Evening star., 1924-06-29
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

or the MoNary- HAugen bill and the
light to have relief for the aericul-
tural interests included in tho big
party platform pledges, we are re-
minded by Representative w. c. Sal
mon of Tennessee that from andent
times down to the present those who
have titled the soil and supplied the
necessities of life have been of Sec
ondary consideration in the affairs
OF national councils. He quotes the
thirty-eighth chapter of Ecclesiasticus
from the Apocrypha, written 2s0 BE-,
as follows:
How shall he become wise that
holdeth the plow-
That dr1veth oxen-
STOCK or oolls- --.-
He will set his heart upon turn
ing his furrows; ~+
And his wakefulness is to give
his heifers their fodder
All those put their trust in their
Without these shall not q oity be
inhabited,
And men shall not sojourn or walk
up and down therein.
But theys shall not be sought for
the council of the people
And in the. assembly they shall
not mount high.
They shall not sit in the seat
And they shall not understand the
covenant of the judgment.
Neither shall they declare inetruc-
tion and judgment,
! And where parallels are they shall
not be found.
But they will maintain the fabric
Of the world;
And in the handiwork OF their
| craft is their prayer.
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Apropos Of the same fight for the
farmers, Representative Otis Wingo
of Arkansas quotes from a joint reso-
luton that passed to establish a
| commission to represent the United
States government in the observance
of the 150th anniversary of the bat
tie Of Lexington and Concord, where
the embattled farmer stood" He
predicts that just where they stand
will be evident in November.
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How thick Is an inch board? 1t
would seem that there should be an
immediate and 100 per cent correct
answerage to this question. Yet so
great an authority as Secretary
Hoover, an engineer Of world wide
rehown, testifies that it took months
OF conferences and compromises to
determine the correct answer. Secre-
tary Hoover explains:
'The Department Of Commerce. at
the request of the lumber industry,
held a number OF conferences to dis
cuss the rules Of the road in that
industry and its relations to other
industries and the common good
The problem was to establish more
ards of practice, ethics and waste
elimination.
I'm the toll of formulating these
standards there arose a question of
1t sounds easy. But it quickly de-
veloped to be a question whether it
should be one inch thick when 1t
| was green, after 1t was dried, when
| planed on one side or when planed
| on both sides.
1T developed NOT only that choice
had to be made among those four al
ternatives, but also that this choice
| had to be based upon a proper con-
sideration of the conservation of our
sion of material OF such structural
character as to constitute square
deal to the consumer, on the other.
1T also deveioped that there were
one-inch board in current use and
that some minority Of manufacturers
| in the drive of unfair competition
were gradually thinning the board
| until IT threatened to become paper.
There also had to be developed the
exact differences which threw a
board into four or five different
grades. and there had to be deter
different species Of wood. The point
was that an accurate standard had to
| be determined before discrimination
as to fair dealing and public service
the foundation of ethics in one.inch
boards. These conferences estab-
| lished some eighty questions involv-
| ing the whole technology of lumber
and comprising for the first time
definite series of national Standards"
| Some years in the United States
House OF Representatives is the
| greatest education our country now
affords to an American citizen, ac-
ward c. Little Of Kansas. himself
citizen Of the worlds heart.
| Those who assembled around the
affairs OF Harvard and Yale and other
famous American schools enjoyed all
| the advantages that come with the
development of American history and
American citizenship, he points out.
others who trod the halls OF OK
ford or drank beer on the tables Of
Heidelberg or Vienna or Paris got a
glimpse OF everything in Europe
worth while. In the Mosque OF Ell
hazar. at Cairo, those Of US who love
mankind saw the youth of the whole
MohAmmedan world on exhibition at
its studies and drank deep Of the
mysteries Of that ancient abode Of
learning.
some have improved their resources
weeks In Japan or China among the
places where the world was born.
They slipped OF the wisdom OF Con-
| fucius and learned with astonishment
OF the 3o0-year-old statecraft and
poetry OF Icayasu.
When we came here to Congress,
| says Representative Little, we knew
| that there were kings before Aga
mmnon and generals from whom Gaze
sar and Alexander learned the art of
war. By the time that the average
man came to the hall of the House
OF Representatives he was on rea-
sonably familiar terms with the char
acters and capacities Of the great
millionaire princes who. SO dominate
the public and private life of this
| country.
He may have known the youth Of
his native land showing his best on
the field Of battle for his country on
the other side OF the world. He may,
perhaps, have lived in the palaces of
the most ancient country Of the Medi-
terranean east and spent many hours
at tho foot Of the Sphinx, still keep
ing her own counsel. .-
At any rate, he had known men in
all walks OF life and in all measures
Of victory and defeat. But never un-
til he came hereto ConEress--and
received the diploma Of several years.