Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08

Everett Sanders, secretary to the
President, enjoys the distinction of
having uttered the first tribute to
Lindbergh to fall from the lips of a
high Federal official. Sanders adj
dressed the graduating class of his
alma mater, Indiana University. night
before last. In his peroration Mr..
Coolidge's right-hand man called Lind
bergh "a fair haired product of the
American prairies." and then elo-
uuently cited, him as an example to
the Nations youth. "In Lindbergh,"
said Sanders, lis the present-day
model of those who perform service
out of loyalty to an ideal-in his case,
crossing the Atlantic in the service of
the science of aviation-rather than
because of any hope for a reward.
Yet he has rendered a service impos-
sible, at this time, correctly to value.
We only know that what Lindbergh
did is summed up by M. Painleve, the
French minister of war, who said,
He has pushed back the horizon of
possibilities There are Lindberghs
in the class which is today gradu-
ating from this institution, and Wal
ter Reeds and Sir Isaac Newtons, too,
for you will remain true to your
ideals"
Gov. Richie of Maryland has a
double in Washington, who possesses
an even greater claim to fame. He is
Col. Charles E. Kilbourne. U. S. A,
executive officer of the Coast Artillery
in the War Department. Kilbourne
is the only man in the United States
Army who has been awarded all three
of our military decorations-the Con-
gressonal Medal of Honor, the Dis
tinguished Service Medal and the Dis
tinguished Service Cross. The colonel,
a Virginian, climbed a telephone pole
in the teeth Of the Filipino enemy
during the insurrection of 1899, and,
at grave risk of his life, repaired
the line so as to enable resumption
of communications with the Amer
lean forces. Congress voted him the
Medal of Honor for that gallant
feat. Kilbourne's Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal and Distinguished Service
Cross were won during the World
War. He is not a West Pointer,
having joined the Army by way of the
Oregon National Guard during the
Spanish-American War.
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Those interested in the condolences
of nomenclature will derive amuse-
ment from a strange similarity in the
initials of certain persons now very
much in the worlds eye. Charles A
Lindbergh's initials spell Cal" SO do
Charles A@ Levine's. Clarence Cham
berlin's initials are &C. c." So are Cal
vim Coolidge's.
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Maj. Charles M. Stedman, Democrat.
who has represented the fifth North
Carolina district in the House since
1911, bears a famous resemblance to
C m. Robert Z. Lee. Not so long ago
one of the great motion picture pro
ducing companies made Maj. Stedman
a seductive offer to star in a Civil
War movie and impersonate the cele-
brated commander in CHI : the Con
federate armies. Although Stedman is
himself a distinguished veteran of
Dixie, he declined to desert statesman
ship for the screen. Stedman, who
was Sc last January, is the oldest liv-
ing member of the House. He was
private, lieutenant, captain, then
major in Lees army, serving through
out the entire war and having been
wounded three times. Stedman sur
rendered at Appomattox.
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Attention has just been called to a
| remarkable anniversary in the Amer
| lean Foreign Service. On April 80,
1927. Richard Louis Sprague, Ameri'
can consul at Gibraltar, completed
the ninety-fifth successive year of serv-
| ice rendered at that post by members
of his family. Consul Sprague's grand
father and his father before him were
| Uncle Sans representatives at the
Glib" He himself was born at the
crock" long a world synonym for
strength, while his father was our
consul there. Secretary Kellogg
cabled Consul Sprague the State De-
partment's Fluctuations on the unique