Evening star., 1943-06-20
Capital SideIieh*s
By Will P. Kennedy.


Committee there recently appeared
Government ofhoial who for more than
42 years has been giving most etncient
service in many important posts-F. J.
Bailey, now assistant director of the
Budget Bureau in charge of legislative
reference. He is plain blunt man."
gives answers straight from the shoulder,
does his job honestly and lets the chips
fall where they may. No witness before
the committee has had the confidence OF
the investigator to as great an extent
unless 1t was former Representative and
now Controller General Lindsay c. War
rem Of North Carolina. They are of
type. Mr.. Bailey came to the Govern
ment AZ years ago just out Of college. He
frst taught in the Philippines, then was
secretary to Senator Proctor Of Vermont,
later secretary to DR.. Holmes, first direc-
tor Of the United States Bureau Of Mines:
then chief clerk and assistant director
finally in the Budget Bureau for the past
2l years. He is the type of Government
worker who can i'll be spared under the
retirement system
Communism was tried-and failed, un-
der most propitious conditions-in this
country century and a quarter ago
The doctrine was preached in several
addresses in the old Hall of Representa-
tives now known as Statuary Hall in the
Capitol. According to the Daily National
1ntelligencer Of February 26, 1925: "Mr
Owen Robert Owen of New Lanark. in
Great Britain really in Scotland), de-
livered last evening in the Chamber OF
Representatives, his lecture on the effects
and advantages Of his system for the i'm
provement of the physical and moral
condition Of society. His lecture is spoken
OF as being very clear, intelligent and
well delivered. His auditory was very nu-
merous; among the assemblage were the
President Of the United States and some
of his secretaries, many members OF Con-
gress, ETC.
The National Intelligencer, under date
OF March 8, 1925, says that "Mr. Owen
delivered last evening in the Hall of
Representatives, his second address upon
his system for the improvement of the
social and intellectual condition Of man,
in which he developed the details Of his
plan and experiments, and explained his
views in the purchase of the Harmony
property on the Wabash. Among his
auditors were the President and past
President of the United States, with 9TH
er distinguished citizens; and though
his lecture, embracing quotations. was
extended to the length Of nearly three
hours, he was listened to with great at
tention and respect"
There is no evidence that his lectures,
as has been claimed, were given before
joint sessions Of Congress-in fact, Con-
gress had adjourned March 8, 1928. Rep
resentative Charles M. La Toilette, Re-
publican, of Indiana, new member of
Congress from the Wabash district,
liam E. Heilman, was elected from the
same district in 1878, has been a close
student Of the history Of that pioneer
socialist and then Communist colony at
New Harmony.
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In the House chamber on either side
Of the Speakers chair are life-size por-
trait paintings OF George Washington by
John Vanderlyn, an American artist,
and Marquis de Lafayette, by AIRY Schef-
fer, a French artist. They are posed
alike. Lafayette personally stated that
his portrait was good likeness Of him
self
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Thomas Jefierson's statue in the Cap
itol is at the foot of the fight of marble
stairs leading from the House chamber
floor to the galleries at the south end
Of the Capitol 1t faces the new paint
ing OF the Signing Of the Constitution,
by Howard Chandler Christie. The JET