The National tribune., 1910-06-09


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Attorney of the Department of Justice.
Mr. McBlair was appointed TO the De-
partment of Justice under the Roose-
lt-Bonaparte regime. While there he
and Miss Key We're married. he belieV-
ing that his position was permanent.
Former President Roosevelt took deep
interest in them. and promoted Mr.. Nc
Blair in order that the match might
take place. Then he was dismissed.
Now Mr.. McRlair is making a strenuous
effort to be taken back He shows let
ters from Secretary Bonaparte COM
mending him for his services, and Mr..
McBlair says that he has every reason
to believe that his services were salts
factory. and yet he was turned out of
the Government last Fall with the
statement that his services were not
satisfactory. The McBlairs are now re-
duced to straits, it is said. and Mrs.
McBlair is making every effort to have
President Taft receive her. that she
may lay her husbands case before him.
If Mr.. Mcdonald McBlair is as bril-
liant and as efficient an attorney as he
would lead people to believe from his
statement of the work that he did in
the Department of Justice, he certainly
ought to be able to do better than get
States Government. That is one of the
very serious reasons why it is unwise
for men and women who really want to
be anything to ever take a position un-
der the Government. After a few years
time it is found so easy to just slide
along. drawing a salary of so much per
every two weeks, knowing that one can
spend up to that particular last penny
with the actual knowledge that just so
ma 1N- Inl1 In will q
forthcoming about Is days later. It
has often been said that Government
service is sure death to ambition and
aspiration, and there are enough in
stances of this in Washington to almost
prove it true. 1t cannot be said, either.
that young men and young women in
their earlier years amount to very much
in the Government service. They are
always reaching out for more money.
easier w3rk and greater advantages.
Members Of Congress say that they
have a great deal more trouble with
those who are in the service than those
who are trying to get in. because those
who are in are not satisfied with 'eondi-
tions and are always importuning their
members of Congress to better them.
For those who are aging rapidly Gov
ernment service is almost ideal. Most
of the older men and women, those who
have been in Government employ from
15 to 40 years, can do their work with
their eyes shut and do it perfectly. 1t
has become just as much part of their
lives as eating and sleeping, and it is
an acknowledged fact in those Depart
ments where there are both very young
and very old clerks the old clerks are
depended upon for their accuracy Of
work and to keep the younger clerks
straight.
President Taft has consented to lay
the cornerstone of the new Army and
Navy Y. NJ. c. A. Building in Newport,
II. l., some time next September. Some
one. whose name has never been given,
has contributed 100000 for this new
building.
You would be astonished to know
how many baseball fans there are in
the House, and you would be more than
to know how easy it is for
those high-browed statesmen to lay
aside the worries of their Office for the
purpose of entertaining men who have
skill of muscle rather than activity Of
brain. Representative DENLY, of Mich
igan. entertained Hughey Jennings and
his band of Tigers at luncheon at the
House restaurant a few days ago. Mr..
DENLY performed the same trick last
year, and enjoyed it to such an extent
that he repeated it this year. The
whole bunch of bowling Tigers were
there, and to meet them Mr.. DENLY
had invited Representatives Townsend.
Webb. Gaines and Hobson. When the
boys are in uniform on the ball field
they look their part. but seated at the
table with their distinguished host and
invited guests, they were as docile as
lambs. Even Wee-ah Hughey, seated
on the right of the host, looked like a
student for the ministry. and the hero,
''Ty' Cobb, sandwiched between Repre-
sentatives Gaines and Hobson, of Mer-
rimac fame, bIushed like village maid
en-. The members OF the team enjoyed
the repast and listened with rapt at
tention to Mr.. Hobson, who kept up a
steady stream of talk
young America" is still rampant in
the West. Washington has been enter
tanning two specimens of very young
America for the last week. They are
Lewis and Temple Abernathy, the two
little sons of United States Marshal A.
Abernathy, of Oklahoma. One of them
is six and the other nine years OF age.
They made the trip from their home in
Oklahoma to Washington on horseback,
one of them riding a 17-year-old horse
and the other a nine-year-o horse
They are two sturdy youngsters, wear
ing long trousers, and look like little
old men. They are at the Raleigh, one
of the SWEETEST hotels of the city, and
ordered everything on the bill of fare
of that expensive hostelry, and acted
very much as you would expect young
Americans Of their character and dis
position to act. The first break was a
pillow fight between the two young
sters about 6 o'clock in the morning
and If you know anything about sleepy
old Washington about that time in the
morning you can easily imagine tina,
the bowling and screeching Of two un-
tanned youngsters as it hurtled thru the
halls of that otherwise graveyardlike
hotel stirred up an awful confusion
and things were doing so far as mes.
sengers. porters and chambermaids
were concerned. As soon as the occu.
found out. however, that 1t was the two
Abernathy kids who were making
things lively they rolled over and went
to sleep again. The two youngsters re.
sented the excitement that they caused
and also resented the attempted famil
iarity of the men and women who came
about them, and very quickly told then
to get out Of the way" They called
on President Taft, who treated then
beautifully. They went Sightseeing IL
the big touring cars, visited the Capito.
the monument and other points of in
terest, all by themselves. They are o,
their way 10 New York, where thei,
father and former President Roosevelt
will arrive about the middle of June
The kids are devoted to Mr.. Roosevelt
who was a guest in their home Will.
he was President, and their father wal
Rough Rider with Roosevelt. They
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