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work in this country, such as rivers and
harbors projects, authorized by Con-
gress, In training Army engineers for
amazing performances in theaters O,
war was emphasized to Congress by
Representative Dewey Short of Mis-
souri,, president of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. He quoted Lieut..
Gen. John G. H. Lee, deputy theater
commander, headquarters of the Service
OF Supplies in the European Theater Of
Operations. who said: "It is heartening
to those of us serving overseas to know
that you are planning to continue in
the future" He pointed out that in the
war drive engineer officers, trained
through the years on waterways and
flood control. are being used to great
advantage. Most of the business side
OF the war effort overseas, as we'll as
many of the command positions, is
under the guidance OF these engineer
officers who learned through positions
OF real responsibility how to manage
men and equipment against time and
the elements-the essentials of loeis-
tics-either in war or peace. On the
home front those placed in charge in
clude such outstanding officers as Gems.
Somervell, Styer. Gross and Clay. 9th
ers doing important directive work are
Gems. Reybold and McCoach, with
Wheeler in India; Connolly in the Mid
die East, Crawford in Egypt, Larkin in
in, faIy
than score others with the European
Theater of Operations Just to mention
few more: Lord, Stratton, Albrecht,
Plank, Vaughan, Grower and Broshous-
all in command of important general
staff duty-not to overlook Moore, chief
engineer; Hardin, Berrigan, Luplow.
Strong, Chorpenning, Newman, Lock.
Thompson, Talley and other engineers
not only with the ground and air forces
but with the supply services also. The
engineer litany of these names-each
one Of which, individually, merits spe-
cial mention in American history, was
recited by Representative Short, as hu-
man testimony as to the wisdom of
Congress policy throughout the years.
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Representative A. j. BulWinkle of
North Carolina has been turning back
the pages of history for his colleagues.
He has shown them a volume of a
weekly newspaper, Encyclopedia, subse-
quently the Peoples Advocate, pub
lished at Yorkville, S. c.. in 1926. This
he rescued more than IS years ago from
the attic of his fathers store. The
book had belonged to his grandfather.
Among events chronicled in it were:
That Noah Webster, after some 20
years labor, was about to have printed
an american Dictionary of the English
Language" exceeding by 10000 words
any previous dictionary; and in the ad-
joining column treatise for the farmer
on The Hessian and Weevil Fly; that
work on American Biographies" or
AN Historical Dictionary of Eminent
Americans first who's Who in
America was to be published by Rob-
ert Walsh, lr, "by subscription, in two
handsomely bound volumes at ST per
copy" The prospectus quoted from
Dryden's Life of Plutarch" to empha-
size the Importance of biography. This
old volume also reports the "Fiftieth
Anniversary of American Independ-
ence" and the death on that same day
OF two old political adversaries-John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson-leaving
Charles Carroll of Carrollton "the last
living Signer of the Declaration of indie
pendence." 1t points out that Adams
and Jefferson were Cd both signers of
the Declaration of Independence; CD
the only survivors of the committee ap-
pointed to draft the Declaration; go
both subsequently had been Vice Presi-
dent and then President; (4 one had
been leader of the great Federal party
and the other leader of the great Demo-
rcratic party; 60 they both died on the
semicentennial of the Declaration they
signed; one died at the hour the Nation
had commenced to celebrate the golden
jubilee, the other at about the hour the
celebration was concluded.
What is eternity?" Representative
Bulwinkle finds an excellent reply in
his treasured old volume. The answer
allegedly was given by pupil at a deaf
and dung school In Paris-"The Nfe-
time Of the Almighty"