Evening star., 1923-08-19
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

to attend the funeral of President
Harding after having witnessed the
swearing In of President Coolidge In
Vermont on the memorable night
when President Harding died. has
returned to Vermont to take up his
fight in the primary as a senatorial
candidate to succeed the late Sena-
tor Dillingham;.
Before leaving the Capital Repre-
sentative Dale filed with William Ty-
Ter Page, the clerk of the House, his
resignation as a member of the Six
ty-eighth Congress. effective last
Saturday night. The primary will be
held for both Offices on October g.
The special election called by the
governor will be held on November
s. to elect a senator and a repre-
sentative to fill the vacancy caused
by Mr.. Dale's resignation.
The departure of Representative
Dale creates vacancy on the i'm
portant committee on rules in the
House, also a vacancy in the second
position on the committee on bank
Ing and currency, and vacancy in
the chairmanship Of the committee
on expenditures in the Treasury De-
partment. which will be filled by the
committee on committees after the
next House organizes. Mr.. Dale was
also a member OF this latter COM
mittee. There will be keen compe-
tition for these places.
Notwithstanding his resignation.
Mr.. Dale continues as a member of
the joint committee to investigate
rural credits authorized by the rural
credits law passed near the close of
the Sixty-seventh Congress. He con-
tinues as a member of this committee
because the law creating 1t provided
that It's membership should be COM
posed of members Of the banking and
currency committees of the Senate
and House of the Sixty-seveDth Con-
gress.
Plymouth. where the parental
Gated, and where he took the oath Of
Office before his father. is in Repre-
sentative Dale's district. Mr.. Dale Is
proud of his Coolidge constituents
and Is very close friend of the Cool
idge family. He considers it a very
great privilege to have been present
at President Coolidge's "inaugura-
ton"
Representative Dale is known in
the House as an intense student of
hours of labor, like those of President
Coolidge, are long. being an early
riser and working far into the night.
This seems to be Vermont charac-
teristic.
During and after the world war
Mr.. Dale visited the battlefelds of
Europe. and his chief contribution
to literature as a result was a glow
ing tribute to the work of Cardinal
Mercier, who. when he visited this
country, was met by Representative
Dale in New York, who acted as his
personal escort
Representative Dale is a forceful
public speaker and his eulogy on
Admiral Dewey. another noted Yer
monter. delivered in the House, made
lasting impression as historic
oration. Representative Dale is an
acknowledged gentleman and in his
resignation the House loses one of
it's most valued members.
The joys OF tin-can touring and
personal acquaintance with the con-
dition of the roads in his district are
being experienced this summer by
Representative Robert G. Simmons of
Scootsbiuff. Sebr.. who has just COM
constituency in a Ford car. accom-
panied by his wife and two children.
camping out by the roadside as their
fancy dictated.
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During his college days Represent
ative Tom Connally was editor lin
chief of the Baylor Literary, the COL
lege monthly. In the same town,
tWaco, TexaS was located Add-Ran
University, later Texas Christian
University. In his editorial capacity
he became engaged in a controversy
with the editor Of the Add Ran Col
legian. After several vitriolic ex-
changes of satire and editorial
thrusts, he thought his antagonist
had been completely vanquished. In
those days he was a youth OF less
than nineteen years. and extremely
thin. His editorial adversary, be-
coming personal, referred to Tom as
"a gentleman for whom a double
barreled shotgun would make COM
Portable overalls." OF course his
friends and college mates had great
sport at his expense.
While in college Tom ConnalIy
also acquired the nickname, Talking
Tom" his initials being 7. T. Most
persons would conclude that he had
acquired this nickname by reason OF
frequent public speaking, but such
was not the case. He was a student
in Latin under Prof. James F. Greer
a man OF distinct personality and in
dividuality. Toms grades were not
what they should have been. He had
some cronies in the class and when
were in the habit of engaging In
social conversation with relation to
matters far from ancient Rome and
the language Of the Latins. The sly
old professor on one occasion, out OF
the corner of his eye, detected them
in earnest conversation, and turning
swiftly from a question which he had
propounded to another student
hurled an inquiry at Connally with
the remark, See IL you can answer
Tskns shsi nslkns Tsm To% rss connas
| from Baylor University at Waco tc
| the University Of Texas, at Austin
where he studied law. and then back
| to Marlin, Tex, where he lived and
practiced law. and then into the state
years.
Representative Connally is a vet.
| eran of two wars. In 1898. when the
| Spanish war began he was a student
In the senior class at the University
Of Texas. He quit in May. a month
| before the graduation date. in an en-.
| Riders at San Antonio, TEX. Ac.
| companied by college friend. he
went to San Antonio. personally me,
| after waiting several days they were
| finally given an opportunity to en-.
| list. Upon taking the physical exam
| ination, however, the doctor found
| that Connally's height and slender.
with his weight, and he was rejected
He was still suffering under the
handicap that "a shotgun would