The Washington times., 1921-04-07
HUM MANISMS
William Atherton Du Puy-

Secretary Edwin Denby OF the navy. is a fan
on the history of that branch OF the service and
never misses an opportunity to expatiate upon its
glories.
He was speaking at a Navy League dinner not
long ago and vividly described the events as they
occurred when in 1889, a hurricane caught three
OF our ships. Three German ships and one flying
the British flag, in the harbor at Apia, Samoa,
and sank them all except the Britisher, which
managed to get to sea
He told how the American ships were battered
to pieces on the rocks how the Vandalia sank
and her crews rode out the storm in the rig
ging which still protruded from the water
Three seats down the table from Mr.. Denby
sat Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant OF
marines. The Secretary of the Navy did not
know at the time that General Lejeune, then a
naval cadet, was Of the lads who hung on to
the rigging Of the Vandalia. through the dura-
ton OF the storm.
When William Atkeson, Of Missouri n brand
new Congressman, arrived in Washington
the close of the last session, he looked around
somewhat timorously, ill at ease among so many
strangers His eve fell Congressman Fred
erck William Dallinger OF Cambridge, Mass, and
he threaded his way to that gentleman and in
troduced himself
The two had a very obvious point in common.
a characteristic Of which not more than a half
dozen members in the Congress could boast They
both wore boards.
Mr.. Dallinger has been one Of tho most con-
sistent supporters of the theory that nature
would not have put whiskers a man II II had
not been intended that he should wear them. One
day ! asked him how he got the habit and this
is what he said:
He was but twenty-five years old when he
went to the Massachusetts, legislature, nearly
thirty years ago Even at that early day the
fight for woman suffrage had begun in the Bay
State. Dalinger opposed it, whereupon he
denounced by it's advocates and referred to de-
risively as a ~beardIess boy
This peeved the legislator and he determined
to refute this one charge at all costs He turn
Cd fn He ha Qho ad
off from that day to this.
When the Senate recently considering tho
emergency tariff for the relief of the farmer.
some OF the Democrats voted with the Republi-
cans and for that measure
Senator Harrison OF Mississippi chided them
and said that they were like the frsky calf which
sorely bothered the barefoot boy who was bring
ing the herd home at the approach of nightfall
This calf would break from the flock and at
tempt to take the back trail on all occasions.
Finally there appeared in the lane aged mule,
and he too was feeling his oats and demonstra-
ting his freedom from restraint He was cavort-
ing about and kicking up his heels.
The calf left the flock and off with this
strange playfeow. The country boy spoke to
him sorrowfully, even as he, Pat Harrison, was
speaking to the erring Democrats.
"The time will come" he said, when you will
want OF that food OF your kind to stay
your hunger and you will be the outside of
the lot in strange and unnatural company"
Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi who Is to-
OF Southern Democracy has gained much pres
tige in Celtic circles because OF a belief gpswins
out OF his name. that he 10 Irish.
As matter of fact the Senator'S given nams
IL Patton and he is the scion of one Of those
Southern families In whose veins today flows
purer English blood than 10 possessed by nine
out Of ten Of the residents Of the tight little
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