Evening star., 1923-02-18
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

io~iicst Clerk. IN Ialtn1ul COmpuaHCo
with ban placed on embossed let
terheads and envelopes by the bureau
OF the budget and the permanent con-
ference on printing-an interdepart-
mental organization--the number en-
bossed by the government printing
ONCE for the various departments and
establishments of the government
dropped from 2.47s.soo in 1921 to s77,-
4o2 in 1922, a decrease of 1.602,398 for
the year. with saving Of more than
$4,000. ...
The cost of stationery embossed for
eats ens ,diepartments ana indepensdeanas Isn na
ana In 1922 1t was s6.050.72.
:, Ihe embossing of stationery al pub
| TIC expense for members Of Congress
| ana committees of Congress was dis
| continued nine years ago by order OF
the joint committee on printing
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Political bees are buzzing-and that
reminds Representative Stephen G..
Porter OF Pennsylvania, chairman Of
the House committee on foreign af-
tairs. OF the anguish that needs to
come but once in a lifetime to be re-
membered forever. While Porter was
making campaign speeches in Ohio.
helping to elect Harding, he happened
to have an engagement in Salem. The
| thought occurred to him that having
Tor long cherished the hope Of re-
turning to his birthplace. Hard
scramble. that was his chance. So he
| hired horse and buggy. The driver
didn't know the road. but Porter re-
membered it we'll enough to steer the
course He located the place where he
was born and spent his boyhood days.
although the surroundings were
! much changed.
| He wei remembered a church on
| the next corner, but there was no
church in sight, but he finally found
an OLD resident who recalled that the
sion that he had pictured in his mind 8
eye turned out to be dilapidated
place: Things had changed much in
! the thirty-five years Porter had been
! making his way in the outside world
When he raped at the door II was
answered by barefooted boy about
ten years of age. and Porter's mental
! vision gazed back over the years and
left the old home. He walked to the
side-yard fence and looked over into
the field beyond. How well he re-
nembered playing in that field. and
wading in the pool of water that was
! still there.
Got any bumble-bees' nest around
here now?" he asked the boy, feeling
still how he had been stung in that
field Yes" replied the boy. with
note of sad dispIeasure in his voice.
| Ever been stung?' again Porter
asked "onct." said the boy in tone
/ which said palmer than any words
! "Once ia enough" Porter at once re-
allied that the boy had spoken his
since in listening to loquacious fell
low members Of Congress Grating he
has wished most fervently that they
could take a few lessons in vocal eX-
pre- ssion from that boy who spoke so
succinctly and with so great perspi-
! cacity.
When Col. c. r. Forbes, director of
the Veterans Bureau, started on his
trip to Europe, he was reminded of his
first voyage, when at the age Of nine
he shipped as IN apprentice before the
mast on the old square-rigger Nor
j wood. out of Maitland, n. S. The crew
was shanghaied. The boy had never
seen anything like that before, though
he has many times since. AS they
| hoisted the men over the side with
block and falls, dumping them on the
! deck where they were kicked aside
by the burly mate, young Forbes ire
| arose and he attempted to mix in on
| the side of the shanghaied men. The
innate forthwith clipped him across
! the head with Delaying pin-and
Forbes bears the scar to this day
Since those days Forbes has voyaged
| all over the world, being interested in
engineering development. Finally he
drifted to the South Sea Islands and
there met Jack London. They made a
! few expeditions together and some
different" pictures of Jack are among
Col. Forbes treasures:
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! It's a wise politician who knows the
limits of his own bailiwick. Repre-
sentative Allen It. Treadway Of Mas
sachusetts, who recently has been
administration champion for the ways
and means committee on the floor,
when he first ran for Congress was
making a speaking tour through his
district, composed OF many small towns
in Berkshire. Rowe and Franklin coun-
ties. 1t was Treadway's first trip through
the district and he was accompanied by
the candidates for district attorney and
state senator. Their campaign of ac-
tion was as soon as they reached one
| town to telephone ahead to the post
office or general store or railroad sta
ton in the next town telling them
they were on their way and to get
| crowd ready to hear them.
At last they were bound for the
town of Heath, and had phoned to the
get a good crowd together. They
were a long time in reaching Heath,
but as they rode along whenever they
saw few workers in the f1eldS they
would stop and make little speech,
shake hands. pass out couple Of ci-
ears (very occasionally. When final
ly they pulled into Heath there was
no crowd on hand and the storekeeper
didn't seem partieulariy Ine pleased to
what took you SO long?" he asked. He
| explained that he had goodish
crowd corralled to hear them. but
when they were overdue and the
farmers were impatient to get their
around and wait, but went back to
work.
was much chagrined TO hnd that they
idistrict and that he had been cam
paigning over in Vermont.
| Uncle Sam is now operating an ink
mill of his own, in which forty-nine diff
ferent kinds OF ink were made last year
at much less cost than the commercial
nrice for similar grades. This ink
mill is part Of the government print
ling Office. There practically all Of the
link for 16o presses Is made. This mill
produced 1O5.S56 pounds Of printing
links last year, not including nearly
10000 pounds of old ink bought by
the Army as war material which
had to be remixed before 1t was fit
for use. The total expenditure for
ink made during the year was $4.
lS7o.4S less than for the preceding year,
when 7,775 less pounds were used
| than in 1922.
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