Show I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 II 11 I 1 IN I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 NEWS I 1 THIS 1 I il 11 I 1 WEEK I 1 I 1 by I 1 LEMUEL F PARTON JEW EW YORK the other day a N brisk dapper little old bid man stepped into a big wall street investment ves banking office and asked lor for the top boss WC W C durant i with an air of insch im i mage assurance he had an audience again A cit at 77 out and came me full of business and stepping high A friend who was doing business there that day reports to me that hat the peppy visitor wis was I 1 william G durant twice head of general motors once the master of 0 and that at the age of 11 77 mr durant wis waa spouting ng new capital tot tor another big tourney in motor finance my friend learn whether he sot got s ot it but said he had heard beard there was a deal on which might put mr durant on the mainline main line again he iles said aid the little litile napoleon of early day auto finance looked as if he were I 1 about to merge an all companies and skim the cream it was in 1910 that the bankers I 1 crowded mr durant out of the presidency of general motors he was back ip 1915 and out again in 1920 in the postwar post war crash in which he e jettisoned jetti of his own money trying to stop the down slide of the stock he took his losses casually and was busy for years in daring market forays but never quite converted any of his passes an acquaintance of this writer who knew mr durant well told me how he laughed oil off his second relinquishment linquish ment of his motors kingdom 1 I built the greatest automobile building binding in the world at detroit hebald he said sald according to my informant and when I 1 did it I 1 fixed it so they wont bonit soon forget me hidden somewhere in every column and every capital and big stack of that building there Is a deeply chiseled D there wi wt anything anon amous about thai afi job and I 1 took good care to leave my mark on it so did the king in kippings Kip lings poem w when lien he was pulled off his big palace building job when they said thy use is fulfilled he carved on every timber and cut on every stone and the poem concludes alter after me cometh a builder tell him im I 1 too oo 00 have known 0 OR several years dr karl T compton president of massachusetts institute of technology and one of the nations greatest scientists has explored the for science no mans land government between an ex collaboration banding government and an expanding technology he thinks they ought to get toge together but bb is no advocate of bureaucracy or extreme federalization he like the idea of the government getting on neck he thinks the government ern ment with its vast resources might be an invaluable collaborator with science and should be in f fact act but he advances this idea warily as he finds creativeness and social progress in the old american free for all without elaborate governmental trimmings 1 ile he never claimed an ivory 1 to tower and sees the problem tn in its simple social components of i jobs a rising sta standard edard of living s social 0 clil progress ress and security he notes the he lob job killing hilling potent potentialities lall odthe of the machine in certain individual instances and assesses industrial management with finding a corrective this qualified admission is in sharp contrastato contrast contras tto to the view of dr robert andrews Mil millikan lujan another distinguished scientist who has i wrestled with the game problem m doctor millikan is ii 1 S for throwing the Ah throttle wide ope open with the cert certainty a in that machines ultimately win will make more jobs than they destroy both however prescribe as acuri a cure for our technological ills mote more ot of the hair of th the a dog that bit us the difference in view Is that dr compton urges certain collective rationalizations and judicious self imposed controls by industry ank and management for many years dr compton has been blasting at the inner met I 1 citadel of the be atom to seize there the hidden golden key of cited power which has lo 10 long ng been the pie in the sky of the great physicists he batters down a rampart no now VE and then and in the he long view of the scientists thinks that we may someday some day tap reservoirs of of energy so vast that all aur present ills will ba easily soluble therein he has headed beaded M 1 I T since 1930 now rounding 50 1 he daghe wai head adof 61 the department of physics at princeton before 1930 one of tle most richly gar garlanded laded men of his profession in honors and records of achievement I 1 0 6 news new rat I 1 service yaa P y t 1 I 1 |