Evening star., 1924-04-17

Senator Carter Glass speech in the
Senate in rebuke of President Cool
idge's message on the Mellon inquiry
was acclaimed BY political friend and
foe as a splendid performance. In
style and in delivery, even though
read from a manuscript, the speech
rose at times to the level Of the Sen
ate's finest oratorical traditions.
When il was over, the Virginia edi-
or-statesman was the recipient of
fervid congra tulations from fellow
Democrats. Republicans had paid
their tribute by listening in large
numbers and with unfiagging atten-
tion. Glass rather accentuated and
not always agreeable southern draw!
Just prevents his being a master
orator But with his impaSSioned de-
fense of senatorial rights he scaled
lofty heights. In way, the speech
was Senator Glass keynote for his
Democratic presidential aspirations.
When '"Tom" Hef1in bares his va
nilla ice cream waistcoat to the sena-
torial gaze and girds himself for one
of his volcanic political speeches,
floor and press gallery usually are
most one-speech spellbinder.
Whether he's discussing Muscle
Shoals, the federal reserve act, the
iniquities of the Republican party or
the yellow peril, the big noise from
Alabama always takes his stand firm
ly on the Constitution and wrapped
in the mperiShable Stars and Stripes,
One day this week. while assailing
the G. O. F. with accustomed vigor,
Heflin slipped a cog and described
Thomas jefferson as the founder OF
the Republican party. Breaks IKE
that have been known to cost Dixie
statesman his career.
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The Daughters of the American
Revolution have been animated at
tendants at sessions of House and
Senate during their annual CONT
mental congress- in Washington.
These recurring conclaves bring to
the National Capital patriotic Amer
lean women who have in countless
cases never been here before. They
throng the show places with more
than the usual fervor which inspires
the garden variety of tourists ana
sightseerS When discussions at the
Capitol brought forth references TO
prohibition Daughters" in the gal
leries in large numbers were observed
shaking their heads approvingly a.
every pro- enforcement remark made
on the floor. The women's Insistenct
on rigid execution of the dry laws Is
one of the things emphasized at every
feminist convention that assemblies in
WaShin gton.
Advertising truth is sometimes
stranger than fiction, too. In front
of a Washington restaurant there IS
huge manhole. through which sup
plies are delivered. AS it is often
ajar for that purpose, the proprietor
utilizes the iron lids for publicity
purposes AS they stand gaping, ex-
posing a crater ten feet long ana four
feet wide, passersby are greeted with
the legend: Drop in
'Sw. w" Is the quaint title of
booklet by Robert j. Bender, who sub
titles the volume the Scattered I'm
pressions of a Reporter Who for
Eight Years Covered the Activities
of Woodrow Wilson" Bender, who is
now chasing the nimble item on Man
haitian Island, was throughout the
larger part of the Wilson administra-
tion one of Washington accom-
plished news sleuths. He accompa-
MED President Wilson's party TO
Paris and reported the peace confer
ence for one of the country's great
news agencies. Bender was as close
to wv. W." as any newspaper man OF
his generation. His sixty odd pages
of memoirs revel in absorbing "hu-
man interest" stuff.
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There was gallant little figure in.
the press gallery of the United States
Senate on April IA and Is, when
Japan was the topic of heated and
sometimes hysterical discussion. He
was the lone son of Nippon on Capitol
HiII-a sort of japanese Daniel in the
american lions den. His name is /.
Fukuda, who represents in the United
States, with headquarters at New
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