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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. The WPA barrel isn't like the widow's cruse ef oil in the Bible. They expect to be scraping the bottom by next -June. Who gets fired WPA Trouble and when is a Shooter Finds naturally dis- Relief in Clouds ,tressine , f,rob-lem, f,rob-lem, falling mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble-shooter trouble-shooter and handyman for the WPA, who looks and talks like Sinclair Sin-clair Lewis and who used to hunt bears in Utah. Officially, he is director di-rector of the section on employment employ-ment problems of the WPA, and just now these problems loom up like the peak' range of his native Rocky mountains. Ax-grinders, angry congressmen, congress-men, union disputants, kickers, fixers, Utopians, and what not see Mr. Brimhall, and, when lie Isn't taking this rap, he is ex-perting ex-perting and editing administration administra-tion outputs on labor relations and employment, making surveys sur-veys on relief technique, or flying in his own plane to some spot where employment is ebbing. A trap-drummer is just snoozing along compared to Mr. Brimhall. Brim-hall. Merely getting a bear by the tail was never like this. For relief or nerve tension,, he hops into his plane now and then and makes a getaway In the clouds, which seems like a nice idea. Reared in the Church of the Latter Lat-ter Day Saints his grandfather trekked west with Brigham Young he was one of a group of twelve Utah business men, Marriner Ec-cles Ec-cles among them, who craved New Deal action for some of their ideas. Six of them are still active. On the side, he still maintains a live interest in four different concerns an airplane company, a railroad company, a lumber business and extensive real estate interests. Og-den Og-den is his home town. He hauled coal to pay for his education at Brigham Young university, and one winter he maintained his family nicely with a shotgun, hunting large and small game. Under Mc-Keen Mc-Keen Cattell at Columbia university, uni-versity, he studied experimental experiment-al psychology and later taught that subject at Columbia and Brigham Young. He saw the Wrights make their first Euro- " pean flight and he has been interested in-terested in flying ever since-flying since-flying and hunting. On every week-end and holiday he's high in the sky, his plane poised and pointed toward his beloved Rockies. But there seems to be no likelihood of his doing a "wrong-way Corrigan." He says he still could get a living with a shotgun, but instead of his gun he has to shoulder the troubles of citizens less versatile. HpHE United States senate, pos-sibly pos-sibly "standin in the need ef prayer," does away with piece-work supplication and puts praying on the regular Senate, in Need, daily schedule. Puts Daily Task Last year, the On Its Chaplain .occasional prayers by the official chaplain, the Rev. Ze Barney Bar-ney Thorne Phillips cost the government govern-ment $420 a prayer. Now the rate for each will be about $16, as Mr. Phillips gets $1,680 a year. The change was brought about by a resolution by Senator Sena-tor Ncely, by which the senate will be opened by prayer on every calendar day, instead of only on "legislative" days as In the past. The latter are a fiction fic-tion by which the senate may free itself from things diurnal, as effectively as did Joshua. But, since the senate is entitled to a good prayer on every real, not .figurative, working day, it is going to get It. Tossibly as a tribute to Chaplain riiilllps' prayers, the vote on Senator Neely's resolution was unanimous. unani-mous. While both parties in the senate have on many occasions claimed divine guidance and inspiration for their side, Mr. Phillips, although a Republican, appointed by Calvin Coolidgo in 1927. has been strictly non-partisan. He is a distinguished Episcopalian clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany of Washington, and has discharged his otlice with simple eloquence and dignity. Chaplain l'hitlips. years old, Is a native of Springfield, Ohio, eiluealrd at Wittenberg college and lite (leiieral Theological Theo-logical seminary. i0 engaged In special studies nt Oxford tn l!H0 ,! mn ni ,,,(s srrv.(, pastorales In Cincinnati, (hi-eauo, (hi-eauo, St. I,, mis iiiul Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. His children are named l'ailh, Keaeou it ml Sullle Hews. Consollil.ilr.l Ni-ws I'YiMiiica U Ml v ,,4 |
