The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-25
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK - Quintilians line,
He abounds in sweet faults"
was meant for James F. Dewey.
The quite uniformly successful fed
Share Failing, c cp a ia1or
Promote Harmony, see to
Dewey's Method nave ,ba, 'g nnonle
are more apt to be brought together
by pooling their little redeeming
vices than by matching virtues.
Share a human weakness with
man and he's apt to begin to feel
the stir Of fellow-feeling That
seems to be the idea. although there
is no evidence that all this is pre-
meditated on Mr.. Deweys part.
Here's how he Joins" EN-:
He doesn't mind his Galleries, or
worry about his waistline
He likes to sleep late
he smokes cigars so strong they
make an Erie freight engine smell
like an atomizer
He isn't systematic. Taking
over as a cOnciliator, perhaps
addressing big jittery meeting,
he excavates various bullying
pockets and discovers he has
forgotten his credentials. Then
he fOrgets about all that, opens
with wide nonpartisan smile,
delivers his speech and makes
them like it.
He dislikes exercise, yet he is a
rough-andready hoofer who will
dance on the slightest provocation-
until his tongue hangs out.
He wears his hair loosely and
casually.
All this and more of the same,
sets MIR. Dewey sharply apart from
the slick and impeccable conformist
who is always putting other people
In the doghouSe and thereby getting
nowhere as a conciliator Sen.
James j. ("Puddler Jim") Davis set
him up as mediator, in the depart
ment of labor, after he had done
some strikingly effective conciliating
in Pennsylvania. He was a school
teacher, auditor for a coal company
and telegraph operator. At the old
home place at Chester, Pa, he
spends a lot of time patching things
up and making them work. Amateur
tinkering always denotes the true
pragmatist at work. Maybe that S
what all this strike trouble needs.
a MONG those ready to affirm that
a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country, Leon M
Henderson. director of price stabili-
Here's Prophet 1 Mat;an ,Tr me rne
Given Full Honors tense com.
In His DUN Land 40. Ss ino may
ed. Once he was a farm boy in
Mnlville, N. j., and his hometown
folks have just honored him with q
banquet and other proceedings, es.
tablishing him as mo. / Citizen" OF
the village in which he was born AZ
years ago. Joined with the citizen.
~ were not few government Of
fcials coming from Washington tc
approve and acclaim the excellence
Of Millville's choice.
Here is a village Hamden, limo
cent OF his country's blood" whc
didn't stay in village, one who ha.
been in the thick of things, up to hi.
elbow as some one recently said o
him, in all sorts of affairs bes
known by alphabetical designations
as MIRA, WPA, TNEC, SEC, NDAC
etc.
One of the strong men in tn,
national defense picture-he is tn,
.lWg IL
commission of seven members ant
its only economist-they called hin
the nations outstanding crystal gaz
er when he predicted the bushes
boom of 1886 and its drop later, il
1887. Ironically smiling, Hender
son has subscribed to the appella
ton.
His induction into government
service came about in rather q
curious way. In 1884, as direc-
tor of the remedial loan division
Of the Russell Sage foundation,
he began sniping at the NRA, and
his shots were so accurately
aimed as to arouse, not the an
ger, but the admiration of Gen.
Hugh Johnson who grabbed him
as consumer advisor. Very soon
thereafter he became director Of
research and planning, and
when Supreme court broadside
sank the NRA he was appointed
secretary Of the senate commit
tee on manufactures.
There he was when the 1913
national presidential campaign al
rived. He was withdrawn and mad
economist for the Democratic ma
tional committee. 1t is said of hin
that the source of information en-
abling Jim Farley to predict S
shrewdly the outcome of this cleo
ton was Leon Henderson
Then Henderson became econon
lie counsellor to the WPA and subse