Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-21
HlundniSmS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU Puy

GAM LUNSFORD was 'boot" ut Parts
- Island. which means that he was a
marine corps recruit. He went ''around the
loop with Edwin DENLY, now secretary Of
the navy. "'
What kind of boot was Dcnby?" I
asked Sam.
He was a hard guy" was the reply
He never asked for the easy end Of H.
The men all liked him
Did you know that he had been n con.
gressman?'
no questions. We used to auction him Of
though. to see who would go on leave with
him. lie always had money and II was
awful easy TO borrow from him.
Dr., W. J. McGee, profound government
scientist, who died a few years ago could
use his left hand as we'll as his right, and
his right as well as his left.
' He revealed q peculiar thing about those
who are ambidextrous. They never dream
he said He had never had a dream in all
his life. None Of his ambidextrous friends
ever dreamed. Dreaming comes from the
fact that one part of the brain is awake
while the other part is asleep. The ambi
dextrous brain works as q whole and knows
no twilight zone in which dreams come
When Tasker Lowndcs Oddie, Of Nevad,
came down to Washington to swear to do
his duty as United States senator he had
something of a feeling Of returning to his
native heath. This was due, in the first
place, TO the .fact that over in the Navy
Department hangs the picture Of Benjamin
Stoddart, Its first secretary, Of whom the
man from Nevada is direct descendant,
and from the fact that Benjamin Tasker.
another ancestor, used to preside as chief
executive of Maryland at Annapolis, not far
away; and that the name Of William rront
yet another progenitor, appears in the rec
ords Of thousands of properties in Wash
ipgton. for he used to own all the land
away to the east OF the Capitol Building
W. J.. Bruckart, who writes the Assc,
cated Press dispatches about the doinGs OF
the House of Representatives that every
body reads in his newspaper, the other day
did a good deed.
He was going home on the street car
and q small boy next to him was telling
friend that he had lost his job as page in
Congress because the member whose patron
age he was had failed of reelection. i
was pretty hard because he was the sole
| support Of his mother and their little nat
The boy got off at the same corner as the
| newspaperman. He went into the same
apartment house. Bruckart observed the
number on the door he entered. He called
| up the manager of the building and con
| frmed the boys story. ~
Next morning he went to see Mr Mon
| dell, the majority floor leader, and told DIS
story. This gentleman was once an orphan
| boy without even mother. Inc Hab'
| wand was waved that restored tne PGse "
| his place, and the kettle huns happily on
the little gas stove when ne goes ho'mv
| mother in the evening, but TO them the man
or In which the miracle was worked
| still q mystery.
Senator Thomas Hehin, OF Alabama, NE
never declined an invitation to SPEAK iSSSeo
| IN him by a group Of his constituents ~
matter how isolated the community from
which the call may come, no matteF nom
| primitive the means of transporlhtlon' u"
matter how wet or dry, hot or cola, W,
weather, the senator accepts ana sets out '"
the journey. r.. :, uo,,
nunctual man. But regardless OF the honI'
| dpspite the fact an audience has Deeh e'
sembled for hours, Mr.. Helm repairs 10
| hotel. to the home Of friend to the NlIas' %
barber shop. There he carefully palmeSw paw
carefully shaves, carefully arrays "''TS',
from the skin out in spotless linen II
Is summer time he is likely 10 appear IN
snow white suit, cleaning shirt front ,Durs %Iu
hriInmcd hnt. Even in winter he "'ni' "
white, s,arched vests. He arrives s.'
somewhat fiorid. pcrspiring freely, but J"
maculatc. ,,. ia
And his country constituents lik" It. ~
long served in the House from thai 'ou
grcssionnl district which the Census bureau
Set down as the most illiterate n the h,!S" sS
States. He admits it, but explains the "S
ures as being due tu the prepondcrnh'c W
co!orcd population. But the voters s'JG
him credit for showing them the c"GIlrSS NJ
| ring meet them as Il DTlu'RI"'''
might make ready for the coming ol u wv
who is to wear the flowing veil OF Nis.D
white. They like Il. They express theF az
! probation in votes