Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-04

forth with the freedom born OF friend
ship and affection The secretaries
are not forgotten and neither are the
telephone operatives. Speaker Clark
this year received his first Christmas
present early. Representative Lang
ley presented Mr.. Clark with & cane
mounted with a deer horn and silver
crest. Mr.. Langley recently went to
the Panama Canal Zone and there
secured the wood from which the cane
was made. 1t was a fine piece Of tim
Der which the French had left behind
them when the De Lesseps forces adj
mitted failure and left the isthmus
and the French canal project
In writing recently of newspaper
correspondents in Washington who
have gone into the government serv-
ice several names were omitted, but
first let n be spoken of who still ID
In the newspaper ranks and who APP
parently looks with no longing eye
for a government Job. although 1t is
probable that he has been or could
have been offered one many a time.
More Notable Correspondents.
William w. Price is the Washington
Stars White House representative.
Mr.. Price is a North Carolinian, but
he has lived at the capital for years
and for a decade If not longer he has
been found every day In the press
room of the White House. 1t is prob
able that Price knows as many public
men by sight as any other man in the
United States. The coming and GO
ing at the White House is constant
and the tide sets In January / and
ends December 81, to begin again ON
the morrow. Its source is from every
part of the country from coast to
coast and from Canada to the Gulf.
These men passing in procession
Price has seen and for the most part
knows. He is a court of last resort
on names and faces. and he remem-
bers perfectly what this man who has
come today was here for years ago
when he paid a visit to a former pres
ident.
Thomas r. Ship. who was for some
time what Is known in newspaper par
lance as a "star reporter" was con-
nected with the Indianapolis News
until he was induced to come to Wash
ington by former Senator Albert ].
Beverage. who wanted him for his
private secretary. Some time before
Mr.. Beveridge left office Clifford Pin
chot, who was then chief of the forest
service, asked Mr.. Ship to enter the
forest service, and SO he left his place
in the senator's Office to take service
under the tree saver" After Mr.. Pin
chot left the government employment
Mr.. Ship went with him as secretary
of the National Conservation associa-
ton, and now he has gone back to In
%dianapolis to be the executive secre-
tary Of the National Conservation
congress.
Major John M. Carson and Mrs.
Carson have Just celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary. Major
Carson is a veteran of the Civil val
and for years he was Washington cor
respondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger.
He was one of the first presidents of
the Gridiron club and was perhaps the
best known correspondent in Wash
ington fifteen years ago The govern
ment pressed him into its service
finally as editor Of the daily consular
reports, and last year 1t diverted Mr..
Carson's energies to the European
field, where 1t sent him to make stud
les of the commercial conditions.
Army officers Disagree.
Washington looks on the disagree
ment between General Leonard
Wood, chief of staff of the army,
and Representative Hay, chairman OF
the house committee on military at.
fairs, over the form of army reor-
ganization as really a disagreement
between army officers themselves as
to the form reorganization really
ought to take.
If the bill in the form in which
Representative Hay has drawn II
shall pass congress and be signed by
the president, which apparently is
not at all likely, Maj. Gen. Frederick
G. Ainsworth, the adjutant general OF
the United States. will be retired be-
fore long with the rank of lieutenant
general.
General Wood and General Aims
worth do not agree on a good many
matters connected with the military
profession. 1t is a curious coinci-
dence that both of these army officers
of high rank, one of them. General
Wood, the highest ranking officer on
the active list today, entered the
service as assistant surgeon connect
ed. OF course, with the medical de-
partment of the army. 1t is true.
therefore. that two doctors have risen
more rapidly in rank than any two
line officers who can be named. Some
one has quoted who shall decide
when doctors disagree?" and It prob
ably will be for the laymen OF con-
gress to settle the matter.
Representative Morris A. Sheppard
of Texas Is chairman Of the house
committee on public buildings and
grounds. Mr.. Sheppard and his com
mittee. 1t is believed. are favorable TO
legislation which will make an appro-
priatioD to erect In Washington a
building to cost $750.O00, in which a
be stored the archives Of the govern
ment. which now are scattered
through the buildings Of eight or ten
different departments. These archives
are of immense historical value apd
the American Historical association
has been urging congress for a long
time to provide for their care. their