Evening star., 1943-05-02
Capital SideIights.
By Will P. Kennedy.

Charles E. Fairman, IL. D., author OF
monumental work of reference-"Art
and Artists of the Capitol of the United
States'-for many years curator of art
works in the Capitol is now in Little
Rock, Ark. putting in shape the Fair
man exhibit in the museum in the Old
Arsenal Building, which was the birth
place of Gen. Douglas Macarthur. 1t
was the residence of Gen. MacArthurs
father when he was on Army assignment
at Camp Robinson. DR.. Fairman has
won many medals. from several nations
as we'll as national and State associa-
tions for Photographic work, which are
to be shown in the Little Rock Museum
There also will be placed bust of DR..
Fairman made more than 10 years ago
by the sculptor, Joseph A. Atcheson.. rs
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The Nations romantic friend and
hero in the Revolution, Lafayette. Is
buried in American soil. When he sailed
back to France on the Brandywine, In
1925, after his triumphal tour of the
expanded United States, with countless
gifts which had been thrust upon him,
he carried also to his home in La
Grange a larg9 chest filled with earth
that even in his enslaved fatherland his
remains might rest beneath the soil of
the sacred land of liberty" He is buried
in Picpus Cemetery by the side of his
faithful wife and his body. according to
w. E. Woodwards historical biography,
"lies in earth that came from his be-
loved United States
Congress on December %. 1924. unan-
imously passed a resolution giving La
fayette 5000, 900 for his services in the
Revolution and an entire township of
land t24,000 acres to be assigned by the
President from the public domain.
Michael de la Bedoyere writes that La
fayette was mot little thankful that
this money would help to rebuild the
fortune which he should have left to
his children but which he had squan-
dered on revolutions and conspiracies.
Lafayette invested $4,000 of this gift
In AZ per cent bonds of the United
States Government The township of
land was afterward located in Florida.
John Marshall was not only a great
jurist and "expounder of the Constitu-
ton He also was great soldier and
a great athlete. His military nickname
was 'Silverheels." In the spring of 177s,
the officers of Washingtons army felt
their spirits rising with the budding OF
the trees The officers matched their
skill in pitching quoits and running and
jumping. Capt. 1t. Marshall was the
best athlete in his regiment One OF
his pastimes was to vault over a pole
laid on the heads of two men as high
as himself" Sometimes he ran races in
his stocking feet. His mother when
knitting his socks made the heels with
white yarn-arld thus he acquired the
name "Silverheels" The Culpeper
Minute Men, whom he drilled and led to
join Washington. wore fringed trousers,
often Of deerskin, strong brown linen
hunting shirts across the breast of which
their women-folk had embroidered
Liberty or Death" buck-tails in their
hats, heavy leather belts in which were
stuck tomahawk and scalping knife
their long hair falling behind, united
and unqueued."
The grave danger to public health
through operations Of the black mar
ket" in meats is emphasized by Sem
ator Joseph F. Guffey Of Pennsylvania,
who has warned the public in a radio
broadcast.
Senator Guffey also has had thousands
Of copies of his warning printed. mot
at Government expense" and distributed,
with official statements by Prentiss M.
Brown and Edward r. Stettinius, jr. He
calls attention to the fact that Admin
istrator Brown is unquestionably 100
per cent correct in his assumption, de-
nouncing the black market operations
as nothing short of treason and their
operators as able assistants Of the Nazis
and Facists." He emphasizes that "the
worst menace from the black market Is
meat. Aside from the sabotage practice,
Is the danger of disease. surreptitious
handling Of meats, unsanitary containers
and exposure to bacteria necessarily In
creases the percentage Of eontAmina.
ton"