Evening star., 1933-04-16
BY ANNE HARD.
w. DOUGLAS-the "elevent
cabinet members Arizon


cabinet members Arizona
agate. As q human specimen
As picked from the old black wal
nut whatnot and turned in the
hand for examination, he shows
variety Of facets. All have smooth, clear
surfaces, clean edges. Here Is a wise.
hard eye, q straight chin and nose and
forehead-broad, that, and roomy.
Then the whole thing cracks In your
hand. A shine cuts across the agate.
A wide smile gashes the face. The crys-
tai sparkles and several other Lewis
Douglases peer puckishly out from
crinkled eyelids. dancing brown eyes.
Il am not specialist" he says.
One Is L. w. Douglas. nervy Rep
resentative Of Arizona, who fought his
party and his State in behalf Of a
sound financial policy, and who. as di-
rector of the budget, has been working
l8 hours a day to line it up; who re-
Gently has cut the huge sum Of $400,-
000, 900 out of the benefits, allowances
and pensions of 100000 veterans and
their dependents, and who resisted the
efforts of veterans organizations to get
some, at least, Of those cuts restored.
The other Is the Lew" Douglas whom
dogs and children like. for whose hook
fish leap clear out Of the water, whom
mep-not to mention women-admire.
Rich Copper Strike.
Once there was-two generations ago
"a certain James Douglas carrying his
books up and down the steeps-intel-
lectual and otherwise-of Edinburgh.
He was one of the best Of the scientific
students In that ancient seat of learn
ing. He lectured afterward, on scientific
subjects, at oxford.
Also, when he was not working at
science he was working at music-he
was a fine pianist He also was an ON
nivorous reader. He lectured at oxford
on history And. lecturing. he went on
to Queens College in Canada. He wrote
books Of history. But music and metal
lurgy were his minor and major Has-
sions. And it was the metallurgy that
took him to Arizona, by way of New
York, in the 70s-for the hard, practf-
cal reason that his father had willed
him lot Of debts and he had to for
sake the Graces for the Realities. So
he went to Arizona and started the first
electrolytic refinery and realized the
prospector's dream-the discovery Of a
world-beating mine, the Bisbee Queen,
which seemed to pour forth more cop
per than all the prospectors in the world
had ever imagined. And the town Of
Douglas. Ariz., was born and christened
and grew up.
All this story Of his grandfather
tial to the understanding of Lew"
Douglas. Because it was his grand
father who was his most intimate
friend and companion right up into
his manhood and it is his grandfather
who remains his hero and ideal.
So you can picture a quick minded,
curious-mind boy riding through the
clear -aired mesas of the South and
fishing the mountain streams Of the
North Of Arizona through the long good
days and filling his mind with the talk
Of richly cultivated and experienced
scholar and man of the world. What
an education that was for anybody!
Plato walked among the painted rocks
Caesar and Napoleon lived again be-
side the Colorado.
Quit School for War.
could not, when I first met Mr.
Douglas some years ago, quite account
for him. You are little astonished
by finding Congressman who has
read spengier, who is apparently as
interested in specializing upon the
theories of Sir James Jeans as upon
the probable vote on a beer bill. 1t
was only after I heard about this
grandfather and this childhood that
I began to put him together. OF
course, there was his Eastern" educa-
tion-Amherst, Massachusetts, Tech
But they did not account for him
entirely.
He grew strong and quick in body
and mind as he alternated months in
the East at school with weeks in the
open air, fishing in Arizona, in Can
ada. in the Adirondacks. 1t never
mattered where then-and 1t doesn't
matter now, just 50 it's fishing. Just
fishing. too-not catching fish; the fish
are only an excuse. You know what
a real fisherman is-whipping stream
in that dream where the trees and the
sky and the rocks and the waters seem
of you and you of them, in sort of
Pantheistic mysticism. Well, Douglas
was-s-that sort of mystic.
At Amherst Douglas read history
and literature; at Massachusetts, Tech,
mining and metallurgy. He was study
ing at Massachusetts, Tech when he
entered the war. He promptly went to
the officers training camp at the
Presidio in San Francisco. BY July of
'1S, that lowest form of military life.
q second lieutenant, he was of with
q copy Of Palgrave'S Golden Treas
ury" in his pocket for France, where
his outfit, the 347th Field Artillery,
stationed its guns in the Argonne.
Soon he was transferred to the Com
Service, with headquar-
ters of the 91st Division, given the
job Of organizing and co-ordinating
the personnel of the runners In the
front lines. He got promotion. He
was cited by Pershing during the Ar
gonne offensive. He was decorated by
Belgium during Lys-Escaut.
Takes History Post.
Smelling q story here. once asked
him why.
II haven't any idea." he said.
He sat with his elbows on the arms
Of his chair, hands clasped before
him-a characteristic attitude. His
homely face breaks into boyish sort
Of uncomfortable "I'd-do-anything-to-