Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
FRANK A. VANDERBILT,
Machinist.

helpers. that man was blessed and not
cursed when the Mighty Voice in the
Garden of Eden said to Adam: In the
sweat of thy face shall thou eat
bread"
Secretary Lane by trade is a printer.
He had clerked in a little California
store for So a week, however, before a
country editor hired him to sweep the
office floor, wash the inky rollers. dis
tribute type and kick" a press while
he was resting
The Secretary of Labor in the cab
inet, Mr.. Wilson. was a coal digger.
He came to the United States, when
he was eight years of age. on money
borrowed by his father. At nine he
entered the mines to shovel coal into
little cars, while his father, too Grip
pied from rheumatism to stand up, sat
on the floor and did the underwriting.
we had plenty or little to eat" MIR.
Wilson said, according to the guam
tity of coal I could shovel during the
week"
The Presidents son-in-law and his
Secretary Of the Treasury, William 6.
McAdoo sold copies of the Macon Morn
ing Telegraph in the village of Milledge-
Vile, receiving, at first, three copies, on
which he made cents each After
he had earned 1924 he bought several
yards Of linen ''out of which my mother
made trousers for my younger brother
and myself" Later he was a farm la
borer. Still later he was tunnel digger
Another cabinet member, William G.
Redf1eld, Secretary of Commerce, was
ready for college, but a food at Albany
and the Chicago fire ruined his father
financially and he started out as a bread
Garner for himself.
Perhaps l was the gamer" he said.
1.-The boy who has never been compelled
to face the strain Of life is in great dan
ger Of breaking down when trials come"
The postmaster at Pittsfeld, Mass.
hired him as a clerk MY duties be-
gam" he said. "at $50 in the morning
and did not end until $50 at night. I
slept in the office to answer nocturnal
calls and to warn of burglars If any
came around"
All the members of the present cab
met. except Mr.. Burleson, Postmaster
General, and Mr.. Lansing, Secretary Of
State, toiled at manual labor In their
youth. Mr.. Bryan, going back to de-
parted character, thought out his hrst
political speech while cutting timothy
with moving machine. Mr.. Daniels
mother was milliner and he learned the
printers trade in his childhood He was
an editor at an age when the ORDINARY
boy is but half way through the gram
mar school.
Congress is filled with men whose
hands were once stiff. sore and callous
from hard work Also with men who,
in the long ago, were distressingly poor
Elihu Root was penniless and hungry at
times while studying law in New York.
Champ Clark. Speaker of the House, at
the age of ten went to live with John
Call, an agricultur!st who could neither
read nor write. The boys mother was
dead and his father, dentist, Travelled
from farm to farm and village to village
on horseback.
II paid for my board" Speaker Clark
said, "by feeding live stock and cutting
wood Part of my duty, morning and
evening. was to give hay and corn to
thirty mules and blue 1ackass l
abandoned farming, however, at the age
of fourteen and went to clerk in cross
roads store at IS month
Next December Joseph c. Cannon will
return to Congress. He, too, clerked in a
country store Clerking in a country store
is manual labor. There is nothing intel
lectual in the lifting Of salt and lime by
the barrel into the wagons of farmers
Young Cannon's wages were about 81
week At the end of five years, when he
left mercantile pursuits. he was getting
IT sold everything" he said, from
quart of tar to skein of silk. and was
noted far and wide for my craftsmanship
even if 1 say so myself.
Among the senators now serving, James
Reed, the Missouri orator. drove a
team to harrow at seven years of age
William Alden Smith of Michigan also
an orator, and the owner of the Grand
RAPIDS Herald. left school when he was
fourteen. His father was i'll and there
were younger children at home.
The SIS a month he was paid as
messenger boy by telegraph company
was not enough for the support of the
family, so he sold newspapers early in
the morning and peddled popcorn, which
he popped himself. in stores and offices
the rest Of the day. Some months" he
confessed with pride, Il made as much as
SIS"
And dinainutivs Robert Marion La Fol-