Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-24
Capital Sidelights
NJ WILL p. KENNEDY.

Small town product" must not be
regarded as q discrediting charac-
terization. Some of the best men in
American history have como out Of
small towns. and even the outlands.
This was emphasized by Senator
James A. Reed OF Missouri, who him.
self came out of the same small
town-Mansfeld. Ohio-that produced
John Sherman. When tho question
OF confirming former Senator Aztec
Pomerene as special representative of
the President in the oil investigation
was being debated in the Senate the
remark was made that he came from
a small town.
Senator Reed pointed out that
every lawyer who bares the scars
Of many conflicts is not half as much
AFRAID OF an attorney from great
city with a great reputation as OF a
country lawyer who knows his case"
Recalling notable examples or men
Dig In national affairs. Senator Reed
said: Abraham LINCOLN did not come
great city, and yet he brought with
him in the temple of hts braih the
wonderful visions of a nation re-
united and puissant.
called these colonies to war. prob
Canton, Ohio. George washing ton
might have been referred to by Ger
tain class Of critics as nothing but a
farmer; they might, indeed. have
called him q granger. and yet he was
in many respects. at the time he lived
the master mind Of the world If L
recall rightly, Robert e. Lee, who is
recognized as the military genius Of
n hA IN no no O
large town, for. while he owned Ar
linGton, across the river. and was a
planter, If am not mistaken, Wash
ington at that time was not as laige
as Canton, Ohio, is today.
AS we go down the list of the
worlds great men we find that most
Of them came from outside great
cities You remember that they said
OF Napoleon Bonaparte that he was
only. a little Corstcan. but he mas
was not the inhabitant Of g. large
city. Warren G. Harding came from
q very much smaller town than CAn-
ton. Why. William jennings Bryan
Gid not come from so big town as
There Is nothing in the small town
argument
Always oolorful in his speeches and
prone to. treat his colleagues to
stories.' Representative Bill G. Low
rey of Mississippi, in discussing the
indirect-tax payers and the Mellon
plan, said II used to have dis
tinguished old friend in Chicago. who.
by reason of his long residence there.
had a good opportunity to study
along certain line, and SO he went
on to the lyceum platform with a
lecture on fools, and he printed his
admission tickets In this way: Lee
ture on Fools. Admit one"
: After referring to the flood Of Prop
uganda that had engulfed Congress.
Representative Lowrey reminded his
associates of the old rhyme
OF fools the world has such a store
That he who would not meet an ass
Must stay at home and bolt his door
And break his looking-giass.
Representative Charles r. Davis.
who is now serving his twenty-second
Saints Peter and Paul. because he
lives in ST. Peter. Mimi, and he rep
resents part Of st. Paul. He also rep
resents St Patrick, St Henry and sew
eral other saints. St James is just
outside of his district The three
greatest explorers that the west had,
Nicollet, Lesueur and Hennepin. are
also his constituents with counties
named after them. Representative
Davis also boasts several great coll
leges in his district--the Gustavus
Adolphus, which is the biggest Swed-
ish Lutheran college in this country;
St Olaf, the largest Norwegian col
lege in the country; Carlton College
and Shattuck, at Faribault. which is
considered the center Of culture in
the northwest.
Representative Davis also repre-
sents the great insane asylum at St
Peters and the state prison at Still
water, built while he was in the state
ment records described as the finest
in the United States, If not in the en-
tire world. -,
REPRESENTATIVE Davis is chairman
Of the House committee which drafts
the appropriation bill for the support
of the National Capital.
Representative William A. Ayres Of
Kansas has just received from Koss
Harris, ono Of the leading attorneys
Of the state of Kansas, who has grown
up with the city Of Wichita, who is a
noted wit and who has appeared in
important cases before the Supreme
Court Of tho United States, the follow
ing notice:
"wanted-An attorney Of national
reputation and great ability, one
grounded in civil and criminal law,
and especially versed in United States
land laws and fractures of federal
statutes, one who can show up Iotis
manibus'' and on whose garments
there shall be no odor Of petroleum
or any Of the by-products thereof
other than gasoline from dry clean
ing-salary no object-Disinfectant
Manager, White House, Washington,
p. c.
"Nota Bene-All applications must
be- by letter inclosing certificate Of
character by pastor OF church in the
pews Of which the applicant usually
dozes." -.
There are. four members of Con-
sress who were formerly actors, Rep
julius Kahn Of California,
chairman of the House committee on
military affairs; Representative Sol
Bloom OF New York, who in his youth
was an actor in California; Repre-
sentative Fritz Lanham Of Texas and
Representation William p. Connery Of
Lynn, Mass, who quite recently came
OF tho vaudeville stage.
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