Show t i Davis Pr Prefers fers Senate Seat j I To His Old Post in Cabinet By HERBERT DIElt V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON June 0 Six months in the United States senate has convinced Jim Davis of Pennsylvania that he would rather rath rath- er be a R. senator than a member of ot the presidents president's cabinet For nine years ears in the last chair at the table close to the fireplace he sat in the deliberations of the cabinet Three presidents Harding Coolidge and Hoover have looked down that table at the stocky stock white- white haired eyed brown man who V sat as secretary of labor In the senate he sits next i 1 to the wall on the second row Davis has plenty of or Pennsylvania precedent to back his slut shift t. t from cabinet to senate Back in the Lincoln administration tion Cameron Simons did the same thing In 1862 he resigned as se secretary see sec of or war var to go out and fight then ran lan for the senate in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- penn penn-I sylvania and served from 1867 to tOI 1877 WONT WON'T EMULATE IULA TE KNOX Philander r Chase Knox also of ot shuttled from cabinet cabinet cabinet cabi cabi- net to senate until it was hard to tell which was his first choice Knox was wat attorney general under McKinley and Roosevelt Roose He re resIgned resigned resigned re- re signed to accept appointment to the senate and returned as secretary of state II in the Taft Tart cabinet then went back to ta the senate and served until his death But therell there'll be nothing ng like that for Jim Dav Davis if he has anything to ta say about it He likes the sena senate wants senate wants to stay thereIn thereIn there In SIn the first place he explains I went into the cabinet for two years cars and stayed nine rune That's long enough Then too I wanted vindication of ot my labor policies by an election In the labor state of ot Pennsylvania And besides the senate is one I of or the noblest things a man can aspire to APPETITE So 50 much for that angle of Davis Davis' shift from tho the cabinet to the sen zen ate However theres there's another reason rea rca son ron perhaps Just as revealing re It W wes was the state tate dinners he confides too often and too good Ive I've got a appetite And after one of or those state dinners I would have to go so all day without eating and keep from getting as big bigas as m my desk But he be admits the lessons he learned on the e. e executive side of or orthe the administration arc are coming in hand handy in the legislative e field As labor secretary he dealt with personal problems the separation of or families through immigration acts ads working conditions of women working hours of children the thc psychological twists of or strike media media- I ion tion the tragedies of unemployment And Anti he has discovered that the work of the legislator Is closely woven with the same sort of or definite definite deli deli- nite human problems J |