Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
Capital Sidelights
By WILL P. KENNEDY.

AHcoe SuIlHer Gays, members OF Con-
gress-especially from the New England
States of seashore, mountains and lakes,
or the Great Lakes area or the scare
sort belt-are Dragging about the al
lures and IMMIGRATION of their respec-
tive districts. It takes too much space
here to quote the various eulogies, but
a couple of references may point the
way to research for those who are espe-
cially interested. Representative B. Car
roll Reese recalls q famous toast to
East Tennessee, now the scene of great
political strife, which was proposed by
Gen. Forrest. Born on the banks of
the Watauga-in Indian vernacular
beautiful river" he said: II stood upon
its banks in my childhood and looked
down through its CLASSY waters and
have seen heaven below. and then
looked up and beheld a heaven above,
rejecting like two mirrors, each in the
other. Its moons and its planets and
its trembling stars" Again he said:
THE foot of man hath never tired the
soil OF any spot on earth where purer
fountains gem the hills or brighter
streams falling from loftier heights.
thread their shining ways through
sweeter, greener and lovelier vales.'
Nearer by the Capital is an area
described by Representative John w.
Flanagan Of Bristol, Va. who sings the
song. Il Come From the Mountains. -
He says: Il come from the mountains
where Gods purity is revealed in every
flower and His majesty written upon
every crag and peak; where rivers wind
their way down narrow valleys studded
with giant poplars and oaks and filled
with the perfume of the rhododendron;
where Natures carpet of blue grass
fringed in the spring with the white
of the dogwood, in the summer with the
pink Of the ivy and in the fall with all
the colors of the cloak of Jacob of old,
covers the earth and export steers Craze
beside crystal brooks and lambs gambol
over hills as soft as velvet and as blue
as the canopy above; where the Won
derful twilight fingers while Old Sol.
secreted behind the distant hills. f1irts
with Diana as if loath to let darkness
fall on a land so fair"
Apropos Of the tercentenary of the
colony of New Haven, Conn, Repre-
sentative James A. Stanley, native of
that historic city, educational director
and athletic coach of its boys club. and
graduate of Yale University and its Law
School, where he was famous athlete,
before he became World War veteran,
recalls noted statesman-the first Rep
resentative in Congress from the dis
trict he now represents.
Roger Sherman of New Haven was
grandfather of the great Senator George
Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts,, his biog-
rapher. who quotes Patrick Henry. link
ing Sherman with George Washington
and Richard Henry Lee as the outstand-
ing men in the Continental Congress,
and who later said that Sherman and
George Mason of Virginia were the
greatest statesmen he ever knew. Repre-
sentative Stanley emphasizes that Roger
Sherman's name is to be found on three
immortal documents in the history OF
our country. He signed the Declaration
of Independence on July 4, 1776. His
name was appended to the Articles of
Confederation at Philadelphia on July
9, 1778 Then it stands under the aegis
of Connecticut as signatory of the Con-
Stition of the United States.
ANY one who reads the report OF
the first session of the House of Repre-
sentatives," said Representative Sham
ley, will be amazed at the reputation
which New Ravens member obtained for
soundness Of thought and logic. He is
on all important committees selected by
the chair. He speaks only when he has
something to say and not just to say
something. In the first Congress he was
60 years Of age. He enjoyed enormous
prestige. He was friend of John Adams.
His political creed was, when in minor
ity talk, when in majorite VOTE" He
had Is children, IL Of whom reached
maturity.
Representative Shanley's ambition is
to take a large number of his fellow
Congressman on a pilgrimage to New
Haven. early in the coming session, so
that they may learn first hand Of the
all-round development of the Nation.