Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-16 | Page 4 | "Don't Quote Me -"

Dont Quote Me sie f 1 1 By y United Press 1 S These words are arc the ones most frequently heard by I 1 l n ton correspondents terns never appear In the rt regu regular patches and little intimate pictures of or public characters character d ui appear In this column from time to Um time I W WASHINGTON Feb 16 16 Arthur Arthur Atwood Ballantine new undersecretary t tary of or the treasury plays golf call at Burning Tree and sails his yacht off oU Oyster Bay Frequently with him hint at such times Umes is Ogden L. L Mills l secre secre- designate tary-designate of at the treasury treasur To get a proper perspective In appraising appraising ap ap- ap- ap praising Ballantine consider the Burning Tree Golf Golt club 1 Strictly for men only 2 Membership limited I 3 No dues but but but- 4 Annual pro rata assessments running as high as IS Ballantine and Mills often oUen pair off against such men as Attorney General General Gen Gen- eral Mitchell Chairman Payne of the Red Cross J. J Bascom Slemp who was Mr Coolidge's secretary Secretary ol of State Stimson and Senator Capper o of Kansas Ballantine fourth man to hold his present post Is 40 49 and a u classmate of or M Mills at Harvard He was v born in Oberlin Ohio but moved to Springfield Springfield Springfield Spring Spring- field Mass where he went to schooL There in casual puddles legend has hasIt It he developed a fondness for sailboats sailboats sail sail- 1 boats which never left him How he came to take up golf golt Is not recorded As for or his politics he lie had no alternative alternative alternative alter alter- native being surrounded by Republicans Republicans Republicans from rom birth He married Helen lIchen Bailey Graves o of Springfield right after getting his law la degree at Harvard They have had tw two sons and two daughters dau but one son sonis sonis sonis is dead Ballantine started practicing law In Boston in 1906 a year before receiving receiving receiving I. I j ing his degree decree He has been solicitor I of oC internal revenue an in Instructor at atthe atthe atthe the Harvard law school and an assistant assistant as as- secretary of ot the treasury ACter After After Af Af- ter a brief term with the internal revenue re bureau in 1918 he joined the law firm of Root Clark Buckner Howland Ballantine in New York In 1927 he came back to the treasury and has been here since He looks younger than 49 has thick t i dark brown hair parted in the and combed straight back and brown suits li for hir himself with colorfUl cravats and broad brimmed h hats iwi 1 His brother Edward Is a and professor of oC music at r rand wrote variations on Mary Had tie tle Lamb a aLit Lit in the styles ot of ten CO posers I 1