The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-12-04
1900" WASHER co.,
se9 T. STATE ST. EINt:JIaNrDN. \. y.

Representative Calderhead. of Kansas.
who comes back with the largest Repubii-
can majority ever given in his district. and
the largest proportionate majority in the
State, is very proud of the fact that Kan
sas is once more clothed and in her right
mind, as he puts it. Only four Counties
in Kansas went Democratic this year.
Ten years ago. only about that many
Counties went Republican.
Mr. James Breck Perkins. Of Rochester.
IN. Y, who represents the 31st Congress
District, is coming back loaded for bar.
and the first thing anybody knows he and
the gentleman from New York. Mr.. Serene
Payne. Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, will lock horns. Mr.. Perkins
is an outspoken Tariff Revisionist. He
has two bills ready to back up his con-
victions. He wants the duty removed
from coal and meat products. and from
hides. rough lumber, clapboards, and
shingles. He says if he had the running
of Congress he would have the tax on coal
and meat removed within a week after
Congress meets. But Mr.. Payne, of New
York, will have the last guess.
Miss Estelle Reel, Superintendent of In
dian Schools. has just submitted her re-
port of the result of the last years work,
and the tone of the report is one of great
satisfaction over what has been accom-
plished She notes that while the younger
generation is being educated along domes-
tic. agricultural and other industrial lines.
with evident uplifting of the race in con
sequence the older Indians. even though
not in direct touch with the educational
institutions. are giving up their blankets
The general condition of the race, Miss
Reel asserts, is greatly improved
James X =. Hall, Representative
from the 2Sth District of Pennsylvania
has rendered his resignation to Speaker
Henderson. Mr.. Hall is a Democrat. and
when the State was redistricted he was
practically counted out" for the re-
charted district was made strongly Repub-
lican, and seeing the handwriting on the
wall he declined denomination to Con-
gress. but accepted a nomination as State
Senator and was elected. His salary as i
State officer will begin Dec. l.
To distribute 39,00O,000 packages Of
seed is the little task before the Agricul-
tural Department this Winter. The seeds
Those for the far Northern States will go
out last. The seeds are weighed, sacked,
counted and delivered by machinery, with
the assistance Of a few workmen. Former
ly small army of women did the work.
$50 We into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature, was the com
,iand which Christ gave to his disciples.
While the gospel of love was the para
mount idea, it carried with it the gospel of
right living in every way, and presaged
the dawn of a new civilization. So it is
with the Flag. 1t represents American in
situations. and wherever it flies better
civilization is taught, and the best Gov.
eminent on earth is typiied. On Thanks
giving Day, the American Flag carried
one of our earliest and grandest American
institutions right into the heart of four of
the great Nations of the earth.
In London, nearly 800 American citizens
joined ambassador and Mrs. Choate in a
great Thanksgiving dinner at the Hotel
Society in London. With them met many
of the high Government officials of Eng
land and several members of the nobility
Only American ideas were presented in the
speeches, and over and above all iouted
the Stars and Stripes. The American
ideas were applauded to the echo. In
Paris. special Thanksgiving services were
held in the churches much frequented by
Americans-One of the churches is known
as The American Church"-and dinner
was given by the American colony. in
Rome the American Flag fOated above
most of the houses in which Americans
live, and splendid dinner was given in
honor of the day by Mr.. McNutt, the high
est American layman at the Vatican. The
guests were Americans and members of
the nobility. In Berlin retiring Embas sa.
dor White presided at Thanksgiving din
ner Of 300 Americans with many foreign
guests. The t0asts We're American and
the Flags that decorated the banquet hail
were American. In Vienna, Charge DAT
flares Hale and Mrs. Hale gave a great
into all the world and preach the gospel
of good Government to all people.
AK ready for the women clerks in his big
bureau who marry and play the sneak, by
concealing the fact, continuing to work
and draw q salary under their maiden
names. All such clerks as disobey the
| ruling will be fred--if their duplicity is
discovered. Unfortunately, in very many
instances il is not desirable to discover
that the rule has been evaded, and the
woman clerk goes right OH being missed"
when everybody knows she is MRS."
| aud very often her new husband will be
drawing a big salary in another depart
ment. There are instances where as
many as five members of one family are
drawing as many salaries in Government
employ. Civil Service. as it is admins
tered, is jewel; it is. indeed.