Evening star., 1924-04-27
Capital Sidelights
By WILL p. KENNEDY.


Glimmerglass of Uncas, Chingachgook,
killdeer and myriad of our boyhood
heroes, is included in. the congress
sional district represented by Rep
resentative John d. Clarke, who tells
this story:
"One day last summer my boy came
In from reading The Last of the
Mohicans" with the picture OF the
forest primeval vividly in his mind
OF the abundance of game that sought
the friendly shelter of the woods, OF
the lurking Indian, of streams that
abounded in fish, and looking out upon
the barren hills just across the dear
old Delaware River from my farm,
knowing his daddy's keen interest in
ano work for reforestation, remarked
10 me: Daddy, wouldn't it have been
wonderful If my grandpa and the
grandpas of all the other kids had
not cut all the trees and IL under the
protection OF the trees there might
be FOUND game and wild life and in
the brooks and rivers there were still
many fish,
Then IL came over me as never be-
Tore, says Representative Clarke,
what we Of this day owe to all the
children OF all the tomorrows."
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Representative Thomas D. Schal1,
who is going to make the campaign
for the Senate, is blind, not with the
unknowing darkness of one who has
never seen the light, but with the
thorough consciousness Of great loss
OF one who in his early youth had
such eyesight as enabled him to win
distinction as the champion batsman
OF his college with a record which
Babe Ruth has never eaualed. He
keeps up his courage magnificently
with beautiful, inspiring thoughts,
and he brings them to bear on the
legislation he is voting upon.
;, Anent the measure for relief of the
distressed and starving women and
children of Germany he told his col
leagues how his little four-year-o
daughter before going to bed crawIed
upon his lap, rubbed her nose against
his. and said: Daddy, can't you see
me-! With catch in his voice he re-
Piled: No, little curly head, / can't"
after moment Of silence she said:
daddy?' N'
representative Schalrs lesson from
this is: I'm her childish philosophy
she encompassed life 1t is the heart
that sees Alright. The vision of the
heart is the true guide. The heart is
the foundation of whatever power and
greatness there is in man or woman
or nation"
Even from an imaginary frog Rep
resentative Schall with his minds eye
can vision lesson of encouragement
in most diShe n - ap;n, o.-o,,...z.z =.
He pictures the farmer who is short
OF milk because an obstreperous COW
kicked over a bucket of milk, and
who supplies the deficiency by taking
the empty bucket to the brook and
hillng 1t with natures elixir.
The next scene is enacted within
a large milk can as it is jounced
about in the farm wagon proceeding
to town over rutty road. Two frogs,
scooped out of the brook in the milk
bucket by the farmer in the dim light
OF early morning. hold converse. 1t
rs dark and close within the can and
the frogs are extremely uncomfort-
able in strange, sticky, greasy
surroundings. One is respondent and
says: There is no way out. This
is a terrible place. l am suffocating.
he dropped to the bottom of the can.
The other frog was more optimistic
and said to himself: Its pretty bad
here. but I'll just keep kicking and
kicking, and bymeby something is
sure to happen" so as the can
conquered the ruts in the road the
frog swithin the can kept kicking
away for dear life, moro confident
with each kick.
ket and the can was opened out
hoped the frog, who had ridden 20
escape on a golden pat of butter that
his optimistic kicking had made as
an island Of safety in a sea of milk.
How sometimes members OF Con-
gress devote themselves to some pet
piece of legislation was notably ex-
empii7ed during the week, when Rep
resentative Christopher D. Sullivan
mittee which has jurisdiction over the
mea sures affecting the National Cap
ital. Although he has been a MEM
Der of this committee nearly eight
years, that was only the third time
that Representative Sullivan attend
ed q meeting of the committee. Each
of these three times he came in to
vote on the Fitzgerald workmen' s
compensation bill, and the third time
the roll call was rushed so that he
could catch train to New York.
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There is in the United States Veter-
ans Bureau a translation unit which
is acknowledged to be the most ex-
pert in any governmental agency in
the whole world. In fact, the military
intelligence service, even the State
Department and all government de-
partmentS when they came across a
particularly difficult bit of translat-
ing call on this unit for help.
Lieut.. Col. F. A. Awl is in charge
of the mail division of the Veterans
Bureau, and Miss Florence E. Tinker.
who has been with the service since
the early days of the old war risk bu-
reau, is in administrative charge of
the translation section. They are
both extremely proud of the record OF
their battery of six expert translators,
who turn out daily translations OF
some 800 letters in forty-one different
languages and no telling how many
dialects.
Two of the experts translate from
ten to twelve languages and count
less dialects and others six and eight
languages. Each translation might
well carry a notary public's seal,
for they are unquestionably absolute
iy correct and letter perfect. These
men and women carrying on this
work are not only thoroughly ex-
pert in the language of these coun-
tries. but in their laws and customs
as we'll.
Lieut. Col. Awl is also proud of the
economy of operation as well as ef-
ficiency of service. He points out
that the best contract for translatine
that can be made in outside bushes;
is at the rate of 1 cent a word. His
six expert translators operate at a
cost of under one-third Of cent q
word, including the pay of the stenoe.
rapher who works with each trans.
lator.
is an inspiring thought, but strictIy
speaking it doesn't mean much to the
modern American. According to Gal.
toms law of heredity, each paren,
coptrjhutee one fourth NJ on ;nAt,,id