Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
FLYERS FATHER
ALSO LONE WORKER
Honors Heaped Upon Lind
bergh Revive Memory of
His Parents Busy Life.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

I II
Representative Charlie" Lindbergh
of Little Falls was never anywhere
around when the band played. He
died three years ago, after lifetime
of loneliness and hard work. When
his boy came back from Paris yeSter-
day and bands and banners heralded
his march up the paths of glory some
of his fathers old friends may have
been there. They were not in the re-
viewing stands or on the reception com
mittees. Possibly, wherever they
were, they gave a reverent thought
to the lonely man who used to say
to his son. ''Tireless striving stretches
=, its arms toward perfection" He liked
to quote this line. He himself strove
Yaliantly-and lost. The boy has won
Representative Charles Augustus
Lfndbergh was the representative of
the sixth congressional district of
Minnesota from 1907 to 1917. His
biography was the shortest and his
working day the longest of any man
in Congress. "Lindbergh. c. A, Re
publican. Little Falls, Mimi" is his
one-line interlude in the Homeric tales
in the Congressional Directory. His
Office hours began at o'clock in the
mOrning-often earlier and never later
for ammunition for his always i'm
passioned battle against the money
trust
Too Busy to Make Friends.
Lindbergh was too busy to make
many friends. He worked alone, an
aloof and austre figure, never in the
crowd, leader of the lost cause. An
obstructionst," said his enemies. "a
great idealist." said his friends. He
dressed simply, avoiding the states
mans garb. which breaks out like an
occupat ional disease here in Washing
ton. He avoided social functions
whenever he could. When he found
attendance necessary, he was correct.
even meticulous in dress. Always
personable, and of easy demeanor he
could become even urbane when occa
sion required, but. best of all. he
loved solitude and toll. He was ascetic
in his personal habits. He never used
liquor or tobacco. ate simple food and
walked to and from his work. He
was tall. rangy, blue-eyed-his friends
always speak of his eyes-and blonde.
Describes His BoyhOOd.
In one of his forgotten books. why
Is Your Country at WARP" he tells
of his boyhood:
II have been in contact with many
phases of human conduct; have made
a study of life in both it's individual
and collective activities from every
practical view that / could bring my
self to see. Ny childhood was spent
in what was then the Wilds of nor
thern Minnesota My parents met
with the misfortunes that visited
many of the early pioneers and some
severe accidental misfortunes in addi-
ton. My days then were upon the
farm. in the woods, on the streams
and lakes. and l had the usual expert
ences of the youngsters thus sur
rounded, of getting out occasionally
and working for others-working fer
awhile on a railroad as a plain la
borer and later as a brakeman on a
construction train. / hammered to.
gether in a general way a sort of
general education-more from expert
ence than from books. Later / prac-
ticed law and had among my clients
the very poor and the wealthy. both,
which gave me knowledge of their
experiences. ] had small interest in
three banks, was a director of two of
them and knew how banks were run.
] have just closed 10 years Of activity
in Congress.
One POINT UmItteu.
Here he fails to state that he was
graduated from Grove Lake Academy
in Minneapolis and that later he was
given the degree of LIB. by the Uni
versity of Michigan. His life work
was banking and currency. He fought
the Federal reserve act, predicting
that it would defraud the farmers in
the later period of deflation. He in
troduced the resolution for the inves-
tigation of the money trust" which
resulted in the formation of the Pujo
committee.
He was obsessed with profound
moral convictions. interpolating them
constantly in his highly technical writ
ings on economic subjects. Not only
did he put them into his books. but
he taught them to his son.
when you call out your own natu-
raj talents. your country. too. will
have additional splendor." he wrote
in a chapter on "You-Yoursef"
His country has additional splendor
today. 1t is attested by an acclaim to
young Col. Lindbergh which America
has given to no other man. Where
the son moves today in triumph, his
father walked alone. His lance was
broken and his cause was lost-over-
whelmed by unstaying events.
Kipling Poem Appeared.
The king in Kipling's poem cleared
the ground for palace. He found
the ruins of an. earlier palace, but
thrust them aside and began his own
But his work was never finished. The
poem concludes:
They sent me word from the darkness.
They said. thy use is fulfilled:
Thy palace shall stand as that other
The spoil of a king who shall build
] summoned my men from my trenches,
Ny .quarries. NV wharves and my shears
AL had wrought / abandoned
To the faith of the faithless years:
But ! cut on every timber
ca"ved every stone,
After me corf"t tn a builder:
Tell him I too have known
Perhaps TIE handsome young colone
was thinkiEc of his father yesterday
iCCpyrirht 1927