Evening star., 1923-12-16
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

Henry Clay has lost one of his
records, that Of being the youngest
member ever elected to the Ameri-
can Congress. Henry Clay first came
to the United States Senate when he
was twenty-nine years old. That
record stood for 113 years.
Representative Clarence J. Mcleod,
who has just returned to the United
States House of Representatives from
the thirteenth district OF Michigan.
has the distinction of first being
elected to Congress nine days after
his twenty-fifth birthday, and being
the youngest member ever elected.
This claim seems to settle a rather
spirited controversy as to who is
the baby" member in the Sixty
mer and fall there have appeared in
various newspapers articles on the
Youngest member of the Sixty eighth
Congress. among them being articles
aa1. and pssotSDgraphs photographs Of Repressntative
thirty three; Representative John c.
Schafer of Wisconsin, age, thirty;
representative Lister Hill Of Ala
pama. age. twenty-eight. Mr.. Hill,
according to the new Congressional
from the office OF William Tyler
Page, clerk of the House Of Repre-
sentatiVes, was born December 29,
1894.
Representative Mcleod is also. at
the present time, twenty-eight years
old. but was born July 8, 1895, max
Ing him six months and four DAYS
younger than Mr.. Hill of Alabama.
rms Is, however. Representative Nc
Leods second term in Congress. as
t@ CT
Congress to fill the unexpired term
of Congressman Nichols and was not
candidate for reelection for the
Sixty-seventh Congress. that term
having been filled by Representative
Vincent NJ. Brennan.
Only one vote was cast against
Representative John Hosea Kerr of
Warrenton, N. c., who has come to
Congress as successor to Representa-
tive Claude Kitchin, who for twelve
years, until his death, was demo-
cratic leader Of the House.
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A Rooseveltian open-air man and
lifelong athlete Is Senator George
Wharton Pepper of PENNSYLVANIA.
During his college days at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania he played
on the varsity foot ball and cricket
teams and was a member of his
class foot ball, base ball, cricket and
track teams. He won medals in the
hammer throw and the half-mile race
and rowed on the Penn crew. He
was a member Of George woodruff's
famous Penn foot ball team of 1897.
that established a record never equal
ed by playing through an entire sea-
son without time being taken out by
any member of the team and without
any player being removed from the
game because Of injuries.
Today. a s he nears three-score wears
or age. Senator Pepper likes nothing
better than to make trip into the
Maine woods, where he carries canoe
ana camp dunnage across the port
ages with as much ease and with more
cneerfulness than his guide. He keeps
himself constantly in the best phys-
icai condition. He is an expert swim
,ner ana indulges in this sport regu-
iarly during the summer. He is a
deVotee OF walking and takes long
hikes into the country
senator Pepper was a member Of
provisional training regiments at
Pepper is best known to the sporting
fraternity as attorney for the Ma
tional League and organized base ball
He drafted the present constitution
and secured a reversal of the court
decision granting judgment against
organized base ball in favor Of the
Baltimore Federal League club.
AT the time he wrote a constitution
OF organized base ball, Mr.. Pepper
gave the base ball players this code:
Play fair. play hard. play for the
team-these are the inexorable re-
quirements that America makes of the
professional ball player. He gives to
the American people a pledge of con-
formity to hi gh standards of fair
play and good sportsmanship. The
club owners and officers explicitly ac-
cept the same high standard. If any
special responsibility rests upon the
young America. The boy on the
bleachers is in school, even IL he
doesn't realize it. The heroes of the
diamond are his teachers. BY them
affected. And the standards which he
accepts on the bleachers he will carry
into life. AS the national game Is
played. so the life of the nation will
be lived"
widely known in his native state
as an orator and talented singer is
Representative Clifton Alexander
Woodrum of Roanoke. Va, as he ad-
mits in his autobiography in the Con-
gressional Directory. He sang his
way into Congress. He is a graduate
pharmacist as well as a lawyer.
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Among the new men in Congress
who have their family trees planted
In fe
tive Samuel F.. Glatfelter of York, Pa.
who is a direct descendant of Casper
Glatfelter who, with his wife and
four children, came to the United
States from Switzerland In 1743, even
tually settling at Glatfelter, eight
miles south of York. Five Of Caspers
sons were soldiers in the continental
army. The youngest, Casper, 5r., was
the great-grandfather of Representa-
tive Glatfelter. The latters grand
father served in the war of 1912.
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That even a humble government
employe may successfully aspire to
a place in the American Congress is
proved many times over by even a.
of the Sixty-eighth Congress
Ten years ago Representative. Rob-
ert H. Clancy of Michigan became
secretary to the assistant secretary
of commerce, Edwin F.. Sweet. Four
years later be was appointed United
States customs appraiser for Mich
igan.
Representative Earl c.. Michener.
also of Michigan, was an employe in
taking his law course in Wash
ington. ''.e. 90
Representative John w. Langley of
Kentucky. chairman of the House
committee on public buildings and
as an examiner In the pension Of
fee, member Of the board OF PEN