Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Chairman zihlman of the House Dis
trict committee paid very gracious
and we'll deserved compliment in the
House late Friday, following the pas
sage. of the reapportionment bill, to
another member of the District COM
mittee, Representative Clarence J. NC
Leod Of Michigan. Mr.. zihlman said:
st realize that many members have
given generously of their time to bring
the reapportionment issue to success
full termination, and am sure we are
all grateful to them. However. there
is one member whom I know particu-
larly we'll, and I know that he had con-
tributed more than any one else by his
untiring efforts, his indomitable spirit
in the face of continuous and successive
setbacks, his uniform courtesy, his bull
dog tenacity to carry through what is
perhaps the most delicate and difficult
bill to handle in legislative body, and
I therefore think that the gentleman
from Michigan (Mr McLeod) is en-
titled to the thanks of the House and
the country"
Through the mediation of Chairman
Luce of the House committee on the
Library, the State of Virginia is to get
Original Ordinance Secession of March
II, 1861" which was taken from the
walls of the Capitol in Richmond by a
Yankee soldier as a souvenir at the
time the city was abandoned. Gov.
Byrd Is to receive this relic and prom
Uses that 1t will be hung in the State
Library.
The G. A. r. Post in Natick. Mass.
is giving up its quarters and diSpoSing
of its property. This original act of
secession, bearing the autographs of
many prominent leaders of the seces-
sion. was presented to the post by one
of its members, Edward l.. Greenwood,
who during the rout In Richmond took
1t from the wall as relic. The Mas
sachusetts post is ready to return it
to the people Of Virginia.
Representative Luce wrote to Gov.
Byrd asking If the State would welcome
its return. The governor answered.:
Virginia would be very glad to have
this document. It would be placed in
the State Library and every care taken
of It,"
Thus the wounds of the fratricidal
strife threescore years ago are being
healed.
II X X r
Take another good look at the dome
On the Library of Congress. Take sky
line look at it that will include also
the dome on the Capitol.
Cass Gilbert, the great architect who
is planning the new Supreme Court
IxfF in y
ing with the Supreme Court Building
Commission in Chief Justice Taft's
home the other night by saying that
the dome of the Library of Congress
should be removed 1t offends the ar
tistic sensibilities of good architects, he
declared. 1t does not harmonic with
the Capitol dome, but rather detracts
from it. The Capitol dome should domi-
nate the entire architectural group, MIR.
Gilbert said, and there should be no
other dome in the same neighborhood.
Representative Louis Ludlow,
veteran Washington correspondent, is
already in demand as a public speaker
and has invitations to address large
gatherings in half the States of the
Union. In one Of these speeches he
pokes a little fun at some of the Gov
eminent publications from which he
has in the past garnered not little
copy for the newspapers he represented,
for example:
THE Department of Agriculture has
just completed a survey of f1bers used
In mems clothing and discloses the
horrendous fact that many men are not
wearing union suits, undershirts or
drawers. and the equally stupendous
fact that ST per cent of the men reply
Ing reported that they are wearing
more silk and rayon socks than they
had during the preceding five years.
while the paternalistic Department
of Agriculture is thus revealing a shock
ing absence of mems neither garments,
the Department of Commences frog is
jumping into prominence faster than
Mark Twain's Jumping frog. Common
sense would suggest that the Federal
Government should leave the task OF
propagating frogs to individuals who are
realistically inclined, but Uncle Sam,
standing away UP there in his supernal
majesty, orders the steady, easy-going
frog to multiply and replenish the
earth. There is in this book a most
romantic chapter on the love affairs OF
frogs which brings to mind the old
nursery rhyme.
1.-The frog he would a-wooing go,
Whether his mother would let him, or
no.
1--WE learn from this chapter that the
gentleman frog sings, or rather croaks,
when in love, and that he does not hes
itate to die In battle in an effort to win
his lady.
1T remains for the Cornell savant
who wrote this bulletin for the depart
ment to furnish clear and specific di-
rections which any boy who aspires to-
be frog culturist may readily grasp.
For instance, quoting from the bulle-
tin:
1.-The aquatic salamander. like the
newt. frequently pulls off eggs from a
frogs egg mass for food. The large
forms, like the mud puppy (Necturus)
and hellbender (Cryptobranchus), may
eat frogs eggs or larvae If favorably Sit.
uated. Among frogs there are several
species whose adults do not stop at
fratricide or cannibalism. In fact, 1t is
one of the factors which have led some
frog culturists to abandon bullfrogs,
which will feed on anything from frogs
to alligators, not even sparing their own
progeny"