Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW borkan KAn ecstatic young newspaper woman reporting on dr herbert feis of the state department part ment averred that his dream lit e ey y e s re his eyes reflect fleeten fleeted the soul poetry Mindon mind on of a young rubber and tin shelley H e look that way but the chances are that he Is thinking of rubber and tin john masefield had some such thoughts in mind when he wrote cargoes this poet however scans only trade balances and his dreams are precise and statistical dr fels is economic adviser to the state department and it was he who schemed the barter deal by which we would acquire needed rubber and t tin i and get rid of the necklace of millstones hung around uncle sams neck in the form of that tha t government owned surplus of 11 bales of cotton the news from london Is that the barter deal is under way prime minister chamberlain having informed parliament that negotiations have been opened wheat also will be included in the bar bargaining gainIn as england needs both wheat and cotton as much as we need rubber and tin here may be a working commodity axis which so vehemently declared was always more important in the long run than any political axis and incidentally dr fels has read Mach ile he is a holdover hold over from the hoover regime appointed to his present post by secretary stimson who was impressed with the insight and information in dr fels book europe the worlds banker he has been used by the department in clarifying confusion and in bolling boiling down vague policies to definite nite procedure dr fels is a new yorker with a harvard rb ph D lie he was pro lessor of economics at the university of Kansas and the university of cincinnati and director of research for the council ot of foreign relations like man many y men given to meditation he be smokes a pipe blows rings and comes out of the haze with an idea or hunch as sharply defined as if it had been cut by a lapidary philosophers getting on in life 1 are apt to think in hi T tima as contrasted with our workaday tau time both of which are currently explained by hopes to bring D E A milne Human Variables the distin into nto uniformity gulshen british mathematician T time like teatime tea time is stretchable unlike the swing time or springtime of youth all of which was expounded in different terms by t the h e aging montaigne and in this time zone there may be writt written en off or at least discounted much imminent disaster and somehow in this temporal kings x irresistible bodies may meet immovable masses without an any bystanders getting hurt I 1 have known wise old gentlemen who carried their T tima in one pocket and their tau time in the other such is the 80 year old in tau time lucius N littauer whose littauer center is dedicated at harvard his foundation was established to bring about a better understanding among mankind it was mr littauer who as a congressman from new york sponsored and established the united states bureau of standards it worked out nicely uniformity in machine maclin appliances and spare parts paris was easily attained moving from machines into social adaptations and adjustments mrs mr littauer found human variables could not as act yette be calculated like metal variables hence his new bureau of human standards at harvard like the late chauncey M depew he has been honored by a statue in his own town during his lifetime the the town Is glover N Y where after his graduation from harvard he picked up his fathers glove manufacturing business his later years have been absorbed iw in his manifold philanthropies to which he has given many millions of dollars thinking in mr milnes long stretch of time he is calmly assured that in due time all will be well with the world but that we must oppose absolutism in any guise from any source ills his father a native of ores bres lau ger germany many passed or on i to him a heritage of carl schura liberalism which perhaps could be fittingly I 1 measured against fritz kulins importation lust just in passing he played placed on Harv ards first football team cam and rowed on its farst crew baik back in his tau 1 time lime days s features W NU IS services I 1 |