Evening star., 1923-10-21
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

| o'"tO' Il. y. baiey, VINO represents
, Brig. Gen. Herbert NJ, Lord. director
of the bureau of the budget. as chief
of the Personnel classification Board
tells this story:
Driving along a country highway,
he occasionally asked workers In the
Held the way to Montpelier and in
variably they advised him to continue
straight ahead" After a time, when
he was pretty well convinced that he
must be some fifty miles in the wrong
direction, he drove up to a farmer
who WAS standing in the barn door
way and repeated the question. "Can
/ get to Montpelier by driving
straight ahead?'' Dunno" succinctly
answered the farmer. "Should 1 have
/ turned off to the left at the cross
! road about three miles back?' Bailey
again asked the rural resident.
{ Dunno, he again received in re-
/ sponse. Does this road take me any
I Where near ST Albans?'' Bailey again
| ventured: Dunno" the farmer again
| answered
After trying, in vain, with a dozen
or more questions to elicit some more
usable information regarding his
{ Whereabouts and his road to one of
the larger cities and receiving regu-
larly the vexatious response. Dunno"
| Bailey felt his characteristic good ma
! ture slipping away from him and
impatiently remarked: You don't
Know much of anything, do your
Deliberately casting aside the wisp of
/ hay with which he had been picking
his teeth. the farmer answered: well,
/ amt lost, anyhow"
Mr.. Bailey told this story to Gen.
Lord as illustrating his own position
! IN regard to Reconsideration. He ad-
mittcd that when he undertook the
job he knew very little about the sub
je"t, but by dint of reading reports
and consulting with those who have
| given the matter most careful con-
| sideration he has come to the con-
clusion that he isn't lost, anyway.
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Charles Warren. Washington
lawyer. who is Massachusetts prod
uct like President Coolidge, Speaker
} Gillett, Senator Lodge, Secretary
| Weeks and a few other notabIes in
/ the National Capital, and who did
notable work in the Wilson admins
| tration, as assistant attorney gen.
eral, has endeavored to humanize. as
| far as possible, that most august
body, the Supreme Court of the
United States, in his recent historical
work which won him the Pulitzer
prize of $4,000.
He has endeavored to tighten his
book by noting humorous incidents in
connection with the argument of
cases, but there was nothing hunor-
Gus in his own experiences while en-
gagged upon this work. Mr. Warren
made use Of so much cotempo-
r2neous newspaper material, accounts
OF cases and arguments. that he got
many interesting sidcliEhts and diff
ferent viewpoints on the deliberations
and decisions of the Supreme Court
In this way he ran across one rather
amusing incident which he has never
seen in any history and which cannot
De found in any law book When
the great case was being argued as
to the constitutionality of New York
laws to regulate Immigration. John
van Buren, who argued against Web
ster, urged the court to hasten it's
decision, because, he said a number
or Europeans were being held up at
the Immigration station, very many
great comfort TO their friends" Mr.
Van Buren said, ito know if they are
dying conStitutiona!Iy"
AS an illustration Of the enor-
mousiy interesting volume of manu-
scripts in the Library of Congress-
MT. warren while consulting the pa
pers OF Alexander Hamilton in search
Tor material on arguments made by
MN before the Supreme Court came
across the original note which Ham
llton left for his wife on the morning
he went out to fight his duel with
Aaron Burr at Weehawken on the
Hudson. and which was handed to her
after his death in New York city the
following day. II consider that one
of the most striking things in the
whole Library of Congress" said Mr.
warren, Eisibly showing the strong
emotion that he felt on handling that
paper that was the last MESSAGE from
a great statesman to the woman he
loved after his death.
While there are only a very few
ordained ministers in Congress. such
as Representative Henry w. Temple
of Pennsylvania, who was pastor of
number of churches in that state,
and Representative Melvin o. Nc
Laughlin of Nebraska, who served
ten years in the ministry of the
United Brethren Church, AID Repre-
sentative o. ]. Kvale, who succeeds
the world-famous' Andrew J. Eolstead.
there are many others who as laymen
nave taken distinguished part in
church affairs. For example a new
member Representative r j. b. Rob-
inSon OF Hampton, Iowa. is a member
or the Methodist Episcopal Church
ana and was elected as delegate to the
1908 General Conference in Baltimore;
1872, in Minneapolis; 1915. in Sara
toga Springs, and appointed delegate
TO the Ecumenical Conference in To-
ronto in 1911 and in London in 1921.
Representative Robinson has been a
business man for nearly two-score
years, principally banking and farm
ing. lie was president of the Citf-
zens' National Bank of Hampton and
also interested in the ownership and
operation of smaller banks and a
number of farms.
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Washington is the city unrivaled
throughout the world for its memo
rial and symbolic structures. Espe-
cially at this time visitors to the
National Capital see in the Red Cross
building INSTALLATION of the Ameri
can spirit which flows through the
veins OF all of them to extend relief
to the needy everywhere and always.
Just now, when Red Cross chapters
throughout the entire country are
partlclpating in annual roll call,
tional headquarters has been pictured
in verse by Lucy A. K. Adee as fol-
lows:
In Light of day, 1t white and cleaning stands
Mlth open doors and outstretched hands
Io heip the suffering ones of stricken lands.
At 4. dark of night. a glowing cross shines red
In memory of One whose blood was shed
10 Nil the world with love, and not with dread
An emblem for humanity to bless
Ihat answers any call of deep distress
And ills the heavy heart with thankfulness.
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In patriotic circles Mrs. Frank Fos-
ter Greenwalt, regent of the Ruth
Brewster Chapter, D. A. r., and ex-
state regent for the District of Co
lumbia, is known as the key Lady"
When the new bridge across the Po-
tomac between historic Georgetown
and Arlington national cemetery was
being built Congress in the appro-
priation bill providing for supplies
changed the name from the Aoueduct
bridge to Georgetown bridge on the
assumption that Georgetown was