Evening star., 1936-02-16
Capital Sidelights
BY Viii P. Kennedy.

In the person of Representative Clare
Gerald Fenerty, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania Congress boasts a new classical,
cultured orator, acclaimed by his COL
leagues as another Bourke Cochran"
And Fenerty gives credit for his SPELL
binding ability to Jesuit, Rev. William
A. Storck, his professor of oratory at
st. Josephs School in Philadelphia, now
stationed at Loyola College, Baltimore
that is, coupled with his own hard work.
For Fenerty always writes his own
speeches and does his own extensive
reSearch-thats one reason his memory
does not fail him when making
speech. He never has delivered speech
that any one else prepared for him. His
style has been developed by writing
poetry and magazine articles-his
speeches always read like standard works
Of literature.
Throughout the East Fenerty is
already well known for his oratory, and
during the coming campaign he is to be
one of the hardest worked of the Re-
publican speakers. He has made
speeches in all the principal cities east
of the Mississippi River, at university
graduations, before Shriners, Elks,
nIiISIlIS VI SUlulNDuS, HSUCdly SIuUo,
etc. He receives on an average six
or seven invitations a day to make
| speeches. He always prepares care
fully. Recently he has been worked
hard by the American Legion because
of his fight for the bonus" He is
himself a World War veteran, and was
honored by the House in being selected
to make the first speech on the day
the bonus bill was passed.
One of Mr.. Fenerty's most popular
recent speeches was on Nationwide
| hook-up when he attacked the New Deal,
| and Chairman Fletcher said the re-
sponse from all over the country was
amazing He recently was the prin-
cipal speaker at a banquet in Washing
ton in honor of Archbishop Curley,
when he spoke on The Contribution
of Christianity to the Culture of the
| World" He likes best to make school
commencement speeches, because they
challenge him to his best efforts, with
an erudite faculty seated behind him
and all educated, appreciative. eager
| audience of youth to give him inspira-
ton. Last year he had the pleasure Of
making such an address for his old
| professor of oratory at Loyola College
on the Mexican situation.
He has received honorary degrees
from several colleges and has been
made an honorary member of the jew
| ish and Polish war veterans in appre-
citation of speeches made for them.
Recurrently gem of literature from
the pen of Lincoln is brought to the
attention of the youth of the land-a
| letter ito Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. ="
| This letter is given to Oxford students
as a gem of pure and forceful English,
Representative Frank Dorsey OF Penn
sylvania told his colleagues.
Dear Madam: I have been shown in
the files of the War Department state
/ ment of the adjutant general of Massa-
chusetts that you are the mother of five
sons who have died gloriouSly on the
field of battle. I feel how weak and
fruitless must be any words of mine
which would attempt to beguile you
from the grief of a loss so overwhelm-
ing. But cannot refrain from tender
ing YOU the consolation that may be
found in the thanks of the Republic
they died to save. I pray that Our
Heavenly Father may assuage the
anguish of your bereavement and leave
YOU only the cherished memory of the
loved and lost and the solemn pride
that must be yours to have laid so
costly a sacrifice on the altar OF free
dom. Yours very sincerely and re-
spectfully, A. LINCOLN"
X e
Marvels of radio progress are cited
by George Henry Payne, Federal COM
n,,nications commissioner. During the
early part of the World War practically
| the only marine radio was tnat oe-
| tween ships in the same nelghborhood
| for a distance of a half mile. Then
| Edward H. Armstrong, radio inventor,
went abroad and in cooperation with
| the British admiralty set up an appa-
| ratus in Whitehall, London, in the ad-
| miralty Office. Overnight the British
| admiralty was able to pick up all the
1 messages being exchanged by the Ger
! man fleet, located at Kiel, without the
| Germans knowing anything about 1t.
"The fascinating thing about problems
| of communication" said Mr.. Payne, lis
| the widespread belief among scientists
| that we are on the threshold OF even
| greater developments than those marvels
1 that have been revealed to us In the
| past 20 years or So David Sarnon
| stated that he believed the time would
| come when man would be able to turn
| a small apparatus, the size of wrist
| watch, to call up his house and state
he was going to be late for dinner.