Evening star., 1925-11-22
Capital Sidelights

One of the most popular men who
ever sat in Congress. Representative
Samuel S. Arentz, Republican at
large from Nevada, has just returned
to the Capital by an automobile trip
of more than $500 miles across CONT
nent, with his wife and four children.
Mr.. Arentz is a real Seif-mdde man,
and is regular fellow" In early
! life he was a machinist apprentice in
| a shop In Chicago, surveyor, assessor,
miner and timberman in Bear Gulch
and Butte, Mont, and also in the Lake
Superior copper country. lie worked
| his way through college. Later he
was mining engineer and superintend-
ent of mines in Idaho, Utah, Arizona
and Nevada. He has been chief engi-
neer of the Nevada Copper Belt Rail
| way, chief engineer of the Salt Lake
and Utah Railway, consulting engi-
| neer of the United States Bureau
of Mines on complex ore prob
lens: president of the Utah Society of
Engineers, member of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, mining and civil engineer,
| rancher and mine operator in Nevada.
lie was Il. member of the South Da-
kota National Guard, and during the
World War was d captain Oh engl-
neers.
While making his 3,50o-mile auto
mobile trip back to Washington, Mr..
Arentz took occasion, as he came
| through the cities, towns and villages,
| to note the location and general ap-
pearance of the Government head
quarters in each place. namely, the
post office. As a result of this per
sonal inspection he is convinced more
| than ever before that there should be
d general public building bill, TO the
| end that every city in the United
| States should in time possess a post
office building from whose roof flies
| the Stars and Stripes from sunrise to
sunset. "It would pay from busi-
ness standpoint, and 1t would pay
| from an AmericaniZation standpoint,
| Mr.. ArentZ feels.
The Arentz family lives on Il ranch
| So miles south of Reno, miles from
| a store and 81 miles from town. The
Representative is more interested IN
| irrigation and reclamation OF arid iand
than the big majority of his. col
| leagues, because Is years ago he filed
| on 32O acres OF Government land when
| the nearest neighbor was miles
away. lie fenced this tract, dug
| ditches cleaned off the sage brush,
| planted the land to alfalfa, erected
buildings, and now owns and occupies
a model Nevada ranch. His wife, son
and three daughters love to live there
| as well as he does.
During the past Summer Mr..
Arentz personally stacked 300 tons
| of hay and was foreman of the hay
| crew.
On his auto jaunt East he stopped
| at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake city
and this brought back memories OF
q years ago when he arrived there
| from the Black Hills on graduation
| from the South Dakota School OF
| Mines with only S12 in his pocket,
knowing no one and unknown.
| Last Fall, during the campaign, Mr..
ArentZ stepped up to man in a little
| mining camp in Nevada, introduced
himself and gave the stranger some
| of his campaign cards. The stranger
| asked Mr.. Arentz if he knew him
| and Mr.. Arentz confessed he did not
| We'll" responded the other, Il
know you, for l worked in the Bear
| Gulch mine with you when you were
only a kid 26 years ago"
Senator Gillett, who during his
term as Speaker of the House got
accustomed to spending the day in
| the Capitol Building, whereas most
Of the members shuttle back and
forth to their offices in another
building several times day, has
secured a very private" office in the
center of the Capitol Building, by
right of discovery. This is an out
of-the-way room reached through
labyrinth of passages and serves the
new Senator well for his purposes OF
privacy, for it is hard to find. En-
tering upon his thirty third year OF
service in Congress, even though he
is new as a Senator his colleagues
feel that Senator Gillett's preferences
for a room in the Capitol Building
ought to be honored.
Unknown TO most of his associates
in the Capitol, Speaker Gfllett had
! hide-away rooms in an inconspicuouS
corner of the first floor of the build
ing, under the offices of the House
leader. There he was accustomed to
get an occasional hours rest. These
offices were never fixed up pretty for
company. They had been used for
years as Storerooms and d luncheon
place for clerks.
But now-they have suddenly be-
come a show place. They We're dis
covered by Representative Allen I.
Treadway of Massachusetts,. who filed
notice he would like to have them
and they We're assigned to him. One
has been transformed into a private
| office, with an historic mantel mirror
conspicuous among the decorations.
But what is bringing sightseers to
| this private" Office in droveS Is the
| fact that the walls and ceilings are
decorated with some of Constantine
Brumidi'S earliest and best mural deco
rations This same Brumidi during
| the pontificate of Plus TX was COM
| missioned by him to restore the
| Loggia Of Raphael in the Vatican.
Brumidi decorated the President 8
| room in the Capitol. the canopy of
| the dome, a portion of the historical
frieze and the painting in the hall
| of the House of Representatives
"Cornwallis Sues for Cessation of
Hostilities Under the Flag of Truce" "
The office now occupied by Repre-
sentative Treadway was originally
| the office of the House committee on
| Territories, SO the decorations depict
| flowers, birds and animals in fitting
| backgrounds as they lived in native
habitat of the great West which has
since been carved into some of the
| most thriving States. The restoration
| of this art work has suggested to the
| members of Congress from these
States to bring visiting constituents
| to Mr.. Treadway's office to show
where the State was born.
This room also was once the private
retreat of the famous TON" Reed Of
| Maine. first czar of the House. 1t
was here that Reed kept a well
| stocked sideboard in the days long
| before ANDY" Volstead came. Mr..
| Treadway asked an old negro messen-
ger who knew Reed well what was
served from the sideboard. well,
| they called it smelling salts, sab" ;"