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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH Last Newsman to See Borah Recalls How 'Lion of Idaho' Kept Mum in 1936 Campaign I Didn't Favor Lamlon, So He til jj iiw, m ,n M iiiw.iij, nan T WASHINGTON. uilh Drew I' far sun, of "The W oihinfUm (Released by Westers Newspaper Union.! Sevenhun- - tinue pouring in to prove how wrong was the patent director who resigned WASHINGTON. The seem the tame without Senator Borah. He was the first leader I came to know intimately as a cub Washington reporter 15 years ago, and I saw him last the day before his fatal acci- tv ere 7: CARTER FIELD dred human problems, most of them inconsequential, are solved every week at the United States patent office. Inventions ranging from thumbless boxing gloves to fluorescent theater aisles con- By ROBERT S. ALLEN S3TS Sor eveULa'Jy 100 years ago because there wasn't anything left to invent. If nothing else, it proves there's no slump in enterprise these days. The past year, for example, brought forth this collection: At the University of California botanists discovered in the juice of milkweed an active substance that can tenderize meat. A Philadelphian solved the problem of that first cigarette in the package with a strip of transparent film that tears off the seal, destroys the revenue stamps, opens the flaps and pulls out two cigarettes. No Double Exposures. An amateur photography fan perfected a device making it impossible for the camera enthusiast to . K7 unless the budget noirir.g t- - Vty - TjESIGNED esr.eiaiw sjzes. this sures a perfectionl;pto gt can't otherwise u.-- r.-f- - seem-- b for fuii'.e reason suddenly it is difficult -to V" - . in i. merest. leai lr.g to take ns t 3 .1 very simple. But Trc only thir.g new about tneaeoi signing has placed darts um is that now it is a vuauy Pi;rir.e the fiscal of looseness or nelv subject. buik.r.ess tt appro-fr.aix- g jear'whxli congress is now the called is f'T. u; cf 1041 and actually be- '.e..-t i'11 f i ju.'. I. lii'J, sumal.v will be exceeded. ; leadership Jes'i't icant third term for President C. c Is Dart-Fi- t j.jk-i- In- - Slip To Slenderize of an uncaiancea uuu6c the public :..y t:.: :g r.e.v is that aai-e'e- r Gadjreteers .V interest NATIONAL AFFAIRS V Played Ball With Home State Dems. (Co-autho- r, Patent Office Kept Busy by tv sudden public whole question oi to Iv relate O. Roosevelt . . . There seems little lihehhoiHl of cunpress electoting new taxes before tion . . . The army und "-a- Minht Scrape Through Fiscal really get a bad breul as far as appropriations are eon cerned . . . Both branches may have to curtail spending. iihout Topping Limit The ieal Lrnit, whrh it will take is f:n act of congress to change, )iar U If the r.ew Roosevelt v45.liUJ.0uU, 000. taxes are approved and yield the exand if congress pected $460,000,000, ... r uuu6 cioes not exceed me nouc WASHINGTON. An.vore read.rr et uill be ex- lmit the figures, the newspaper accounts of the ceeded. before the special house comBut the important thing that conLaNational the mittee investigating dent. I think I am the last newsindividually are noting is bor Relations board w u:d asfun.e gressmen man he talked to. will not be exceeded limit the mat that the C. I. O. would be 1:1 the before election. In fact it will not HE WATCHED LAS DOS-Sen-- ator It was late in the afternoon. I van of the parade clarr.onrg fo: the be exceeded, in all probability asBorah waited for Alf iMndons knew that the President's message of renomination, and cn the Finnish loan was due the campaign before "prejudging" him, there are no extraordinary Franklin D. Roosevelt. Especially suming next day, and I dropped into Borah's but he later confided: 7 am not meanwhile before appropriations and in view of the vigorous support, office to get his views. Wrapped in for him." 1941. after well January, n odd dollar contribution an army blanket, he was lying on So that technically, congress of the Roosevelt campaign fund, proa couch, reading an article on trade his speech which he secretly hoped would not have to increase the debt 1936. O. in C. I. vided the would by I the treaties. He motioned me to a chair, stampede delegates limit, even if it did not vote new Well, it isn't true. which I pulled up near him. On the countered Borah leaving his hotel. taxes and if it did not cut below the is O. I. C. The leadership of the marble mantle directly over him It was past midnight, hot and sticky. totals of the Roosevelt budget, until a about not enthusiastic "Come distinctly was a striking new photograph of along, Robert, and walk next session. It could postpone the It Roosevelt. Mr. for term third with himself which he liked very much. me," he said. "It's cooler out not play the active part in poli- evil day! And congress loves nothhere." may Duty Came First. So we walked about the deserted tics it attempted in 1936 (though of ing better than to put off until toBorah looked well, but frail, and streets and course it will most certainly be in- morrow ills which do not have to he talked about Hoover, the Christmas the recalling that a during terested in individual congressional be borne today. . . . Alf Landon. and convention, So the chances seem to favor postnouaay ne naa 101a me he was thinkfights) but its present attitude is Doubted Landoa's Ability. of new taxes. ing of taking Mrs. Borah south, I nomito ponement that it wants the Democrats "They'll nominate Landon tomoraid, "What about your trip?" the incumsomeone nate than other he said. "The stage is all Army and Savy Get Bad "I guess that's off, Robert," he row," bent. set. Hoover to tried run Break on Appropriations away "Mrs. Borah if L. won't stay This does not mean that John replied. with the convention tonight, but they I don't, and I can't." The army and navy have had a Lewis and his lieutenants have don't want any of him. It will be really bad break so far as appro"Why not? Things aren't so active Landon and Knox, you mark changed their ecomy nomic views. now. A few weeks of warm weathNor, priations are concerned. Here the for that matter, that er and sunshine would do you a lot word." government was all set to be very "And then what are you going to to increase personnel, buy Mr. Roosevelt has of good." liberal, do, Senator?" build more ships, and more What it guns, "Yes, but I can't leave. Those changed. "I don't know. wait and see in profusion, when means is that trade treaties are up and I've got what Landon says.I'll But provide airplanes really what I'm g to be on hand to keep an eye on there this been has a argument beis what can he say. He wondering ZIPPER HOT DOG The wienie parting of the ways. hot. To make it worse, right came developments. It's a close fight and knows nothing about national or for we can't take any chances. I would on the eve of an election, we have an airs, x am told he is a nice ha$ a perforated casinz which on-- and that the C. I. O. eign like a little rest, but I feel it's my now leaders believe President Roosevelt advocating adon erates the needs gentleman, but the zipper principle. that both the C. I. O ditional taxes and blaming them on duty to stay on the job and oppose more than that in thecountry White House take a second this act." picture without wind- and the country national defense. in these times. I don't want to prethe film thus preventing a dou- would be better off "What about the Finnish loan?" I ing It's the worst bit of luck the oldI shall hear him out, judge Landon. asked. with somebody else John L. Lewis est admirals and generals can rebut I have a strong hunch I will not ble exposure. Peter J. Gaylor of Elizabeth, N. in the White House. member. Normally they have to go "That's a very distressing dilem- support him." All sorts of things may happen be- - through all sorts of gyrations to get ma for me, Robert," he said. "My J., developed a synthetic rubber inne Didn't, Either! valuable for elastic threads in cloth- tween now and heart goes out to those gallant peoSome issue congress sufficiently interested in Borah's premonition was right. ing because it does not deteriorate may arise of suchJuly. supreme impor- their problems to give them effecple, but at the same time I have Three months I later spent a day rapidly. tance to C. I. O. that its leaders tual aid. Sometimes they have to grave misgivings about lending with him in Boise as he campaigned Many inventions, here and abroad, will again be for Roosevelt always work up a war scare. money to anyone in Europe. Once for his sixth senatorial term. We have made it easier and we let down the bars we can't foreThis year no such gyrations were cheaper assuming he runs. It may be resee what it may lead to. We must had a long talk that night in his to wage war. Germany, for exam- membered that in 1934 Lewis and his necessary. The war scare was room before he retired. I lieutenants were bitterly there. The country had a better keep out of that mess regardless of that I hadn't heard him rpmnrVnri ple, is treating mineral, vegetable coal-mina word and animal oils with an electrical against the New Deal on water-powsay our personal sympathies." lesson in the danger of being weak during the day about Landon. discharge process that increases developments. Dilemma of 1936. what with Poland, and the con"And I don't intend to sav nnv. their viscosity. American chemists stant fears of Belgium and Holland DeaTs I remember another time when Seiv Debt to Lewis about him," Borah replied have discovered a less expensive that they would be trampled than he was in a dilemma. It was in 1936. thing but juc: as deadly way to make Rather Handsomely Paid quietly. "I am not for him." the most imaginative admiral or That spring, at the age of 71 and "Are you for Roosevelt?" more poison gas. Obviously, every time a r.ew hycould picture. for the first time in his long career, "Well. Robert." he said "Vvb iM droelectric development occurs there general Another Invention Needed. Not only that, but they had heads he decided to make a serious try for a lot of Democratic friends in is less work for coal miners from of Idaho Some inventions are designed to their departments, in Charles Ed the presidency. There was considand I think they know where I soothe ruffled nerves. There's a new then on, regardless of whether the erable popular response, but the ma- stand." And then ison of the navy with a eentlp smilo development is sound cap for tooth paste tubes, hydroelectric and both Harchine politicians were against him. he added, "That's a pretty good spring or as the not, main of exelement but to make father squeeze nothing He went to the Cleveland conven- news ry H. Woodring water-powe- r ir. isn't it?" a story, pense it out from the bottom instead of development tion empty-hande- d and he knew it. and Louis A. is the first cost. Once that in It certainly was. It was th hia the top. A device has The night Herbert Hoover made scoop of the campaign. Johnson, in the been invented for umbrellas, and ment has been made, the project war departmere continues, would be no econsomebody perfected a helical coil of ment, who were wire which, as part of a cigarette omy in stopping its oneratinn Tho big army and to is do to only kiss thing the holder, keeps ashes from falling on money navy men. And y gooa-owasiea and salvage the rest the rug. to make the the by it current selling ran There are two important developpicture perfect, ments in photography. One camera duce. Notwithstanding this blow to hie they hadwhoa can expose standard film at a speed President labor original the mincoal group, of 2,500 frames per second, enabling was very naval- this particular union was asCharles Edison you to study the wing structure of ers, sessed in 1936 to help Roosehouseflies or the action of a golf was friendly to the army. "One woman speaker asked me YORK. -- Al Smith stick against a ball. On the more velt. It would seem to most WashBut their very friends undid them' coins in his left for a handkerchief just before she massive observers ington that the debt thereside. Prof. E. Nfwtnn went on," Miss Wells remembers. First some of their friends, last Sepincurred bv by the noai Npw of duke and Windsor the of Princeton university has a pocket "All through her lecture she stood vey Lewis nas been rather handsomely tember, began talking war. With a straightens his necktie. Frank- twisting it in her hands. When she paid. Most people have believed view largely to strengthening the lin D. Roosevelt jerks his head returned it, the handkerchief looked that for some time the special com- army and navy, and particularly like a cruller." mittee hearings are piling up more the air arm, they told all sideways. and sunSen. James Reed of Missouri used that evidence the of U. S. dry it. would be dragged Call them habits, manner- to have a habit of into the It might be asked: What did Lewchewing tobacco European war within maybe isms or just . plain nervous- in the courtroom, while is expect? What on earth could the six months. Sen. David New Deal have given him that it That started a war scare ness, but they're among the I. Walsh of Massachusetts can never through- did not? 11 built distinguishing features you've no- speak without thrusting his left Z0U?T?"P h So far as the writer can discover ticed when famous men make thumb into the corner of his trouthe isolationist bloc in this has nothing to do with the congress, and required a John G. speeches or appear before the news-re- sers pocket. long extra of New Hampshire used to camera. Most of us, great or present attitude of the C. I. O. lead- session of congress to force the reof the There peal little, are thumb twiddlers, button hang his arms straight down his arms ership. may be embargo through of course, but whatever something twisters, arm swingers or fist clench-er- s sides and walk sideways across the it is has the senate. like a small boy reciting his not been disclosed, stage in our forgetful moments. assuming there Would Be Temptation to L se J. "piece." This Is the roint.' really is an answer. Strength on Rest of W orld Emerson Had It Too! On the other hand, the A widely known Boston professor I conversaof By that time the isolationists C. I. tion Such O. mannerisms are not excluleaders among themused to enter his classroom holding had sold a considerable fraction selves and a modern with REMOTE device. a short, sively their mSTROT. close Many which friends years of pencil on the notion that while bl ago the highly intellectual Ralph he twirled as he talked. keeps smoke out of your provides a theory which one can ei- country ng prepared might make this coun-t- n "Now this," he would say at in- Waldo Emerson had a habit of plac eyes, but you 11 break your arm ther accept at its face value, or regard as camouflage covering some ,Sh tervals, "is the point." Each time ing the thumb and forefinger of one lighting a cigarette! lng th3t nobody woud want affront which has not been disclosed. he would jab the pencil at the class, hand between the thumb and forewould be a constant until his amused students finally finger of the other, moving them camera which snaps pictures two Sot Likely to Pass temptation to use that Any wnne miles genuy Ward under the ocean. This gadget speaking. Henry strength to enforce our made up sweepstakes on how many Tax Bill ideas on Beecher would Before emDhasize is Election th the a steel ball which resists terrifrii. rest of the world times he'd do it each hour. max of his That additional tax bill, which True, the isolationists have rising to his ic water pressure. The late William Jennings Bryan iocs ana speech by been President Roosevelt wants in order proved wrong in their over 'Blown Up.' combined his mannerism with prac- his head, tnrowing his arms contention to make the budeet that to permit shipments of virtually pulling the audiwar Closely akin is the giant new y ticality. Before his platform ap- ence up with him. less gloomy, will in all probability P.es to the aU.es would lead us which enlarges a standard pearances he would have someone projector Psychologists who have watched chest plate up to the size of a bring an dishpan with reguMost of the Renubl from the specta- lation motion But the whole a piece of ice to the rostrum. As such carryings-o- n picture thus clamoring for a screen, proceeding had im tor's seat believe don't .S. necesit's balancing his fiery speech-makin- g several . . me . . " allowing hundred warmed him, people to v.. j a matter of to nervousness. sarily take the uuugei, line of preier over consult the medical problem at that danger Bryan would run the palm of his bigger armaments anH economies, rather than new taxes hand over the ice, then over his Sometimesoffthe speakers are merely hand. should be the j excess throwing program. energy. Or, as Uhy spend the money on There's a new forehead. To break this routine he one hypodermic : Loyal administration them''- psychologist suggested, it may needle in which type members would occasionally step to the front of the medicine is not be so much the energy or the the house and senate are giving it of the platform, weaving back and by a charge of compressed audience as what the sneakpr h.irl ejected but they do not want to lip but it forth while the audience gasped for for air, probably hurts just as voteservice, for dinner. new taxes. The old the much those first few moments. fear he would topple into the front conservative line of Democratic sen Two important automobile row. patents aiuis ana representatives are If the Lights Go Out, have been granted, the first to A Monocle Swinger. com Henmitted to a curtailment of Ford for an ry spending Bertha Wells of Boston, who was easily removable Look for a Muskrat! liner for motor car cylinders. It Any new tax seems to them to be formerly in Chautauqua work with ADRIAN. MICH. Twice thB "y noi postpone opening the door wider to the spendbe can taken out with a screw-drive- r, manded the isolationists both' Bryan, recalls the platform gestures lights of John Bates' car went out thrifts. contrasted with the powrful ' as of many other speakers. Dudley and twice he went to Altogether it works out that there one voice. a garage to presses employed heretofore. AnCrafts Watson, director of music at have defective The net result is Is very little disposition in unpredirtahi at congress ihe dethe Chicago art museum, went third time he wiring replaced. The other patent covers an anti-ski- d that some vice for autos running on icy pave- to passinany tax biU before election and moment. Probablv he army through a repeated routine of tak- strange agencysuspected There will navy the usual a was at work so he ment. 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