Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-26
HumdniSniS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
UIS THIS post of senator" | asked Sam.

UTS THIS post of senator" " asked Sam.
L uel l.. Shortridge who recently ar.
rived in Washington from California TO take
his seat in Congress, your first public
service?"
''Oh. no. he replied. II was once JAM.
tor of the Fast Salem public school. IN
Salem. Ore. Judge Peter H. Darcy, now
on the beach in Salem. was my assistant
There was more or less complaint but We
took that as q part of the life OF janitors.
Not long ago Judge darcy came down N
San Francisco to attend a formal banquet
and we lived over again our initial expert.
enccs in serving the public
Another matter which discussed and
upon which we came to an agreement was
Rufus Choate's theory that a good lawyer
lives well and dies poor.
Thirty 6ve or forty years ago two cor
porals and n sergeant in the signal corps
took training in the same class at Fort
Myer across the river from Washington.
The sergeant was Will c. Barnes. who
aferward was awarded the much coveted
Congressional Medal for gallantry becau"
he ran the gantlet Of Indians who sur
rounded an army post in Arizona and brought
re-. endorsements. and who Is now CHIEF OF
the grazing division of the forest service Of
the Department of Agriculture.
One of the corpOrals was a, Iapone VINO
same department. The second corporal was
Willis J. Moore, for a decade cher OF tnt
Weather Bureau also presided over by the
Department of Agriculture.
MY father was scythe grinder IN
village in NcrmDnt,' w. w. Husband Tue
new commissioner Of immigration told me,
He had ap acre Of ground. house anu
COW. We never thought of ourselves a. poor
Is la ~
the average household today II would lee'
derivation in twenty four hours. But WIN
us there was always enough IN the ceI'sr,
mostly grown on the acre, 10 run no ~.
months with the assistance of the COW "
would be great thing II more taIhl''eS "a'
an acre, n house and cow
Wilbur j. Carr. director of the conSula,
service at the State Department, Is one VI
those quiet men on the inside VINO u ~.
spousible for the smooth operation oi 'I.s
great government agency when Keeps '"'
United States happy with her SISTER hu'"nS
A clerk or lesser official, he says re-
mains unknown, but may BE- the center W
events as important as those that hapPoD
on q battlefield of the world, some sncn J."
diyidual, for instance. studies, digeStS' pLe
mares the papers on any such controVerS
ns that which recently arose over 'ao''S
or tho Panama Costa Rica boundary
The nav is very modest. These men uI
rarely known for what they do, froul"I'om. ,o,.
seldom come. But some OF these men .,, m",
the satisfaction of knowing IN theF H'%
that they have Influenced the cours" OF I'm IN
tions and the knowledge Is sweet 10 '''"
When the Senate organized, immedieleN
after March l. for the purpose OF c0hn,,nn c0,hnn,
ing presidential appointments, prln."'ms ous
those to cabinet posts, i conhrmed oSH msI wv"
man as a bureau chief That man was ,o'UrNd "nd
T.. Lester Jones, as chief OF the coast "H' wv
geodetic survey. 4 record was broken lm
his confirmation for II was Just fort! ~ ~,
minutes from the time his appointment w., w.
the White House until it was apProNeu "
the Senate. .hs,
The strange part about 1t was M, ,H",
Colonel Jones was holdover from the ",ad
son administration; ne was oh,of Of thi,
early in that administration as chlel oI ~"
highly technical bureau. He was no. "
scientist. When Mr.. Hughes was campa'sndi
ing for the presidency. four years ago, "m'
was attacking the Democrats for their sR
pointments. r. Lester Jones was eSpe''a"
singled out and denounced. ,bo,
Al Of which would seem TO indlcat" ,HS, nS0
this man Jones must have qualities hlddsn
within him that are more unusual '"'"
his name,
A visitor to Washington sat on stree,
car and told his ncighhor thal ne N"' =, :
constituent of Guy Edgar Campbell. VI
Pennsylvania, the only Democrat III 'o"'
gress from that great state, ,.nl
That's nothing" intcrjcctcd the darn
man next to him. ~ am Congressman
Wurzbach, of Texas, the only R"puhI'rahnn
that state has sent to Congress since ''
civil War"
May | say" timidy interjectrd y"ap.
lady next TO the stranger, that an 'D'
daughter of Representatiye Campbell.