Evening star., 1935-07-28
Capital Sidelights
By Will p. Kennedy.

Congress is all things to all men-or
something like that:
One member is Black, two White,
three Brow, two Gray and one Green;
one May and another Kahn; one Cross
and another CrosSer. There's the Pope
and Church, Mas Cross and Bell. There
South and West meet DAILY. You can
see the Long and Short of it. There's
a Byrd and Eagle, Fish and Buck
also Maverick. There are Holmes with
Keyes, Celler and Hatch.
Some are Hale, Gingery, Bland-others
Grove, Hope. Beam or are just plain
MeekS, or those with Ayers-and one
is a Dear. Congress is made up of
Glass, Wood, Gore, Bone-or what have
you You can have your Coffee and
Bacon or Dietrich. You may contem-
plate a River, a couple of FordS, three
Hills, a Greenwood. a Moore or Parks.
There's Cox that Grove DAILY, Driver
without horse and wagon. You may
greet a King or a Pope or Lord. One
/. Dies and two are Dunn. There are
two burns there-whether you spell it
Byrns or Byrnes. You can keep cool
with Coolidge or Cooley. There's Hope
and a Greever and Guyer. One men,
ber is always Luckey. Congress has
two Cannons. One Senator bears Tyd-
ings. There are two Coopers and one
Mason, a Carpenter, a Weaver and a
Turner.
Those with the shortest names are
Lee, Lea and Nye. Five are just plain
every day Smith.
In these days of alphabet soup" it
is not so surprising to have the United
States Civil Service Commission adver-
tise an examination for an alphabet
accounting machine operator.
There are only two deceased ex-Presi-
dents of the United States since 1869
who have been overlooked in the matter
of postage stamp issues in their honor
and by a strange coincidence both were
born in Vermont-Chester A. Arthur
and Calvin Coolidge.
Representative Plumley of Vermont
has brought this matter TO the attention
of Postmaster General Farley and has
introduced bill authorizing the print
ing of an issue in honor of the late
President Coolidge. He said: Il believe
that the eminence of Calvin Coolidge
and the reverence with which memory
of him is held in the hearts of his fellow
countrymen should place him at the
head of the list of those for whom such
an honor is contemplated"
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They very seldom "come back" to their
observation-disclosures members of Congress
who quit either by their own volition
or the votes of the electorate. Usually
they stay in the National Capital and
practice law or lobbying. Their legis-
lative experience has made the contacts
for them with SO many governmental
agencies valuable in furnishing legal
aid to industries and private interests
throughout the country.
There's James A. Frear, for example
who knows his Washington well since
schoolboy days here, who enlisted in the
Army Signal Service 56 years ago, grad
uate of National University Law School,
who retired from Congress this year
after 40 years of public service, % years
in Congress and most of that as a men,
ber of the Ways and Means Committee.
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Who is this fellow Deem, who headed
up the vote to adjourn and -go-home
movement? His name is Representative
Braswell Drue Deem, and this is the
first bid he has made to be conspicuous
in the House. Since graduation from
Emory University in 1922 with the degree
of B. P. H., he has been engaged in
various branches of the teaching pro-
fession-during the war as a Y. M. C. A.
secretary. He has varied this profess
sion with farming and real estate de-
velopment, president of local bank
and being publisher Of weekly
newspaper.