Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31
Capital Sidelights
BY Will. p. KENNEDY.


another miracle" has been emphasized
during the hearings before the House
ways and means committee on the new
tariff bill, which is to be one Of the
two main legislative efforts in the
extraordinary session OF Congress. A
fabric that looks like silk, feels like silk
and wears even better than silk has
been made from cotton, according to
testimony that comes from the antipodes
of the cotton industgy-from the cot
ton-growing South, with Representative
Marvin Jones of Texas as the spokes-
man, and from cotton manufacturing
New England, with Representative Edith
N. Rogers of Massachusetts as herald.
Mrs. Rogers has come to be known
as "the homemade ladyp because she
invariably wears goods manufactured
In her district. She has had garments
made from the new fabric, "Sudanette,
to forcibly impress her colleagues, just
as she has been wearing woolens and
velvetS and other fabrics Of home
manufacture.
She explains that with scores Of mills
in Massachusetts, all set to turn out
cotton goods by the millions Of yards,
along came the modern girl and woman
demanding silk raiment, so something
had to be done. Down In New Bedford
William w. Hobbs of the third genera
ton Of cotton manufacturers developed
process Of turning cotton into q beau
faV1 AyH@ ARNAA Ia e. zNA~ RrHk
and tubfast that costs little more than
cotton and o great deal less than silk,
with the durability of cotton and the
introduced Mr.. Hobbs to her colleagues
at the Capitol as a hero Of the cotton
industry.
Another trail blazer Of the industry
has also been called to the attention
of the tariff students, also q New Bed
ford man, c. r. Broughton, who has
made 1t possible for American yachts
to proceed to new victories under Amer
lean sail. Heretofore yachts built in
America and sailed by Americans have
had their sails made from foreign duck.
Mr.. Broughton had special machinery
built and turned out sail duck that was
first used on the yacht Wildfire, owned
by Charles L. Harding Of Bristol r. l..
after having been subjected to most rigid
tests by DR.. Willard of the Massachu-
sets Institute OF Technology in COM
petition with foreign fabrics as to
strength and stretch-resistance which
showed the new domestic product to be
superior.
On their tour Of New England cot
ton, silk and paper manufacturing
plants the subcommittee OF the ways
and means committee headed by Repre-
sentative Treadway of Massachusetts,
made personal inspection of these
progressive processes to keep American
cotton manufacturing industry in the
forefront.
Grandmothers in Congress-most
certainly there are three of them, and
they all expect to take their grand
daughters to the Easter egg-rolling on
the White House lawns. They are Mrs.
Katherine Langley OF Kentucky Mrs.
Ruth Pratt Of New York and Mrs.
Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida. These
three grandmothers are all noted ora
tors. Mrs. Langley is a graduate of
Emerson College Of Oratory, Boston,
stitute. Before becoming q Represent
alive herself she was the daughter and
wife Of Congressman. Mrs. owen has
the added felicity this Eastertice Of
having both a daughter and grand
daughter young enough to play on
the White House lawn.
And We have great-grandfathers In
Congress-one Of the proudest Of them
being Representative Elliott w. Sproul
Of Illinois, who basis that he is a great
grandfather several times over.
Legislation to protect the motor
tourist from having his attention dis
tracted at danger spots along the high
way and his view Of the most pic
truesque stretches obstructed is urged
by Thomas F. Macdonald, chief
Of the Federal Bureau of Public Roads
After a careful survey this official
protests that there is little of fairness
to the public in the fact that the IN
dustries which depend upon the high
ways for their whole business (the au-
tomobile industry chiefly and next the
hotel and restaurant business) should
be the worst offenders in erecting and
maintaining thousands of glaring, dis
figuring signs, which interfere with
standing road signs for convenience OF
the public"
These signs" Mr.. Macdonald point;
out, ARE concentrated on the main
travelled highways and are habitually
placed at turns In the road where the
motorists should be giving most care.
full attention to driving. In many in.
stances they cut of the view of ap-
preaching cars at curves and at roac
intersections. Some even cut Of The
sight of approaching trains at unpro'
tected grade crossings. Those which
carry the word Stop and other word:
ordinarily employed on the Legitimate
warning signs weaken the force Of thu
properly placed cautionary signals"