Evening star., 1924-05-04
Capital Sidelights
ny WILL p. KENNEDY.

chance, and / take more pleasure In
helping boys and girls than in any
other activity of my life"
one day he found in his mail q let
ter from a little Kansas boy, making
this unusual and rather humorous re-
quest: please help me buy a pig" Mr..
Capper laughed heartily, and then
dictated a heart-warming letter to
the little chap. inclosing a check for
enough money to buy the pig.
One of Senator Capper's keenest re-
grets today is that he has lost track
OF that particular youngster, for all
unknowingly that little fellow
brought the greatest. joy into the
senator's life. That letter was the
spark that illuminated for him the
way In which he could make good his
resolve to help boys and girls.
mat was the start of the Capper
pig Clubs for boys and the Capper
Poultry Clubs for girls He goes into
personal partnership with each mem
per or these clubs, lending them
enough money to start in pig or pouI-
| Try raising, always stipulating that
| they must buy pure bred stock. In
| abiy more than 100000, at variance
with good business practice, making
MS loans without security to those
VINO never had as much money before
a dollar thereby 0'
Behind the pig. and poultry clubs
| senator Capper has been working
| out the big idea of building character
ana leadership among the boys and
| girls on the farms. Denied the pleas
ure or son or daughter of his own.
ms father heart has gone out to every
boy and girl in his own and neigh
| boring states.
He is the personal friend OF thou
| x;rI.
| nave come to know him through the
| corn clubs, the pig clubs, the fower-
raising and gardening clubs and sim
| iiar organizations. He is never too
Dusy 10 pan and finance for them
NO man was ever more boy-hearted
| me pig and poultry clubs brought
MI. Capper into such close touch with
the needs of children that he has
been able to see with a clearer vision
what laws are needed in state and
nation for the real upbuiIding of the
boys and girls into citizens and lead
| erS of tomorrow.
As has been noted, Senator Capper
is not only helping the boys to raise
pure-bred pigs and the girls to raise
prize-winning poultry, but back Of
it is raising their standard Of man
hood and womanhood. He is raising
men and women.
More than that, he is giving those
| handicapped at the start of life a
chance by having crooked limbs or
bodies Strengthened. He is smoothing
| out the physical and the moral and
| the mental wrinkles.
One of the most distre essing incl
| dents of his life was when he visited
home one day just in time to hear
| the doctor say, Your baby will never
| walk again." though the family spent
| a fortune in trying to correct the
| spinal trouble.
A little crippled newsboy on the
| streets of Topeka hobbled painfully
among the throng on a busy corner,
attracting little or no attention ex-
Cept that he had papers to sell. His
parents were poor and had no money
| TO give him the surgical treatment
necessary to overcome the terrible
| handicap and make him like other
boys.
There were no state hospitals for
| crippled children in that part of the
world and the bright little fellow
seemed doomed to be an almost help
| less cripple for life.
One day a biRhearted man bought
a paper and noted the pitiful condi-
tion of the boy. Soon a great surgeon
changed the little crippled newsboy
and gave him an equal chance in life
mans estate. was a splendid soldier
for his country in France and is now
an honored. prosperous citizen.
That was the start of the Capper
fund for crippled children, for help
ing as far as possible the wrecked
and crippled children of the poor.
In as much as you have done 1t
unto the least of these, my little
ones, you have done 1t unto Me-"
How members of Congress keep
their eloduence on tap. ready to pour
forth a verbal hood Of picturesque
language concerning their home dis
| tricts wherever the parliamentary
bars are let down was shown last
week when the appropriation bill for
eral debate.
nathy of North Carolina cut loose on
| the history, the glories and progress
of his native state. He said:
IF all the stockings woven in one
year in North Carolina were made
into one big stocking, its imperish-
able foot would hold all the toys
! Santa C1aus has brought down the
| chinneys OF America since the ride
| OF Paul Revere: its leg would contain
all the dear. dim dreams of romance
/ that sweetly thronged the corridors
Of mems brains in the time of the
provocative skirt, and its soft and
| stlken top would reach up into the
heavenly vault where Venus, tired
| Mars. would with discriminatory
| fingers and appreciative thumb form
| f1attering Judgment of its filmy and
oaressing texture and its deathless,
undarned durability"
Telling OF North Carolina's great
ness in terms of the cigarette, he said:
IF all the cigarettes manufactured
| in North Carolina in one year were
nr, lOx r,s-~
young sport leaning nonchalantly
| against the south pole would light il
with the everlasting fire in the tail of
Halley's swift and restless comet. use
| the starry dipper as its ash tray.
blow smoke rings which, unbroken
| by all the hurricanes which lash the
| seven seas would hide the circles
around Saturn for a thousand years
and with the unreasonable inferno
Of its stub blot out and usurp the
glowing fame and place of the
hitherto quenchless morning star"
Similarly picturesque description
vas given Of the magnitude Of the
| Tar Heel states production of towels,
tables, apples and chewing tobacco.
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Representative Edgar Howard of
| Nebraska was next inspired to at
tempt to vision the "unspeakabIe
| beauty" of a sunset on the Nebraska
prairie:
'The great orb Of day was food;nu
the Landscape with a radiance OF un-
| speakable beauty. / tried to count
/ the colors. Did any of you ever ask
yourself how many colors God hangs
| in the sky when he paints a beauti-
| full sunset? / could not count the
colors but made wonderful dis
| covery that in that sunset / beheId
colors sufficient to bear to me every
| fragrant flower from the conserya-