Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Capital Sidelights

Illustrating the humanitarian, eco
nomic work which has just been I'M
dertaken in the vocational rehabilita-
ton of disabled residents of the District
of Columbia through Federal aid, Rep
reSentative Summers, who fathered this
legislation, tells the heart-intereSt
story of a young man taught to shave
without hands. It is taken from the
records of the Federal bureau:
This man was in poorhouSe when
the rehabilitation division contacted
him He had lost both hands between
the wrist and elbow in trying to hop a
freight train. The county commission
ers did not know what to do with him
so they put him in the poorhouse. The
rehabilitation division talked to the
man and found that, although illiterate
he was intelligent and was interested
in raising chickens.
1.-THE authority was granted by the
commissioners for the rehabilitation
division to take him out and train him
We equipped him with two Dorrance
hooks. That is an apparatus with
straps over the shoulders, and by NOV
ing the shoulders the man performs the
different operations. 1t is an uncanny
arrangement He was equipped with
those, put on poultry farm, and taught
the poultry business by being on the
Job He was uneducated; he could not
go to school. He learned it by actual
employment and training on the job
When I saw him, some two years ago
he was in charge of a flock of 5000
white leghorn hens at the State tuber-
culosis sanatorium. He lived in a little
bungalow on the grounds, and that
morning he shaved himself with a safety
razor and used his knife and fork at
the table just about as we'll as l use
them He is making now 5000 year
The State of Montana is paying him
5000 year and giving him home to
live in, whereas before it was costing
the State of Montana $40 a month to
keep him in the poorhouSe. He Is now
about 81 years old, so that at $40 a
month for 80 years he probably would
have cost them close to $4,000"
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In response to an inquiry regarding
Albert Gallatin, in whose memory a
statue is to be erected under co-opera-
ton of the Commission of Fine Arts at
the west entrance to the Treasury, Rep
resentative Emanuel Cellar of New York
supplies the following:
AlDGTb NJdIldGIl was OtCICldIy VI Gllc
Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and
Madison.
Of course, Gallatins fame does not
bite into our history like Hamilton's
He did not meet an untimely death by
fighting a duel with Burr That duel
has made Hamilton a sort of legendary
character, but Galatians achievements
are as worthy as Hamilton's. He held
the portfolio of the Treasury longer
than any other man. He fashioned the
financial policy of the young Govern
ment for IL years, for the two terms of
Jefferson and for the first term Of Mad
ison and we'll into the second. 1t was
his ingenuity and skill that prevented
financial chaos during the War of 1872.
He had been member of Congress and
later a United States Senator, and was
among the first to advocate the aboli-
ton of slavery.
He also achieved greatness in the
field of diplomacy, where he remained
for Is years, even during the admins
tration of John Quincy Adams, to
whom he was opposed politically. In
the thirteenth year of his service in
the cabinet as Secretary of the Treas
ury, Madison sent him to st. Petersburg
to enlist the interest of the Gear in con-
nection with peace with Great Britain
His mission ended with the treaty of
Client. He became Minister to France
and then Minister to Great Britain. He
later became successful banker and
founded the National City Bank of New
York. When he was 80 years of age he
was again offered the Office of Secre-
tary of the Treasury. In 1880 he be-
came one of the prime movers in the
establishment of what was then known
as the University of the City of New
York, now New York University. A year
later he became its first president.