New Britain herald., 1924-08-26
AMERICA WINS ! BY 4 WHISXER
TEo AdOrnmtnts al Garden Party the Best
By Harry B Hunt

Washington, Aug so, - America 1EsiA proved her prereminenes at fhs recent garden party given hR hls .mEjesty, George, king of England, sete, to representatives of the Amerlr seaa Bar Association visiting m London,
 a or the three most striking pairs epf whiskess in evidence on this ae- tasion. tive were by common cons sent conceded to the United States,
 or course the kings own whls- ksFs are the last word in British hlrsuis sdornment, So deaFgs, Rex. was accorded first place in the line Of bearded lions,
 crewding him close, however snd perhaps kept out Of frsl .eholea only by British allegiance to the monarch, was Secretary or sEtate Charles Evans Hughes, who In turn barely nosed out ahead Of u. Ham Lewis of Chicago, former -bearded beauty Of the United States senate.
 In fact. as Baron Renfrew Is rsported to have remarked faee- riously. Hughes just beat Lewia by a whisker.
 . No more interesting evolution has been witnessed In Washington than she, changes in the Hughes beard durinE the past eight years.
 When he retired from the supreme eourt 10 run for the presidency in isis. Hughes beard was a rich nut brown, of medium length. fastidlons- sfy parted in the middle.
 When he returned to Washing lon, after four years of law practice san New York. the harbers had taken half an inch of its length and time had sprinkied 1t with scattering of gray hairs.
 By degrees ,as secretary of state, even this abbreviated length has been shortened. Today. almost who'll Iy gray and still parted with metieu- lous care, there is not enough of the Hughes beard left to give the most angry diplomat a hand-hold. A Automatically safe" beard!
 Democrats here in the capital are particularly pleased that Hughes hirsute victory was not walkaway for the G. O. P. representative. If sffe democratic convention had not aiready been held. J. Ham might be given the presidential nomina- z E6fi in return for the showing his whiskers made abroad.
 Time, however, is taking the high Lights out of the beard that was ioncc the pride of J. Hams life. The ,glowing tints that once won for him the title of pink whiskers" are now subdued as the graying twilight of his years advances. Age, however, has not yet touched the iauntiness lof J. Hams spirit. and the grayins lbeard is Haunted with all the aban- ldonment with which it was worn even in it's pinkest days.
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 Some searcher of the records, .delving for light as to what may thappen should LaFollette succeed in deadlocking the presidential election this fall, has turned up the generally unknown fact that David R. Atchi- son, . senator from Missouri, for whom Atchison, Kas., was named, is entitled to be included in the list of presidents of the United States. Ktchison was president pro-tempore oflthe senate through the twenty ninth, thirtieth and thirty-second congresses.
 The fourth of March, 1s49, falling on Sunday, Zachary Taylor was hot sworn in as president until the Following day, March 5. In the meantime the term of James K. Polk had expired at noon on March z.
 The congressional biographical di- Ifectory, compiled under authority of congress and therefore official. rec iords of Atchison:
 'This office (president pro-tempore .nf the senate) made him president