Penrose Up, Pinchot Down

Youngish Pennsylvanians whose Progressive fathers frightened them with the name of BOIES PENROSE a quarter century ago could look forward last week to bemusing their own children with that great name some day. In Philadelphia Boies Penrose II, nephew of Pennsylvania's longtime (1897-1921) Senator and Republican boss, received a Republican nomination to Congress in last week's primary.

A rich and cultured Harvardman like his late uncle, 34-year-old Boies II has hitherto devoted himself to scholarship and society, is the owner of a notable collection of etchings, engravings, manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.-- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting the name of Penrose up last week, another group was setting the name of Pinchot down. In a district inhabited largely by factory workers whose cause she has championed many a time on the picket line, red-haired Mrs. Gifford Pinchot made her third race for a Republican nomination to the House, suffered her third defeat.

P:Deciding he was not kept busy enough as Mayor of Pittsburgh, cocky, fiddle-playing William N. McNair last week applied to Democratic voters for a job in the U. S. House, was roundly rejected.

P:That Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin is not as politically dead as newspaper readers believe was indicated in Philadelphia last week when Representative Michael J. Stack, running with Coughlin endorsement against the bitter opposition of the potent Kelly machine, won a Democratic renomination to the House.

G. O. P. Philadelphia is not finicky about having a Congressman really live in the district he represents. In 1927 the late James M. Beck, who lived in Washington and summered in New Jersey, was given a House nomination by the Vare machine, promptly rented a sleazy apartment in a poor district of Philadelphia which he never actually occupied. Following his election, his right to a House seat was challenged on the Constitutional ground that he did not live in Pennsylvania. A cocky Republican majority in the House overrode the evidence against him, seated him regardless.

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