Evening star., 1925-11-29
Capital Sidelights

Congress and official Washington
have of recent years been so thorough
ly inoculated with the golf germ that
the suggestion has been made that
the next new employe for Congress,
more especially for the Senate, should
be a golf professional. A congress
SiOnal golf tournament is being adVO-
Gated, in the same spirit that Repub-
licsn and Democratic members used
some years ago to challenge each
other to contests on the base ball dia
mond. Senators and House members
can now get golf balls and clubs at
the Senate and House stationery
stores, so why not have a professional
to coach them on their game?
OF course, we no longer have golf
playing President. In the Harding
days golf ca binet carried on in much
the same way that the famous tennis
cabinet" functioned in the Roosevelt
regime. The old presidential foursome
was composed of Mr.. Harding and
Senators Hale Of Maine. F'relinghuy-
sen of New Jersey and Kellogg Of
Minnesota. They were early birds
! on the links, often starting their tour
before Z am; not infrequently they
played on the public golf course in
Potomac Park. Now Hale is the only
one of them left in the Senate. but he
is still going strong on the links.
recognized as the best golfer in the
cabinet and among all the Govern
ment officials. while Senator Frederick
II. Gillett of Massachusetts. formerly
Speaker of the House. is recognized
as the best golfer in Congress. Both
Kellogg and Gillett usually play on
the Chevy Chase course, and make
the round in IS.
Members of Congress can be seen
daily playing on each Of the ! golf
courses about the Capital. with Sena-
tors most conspicuous. This golf bug
ha snt merely hit the effete East look
ing about for needed exercise and
recreation. but outstanding figures
from the Southland and from out be
yond where the West begins. even
way through to where it ends al the
shore of the Pacific Ocean have taken
up the healthful pastime. The rugged
Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah. the
ruddy and rotund Senator Pat Harrison
of Mississippi, sturdy Senator Wesley
l.. Jones of Washington and the
euphonious Senator Andreius A. Jones
of New Mexico, the bantam Senator
Arthur Capper Of Kansas, leader Of
the farm bloc; the apostle of irriga-
ton and reclamation, Senator Charles
l.. McNary of Oregon; the Democratic
leader. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan-
SetSJ nave an ldllSn Wiling victims.
Senator Robinson, by the way, is
an old war horse and devotee at golf.
His earnestness in match play was
notably attested a short while ago
when il resulted in a fist fight on
the links of the Chevy Chase club
resort of the fashionable elite. Sena-
tors Robinson and Morris Sheppard Of
Texas, great apostle of temperance,
present decided antithesis on the
golf course. where they very frequent
ly play together. Robinson frankly
admits that he is IAN old reprobate"
and sneaks away from q roll call once
i'll a while TO keep lit by PLAYING
golf, while he inveisles against Sena-
! tor Sheppard'S tender consciousness
because he VIII not eVade the bell that
calls members scurrying to the legs-
lative chamber.
Senator George Wharton Pepper of
Pennsylvania. longtime disciple Of
physical exercise and noted all-round
athlete. is another striking and FIRE
quent figure on the golf course
Senator James Couzens of Michigan
who helped Henry Ford to put the
multitudinous "fivver" on the high
way map of the United States and
who was for years general manager
of the works, now takes il out on the
greens.
The new Speaker of the House.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
Of Ohio, oftentimes better known as
Alice Roosevelt's s husband and father
of the recently arrived Paulina, who
used to entertain at the White
House. as did also Vice President
Dawes. with his violin. is a persistent
golfer. 1t isn't 50 long ago that
Nick" got knocked out on the links
when he was hit back of the ear by
A golf ball whacked by the Stalwart
Representative Adam Wyant OF Penn
sylvania.
But space is lacking TO name all of
those who have surrendered TO golf
1t must not be neglected however, To
mention that the new Secretary Of
Agriculture, ex-cOwboy. DR.. William
| NJ. Jardine. Is victim, and quite
enthusiastic about H.
To keep history straight the mega
| tive side should also be recorded
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas the
Republican leader OF the Senate. does
/ not play golf. SO the Kansas dele
cation in the Senate splits even. with
| Senator Capper carrying out the golf
! requirements of their constituents
! While Senator Curtis sticks to his old
! hobby of horse races. And why nOto
Wasn't he a successful Jockey him
! Self-and not so very many years go.
! either? Senator William f. Borah of
| Idaho. the lone wolf" doesn't
gather with the many of his col
leagues on the links. but takes his
exercise by solitary horseback rides.
One of Secretary Hoover's disciples
| on the Food Administration is coming
| back to the Capital to help run the
Government. This is Franklin W.
| Fort. Republican, of East Orange.
n. J. who from 1917 to 1919 was
His four charming children will be a
decided acquisition in the younger
social set.
Railroad men hail with pleasure the
return to Congress of a former loco
motive engineer. Representative VIII
| liam l.. Carss Of Proctor Mimi. who
was on his run on the Duluth.
Missabe and Northern Railway
when elected TO Congress, which
was the first public Office he ever
sought. He served in the Sixty sixth
Congress and is now coming back to
the Sixty ninth. Representative Carss
is member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and held i'm
portant offices in that organization.
The real dirt" farmer has been
discovered in the incoming Con-
gress He is Representative Franklin
! Menges, native of Menges Mills, Pa.
After a post graduate course in
chemistry, physics, geology and mine
! ralogy and receiving the degree of
| doctor of philosophy from Gettysburg
College. Mr.. Menges was instructor
| in chemistry and physics at his alma