Beds & Bunks

Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers' conference at Albany, N. Y. last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies out of it.

> High in the esteem of Janizary Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran as a candidate for the vacancy on the U. S. Supreme Court is Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, who is having a tough battle for reelection. Observers were not surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency. . . .

"Murphy also called every convict into chambers and privately told him in advance what his sentence would be and why.

He hated to see a man stand in open court and get the sudden shock of a sentence without advance preparation.

"Governor Murphy is a devout Catholic, attends Mass regularly. Even his critics give him credit for broad tolerance.

"He abhors bloodshed. Another characteristic is his fighting sympathy for the underdog. He is frankly, definitely, enthusiastically prolabor, believes that relations between capital and labor constitute the nation's most difficult problem."

>In Chicago, the Bill Posters & Billers Union (A. F. of L. affiliate) last week refused to handle Republican campaign material.

*In reporting one reason why Columnist Pearson dislikes Maryland's Senator Tydings (TIME, Oct. 24), TIME erred in stating that Mr. Pearson once courted the present Mrs. Tydings.

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