Evening star., 1923-08-05
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

since he was fourteen years Of age
and for thirty years has handled "the
leaden messengers of thought" in the
publication of newspapers in his dis
trlct. He named the paper which he
now publishes Pick and Shovel after
the two tools which did most TO help
develop that section.
One Of the seasonal bits from his
fluent pen is on:
MY WAY OF FISHING.
i've cut paw-paw fishing pole:
I've dug can of bait: ] have hook
and line and the day is fine-I won't
be home till late.
They may not bite, but twill be all
right: ] might not pull if they did,
for may lie lank on the mossy bank,
my face from the suns rays hid.
And some anglers may scorn this
way or mine, but they can do as they
wish. Id rather lie about on the
bank than lie about the fish"
Gen. Isaac X. Sherwood, who is
coming back to the next Congress as
Nestor of the House. being older than
Uncle Joe" Cannon was when he quit,
and who has the distinction of first
coming to Congress at the Identical
time that Uncle Joe" did, wants
some genius to give American litera-
ture great epic, linking Gettysburg
and Atlanta; Chickamauga and Frank
lin and Nashville and Appomattox
This he is prompted to hope for when
roasting of the heroic literature and
dramatic war poets which Ohio fur
nished to glorify the Union cause. He
mentions Thomas Buchanan Read,
70
most dramatic poem of the war;
Forsythe Wilson, w. u. Gallagher and
John James Piatt
Wilson gave a lurid description of
battle:
see the death.srip on the plain,
ne graphing monsters Of the main
The tens Of thousands that are slain:
see the champion sword strokes fash;
see them fall and hear them clash;
near the murderous cannon crash.
In "Redpath's History OF Universal
Literature" Gallagher is given nota-
pie mention for heroic verse. THE
Movers of Ohio" is one of the most
quoted of Piatts war songs OF deep
pathos and patriotism
Gen. Sherwood. in 1873, recommend
ed Piatt for important consular posi-
tion, and when President Grant
learned of the candidates lyrics, he
appointed him consul to Cork, Ire
lnad, without stopping to consult his
Secretary of State. Sherwood recalls.
Volsteads successor-Rev. o. ].
kvale of Benson, Minn.-has a name
that puzzles the country. Even his
constituents, unless they are OF Scan
dinavian descent, have difficulty in
articulating the XIV" combination
that is not infrequent in the Nor
wegian language. For practical pur-
IA s'l in
CALI will do. If you can add a
slight Scandinavian "v'' sound in
stead of the "w" the pronunciation
will be perfect.
Representative Will r. Wood Of In
diana, chairman of the republican
congressional committee, who is just
back from Alaska and now off again
TO Europe on the Leviathan to study
immigration at it's source, had an in
teresting time in the far north, where
he says he attended shooting matches
and base ball games that started at
midnight.
Representative Elliott w Sproul of
Illinois, veteran contractor, is rest
ing up in the solitudes. After return
ing from an inspection of Alaska with
d congressional committee. he be-
took himself TO the woods of northern
Wisconsin. where he writes that he is
eighteen miles from railroad, rest
ing a~little. fishing little. and fight
ing mosquitoes so there is some
grain of comfort for those who cannot
get off to the northern woods.
Few persons can enjoy their birth
day party as did Senator Arthur Cap
per OF Kansas by having 1865 chill
eighth anniversary. He hired big
park in Topeka and distributed some
1900 tickets for ice cream and CON
cessions." Four states were repre-
sented by the guests-Kansas, Okla
homa, Iowa and Illinois. For fifteen
years Senator Capper has been Civ
ing these birthday outings TO his
vided for crippled children. One lit
tie girl came from CoblenZ. Germany.
just in time to attend the picnic. her
daddy. who was an American dough-
boy. attended the Capper birthday
picnic fourteen years ago. The merry
go-round was kept working overtime
and registered $4,000 rides by Cap
per's little guests.
country pastor was one of the
great inspiring influences in the life
of Representative John D Clarke of
Fraser. n. Y. who is the most likely
candidate for whip" in the next
House This pastor encouraged young
Clarke to try to amount to some
thing" Hour after hour he coached
him in preparation for college, drilled
him for oratorical contests and was
always urging the necessity for
college education for young man
who wanted to get ahead. In this
inspirational work he was nobly as
sisted by an old aunt of Clarke's
who had. during the civil war. pro-
vided the living for the generation
of the Clarkes ahead Of him by TAX
ing in sewing while her brothers were
off to the front. His father was act
ing Capt. w. J. Clarke. and his uncle
was Capt. John Clarke
His Sunday school teacher gave him
job haying. and with less than $40
Young John D. started for Lafayette
College to work his way through. He
had received a telegram from steve
Stone, son of ex-Gov. Stone of Penn
sylvania now a supreme court judge.
saying: Scholarship and waitership
assured" This telegram resulted
from young John DIS prominence In
athletics He played for years on the
Lafayette College base ball keam,
was captain of the track team three
years. and held the Pennsylvania in
terscholastic record for many years
in the 440-yard run.
His first two years in college he
waited on table. the next two years
he ran a college boarding house and
was agent for the laundry that did
most of the college work. The col
lege students were extremely loyal,
he recalls. and everything else being
equal. would patronize the various
enterprises that Clarke and others
with more muscle than money were
engaged in to get through college.
In his junior year Clarke won first
prize in oratory and later the inter-
collegiate first prize by an oration
entitled ''The Investment Men Make in
Themselves Through Education" Aft