Evening star., 1938-10-09
Capital Sidelights
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

In connection with the campaign OF
Representative T. Alan Goldsborough
for reelection from the nine-county dis
trict on the Maryland Eastern Shore,
after having gained national attention
by inviting President Roosevelt into
Maryland to speak on Labor Day against
Senator Millard E. Tydings. there is a
slogan being broadcast: You can't beat
a Goldsborough on the Eastern Shore" ;"
Behind that slogan is nearly 200 years
Of public service by various Colds
boroughs in development of that Eastern
Shore domain, from which Colds
boroughs have been going to Congress
under various political party labels
Federalist. Wing. Republican and Demo-
crat. The family name rates at least as
high with the Eastern Shore voters as
any party tag Probably no family tree
is more politically deep-rooted. with the
single exception of the Adamses OF
Massachusetts,
Robert Goldsborough, great great
great-grandfather of the present Con-
gresham. who studied and practiced law
in London. a barrister of the Inner
Temple, was high sheriff of Dorchester
County, burgess to the Maryland As
sembly, attorney general of the State,
prominent in ante-Revolutionary move
ments member of the Continental Con-
gress and of the Council of Safety in
TITS. and OF the provincial convention
to frame a Constitution and a member
Of the State Senate.
Charles Goldsborough, great-grand-
father of the present candidate, was
member of the State Senate, elected as
a Federahst to the Ninth and five sue
ceeding Congresses, and, Later Governor
of Maryland
Robert Henry Goldsborough. great
eranduncle of the man now seeking re-
election, was a member Of the State
House of Delegates, commanded troop
Of horsemen in the Maryland Militia
during the War of 1912. was elected as
Federalist to the United States Senate,
was a presidential elector on the Ma
tional Republican ticket of Clay and
Sergeant in 1882, was again elected as
a Whig to the United States Senate and
served until his death. He was a men,
ber of the Board of Public Works of the
Eastern Shore.
Phillips Lee Goldsborough, a cousin
OI
Governor of his native State and then
elected as Republican to the United
States Senate in 1923, defeating Senator
William Cabell Bruce, the Democratic
incumbent, by nearly $4,000 votes. He
is now director of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. The present Congress
man is also member of the Board Of
Regents Of the Smithsonian Institution.
Representative John r. Murdock of
Arizona had as a classmate in the State
Teachers College, Kirksville, NO. Glenn
Frank. formerly editor of the Century
Magazine, later president Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and recently prophet
of anti-New Dealism. Mr.. Murdoch him
self was for 20 years an instructor in the
three Institutions of higher learning in
Arizona and author of text books on his
tory and government used in the schools
of that State. He was for three years
dean Of the Teachers College at Tempe.
Y X X
Senator Lister Hill Of Alabama en-
phasizes a new side of Abraham Lincoln
pointing out that ne was an artist"
and that his prose may yet be recognized
as his most permanent legacy to
humanity. He points out that Lincolns
writings are being studied from this
viewpoint by DR.. Roy P. BaSler of Ala
bama Teachers College, who emphasizes
that some of the finest American prose
lies in the political papers of Jefferson.
Madison, Hamilton, Freneau, Calhoun"
not to mention Woodrow Wilson. For"
he says, statesmen, historians and
scientists often write better prose than
our so-caDed men Of letters" The
conclusion Is that-"We have failed per-
haps, to assess Lincoln adequately as
literary artist because for 70-odd years
we have been taught to consider him
primarily political figure"
More than 1900 administrative tri-
hunals, with more than $4,000 personnel,
have been set up throughout the United
States to hear the pleas Of taxpayers for
reduction of property assessments. AL
though in most cases three persons COM
prise the reviewing board, in the District
Of Columbia there is a single official,
while in few South Carolina counties
there are more than 30 persons per
agency. Found In all but few States,
these assessment boards of review in
clude 26 State agencies, 1889 county
agencies, 8,721 township agencies, more
than 5000 municipal agencies and 1000
agencies serving such miscellaneous tax