Evening star., 1941-03-23
Capital SideIights
By Viii P. Kennedy.

Congress is developing its own corps
of spondents-members who write
their comments on current legislation or
political observations and send them to
the daily or weekly papers in their
districts. Some do it little differently
make periodic reports to their constlt-
uents. a majority Of the House men,
berS in one way or another keep in con-
tact with the voters in their districts
several times during each two-year term.
They are too numerous to mention all
by name but for eXample-Lambert-
son, Kansas, Bender. Ohio, Gillie, In
diana Wolverton. New Jersey; Wood
ruff. Michigan: Hull. Wisconsin; Grant.
Indiana. and Cartright. Oklahoma. The
last-named chronicles that the Governor
has called a special election to fill the va
canCy caused by the death of Represent
ative Sam Massingale-and 81 candidates
have filed among them such familiar
names as Joe Cannon, Will Rogers and
Oliver Cromwell. He says Oklahoma
has plerty more familiar and historic
names such as Jesse James. Woodrow
Wilson Herbert Hoover, John Adams,
Robert Taylor, George Washington and
Dick Tracy-not one of them running
for anything-because They're in the
Army now"
House members are strong on hobbies
and one Of the most popular, which is
being ridden hard these days, is moving
picture photography. especially in color,
sometimes varied by colored slides or
stills Representative Dan Reed Of
New Yorl. has been at it longeSt-and is
now specializing on color slides. He has
taken movies and slides of nearly all
his colleagues. Others indulging in the
pastime are: Representatives Gathings.
Arkansas; Cole, New York: Hess, Ohio;
Vreelano New jersey; johnson. Okla
homa; Wigglesworth, Massachusetts,;
Simpson, Pennsylvania; Fulmer, South
Carolina. and Hill, Washington.
The Army has gone swank on saddles,
according to testimony on current
appropriation BILL Representative En-
met ONeal. from Kentucky, where the
horse is king. said a saddlemaker told
him it is the most gorgeous saddle he
ever saw. The Phillips military riding
saddle costs about 500, while the Nc
Clellan saddle used in the World War cost
S38. Testimony was given that 8628
officers saddles will be in use at the end
of this YEAR Already purchased are
2.151 pack saddles. There are on hand
more than 10000 of the old Mcclellan
saddles, 66 5S7 of which are being mod
ernized by changing the stirrups at
cost of 1854 each.
How space in the Congressional Rec
ord is icing wasted is shown in the
March IT issue. The Milk Industry
Foundation, New York, recently issued
handbook of Milk Facts which it re-
leased with a handout story which was
uniform except that the name of vari-
Gus States was inserted with the Speclhc
figures Of the numbel of COWS, produc-
ton, etc This identical material was
printed in full in the Record by men,
bers from Indiana, New York, Oregon,
Michigan and Wisconsin. In the same
issue two members from Indiana printed
identical copies of tribute to Brig Gen
Casimir Pulaski written by 1t. Ignatius
K. Werwinski. former chairman of the
Pulaski Sesquicentennial Commission.
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An interesting story of the half-cen-
tury development of Stanford Univer-
sity was put into the Record by Repre-
sentative Thomas Rolph In 1648 To-
year-old boy-'the luckieSt and richest
kid in America-died ir Florence, Italy.
He was heir to the Stanford railroad
millions His parents announced that
they would establish university in his
memory so that "the children of Cali
fornia will be our children" Wits called
the project "Stanford'S circus" President
Hoover and Sen. Charles L. McNary were
in the first class to graduate. A former
president of the university, DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, became Secretary of the
Interior and IA of its graduates have
become presidents of other universities.