Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-28
AMERICA PRE-ENINENT
|lT MEETING OF BAR.
lIIuohes and Lewis Possessors OF
Most Striking Pairs Of Whisk-
ers at London Meet
BY HARRY HUNT

% HAM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.Ameri-
"a again proved her pre-eminence
Of the recent garden party given by
hi. majesty, George, king OF Eng
land. etc., to representatives OF the
hnerican Bar Association visiting
in Lunnon. ,,s
~. .sa three most striking palrs
VI ; .ie in evidence on TINS ~
Of |lliS4 two were by common 1,. con-
easion' , ,@d to the United states
sent 6s eO curse the kings own WINS,
VI ro the last word in BRUSH
kers a. adornment. Sc George
hlrsu'e ,,.os accorded first place IN
Ne rel line of bearded lions. o.a
we crowding him close, however, anu
G1o~ Kept out Of first choice !,
Pe perm p british allegiance to the
ol n9orcb. was Secretary OF sta'e
n L1,,ahae who in turn barely nosea
iiuS obead of J. Ham Lewis OF
C w; former bearded beauty oil
thn United states Senate.
=" In fact, as Baron Rentrew Is re-
,ortod TO have remarked facetiously'
Hughes just beat Lewis by a whlsk.
No more interesting evolution has
1oan witnessed in Washington thar
the changes in the Hughes beard
dnring the past eight years.
When he retired from the Sup
venue Court to run for the presidea-
CIV in 1916, Hughes beard was
rich nut-brown, of medium length,
fastidiously parted in the middle.
When he returned to Washington,
after four years of law practice in
New York, the BARRIERS had taken
half an inch off its length and tima
had sprinkled it with a scattering of
gray hairs.
By degrees, as secretary of state,
even this abbreviated length has
been shortened. Today, almost
wholly gray and still parted with
meticulous care, there is not enough
of the Hughes beard left to give the
most angry diplomat hand-hoid.
A automatically safe" beard!
Democrats here in the capital are
particularly pleased that Hughes
hirsute victory was not walka-
way for the G. O. P. representative.
If the Democratic convention had
not already been held, J. Ham might
be given the vice presidential nomi-
nation in return for the showing his
whiskers made abroad.
Time, however, is taking the high
lights out of the beard that was once
the pride of j. Hams life. TIE
glowing tints that once won for him
the title of pink whiskers" are now
subdued as the CRAVING twilight OF
his years advances. Age, however,
has not yet touched the jauntiness Of
j. Hams spirit, and the grayins
beard is Haunted with all the abon-
donment with which it was worn
even in Its pinkest. days.
Some searcher of the records, del
wing for light as to what may happen
should Lafollette succeed in dead.
locking the presidential election this
fall, has turned up the generally I'M
known fact that Davis R. Atchison,
senator from Mossuuri, for whor4
Atchison, Kas., was named, is entitI-
ed to be included in the list of
presidents of the United States.
Achison was president protein
pore of the Senate through the
twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty
second Congresses.
The fourth of March, 1949, falling
on a Cunday, Zachary Taylor was
not sworn in as president until the
following day, March 5. In the
meantime the term of James X
Folk had expired at noon on March
4.
The Congressional Biographical
Directory, compiled under authority
OF Congress and therefore official
records of Atchison:
This office (president protein
pore OF the senate) made him presi-
Seht OF the United States during
sunday p March 4, 1849, as General
=, iaylor was not sworn into office IN
VI the following day."
Al OF which is now presented as a
presidency, next March 4, of Pres
Precedent for the accession to the
1leht Pro-tempore Cummins of lows,
I,oula a deadlock in both houses of
|Ongress follow a deadlock in the
electoral college.