Evening star., 1924-07-06
Capital Sidelights
by WILL p. KENNEDY.


has an interesting history that few
of@the thousands OF tourists are told
about. This statue was the work of
a noted French sculptor. p T. David
dAnvers. 1t was presented to the
United States government by Lieut..
uriah p. Levy. On March q, 1884. the
committee on the library voted to ac-
cept this statue and recommended
that it be placed in the front garden
of the Capitol" On May 80 that COM
mittee agreed to present a resolution
that the statue be placed in the east
garden OF the Capitol.
furtner records are lacking as to
the disposition of this statue, but it
was located in the north garden of
the White House in the early sos,
where 1t remained until the fountain
was put in the center of the grounds
dSu1ring aS1g the Grant administration in
20 H. wneh the statue was removed
70 the Capitol and placed in the Hall
OF Sculpture. In 1900 it was removed
to the rotunda.
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Representative Thomas S. Williams
OF Illinois. editor Of the CLAW County
Republican, has been Gliding some
OF his colleagues who moved out of
mis- district in their young days and
who, IL they had stayed, would be
his constituents, If he was not q com
sIltuent OF theirs. Senator William E.
Sorah OF Idaho went west from
wayne County, H., in his .youne
manhood. Senator wesley II L. Jones Jones
OF washington spent his boyhood
tive William Ayres of Wichita. Kan
was porn and played boyhood pranks
IN haro!n county and Representative
Guy Z. Hardy of Colorado went west
~ ~ 1ns age or twenty-five to grow up
Representative Hardy was one of
ttne tne conferees representing the Ma
tIonal House of Representatives in an
tnvestigation to determine what Is a
tb tUarect Daiance of accounts between
me FEDERAL government and the Ma
Liohal capital, over which Congress
mas exclusive Jurisdiction That com
mlttee decided that the federal Treas
urS owes the National Capital ap-
poses shall be made available for
public improvements
representative Hardy went to work
a. thlrteen years Of age, when his
name 1a,nes a,ea; dfst; Three years later his
d small storekeeper for board. keep"
and schooling. He earned a teacher.s
certincate at eighteen. taught for two
years in Edwards County, ILL.,, and
ohep went to teach in the backwoods
OF Florida. While in Florida he took
clvil service examination for rail-
way mail clerk. Out of meacer
salary of $50 month he saved money
10 go TO the famous minister's col
iege, Transylvania University. Ken
lucky.
At the age of twenty-five he went
70 colorado, seeking his fortune in
neaithful climate, without funds or
friends. AS a Christmas present he
paper at $12 a week. BY the first
OF the next July he was owner Of the
paper-subJect to a good-sized mort
gage. That was twenty-nine years
the boy editor" At twenty-five
years reporter. at twenty-three
owner or the paper, at twenty four
publisher champion of the cause of
Mckin in the famous campaign of
1896. at twenty-seven postmaster of
Canon City-the only public office he
ever held until he came to Congress.
SIX years ago he was elected presi-
dent OF the National Editorial Asso-
citation.
Gen. Isaac r. Sherwood. the oldest
man who ever sat in Congress, and
who is seeking reelection at the age
of eighty-nine, and who is the only
surviving Union officer of the civil
war in Congress, while Col Charles
Steadman Of North Carolina is the
sole Confederate officer, while watch
ing aviation maneuvers, recalled the
following interesting fact:
Count Ferdinand Won Zeppelin.
through whose genius and vision the
rigid airship was developed into
practical vehicle of the sky. of ines
unable value in peace and in war,
had his first inspira tion for building
a large rigid airship while serving
as a volunteer officer in the United
states during the civil war.
ne loved TO roam in out-of-the-
way places and whenever opportunity
afforded he organized hunting parties
and went on long sojourns in the then
sparsely Inhabited regions of the
Mississippi Valley. Here he played
the explorer and wrote letters back,
home dwelling on the pleasures Of
exploration and the possibilities in
store for him who could invent some
thing that would take one to the far
and inaccessible parts of the earth.
ne had opportunity to make captive
balloon ascensions. which fired his
imagination and inspired his invent
i've genius. AS early as 1873 he de-
signed large rigid airship and en-
phasiZed the Importance of such air
craft for long distance transportation
in order to help the civilization of
mankind.
An interesting story of how Wayne
B. Wheeler began his work for the
Anti-Saloon League thirty years ago is
told by Representative William D.
Upshaw Of Georgia. He says that Dr.
Howard H. Russell. the venerable
founder of the Anti-Saloon League told
him this story recently in his home
in Westerville. Ohio: After practic-
at aE aw tSs fs for o Gd ns Dr. b
istry. Soon after this decision he
was stirred "as he witnessed the reign
and ruin wrought by the licensed sa-
give his life to an organized effort to
destroy that long-protected cancer in
the social and political body of our
American life"
Conferring with the president of
Oberlin College, DIR. Russell asked to
be directed to some young man of
outstanding ability whom he might
induce to join him in this stupendous
undertaking., The president named
Wayne Wheeler as young man soon
as an attorney at law.
DR.. Russell sought out the young
man and laid before him his plan,
which called for hardships and per-
to give an answer after due delibers-
tion. Finally, DIR. Russell went to
the young students room for his de-
cision and found him on his knees in
prayer. when he arose from his
knees" says Representative Upshaw,
there was light on his face that
was never seen on land nor sea- 1t
was the light that comes from self
immolation and heroic dedication to
the cause Of crusade for the right.
DR.. Russell and the student shook
hands in an unselfish compact that
meant more to the cause of sobriety
that ever took place. perhaps, in the
history of America for the emancipa-
tion of suffering humanity"
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