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Show fhl.Phillipr f X WNU Sto JIM FARLEY AND BASEBALL TIM FARLEY, chairman of the - Democratic national committee and postmaster general, is reported among others interested in an attempt at-tempt to buy the New York Yanks. Jim is reported in some quarters as declining to comment and in others as denying the story, but we can all understand how, after the last seven years, it would seem to him to be out where it wasn't necessary to depend on rumor to find who was pitching. Jim was a baseball player in his youth back in Haverstraw, N. Y., and all his experience since must have convinced him more than once that one inning in the diamond is more refreshing than decades in politics. For one thing the rules remain I the same. Nobody thinks it would be better if the . - . player got four I l I strikes instead Bill Dickey, jjf of three, there CfX are no sugges- '':''"'' kfw 1 tions that three CZr. balls should en- Sq?L rJ l .-.i , . INTERIOR Jjt J . i title a player to SAx a j walk, and no- "3fi3v 1 j where is it pro- -UL.". .L.. I posed that all unemployed shortstops be sent to a Federal Shortstop Camp. Jim has announced that his name will positively go before the Democratic Demo-cratic convention as a candidate for , the presidency. He would have two strikes on all the other candidates ( if he could bring the Yanks into the convention hall. What chance would a candidate depending wholly on a voice, a program pro-gram and a record have against one who could face the convention with the Number One ball club, a host of loyal rooters and a new type of windup? ' We can even see Jim in the White J House, getting the people's minds back to baseball and away from slumps, economic experiments and programs to remodel society. We can see him with Bill Dickey replacing replac-ing Secretary Ickes, Frank Crosetti on Harry Hopkins' job and Charlie Ruffing playing Madam Perkins' old position. Jim, as a real baseball man, would have a deep regard for the F Immortal Bam-ChanesRufjlhg Bam-ChanesRufjlhg bino, the former Jitr-:-- Yank star and 2 would perhaps "syl Supreme court. ' He would see W that the NLRB ffi got at least some pitchers with a change of pace. And he would stop anybody in the administration from using the "bean ball" deliberately. delib-erately. He might retain the fireside chat idea, but if so he would include the baseball scores and a short talk on the league situation. And who can tell? he might arrange ar-range to have Joe DiMaggio write "My Day." CAMPAIGN YEAR Last night I heard upon the air A candidate who wasn't there; He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. ... Advance models of the new spring and summer hats for women are here. Don't say you weren't warned! The attitude of Europe is, "Of ' course we want peace, but somebody some-body has got to suffer for it." Police Commissioner Valentine of New York urges his traffic policemen police-men to be more polite to motorists. He says the days when they could bark, "Hey: Where's the fire?" are over. Well, this department thinks he is wrong. Motorists have become be-come accustomed to the rough approach. ap-proach. They have even perfected their answers. There is a certain excitement in wondering how tough a cop will be. The day when a motorcycle cop says sweetly, "Pardon "Par-don me, but would you mind pulling pull-ing over to the curb? I have an idea you have broken the speed regulations, reg-ulations, sir," we will get even. We will stop speeding. So there! ... Washington is said to be considering con-sidering a return to the gold standard. There comes a time when the business of using it only for the purpose of decorating decorat-ing a hole in the ground becomes at least monotonous. The revolt is being led by the Broadway Association of New York, which asks the city to ban radios in cabs this summer in New York on the ground there are squeaks enough in any cab. STREET SCENE Two fellows were all over the gutter gut-ter in a terrific fist fight. They, rolled and struggled and twisted, fighting with fists, feet, arms, legs and even teeth. "What's all the row?" asked a bystander. "They're protecting each other," replied the cop, a constant European Euro-pean war news reader. There was this about the last war: you could at least tell what nations were NOT in it. |
