Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 26

B—2 WAR'S SPOTLIGHT COVERED LEADERS Spring 20 Years Ago Found Big Names Ready to Serve Country. BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE, Associated Press Feature Writer. Former Presidents and presidential candidates, congressional “giants” of the frock-coat days, mighty monarchs of business, inventive geniuses and | fading and blossoming heroes of the | sports world all paraded into the spot- light as America went to war 20 years ago. Pledging his services to President Wilson in any useful capacity FOURTH was war-hating William Jennings Bryan, then past the peak of his political prestige but still the Great, Commoner of silver-tongued magnetism to millions of admirers. Demanding White House permission to raise a combat division of his own for service in France before the con- script army could be made ready was | Rough-riding Teddy Roosevelt Jovial William Howard Taft, more popular and much happier as an ex- President than as a Chief Executive, did his bit on various boards. Labor's doughty old warrior, Samuel Gompers, | ! enlisted the legions of union working- men for national service. Al Smith Was Sheriff. Sheriff Alfred E. Smith was com- {4ng up fast in New York State poli- | tics, but the happy warrior with the brown derby was at yet unknown to | ‘tha Nation at large. Charles Evans | Hughes, who a few months before | {had lost his race for the presidency | by a nose, was America's most dis- | INA BERIES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, AIDE TO MAJ. LUPLOW TO TAKE POST SOON Lieut. Robert C. Tripp Will Com- plete Course at Fort Belvoir in Spring. First Lieut. Robert C. Tripp, Army Oorps of Engineers, now completing & course of instruction in the Army Engineer S8chool, Fort Belvoir, Va., has been designated as assistant to Maj. Walter D. Luplow, Engineer officer for the local Army district, the War Department announced yesterday. Lieut. Tripp is to take over his new duties early in the Summer, upon completion of his course in the school. The War Department also an- nounced orders for the transfer to China of Lieut. Col. Fred L. Walker, Infantry, now an instructor in the Army War College, Fort Humphreys, D. C. Col. Walker is under orders to report about September 1 to the commanding general of the Second Corps Area for temporary duty at Governors Island, N. Y. He will sail from New York about September 11 and will report to the commanding Young Washington Painting, as done in the third grade of the Seaton School, al- ways delights Lucille Garthright, 10, daughter of Mr. L. B. Garthright, 1735 Third street. Tomorrow: Franklin Daly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Daly, at the Jackson School. —Star Staff Photo. BON TON ALL OVER GABARDINE tinguished lawyer in private practice. The “mystery man” of that period | was Col. Edward M. House, Wilson's | confidential adviser. Preserving in- | scrutable silence, the little gray man | from Texas moved from the White | House to the inner offices of poten- | tates and statesmen in Europe as the super-ambassador of the President | Newton Baker, “little giant of the Wilson cabinet,” was working 16 to 18 hours & day' as Secretary of War. | He rose at all hours of the night to | answer calls of a bedside telephone. | William G. McAdoo, suave Secretary | of the Treasury, was directing the mobilization of billions of dollars for Uncle Sam's war chest. | The name of Herbert Hoover be- | eame known in every household be- | cause of his food administration's meatless Tuesdays, wheailess Wednes- days and war bread. Warren Harding of Ohio was just another patriotic Benator, neither he nor the Nation dreaming that he would be in the presidential race in 1920. | America’s Napoleon of oil, John D. | Rockefeller, sr., was already an old | man, playing golf in Florida. Peace- advocating Henry Ford offered the use | of his plant to the Government with- | out profit. Lodge Fought Pacifist. | Robert M. La Follette thundered | against war and the munitions makers | who had amassed millions selling death-dealing instruments to the | allies. Henry Cabot Lodge, Boston blue blood and aristocrat of the Sen- | ate's old guard, traded punches with a pacifist in a corridor of the Capitol on the day Wilson asked Congress to declare war. Calvin Coolidge, as lieutenant gov- ernor of Massachusetts, was still in | the minor league. Nor were there any | indications then that boyish, aristo- | cratic-born Franklin D. Roosevelt, | Assistant Secretary of the Navy, would become the political thunder- | bolt of the 30s. In the Senate also were hard-boiled | Old Guardsman Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, piuk-whiskered James | Hamilton Lewis, lustrous in a lavender vest; fire-eating “Pitchfolk Ben” Tillman of South Carolina, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California, Norris nf Nebraska and the young former | cowboy, Ashurst of Arizona. Ruth Played for Boston. Fiorello La Guardia was one of sev- eral members of Congress who enlisted for military service. Babe Ruth was smoking them over the plate for the Boston Red Sox and Just beginning to show his prowess as | & batter. Christy Mathewson, his palmy days | as a pitcher over, was managing the Cincinnati Reds, and hardly anybody had heard of a young fellow just out of Notre Dame named Knute Rockne. Eddie Rickenbacker was a famed flying ace on the Western front, but | Charles A. Lindbergh was only one | of thousands of schoolboys who en- | Joyed tinkering with the motors of | dilapidated “flivvers.” | Will Rogers, an Oklahoma cowboy, was doing a gum-chewing, lariate throwing act in the “Midnight Frolics,” but Fatty Arbuckle, with his pie-throwing stunts in the cinema, | was the popular comedian of the day. | Another movie hero, Douglas Fair- | banks, sr., demonstrated his patriotism | by selling Liberty bonds from a balus- trade in Wall street. Tomorrow—War and Now. et R e Boost Diamond Trade. Twenty-six diamond merchants of Belgium recently visited London to boost the selling of gems. STOP BURGLARS This amazing new protection positively stops burglars. Doors and windows are defi- nitely locked against them nor can they enter by shing 5 Not an alarm, but a complete home protection locks all door: . . . yet is does not interfere with th, operation. Costs so little you can’t afford to be without it any longer. 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