Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1929, Page 34

New Beoss of the Army (Continued From Third Page.) straight to the heart of the controversy. He saw that only a fraction of neces- sary armaments and munitions were being manufactured in existing Govern- ment arsenals. His first amendment to the act, then, provided for a survey of all existiig private facilities for that purpose, Second Amendment Is Epoch Making. His second amendment went even farther. It was epoch-making in war thinking. It provided that when a pri- vate manufacturer refused to give the Government preference in the execu- tion of war orders, or to sell to the Government_at a reasonable price. as determined by the Secretary of War, then the President, through the head of any department of the Government, was authorized to take immediate pos- session of any such plant. A diligent reading of the congressional debates of those feverish days seems to indicate that Good was the first man in great public position to advocate authorita- tively the conscription of industry, as well as the subscription of men, in war. It took the experience of those war days {0 disseminate among us the idea Good then clearly saw of drafting the industrial resources of the country, or drafting age as well as drafting youth. Clear Thinking Is Demonstrated. In the losing fight he made for that proposition, he illustrated the clear thinking which won him such respect as appropriations chairman, together with that sympathy for the poor and inexpressive he instinctively feels. It was this latter quality which brought his fight to raise the pay of the enlisted men. Here it was “Jim” Good the politiclan, Good the seasoned par- llamentarian, Good who knew the psy- chology of men, who won. April 28, 1917, found the soldier in the American Army about to be sent overseas with a pay check of $15.50 a month. Good introduced an amend- ment to raise that pay to $30 a month. The bill went to the Senate, which, to bring the bill to conference between the two houses, changed the pay to $29 a month. Brilliant Plan Succeeds. Then some one managed to tack on the famous provision permitting Col. Roosevelt to raise his own division. Again Good the parliamentarian saw his chance. Also, he knew his man. Knowing that Champ Clark, then Speaker of the House, was opposed to wt-org defense policies, he pointed out o i Speaker that this was now ro Jonger the same bill, but a new bill. Clark, he knew, would be glad to add to its difficulties in passage. So he asked Clark to recognize him for the purpose of amending -the “new bill™ % as to raise the soldiers’ pay. Clark did so, Good made his fight on the foor, opening with a one-hour speech and following it with a brilliant debate. On that occasion he said: “Let us not make ‘this a rich man’s war and a poor man's fight. There has been no ‘give-and-take.’ It has all been ‘“take’—take from the pay of the com- mon soldiers of the United States.” This time he won. Opposes Bonus Bill The next outstanding occasion in which Mr. Good appears, as a Congress- man, in relation to our military forces, is the time when the bill for adjusted compensation—the famous “bonus bill” —was before the House. Good was in opposition to that meas- ure. He was then ardent in his desire to spend every cent necessary or ad- visable for the hospital care of mien invalided or incapacitated by war. He would have been glad to give every sol- dier anything necessary to his needs. But his cooler judgment told him that to hand a lump sum of money to young men of the age of most of our drafted troops was to hand them the means of a blowout. a week end party, a brief good time and not to contribute any- thing to their economic welfare or morale. 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In .., other words hsuflofing from iles is meed- ess, Just say Pyramid to any druggist; sixty cents. prpatTS ODHG €N Address. . — CitYcmmsemssssismiinsse S B et cirace quently supported in his conclusions afterward. Now, at this point, I observe in Mr. Good a certain characteristic no more frequent in Congressmen than in the rest of us—moral courage. Every one in Washington, during the time when the bonus was under consid- eration, could note at dinner in the evening, or about the Capitol during the day, the half-shame-faced way in which statesmen would confess they dl?’l;l't ul;elhlt'ee ’ln :.the bonus bx;dwere going to vote for it anyway. , on the other hand, there were also some who stood up for it against considerable pressure against it. Either way, there was courage. Good neither believed in it nor voted for it. Anmrhapa therein he justified those entht tic speeches of farewell, all of them lauding his courage as well as his capacity, which range out from Demo- ters tendering his resignation from his ;:glztimlfik!‘lhlpl were read on June 11, Tribute Paid By House. Certainly in the opinion of his col- leagues this was no ordinary member who By his own will was leaving Con- gress. For two hours or more Good listened to their tributes. And when the House adjourned its “proceedings™ there were held during the recess fur- ther “proceedings” of an even more personal nature. Mondell of Wyoming and Begg of Ohio, Republicans, and Garrett and Byrns of Tennessee, Democrats, and others, were the spokesmen who pre- sented him with a beautiful silver serv- ice on behalf of colleagues representing delegations from every State in the Union. Good left Washington then, eight years ago, acclaimed as able in na- tional affairs, as vigilant to defend the public interests and the public pocket- book, as courageous to defend his genu- ine opinion, as a square-shooter and a loved companion. Politician in Highest Sense. If this be a “politician”—and it was shéwn in the last campaign, as it had been demonstrated in the 1924 cam- paign, that he is in the highest sense of the word a “politiclan”—then this is a fawn finighes. For —Before you buy ANY cleaner, telephone for a home demonstration why it removes more than any other cleaner. Hoover for as little as $59.50, Generous Allowance for Your Old Cleaner crat and Republican alike when the let- | oo ‘3AY ®lueA|Asuusd Pu® yig New 1929 Model Heywood-Wakefield Baby Carriages $27.50 —Now that the days are getting warmer, baby must get out of doors—and of course he or she must have a carriage. Just such carriages as we are offering at this modest price! 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OheHOOVER Pt BEBATS ... as itSweeps @sis Cleans Only _THE BUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, politician who brings to the War De- Be called upon to take & position in this partment something much greater than | matter before the expiration of his term the value of a mere “political appoint- | of office. -If fate is kind to him, however, ment.” In the first cghce. there will | Mr. Good will be permitted to postpone now be uired much of that same [his decision until both the Army and courage he has previously shown. For | the public have had further opportunity ne will ind himself, very possibly, torn | to get acquainted with him. If that between the theories of the Army about (happens it is safe to prophesy that he itself and much of the opinion obtain- | will have in the future, as he had in ing in interested circles outside the |the past; his opponents but not his Army. gleflc For back tgt tO.hAt i As- Secretary of War he is, next to e & position, that courage ac- the President, not only the chief of all | tion of James'Good, permeating it as it our national defense on land, but the | permeates his entire being, is a friendli- head of the ' administration of the |ness, a human justice, a sensitive- Philippines, of Porto Rico and the Pan- | ness to feelings of others, which ama Canal. He will have to look after willingness | B: ¢, MARCH 31, make him the quiet friend of all the world. He can say “No” more gently than any other man. And then, turning aside from the im- portant to what for Washington & not trivial, let us take a glance at the new | Secretary Secretary in his hours outside his office. Good has no “pleasures.” He professes to like golf, but he seldom plays it. His steady interest is in the life he leads. ringing back to Washington with him his interesting, delightful wife, t} will carry on the same genuine simplicity in their new life that they enjoyed in the old days in the House. In the = panionship with his two sons and in his our rivers and harbors, from_dredging the Ports of New York and Baltimore | fij to cleaning out the debris of the Sacra- | [i] mento River. He will have to consider the construction of levees along the banks of the Mississippl River, the| Missouri, the Ohio, the ois, the Mo- | nongahela and so on. Commerce Also Involved. He will have something to say about | commerce on our waterways which in a | single year totaled more than $25,500,- 0,000 of internal, coastwise and for- eign tonnage, involving questions as to suitable boats, docks and the like. When the inevitable time comes around for the renewed discussion of a separate department for all Govern- mm"hf“buc works, Mr. Good again may find himself called upon to take a defi- nite position in a controversy whose answer will displease a lot of people, whichever way be decides it. For, on the one side is the profes- sional Army, with its Corps of Engi- neers, now in charge of all this sort of work for the War Department. They offer some excellent arguments why those Engineers (the flower of West Point's annual graduation and a picked body of men) should continue this work during peace time. Probably Have to Take Stand. And on the other hand are those civillans who maintain that dredging the Sacramento is not a proper educa- tion for the construction of trenches, and that the entire time of the Secre- tary of War and of the Army under him ought to be devoted to perfecting a fighting machine; while, further, they maintain that economy and efficiency of Government operation demand that all such work for the entire Govern- ment should be consolidated under its own engineering chief. It is quite likely that Mr. Good will Cash Delivers Choice of Atwater Kent Majestic Stewart-Warner Radios No Interest Charged only. The back and seat A1 IR u_,w.nm" the outfit, 9x12 Grass' Rugs 9x12 Brussels Rug: 9x12 Axminster Rugs. Felt-Base Rugs $59.50 Slightly of The Hoover. Learn DIRT PER MINUTE And you can get a DOWN Mahogany-Finished End -‘.'I.'Ablu v Kann's—Street and Third Floors. ThA sla‘o . Has reversible spring cushions, Nachman units. us_show vou this suite before buvin, .§32.50 perfect. 9x12 $6 95 rocker, s . T T ALLOWANCE on your old Refrigerator No. 1 Special Toplift .... No 2 Side Icer No. 3 Porcelain Lined .. Deduct $5.00 for Your 3-Pc. Framed Living Room Suite This is one of the best vales we have offered. Our regular $150 suite at this low price for one week Is covered in 2, 3 and 4 tone jacquard velours. Let elsewhere.: A 3-piece Genuine Kroehler Bed-Davenport Suite, consisting of Davenport-Bed, Wing Chair and Club Chair, in a _good grade of velour. A Davenport Table, End Table, Bridge Lamp and Shade complete The cheapest Kroehler outfit being ished with colored decoration Card Tables | $1.00 | —— T 3-Pc. Automobile Spring Seat, $ Upholstered in good grade of cretonne over springs. Consists of settee, chair and IS 1999 PART e family life Mr, Good finds his greatest relaxation. _’ ‘The younger son, now 7 years old, is pcnlculynly fond of hoxln: notice that his father, of War came to him in the newspaper in ‘his home in Evanston while his*father was still in Chicago. The boy had made a boxing ring for himself in the basement. When his father got home that night his son handed him a pair of gloves. . “You've been holding out on me,” he #d. ‘glotu‘re :&ln( lta be Secretary ot ar. on the gloves and let’s ses how you can nxht:F ‘There is uine - ), cama- raderte, bet:;nn sonlm::gmr?mr. as there is between husband and wife. Good and her husband c‘ifi students retary first entered after his graduation from the Law School of the University of Michigan, Michigan Law School in those days was under the domination of the great Cooley, and it is a side commentary upon Mr. Good's natural mental equip- ment that by working at night he com- pleted that course in a year and a half. And it was in that sanie prefty, tree shaded city of Cedar Raplg: v’v‘lm lfl. Mrs, | pleasant homes surrounded by close= clipped lawns, that Good held his firs§ political office—that of -city attorney, He was popularly acclaimed to that ofe fice through the fact that he had tak: the side of the city, of the peopls against the public utility interests. H election to Congress followed soon after, Surely the gentlest of fighters and t! kindliest of human beings, able, ye! totally without egotism; courageous, y without braggadoclo, now enters upo the varied and responsibie work of bein Secretary of War. S ALLOWANCE for your old Living Room, Bedroom or Dining Room Suite. Your old suite is sold at auction and should it bring more you will receive credit for the difference. Complete Bedroom Suite $1 19 This outfit consists of 4-drawer full vanity, chifforobe, good size dres- ser, bow-end bed, spring mattr , 2 pillows, chair, bench and bed lamp. A complete bedroom outfit at a very low price and liberal credit terms. .$14.75 .$19.75 .$34.75 Old_Box 17-Pc. 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