Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-06
Nations Press Is Unanimous
In Praise of Senator Burton

Death Of Senator Theodore Elijah
Burton of Ohio Is mourned by the entire
country. He is praised throughout the
country as q great statesman and OUT
standing legislator, a strong peace adj
Vocate, and one to whom credit is due
for the development of waterways in
the United States. His honesty and his
sincerity awake the admiration of the
press.
Party for party's sake was not in his
creed" declares the Columbus Evening
! Dispatch, land his breadth of mind and
tolerance won him the honor more than
once Of reelection to the House with no
opposing candidate nominated against
him." The Cincinnati TimeS-Star SINH
larry states: I'm manner, Burton had
the simple, unaffected kindness that
is q reliable indication of greatness OF
SOUL Those who knew him well, per-
Sonally and politically, are the best
fitted to know how much poorer Ohio
is for his going" The Boston Tran
script also lauds "his modest devotion
to the public service, to which he gave
the best that was in him for more than
a quarter of a century"
Recalling the Senator's interest when
House chairman of the rivers and har-
bors committee in harbor development
at Savannah, the Press of that city
states that "Ohio has lost favorite
son, Savannah friend, and the Nation
very capable statesman" The loss to
the country also is emphasized by the
Chattanooga Times, which describes
him as lawyer, student, author, bust
ness man, negotiator, legislator and
statesman of long experience and far
more than average ability"
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His unique experience inpresses the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and that paper
records: ut is said of Mr.. Burton that
no other American had ever served first
in the House, then in the Senate, re-
turned to the House, and then again
served in the Senate. His services in
the cause of international peace We're
continuous and consistent, absolutely
independent of administration or party
control. He was a man who always
kept his sovereignty under his hat. and
for that he was most admired in the
Western Reserve and throughout the
State of Ohio, which delighted to honor
him."
Urine will not diminish his stature"
AYERS the Dayton Daily News, whose
tribute is that "he was a public servant
in the truest sense, independent in
thought and courageous in positions as
Sumed on current problems" The Ak
ron Beacon Journal testifieS that good
government was his hobby, and seldom
did he taste the bitterness of defeat in
his many campaigns for election" while
the Herald of washington Court House,
calling him "a progressive with no trace
of radicalism, a Republican who refused
to indorse a stand-pat policy" looks
upon him as zone of those. all too few
public servants who take an active part
in politics and in the service of the
public, not for what they can get out
Of it but for what they can contribute"
Through a long-active career" says
the Lansing State Journal, "he brought
knowledge and capability in an unself-
ish way to the public service" The
Cleveland Plain Dealer eulogizes him in
the words, "Scholar-statesman lover
and worker for peace. kindly HUMANE
tartan, good citizen, q true Senator of
the people, hail and FAREWELL"
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i'Senator Burton fought valiantly I'M
til the beginning Of his fatal Illness"
states the Little Rock Arkansas Demo-
crat, "for the elimination of those
things which he believed at all times
threatened world peace. He was first to
advocate abolition of poisonous gas in