Show I I WHO'S NEWS THIS i WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW EW YORK G. G. G S. S S Me L assistant secretary of state consul general In Berlin when Hitler rose to power used to be a lot more optimistic about Germany set- set Worried Over down to Trade Rights normal trade In In- Intercourse intercourse than he appears to be now He predicted that evolution would soon follow revolution and urged the world to give Germany a chance chanco to work through a period of stress and con con- fusion Today he is concerned about world law and order In trade in in- intercourse intercourse and says We ought to tobe tobe tobe be prepared to protect our interests wherever they may be attacked German barter activities particularly particularly particularly In South America seem to be I worrying the traders Widely experienced and mi ml- minutely minutely Informed In foreign trade Mr I has been an I evangel of or Secretary Hulls Hull's re re- reciprocal reciprocal trade policies politics His Ills zeal zealIn zealIn zealIn In this is not lessened but ho reveals deep concern over the subordination of the rights of business and md property to the I will wOl of or Individual leaders or na na- nations nat na- na t lions for expansion and domina domina- tion This writer has Just obtained from froma a friend an economist returning from Germany his first up close-up of what Dr Walther Funk German minister of economics and his shrewd hunch man Hjalmar Hj lmar Schacht are ding with wi their new militarized economics My inform informant ant who wrote books about the old mellow mel ow beery Germany had many old friends there and was steered right into the wheelhouse According to him the new German I formula is as revolutionary as com com com- Every atom of surplus wealth Is sluiced into the dynamics ics of expansion and the Reich out out- outreach outreach reach is based on jug handled trade relations which mean commercial subjugation for any short enders who try to do business with it o WE SATto E REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some some merry lit lit- little little little tle poems such as The Bird and andI the Burdock and The Tern and I V the Turnip by f i The Professor Rob Rob- OF Death Ray day ert W. W Wood of Goes Poetic Johns Hopkins j Just jus u s t recently I honored by the British Royal society I for his work in experimental phys phys- ics He tossed off orr a book of them I along with whimsical drawings inI in I between takes of Fluorescence anc and andI I Magnetic Rotation Spectra of So So- Sodium Sodium Sodium Vapor and Their Analysis i He lIe is one of this departments department's I favorite scientific lOne One of his high scores here was wasI I banishing the ray death bogey- bogey pertinent Just now in view of our I sensitiveness to Martian I attack In this connection the British government has good reason to give him a medal An Inventor was demonstrating his death ray to British war office representatives tives at Dawn He lIe focused the ray rayon on a B cow in a meadow yards away and threw a switch The cow v flopped dead as a mackerel The inventor collect collect- collected ed Pod and departed Then Then they found the cows cow's feet wired to toan toan toan an underground circuit connect connect- connected ed with the inventors inventor's switch I Professor Wood by scientific dem demo demonstrations put the quietus on all aU death rays and offered altered to stand up against any of them He Invented tear gas for the Allies in the World war developed a chemical eye by which we can see and the enemy cant can't and contributed greatly to the development of Instruments of o precision and spectroscopic re re- re- re search He was educated at Har Har- Harvard Harvard Harvard vard and the University of Berlin I THE HE humanities like sports and andi i diplomacy are becoming consid consid- considerably considerably considerably scrambled these days Pro Pro- Professor Professor Professor fessor Harry D. D Gideonse Just tak tak- taking takIng taking ing over as head Warns Man of Barnard col colOn col- col colOn On Horseback leges lege's depart- depart M May ay Take Us m nt of s social sciences has h a s been up to his ears all his life me In InI I dust dry economics and now in his first work-out work before the under under- undergraduates undergraduates graduates he swings on swing as asI I musical Hitlerism He says with I the current divorce of reason and emotion and with the latter going haywire some man man on horseback is apt lpt to get us Professor Gideonse is of Dutch I birth lie He Is a canny and cagey thinker the author of several books on OD world economics and finance and a B sharp and pre pro precise precise cise else critic of erratic trends of our civilization He is 37 years old born in Rot Rot- Rotterdam Rotterdam here at the age of four educated at Columbia and the Uni University University of Geneva a former teacher of ot economics at Columbia Barnard Rutgers and the University of Chi Chi- cago D m Consolidated News Feature Service n r t 4 7 |