Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-20
HUMANISMS
By Willian, Atherton Du Puy

CAPTAIN WALTER !. LAWSON, OF
~ the United States Army, was in com
mand Of flight Of tifty-two nirplanes
which. some weeks ago. went fifty miles OUT
In the Atlantic Ocean and dropped bombs
on some captured German warships. the
same being done for experimental purposes
Fifty miles is a goodly distance from
any place where fcr might land and ask
for a glass of buttermilk; and they scared
around Bit burned up much gasoline ana
watched darkness settle down over the worl
Finally they strung out and started for
home.
After an hours flying there peeped over
the horizon the distant twinkle Of light
house on Cape Hatterns. Captain Lawson's
pilot leaned over. touched him on the shoul-
der, pointed to the light.
North America" he said.
When the campaign was over down in
Tennessee last fall the Republicans celebrated
their first victory since the Civil War with
an elaborate dinner to Claudius Huston.
now Assistant Secretary Of Commerce up in
Washington. who had handled the campaign.
1t was, Of course, an ll-Republican af-
fair.
But a little while later the Democrats
| came around to Mr.. Huston signifed their
| desire to get their feet under the table for
O few eats likewise. and asked if he would
not allow them to make him their guest of
honor also.
He assented and love feast resulted. all
because, the whole campaign had been a
| clean, high -clnss affair satisfactory in it's
main features even to the losers.
Representative A. u. Kline, of New York
is a big, genial, elderly gentleman who likes
to gossip about the twenty years he spent
In groceries on lower Broadway and the
twenty additional years that he devoted to
Republican politics, with the Borough Of
| Kings as base.
He wanted to get It in his record, he said.
| that he had served as Mayor of the greatest
got himself chosen vice chairman Of the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment.
| John Purroy Mitchell, afterward Mayor,
was president of that board, and Judge Gay
nor was then Mayor. Kline was thus third
| in succession.
At the first meeting of the board Mr..
Mitchell was sick and Kline presided Not
much time had passed when both his supe :
J riors were III and he was acting Mayor.
Then, in 1913. Judge Gaynor died and
Kline filed his post for four months.
| All Of which is an argument for getting
ones self in line.
Wallace Humphrey White, Jr., that
| sprightly young attorney from way down
| East, VINO represents Lewiston, NC, IN
| Congress, used to hang around the Capitol
three decades ago. for he was a grandson
of Senator Frye, long n power in the Senate
| Mr.. White recalls how the keeper of the
Senate restaurant, man from Maine
named Page, used to favor him with pie
and one day when he devoured half Of q
big one of the custard variety and came
near dying.
Mr. White reappeared at the Capitol AZ.
teen years later as secretary to the Vice
President in McKinlcy's time. Then ther,
was another decade and half and he re
appeared as Representatives
He IL n young man with the sort of minC
that follows an idea right along, so he cam
help thinking that he will be In the Senate
in another fifteen years.
Some one called up the du Pont Office il
several kegs of dynamite be hurried to
station on the Hudson near West Point.
"What was the Nance 'Why, 1t wa
Rebinoff, Max Rebinof.''
Whercup0n the du Pont Office outfit blew u,
with a loud noise, for it was careful abou
supplying materials to mon with HHmcs which
sounded like long whiskcrs and incendiar,
plots. 1t wou,i not ship the dynamite
SO Mr.. Rebinof had to go down to VII
mington and explain himself or he got n,
powder.
Hc was very we'll known up Boston way
where he had developed the Boston Nationa
Opera COmnany. lie knew Woodrow vii
son and everybody for he had been at Pari
and was economic adviser to formative Es
York because he had lots Of money and ha
recently purchased a large estate up tn
Hudson. He had sent landscape gardene