The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-23


scraping the bottom by next June.
,,,n -, Who gets fired
Shooter Finds naturally dis
Relief in Clouds tressing prob
lem, falling
mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble
shooter and handyman for the
WPA, who looks and talks like Sim
clair Lewis and who used to hunt
bears in Utah. Officially, he is di-
rector of the section on 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 congress
men, union disputants, kickers,
fixers, utopians, and what not
see Mr.. Brimhall, and, when he
isn't taking this rap, he is eX-
porting and editing administra-
ton outputs on labor relations
and employment, making 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.. 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 getaway in the clouds,
which seems like a nice idea.
Reared in the Church of the Lat
ter Day Saints-his grandfather
trekked west with Brigham Young
he was one of group of twelve
Utah business men, Mariner 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 live
interest in four different concerns
an airplane company, a railroad
company, a lumber business and
extensive real estate interests. 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 Nc
Keen CattelI at Columbia uni
versity, he studied 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 in
terested in flying ever since
flying and hunting. On every
weekend 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 bis 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.
THE United States senate, pos.
l. sibly ''standin' in the need of
prayer" does away with piece-work
supplication and puts praying on
t h regular
Senate, in Need, daily schedule.
Puts Daily Task Last year, the
On Its Chaplain occ n |
prayers by the
official chaplain, the Rev. Re Bar
ney Thorne Phillips cost the govern
ment $420 a prayer. Now the rate
for each will be about SIG, as Mr..
Phillips gets $1,680 year.
The change was brought
about by a resolution by Sena-
tor Nicely, 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 fic-
ton 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. Possibly as
a tribute to Chaplain Phillips
prayers, the vote on Senator
Neely's resolution was unani-
nous.
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
Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly
non-partisan. He is distinguished
Episcopalian clergyman, rector of
the Church of the Epiphany of
Washington, and has discharged his
office with simple eloquence and
dignity.
Chaplain Phillips, 63 years
old, is a native of Springfield,
Ohio, educated at Wittenberg
college and the General Theo-
logical seminary. He engaged
in special studies at Oxford in
1910 and 1911 and has served
pastorates in Cincinnati, Chi
cago, st. Louis and Philadel-
phia. His children are named
Faith, Deacon and Sallie Hews.
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