Show Men and Affairs By Bv ROBERT T SMALL Copyright 1923 1938 WASHINGTON July 28 28 Cler I 23 years ears of ot continuous service In Inthe Inthe Inthe the senate of the United States Stale Senator William P ham Dillingham ot of Vermont Velmont has died leaving an aa estate estate I valued d at about Before Detoro coming to Washington as senator Mr Ir was waa gov- gov governor gO gov governor v- v of the state slate Prior to that he was a 0 states state's attorney for or two 1 terms commissioner of state taxes for several years and served terms In both branches of o Ills his states state's legislature It may be bo said mId there thero- therefore therefore fore that senator Dillingham spent virtually his entire adult life In Inthe Inthe lathe the service of the public and death finds him at 80 years yeara of n age e pos pos pos- pos sewed of an nn estate of ot COPPERS DRAIN CD 1 Nearly dearly early one-half one of this thia worldly wealth Is represented by his homo home homeplace place In Montpelier Of 0 the remainder re- re remainder re remainder a 0 considerable part Is rep rep- represented represented rep represented resented by stock In the country b bank of or which he was wu president The appraisers ot of o the estate found only In cash and nd in the thes s bank It Is very evident from all of this that Senator Dil- Dil Dillingham Dillingham lingham had virtually no Income outside of his hia sal salary ry of ot 7 a ascar scar ear and he ho found the tho expense of living so continuously In Washington Washing and at t the same timo time maintaining his home borne In Montpelier just about drained the tho coffers dry each month The continuous sitting sitting- of the tho con con- congress con congress gress during tho the past 15 16 years nas worked a 0 hardship on many a 0 con con- con national legislator who forsaking his own affairs ho he clung to the tho ship of state through tho theair fair weather and foul of many changing seasons During the greater part of Mr hams his hl salary was I Small smaIl The salary of the governor of Vermont Is u but 2000 a year YOU The pay of a United States sena sena- senator senator tor when Mr Dillingham first came to Washington was but and It can be Imagined how Irate grate tul Krate-tul rut ful the tho raise to 75 Otha when It came camo along The Tho disclosure of the Y small estate left b bOtha by the senior sei-ator sei ator from Vermont a man miln who since 19 1900 1000 00 had bad belonged to the rich richman's richman's richman's mans man's club directs attention anew to tho fact tact that the millionaire no longer I li le the tho dominant factor a inthe It the upper branch brutch of congress Asa As II a m matter of the really wealthy I senators can be bo counted almost on the fingers of ono one hand Certain Certainly ly Iy there thero are aro not more than ten FEW As to the richer senators they are difficult to choose between Couzens Cou- Cou Couzens zens Cou-zens zens of Michigan and Phipps of Colorado Probably the former Detroit mayor has the tho call Ills his fort fortune uno was wo made with and out of the Ford Motor company and It Is I estimated that his hia wealth runs from somewhere around 30 up senator Lawrence Phipps whose fortune fortuno was founded on steel slee Is rated as aa an exceedingly wealthy man mac But tho the one time I unquestionably out out- outdistances outdistances outdistances distances him by several millIon dollar laps The other wealthy men of the senate seDAte arc aro McKinley of Illinois and Davis of West Virginia Son Son- Sen Senator ator McKinley has vaSt vast traction holdings and various other Inter inter- Interests ests Davis Elkin s Inherited a largo larO share sharo of ef the famous Elkins estate built from the coat coal and Iron mines of his native state OTHERS omens E PLENTY Among the other senators of re- re reputed reputed re reputed wealth thoro there Is Warren of Wyoming Gooding of Idaho Stan Stan- Stanfield Stan field of Oregon Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhoda Island and aad J perhaps DS Mc- Mc I I Cormick of Illinois I hate hat men men- mentioned mentioned but nine among 96 Toe Tae poor man Is In the senate saddle and many of these poor men have been supplementing their meagre salaries this summer by doing the tho circuits to 4 a fare faro Sou au auwelt welt well W rt the chautauqua fiends wont won't know about national affairs by the time the season seaon closes will not be worth north Knowing Father Fathe John P who was chaplain of the battleship Maine when she was blown up In InI Ink avana harbor but la Is now the pastor of Ina the Immense St Agnes h hIn I In New Mew ewi york forb or k City Is one ono of o rare men whoso whose gUt gift of memory Is little short of ot magical Father was waa here hero this week tomake to tomake make malte a brief address ss at the burial of Re Rear r Admiral Charley Chancy Charle D Sigs- Sigs Sigsbee bee the commander of the tho Maine Out of the tho throng at Arlington Na- Na Na National cemetery stepped a rather rathor taU tall pave ave c ave faced youn young man My name is Lee Loc Father Chidwick wick ho he said My Iy father v is on the Maine Main I Lee Lee mused Father wick for tor but a moment I 1 remember remember ber him well well well- He W was 8 not so tall talt tallas tallas as you iou ou my boy perhaps by a half haf halfa hafa a head and ho he was In the engi enGi- enGineer engineer engineer neer force Yes Yes sir he was waa an engineers engineer's yeoman It was always claimed that Fath Fath- Father Father er Chidwick knew every man on the Maine Maino by his first name It was ws he who established the Identity ot of most of the victims of the tho explosion explosion sion slon many of them but a mangled i mass After Arter the burial of Admiral Sigs- Sigs Sigsbee Sigs bee r rather ther Chidwick viewed the Maine monument In Asuncion tOn and andas anias IL as he walked about the round alto granite te baso base reading the tho names ot of otho the sailors and marines who were lost In th the disaster he ho recalled per per- personal per personal traits of at least two score per per-I of them It has been boen 26 25 years since th the 3 Maine Maino was lost lost but Father wicks wick's wicks wick's memory has sparkled through tho the quarter of a 0 l or OIL or TODAY Y MArtIn F Amorous distinguished and j Jent t of o the th I Farmers union of Cobb county has h s some very different Ideas regard regard- regardIng regarding regardIng Ing the farmers problems of today toda and he doesn't think much of the recent th-recent recent legislation which was sup sup- supposed supposed sup supposed posed to them aid ald The Who Capper bill said Mr Amorous to the writer five or or r more persons to pay up to a II loan company 62 62 of which must be loaned to the government as ns a reserve In- In infested In Invested vested In 4 per cent government go bonds and this will leoe leee to be bo loaned at legal les-al state rates Hence ou 00 see seo If It the farmers farmer have they can only use ot In rural credits As ah aid ot the farmer It la is not worth the paper pap r rIt It I li ii written on The Lenroot Inter Inter- Intermediate intermediate Intermediate mediate credit banks are furnished capital by the government go But they can only lend to a bank banI on farmers notes That's where the intermediate comes In It Is like the cake cako the neighbor gave the boy that his mother wouldn't let him eat The far l r needs only to geta get geta a 0 profitable price for his products Impel or induce him to organize operative co operative pricing and he be wont won't ask asb for tor aid from the tho govern n nt If helt Is ts pooled In the s banke-s bankers hands and they will sell it one agency little or all as tho marbe mar- mar ket market needs and at a this there wil wll not befall be bo any bankruptcy bank this fall talt 00 00 In Foulness Island off oft the marshy coast coast of ot Essex 50 SO mi mites e from London strangers are arc re regarded regarded almost with suspicion |