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thing to the chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means about a rev.
enue bill this session." continued Gar
ner.
To Kltchin's reply OF mo" Garner
suggested that II was not likely that
the need of a revenue bill would be
told to a newspaper before inforIna-
ton was conveyed to the man who
would prepare the bill. and KItchin re-
piled: II have known some admins
trations Of late to confer with news
paper men and tell them what ought
to be done long before any member Of
congress was told"
Washington authorities have learned
that the people of the country are
more interested In men who have
been at the front, who have seen
service, and who have earned dis
tinction In fighting the Germans, than
they are In anything else connected
with the war. Pershing's men who
have been at the front and returned
get more attention than any other
kind Of men. In or out of uniform. The
so-called 'Blue Devils" of the French
army received a great deal of atten-
ton, not only in Washington but else
where.
The Red Cross, which under its
present new management Is doing so
much effective work, has been quick
to realize the value of men who have
actually done things. Therefore the
Red Cross takes 200 wounded French,
British, Canadian, and Australian men
who have been at the front and makes
them leaders In the movement to raise
the necessary money to carry on the
Red Cross work.
1t all goes to show that the actual
participation In the war by United
States forces Is the one thing that has
aroused Intense interest. That was
shown when our navy first went over,
and II more information were given
out about what our navy is doing,
there would be more real interest
manifested among our people in the
great war; 1t all goes to show that the
war must be brought home to people
before they become vitality interested
In IL.
Sometimes Washington correspond
ents wonder what the leading lights
on the metropolitan papers think OF
themselves and their influence. Take
for instance the recent changes of COM
mittee assignments In the senate. Very
vigorous assaults were made on Sena-
tor Hitchcock of Nebraska on account
of his past record In relation to the
war In Europe, principally before the
United States entered the war. When
Senator Stone died and 1t was sug-
gested that Senator Hitchcock would
be made chairman Of the committee
on foreign relations, several prominent
papers broke out with vigorous de-
mands that Hitchcock should not be
the successor Of Stone.
Well, the time came to fill the vacan-
cy, and Senator HltchcOck's name was
proposed as chairman of the committee
on foreign relations, and he was elect
ed in the senate without dissenting
voice. The whole transaction was by
unanimous consent. Naturally the pa
pers that had been making these de-
mands could not have. been very much |
impressed with the influence they |
welded.
Debating the aircraft service be-
tween Washington and New York. Sem
ator Mcclellan of Tennessee decried
the idea of opposing anything be-
cause II was new or experimental. He |
then told a story about Cannes toy"
1t seems that man named Cannes,
captain Of the famous Chickasaw
Guards of Memphis, which was one
of the crack militia companies Of the
country. was O. sort Of an inventor and
many years ago. long before the Bell |
telephone came into existence, he
sought permission from the city coun-
ell for a license to string on the street |
wires over which people could talk to
one another. Finally some member Of
the council In ocular manner re-
marked: Lets license Cannes toy"
and the ordinance went through.
Cannes did not follow up his project
and did not seek to patent his tele-
phone idea. but years afterward In
law suit It developed that the only II
cense TO use wires for telephone pur.
poses in the city OF Memphis was that
In the grant to Cannes. for tele-
phone device long In advance Of the
actual Bell invention.
While the Red Cross Is conducting q
mighty drive to collect 500. 1000. 900 for
war work, Il is not abandoning usunl
peace-time methods Of raising money
for use m this country. Six hundred
million Of the Christmas seals that
are put on sale every year along IN
November have been ordered already.
This seems TO indicate that while the
organizations strongest efforts win be
toward the more important work
made necessary BY the war, there win
be no let-up In the campaigns against
tuberculosis and other peace-time eviIA