Evening star., 1924-12-02

Capitol Hill seemed very much it.
self on Monday when the Sixty-eighth
Congress reassembled for it's swan
song session. The floors of both
houses were vibrant with life and
good humor. Republicans, Demo-
Gratis, Progressives, renegades, lame
ducks. victors and vanquished of all
hues. mingled with one another as
gleefully as if such things as politi-
cal differences never existed. If there
was a doleful note. it was only when
members looked in the direction Of
seats vacated by colleagues who have
Joined that Great Majority whose
predominance is enduring. 1t will
take the Senate a long time to ac-
custom itself to the eternal absentee-
ism Of Henry Cabot Lodge and Frank
Bosworth Brandegee. The United
States Congress yields to nobody in
the world in camaraderie. Senator
David J. Walsh, Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts was called upon to exhibit
1t In dual capacity. Himself a re-
Gently defeated candidate for re-elec-
ton, Walsh first eulogized his depart
ed colleague, Lodge. and then, arm in
arm. led Lodges successor, William
NJ. Butler, to his place.
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President Coolidge at Chicago on
an uncommonly representative gath
ering of Western agricultural people
when he speaks in Dexter Pavilion at
the vast and aromatic Union Stock
Yards. Chicago this week is the
scene OF it's annual horse show. an
international live stock exposition
and the International grain and hay
show. Thousands of representatives
of these three great branches of ru-
ind ynk -
Windy City Broadcasting apparatus
will carry Mr.. Coolidge's words of wis
dom to the farm folks far and wide
across the Western country. The Dexter
Pavilion plays many roles in Chicago.
Big prize fights are staged there, in
door athletic meets are held within
Its tanbark arena, and political rail-
lies for gatherings Of 10000 or $4,000
have made history on the scene.
meeting in the pavilion in September
that it made him think Illinois was
going Democratic.
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Thoughts on the Army Navy foot ball
game at Baltimore on November %,
Baltimroe Stadium, built to hold 80 0O0
Is all right for the hundreds who jour-
ney thither by automobile but is not
comfortably accessible for the thousands
who must travel by train or trolley. :.
No Army Navy classic ought ever again
to be played in Baltimore until railway
and street car facilities, capable of land
Ing crowds at. the stadium, are pro-
vided. The city and Maryland
police ought to hire Tex Rickard to
coach them in the handling of a foot
ball throng Chaos for. a while ruled
supreme. The Annapol Midshipmen
were held up by q hopeless jam of cars
and pedestrians as they attempted to
march into the stadium. :. Easily
visible signs, indicating gates and sec
tions, were lacking. Seat holders were
jostled from pillar to post in mad
quest for light and leading. -. AS
to the game itself, one hopes and prays
that the Navy's Workmanship In the
next war will be better than it's for
ward passing aim against the Army.
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Representative Sydney Anderson OF
Minnesota will disappear from Congress
Of his own free will. He has become
president of the Millers' National Fed
Grafton. with headquarters at Chicago,
and already assumed his new duties.
Anderson was one of the babies of the
House when he first entered 1t in 1911
at the age Of 20. Today he ranks as one
of the country's foremost authorities on
Agricultural problems. He was chair
man Of the congressional Joint commits