Evening star., 1926-11-07
Capital Sidelights

berS or Congress OF Delng dple 10 an
swer any and all questions they may
ask him, promptly and author1tatlve!y
This Is Maj. Daniel J. Dopovan. the
District auditor, on whom the brun'
of the WORK falls in hearings before
| the appropriations committees OF
the House and Senate on each of the
more than 400 items in the District
budget Maj Donovan has just com
pleted more than two solid weeks ol
hearings before the Budget Bureau
on the District estimates. He has
stack of papers more than 1ee'
| high, which represent the substanti
ating data to confirm his answer tc
any question that may be asked
about District appropriations. During
| the next month he will be busy re
vising all of these papers and bring
Ling them UP to date. Perhaps nine
| tenths of these data will never be
used. as the major can think of more
questions that the members of the ap
preparation committee might ask thar
they may actually ask, but he Will be
ready for the inquiry. From his many
years of experience in thus testifyine
before the congressional committees
and the Budget Bureau he knows just
about what line of questions will be
asked.
Some of his good friends in Con
gress-and there are very many sucf
call Dan" Donovan. THE oracle.
|
Piracy on the High Seas" is warn
| ID against by the National Associa
ton Of Ma nufacturers, in spite Of the
| laws Congress has carefully pre-
pared and many years of earnest edu
cative effort by the Department o'
Commerce. This refers to the "higf
seas" of commerce and the piracy
of trade marks.
Profitable trade campaigns in for
eign lands frequently have beer
blocked or interfered with by trade
mark pirates who have taken advan
tage of the neglect of the manufac
turer to register his trade mark, al
the laws of many countries recognize
ownership of trade marks only Wher
duly registered, and grant registra
ton to the first applicant
The term Of a registration also va
ries from tn 90 years.
Time of expiration should bs
watched
The trade mark bureau of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturer.
Is especially maintained for the pro
lection of members in this importan n
matter.
Apropos of the Navy equalization
bill many persons have become in
terested as never before in how ou1
Navy and the system of sea warfare
have been developed
In the sea warfare Of early time.
navies. far from being permanent or
ganizations, We're usually only tenn
porary aggregations Of merchant YES
sells hastily assembled in an emer
gency. As such, they were manned
by their usual crews and fought BY
land Goldiery embarked for the oc
casion. Even when, as was the prac
tice at certain periods in Athens
Rome and Venice. national navie'
were maintained, there still remained
A. wide gulf between the crew wh'
navieated and handled the ship ant
the soldiery who commanded it ant
did the fighting. the separation per
ssting generally unfit the time of th'
Spanish Armada 05Ss) when the new
departure was witnessed of sailor
doing the fighting.
Probably this innovation in th'
practices of naval warfare was du
more to circumstance than to In
ventiveness on the part Of the Eng
lish: but, whether credit be due then
or not. the success Of their expert
in naval warfare; for the advantag'
to he gained by having unified
group OF men specially trained to con
duct warfare at sea in all its phase
was from then on universally recog
nized. AS a result, permanent navie
made their temperance, and, will
them. the naval line officer-a persol
familiar with the navigation an
handling of ships, and also trained IL
the weapons and methods of warfar
af1oat.
For time. these line officers sui
feed for the doing Of all that needle
to be done aboard the ships of tn
day: but it soon became evident tha
there was much further that could b
done profitably that lay wholly out
side the experience of this new pre-
fession of arms. For example. it wa
found that men fought more willing
ly and conrageously knowing that
surgeon stood by to relieve thei
hurts, and that the advice of a sur
geon in matters of hygiene and die
often prevented the untimely co
lapse Of an expedition from the ir
roads Of scurvy. So 1t came abou
that European nations. after learning
in the hard school Of experience wha
they might have learned from tn
history Of Greece or Rome. made tn
surgeons division an integral part q
every ships crew.
Similarly in other lines, the dis
tribution Of an accounting for publ
funds required the services Of bod
of men skilled in commercial praC
tices; building ships of war grew t
such unique occupation that 1t. too
demanded men applying themselves I
that work alone: and so likewise wit
the building of dry docks, or dealing
with the peculiar religious probler
presented by the seafaring man.
In such way has the commissions
personnel of the Navy come to cor
sist Of two groups: The line. lineal de
scendants of the oldtime sea rar
tains, who, in addition to ac0uirin
he trade of their forerunners, hav
learned the employment of the art
and engines appropriate to warfare a
sea: and the staff. schooled in the un
versal arts and sciences, and practice
in their applications to the prosec,
ton of naval warfare.
Though not cotemporary in origin
both groups are equally the naturs
products of necessities created b
human progress. and the two group
are, in respect to their common occt
patton, Complementary and mutual
Indispensable.
Upon what meat does this on
Caesar feed?"
, Senator Capper, leader of the farr
bloc, has detailed informa tion as I
just what the farmers eat who fu
nish the food supply for the rest
the Nation, and has 1t approximate te
, down to a cost of $147 per adult maj
person. based on detailed informatio
) regarding 1881 farm families.
: In his home State Of Kansas and /
, Ohio the farmers showed A. partialit
to beef, potatoes, dried fruits, bear
and peas. In Kentucky and Missou
, the farmers consumed large quaint
ties Of pork. bacon, lard, molasses an
. corn meal.
The survey showad that the fa r,oa,