Evening star., 1923-11-11
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

call that before the coming of the
palefaces this same site was used
for the national council Of all the
tribes OF the then powerful Aigon-
quins. The sub-tribe, the Powhatans,
held sway here when Capt. John
Smith explored this region to the
Great Falls of the Potomac.
There are in Congress now at least
TWO distinguished descendants of the
red men--Senator Robert L. Owen OF
Oklahoma. whose mother was of the
Cherokee nation, and Representative
Charles ID. Carter, also of Oklahoma
VINO was born in the Choctaw nation.
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There Is a better side" to many
public officials that people generally
"wot not Of" but which is shown un-
obtrusfyely to those who come within
the sphere of their influence in Wash
ington. Take William s. Culbertson
OF Kansas vice chairman Of the Unit
ed States Tariff Commission, who has
been actively interested in Sunday
school teaching for more than twen-
ty-five years, starting when he was
youngster in college.
Mr.. Culbertson for the last ten years
has been conducting popular Bible
study class In the fashionable Pres
byterian Church Of the Covenant on
Connecticut avenue, where people of
all denominations go to hear the
noted preacher, DR.. Charles Wood.
He has aroused interest by an un-
usual approach to the subject, a sym
pathetic study Of the Bible as prod
uct of religious experience and the
treasury of spiritual and social
truths. 1t is a mixed class of some
thirty men and women. They discuss
problems that are product of mod
ern society in relation to the Bible
such as discoveries in archaeology, and
make critical analysis of the Bible.
This Is always done in a sympathetic
way, with the spiritual viewpoint al
ways accentuated.
Mr.. Culbertson has found an ap-
palling Ignorance of the real meaning
of the Bible among men and women
of today and has devoted himself to
translating the words of spiritual
life into easily understandable Ian
guage of today. While he does not
propose to have his Bible class either
social club or prayer meeting, it
has attracted some of the most promi-
nent men in the Capital city-such as
DR.. Harry II. Donnelly. a professor at
George Washington University Medi-
cal School, who is noted child spe-
cialist; DR.. Wilson Compton, secretary
of the National Lumbermen's Asso-
citation, who is president of the class,
and Charles Nesbit prominent in civic
ma tiers in the National Capital. Such
women as Mrs. Grace Angus. daugh-
ter of Representative S. A. Kendall
of Pennsylvania. who is president of
several railway and lumber corpora
tions, besides being a coal operator.
Treasure troyes are cached and dis
covered these days and even here in
the most beautiful city in the world.
as well as in the outlands and the
no-man's-lands of yesteryears.. Lieut..
Richard X. Cook, who on February l
service as watchman in the Depart
ment of Agriculture grounds, where
he is known as 1.-The tourist traffic
cop" because he guides so many on
their way to the Washington Monu
ment, the Smithsonian buildings, the
White House. etc., is witness of this
fact During all these years-three
score-he has not missed day or
been tardy once at work. He was
equally prompt and regular about
wife," who often assured him that she
would take good care of it for him.
The wife died some sixteen months
ago and there was no handbook or
liberty bonds to be found, although
Lieut. Cook and his family hunted
high and low and though he employed
experts to hunt in every bank in
Washington and suburbs for the ac-
count.
Lieut.. Cook broke up housekeeping.
but refused to sell his household eff
fects, distributing among his children
whatever they cared to take. He gave
mp all hopes of ever enjoying the ac-
cumulated pension funds. During the
process Of housecleaning last week
one Of his daughters was giving Wig
orous attention to an old washstand
when sudden jar released a false
bottom and out tumbled S60-Sone
She turned 1t over promptly to Pop"
and he rewarded her with present
of a new chamber suite.
NJ B. Harlow. fnancier and busi-
ness man of Washington and Alex
andria-the city surveyed by George
washington-who conceived the idea
of a monumental highway outrival-
ing Westminster Abbey or the Ap-
plan way from the city of Washing
ton to the tomb of Washington, at
Mount Vernon, in 1886, and who has
been pushing the project ever since,
was city treasurer of Alexandria
when twenty-four years old and held
the Job for twenty-fouS years. He
never tasted liquor nor tobacco in
any form.
"Dirt farmer has been the cue to
some good stories about the Capital.
but Secretary Wallace has given the
word new meaning. He sent a spe-
cialist-Dr. Curtis F. Marbut Of the
United States Department of Agri-
the old world to study the soil In
various countries which has been
cultivated for some 1000 years with
out fertilization or the benefit of
live stock farming. DR.. Marbut
brought back samples of soil from
all over Europe, which is being
studied to learn how it has been pos
the beginning Of the Christian era.
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When the next Congress gets down
to a discussion of proposed changes
in the immigration law representa-
tive John L. Cable of Ohio. who has
specialized on this question and who
has been devoting the recess from
Congress to making personal inves-
tigations, will tell some interesting
things that came under his observa-
tion. The Gable act gives independent
citizenship to women. He tells of
one case where a soldier boy had
married a girl in Italy. He came in,
as he was citizen, and she was
counted in the Italian quota and sent
back. The converse OF this shortly
appeared when a citizen of Germany,
who resided in this country. came in
with his wife. who was born in Cali
foruia Representative Cable asked