New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1930, Page 7

whereas he started work for $1.30 a 12-hour day the trainmen of to- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930. day eaim $6.96 for an eight-hour Trees, Plants, Soil LR Mechanical Age Brings Toyland to Life This Year ™ o the wage conferences which helped % tumn practice of burning leaves| gradually raise the wage rate. ‘ e | lections, indicate of lif gerie collars and sleeve touches. 5 Cushion white and" colored, is seen at one important Burning Leaves Harms ,<-a¢ Collars Hinted a furore In Advance Spring Styles » vies, NEW LABOR HEAD both Paris, Dec. 12 nce notices el of t spring's himtediat Intlp ety ONCE SWITCHMAN Doak, Named Secretary, Worked | Way Up, Scorns Society ‘Washington, Dec. 12.—The ap- pointment of William N. Doak as secretary of labor brings to Presi- dent Hoover's cabinet a man who might be described as an intellectual switchman. X Mr. Doak stopped being a switchman years ago, but he has never stopped being intellectual. Frivolous diversions have small place has been a hard worker, and his studious habits have made him one of the best-informed men in Washington. In a big white house with pret- flower gardens perched on a cliff _overlooking the Poto- Mr. Doak makes his home with Mrs. Doak, two handsome dogs and an experienced and sa- gacious parrot. Flowers His Hobby The grand passions of Doak have been flowers, the labor movement and Republican politics. Entering the Hoover cabinet, he seems the most human, though he is well to do—and the least high-hat of the lot. The Doaks now have a high so- cial position, but Washington so- ciety doesn’t offer much attraction in their case. Mr. Doak likes best to putter around with his delphi- niums and hollyhocks and at night he has been used to bringing home the work devolving upon him as editor of the Railroad Trainman. ty high mas, in his life; he is and always | to be the most unaffected, | the poorest—al- | | members Mrs. Doak cleans her own house | and makes her own clothes. They seldom go out and nearly always retire early. g0 to movies, but sometimes they like to see a play and they are especially fond of the National Geographic lectures heard here in wintertime. Mrs. been a clubwoman, but enjoys per- sonal private charity. Doak is 48 years old. wavy light brown hair, eyes and wears glasses, He is an inch or two fess than six fect tall. He wears a high stiff collar and double-breasted blue suits of the type made fa- mouse by Herbert Hoover. He talks simply and directly. Married 22 Years Mrs. Doak is a youngish-look- ing blond, though she has been married for 22 years. She likes to stay at home and tend her old- fashioned garden and roses; to play with the white Scotch collies, Margie and Waltham; to talk to Polly Doak, the gorgeous parrot which now lives in the Doak dining room be- cause Doak once went shopping for canary seed and heard Polly say, “Pretty boy, I love you so!" She also likes to watch the ca- naries inside the house and the wild birds for whom Doak has built bird boxes outside. The home, built and developed He has Doak has mever 3 | uncles in the Confederate army. But | clock-work, blue-gray | of perennials | big | They don't dance or | i by Doak on a site a few miles from | Washington of such altitude that it was used for a fort in the Civil War, is called Notre Nid. That means “Our Nest.” bly will take Washington to use until Doak gets used to the new job. Doak has been national tive representative (which means Washington lobbyist) for the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, as well as editor and man- ager of that union's monthly mag- azine, He has always worked bard and his labor experience as a leader in the brotherhood has been wide. He has represented the trainmen in innumerable wage ne- gotiations and likes to recall that | | | an apartment in| legisla- | i | | beret type, |ident and assistant president | primarily to Mr. im;.s also o |labor measures. i | has | National | the | is proud of them and the Began as Switchman Doak was born on a farm near Bristol, Tenn. and entered rail- read service as a yard switchman at Bluefield, W. Va. His road was the Norfolk & Western, and Senator Hatfield of West Virginia was then the division surgeon. Doak soon entered the trainmen's brotherhood and had become the local legislative representative. In 1968 he was the general chair- man for the N. & W. system and chairman of the union's West Vir- ginia legislative board. He moved to Roanoke, Va. In 1916 he was| elected vice president of the| brotherhood and was appointed national legislative representa- | tive. He has since acted as pres-| of the brotherhood. Few. non-members have a wider personal acquaintance in Congress than Doak. The lobby- fet’s career here is usually a quiet, unexsiting one, and so Doak's | legislative work was not spec- | tacular. He has devoted himself | pushing legislature | demznded by the trainmen, but helped promote other | Opposition to Doak within labor | ranks has been based partly up-| on his close association with Re-| publican politicians and his rela- | tions with such conservative | of Congress as Senator | Jim Watson of Indiana. He sup- | ported Coolidge instead of La- | Follette in 1924. He was on quite| friendly terms with Coolidge and | has had a large photograph of | Coolidge in his office. During the| Wilson admiristration he became | acquainted with been a friendly relationship | ever since. In the 1928 campaign he had charge of the Republican | Committee's labor bu- reau. | “A Fighting Republican” | “I have always been a fighting | | Republican,” Doak says. “My fath. |Such toys as the mechanical ani-|plete in | five | er was a Confederate soldier Pickett's division, and T had after the war, my father began vot- | ing for Grant.” | Doak takes pride in as one of four labor members his service | on !the Railroad Board of Adjus'.i | ment labor which settled 3,000 the | disputes during and after war. | “My principle has always becn that there is common ground on | which two contending sides can | meet,” he says. “And my at-| tempt has always been to find that ground. When both sides put their cards on the table it be- | comes easy because the merits of any given case are readily seen.” Doak has nothing to say about dissatisfaction of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor over his ap- pointment, but he does resent any | {rn{lnr(mn on the railroad brother- hoods. “There’'s nothing like the broth- erhoods,” he says. “The country railroad executives wouldn’t lose them for anything. They have always rec- ognized their responsibility for keeping the nation’s transporta- tion system going and no section of organized labor has a finer rec- They proba- | °™4"” Boudoir Caps May Stage Comeback With Teagowns Paris, Dec. 12 (P)—TIt looks like boudoir caps were going to make a comeback. A famous lingerie shows round lace and | maker here tulle caps. for wear indoors with tea gowns of the boudoir variety. | Another dressmaker advocates little | round satin caps to perch atop disheveled hair at the hour of cock- tall or bridge pajamas. Sale at Factory Park St. FITCH-JONES SALE At Hoover and there | haps more than ever before | into Mechanical tovs this vear perhaps come closer to b known form of machinery is presented in toy form of the new dolls is shown upper left New York, Dec. 12 (A—Toyland | while small phono has gone mechanical this year per-|in their bodies r {the n ner of wild There are realistic mechanical| Boyvs who | animals, mechanical derricks, pile | virtually all t drivers, shovels, tractors, dolls to|toy form. Railro delight children when they glimpse |both American and European typ.s their stockings Christmas | of equipment and all models of cars morning. operate over the rails. Youngsters Mechanical lighthouses are with warning bells and whistles. | Toy-makers have ftried severa act almost exactly like | new methods of making dolls tr their living counterparts. {will perform in even more life They crouch, spring strut, | fashion than usual BOOKS FOR EVERYONE 75¢ Al handsomely bound in dloth. 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