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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, ALTOONA, FRIDAY, MAY 3. 1935. SIX LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ALTOONA TRIBUNE shington Off the Rec rd AARS. PIP'S DIARY, This Morning's COMMENT By Henry IV. Shoemaker Br THE TIMtSS-TBIBUNB CO.

No. 1110 twelfth Aitoona. Pa Mail Subscription rates On Month (Id Advance) SO Six Months (In Advance! I ll Ous Vsar (In Advance) t.00 The super-salesman was a well known New York attorney, Mannheim Rosenzweig. Representative Virginia Jenckes Entered at Aitoona Postottloe a Second Clise Msll Matter Member ot The Associated Press Sol National Advertising RepreeemeilYet Pred Kimball, New Tori hold a lemon for Izaak Wal-tons. Each sunny afternoon sees a row of smiling, sprawling fishermen who have a novel way of rigging a flshllno.

They anchor it to a railing, bait the line and then attach a bell which calls them from their naps when a fish hooks Henr President Theo. Arler. Vice Pres. And Editor Carrier Subscription Balci One Wee .11 81x Months (In Adveneel 00 One Year (In Advance) 600 BE DONE THE TRIBUNE'S PROGRAM FOB PENNSYLVANIA Equitable redistribution ol taxes. Consolidation ol auvernmental atenclea, thereby rednein tat Bomber ol tax collection aiencles.

1 THE TRIBUNE'S PROGRAM FOR ALTOONA Armory lor Troon 104th Cavalry. Beautlflcatlon ol Aitoona! Centralized parks and "breathlnt spacesi" Removal ol ramshackle blocks, elimination ol tire traps. Clear identification ol all streets. Clearly defined Iraffio rootes Frequent replacement and repalntina of traffie signs. Clearlt marked one-way streets.

Traffic subway under railroad at Eleventh street. New Rulruad station. I ol old postofriee bullrtlns as public library. linn roved conncrtinf streets between suburban sections and city- proper. sidewalks.

Strict enforcement of traffic laws to avoid congestion. Summer evening bant concerts. Cooperation between cltj and farailni community. IVilice school: For study of modern crime detection and traffie direction. Kauifahle assessments.

More industrial plants. Revised nisbl trafflo diieclioni Use of while iloves by officers, or IllDt lu make slsnals flilblc. Rrri lisbts on all tire alarm hoses kept Illuminated. Road between Buckbora and Ashrille repalted. Airport development Convention crowds were jamming a local hotel lobby.

Through them circulated a. meek young woman who was selling flowers for a charity. She was observed by a good looking man who obviously couldn't stand her meekness any longer. "How many have you sold?" he asked. "Four," she said.

"Give them to me," he said. In less than 30 minutes, he had sold out her stock. Without a word he turned over the' money and loft, IT MUST The National Whirligig News Behind The News WITH THE ARRIVAL OF warmer weather and the increase in the number of automobiles on the highways there is a consequent gain in accident tolls. Mechanically speaking, the automobile of today is infinitely safer than that of ten years ago. Brakes reached perfection.

Lights have been vastly improved. Steering mechanisms are practically fool-proof. Car bodies can stand terrific punishment. Therefore the increase in accidents is due to carelessness and recklessness. Progress in safer automobile construction is matched in road building.

The modern highway, with traffic lanes, banked turns and "skidless" surfaces, is a tribute to engineering science, which has done wonders in seeking to make driving safe and pleasant. Yet automobile accidents continue to rise both in number and severity. The motorist has no alibi. He can't blame the car or the road for mishaps, save in an infinitesimal percentage of instances. The human elementand the human element alone is at fault in ninety-odd accidents out of a hundred.

Most drivers are competent. Most are careful. Most realize that an automobile is a potential killer. But that minority of motorists which is either careless, incompetent or plain reckless, menaces us all. Perhaps ten per cent of drivers fall into one of these categories and the lives, health and property of the other ninety per cent is placed in peril because of them.

Last year saw 36.000 persons killed unnecessarily in auto accidents. It is the duty of every citizen and every unit of government to see that a different record is made this year. Traffic laws must be modernized and enforced With the utmost strictness. The dangerous driver has been given every chance. He has been urged to change his ways and has refused.

Now he must be forced to drive safely or be deprived of the right to drive on public streets and highways. FOREST FIRE PREVENTION DAYS By SIGRID ARNE Noon in the senate restaurant always is a scene of excitement. Tourists crowd the halls to gape at the legislative lions. of tht senators eat ir an inside roon. but their paradt through tht main dining-room is enough for the curious.

Hands ome and whltehairet I Senator Georg W. Norrls of: Nebraska walks slowly, unconscious of others; Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota dashes through with a handful of papers; Senator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois walks daintily, bowing right and left; Senator Carter Glass of Virginia wears a forbidding frown; and Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York grins broadly and stops often to talk to diners.

A quiet evening is a near impossibility in the hotel apartment of Secretary of State Hull. There are three telephones: his own private phone, the hotel phone and a direct, private line to the White House. Using only words which have grown into common usage in his section since 1889, Representative Josh Lee of Oklahoma told the history of his state to the house as follows: "Bull-whacker gambler, cattle king, squaw-man, war-paint, branding iron, cattle rustler, settler, boomer, sooner, covered wagon, outlaw, the Jameses, the Dal-tons, the Doolins, sod-plow, drought, the Chisholm trail, cyclone, politics, street fight, dugout, mustang, coyote, kaffir corn, wheat, cotton, coal, lead, zinc and pil oil oil; skyscraper and air field." An old Texas Friend of Vice President "Jack" Garner sauntered Into his office, and asked for "Jack." "I'm sorry, but he's in conference," said the secretary. The clock showed 3 P. M.

The Texas friend thought of the vice president's daily afternoon nap when he is home on his ranch. "In conference with Morpheus, I suppose," said the visitor. "No sir," said the secretary seriously," "Mr. Morpheus hasn't been here today. Hains point Is a peninsula like park which stretches into the Potomac river south of the White House.

Its banks HOW TIME FLIES As taken from the files of the Aitoona Tribune and the Aitoona Times, now consolidated as the Tribune. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY As a result of medical examinations in the local schools, more than two-thirds of the students were found defective. Three weeks of public hearings opened in Washingon, D. relative to various industrial and labor troubles. Vice President At-terbury of the Pennsylvania railroad company was scheduled to appear as a witness.

The Austro-German armies won a decisive victory over the Russians in West Galicia. The entire Russian center line was smashed and the army was reported demoralized. In Harrisburg the Cox Child labor bill passed the senate by a vote of 44-6. The measure was sent to Governor Brumbaugh for his signature. The Aitoona school board took action to float a loan for getting necessary cash to meet expenses.

FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY John Kazmaier, prominent retired businessman and public benefactor, died at his home, Villa Kazmaier, after a year's illness. Dr. Paul Taylor was seriously injured In an auto accident. Francis Gilliland, 12, of Juniata, died at Aitoona hospital of injuries suffered in an auto crash. The "Lindbergh of Japan," Seiji Yoshiwara, left Tokyo for a solo hop to America.

THREE YEARS AGO TODAY A first aid meet was held at Jaffa mosque by the troops of the Blajr-Bedford council, Boy Scouts of America and all 29 entries received a rating of 95 per cent or better. Blair County poor directors laid plans for activities in connection with outdoor relief. Al Capone, dethroned mod chief, left his cell in Chicago flanked by federal agents, and was taken to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. down to Governor Robert Emory Pattison's ride in 1885 from Harrisburg to Bedford Springs, accompanied by his staff in their glittering uniforms. re.

m. MEMORABLE LONG DISTANCE HORSEBACK RIDES IN PENN SYLVANIA AND ELSEWHERE The recent death of John Her man, known as the "Paul Revere of the Johnstown Flood" of 18S9, calls attention to many noteworthy horseback rides In Pennsylvania and abroad. Herman, it appeared when he saw the collapse of the dam was inevitable, mounted a good horso and rode down the valley urging people to take to the hills. Eventually he had to seek higher ground himself as the flood swept onward faster than his gallant steed could carry him. An unknown rider warned settlers of the breaking of the huge concrete dam on Freeman Run, near Austin, in Potter county in 1911, but mounted on a horse that had been used to haul bark during tho day, the flood beat him to Austin with its message of death and destruction.

When the news was telegraphed to Beliefonte that Jay Cooke Company were soon to close their doors in Philadelphia in 1873, a man was put on horseback to reach a remote lumber camp in McKean county, where a large sum of money, the proceeds of a land deal, were to be sent by a special messenger to Philadelphia and placed on deposit at the Cooke banking house. A day intervened Sunday which would give the rider time to reach his destination before the money was to be sent and there was no telegraphic communication where the messenger could be headed off. The rider arrived on 'Sunday night, making the seventy-five miles in twelve hours in the saddle. The messenger on another horse accompanied him back to Bellefonte with the money in gold coins in the saddle bags. Old people in the West Branch Valley Bay that an Indian rider, sent by Chief Red Jacket afterwards disillusioned by the white man's ingratitude but in June, 1778 a true friend of the settlers warned the pioneers of the coming of the Indian avengers and made possible the most spectacular getaway in all Pennsylvania history, "The Great Runaway." No mention of this famous ride is to be found in Meginness "History of the West Branch Valley," of John Blair Linn's more scholarly and accurate "History of Buffalo Valley," from which old Meginness quoted "in extenso" in his second edition.

After the Battle of Shiloh in the fall of 1861 the Confederate General John C. Breckinridge was hard pressed by the victorious northerners and hurried to the home of Colonel Keene Richard? at Georgetown, Kentucky, where he urged the Colonel to convey him to Virginia as quickly as possible. Colonel Richards' barn was virtu ally empty as the result of the war, but he had a pair of three year old half-bred Arab fillies. These he hitched 'o a buckboard and started off with the excited general. The Yankees pursued on fleet thoroughbred horses, but though they gained for a while.

their bolt was soon shot, and they had to draw rein. The young Arab mares never stopped until they had Breckinridge safely within the Confederate lines. In this case the horses in harness outdistanced tho horseback riders. General Washington's favorite charger was a half-breed Arabian stallion," dapple grey in color and standing only" fifteen hands high. As the general was six feet, three inches tall, and weighed over two hundred pounds, It is evident that this little Arab was some weight carrier.

A brother of General Washington's, charger figured in the spectacular escape of General Israel Putnam at Greenwich, Connecticut during the Revolution, when Putnam, hotly pursued by- Redcoats, galloped down the steep declivity of a hundred steps on what is now called "Put's Hill." These steps were visible until about forty years ago, when a summer resident to "improve" the slope of his lawn, is said to have destroyed them. Though it was before the days of the D. A. there was a loud outcry among patriotic resi dents of Greenwich, especially when It was whispered about that the alleged vandal was of British origin. Dr.

J. Eric Palmer, an English historian, says: "In 1788 the Man chester Bank stopped payment. Owing to delayed information or bad management the firm's Lon don agents continued paying over the counters after the head office in Manchester had closed its doors. On hearing this the stockholders called a meeting and decided that one of their number, Edward Rush-ton, should immediately ride to London and present drafts to a large amount on the London office and if, as was anticipated, they were dishonored, he should at once close the bank. Mr.

Rushton left Manchester at one o'clock the same day. He rode his own horse, Rodney, as far as Derby, afterwards getting relays at inns on the road and arrived at London at ten o'clock the next morning, a distance of about 190 miles in twenty-one hours. "The 'fast' coaches took thirty-nine hours for the same journey. The drafts were of course dishonored and what money there was saved for the general creditors." An even more remarkable ride is recorded in "The Historv of the King's Messengers," published in London some years ago. Colonel Charles Townley.

Queen's Foreign Service Messenger, was handed a vital despatch in the British legation at Belgrade, Serbia, one day in October, 1849. He rode from Belgrade to Therafia, near Constantinople, in Turkey, a distance of 820 miles in five days and eleven hours. During the trip he was thrown twice, broke open an old wound and was only out of the saddle for six hours. But he got the despatch into the hands of the B'itlsh ambassador in safety. It would be interesting to have some historian compile "ll thp great horseback rides In Pennsylvania from earliest colonial times of Indiana claims that she is sure she has rubbed elbows with the country's most polite woman.

She was standing on a a I gton street corner one Say recent ly when a white- haired worn a ed from the and stopped a cruising taxi cab. Mrs. Jenckes BILL BENEDICT heard the woman say to the driver: "Young man, are you going out my way?" basis of instalment payments, insisting on his pound of flesh. Although temporarily defeated In an attempt to obtain management control he will try again when the stockholders meet in June. Jesse doesn't regard himself as a "flaming liberal." He is not a "brain truster," for he never went to college.

The fight against holding companies on Capitol hill doesn't excite him. He is simply trying to be a "good, old-fashioned banker" and to protect Uncle Sam's interest. INTEREST The RFC and the treasury, incidentally, are piling up a tidy profit on their loans to banks. Industries, rallrpads, etc. The RFC pays 3 per cent for funds advanced to It by the treasury, and Secretary Morgenthau is paying an average rate of only 2.86 on borrowings from the people.

The RFC lends at rates ranging from 4 to 6 per cent. If corporations premise to be good and to reduce the salaries of their presidents and vice-presidents, they can get money for 4 per cent. If not, it wiil run around 6 or 6 per cent. Already profits from these operations amount to $70,000,000. If, as Mr.

Morgenthau hopes, the government can obtain cheaper money in future refundings there will undoubtedly be demands that he and Mr. Jones do just what they are coaxing private bankers to do cut the interest rate. But all you will get from Financiers Morgenthau and Jones will be a glassy stare. (McClure Syndicate) Screen Life In Hollywood By HUBBARD HEAVY HOLLYWOOD His face is as rugged and dusty looking as the Oklahoma plains from which he came and his sandy hair Is continually rumpled and as dis-orderly as drought stricken Kansas wheat in the wind. His nose is short and snubbed, his eyebrows are dusty paint brushes and he is as spindly as a 14JENCKES young colt.

The name is Bill Benedict. the home town is Tulsa, and the nerve is colossal. Six months ago, Bill got an extra dose of Oklahoma alkili in his mouth and decided on California for a change. He came to act and he was determined to get into the movies. Job-Getting Formula Here's how he did it, but even 16-year-old Bill doesn't guarantee that the system will always work: He asked a workman coming out of a studio gate, one morning several weeks after he arrived, how to get a job within.

"Doin' "Actin'," said Bill. "You gotta see the casting director." "Who's he?" "Name's Ryan." As a result of this conversation Bill dived into a drugstore and phoned the studio. Casting Director James Ryan's secretary was talking on one phone, so Ryan answered the one on his desk. "This Billy Benedict," he said, "and I'm calling myself because my agent Is sick, I've got the homeliest pan in Oklahoma and I'm called the Oklahoma Flash. I do anything in the acting line.

There was something about BUI Napoleonic attitude that engaged Ryan. He asked Bill to drop in, which Bill did in le3s than 50 seconds. Bill got a part in "$10 Raise" and the next week Fox gave him a contract. He's on loan to Paramount now, for a comedy role in "College and Bill's pretty sure he's eoing places. Hollywood's Homeliest His nerve is the sort that either makes or breaks a man.

Billy Benedict may become an important juvenile comic, or he may fall into the extra ranks. Billy says he's Hollywood's homeliest person and that Incudes Will Rogers and Stu Erwln," he adds proudly. On the set, Bill's feet are never still, nor for that matter, is his tongue. He's one of those llfe-of-the party fellows who never wear out an never take a hint To appear grown up, he smokes a pipe three sizes too large for him. As soon as he got his contract, Bill sen for hos mother, who has been supporting him and his two sisters since his father died 13 years ago.

Sister Susanne, who is I mmmmm "AT EMBERS OF THE TYRONE SPORTSMEN'S IV J. Association have developed a novel scheme to call attention to the need of forest fire prevention. For two days members of the association will wear placards on their backs bearing the legend: "Prevent Forest Fires It Pays." In addition they propose to pass resolutions calling upon the state Department of Forests and Waters to declare an annual observance of "Forest Fire Pre-. vention Day" during which time civic organizations, sportsmen's groups, schools and other bodies would endeavor to drive home the need of forest conservation through the prevention of forest fires. The Tyrone sportsmen have suggested something that should be made state-wide.

This section of the state this spring has seen a number of destructive forest fires all of them caused by carelessness in the woods. Great damage has been wrought to timberlands, to cover for game, to water supplies and to fish life because of these fires. Setting aside a certain day, or several days, annually during which time the need of forest conservation might better be brought before the minds of the people is a move in the right direction. The Tyrone plan should have the hearty endorsement not only of the outdoor departments at Harrisburg but of every individual in the state as well. "They play 'follow the NEW YORK By O.

O. NEW YORK, May 2 Thoughts while strolling: What do they call the gourd shaker in a rhumba band? That all-black Rolls with the bright yellow doors is Frank Storrs's. Still a giggle for me in Childs" serving cocktails. C. D.

Williams, the artist, is a walking map of Ireland. Add well-dressed actors: Peter de Cordoba. They say Mldivani is not even a fair polo player. Amos Pln-chot Is one of the middle-aged tennis enthusiasts, too. Lowell Sherman was first along Broadway to carry his watch in his left-hand trousers pocket and his handker-cniof in his cuff.

Impossible photograph: Christopher Morley without a pipe. No prcducer seems utterly untheatrlcal as John Golden. George White will sojn be a white-head, for goodness sakes. Nobody has ever topped Jiminv Walker in wearing a hat tit a rakish angle But Jim Flagg is a runner-up. allkes: Sherwood Andirson ana Gen Hugh Johnson.

Add hlc-cjp names. Belloc Lowndes. Kath-erine Brush is about the most smartly dressed authoress. Those enameled ladies who emerge from the beauty salons at noon. BrJi'e Earton's stiff-as-a-poker George Gershwin and his rhy brother Ira.

Not many actors more in their roles than Osgood Perkins. Elizabeth Arden is a giddyap girl, always in a hurry. F. G. Cooper who designed th high-hatted dandy of The New Yorker's cover.

Major Bowes's saunter. Whatever became of the tired business man? Likely the biggest stage cleanup of the year will be recorded by "The Petrified Forest." It was produced by the playwright Robert E. Sherwood, and the star. Leslie Howard, at a cost of $8,000. And returned the Initial investment, or "nut" as Variety has it, the first week.

And the rest of what looks like ft long run will be entirely velvet. Several thousands a week for each. In appearance N. C. Wyeth, the painter, is a white Alexander Dumas.

He overrides all the sartorial conventions, and is liable to drop into town from his -suburban home near Philadelphia attired in a dress shirt, corduroy trousers, patent leather pumps and a sombrero. He has an 18-year-old son who paints and is tutoring the small son of his Negro cook, also showing great promise. No section of Manhattan dries up so quickly as Wall Street as the sun goes down. In an hour's time it becomes as completely desolated as a Jersey mead. A stranger's footfall may be heard in the next block.

Here and there In the magic evaporation a watchman tilts In a door chair and a spurt of steam geysers from the street. But these are the only Bhows of life. The next invasion is the cleaning women at midnight. Yet any night wanderer exciting the slightest suspicion galvanizes the district into taut alertness. Policeman and private guards appear casually out of the nowhere.

Heads protrude from a hundred doorways. While the greatest wealth 'of the country is cached there. Wall Street never had a sensational burglary. The Fulton street deadline is still observed. I am told Max Baer was offered $1,000 a week to make his headquarters at an ambitious restaurant during a recent stay.

They expected him to drop in an hour after the theatre nightly. But Baer did not care to be restricted. He divided his time chiefly between Jack Dempsey's and a rendezvous, popular for the moment with the Broadway Arabs, called El Morocco. His idolatry for Dempsey is reflected in his do-si-do walk and other mannerisms that are the champion's. Columnists somehow have not proved great shakes U.

personal appearances on the stage, although the majority in New York have given the notion a twirl. Audiences, so far, have been friendly enough. At least they have not thrown things. Cartoonists fare better in histrionic ambitions. Winsor McKay, Rube Goldberg, Harry Hetuh- fleld, O.

Soglow and Clare Briggs upped box office receipts whenever they appeared. I went through the death agonies watching one columnist in his foot- light debut. He came on faintly 14 and Siter Katherine, 19, also are now part of the Benedict household here. "We move to Beverly Hills and a swimming pool when I start get ting some real "dough," promises I leader' all day DAY BY DAY McINTYRE phosphorescent with terror like a ghost. His opening line that was naturally in a deep resonant voice came forth in high soprano.

Frantically clearing his throat, he began again. He was still a soprano and went through the entire horror in that upper register. And you can imagine the reaction of the balcony boys. (Copyright, 1935, McNaught Syndicate) Local Y' to Sponsor Summer Camp The Aitoona Y. M.

C. marking the first year it has sponsored a camp of Its own, will open Its summer recreation site at Camp Myler, seven and one-half miles from Huntingdon on Laurel Lake, on the Raystown branch of the Juniata river, June 7, It was announced by James A. Wooten, general secretary. The camp site was presented to the association by G. W.

Shaffef. Lloyd B. Schear, boys' work secret tary, will be camp director and James McCready, swimming instructor, will be physical director. A program of instruction and entertainment is to be carried out. Those who cannot swim will be taught and those who can swim will be taught life saving.

There will also be a handicraft shop and discussion groups. June 7 to 15 will be the first week of the camp and boys desiring to attend may register at the T. M. C. A.

building, Lexington avenue and Ninth street. The registration fee Is 50 cents. Sale of 200-Pound Hog Will Stock Any Panlry FAIRMONT, Minn. (P) One good 200-pound Minnesota hog could be sold to stock any household pantry in this day of soaring pork prices, according to a survey here. One year ago a porker of that weight would exchange for 174 pounds of beet sugar here.

But, today it's a different story. In addition to the same amount of sugar, it is figured the porker would also buy: Ten pounds of beans, 2 boxes oatmeal, 6 cans salmon, 2 pounds candy, 2 packages pancake flour, 4 pounds raisins, one dozen jar caps, 2 lamp chimneys, 100 bars soap, 3 pounds coffee, '2 pounds cheese, 3 pounds beef steak, 4 pounds bacon, 1 4 pounds lard, 4 loaves bread, 4 cans peas and a roll of snuff. Dedication of Highland Park is Outlined A meeting held recently of a committee of members of the Aitoona Education associaTion, disclosed plans for dedication exercises to be held at Highland park at some future date not yet learned. The committee in charge of arrangements Includes: Superintendent R. E.

Laramy, member ex-offi-clo; Howard W. Lindaman, chairman; Principal Levi Gilbert, Miss Grace Mosser, Miss Eleanor Wilson, H. C. Smith, Miss Pauline Kloss, Miss Elisabeth K. Eyre, Robert H.

Wolfe, Miss Josephine Corle and Miss Linda Bryan. Further plans for, the dedication will be discussed when the committee meets Monday afternoon. Joseph N. Maddocks, president of the Aitoona Education association, named the members. ALTOONA RESCUE MISSION The service tonight at Aitoona Rescue Mission promises to be of an enjoyable and inspirational nature when the guest speaker will be Rev.

E. Fowler, pastor of the 2nd Presbyterian church. Special selections will be rendered by the Ashburn trio well known locally as singers of ability. The meeting will commence at 7:30. PRICE I SLASHED 0L0S5T WHISKEY SU;" IN THK STA AT THIS PRICK XJT7 WASHINGTON By RAY TUCKER BEAR It looks like curtains for Harold Ickes, star of the New Deal drama up to now.

His role in the spending of the $4,000,000,000 designed to end the depression appears to be minor. President Roosevelt tried hard to placate all his prima donnas, but everybody on the inside knows that Frank Walker and Harry Hopkins, will run the relief show. Here's how it will work out: Mr. Walker will scrutinize all projects and submit them to the Presi dent and the allotment board headed by Mr. Ickes.

The President has made It clear that Mr. Walker will "recommend," and It's a Bafe bet that Walker-approved plans will get the board's O. K. nine times out of ten. Mr.

Ickes has only one vote on this 22-man agency, and he has many enemies among his associates. They think that he has soared too high and spread himself too much. Next takes charge In his inimitable way. He hates red tape as much as Mr. Ickes dotes on it.

Hopkins will supervise construction, purchase mater ials, fix wages, hire workers and keep things moving. Mr. Roose velt expects him to duplicate his record of employing 4,000,000 C. W. A.

workers in a few months. Thus Walker will plan, Hopkins will per form and Ickes will growl. CRAWLERS Mr. Ickes may fool the sidetrackers yet. His experience as Public Works administrator gives him an advantage over rivals on the allotment board.

Nobody will be as well fortified in discussion of projects which come before his body. He may blow up some of the "recommendations." Confusion over the function of the various work-relief agencies has already played into his hands. Political delegations have congregated at the capital to beg a slice of the $4,000,000,000 fund. Many interviewed Mr. Ickes as they did in PWA days.

Some brought new projects, but many simply revived proposals which he rejected long ago. When told to present their requests to Mr. Walker they baldly raided Mr. Ickes' files. They demanded their "papers" back, asking for the legal, financial and engineering data which accompanied their original requests for approv al.

Then they walked down the street to work on Mr. Walker. One delegation dragged in a $59,000,000 power-and-navigation scheme which has been turned down by their own state engineers, Army engi neers, the federal power commis sion and Ickes. But they still hope to crawl under the tent of the new public works show. They won't if Mr.

Ickes sees them first! TRADES The latest "silver mys tery" makes good telling. It dem onstrates that the administration has a bear by the tail in carrvine out the silvers-policy enunciated by congress. Secretary Morgenthau had no in tention of raising the price a week ago. His hand was forced by a newspaper reporter and silverltes on Capitol hill, The reporter published a story to the effect that the treasury was paying the world price instead of a higher domestic rate. As late as 4 o'clock that same day Mr.

Morgenthau denied that he would raise the ante. Then the silver senators barged it. By telephone they demanded that he keep his promise that the domestic would top the world price. That evening Mr. Roosevelt issued the proclamation which gladdened the hearts of the silver bloc and set up free drinks in western mining towns.

But there is more to the Bilver movements than that. The administration did not act solely to please Messrs. Pittman, King, Wheeler. McCarran etc. It expects something In return from the dozen senators who represent sliver-producing states.

You won't know all the factors influencing these monetary moves until vou see how tftey vote on such controversial questions as the bonus, banking, holding company and social security bills. PROTECTOR Once again Jesse Jones has startled conservative colleagues of pre-New Deal days. his latest surprise has been his demand for control of a Chicago holding company which owesthe comparatively small sum of to the Reconstruction Finance corporation. If he wins Uncle Sam will find himself godfathering a S40p.000.000 public utility system that extends into fourteen states, four Canadian provinces and 500 cities in England. Scotland and Wales.

Tha RFC took the holding company's note as partial collateral for its $90,000,000 loan to Charles G. Dawes' bank in Chicago. When the company fell Into technical default Mr. Jones moved to col lect and foreclose. He has refused all offers of a compromise on the A DEMOCRAT'S VIEAVS GOVERNOR GEORGE H.

EARLE'S election last fall was by a vote of approximately 60,000 representing about two per cent of the total vote cast. Even some leading Democrats believe that such a vote is hardly sufficient to give Mr. Earle a mandate to do "only what he thinks wise." From a Democratic newspaper, edited by a Democrat who also sits as a member of the house of representatives at Harrisburg comes the following: "Last November Gertrude Ely, Democratic candidate for state senator in Montgomery county, was defeated by 10,000 votes. Recently, as a Democratic candidate in a special election, she was defeated by 16,000 votes. A few weeks ago a special election was held in Pike county.

The Republican candidate for the general assembly won. Pike county has had a Democratic member in the house for years. "Democratic leaders at Harrisburg say Governor Earle's program cannot be changed in any particular. At two special elections the people have said the program should be changed. The people may be wrong and the politicians may be right.

But those who are not politicians are inclined to believe there is something wrong with a policy which earns the governor two political black eyes in a row." Perhaps this Democratic daily newspaper editor and assemblyman senses the public attitude. Perhaps he can see a Democratic revolt where others cannot In the opinion of the Louisville Courier-Journal, if the truth be known, what ails the cotton textile industry is, first, the imposition of arbitrary wage scales under the NRA, and, second, the processing tax under the AAA. Both have run up the ultimate cost of manufactured cotton to the point where the American consumer cannot buy it. The NRA is due to expire on June 16 unless congress extends the life of it. There are some persons who are of the opinion that smelling salt3 will be "New Ways to Grow Spinach," reads a headline in a newspaper.

Just as if plenty of spinach wasn't grown under the old ways! the nervy Bill. i.