Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
BY lemuel F. Parton
Observation-Disclosures
He Keeps Teachers Free

NEW YORK.-Gov. Charles
1 y F. Hurley, of Massachu-
sets, who vetoed the teachers
oath bill, is known as Smiling
Charlie" One of his best pals
is Joe E. Brown, the film come
dian, with whom he takes a trip
every year.
A self-starter in Massachusetts,
politics, with his own organization,
he has the human touch, and has
been disclosing amazing skill as a
vote-getter since he was elected
state treasurer in 1880. He was
elected governor last November.
He is a Democrat, and his po-
itical skill and experience have
been largely parochial, with no very
definite orientation in national at
fairs, but on his own home grounds
he is hard to beat. This department
recently became interested in him
on account Of so many political
railbirds insisting that he was a
demon vote-getter to whom the ma
tional party must in time give Sc
rious attention.
He has a big, bullying jaw and
physical bulk in proportion, and, if
he weren't SO amiable, might seem
formidable. He played center and
guard on the Boston college foot
ball team, but, with a nice sense OF
comparative political values, pre-
fers to talk about his marbles cham
pionships at an earlier age. In many
such instances he has disclosed
sound political instincts. Only for
ty-three years old, he hits big-time
Massachusetts politics with tremen-
dous momentum.
His is the story of the poor boy
who never watched the clock and
gained fame and fortune. His par
ents died when he was child and
he was reared by relatives in his
native Cambridge, where Professor
Rogers later was to advise young
men to "be snob and marry the
boss's daughter"
He wasn't snob-quite the oppo-
site-but he did marry Marion Con-
ley, whose father was his employer
in the real estate business. He was
sporting goods salesman for sew
eral years after he finished college,
was in the naval intelligence serv-
ice during the World war and there
after in the real estate business.
Aggressively he fought the child
labor amendment, writing to Presi-
dent Roosevelt a. vigorous letter
against it. AS man of the people,
he says there will be no gold braid
or red tape in the capital while he
is governor. ~
Fourteen-Hour a Day Man.
IN UTAH, the Mormons start a
back-to-the-farm movement to
take 10000 persons off the state and
federal relief rolls. Former Sena-
tor Reed Smoot, helping shape up
the plan, says he hopes the Latter
Day Saints twill be an example to
the world in being independent OF
relief"
Mr.. Smoot, who was seventy-fve
last January 10, says one cause of
trouble in the world is too little
work and too much sleep. Fourteen
hours a day work and six hours
sleep would be about right, he
thinks.
In the senate for 30 years, he
sometimes worked as much as "a
hours a day as chairman of the sem
ate finance committee. He retired 4
in 1882 to become a member of
the council Of the Twelve Apostles
of the Latter-Day Saints, and to
devote the rest of his life to the
church.
At his home in Provo, Utah, he
is director of many corporations,
including real estate, insurance and
beet sugar interests, which, with his
church activities, enable him to
round out 14-hour work day. No
hot drinks, along with plenty of
work, he prescribes for long life
and vitality.
Hot drinks and low tariffs have
for decades been Mr.. Shoots two
leading public enemies.
Philosophers Versus Kings.
IF, WITH hard work, high tariff
L on beet sugar and no hot drinks,
Mr.. Shoots probable life span
should be ninety years, DR.. Henry
C. Sherman would rate him a pos
sible ninety-nine if he gets plenty of
minerals and vitamins. DR.. Sher-
man deals us an extra 10 per cent if
we take his inside laboratory tips
about nutrition. This idea, which
he has been expounding for several
years, he Celebrates in a lecture be-
fore the New York Academy Of
Medicine.
DR.. Sherman, engaged in tea ching
and research work at Columbia uni
versity since 1898, is now Mitchell
professor of chemistry at that insti-
tuition. Famous and authoritative
in his field, he looks forward with