Evening star., 1924-05-18
Capital Sidelights
By WILL r. KENNEDY.

By WILL r. KENNEDY.
Artists and art patrons are not stand
offish high whose astral bodies
move In a rarefed atmosphere Of
estheticism and whose aura holds ordi-
nary humankind at q distance They
are real human and democratic, can
tell funny stories and appreciate them
even when at their own expense, as
was shown at the dinner closing the
convention here Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Arts.
Robert w. De Forest Of New York,
president of the federation, as also OF
the Russell Sage Foundation, the Ma
tional Housing Association. vice presi-
dent of the American Red Cross and a
largest corporations in this country. by
way of a description Of the art collec-
ton of Secretary Mellon borrowed an
expression from Japanese GUIDE
This guide was showing Mr. De Forest
some notable works OF art that were
not crowded and said: "Sir, l would
have you understand that their gran
deur is not in the university Of their
quantity"
Otto H. Kahn, international banker.
one of the most cultured men in this
country, patron Of art and music, whose
own enunciation is music itself, trus-
tee Of the greatest technical school in
this country, commander OF the Legion
Of Honor Of France, Knight OF the Or
der of Charles II Of Span, grand ofti-
and commander OF the Order of the
Crown Of Belgium, also told a little
story. He recalled a gathering in Lon
don attended by the great artist
Whistler, when an obstreperous ana
! obnoxious individual rushed up effu-
sively, seizing Whistler by both hands
and exclaiming, my dear Whistler, 1
am delighted to see you. Do you know
passed your house this morning!
Promptly Whistler responded, shaking
his unknown and annoying would be
| comrades hands with even more vigor
il less warmth, so good OF you. my
dear fellow, so glad you did"
Maj. Gen. William M. Black, U. S.
A., retired, former chief of the Engi-
neer Corps Of the Army, was appear
ing before a subcommittee of the
House District committee during the
week on the proposed hydro-electric
development on the Potomac River
at Great Falls. Representative Thorn
as L. Blanton. Democrat, of Texas
was asking questions and then an
swering most of them himself. After
while he got around to lecturing
Gen. Black somewhat about appro-
priations by the government Then
the general quietly disclosed that he
had been appearing before appropr1-
ations committees OF both the House
and Senate for more than forty years,
making his first appearance in 1881
and coming at least once year all
the years since until he retired from
the Army.
Less than thirty-five years ago a
slow-moving, gangling youngster
stood one warm day in the court
house at Cooperstown. N. 2, watch
ing and listening to two lawyers try
ing . case. They seemed to have an
easy conversational time, and what
to his mind seemed very important
they wore store clothes and hard
boiled collars and shirt fronts. He
looked at his own blue jeans, thought
OF the hot hay-loft and the body
wrenching plow handles. Right then
and there he decided that IL he could
make money as easy as those two
fellows he'd be a lawyer.
Before he was forty-eight that
youngster was chairman of the board
| of the General Electric Company,
soon afterward chairman of the board
| of the Radio Corporation, and is just
back from Europe. where he assisted
manys budget and find a way in
which reparations could be paid-as a
special commissioner for the United
| States government.
Owen D. Young, not yet fifty. gives
a living illustration of the opportu-
nifty for advancement that is open to
young men in this country
| All OF his colleagues in Congress
and the engineering. as we'll as the
legal profession of this country have
been asked by Representative James
O'Connor of Louisiana to help him in
| a quest that has extended over many
years in many libraries to find the
origin of the expression, without
| hope of reward or fear OF punish
ment"
| Years ago. when 1 was a law
student in Tulane University" said
| Representative OConnor, "a cele-
brated law professor tried to bring
| home to US the value Of an oath
taken in judicial proceedings. He
| said:
-sYou take It without hope Of re-
| ward or fear of punishment, and you
| testify to the truth, the whole truth
| and nothing but the truth
| Then, ruminatively, as II he were
trying to think. when he had heard
| or read it himself, he continued:
| "In all probability the origin of
| that phraseology may be found In
the beautiful story OF the Xestal
an ancient city carrying in one hand
| a pail of water and in the other a
| torch, chanting and singing, with
this torch I win burn the Heavens
and with the water L will extinguish
be loved for himself alone, without
hope of reward or fear of punish
ment."'"
| How people Of his district have
devised a way OF marketing thefr
hay in pound cartons and with profit
is being boasted by Representative
Charles L. Richards the first native
son Of Nevada to come to Congress.
For confirmation Of this fact he re-
fers all "doubting Thomases" to the
officials Of the Department Of Agri-
culture, who have made special
study Of tho situation.
| It develops that instead of hauling
their hay thirty-f1ve miles to the
nearest market, as they did for q
number Of years, the farmers OF
White Pine County are now feeding
the hay to dairy cows, making their
cream into butter in cooperative
creamery and selling their butter to
the same people who formerly bought
their hay.
| Hay was selling for less than the
cost Of production. Tho progressive
farmers, after making a survey, hit
| ,,pon the fact that the mining towns
which bought their hay were also
importing all their butter from dis
tant dairy centers and paying high
| freight rates. So they decided tc