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Senator Robert M. LaTbllette
Wisconsin
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
pà HE recent announcement from Wash
9 ington, that some of the statues
[ In Statuary hall on the "main line"
I between the house and senate cliam
: hers in the United States Capitol
k are to be removed because engi
neers believe that the weight of
the 68 bronze and stone figures
which now crowd the hall is en
dangering the foundations of the
chamber, lias brought again Into
the limelight an institution which Is regarded
as our "national hall of fame."
Plans are under way to place many of the
statues In the long corridor on the ground floor
that runs the entire length of the Capitol build
ing. Instead of being crowded together In a
single chamber, these statues henceforth will
be widely distributed.
This action has also revived talk of providing
a national pantheon, a building where there
would be ample room for the proper display of
every statue, such as was provided for by a bill
which was Introduced Into congress In recent
years by Representative George H. Tlnkham of
Massachusetts, but which was referred to a com
mittee and seems to have become lost In the
legislative shuffle.
Statuary hall is the original chamber of the
national house of representatives. In 1804 Rep
resentative Merrill of Vermont Introduced a
resolution to have the old bouse chamber set
aside for this purpose. Each state was author
ized to place there two statues of men and wom
en who had been "Illustrious for their historic
renown" and had rendered distinguished civil or
military service to the country. __ _
Recent additions Include statues of John M.
Clayton and Caesar Rodney from Delaware, Han
nibal Hamlin from Maine, Alexander H. Ste
phens from Georgia. John C. C.reenway from
Arizona, Robert M. La Follette from Wisconsin
and Sequoyah from Oklahoma.
The list of states and the men who have hon
ored their notables follow ;
ALABAMA— J. L. M. Curry, member of
congress, Confederate veteran, minister to Spain,
and author; General Joseph Wheeler, graduate
of the Confederacy and brigadier general, United
States army, In Spanish war, also a member of
congress.
ARIZONA—John Campbell Greenway, Yale
athlete, Rough Rider, World war veteran and
mining engineer.
ARKANSAS—Uriah M. Rose, lawyer, chancel
lor of state, president of the American Bar asso
ciation, appointed by President Theodore Roose
velt one of delegates to the Peace congress at
The Hague with rank of ambassador; James P.
Clarke, governor of Arkansas and United States
senator,
, CALIFORNIA—Junlpero Serra, missionary of
the Franciscan order, the establlsher of nine
missions; Thomas Starr King, minister of the
First Unitarian church In California and "the
man whose matchless oratory saved California
to the Union"—In the words of the Inscription
on his portrait at the capitol In Sacramento.
CONNECTICUT—Roger Sherman, signer of
the Declaration of Independence, member of the
Continental congress, of the Constitutional con
vention of the house of representatives and the
senate; Jonathan Trumbull, chief Justice and
Governor of Connecticut, the only Colonial gov
ernor who espoused the cause of Independence.
DELAWARE—John M. Clayton who, as secre
tary of state under President Zachary Taylor,
conducted the dayton-Bulwer treaty with Great
Britain; Caesar Rodney, member of the Con
tinental congress and signer of the Declaration
of Independence.
FLORIDA—Dr. John Qorrie, physician and In
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Sequoyah — Oklahoma
ventor of the ice machine and mechanical re
frigeration; Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Mexican war
soldier, Confederate leader and In civil life a
famous educator.
GEORGIA—Dr. Crawford Williamson Long,
physician and discoverer of ether anesthesia ;
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of
the Confederacy.
IDAHO—George L. Shoup, pioneer and patriot,
colonel In the Union army, governor of Idaho,
both territory and state, and United States sen
ator.
ILLINOIS—James Shields, Union officer In
Mexican and Civil wars and United States sen
ator; Frances E. Willard, reformer, president
nnd founder of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union.
INDIANÀ —Oliver P. Morton, Civil war gov
ernor and senator; Lew Wallace, Union general
and author of "Ben Hur." /
IOWA—James Harlan, senator and secretary
of Interior; Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, minister
to Denmark, senator and secretary of Interior.
KANSAS—John J. Ingalls, lawyer, scholar and
statesman, three terms a senator; George Wash
ington Click, governor and Union veteran.
KENTUCKY—Henry Clay, speaker of the
house, senator and secretary of state; Ephraim
McDowell, physician and surgeon.
MAINE—William King, first governor, suc
cessful banker and business man; Hannibal
Hamlin, Vice President under Lincoln.
MARYLAND—Charles Carroll, member of the
Continental congress and last surviving signer
of the Declaration of Independence; John Han
son, patriot of the Revolution and president of
the Continental congress.
MICHIGAN—Lewis Cass, senator, cabinet of
ficer and statesman; Zacharlah Chandler, sen*
John M. Clacton— Delaware
tor, secretary of interior and chairman of the
Republican national committee.
MASSACHUSETTS—Samuel Adams, governor,
and patriot of the Revolution; John Winthrop,
Colonial governor.
MINNESOTA—Henry Mower Rice, pioneer
and one of the first senators from the state.
MISSISSIPPI—Jefferson Davis, president of
the Confederacy; James Z. George, Confederate
soldier and United States senator.
MISSOURI—Francis P. Blair, soldier, editor
and political leader; Thomas II. Benton, senator
and strong Union man.
NEW HAMPSHIRE—John Stark, soldier In
the French, Indian and Revolutionary wars;
Daniel Webster, senator and famous foe of se
cession.
NEW JERSEY—Richard Stockton, eminent
Colonial leader; Philip Kearny, famous soldier
and explorer.
NEW YORK—Robert R. Livingston, Colonial
governor and signer of the Declaration of Inde
pendence; George Clinton, governor of the state
and Vice President of the United States.
NORTH CAROLINA—Zebulon Baird Vance,
governor and senator ;
Confederate veteran,
Charles Brantly Aycock.
OHIO—James A. Garfield, Civil war general
and President; William Allen, senator and gov
ernor.
OKLAHOMA— Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian and
Inventor of the Cherokee alphabet,
PENNSYLVANIA—J. P. G. Muhlenberg, min
ister of the gospel, soldier and member of the
house; Robert Fulton, the adapter of steam
power to the propelling of ships.
RHODE ISLAND—Nathaniel Greene, famous
comrade In arms of Washington; Roger Wil
liams, founder of Providence and Rhode Island
plantations.
SOUTH CAROLINA—John C. Calhoun, sena
tor and secession protagonist; Wade Hampton,
Confederate general, governor and senator,
TENNESSEE—Andrew Jackson, soldier and
President; John Sevier, soldier In the Revolu
tion, first governor of the state and member of
congress.
TEXAS—Stephen F. Austin, Texas revolution
ist; Samuel Houston, liberator and President of
the Republic of Texas, later governor and mem
ber of the house.
VERMONT—Ethan Allen, hero of Ticonder
oga; Jacob Collamer, congressman, senator and
postmaster general.
VIRGINIA—George Washington, "Father of
Ills Country"; Robert E. Lee, Confederate gen
oral.
WEST VIRGINIA—John E. Kenna, Confeder
ate veteran, member of the house and senate ;
Francis E. Pierpont, Union war governor.
WISÔONSIN— James Marquette. French Je
suit priest and explorer; Robert M. La Follette,
Senator, governor nnd progressive leader.
(O by w«at*rn Union.)
Howe About:
Neitzsche
Henry Ford
The World Court
By ED HOWE
npHUS Spake Zarathustra,"
* Frelderich Neitzsche, Is widely
proclaimed as one of the greatest
books ever written. As a mutter of cu
riosity I lately looked over eight of
its pages and noted the lines contain
ing ordinary common sense easily un
derstandable. I found but live such
lines In the eight pages. Neitzsche
had enormous common sense, but It
was so corrupted by nonsense in the
literature of the past that in his most
famous book the proportion of good
to bad Is live to two hundred and sev
enty-two.
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" Is writ
ten In mongrel poetry, a weakness
the author certainly Inherited from the
past. The hook Is full of references
to gods Neitzsche did not believe in.
The title Is a tribute to a tissue of
myths originating more than a thou
sand years before the Christian era.
If Zarathustra ever lived, he was a
type of man utterly unknown In the
time of Neitzsche, hundreds of years
before, or In the present ; a better
title would have been 'Thus Spake
Frelderich Neitzsche."
There Is value In the book, but 1
shall not bother to dig It out, as It
may he found In many short sum
maries. Neitzsche was highly educat
ed, but never learned to write simply,
naturally and properly except In five
lines of two hundred and seventy-two
of his best product Probably the pro
portion of nonsense In the conversa
tion and writing of men less noted Is
greater.
by
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A foreigner was quoted lately as
saying a depression Is about the most
natural thing there Is; that he was
born during a depression, and has
lived In one ever since.
Americans will not accept any such
reasoning: they demand a boom all
the time, and, failing to get It go bawl
ing to the government for relief. For
many years we have been breaking
records and astonishing foreigners.
The action of the foreigners In laugh
ing at us now after robbing us, Is very
humiliating.
I once saw In the newspapers a
statement credited 1.» Henry Ford in
the days of hta greatest prosperity.
He said the standard of living In the
United States should be advanced until
every man who wanted a Job was
guaranteed one at twenty-seven dollars
ja day as a minimum. Every Ameri
can, he admitted, was so noble, so In
teliigent, so much better than the peo
pie of other countries, he could not
live fittingly on loss.
And you needn't laugh; probably
you read Mr. Ford's brag with ap
proval.
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Nothing astonishes me more than
the incompetence of great men when
called upon to make decisions In ques
tions of a public nature. Men who In
business life achieve reputation for
sound sense, honor and capacity, when
asked to consider questions affecting
the public at large, have in thousands
of cases become pltlfxM fools and dis
graced long lives of probity. There
Is In existence a world court to
which most nations belong, the mem
bership made up presumably of as ca
pable men as can be found among the
better classes. A booklet Is available
giving its history, membership and
proceedings to date, and I have read
it during Idle time. The object of
the world court, of course, Is to get
rid of war; of the expense of armies
and navies during Intervals of peace.
In most parts of the earth practical
bakers, after hundreds of years of ex
perience at their trade, have found It
convenient to operate night shifts,
surely one of the simplest and most
unimportant questions. Yet on page
fifty I find the World court consider
ing night work in bakeries. Many
have been profoundly discouraged by
the lack of Intelligence In men. I be
lieve statesmen are responsible for
most of the discouragement; any fair
review of the situation clearly Indi
cates that the common people In their
private affairs have done very well.
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Sometime look over those actions in
life generally called deviltry.
your
Yon'll find that not one of them ever
paid you; that every one brought some
humiliation. All anyone can truth
fully say of good conduct Is that it Is
profitable.
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A man held up the other night says
one of the bandits was not a day over
sixteen. In the progress we are now
. making 1 wonder no one has suggested
that children be permitted to vote at
fourteen, that the youth movement
become more effective.
may
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As moving a tragedy as I have ever
heard was told me by an ancient
maiden of the martyrdom her mother
endured In living with the father of
the relator of the story. I knew the
old man, and thought so little of him
I believed most of the charges against
him. Some men are very hard to get
along with; the worst of the women
haters admit It
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What is the greatest trouble at pres
ent In tbe United States? I believe
It Is crippling the best and most use
ful men by men less worthy. Why
have we unemployment? Because the
fools prevent better men from provid
ing It (Not many will acci^it this
reasoning, but finally the sane will;
It Is sound.1
®. 1935, Bell Syndicate .—VfSV Service.
How I Broke Into
n The Movie s y
Copyright by Hai C. Herrn*«
By WILL ROGERS
OW about this movie business and
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bow I got my start To be honeat
about It, I haven't yet got a real good
start. And the way 1 figure things, a
fellow has to be a success before he
goes lecturing and crowing about him
self.
Out here In Hollywood, they say
you're not a success unless you owe
fifty thousand dollars to somebody,
have five cars, can develop tempera
ment without notice or reason at all,
and been mixed up in four divorce
cases and two breach-of-promlse case«.
Well, as a success In Hollywood, I'm
a rank failure, and I guess I'm too old
to learn new tricks, and besides I'm
pretty well oft domestically speaking
and ain't yearning for a change.
Now, about how I actually got start
ed in this picture business. Mrs. Hex
Beach was really the one who helped
me get started, by selling the Idea to
Sam Goldwyn that he ought to star m«
In the movies. Mr. Goldwyn was con
nected with the Eminent Authors, Inc.,
of which Rex Beach was president.
There were eight eminent authors in
the outfit, maybe that's where they got
the name, I guess.
Anyway, Sam signed me up, and I
starred In a series of 6-reel comedy
dramas for him during 1921 and 1922.
The outstanding picture of this group
was "Jubllo" based on the theme of
the song of that name.
I also made "Doubling for Romeo"
for this company. It was the story of
a cowhand who went to sleep and
dreamed he played Romeo In Shake
speare's Immortal drama. I like my
work In this one a lot, but they had a
sales convention at the studio and
showed the film to the gang. Although
I thought the picture was very funny,
the boys seemed to think different and
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refused to laugh. At the time I was
nearly heartbroken, I felt that I was
a flop and was about ready to quit pic
tures. Gosh, It was awful!
I wasn't writing much In those days,
although since then the papers seem to
^ike my stuff and pay me for making
wise cracks, which doesn't make me a
bit sore.
For recreation I used to keep some
horses and goats on the lot back of
the studio, and 1 spent most of my
time enjoying the companionship of
dumb but honest animals. They
couldn't laugh at roe. Which was en
couraging !
From Goldwyn's 1 went to work for
Hal Roach and made a series of 2-reel
comedies there. It's a serious business
—this making people laugh !
I remember when I was in the Fol
lies. All I did was my rope act, and
I didn't say nothing. But one evening
the manager asked me to make an an
nouncement, and foolishly I did, and
everybody laughed at me or with me,
and I was a success, and they've kept
me talking or writing ever since.
That's what comes of talking too much
and trying to help some one out Now
I can't stop.
But wise cracks and picture work
pay better than the rope-throwln' act
and that saves my feelings a lot.
Sam Rork, who produced "A Texas
Steer," In which I got the big comedy
part of a congressman who was a Tex
as cowman, says he picked me out of
all the Hollywood actors because all
the rest of them have morality clause«
in their contracts and are afraid to act
like congressmen.
But I figured it out that It's because
I was In the Follies. I'm an ex-Follle*
graduate, and If Barrymore had ray
legs, he could still be on the stage.
But I'd been in the movies before
I signed up for "A Texas Steer." I've
been In more punkin' seed movies, and
most of the Job was handling the rope.
But that was a smart movie, a comedy
special they called it, with real actors
helping me out, and all I had to do
was act the big comedy part of being
congressman. That's a cinch. Any
day In the week any congressman I've
known can give me a big laugh acting
natural.
My advice to aspiring movie-struck
folk Is to buy a good 12-foot rope, prac
tice with It, and then If you don't suc
ceed, why, you can always stretch It
over a nearby tree with one end
around your neck.
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WNU Service
Dramatic Heritage
Arthur Rankin Is a nephew of the
famous Barrymore family and a de
scendent of the Drews and Davenports.
Immortal names In the American the
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