Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
Capital Sidelights
ny WILL p. KENNEDY.

by WILL p. KENNEDY.
There was . big celebration during
the past week at Little Falls, Mimi,
when . memorial was unveiled to the
late Representative Charles A. Lind
berRh, father Of Americas most famous
aviator. 1t was the elder Lindbergh's
old home town, from which he had
been sent to Congress to serve 10
years-1907-1917. The orator Of the
occasion was Representative Ernest
Lundeen, who has just returned to Con-
grsss He was a member of the War
Congress" and served with Lindbergh.
Although Spanish War veteran. hold
ing q commission In the Minnesota
National Guard and q member of the
national championship rifle team, Lun-
deem voted against war, against con-
scription for foreign service, against
League Of Nations and opposed to
United States entry into the World
Court, and conducted the first congress
sional referendum on war.
Representative Lundeen was q leader
in the recent special session in de-
nouncing The March Of the Morgan
Millions" and gave his old friend,
Representative Charles A. Lindbergh,
credit for having started the investiga-
ton of the money trust" The famous
PujO investigation of the money trust
and that famous report in 1912 was in
stigated, engineered and carried through
by Representative Lndbergh, his old
friend has advised the newcomers in
Congress. He points to three important
books which he advises all legislators
to read, Of which Representative Lind
bergh was the author-"The Economic
Pinch" why Is Your Country at War"
and Banking and Currency and the
Money Trust
The Spanish American War Veterans
look upon Mr.. Lundeen as one Of their
outstanding comrades in arms. He re-
Gently attended State convention in
Minnesota and is on his way as dele
gate to the national convention in San
Francisco. He served as private in
Company B, 18th Regiment, Minnesota
Volunteers, during the Spanish Amer
lean War, and was or years president
of the 18th Minnesota United States Vol
unteers Association and first vice pres
ident of the Civil War Veterans Asso.
citation. Upon the invitation of the
National Grand Army Of the Republic
he delivered the Memorial day address
In Arlington National Cemetery in 1919.
When the Spanish War Veterans pen
omy drive In the special session. Repre-
sentative Lundeen lead q vigorous de-
tense. He paid glowing tribute to his
former comrades, saying:
The Spanish American War Is one
war which gained great wealth for
Uncle Sam. The cost is estimated at q
tribe over 81 900 900 900 and the prop
erty gained at about $4,000, 900 900.
This property has earned for US more
than $4,000. 100000 since We acquired
the same.
Let it be understood by all men that
the Spanish American soldiers never
lost a battle. never lost a prisoner, and
won a war in record time. We are not
going to lose this battle for justice for
the disabled, and we mean to let the
world know that we will not submit to
any pauper clauses and any degrading
papers which we are asked to sign. We
stand today, erect, in the sunlight Of
God, under the nag we carried in war,
and unafraid We look the world in the
face, American citizens and soldiers
and We demand that We be treated as
such"
There's q big ovation for Representa-
tive Lundeen planned at the Spanish
War Veterans National Convention.
There IS at the Capitol q veteran
colored employe, born on George wash
ington's Mount Vernon estate. whose
forebears served the father of his coun-
try as slaves-who is especially proud
OF his family traditions of service" and
that he comes of q people who have
sought little in life for themselves but
only what they could give in service to
thelr fellow man. Harry Parker has
conspicuouSly lived up to his family
traditions. For 43 years he has been
major domo of the House WAYS and
Means Committee, which handles all
tarln and revenue measures, even since
ne nrst came as q boy in the barber
shop and worked for the committee
nights and early morning. He has been
proud Of his service for all of the
famous tariff makers for the past two
score years-Nelson Dingley. William
Mckinley. Gen. Joe Wheeler, William
Jennings Bryan. w. Bourke Cochran.
Robert M. La Toilette, Claude Kitchin,
Ogden L. Mills. etc.-all of whom af-
fectionately called him Harry"
He Is q leader in charitable work at
the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church and
because Of their friendship for him
many leaders in the Official life of
the Capital City have visited and spoke
at gatherings In that little colored
church-such men as Chief Justice
Charles E. Hughes. William Jennings
Bryan, President Cleveland and mem
beers of the diplomatic corps from some
OF the great nations.
Research students in the Library of
Congress this Summer are reveling in a
food Of new light upon the early history
Of our oldest colony-"The Old Domin-
ion" The four volumes of the Rec
ords Of the Virginia Company" edited
by Miss Susan M. Kingsbury, professor
in Bryn Mawr College, are now COM
pleted and are most valuable source
material for historians This set of
records has been in preparation for
more than IS years. They contain
the official minutes of the meetings
Of the Virginia Company and its
board Of directors from 1918 to 1924
in the first two volumes, tran
scribed under the eye of its secretary.
brought to Virginia in the seventeenth
century, preserved there iatterly by
Thomas Jefferson and transferred from
his estate to the Library of Congress
more than q century ago.