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Show The Dead Statesmen Within a few weeks the United States has lost by death three-statesmen three-statesmen of unusual ability and prominences Senator Burton of Ohio, Secretary of War Good, and Senator Warren of Wyoming. I.Ir. Burton represented Ohio in Congress for many years, both in the House and in the Senate, dur-i dur-i ing which time he labored with conspicuous success for the devel-j devel-j opment of the nation's inland wa-: wa-: terways. and was especially well o;std in monetary matters and foreign affairs. He was in his i seventy-eighth year at the time of his death. ! Secretary Good was a native of jlov.a and served his home district in Congress from 1909 to 1021, rising to the chairmanship of the commute on appropnaticas. Ho resigned from Congress to prac- , tice law in Chicago until his appointment ap-pointment as Secretary of War by President Hoover, in whose campaign cam-paign he had taken a prominent pare Mr. Good was an organizer of great ability, and an able politician poli-tician in the best sense or thL-;erm. thL-;erm. He died at 03. Senator Warren had served longer long-er in the Unitea States Senate than ; j-v ether mar id the history of ic nation, 'ac'.ir.-? only a few .vf.s oi 37 yii.v He was chair-n:?.n chair-n:?.n of the Senate committee on r.'ip-cp.'iaUons and member of the , ni'iiti-ry and pubUc buildings coro-m:-. cs. He was tho first state governor of Wyoming, having serv- ed as territorial governor prior to its admission as a state. He was 5 a Civil War veteran, and had won 5 the Congressional medal of hono- $ for gallantry in battle. Before his death at the age of 85, Senator Warren was the oldest member of either branch of Congress. 5 Across the seas two other great figures have recently passed f rom I the earthly scene, T. P. "Tay Pay" I O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," in England, aged 81, ? and Georges Clemenceau, "the Ti- ger of France," who was 88. j The world will sadly miss and $ long remember these distinguished dead. |