Evening star., 1922-03-26
CAPITAL SIDELIGHTS

! Mansfield of Texas was nursery la
borer, baggage man and freight
clerk. Dan A Suther land, territorial
delegate fro Alaska. was once d fish
monger in Salem, Mass. Representa-
tive Martin B. Madden of Illinoi9
started in as water boy in a stone
quarry. Representative Z Hart Fem
| of Connecticut is one of those VIII
| made good as newspaper reportef
and then came to Congress.
| Some of those who got accustomed
! to working for Uncle Sam in humble
capacities are Representatives Albert
B. Rossdays. New York, clerk in tn
New York post office; John J. GormaL
of Illinois, mail distributor in Chi
cago post office. after having peddle6
newspapers: John W. Langley Of
Kentucky, clerk in the pension hu-
reau and general land office; Benja-
| min L. Fairchild of New York, clerk
| in the patent office and bureau o. en-
! craving and printing; Representa-
/ tive Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan
| climbed to fame and fortune from be
! ing a lumberjack. Senator William
J. Harris of Georgia was an insuranc.
agent. Representative Alice NJ. Rob-
/; irson was government clerk. post
! master and proprietor of a lunch
! room. Representative William VI,
/ Morgan of Ohio ran a carriage ana
tool shop. Representative John NJ.
| Rose of Pennsylvania was an iron
/ worker. Representative Francis :
! Patterson, jr.. of New Jersey and Rep
II; AL,
were printers devils. Representative
Michael J. Hogan, New York, is in the
truck business. Representative Ed
| win D. Ricketts, of Ohio was a Goa
miner, while Representative George
! W. Edmonds is in the coal business
| Representative Joe Walsh of Massa
| chusetts, substitute speaker, was
. general laborer at one of the govern
ment's fish stations.
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| IATASSACHCSETT is certainly CIV
A'A ing Ohio a close run for the ina
/ portant positions under the present
| administration, and in celebration OF
| this a guest of honor" night is be
! ing arranged by the Massachusetts
Society of Washington. of which
! Frederick W. Dallinger is president
These honor guests include Calvin
Coolidge, Vice President: Representa-
! tive Frederick II. GilIett. Speaker of
! the House.; Oliver Wendell Holmes.
associate justice OF the Supreme
Court; Louis Dembitz Brandeis. as
! sociate justice of the Supreme Court
| John w. Weeks, Secretary OF War
| Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretar'
! of the Treasury; Charles S. Hamlif
member of the Federal Reserve Board
Joseph w Powell, president of the
Emergency Fleet Corporations; Her
| bert Putnam, librarian of Congress
/ Thomas c. Marvin. chairman of tha
[ United States Tariff Commission; Coz
iC. r. Forbes, director of the Veterans
| Bureau. and Frank w. Ballou. super
intendent of the public schools
DAvID s BARRY. sergeant-at
- arms of the United States Sena'r
| Is a proud product OF the pages bench
| and the press gallery, also he help,
very materially to bring the republi-
cans into control Of the nations busi
,. ness by his direction of publicitN
since 1908. He was a page in th"
! Michigan state legislature and thcn
! in the United States Senate on a2-
pointment of Senator Isaac p. Chris
! tiancy. He studied shorthand, was
amanuensis to several public men and
| clerk in the Treasury and Post Office
departments and the pension bureau
He began his newspaper career in
Washington in 1879 as correspondent
of the Detroit Post-Tribune, later
serving the Chicago Times, Detroit
Evening News. Detroit Evening Jour
nal, New York Sun, and he was
| Washington correspondent of the
| Providence Journal when elected ser
geant-at-arms.
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II1rARREN G. HARDING, besides
| w being President of the United
States. is also president eX-of'icio OF
| the Washington National Monument
Society, patron ex-officio of Cslumo,s
Institution for the Deaf, men,. ,f
the Smithsonian Institution, a com
missioner on the Memorial to Women
! Of the Civil War. chairman of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commits
sion and president Of the American
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