Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-10-01
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.-WNU Release.


I necessarily young these days.
Hence the more news in the stand
of Edouard Herriot and Jules
Jeanneney
A Reminder That aeains t
"A France There P e ,
Will Always Be- wrlcn .ile a;t
Ter, and for France. M. Herriot is
70 and M. Jeanneney is 70. There
is an old proverb, "a wise old man s
word is worth more than a young
buzzard's sword"
IN. Jeanneney is president of the
senate and M. Herriot president of
the chamber of deputies, in the over
thrown parliament which still lives
in the hearts of true F'renchmen.
They were big news in 1884 and 1885.
when they were not implicated in
the Hateful Stavisky pawn shop scan
dial, precursor of the inside job
which delivered La Belle France,
roped and hog-tied to Hitler.
Stavisky might have been
sMark Twain's "Man Who Cor
rupted Hadleyburg." Smeared
were Chautemps, Laval, Elan
din, Tardieu, Daladier and pref
ty nearly every tOp-hole p0liti-
clan in France, but not these
old-timers, who long before had
proven both their honesty and
LOYALTY to the republic. eff
there were one honest man
among you l would have saved
YOU" France may invoke Scrip
ture and remind the world that
she came through with two.
The bullet-headed, bull-necked,
pompadoured Herriot, former peda-
cog and for Is years mayor of
Lyons, was long known as the Theo-
dore Roosevelt of France, super
charged with energy.
He won the premiership in June,
1924, and he and his cabinet of
radical Socialists held power until
the following April. Then as later
the radical Socialist party was full
of termites and included in its lead
ership many of the men who later
supervised the moral and political
collapse of their country. From
then, Herriot was an outsider.
He rose again in 1888 defeat
ing, appropriately, the Tardieu-
Laval faction. French politics, in
those years, was no place for
an honest man and he soon was
on the sidelines again. He be-
longs in the picture Of staunch
bourgeois liberalism.
Jules Jeanneney, long a bearded
patriarch, is an old-school politician
who, like M. Herriot, made his polit-
ical career in the provinces. Sew
erar times he narrowly missed be-
ing president of France.
COME people were talking the
" other night about econometrics,
geology, geo-politik, and logistics.
We asked one of them how about
There Appears No said I = " /" M
Movement Against stranger
Dictionary Initiation 81 gelf' : my n at +
goes for lot of us these days, with
new names and events outrunning
both dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Our fat and conservative old die
tionary doesn't list econometrics,
but here it is, on the financial page,
thoroughly respectable.
The news is that Jacob Baker,
formerly Harry Hopkins right
hand man, down among the al
phabetical folk at Washington,
has been elected vice president
of the Institute of Applied Econ
ometrics, Inc. AS we get it,
after asking many innocent by
standers, econ0metrics has to do
with teaming statistics and eco
nomic theory, in mutual aid, by
which the statistics take on
meaning and the theory be-
comes possibly provable or
plausible. ....
Within the last four days we have
pegged news stories touching on all
of the above four new bright facets
of dinner-table talk. They have to
do with postwar reconstruction.
Whatever happens, We'll have a
word for it.
MIR. Baker was born and
reared in Colorado, was gradu-
ated from the Colorado Agricul-
tural college and the University
Of California school of engineer
ing, found plenty of adventure
as mine manager in Mexican
hot spots, and started his Chi
cagO career in the service of oil,
utility and engineering firms.
He is genial and baldish, casually
dressed, usually smoking pipe, and
is the last man you would pick for
such precision and incisiveness as
his new title would suggest. We
used to meet him at singing parties,
few years ago, at which he was
Jake Baker, quite unlike the Jacob
Baker of the consulting engineering
firm of House, Baker and Associates
of Chicago. He was good catch
as-catch-can close-harmony singer
and everything about him was at