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TRIBUTE TO BANKHEAD

TRIBUTE TO BANKHEAD
NEW YORK.-This is pretty late
for a piece about the passing Of
Speaker Bankhead, but if it were
even later, couldn't let the going
Of great man pass without at least
the tribute Of a sigh.
These Bankheads have been SOUTH
ern public men in the very finest OF
American traditions - father and
three sons. The father of the late
speaker and present Senator Bank.
head also was a senator. A third
brother was cadet at West Point
in my time and became an able
and beloved officer in our army.
They were all much alike in ap-
pearance and more alike in charac-
ter-courteous, considerable, brave,
loyal, gentle and kind.
Those are lot of adjectives, but
considered every one before I
wrote it, and I couldn't fairly or
accurately have omitted any. +
never met anybody, associate or OPP
ponent, in public life or out, who
didn't have about that opinion of
these men, which is a remarkable
circumstance indeed.
The late speaker was noted for all
these qualities and, Notwithstanding
intense party loyalty, for leaning
over backward to be fair to the
opposition minority.
RED CAPS
Mayor LaGuardia wants to mo-
Billie the Pullman porters for the
New Deal third term. I don't know
about the Pullman porters. They
are railroad employees. Neither
NRA nor its successor labor laws
could help them much. Certainly
the mayor would have harder sled
ding with the station porters. Both
the red caps and the public are reg
imented by the wages and hours ad-
ministration and they don't like it.
Before the more abundant life
came to them, while there was no.
body to guarantee their maximum
hours and minimum weekly wage,
and no compulsion on the passengers |
TO pay them 10 cents for every pack
age toted, they found the travelling
public reasonably generous. A two
bit tip was usual for a real load. |
Sometimes it was only a dime and
sometimes nothing. But these cases
were exceptions-usually old ladies
and country bankers of the David |
Harum type.
A compulsory dime for every
package carried was an untried ex-
pertinent. Now the red caps wish
1t had never been tried, even if |
when the public doesn't collectively |
pay their minimum wages in full,
their employers-the terminal or
railroad companies-have to make
up the difference.
The boys variously estimate to me
that it has reduced their incomes on
the average 10 to Is per cent. They
would prefer Adam Smiths doctrine
OF laissez-faire to the Henry Wal
lace thesis of regulate everything"
They want their rugged individual
ism restored.
Formerly, and because he didn't
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one man-sized grip willingly gave a
quarter for carrying it. Now Uncle
Sam tells him that 10 cents is enough
and that the porter must take it.
Sometimes, as in recent expert
ence of our First Lady, who left a
train with seven parcels, what with
the hurry and hustle and this and
that, the passenger forgets the new
rule and, as in that experience,
hands out half a buck and thinks it
generous. 1t used to be, but now
the tariff should be 70 cents. The
carrier-for-hire relationship has not
yet been sufficiently established for
these small enterprisers to demand
the extra dimes. Just the same, they
get debited by the company exactly
as though they had been collected.
This also may be imagination, but
some of the red caps think they see
a tendency to fewer but larger
pieces. of luggage.