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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. To administer the wages and hours law, which recently re-cently went into effect, Elmer F. Andrews left a job which gave him shorter hours . F. Andrews and more wages. Has Taken on As New York Full-Time Job state .industrial commissioner, his salary was $12,000, and he could get by nicely with a seven or eight-hour eight-hour day. This job pays $10,000, and, considering its volume of detail, de-tail, its complications, its novelty and its controversial entanglements, it looks like a 24-hour shift for Mr. Andrews. He is a professional engineer, born in New York, earnest and diligent, a glutton for detail, living liv-ing moderately in Flushing with his wife and three children until his removal to Washington. In addition to his five years as state industrial commissioner, having succeeded his former chief, Miss Frances Perkins, in that office, his experience in wage and hour adjustments has been with industrial concerns and chambers of commerce. After his graduation from Rensselaer Rens-selaer Polytechnic institute, he was pilot in the U. S. army air service in the World war. He built railroads rail-roads and factories in Cuba and engaged en-gaged in construction work in New York City, planning civic improvements improve-ments for the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce, among other large-scale large-scale enterprises. In these years he engaged in compensation studies for various industrial groups. He was labor adviser for the National Labor board in the coal mining regions re-gions of Kentucky, Alabama and Pennsylvania. Never belligerent, Mr. Andrews An-drews has been more of an arbiter ar-biter than a fighter, although he did take on certain employment agencies for a battle when he was industrial commissioner. He swings no nightstick, and tells the employers this isn't going go-ing to hurt them in the least. He Is a New Dealer, but goes to Washington with perhaps more political detachment than any similarly placed official down there. Mr. Andrews is 48 years old. THE late Newton D. Baker liked to discourse on the importance of "keeping intellectually liquid," and free from, embarrassing alli- ances and com- J. H. Amen mitments. John Distinguished Harlan Amen, Non-Joiner runner - up for Thomas E. Dewey Dew-ey in the national racket-busting tournament, is that way, too. Assigned As-signed to the sensational crime and graft clean-up in Brooklyn, he allows al-lows the reporters to drag out of him the admission that he "never belonged to anything." As an assistant United States attorney, he has been netting racketeers steadily since the United States put teeth in the Sherman act in 1934. In view of J. Edgar Hoover's revelations as to the overlapping of crime and venal politics, Mr. Amen's political detachment is interesting. interest-ing. It Is also interesting in our new realization that federalization federaliza-tion of our government has been tn part due to the failure of the states really to govern. Mr. Amen, like Mr. Dewey, has made his name in this overlapping overlap-ping zone of state and federal authority. He is a grave, aloof aristocrat, with an academic background of Phillips-Exeter, Princeton and Harvard. Har-vard. He is a son-in-law of President Presi-dent Cleveland, with a residence in Park avenue, great intellectual and social reserve. '"PHIS writer happened to be in Italy when the fascist regime was emerging and saw underprivileged underpriv-ileged youth joyously engaged in , , beating up hold- Jas. Marshall outs and lag-Alarmed lag-Alarmed Over gards and slash-Jobless slash-Jobless Youth inS "P the library li-brary of an old professor who had indiscreetly affirmed af-firmed his faith in democracy James Marshall, president of th New York board of education, It alarmed about our jobless youth, aged from 18 to 24. He says it waf this condition which made fascism In other countries and we had better watch our step. He proposes a drastic dras-tic national solution. Mr. Marshall is a lawyer by profession, the son of the Into Louis Marshall, one of the most eminent lawyers in Now York' history. ne was ,,,,;(, ,(j to the board of education in l!Ki5 and became president of t;l0 bopi d last Juno, lie is a Rvnial, philosophical pipe-smoker, nn minimus of the Columbia school of journalism, and the author of a novel, "Ordeal by Glory." ffi ConsoMrinteri News Kruttirtt. VVN1I Service. |