| Show AND SIMPLE LIFE KEEP H HUP I II I UP PINCHOT'S FIGHTING SPIRIT r POSSIBILITY AND FAMILY FAMILY I I 0 17 t tW I p W 4 j I e e V 4 I 1 i I I V I s I C 1 TE sst 1 5 L m I c I t Im Lq t q 4 s From left to right top row Mrs Pinchot and Grey Towers the Pi home Below Bolow The Pinchot f family amily asser assembled led for fora a chat in the I 1 living room Right G Governor Clifford Pinch Pinchot at By ALEXANDER HERMAN I NEA Service MILFORD Pa Jan 12 Gifford Pinchot governor of Pennsylvania I and one of ot the for foremost most of presidential possibilities is great at fishing I lIe He is as adept at fishing I as he Is skilled In making a cast In Inthe Inthe inthe the woodland streams But c he knows that there Is often orten many a slip between the nibble and the catch Perhaps that is why ho Is the one man in itt these parts who says he is not casting castin around tot for the nomina nomina- tion Yet there is a strong sentiment I throughout the state an and the whole East that he will ill be in the running I It hasn't yet crystallized itself InI in inthe inthe the formation of tor Pinchot for Pres President Pres- Pres I ident clubs or any organized at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to win pledges from delegates to the nominating convention But it is gaining momentum I Should this be great enough to help the governor swing the tile state i election this spring when a new legislature will wm be chosen political leaders believe Pinchot will be forced to throw his hat in the ring SET FOR COMING BATTLE Just now the governor is priming himself for a hard campaign The Tho political machine he broke up in his sensational victory or oJ 1922 will make a strong oppositional effort to come back Before this defeat tho the old Republican Republican Re Re- publican regime directed by Boies Boles Penrose and his f followers was one of the strongest organizations in tho the country It was deemed revolutionary revolution revolution- ary for an independent to try bucking bucking buck buck- I ing it I Pinchot did just that and successfully successfully suc sue too by going directly be fore the people and presenting his I views himself That's what ho he is going to do in inthe inthe inthe I the spring campaign too And that's what he will do if h he decides to get into the running for tor the presS presS- I dency He makes his own fights rIghts and fights them himself There is no organization that carries on for tor him A fA fisherman he says must land his own catch And Pinchot is a fisherman above above- everything else I To get a a of this Izaak Walton governor governor- presidential pos n pos I I sibl I I. I spent a day with 1 him mim lm at atI athis athis his homo home in the Ithe northern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania hills I He lives In Grey Towers 1 on a large estate It easily could be one ne neof of the show snow places of the East If it were tricked up with ornate trim trim- But the dont don't go goI goin goin in for this sort of thing So their I beautiful home stands in a bit of natures nature's woodland with little ostentation ostentation osten osten- tation but plenty of ot charm It is a large lodge like house holding a large living room where a cozy fireplace of ot burning logs often orten chopped by the gove governor blazes merrily away LIVES SIMPLE LIFE The f family eats in this room too j waited on by a major domo about Ithe i ithe the place who acts as butler cook I and man man of of all work He wears no I livery and Is dressed even better than the governor himself Pinchot's favorite room is his stud study It is a small place stuck away in inn a a corner of the house Its wall vall pap paper r is old Its walls are lined ined with fishing rods and reels Its desk Is filled with tackle A magazino magazine of short adventure i I stories lay atop a stack of papers The governor smiled as he showed I us around This is the best room in the house he said confidentially And heres here's the best thing in it He pulled out a fishing rod It weighs only 2 8 ounces he explained But it sure can hold the fish ROOSEVELT HIS IDEAL His glee was that of a child showing showing showing show show- ing off his favorite toy It was the glee of a Roosevelt showing his favorite rifle rffie Pinchot resembles his old chief chiet in more ways than one He is a a. strong disciple of his progressive views He lie is an ardent lover of the out out- d doors ors Add to this a bit of the in intellectual side of Woodrow Wilson for Wilson for Pinchot Pinchot Pin Pill I chot is a scholar a on time one Ume college professor professor and and a bit of ot Lincoln Lincoln- whom he resembles in stature and I simplicity simplicity and and you ou have haye a composite composite com com- view of the man But over all is a note distinctly Pinchot It is a tt note noto of plainness plainness plainness plain plain- ness kindliness tolerance Bu But there is no meekness It is a no note noto to toot of ot strength which which-is is struck so often when the governor swings into his work It was this note Rote that re resounded ye- ye sounded when he stepped In to settle re-I re the coal strike It was hard making Pinchot t talk lk about himself He would rather tell lell about the trees and the streams So Sowe Sowe Sowe we went into the woods He said that he felt more at home homo the there e than anywhere else HEADED FORESTRY He lie is 58 68 years old But his main interest is still the same of his youth youth forestry He studied it in college rounded off his scho schooling g I with a foreign trip to to investigate 1 methods of forest preservation I abroad He lie joined the bureau of oC forestry and later became its chief Together with Roosevelt he originated the word conservation which since has come to be used to cover Pre preservation l not only of forest but all natural resources as well In 1902 he became a professor protes- protes sor SOl of for forestry stry at Yale But soon I I realized that the best way to geta get a conservation policy says Pinchot Pinchot Pin Pin- Pinchot chot was through political means He Joined the progressive faction of the Republican party A strong admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and andone andone andone one one of his closest friends Pinchot took an active lead In the formation of the progressive party During During th the Taft administration he had his famous controversy with Ballinger over conservation When I that was over he lie dropped back into comparative obscurity devoting himself to his forest work and fish fish- ing Pinchot can came Into the public e eye e ea a few years ears ago when he decided i to run against Boies Penrose for the thelIe senate lIe He was defeated Again he went back to his trees I and fishing But Pinchot hadn't given up his fight In the spring of 1922 when the state was preparing for Its gubernatorial gubernatorial gubernatorial gu gu- gu- gu I primaries he plunged In again This time he won Since he has been chief executive of his state Pinchot has tackled he biggest issues of the da day clay Its It's pirt art artof of ot his creed It is reprehensible If he says for any any man in public lif life fe to sidestep step stepany any vital Issue that arises arises- Just like quitting when you have o havea a big fellow hooked when fishing I |
