's room by the committee chairman for discussion, and that room was a clearing house, the only clearing house for the pres- entation of the majority views on what should be done or mnot done. After such a discussion the Speaker could intelligently present the ma- jority view to the President. ‘Was Workable Plan. “It was a workable plan and it worked. And Roosevelt, whatever he may have permitted the insurgents to think, conferred with the Speaker on all proposed legislation through- out his administration.” Though Mr. Cannon did not say so in this talk, it is the fact that President Roosevelt continued to confer with him in this ‘way even after their personal quarrel near the end of the administration. “I don’t believe,” he continued, “that Mr. Rosevelt ever made any serious recommendation to Congress without first talking it over with me, and at his request, I ‘would sound out the leaders in the House nad let him know what they thought about it. “The reason for that was that Roosevelt did not want to waste time recommending leglslation that wouldn't pass. He had no desire to write messages just for the sake of writing them. He wanted results. If he couldn’t get all he wanted, he wanted all he could get. He wanted, too, to get them with the least pos- sible friction. He was a good sport, and took it cheerfully if the legisla- tion conformed to his recommenda- tion even in part.” (Copyright, 1927.) Detached From World, Knowing Nothing, Man Is Treated at Gallinger Hospital A man detached from the world, literally knowing nothing, fs under observation at Gallinger Hospital, representing a very rare type of case, physicians say. Sent to the hospital by police Fri- day afternoon after he had been found wandering about in a daze on Twelfth street near Pennsylvania avenue, efforts have been made to discover his identity but without suc- cess. The sole clue to the name of the strange patient is a set of initials, “H. J. 8” on the band of his grey felt hat years old. He appears to be around 60 By the Associated Press. Evidence of existence in the Florida | Everglades of tracts of land which could be cultivated s reported by Lieut. Guy Kirksey, Army Air Corps, in duty at Langley Field, Va., who has just completed a six-week aerial mapping project in co-opera- tion with the Coast and Geodetic rvey on both coasts of southern Florida, “The popular conception of the Everglades as a vast, impenetrable swamp is wrong" Lieut. Kirksey re- ported to thé War Department. “When facilities for ingress and egress have been provided, no doubt much of the country will be subject cultivation, particularly where drainage is feasible.” The report punctures a legend in Florida as to one lake popu- lated entirely with alligators and the other crocodiles. The site of these alleged lakes, reality a hugh swamp. The flights were made during dry weather, and the air officer said he saw numerous spots on high ground in the Everglades which he doubted had ever been seen by Wwhite men, | The southern part of the Everglades, {south of the town of that name, is { devoid of humian occupants so far as |the airplane observations could dis- close Kirske photographic _ records comprise a map of the coast line from Jupiter Inlet to Miami Beach; from {to us today for low Factory Prices. ' WKLEEBLATT nirt 15 §aades aad screspy. Puove Lunc. 870 l to 10 miles north of Cape Sable to Mar- ), and from Cape Romano to & point miles north of Naples, and thence the mouth of the Cgloosghatchee local | Kirksey said, was in| Aphasia, or simple loss of memory, is a common occurrence, physicians explained, but this patient is not only suffering from loss of memory, but is not able to understand the things that are happening in the present. This morning, for example, a phy- siclan asked him if he smoked. He replied, “I do not know.” But when his well worn pipe and tobacco pouch were produced he immediately filled his pipe and began to smoke. He is of slender bulld, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and has iron-gray hair and a mustache. When found he wore a black overcoat, a brown striped suit and old tan shoes. Aerial Mapping of Florida Everglades Shows Much Land Fit for Cultivation \ River. The pictures were taken from altitudes of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet. % SAVINGS 0 4% Interest Begins May 1 on Money deposited May 8 THE LARGEST ATH- LETIC FIELD IN THE CITY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM Corcoran Courts 23d & D Sts. Furnished or Unfurnished Apartments $39.50 to $87.50 CAFRITZ 14th & K Main 9080 ORATORS 10 FIGHT TIME IN CONTEST Ten-Minute Address Will Be Strictly Enforced, With Whistle’s Aid. Two days remain—and the 10 sur- viving orators of this region in the Fourth National Oratorical Contest are preening themselves and their orations for The Star finals, the com- petition that will determine which one of them will sail for Europe, July 2. The winner in Wednesday's crucial meeting will win not only European tour and a cash award of $200, but the right to represent this region— embracing the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia—in the na- tional finals to be held in the Audi- torium, May 27. Time, as has been announced fre- quently, will be enforced with ruthless accuracy in the national contest, and 80 the same 10-minute time ruling will be adhered to in The Star finals. A final warning is issued today to the 10 contestants and the administration of that time is explained. Armed With Whistle. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- ent of the District of Columbia Police Department, will be the official time- keeper. He will be armed with an ac- curate timepiece and a whistle such as 1§ used in foot ball games. The chairman will introduce the contestant, After he has taken his Jo- sition on the stage, the orator will ad- dress the chairman and any other per- son or group of persons he might wish to include in his salutation. With the first word of is oration proper—that is, the contents of his speech, exclusive of the address to the presiding officer— Maj. Hesse will begin counting time. If the contestant completes oration before the allowed 10 minutes are over, well and good, but if he is speaking when the allotted time ex- pires, Maj. Hesse will sound a blast on the whistle. One word spoken after that blast and the contestant will be disqualified. However, if he stops at once, even in the middle of a sentence, the orator will be judged by what he will have said prior to the expiration of the time. The same system of timing will be enforced at each of the three units of The Star finals, and each of the 10 contestants will be accorded the same discipline. Lone Girl Winner, Interesting comparisons are being made between the 10 orators who have survived the district contests in The Star area and those who are winning newspaper and State cham- plonships in the other six reglons of the contest. So far, nine State or newspaper represehtatives in semi- final contests have been chosen, and while there are seven boys and three girls awaiting the regional finals here, eight of the State winners are boys and only one a girl in the other zones. The ages of contestants in this region and in other regions, howevel are almost identical. The Star win- ners are slightly older than their co- temporaries, for the average age of the nine “outside” contestants is 161 years, while The Star winners strike an average age of 1613 years. Deemed Strong Contender. 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