Evening star., 1955-07-24
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Man of Highest Principles"
In every way" said Gen.
Marshall. 'he was man Of the
highest principles and his pass
ina will be much regretted"
Former Gov. Byrnes said from
South Carolina: II served with
him in both the Congress and
thu cabinet. Whether as legis-
latoI or administrator, as ad-
visoi or executive. he served his
Country magnificently. Like his
friends. this country has sus-
tanned a great loss"
Tributes came also from Cap
itol Hill, where in the course of
a long public life Mr.. Hull served,
as House member and Senator.
for "a years.
Senator Russell, Democrat Of
Georgia said, "Cordell Hull was
the first Of our Secretaries Of
State to recognize the smallness
and interdependence of the mod
ern world"
Senator Russell called his one
time Senate colleague "a truly
great patriot"
Eastland Lauds Policies
Senator Eastland, Democrat of
Mississippi, said Mr.. Hull was
lone of Americas greatest states
men of the century. History will
prove that his trade policies will
build a sound and great prosper
ity for America"
Chairman Paul M. Butler of
the Democratic National Com
mittee recalled Mr.. Hull's serv-
ice as Democratic National Com
mittee chairman from 1921 to
1924, said "he left an indelible
mark upon the field of public
service" and called him "out-
standing as a legislator, as a
statesman and as a political
leader"
A statement by Undersecretary
Herbert Hoover, jr.. acting De-
partment head in the absence
of Secretary Dulles at Geneva,
said Mr.. Hull'S friends and as
socrates in the Department of
State knew him for his qualities
as a great statesman and as q
great American"
In Horatio Alger Tradition
The story of Cordell Hull is in
the Horatio Alger tradition. He
was born on October 2. 1871 in
a log cabin in the mountains of
Tennessee. He grew up to guide
Americas foreign policy during
the critical years when the
threat of totalitarianism was
met and thrown back and
America took her place among
nations as a leader.
He never forgot his homespun
beginnings. To a former State
Department associate, Carlton
Savage, he once said:
What we need today are
leaders who commune with the
rivers and the mountains and
the stars"
AS a boy, Mr.. Hull led the
simple life. He never saw a daily
newspaper until he was IA, or al
train until he was 15.. His early
education was given to him byI
a young man hired by his father
He later attended a school in tne
county seat of Clay County. Two
terms at normal school att
Bowling Green, KY. and one atI
the National Normal University
at Lebanon, Ohio, and his formal
schooling was over.
Read Law by Himself
He read law for himself 81
while, then entered the Cumber-
land Law School at Lebanon.
Tenn. He first hung out his
shingle in Celina.
Mr.. Hull began his long po-
litical career in 1892 when he
was just under 81. He bought
a good bay horse and entered
the lists against a Republican
State legislator. He campaigned
hard and won. served two terms,
but declined nomination for al
third in order to devote himself
to his law practice.
Upon the outbreak of the
Spanish-American War, he i'm
pulsively raised a company of
Tennessee volunteers, which ar
rived in Cuba after the war had
ended, and stayed on for five
months of garrison duty.
He interrupted his law prac-
tice again in 1908 to become pre-
siding judge of Tennessee's fifth
judicial circuit. In 1906, he
tossed his hat ir. the ring for the
Democratic nomination to Con-
gress He won the primary. lone
OF the hardest fights of my ca
reer." by only Is votes, but was
defeated in the election by a.
Republican. Two years later, he
won the seat by 1900 votes. He
was never to know opposition
from within the Democratic
Party again.
Father of Income Tax
AS a House member, the young
Tennesseean interested himself
in complex questions of economic
legislation, a course which even
tually led to his designation asI
the father of the income tax"
His first efforts on this score
met with defeat in view Of al
Supreme Court decision of 1895.
which declared an income tax
invalid.
With the coming Of President
Wilson to the White House, and
a Democratic majority in the
Congress, Mr.. Hull became a.
member of the Ways and Means
Committee and drafted the in
come-tax legislation which be-
came law in 1918.
From the beginning also, he
took a leading part in sponsoring
tariff reducing measures, which
he felt could play a major role
in lowering the barriers between
nations. This was a lifelong pas
sion with Mr.. Hull, who even dur,
ing his last ailing years took the
Laanaef ir,terest in the fortunes