Evening star., 1937-01-31
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,

1AaCtACAAy Ouc~LcuLu Oh Au tIlS CS1
members Of Congress-Senators as well
as House members or have been,
newspaper men. They include all
branches Of the profession-typesetters,
ad writer's and solicitors, reporters,
Washington correspondents, news COM
mentators. columnists, editors publish
ers and owners. Like their illustrious
pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, they are,
both by precept and practice, guiding
public sentiment in newspaper and edi-
torial columns as well as by personal
performance in public affairs.
Both Of the Senators from Virginia
are veteran publishers. Senator Carter
Glass boasts that he was educated in
the newspaper business" and owns the
morning and afternoon papers of his
native city-Lynchburg. Senator Harry
r. Byrd entered" business ut the age Of
IS as newspaper publisher, and he still
takes an active interest in his paper.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Of
Michigan, almost nominee Of the Repub-
licans for President. was editor and pub
Usher Of the Grand Rapids Herald until
he was appointed to the United States
Senate.
Senator Arthur Capper Of Kansas
learned the printing trade on the Gar
nett journal. went to Topeka in 1884
and secured work as typesetter on the
Topeka Daily Capital, Of which he Is
now owner and publisher; later became
. reporter on this paper and then city
editor; in 1891 went to New York and
was reporter on the New York Tribune.
and in 1892 was in Washington as spe-
cial correspondent; in 1893 started in
business for himself by purchasing the
North Topeka Mail, q weekly paper
which he afterward combined with the
Kansas Breeze. A few years later he
purchased the Topeka Daily Capital
and other publications.
In the younger school is Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr, who was stan
reporter on the Boston Evening Tran
script at the Massachusetts, State House,
correspondent and editor for the New
York Herald Tribune, later q member
Of the Capitol press galleries, covered
the White House. executive departments
and independent establishments and
national political conventions.
Senator Joseph c. OMahoney Of
wyoming engaged in the newspaper
business in Boulder, Colo- in 1908 and
became city editor Of the Cheyenne
State Leader in 1916.
Santiago Iglesias, resident commits
sioner from Puerto Rico, founded and
edited three labor papers-Porvenir
Social, Union obrera and Justicia.
Representative Norman r. Hamilton
of Portsmouth, Va, came up in the
world from news carrier and reporter to
publisher: upon its founding solicited
the flrst subscribers Of the newspaper OF
which he Is now the owner-the Ports.
mouth Star"
Representative Louis Ludlow Of Indi-
ana went from q farm to Indianapolis
when 1S to get work on q newspaper
first employed as q reporter on the Indi-
annapolis Sun, later reporter on the Indi-
annapolis Sentinel; washington corre-
spondent Of Indianapolis newspapers
from 1901 to 1918 and for Columbus
Dispatch. His first book was Prom
Cornfeld to Press Gallery" He claims
to be "the first newspaper correspondent
to 60 directly from the gresS gallery to
q seat in Congress formerly presi.
dent of the National Press Club.
Representative william r. Thom of
Ohio was for hve years reporter for
Canton newspapers 0903-190O. While
attending Georgetown University Law
School was . reporter for the United
Press in the House Of Representatives
press gallery u915-10.
Representative Paul. w. shafer Of
Battle Greek, Mich, declares he is
newspaper editor by profession: Rep
resentative Harold Knutson Of Minne-
sofa is publisher OF the Wadena Pioneer
journal; Representative Henry @. Tel
gan Of Minneapolis, MIMI, has been an
'editor and Newspaper writer: Repre-
sentative John A. Martin Of Colorado
edited La Junta Tines: Representa-.
tive Kent E. Keller Of Illinois owned
and edited the Ava Advertiser: Sena.
tor Josiah w. Bailey of North Carolina
was editor Of the Biblical Recorder
(lSo3- -100D; Representative James H.
Gildea Of Pennsylvania is editor and
publisher of the Coaldale Observer;
Representative Ira w. Drew Of Pennsyl.
vania left q job as copy reader on the
Boston Herald to study osteopathy In
Philadelphia, located there and pros
pered; Representative Harold K. Clay
pool Of Chillicothe,' Ohio, Is Q publisher:
Representative John II. Tolan Of Can.
fxnia used to set type On newspaper
In Anaconda, Mont