Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08
Capital Sidelights


ket on work and Yin" advice to
young men. Our Uncle Samuel ia
preaching the same lesson constantly
to the boys Of this country-that they
can set anything they want IL they
are willing to work for 1t and 60
after II hard enough and persistently.
Let's call Representative James w.
Mead OF Buffalo as a connrmatory
illustration. He says:
While a Capitol policeman, guard
ing the House ofIics building from
midnight to 8 am, decided wanted
to be member Of Congress 1 quit
my job. returned to Buffalo, was
elected committeeman, supervisor, as
semblyman and now to Congress. I
had made up my mind to be in Con-
gress in ten years and beat that time
limit by two years"
"Jim's" father was a section hand
for the Lackawanna railroad at
Mount Morris. where Jim was born,
and later moved to Buffalo. At the
age of twelve Jim started to work
for his dad. carrying water to the
section hands. AS he grew older he
worked as a lamplighter, section
hand, shopman and finally became a
switchman on the Erie railroad at
East Buffalo. n. " .,.@
Representative Charles Brand of
Crbana, Ohio, was sitting in a Wash
ington hotel lobby with some Of his
colleagues when a friend from back
home" appeared. After a bit he left
this friend with his colleagues while
he ran up to his room. Was that
fellow you Introduced US to friend
of yours?" one Of his colleagues
asked Brand said yes.
Why, he told US he knew you
when you were a peddler:'' another
calculated.
-, Brand had to smile. because the
peddling strawberries from house to
house when he was a youngster, MAX
ing enough In this way to pay his
way through college.
uo And 81 Brand ,sss . has been "peddler"
got into the manufacturing business
and peddied merchandise all over the
United States for fifteen years.
through farming operations he has
oNSh ihoii CStlt mix from
house to house in Columbus for a
number OF years.
Recently he has been peddling
and put some Of these ideas across.
farmers collectively selling their
products. which had been a peniten-
tiary offense before that. Then the
Brand bread law made short-weight
bread Illegal In the state Of Ohio,
10,
been getting two ounces more OF
bread for the same price.
Brand has been trying to show how
you can have a good road without
Is .girding his loins for fight to get
fair prices on lot Of things We all
must have. I'm more interested in
that than ] am in joining the bank
rupt nations of Europe and eventu-
ally going bankrupt ourselves" he
who is going to take his office right
to the doors of the people of his dis
trict. He has thought out a new kind
of service in politics. Representative
NJ. o. Mclaughlin of Nebraska says
he Is going to conduct his Office for a
period Of at least two weeks in each
Of the eleven county-seat cities of
his district fthe fourth Nebraska)
during the summer, with a view to
coming into contact with all COM
pensation and pension claims that
are pending, and more especially to
get In touch with the farmers, bust
ness men and the laborers and to
necessary In our present laws and
what new legislation they believe
will be advantageous to the country
in general.
! Every congressman receives al
kinds Of requests from his cons;itu
ents. Representative Charles Z. Full
! Ter Of Illinois, chairman Of the com.
mittee on invalid pensions, has just
| received one rather different from
| any previously received" he says
| This constituent advised him that he
| was an experienced hand in the poul-
| try business and took great interes,
in ali feathered fowls. He contem
/ plated going extensively into the
would Representative Fuller be sc
| kind as to send him a dozen wild
geese eggs for setting. Not know.
| Ing just how or where l could locate
1 q supply VI VIII geese eBsS, j "ds
reluctantly obliged to say that
| could not comply with this request,
said Representative Fuller.
What sort of fellow is this Kval.
who is to succeed Volstead?" many
are asking. rs he human?" Rev
| o. ]. Kvale is a member of the board
Of education Of the Norwegian Lu.
1 theran Church Of America. Just &c
! find out how human he is I asked him
to tell me about his dog or horse
about his first fight; how he made his
| first million; the first time he was
arrested or about his first girl. Tt
| this he replied: The dog you men.
| toned died long ago. The horse al.
most kicked me to death. L never
! had a fight worth chronicling Chi:
! bitter contest against Volstead not.
withstanding). I never was arrested
I never made a million. Ny first cir
is now my wife and the mother Of
my seven children. So there"
| Many newspaper men come to Con.
gress. but few Of them continue t
| be working newspaper men while
| serving as members. That's how
| nepFeSeHtdti'c SSTeHuS Soie VI th'
| fifth Iowa district Is different" H,
was "in harness thirty years, al
they say, most of the time as edi
| toriaI writer, first on the Des Moline.
Register and later on the Cedar Rap
| ids Republican. He still continues
in the game" furnishing a weekl,
| letter for three daily papers In hi
| district. They say they eat" tn,
stuff. He sends them gossipy Items
but with serious matter included, 81
that the letters have educationa