Evening star., 1925-09-13

war workers all over the country,
who Ia likely to be appointed TO the
vacancy on the commission. II the
President changes his present inten
ton to name "a woman az successor
to the late Mrs. Helen II. Gardiner.
has been with the commission dur
Ing It's entire life. He pushed all
the goods and chattels of the com
mission In push cart when II
moved AZ years ago from its first
quarters in front and back parlor
on Fourteenth street. In his youth
Mr.. Halloran was "a famous bicycle
rider.
The old flre bell from the No. 3
engine house. at Delaware avenue
and c street-now abandoned
which was built by the Federal Gov
ernmen&Aon what was originally the
Capitol Grounds, for the protection
OF the Capitol Building-has been
turned over TO Chief Watson Of the
Washington Fire Department by
David Lynn. architect of the Capitol.
Ii VIII be placed on the new No. l3
engine house, in the Northeast where
1t Will be hitched up electrically to
strike each hour. The abandoned en-
gine house is located on the plaza
site between the Capitol and Union
station and will soon be torn down.
IL was supplanted by the new engine
house on New Jersey avenue.
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The work of freshening up the
Capitol and making necessary repairs
for the incoming Congress Is being
rushed at the House end this month
In preparation for the meeting of the
nterparliamentary Union. which Is to
hold it's sessions in the House cham
Der during October.
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Vice President Dawes had an un-
usually good opportunity last week
TO boast of his home town, Marietta,
Ohio. which the four Dawes boys
have put In a prominent place on
the map. IL la 4 great habit of
public men to toot loud and often
about their humble home town. With
the national convention of the Alpha
sigma Phi Fraternity in the May
nower Hotel. the Vice Presid ent
emphasized that 1t was Marietta
College that kept this fraternity alive
for some years when the chapters at
Yale. Harvard, Columbia and other
Dig universities were all discontinued.
Washington now boasts a big alumni
chapter of this fraternity, which in
ciudes scores of men who are doing
important work for Uncle Sam.
Senator Simeon ID. FeSs of Ohio,
who ts being much talked of for
chairman of the Republican senatorial
committee because of his notable sue
cess for two years as chairman of
the committee that brought the House
back to Republican control, has
eschewed the chautauQua circuit and
other public speaking as much as pos
stble this Summer and is coming back
TO his work In the Capital hardened
by months of devotion to his seven
acre garden at Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Senator Fess bought this place
when he was president OF Antioch
College. which he brought to fame
by establishing a system under which
each student goes to school for six
weeks and then works six weeks
This was done TO meet the complaint
that colleges are not practical and
turn out students with much the
oretical book lore but little or no
practical experience as workers. An
tioch College now has dozens of ap-
plicants for admission to each youth
who can be admitted.
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thought he would practice some of
his old pedasogic policy and better fit
himself for his coming duties in the
Senate by hard work in his garden.
He gets up at daybreak, or earlier,
and with hand plow or other garden
tool has been acquiring a horny hand,
which ought to make him strong with
the farmers OF his district-and
beyond.
Representative Frank H Funk of
Bloomington. H., who will be chair
man of the subcommittee handling the
District of Columbia appropriation
bin In the coming Congress, has gone
back to nature with vengeance this
Summer. He Is a national legislator
when his neighbors for hundreds of
miles around demand such services
from him; all the rest of the time,
and by choice and training and habit
owns and operates one of the biggest
farms in that famous corn belt region.
which has been in his family for more
than q century. it was because of
his practical knowledge of farming
that he was put on the joint con-
gressional committee several years
ago which make an extensive study
of the farmers problems. He has
several times been mentioned as under
consideration for the post OF Secretary
of Agriculture.
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When Representative John J. Bow.
Ian of New York City gets back on
the job here he Is going to do his
bounty to, or otherwise reward, devoted
public servants who have worked out
practical short cuts to economy and
efficiency for Uncle Sam There are
hundreds of them in the Fedora
workshows in Washington For ex.
ample:
In order that the American living
or basking for the Summer In those
sections of the country touched by the
waters of the oceans which are set in
motion by that subtle force exerted
by moon and sun may appreciate more
fully the benefits he gets directly from
the inventive genius of humble EN-.
ployes in the Coast and Geodetio
Survey, let us visit the temple of the
oracle who foetells the tides years In
advance for the use of the mariner.
the fisherman, as well as the bathing
beauty or the Apollo of the surf.
swept sands.
Tide tables did not, like Topsy.
just happen: they are the result of
years of study by tidal experts. One
of the results of this delving by the
scientists Is brass soothsayer. .
which is responsible for the author
itative prediction of future tides
which are furnished you In handy
booklet form, be you mariner, fisher
man or bather, in advance each year
for the mere cost of the paper and
the binding of these little books.
The machine, which Is II feet long
2 feet wide and 6 feet high, was de-
signed and built In the Office of the
United States Coast and Geedetie
Survey here in Washington. 1t also
tells the time Of slack water of the
tidal currents and the yelocitfes and