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Evening star., 1932-05-22
BY FLORENCE DAVIES.

BY FLORENCE DAVIES.
CLEVELAND, May 28-In one re-
spect calling upon Mrs. Newton D,
Baker was a little like a Democratic
convention. We kept getting into a
deadlock and never getting anywhere.
Mrs. Baker insisted that she strongly
suspected I was talking to her as to
the wife of a presidential candidate,
and that as her husband was not a
candidate, she would be making her
self ridiculous if she talked for publi-
cation. And besides, she couldn't
imagine any one having the bad taste
to talk about herself. anyhow.
And I kept insisting that all the
world knew Mr.. Baker wasn't a candi-
date. but that neither he nor she could
help it if many were thinking about
him as a presidential possibility.
The only thing We agreed upon at
all was that nobody ever knew what a
Democratic convention might do.
Calls 1t improbable"
What may happen" said, sis that
they will start fighting over the avoWed
candidates, get into regular DEADLOCK
and pick some one from the field, like
Mr.. Baker"
But all she would say to this was,
"Improba BILE"
Then. like a Democratic convention,
we were in a deadlock all over again.
Mrs. Baker doesn't keep her guests
waiting and the moment I saw her
friendly welcoming smile, knew some
thing fine had happened to her in the
last 20 years.
For I remember distinctly the day,
Just 90 years ago, when I had called
upon her to ask one of those questions
editors devise to ask the wives of newly
elected mayors. I couldn't help recall
ing her as she was that day, highly in
telligent, dignified. secretly bored by
the necessity of a newspaper interview,
but far too well-bred to show it, her
features a trifle more definitely artlcu-
lated than now, her personality little
more brittle.
Years Take Scant Toll.
But those 20 years have given inf
nitely more than they have taken away.
OF youth they have taken scant toll,
for in a way Mrs. Baker seems essen
TALLY younger now, younger IN the
vigorous spring of her step and the
enthusiasm of her greeting; younger, too,
in her zest for life and her warm, un-
selfish interest in people; more mature.
it is true, but that maturity seems to
have brought more richness and depth
of feeling and more understanding and
sympathy with human beings.
And SO it was not from any desire
to be unreasonable that Mrs Baker felt
she had no place in the picture.
In the first place she explained,
'Mr. Baker feels and I strongly agree,
that the Office should seek the man,
not the man the office. I believe that
in this country we make spectacles of
ourselves. straining every nerve to be
elected to high positions. You know,
in England they say a certain man
stands for an Office, while here we say
Evening star., 1932-05-22

a man runs for an Office, and how
some Of them do run! They run after
it with all their might and main.
In fact" she added. Mr.. Baker feels
it is decidedly bad taste to discuss the
matter"
OF course, it goes without saying that
nothing would please Mrs. Baker more
than to see a great honor conferred
upon her husband.
Rather Stay at Home.
But. so far as she is concerned, do
not believe she is posing when she says
she would rather stay in her beautiful
home on the outskirts of Cleveland,
with her friends and her family and
her beautiful big garden which goes
Sloping back and back III terraces below
the house.
For one thing, Mrs Baker hasn't five
cents worth of personal ambition or
vanity; she has no passion for social
triumph or for the brief authority
which goes with political life or office
holding. And she knows what this all
is worth. She is the wife of a man
who has spent % years in public life
and she knows both its rewards and
punishments.
And pleasant as are the rewards, the
punishments are difficult to contem-
plate.
In the first place, the rigorous de-
mands and red tape of official society
do not strongly appeal to a woman with
a great capacity for sincerity and
directness of thinking, such as Mrs.
Baker. Because she is not socially
ambitious. social activities which are
based on artificial demands rather than
spontaneous friendship have no lure
for her
Then. too, the wife of any high Off
Ger in the Government, to say nothing
of the wife of the President, must be
prepared to perform a prodigious
amount Of labor.
The running of such a household is
a big Job in itself. On one Wednesday
at home, when Mr.. Baker was in the
Evening star., 1932-05-22

| cabinet, 1,127 persons were entertained
! in the Baker house, shaken hands with
and fed. That means not only great
expense, but capacity for organi-
cation.
During the war years, however, the
social activities demanded in Washing
ton were the smallest part of the rigors
of Mrs. Bakers life there.
II took care of my own mail" she
recalled. And got so used to dread
the postman. Night after night 1
stayed at my desk until midnight.
Sometimes it was 3 o'clock.
Social correspondence, philanthrop-
ic work, Red Cross, work of girls who
drifted into Washington in the stream
Of war activities, housing problems to
be studied for the great army of war
time clerks who poured into the city by
the thousands; but, most of all, letters
from people all over the country about
everything under the sun, from how to
win the war to Where is my lost boy?'
The last were the hardest.
When I saw letter beginning, You
have a son of your own as nun
dredS of them did. my heart sank. l
knew something awful was wrong ana
that some mother had turned to me as
a court of last resort. Couldn't do
something, please?' Wouldn't l help?
Of course, 1 would, if 1 could. Some
times, by going to the War Depart
ment, 1 was able to run the records
down and find what the mother with
an aching heart wanted to know. With
SO many thousands, confusion was In
evitable But often the confusion was
the fault of the boys themselves.
Due to Boyish Franks.
with boylike bravado, they would
change their identification tags for
luck. If only they could have known
the heartache and the grief this would
cause! Before they went into an en-
gagement hundreds changed tags. Then
if one or both were hurt or wounded,
the wrong parents were notified; some
were lost. others reported dead when
they were alive or alive when they were
dead 1t was heart breaking.
And the home allowances. My, what
a tanglel" Mrs Baker continued. Il
tell YOU there were thousands of Mary
Smiths There might be five in one
small town, and, of course, one Of them
got two allowances and one none. But
the War Department gave valiant aid
and we would get things Strengthened
out eventually.
But even so, these are not all the
punishments of public life. There is
another" And Mrs. Bakers eyes flashed
fire as she said:
You can quote this if you want to:
I got sick and tired of Republican SLAM
der and abuse know it is all politics
You may say it is not personal but po-
litical. but lies are cruel and unfair and
they hurt and anger me.
When a friend asked if I would be
glad to get back to Cleveland after our
five years in Washington, when Mr.
Baker was Secretary of War, l said:
Well, anyway, it will be good fer my
teeth, because I was tired of crashing
them over the slander and lies the Re-
publican party disseminates as political
propaganda.
Never Touched Husband
"They never touched Mr. Baker He
has two shields against that sort Of
thing. One is his unfailing sense of
humor, the other is his philosophy OF
life. I've never seen it shaken. He
faces the most grueling problems and
Evening star., 1932-05-22

Call Frazier, State motor vehicle direc-
tor, denies that politics had any part
in his move to have State Senator Rob-
ert ]. NOEL of Radford summoned be-
fore a grand jury here next month to
explain an alleged statement Of the
Senator that the motor vehicle division
had issued free licenses illegally.
The Radford Senator was quoted as
having denied he made the statement
that automobile licenses had been ille-
eallv issued.
Evening star., 1932-05-22
DENIES POLITICS FIGURE
IN SUMMONS TO NOEL

Virginia Motor Vehicle Director
Seeks to Have Senator Explain
Alleged Free Auto License Charge.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, May PIT. Nc
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Wives of the Candidates

This is the second of a series of per-
sonality sketches of the wives Of pTesi-
Dental candidates or possibilities. Mrs
Baker, subject of this sketch, insists her
husband is not to be classified as can
didate Last weeks sketch dealt with
Mrs Hoover Next week Mrs. Alfred E.
Smith will be presented.
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Brazil to Modernize Navy.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 81 (P).-
Afternoon newspapers yesterday said
they had learned from an authentic
source that the government had decided
to open a credit Of $3,50O,00O annually
for II years to modernize BraZils navy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14
Fourth:
TAXATION OF RURAL CREDITS
LANDS

Amendment to section 10 Of ar
ucle Of the constitution of the
State Of Minnesota, to authorize
the taxing of lands acquired by
the state through the operation of
the system Of rural credits and
the appropriation of moneys from
the funds Of the Department Of
Rural Credits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 3.

By the adoption Of Laws 1881, chap
ter All, the legislature has proposed
an amendment to article of the con-
stitution by adding thereto a new Sec
ton, TO be known as section 8, to read
as follows:
ANY Of the public lands Of the
state, including lands held in trust
for any. purpose, may, with the
approval of a commission consist
ing of the governor, the attorney
general and the state auditor, be
exchanged for lands of the United
States as the legislature may pro-
vide, and the lands so acquired
shall be subject to the trust, If
any, to which the lands exchanged
therefor were subject, and the
state shall reserve all mineral and
water and water power rights in
lands 50 transferred by the state"
The Purpose of the Proposed Amendment
BY article 8, section z, of the consti-
tuition, school and swamp lands owned
by the state may not be disposed of
other than at public sale. The purpose
OF the proposed amendment Is TO abro-
gate this requirement., In SO far as the
disposal of such lands to the federal
government is concerned, by author
fzing the legislature 70 provide, with the
approval of a commission consisting of
the governor, the attorney general and
the state auditor, for the exchange with
the United States Of such state lands
IN return fer lands owned by the fed
erai government. the state specifically
reserving all mineral and water and wa
red, and the lands 50 acquired being
subject TO the trust, II any, to which
the lands exchanged therefor were SUBJ
Iect.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

Medina, Arabia, the city to which
Mohammed fed from Mecca in 60, is
often spoken of as the City of the
Prophet; Calcutta, India, as the City
OF Palaces.
Back again in the United States.
Raleigh. n. C., is referred to as the
CITY OF Oaks, and Detroit, the City
Of Straits. so named from its geo.
graphical situation There are many
others. too numerous to mention here.
put one more. the National Capital,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14
Boil of AIeppo

Aleppo, one of the cities of old
Syria, is really a city built on two
cities The first Aleppo was built
over the ruins Of the ancient city.
Bercea. A little more than a hundred
years ago during violent earthquake
two-thirds of the city were swallowed
up. but q new city has arisen to re-
place that which was destroyed. A
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14
Distinctive Titles of Which Cite. Are Proud

Pavia, Italy, is called the City of
a Hundred Towers, and the name is
self-explanatory as is many others.
Philadelphia is the City of Brotheriy
Love: Brooklyn, the City of Churches !;
New Haven, Conn. the City Of Fins.
Cairo. Egypt is the City Of Victory,
and Limerick, Ireland. the City of the
Violated Treaty, so-called because of
the frequent infringements of the
-Pacifcation Of Limerick" treaty con-
ciuded In that city back In 1851.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

Proposed
Amendments
to the
Constitution
of the
State of Minnesota
Submitted by the Legislature at its
General Session, 1881, to the People
of Minnesota at the General 1882
ElectionT Together with Statementso
Purpose and Effect
of each
Prepared by
HENRY N. BENSON
Attorney General of Minnesota
Addressed TO
MIKE HOLM
Secretary of State
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
HENRY N BENSON,
Attorney General
HON. MIKE HOLM.
Secretary OF state.
Pursuant 10 Mason's Minnesota Sta
tutes OF 1927, section As, I herewith
transmit a statement Of the purposes
and effect Of the proposed amendments
to the constitution Of the state OF
Minnesota which are 10 be submitted
to the electors of the state at the 1857
general election, in accordance with
certain acts adopted by the legislature
at the 1881 session thereof
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO.
By the adoption Of Laws 1881, chap
ter 420, the legislature has proposed
an amendment 10 article 3, section !,
OF the constitution, relating TO taxa
ton This section now reads as fol-
lows:
The power of taxation shall
never be surrendered, suspended
or contracted away. Taxes shall
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

Washington. is the City of Magnif-
cent Distances on account of its wide
avenues and fine vistas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

Submitted by the Legislature at its
General Session, 1881, to the People
of Minnesota at the General 1882
ElectionTo Together with Statements of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14
Blowing UP Of the
J.S.S. Phi1ade1ph1a
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

7 WAS Admiral Nelson, the great
British sailor, who, when he heard
of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's
brilliant exploit Of entering the
harbor of Tripoi and destroying
the q. S. S. Philadelphia right I'M
der the noses Of the Barbary pi-
rates, called it "the most daring
act of the age y And now II Ia
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

r may determine. IL Is proposed that
any law imposing . tax upon the in
come, franchises and privileges of rail-
road companies need not be submitted
TO 4 vote of the people, as now provided
by article !, section a2a OF the eonstitu-
tIon.
The Effect of the Proposed Amendment
The proposed amendment, If adopted,
will have the following effect:
1. The legislature will have specific
authority to make the laws of this state
relating to taxation of national banking
associations conform TO the laws OF the
United States, notwithstanding any
other provision of the state constitu-
tion.
2. The legislature will have specific
authority to adopt a graduated and pro-
aressive Income tax law, Including : tax
on franchises and privileges, as meas
ured by income, and on the income,
franchises and privileges of railroad
companies. The legislature may allow
reasonable exemptions and may provide
that the income tax shall be in lieu, in
whole or in part, OF taxes on certain
Such laws taxing the income, franchises
and privileges of railroad companies Will
not be subject TO a vote of the people
as provided by article 4, section ga, of
the constitution.
The ballot used at the election should
have printed thereon the following:
First:
TAXATION OF INCOME AND Ma
TiONAL BANKS.
Amendment TO section I, article
9, Of the constitution of the State
Of Minnesota, relating to taxa
tion, to authorize the imposing OF
taxes on incomes, and on fran
chises and privileges, including
income, franchises and privileges
of railroad companies, measured
by income, which taxes may be
classified. and may be graduated
and progressive and providing for
exemptions therefrom, and that
such taxes may be in lieu, in whole
or in part, of other taxes on real
or personal property. It shall not
be necessary TO submit to a vote
of the people any law imposing a
tax upon the income, franchises
or privileges of railroad COM
panies. The legislature may enact
any law required TO make the tax
alton Of national banking asso-
Citations conform to the laws Of
the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-10-14

HENRY n. BENSON,
Attorney General.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Aid to Indiana Industry Is
Cited in Anniversary
Announcement.

Indiana has been enriched
$15,561, 295 through expenditures of
Sears, Roebuck Company in the
state during the last two years, &C
cording to an elaborate report and
analysis of the company's business
prepared in anticipation of its forty
sixth anniversary celebration, Sept.
Is to "a, and received in this city by
John Burke, manager of the local
Sears store.
The report, from the Office of D.
M. Nelson, president in charge
OF merchandising showed that of the
total sum spent by Sears in Indiana
in 1880 and 1881, $12,977,9 42 was for
merchandise purchased from EOS
manufacturing sources located in
seventy-f1ve cities of the state.
American industries, the report
pointed out, have been receiving, in
states where Sears has retail stores.
IN the neighborhood of $500, 900 900
year for manufactured products.
The rest Of the total of sums paid
out in this state by the big mer-
chandising firm was divided as fol-
lows
Wages and salaries paid to resi-
dent Sears employees in Indiana,
$1,5e8.536.
Indiana newspapers received q to-
tai of $52S,l64 for advertising space
purchased by Sears stores.
A total of $461 ,653 was paid for
rents and taxes on Sears property
in Indiana.
The report showed a long list of
factories, each maintaining substan-
tial pay rolls, supported chiefly by
merchandise purchases of the Sears
buying organization.
Commenting on the shape that
the forty-sixth birthday celebration
plans would take, Manager Burke
said that merchandise tested in
Sears own laboratories would be
featured especially during the an
niversary event.
Sears had the first general test
ing laboratories ever established by
a large merchandising concern on
comparable basis" he declared
Naturally We are proud of the ex-
IRENE care taken to protect inter
ests Of our customers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
7. M. HONAN is
DEAD; SERVED
IN STATE POSTS
Former AttOrney-Ge
Was Prominent AIumnuS
of Indiana u.

Thomas M. Honan, IS, of Sey-
mour, former encouragement Of
Indiana, and a prominent alumnus
of Indiana university, died Monday
in st. Vincent's hospital. He had
been IN i'll health about three years.
and was in the hospital nine days.
Born in Jackson county, he at
tended the public. schools there.
Later. he attended Hanover college.
transferring to Indiana university.
He was graduated in the class of
1889.
He was active in Democratic poll
tics. He was prosecuting attorney
of Jackson and Lawrence counties
several terms. and was city attorney
of Seymour four years.
Mr.. Honan was Jackson county's
representative in the general assem-
bly, during the sixty-fourth, sixty
fifth and sixty-sixth sessions. He
was Speaker Of the house during the
latter session. He was elected at
torney-general in 1910, serving in
the administrations of Governor
Thomas r. Marshall and Governor
Samuel M. RalSton.
He was a member of Phi Delta
Theta fraternity, and of various
legal organizations. He was active
in the alumni affairs of Indiana
university.
Funeral services will be held at 9
Thursday in st. Ambrose Catholic
church in Seymour. Burial will be
in Seymour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Millions Spent in State
by Sears, Roebuck G. Co.
BOARD NOT TO PAVE
PROTESTERS' SECTION
Contract for 5000 Job is Awarded
r. M. Bowen Co.

Contract for $9,O62 Job is Awarded
R. NJ. Bowen Co.
Contract amounting to $9,062 for
paving of East New York street be-
tween State and Arsenal avenues
was awarded Monday by the board
of works to R. M. Bowen, con-
tractor.
Prior to awarding the contract.
the board decided to leave unpaved
a section in front of property be-
longing to j. w. and j. D. Grismere.
who have demonstrated against the
damages awarded them in purchas-
ing the right of way for the new
street.
Litigation, is pending in which the
GrismereS seek an increase in the
$1,000 damages awarded them.
1t is expected that the matter
will be settled before the remainder
OF the street is paved completely.
the board said, and if not, the paw
ing of the section in front of the
Grismere property will not be
started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13

Good cheer!
That's what the members of the
Mississippi Valley Conference on
tuberculosis, meeting in the Clay
pool, dispence in their sanatori-
ums and to patients outside.
And Miss Grace Ewing of Shell
byville, public health nurse, is
showing a new way to dispense
that cheer in the photo.
No! 1t really hasn't kick in
aschooner full. It is merely
schoonel Of gelatin nodded to re-
Semble lager and demonstrated at
the conference by the Ad Seidel
& Sons Company of Chicago, as a
way of popping up the jadded ap-
petites of sick patients with a view
Of what may be" in the next
four years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13

urated Mr.. Walter, make me
laugh
1t was impossible.
But Walter laughed after their
first performance. They went on
at 100 in the morning, the shank
of the evening in that fabulous
city, which had forgotten it was
a gold rush town. The Pacific
coast never had seen an act like
theirs.
For ten weeks they played San
Francisco at an average of $3.50
a week, counting their earnings at
two cabarets, the Cremorne and
the Bella Union.
And when they appeared in
Miners pool room next fall, each
22-year-old sported in. his shirt
front three-carat yellow dia-
mond.
Next: Weber and Fields con-
quer Broadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Weber and Fields at the half
way mark, In 1907.

Weber and Fields at the half
way mark, In 1907.
men used for their shows and left
standing between visits. I found
the fellow who owned the lot and
told him I wanted to put on a
show.
When he heard we wern't a
rival medicine combination he
said we could have the tent for
$40 week. There would be an
other vacant tent in Troy next
week, he said"
The Weber 81 Fields show
played the Williamsburg and Troy
tents to receipts varying from $12
to $50 a night (there was only
one $50 night, with five variety
turns, including Weber and Fields
and smith and Way. Smith and
Way was the billing they used
for the paper tearing.
Atef the variety show, they
put on an afterpiece, farce in
which all member of the company
appeared, entitled THE Crowded
Hotel
Weber played the part of an
Irishman, and the big laugh of
the show was when ne asked the
hotel clerk, What time does the
10 o'clock train leave in the
morning?" Sixty minutes past
g." Clerk Fields replied without
hesitating a moment.
PRACTICALLY all the receipts
Il went to bill-posters, the
Albany boat line and theatrical
boarding houses. Lew and Joe re-
turned to stheir daily f1ve-hour
game of pool at Miners.
'It was a nickel a game" they
explain, land we never spent more
than a nickel in any day.
To organize strong road show
that would be sure of bookings in
real theaters, you had to get good
acts to work for you. To get good
acts to work for you, you had to
inspire confidence. To inspire
confidence you had to have dia-
mondS.
And so Weber and Fields were
more than ever on the qui vive for
a lucrative engagement which
would provide the initial payment
on a couple of rings and some
studs.
Their craving for "ice" was
whetted by their first engage
ment with recognized travelling
show, Gus Hills. Gus Hill was
an Indian-club swinger. His
clubs, loaded with lead, were ex-
hibited in the lobby before each
performance. A strong man could
hardly bulge one from the carpet.
Hill dropped the weights out
before his act. But he had three
cleaning shirt studs, each the
size of a pea.
IF q faker like that can be a
manager, with diamonds, we got
to get diamonds Joe told Lew.