Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05

%ALKING to one another. il no
outsider is present, certain
male residents of Lynchburg
still call him PLUCK" Glass.
They may even address him by that
name in letters which no one is sup
posed to read but himself.
Old citizens, they were born and
brought up on the banks of the James
river. In age, their average may be
sixty, or little over. More than
forty years ago they played base ball
together. "pluck" Glass was one Oh
their number.
At the Methodist Sunday school,
however, he was spoken or as carter.
as he is today In Washington and
elsewhere. The sobriquet was lnspi-
nationally conceived and extempora-
neously applied. A ball club from
contiguous town was walloping the
I.ynchburg nine. was hitting the Lynch
burg pitcher in a scandalous manner
and the Lynchburg outheid and IN
field, piling error on error, were foot
sore and dispirfted.
A home run precipitated the crisis.
A small man. below normal then and
below normal now. red-headed then
but gray haired at present. with fury
in his eyes, abandoned second base and
bore rapidly toward the bench.
you acn play ball." he shouted, but
I'll show you how to fight
Scoopingup bat from the ground,
he swung 1t in circles over his head
and charged on. The nine fromt the
contiguous town. along WIN their sun
stitutes, mascot and manager. arose
first to q standing posture and then
fled.
they jumped the fence runs the ms,
tory of the event, as it is yet recounted
in those quarters.
"That's what / call pluck" cried
Lynchburg rooter as he watched the
bold assault and ensuing skedaddline'
The word was taken UP and shouted III
chorus pluck" roared the admiring
I,ynchburg inhabitants. and that night
1t was repeated on the streets ana III
the barber shop
Its general currency ceased, natural
w, in the years that followed. New
generations had their heroes and titles
OF honor and endearment Among the
old boys. however, "Pluck' means cour-
age and comradeship and is spoken
and written with a sort of sanctity
Before proceeding further it shouid
be stated that the law creating the
twelve great federal reserve banks
was written, for most part. by Carter
Glass. then representative in Congress
from the sixth district of Virginia, now
Secretary of the Treasury. and the for
mer second baseman at Lynchburg.
The credit of authorship. however, has
been given to others--and accepted by
them in the humility and silence that
ordinarily are taken to be a reluctant
and modest Acknowledgement
But Carter Glass, chairman OF the
committee on banking and currency
in the House of Representatives, pre-
nared the bill, after accepting sug-
gestions that he believed to be sound
and workable and managed the pas
sage of the measure through the
lower branch of Congress. He has
never said that he wrote the bill and
never will take that distinction to
himself.
This sensitive man, who ridicules
'the perennial and ubiquitous dema-
Kogy Of certain class of politicians.
and smiles at 1.-The amusing rhetori-
cal exhibitions in behalf Of the PEG.
pie" and despises 1.-The dtstempered
clatter Of theatrical public men," and
humorously refers to "the mental ex-
haust Of q few members OF Congress-
and warns his countrymen mot to
lose your direction in any oral fog,"
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