National Affairs: Baker for Baker

Four days before election Newton Diehl Baker has his most important date of the campaign, at Montclair, N. J.* Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank, 62.

When Frank Baker was married at Martinsburg, W. Va., Brother Newton was best man. When Newton was Secretary of War, Frank was first a captain, later a major in the A. E. F. Now a resident of Caldwell, N. J. he commutes daily to Manhattan where he is office supervisor of the sales force of Pettit & Reed, wholesale produce merchants. A trout fisherman, he took a seven-month holiday in 1930 to camp and cast up and down the Pacific Coast. He is a hard-hitting Democratic campaigner, seeking his first public office in a strongly Republican district.

*Last week Lawyer Baker was hired by Tennessee Publisher Luke Lea & son to get their North Carolina conviction for conspiracy and misapplication of bank funds reviewed by the U. S. Supreme Court, Lawyer Baker secured from Chief Justice Hughes an extension of time to file a petition. †New Jersey’s freeholders correspond to county supervisors.