The Washington times., 1923-12-25

All officials, from President Coo
hdge down to the least known mem
Der of Congress, write their own
sketches, or have their secretaries
do it for them, and the results are
always interesting and sometimes
comical.
Some go into the most minute de.
tails of their personal and official
life, some are short to the point of
not telling anything; some are frank
ly boastful, some are the essence OF
modesty; some are very serious,
others are written in an obvious
spirit OF levity. The composite eff
fort provides Washington with many
hours of interesting reading about
the great and the near great.
Coolidge Brief.
President Coolidge is very brief
and matter of fact. his biography
taking up but nine and one-haIf
lines, as compared, for instance, with
that of Senator Henry Cabot lodge
(Rl. Of Massachusetts, whose mar.
rations of his political and literary
history occupies an imposing space
OF forty-three lines. The President
confines himself to stating what of.
ftces he has held, when he was born
and where, and whom he married
and when. Senator Lodge gives the
titles or most of the books he has
written and the offices he has held
during a long and varied life.
Two members of Congress run q
dead heat for brevity. They are
Senator Caraway DJ, of Arkansas
New York.
"T. H. Caraway, Democrat. Of
TnnnQhOrn
Democrat, Buffalo," is all that APP
pears under their respective names
Representative Edgar Howard
DEM of Nebraska, who used tc
Abe William Jennings Bryan's score
tary when the Commoner was in
Congress, apparently wrote his own
he rallied TO reveal his age, merely
stating he was born before the
wal" the doesn't even say which
war;. and goes on to state that he
held OFFICES OF probate judge, mem
Der or the Nebraska legislature and
lieutenant governor of Nebraska
while holding contemporaneously the
higher office OF editor of a country
newspaper, and still in that estate. II
He further adds that he was mar.
r1ed at lawful age and is still mar
ried."
Progeny His Pride.
Representative Casey Dem.) of
Pennsylvania holds the record for
the largest family in either house.
He has eleven children, eight bows
and three girls, he records. and he
names them. Representative Knud
Wefald Gar. -Lah.) of Minnesota
runs him close race, with the chill.
dren. Representative Free RepO Of
California records the fact that he
Is the father OF two sets Of twins.
The two youngest members of
Congress are Representative CIar.
ence j.. Mcleod Repub.) of Michi-
gan ana Representative Lister Hill
(DemJ OF Alabama. Both are twenty
eight. Hill Is unmarried, wherein
Mcleod sets forth that he was mar.
ried in 1920 and has two minor
children"
o. j. Kvale R.) of Minnesota,
who succeeded Representative Vol
stead, records the fact that he is
an ordained Lutheran preacher and
served Tor tWenty-three years in
one pastorate-at Orfordville, Wis.
Representative Thomas d. Schall
(R), or Minnesota, notes that he IL
blind. His simple announcement
says:
Thomas d. Schall, Abb, LIB.
Republican. practicing ATTORNEY at
MINNEAPOLIS; residence, Excelsior,
MINI. blind), lost sight through
electric shock. Fifth term"
Mrs. Nolan Modest.
Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, the only wom-
man member of the Sixty-eighth
Congress-. observes woman's pre-.
rogative by not stating her age.