Evening star., 1923-10-07
Capital Sidelights
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ssSC"sSu cASEoo pEtzc OF %So hot
the best poem Of sixteen lines against
rfofanity. The award was made to
the following poem. which was found
to be the work Of DR.. Maurice FRAN
cts Egan, then professor at thu CATH
ole University. and later minister to
Denmark, and now lying dangerously
III In New Jersey:
The power beyond the thunder clouds,
The power beyond the. tender blue,
The power that rules eaFth's surging
crowds,
Is Christ to me-a force to you.
Yet be 1t force impersonal.
Though Christ tho God knewft is,
1t IL the life within us all,
For We are Gods and wholly His.
You ere the slave Of unknowg power
Shall we within our little hour
frofans the source OF good. !for ili7
How like q fceiish child is he,
How like wretched fool an ],
IL. With vain words tRsultpgly,
/ We name the power OF earth and
Sss y.
Now. when arrangements are being
made to broadcast from the United
States Capitol President coolIdge's
hrst message to Congress, 1t is In
teresting to recall that Harold J.
Powell ESTABLISHED the worlds first
daily radio broadeasting station at
MsdfoFd Hillside. lass., In 1924. Ha
had been experimenting with wire
less from boyhood and as early as
1910 had breadcastsd music.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, who was
in command Of ths feet during the
world war, has just, put one over
on his most intimate friends in
Washington. He has been in the
city for nearly two weeks without
their getting wise" to this fact
During the last two years Admiral
Mayo has been in Portland, Ore, Iiv-
ing with his son, Maj, George Mayo.
AT the age of sixty-seyen, accom-
panied by his wife, he started last
July from Portland and metored
across the continent, q distance of
more than 5000 miles, In twenty
eight days, driving the entire dis
tance eimself. Coming by the north
srn reute. he stopped at his old home
in Burlington, VT. and tried out all
the good roads in the White noun
taips and throughout New England.
When Admiral Mayo started driving
couple. OF years ago he was very
conservative and eutspeken in his
that no autoist should ex-
ceed q speed of fifteen miles an hour.
While on the motor highways coming
across the continent Admiral Mayo
n N han IN
1t up" to forty-five miles an hour.
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When the state of Connecticut be-
came q great manufacturing plant
turning out war supplies for the gov
eminent during the world war 1t but
verified a mental forecast made some
thirty-six years previous by the new
senator from Nebraska. Ralph b.
Howell. Soon after graduation from
young Howell suffered a
slight hemoFrhage which forced him
to resign from the service after he
had secured orders for the Asiatic
station, and had planned to return
overland via Siberia.
His brother, then in college, had
an Idea for new cuff |
fastener. Senator Howell recalls |
that he put this idea into shape and
sold It for s2.5oo. However, to his |
ehagrin, his bfother re-
fused to Fatffr the sale, nor could |
his father be prevailed upon to COM !
pei him to do SO. The parties who
had offered to purchase then entered
into an arrangement to put this new
device on the market On a royalty
basis. Senator Howell says that he
was employed to visit Waterbury,
Conn.,, to arrange for its manufac-
ture. He gives his impression of
thtrty-six years ago as foliows:
bury prpved of great value to me, as
/ became cognizant OF the advantage
have in such cities over
established In communal
One thing impressed me particularly
and that was how each manufactur-
ing establishment in Waterbury was,
In a way, supplementary to every
other establishment. and that IL the
city were rooted over YOU would have
practically one manufacturing estah-
That the grandiioquent style of
MacauIay has not passed entirely
into the discard is shown by some
of the language lullabies that oc-
find their way into the |
Record. When Arizona
came into the Unisn. Henry +.
Ashqrst came iate the United States |
Senate, since which time he has, on
occasion, been referred to as a |
senatorial sentence soRgster."
Here is a sample of his best en-
deavor, when describing tho wonders
Of Arizona scenery. He said: IT
awoke early, just as the blue lance |
heads of dawn were shooting up from |
the eastern herison. saw the un-
numbered stars and their shining
trains reeede before lambent pillars |
Of fire that pierced the zenith, and
the moon, refplgent lamp of night,
curtain of day sttll farther lifted, |
and over heavens clear azure the
sun began to spread its golden
gleam." He described the 'Patnted |
DESERT" which with harm0nioxs con- !
ua sea OF Jasper, with a beach OF sui
phur, empurpled with celestial fire."
Then. moralizing. he resumed:
persons declare that
much pleasure and mental exhilara-
and accomplishment of |
liberty and civilization, but u seems |
to me that Of all earthly things cal
culRted to strike asrefective and Ina
aginative mind, nothing can compare |
to the Grand Canyon, which saw,
sixty. miles to the north. with Its
sapphire walls that seem to- probe |
the Fecumbent sky--the Grand Can |
yon, Whose formation carries the
mind back to prtmordial chaos. the |
sight of which causes the beholdeF |
to feel az IL he were 'treeaing the /
upper air and walking the milky |
way. and which brings a rapturous |
snehsnisd soul may knew.a