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It Seems to Me HEM BUM WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—. John L. Lewis. 'he silver-tongued orator of the United Mine Workers of America, declared himself out of a golden reward at the final session of the convention. It pave a spectacular last act to one of the most stirrinp labor gatherings ever held in America. At the Thursday session the delegates advanced the salary of their president from $12,000 a year to $25,000. As far as cold logic goes, this would not be out of line with some other union salaries. Tobin,

of the Teamsters, draws $25,000 and an allowance for the upkeep of an automobile. At a $12,000 salary John L. Lewlfl* gets less than a number of presidents of smaller unions. But there was some opposition when the proposal came tip. Probably there would have been almost unanimous approval of an increase not so sharply stepped up. However, the vote went through vocally by what sounded like a sizable majority. It is not usual for executives, in labor or elsewhere, to turn down salary increases, and so the convention of

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1700 delegates was startled when Lewis broke into the regular order of business to say. “I want at this time, before I call on the scale committee, to make .just, a brief statement concerning the action of the International Convention on the question of salaries." nun Some Mental Mathematics / 'I”'HE delegates sat at, attention. The opposition thought they had heard a battle call summoning them back to battle. ‘ I do not know.” said Lewis, “what my services arc worth to the United Mine Workers of America. ’ He paused as if trying to do a sum in his head, but then quickly added, “Vice President Murray and Secretary-Treasurer Kennedy do not know what, their services are worth to the United Mine Workers <of America. That is a value which must be placed pipon those services by each individual member. 'Your executive officers are highly embarrassed by a public discussion of their salaries in our conventions. They are not engaged in the sefvire of the organization for mere salary or gain. It doesn't make any difference how much you pay them, whether it Is much or little. “The executive officers of the United Mine Workers of America are announcing to the convention this morning—and Vice President Murray and Secretary Kennedy join in making this announcement —while we appreciate the action of the convention yesterday, your three officers are advising you this morning that they can not and will not accept the salary increases and they will continue to work for the same salary they have been receiving.” n n The Debate Is Closed AN extraordinary scene followed. Hundreds cf men were jumping up shouting. “No!” “No!” Even the dissenters of the previous day seemed intent on giving away the money. Four Scotch miners were shouting, ‘‘Take it, John!” Lewis rapped sharply with his right hand and said, “Next order of business.” The miners do not meet in international convention again for two years, so this single performance cost Lewis S2fi.OOO. But aside from the fact that his devotion to the organization is real and absolute, I do not think he grudged it. It was a masterpiece of showmanship on the part of a man who has displayed throughout, the session a. dramatic genius. It has been said that John L. Lewis distinctly suggests Hamlet. Prince of Denmark, in voice and manner and appearance. But he should never be allowed to play the role, because he would most certainly distort Shakespeare's piot. It wouldn't be a, tragedy. He would have Hamlet lash out and lick the stuffings out of Destiny. (Copyright.

Balance of Power Seen as Borah Aim BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—Senator Borah is moving gradually forward to occupy a balance-of-power spot in the presidential situation. He has entered the Ohio presidential primary due on May 12. and expects to file also in the Illinois primary to be held April 14. In Illinois he will be in direct competition with Col. Frank Knox of Chicago. Possibly they will compete also in Ohio. For some weeks Mr. Borah has been increasingly

confident, that he can defeat env Republican candidate in these big state primaries. He is confident of turning up at the Cleveland convention with more popular votes behind him than any other aspirant. Borah’s purpose is not so much to have a preponderance of delegates as to muster a popular mandate. If he appears with such a mandate and the Republican Party accepts him, that will be one thing. But if the party nominates a candidate and adopts a

platform which are unsatisfactory to Borah—then thp fun will begin. It is not certain that Borah would not bolt under such circumstances. He has never bolted, not even for Theodore Roosevelt, whose floor manager he was at the 1912 Republican convention. Yet. Borah of Idaho is a dif.erent potato this year. He is in a less compromising mood than he was earlier in his career. The possibility of a Borah bolt exists. That is why he will dominate the Republican landscape until the Cleveland convention is over. a a a AT the same time there is a significant dovetailing of Roosevelt and Borah strategy. Roosevelt is entering the Democratic primaries in Ohio and Illinois ana his name will be voted upon at the same time as Borah’s. One reason for this is to register * popular demonstration for Roosevelt In two important Middle Western states. However these primaries are likely to serve another purpose on the eve of the two conventions. Add together the votes which Roosevelt will receive in the Ohio and Illinois primaries and the Progressive-Republican votes which Borah will receive—a considerable percentage of which may melt away if Borah is not nominated—and you are likely to have figures which show a state of mind generally more favorable to the progressive outlook than to the conservatives Such figures are likely to give some hint as to the possibilities of a basic realignment. Borah does not agree with many of the Roosevelt policies. Yet, in general, he probably is more sympathetic toward what Roosevelt stands for than toward what some of the leading Republican presidential aspirants stand for. Should the Republicans take a die-hard conservative position, it is possible that this realignment might occur overnight. a a a THE Administration is moving its heavy artillery into Gov. Landons backyard. Democrats are organizing a Washington birthday dinner in Topeka which they hope to make larger than the recent Kansas Day dinner for Landon. Guv Helvering, Kansas Democratic leader and commissioner of internal revenue, will pause in his efforts to shake a million dollars in back taxes out of John Raskob's pockets while he escorts Democratic National Chairman Farley to Topeka as the principal speaker. His general counsel in the Internal Revenue Bureau. Thurman Hill, from Landon's home town of Independence. Kas.. also is going out and will make several non-poiitical speeches which won t be designed to <lo Landon any good. Democrats have been combing Landons record and are getting ready to shoot.

THE CAMERAMAN AND THE QUINS

Fred Davis. photographer of the Dionne quintuplets, has made, all the pictures of the babies which have thrilled the country. With that unrivaled opportunity to observe the quins, he has Jotted down many interesting incidents. Here is the second of three stories in which Davis tells hitherto unrevealed incidents in the quintuplets' lives. BY FRED DAVIS NEA Service Staff Photorrapher QF course you are familiar with the fact that everybody wears a surgeon’s sterilized gown in entering the quintuplets’ nursery. But Dr. Dafoe has gone a step farther, by demanding that all of us wear sterilized slippers. He feels that where babies are crawling or playing on the floor, the worse kind of contagion is possible from wearing shoes from

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contagion from undetected child ailments. But for the last year a. distinguished throng of worthies, notables. and moguls, prominent Canadian and American physicians, governors of states, big shots of money and politics from Canada or Kansas, have come confidently north, to see. to touch, to dandle on their knees these famous babies. tt n tt BUT they never do. All the letters and credentials, all the eminence in the medical or political or judicial world, get them no closer than Tom, Dick, and Harry. Dr. Dafoe is a great diplomat, along with his other qualifications. He has a wonderful and private collection of photos. His personal album. Yes, sir. And the eminent ones are privileged actually to hold in their hands this personal and private collection. That's all they hold in

VXTASHINGTON, Feb. 12. * * Professor Moley’s "Committee for Economic Recovery” has finally spawned a real idea. For months the committee's chief function appeared to be a Moley admiration gathering -at which the ex-No. 1 Brain Truster expounded on the state of the nation—and, incidentally, boosted circulation and advertising of his magazine, Today. Now Allie Freed, financial father of the committee, has sold a. new housing program to the President. This was behind Roosevelt’s conference last week on the unexpended balance of the HOLC. One billion dollai? from its unused funds will be transferred to anew housing set-up. and this in turn will be lent, to private companies and municipalities at 1 per cent. The President is sold on the plan 100 per cent. He thinks it will mean the construction of a million private homes and the biggest building boom since the bull market. Mrs. Roosevelt, also is sold on the plan of making Allie Freed head of the new housing set-up. a a a His Hopes High TO this end. Allie has played his cards well. It probably escaped general attention, but Allie was one of those who recently accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt to her Homestead Project at Reidsville, W. Va. Furthermore. Allie has held out hopes that he might build a factory at Reidsville to employ the homesteaders. If there is one thing dear to Mrs. Roosevelt's heart it is her Reidsville homesteaders. and Allie Freed knows it. And if there is one fault consistently entertained by the Roosevelts it is a perennial prepossession for colorful and charming personalities who can not possibly fit into a smooth-running piece of government machinery. Hence the Gen. Johnsons, the Peeks, the Jimmy Moffats, the Jimmy Warburgs, the Ray Moleys and all the other New Deal discards. The 43-year-old Allie Freed is king of Paramount Cab Corp.. a New York taxicab company. He

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the outside into the babies’ room. So now whenever we enter the nursery we must put on not only the white surgical gown, but also the sterilized Clippers that are provided. Few persons get within touching distance of the babies. Children are taboo in the hospital, because of the risk of

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Wash day at the Dionne nursery. Why, say, it'll be no time at all before these growing young ladies are doing their own housework! That's Annette standing up so proudly at left, and Yvonne eagerly trying her hand at the miniature iron. Cecile experiments with a small tin washtub, while Emilie, right, studies the possibilities of a tiny wash board. Marie thinks it’s more fun just to sit on the floor and taste a clothespin.

their hands or dandle on their knees. tt tt it YVONNE is always the leader. In weight and antics. She was beaten by four hours for the first tooth by Annette. But she is making up for it. Annette always wakes first. She has a little chat with herself, and then leans across and shakes Yvonne's crib. Reveille has sounded. One baby—nobody saw which one, and they are too clannish to snitch on one another—broke a window in the nursery the other day with a play block. Bye-bye, play blocks. Emilie. the one who wants to see inside my camera—l'm worried about that camera; some day it is going to get Emilied—did a grand job on SIOO worth of jewelry not long ago. A Boston admirer sent the money to a Toronto jeweler to make up five necklaces. Beautiful little necklets they were, ending in a cross. Emilie first grabbed her own. around her neck, gave

is an enthusiastic, sincere, vigorous Roosevelt rooter and deserves credit for concocting the new housing plan. But as its prospective head, Allie is a risk. ana Funeral Bills THE death of Senator Huey P. Long has focused attention on a little-known fact—that for years the government has paid the bill for burying members of Congress who die in office. Ordinarily Senate funerals cost about SI2OO. But when the bill arrived for the burial of the assassinated Kingfish, it totaled $2500. Apparently Huey's henchmen spared no expense—and then sent the bill to Uncle Sam. Chief item on the account is $2200 for a bronze casket. The balance is for flowers and incidentals. Some members of the Senate audit and control committee are indignant over the size of the expense statement, and there was talk of demanding that it be cut in half. But since the designation of Huey's widow as his successor, the proposal has been dropped. The total $2500 will be paid. a a a Pan-American Peace THE Pan-American peace conference being discussed secretly by the State Department and Latin American diplomats would carrv out the idea emphasized by the President in his mesSTATE ARCHITECTS TO CONVENE HERE FRIDAY Indiana Society's Annnal Meeting Is Scheduled for Lincoln. The Indiana Society of Architects is to hold its annual meeting Friday in the Lincoln. Directors are to convene in the morning. A luncheon for all members is to follow. Anton Scherrer and Henrik Mayer a~e to speak at the annual dinner for members of the society and of the Indiana chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Mayer is to discuss the relation of mural painting to architecture.

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! it a good yank, and it came to | pieces. tt tt it Delighted with herself, she leaned across and snatched Marie.’s, and in a second, it was strewn all over the nursery. The nurses, seeing the wreckage, took the remnants from Emilie and set her in a pen by herself. The incident forgotten, the nurse a. little while later left all five on the floor of the playroom, while she went for their orange juice. Four minutes she was gone. When she returned, Emilie. wearing a scientific smile, a smile exactly like Prof. Einstein’s when he discovered relativity, had the remains of the other three necklaces in her chubby clutch, and Yvonne, Annette, and Cecile, her bigger sisters, were sitting by, looking decidedly under-privileged. tt tt tt FRENCH is the only language used to or in the presence of the quins. I don't know just how Dr. Dafoe manages. ' My French is very limited. It

sage to Congress—the Good Neighbor policy in the Western Hemisphere. The conference would rub home to Europe the idea that the New World nations, at least, can live peacefully together, and would attempt to strengthen political and economic ties between the Americas. Some of the far-seeing gentlemen in the State Department believe that during the next war in Europe the United States must confine its trade almost entirely ,to Latin America. Certainly this will be true if American ships and war materials are to be withdrawn from European belligerent waters. Note After discussing the Peace Conference with Assistant Secretary Welles. Latin American envoys all told a different story. Chilean Ambassador Trucco said he had discussed the Chilean Railway strike. Uruguayan Minister Richling said he had discussed the sale of chilled beef to the United States. Mexican Ambassador Najera said he had discussed a “very personal matter.” a a a He Came Through HIS two weeks appearance before the Senate Munitions Committee was a pleasant and interesting experience for J. P. Morgan—as he cordially assured Chairman Gerald P. Nye upon its conclusion. But his partners were less enthusiastic. More political minded than he, they were in a constant sweat that the famed international banker would make an unguarded remark which would hit the headlines. And the last thing he did was exactly that. Just before leaving the committee room, he observed: “If you destroy (by taxation! the leisure class, you destroy civilization.” At the time the statement was made Morgan's uneasy associates said nothing to delighted newspaper men. But several hours later Thomas Lamont. canny dean of the Morgan partners, called up several newsmen and said: “I just wanted to make sure that Mr. Morgan's views were not misinterpreted.” (Copyright. 1936. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

is trench French. What few words I know, I got up around Vimy Ridge and Amiens. But I memorized a set speech, which I invariably, with due deference to the babies, recite when I come into their presence. It goes as follows: “Parley-voo Francey?. Oolie oo hon ami? Boom! OUI!” This invariably delights them. They scream and clap their hands in applause. Then I feel that I have pleased their majesties, and I am glad. tt tt tt AS far as I know about babies, teething is the time of distress and upset. The quins went through their teething without the slightest outward sign of any disorder or discomfort. Dr. Dafoe says this is exactly as it should be if the babies are properly fed and cared for. It is curious how any tension or excitement communicates itself to babies. You can see it clearly in these five. During the earlier days of

Bonus Billions Seen as Temporary Business Aid

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—The bonus may produce a midsummer business boom, but after the money is spent by the veterans the normal course will be resumed, if a study of the effect on business of the bonus loans made early in 1931 is safe precedent. The bill for increasing the loan value of certificates to 50 per cent was enacted over President Hoover's veto on Feb. 27, 1931. Loans thus made available were estimated at around $1,250,000,000. Within two weeks more than 100 millions was lent, and by the end of the month more than 300 millions. By May 23. 1931, the total rose to 750 millions, although the amount lent in that week had fallen to 15 millions. This advance of cash to the veterans had a marked, but only temporary, influence on business conditions. Throughout 1930 the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production had fallen, and it stood at 83 in January. 1931. It rose to 86 in February, 87 in ANNUAL MEETING OF SIGMA CHI ARRANGED State Members to Have Program at Columbia Club Saturday. Active and alumni members of Sigma Chi Fraternity are to attend the annual state program of the society Saturday afternoon and night in the Columbia Club. Speakers are to include Charles ; Eldridge, executive secretary; Nye Morehouse, grand trustee; Oscar | McNab. grand praetor, all of Chicago; Rev. Henry McLean, grand tribune, Huntington, Ind.; Howard Ferris Jr., grand trustee, and Daniel W. Lawrence, past national president, both of Cincinnati. A smoker at 2 Saturday is to precede the banquet. Undergraduates from Wabash, Butler, De Pauw, Indiana and Purdue are to attend. Telford B. Orbison is to be toastmaster. The Butler chapter is to present a program of fraternity songs at 2:30 Saturday over WFBM.

anxiety and disturbance over guardianship and so forth, when everybody, from the doctor down to the housekeeper, was anxious, you could actually see that unrest affecting the infants. That is what makes me feel how fortunate was the complete sanctuary given these babies from their birth. Dr. Dafoe fairly exudes calmness. I can fairly say'' I have never seen him rattled. He has trained us all to be quiet, orderly, easy. Asa news cameraman, trained all my life to bang in. grab my picture, and bang out, it has been quite an ordeal for me. But the Dionne pictures have all been taken in a peace that passeth ununderstanding. NEXT—Davis’ biggest scaremaking a rush trip for the doctor when Marie was feared to be dying. The quins face the movie cameras like veterans, while experienced actors are nervous in working with them.

March and 88 in April, going back to the March level in May. Then the sharp decline set in again—to 83 in June, 78 in August and 74 at the end of the year. a a a THE four-month improvement was reflected especially in an increase of production in cotton and woolen mills, and in shoe factories. „ Automobile production ceased to decline, and there were reports of increased sales of used cars and of radios. Building construction augmented more than seasonally, but that development was not laid generally to the new loans to veterans. The banking situation was helped temporarily, in part, because many veterans used their funds to pay debts. A study of the Veterans Administration disclosed that the 1931 loans were spent as follows: Family and personal necessities, 65 per cent; investments, 20 per cent; automobiles, 8 per cent, and 7 per cent into expenditures without practical benefit. The effect in 1936, however, may differ from 1931. Fewer persons are in dire need afld in debt now. business is improving instead of retrograding, and the total sum available to the veterans is about twice as large as five years ago. OHIO RABBI WILL SPEAK James Heller to Talk to Maternal Health League Tomorrow. Rabbi James G. Heller, memter of the Birth Control League of Cincinnati, 0.. is to speak at the third annual meeting of the. Maternal Health League of Indiana at 8:30 tomorrow in the All Souls Unitarian Church. Dr. C. O. McCormick, league chairman, is to report on the Indianapolis clinic's activities. Officers are to be elected. Architect to Talk Tomorrow Kenneth Bangs, associate landscape architect of the National Parks Service, is to speak at a luncheon of Indiana Federal agency directors tomorrow in the Washington.

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Fair Enough WESMOOK HOLER lONDON, Feb. 12.—After a quiet study of th# rules and tools of civilized table warfare your correspondent has decided that the French combine the greatest simplicity with the best results. The object of the game when a man sits down to the table is to put food into his physique, but certain refinements have been introduced since the days when people tore meat with their hands, and the problem L to conduct the sport with a minimum of ritual and form, but without putting the feet into the trough.

The Frenchman, like the old Scotch golfer, endeavors to do what there is to be done without superfluous weapons or fancy gestures. He sits down, ties his napkin behind his ears, picks up a knife and fork and goes to work with admirable directness. He dunks his bread in the juice of the snail, he chases fragments of steak and gravy with a piece of crust, he licks his fingers, says “ah!” and gets fed. He is far too sensible ever to permit a desirable morsel to be carried back to the kitchen out

of slavish respect for an arbitrary rule devised by somebody over in England whose idea of etiquette decreed that a diner never should appear to be hungry. It is by no means a sordid spectacle. On the contrary, the Frenchman's enjoyment and the simple skill of his game give your correspondent moments of admiration. He does not. require a special niblick to blast the peas our. of the mashed potatoes or a tweezer to overcome asparagus. tt v a 7-Course Dinner Par IF a slice of mushroom reposes in a difficult downhill lie on the rim of the plate he doesn’t, ignore it. as the American or Englishman would, but goes after it and gets it even if he has to play three strokes off the tablecloth, which some of us would consider out of bounds. His tools are fewer, but he gets everything out of them and he never picks up rather than try a. difficult shot. The affectation of Americans at table is notorious, and they hamper themselves by local artificial rules having no basis in common sense. They are afraid to dig for the best fragments of chicken or lobster, they avoid the gravy as though it were poison and the last spoonful of soup always goes back to the kitchen, because somebody once made a law that tipping the plate is comparable to teeing up on the fairway. The Englishman’s kit is even more complicated than ours, resembling in the same analogy the sort of bag with which a Sarazen or a Hagen bends the back of a caddy in an open championship. He can’t eat berries or a dab of custard without fork and spoon, a trick which spatters dessert all over the ceiling when Americans undertake it, and his rules say its proper to load the back of the fork with meat and potatoes all the way up to his wrist. The American, on the contrary, considers that it is bad form to pack food on the hump of the fork, and consequently when they meet at table each regards the other as not much better than a cannibal. tt a tt Prefers Roman Twirl IN Italy your correspondent discovered a great variety of styles in the manipulation of spaghetti and finally settled upon the Roman twirl as the most convenient. Although the Genoese call it vulgar and the people of Milan abominate the Genoese method, the Romans spear a forkful of oily, steaming strands, jab the prods of the fork into the bowl of a soup spoon and twirl vigorously. The spaghetti quickly winds around the fork like yarn on a spindle and is then jammed into the countenance before it can recoil. The Genoese shun the spoon as an unethical implement, contending that any true Italian should be able to twirl his spaghetti in midair without artificial support, but the Milanese stab down through the mass and twirl against the bottom of the plate. So there are three distinct schools, each claiming to be right and regarding the others as enemies of Italy. But, fortunately, in Italy there are no other problems of the kind which complicate life elsewhere, because after an Italian has had his spaghetti course he merely has some more spaghetti. Those French, though, are the masters. They avoid no hazards. They take food as it comes without false restrictions on style or stance and they make their “vittles” holler “uncle!”

Gen. Johnson Says—

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—1n the 1933 Slough of Despond and Valley of Despair, a thunderous cry arose: "Prices are too low.” The dollar bought too much. The farmer had to pay two pigs to discharge a $lO debt he had contracted when one porker was enough to pay it. That was fine for workers on wages and salaries. They got fewer dollars per week, but the pay envelope bought more pork and other necessaries. But everybody was in distress, and workers didn't kick much at a program that promised to raise prices and at the same time to raise wages. But how was the new Administration going to raise prices? It didn't know at first, but about six months later it decided: "We will debase the value of the dollar, by fiat (cutting its gold content), by credit inflation (making money cheap by filling the banks full of government bonds for unrestrained spending), and by giving money away by billions.” ''I''HAT was all outright violation of a solemn A promise, but prices went up. Farmers were pleased but housewives began to wail. Consumers complained and workers realized that, however good this might be for farmers, it was crucifying them. The 1933 cry is reversed. It is now "Prices are too high.” The only way to recovery is increased consumption through lower prices 'Brookings), Workers oppose inflation (William Green). "Farmers and workers unite! Raise prices and restore prosperity by printing money” (the Coughlinites and other ites). Farmers and workers can't unite on this question of inflation. They are as essentially opposed as plus and minus—as fire and water. The worker wants high wages and low food prices. The farmer wants high food prices and low prices for manufactured goods—which means low wages. The Administration is between the devil and the deep sea —and every passing day will make it# dilemma clearer and more dangerous. • Copyright. 1936. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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‘‘ r T'HE PURSUER.” by Louis Golding, is a dark A tale of fear and madness, singular in that, although it fails to be convincing, it does possess a force which keeps you reading it. It deals with two Englishmen who had been bovhood enemies. Their enmity had the slightest sort of basis; one of them chased, frightened, and humiliated the other in some boyhood game. But it persisted, and grew with the years, until by the time they were grown each hated the other with a hatred which was as real and overwhelming as it was unreasonable. Finally, out of pure. lago-like villainy, one of them eloped with the other's wife; and from that moment the victim planned murder as a revenge. His chance came, at last. He killed his foe and fled: and then his hatred turned backward and became an insane fear. Now all this, as I say. doesn't carry conviction with it. You find yourself thinking every so often that all this tangle of fear and hate is insufficiently motivated And yet. somehow, you do keep reading it. (By Bruce Catton.)

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