Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

As an aftermath Of his recent clash
with Herbert D. Brown, chief of the
United States Bureau of Efficiency, over
the latter's pet project to have the Fed
eral Government establish a paper mill
in connection with the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing, for the manufac-
ture of distinctive currency paper, Rep
resentative Allen T, Treadway of Mas
sachusetts is telling his colleagues a
good "joke" he has discovered on Mr..
Brown.
During the hearings before the House
Committee on Expenditures in the Gov
eminent Departments the Massachusetts
member sought to establish on what
grounds Mr.. Brown claimed to be an
authority on the manufacture of paper
Mr.. Brown said that he had been
brought up in a paper mill-or words
to that effect. Now Mr.. TreadWay finds
that the Brown family fortune was lost
in a paper mill under private owner
ship and operation--his line of reaction
being that Mr.. Brown has grown up
with Crouch" against private owner
ship and that because private concern
lost money in the manufacture of pa
per he thinks 1t would be more eco
nomically efficient for the Government
to set up such a plant
Representative Treadway saws his
authority for this little comeback" at
Mr.. Brown is found in the prize-win-
ming book on Grandmother Browns
One Hundred Years" which was writ
ten by Mr.. Browns wife about the ex-
periences of Mr.. Browns mother, who
was greatly grieved over the loss of the
family fortune in the paper mill and
who frequently referred in the book to
"Herbie" as her particular pet.
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One Of the "unsung heroes" OF long
service in the House, where he has
been daily at the beck and call of all
members for a half century-still on
the job and going strong-Sam Robin
son, has Just been extolled throughout
the length and breadth of the land by
having his record written up in the
official daily newspaper of Congress
the Congressional Record.
Representative Robert r. Butler OF
Oregon extended his remarks" in the
Record about how Sam Robinson has
been plugging along loyalty for half a
messenger-boy service, in spite of the
fact that he Is now IL years old.
Mr.. Robinson is not rated as a mes
senger boy, but essentially that is his
duty, for he has to chase after Con-
greSSmen wherever they are to be
found in Washington. In this way he
has come to know intimately every
member of Congress and where he
lives for the past so years.
He carries about with him on his
trips all over the National Capital the
responsibility of submitting to each
member of the House the typewriter
transcript from the stenographic report
OF the members remarks on the floor
Before members remarks are printed
in the Congressional Record he Is af-
forded an opportunity to make gram
NAUTICAL corrections, and in some in
stances to eliminate after sober second
thought portions of what he actually
said in the heat of debate on the floor
More often than cutting out some oil
their remarks, the members are anxious
rather to extend them with voluminous
interpretations and Celebrations.
For half century, as boy and man.
Sam Robinson has tracked the members
TO their offices and homes searching
high and low for them until he per-
sOnally hands over to them this CODY
and awaits the pleasure of the individual
member to correct it so that it may
appear In the next mornings issue of
the Congressional Record. He has the
reputation OF never arguing with men,
beers but if they tell him to wait while
they stew over uncounted words OF
burning wisdom he waits patiently. In
the heat of Summer, in the rains of
Spring, through lightning storms and
billiards, Sam Robinson has trudged
hither and yon with the copy" in his
pocket. With the development and
expansion Of the National Capital his
beat has been heightened since the DAYS
half century ago when most of the
then $50 members lived in one hotel,
SO that he found it much easier to
deliver and collect the transcript of
their remarks. His long years have
hardened him against any tremors of
hesitancy about waking up any member
at any hour of the night in order to
get back revised copy for the Con-
gressional Record, which he has helped
to make as much as any man who ever
sat in Congress.