Evening star., 1921-02-21
WILLIAM TYLER PAGE.

Elliott Woods. superintendent of the
Capitol building and grounds, thirty
six years.
Joseph c. Rodgers, sergeant-at-
arms of the House, thirty-one years.
Bert W. Kennedy, doorkeeper, thir-
ty-one years.
John II. Hollingsworth, chief clerk,
twenty-nine years.
Frank W. Collier, postmaster. thir-
teen years.
In their appointment. the House for
the first time gave these positions to
old employees on account of efhclent
service-and they come from states
well scattered over the map-Page
from Maryland, Woods from Indiana,
Rodgers from Pennsylvania, Kennedy
from Michigan, Hollingsworth from
New York and Collier from Wiscon-
sin.
William Tyler Page is the first old
has usually been filled by former
member. Champ Clark accuses him
of having been born in the Capitol.
AS matter of fact, he came as
page in the clerks office in 1881, and
has been continuously in service in
many capacities ever since. He is
author of congressional handbook.
Elliott Woods first came under the
big dome as House employe in 1885.
Bert Kennedy came in the Fifty-f1rst
Congress as page, and now mas all
the pages under him.
"Joe" Rodgers came in at the same
time, and was at first on the Capitol
police force. and now one-half of the
Capitol police force is appointed by
him.
.Johnny" Hollingsworth came in the
Fifty-second Congress. also as a page.
He was a House clerk for more than
twenty years. and it was his work
that brought about the creation of
pair clerks. as the House increased
from 357 to 435 members. He is still
considered the expert on pairs.
Frank w. Collier came in as a page
and was later a messenger in the
House post Office. where now he is
postmaster. Recently the enlarged
honor OF saying he is the best post
master-for services rendered-of any
In the recollection of Congress.
have testified before the ways and
means committee seeking guidance
preliminary to tariff revision proba-
bly, no one proved more interesting
than did colored man-George w.
Carver of Tuskegee, Ala.-appearing
at the request of the United Peanut
Association. Mr.. Carver had a box
from which he brought forth all
sorts of commodities made from pea-
nuts as an object lesson for the
time and so could not take as many
things from his box as he promised
to later.
This crushed cake" he said, "has
many possibilities-for flours and
meals and breakfast foods. Then we
have the hulls ground into a meal
for furnishing tin plate. Next there
Is an interesting confection-peanuts
covered with chocolate. Here is a
breakfast food, combination of the
70
us-the peanut and the sweet po-
tato. If all the other vegetable food
stufs were destroyed perfectly
balanced ration with all the nutri-
ment in it could be made with the
sweet potato and the peanut. From
the sweet potato we get starches
and carbohydrates and from the pea
nut We. get all the muscle-building
properties"
Again, he showed peanut bar
with the binder made from sweet
potato sirup. He showed the pea
nut stock food. and peanut meal for
candies. doughnuts, gingerbread. etc.
He showed peanut hearts for feeding
pigeons, new peanut combination
powder for making ice cream, "far
ahead of any favoring yet found
for ice cream" he said. He showed
about thirty dyes made from the lit
tie skins that come off the peanuts:
and more than dozen kinds Of
breakfast foods. He told the COM
mittee that milk is being extracted
from peanuts. He showed punches
with orange, lemon and cherry He
showed evaporated milk and Worces-
tershire sauce, a bottle of curds to
be worked into fancy cheeses and
samples of salad oils
The sweet potato products now
number 107. The peanut products
are going to beat the sweet potato
by far" he said. Almost anything
the committee asked for he produced
from his magic box-even to a bottle
of ink, hair oil, varnish
This witness was a student at the
Iowa Agricultural College and for