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Show i WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Old Senator Joseph Caillaux of France, who knows a lot about money and trade, says Germany will be licked by her pov-c pov-c it erty m natur-Caillaux natur-Caillaux Still u resources, Gulden French chiefly oil. At ' mm . D ,. 76. bearing Monetary Policy gcars of long and bitter conflict, more bitterly bitter-ly assailed in the past than perhaps any other man in France, he commands com-mands respect as he keeps on croaking, croak-ing, "Victory in war is often destroyed de-stroyed by finance," and he Is still a powerful guiding force in French monetary policy. He has known glory, riches, jail, exile, calumny, foolish adulation, adu-lation, scandal, exultation, bitterness bit-terness and disillusionment, and , with bloodshot eyes and out-thrust out-thrust jaw, he's still on bis feet when the gong ends the round. His fortune was sunk in the defense de-fense of his wife for killing Gaston Gas-ton Calmette in 1914. He returned re-turned from banishment to full vindication in the espionage case against him, to become premier and later finance minister of France. He has shaded down his green trousers and yellow shoes and green vest to more somber hues, but his is still the toughest political hide anywhere extant. WHEN this writer began newspaper news-paper work in Chicago, people in Halsted and West Madison streets seemed to be about as badly off .... . . as European MehoristsHave war victims Not Yet Found of today. I T1 -. 1 1 tf knew Hobart The Golden Key 0. lor and was interested in his work with Jane Addams at Hull House, the pioneer social settlement. They were devoted and unselfish, but. when I looked around the Hull House neighborhood several years ago, nothing seemed to have changed much. Mr. Taylor's son, Wayne C. Taylor, grew up in this shadow of misery, and now moves into a sort of pantograph enlargement enlarge-ment of the same. He is en route to Finland, to study and organize relief there. The social settlement theory, as bravely expounded and lived by the elder Mr. Taylor and Jane Addams, Ad-dams, was that "all men are brothers," and, If fortunate citizens citi-zens will live in neighborly intercourse in-tercourse with the unfortunate, "a little leaven will leaven the whole lump." The younger Mr. Taylor catching step with his times, was a realist who believed that the way ahead lay in understanding of basic economic eco-nomic forces and in the application of progressive and enlightened techniques tech-niques of government. He became special adviser to President Roose- veil on loreign xraae; assistant administrator ad-ministrator of the AAA; vice president presi-dent of the Export-Import bank of Washington; assistant secretary of the treasury. He withdrew from the last-named office last February, dissenting from what he considered the treasury department's policy of shaping money procedure to foreign policy. IJlf th ITllll fTnncA moltn- rists, it would seem that the economist innovators and renovators reno-vators have not yet found the golden key. A comparison of notes by father and son as to what's wrong with West Madison Madi-son street, Europe and In-between points, and what to do about it, would, I am sure, be interesting. Mr. Taylor was graduated from Yale in 1916. served in the World war, and was engaged in the banking bank-ing and brokerage business in Chicago Chi-cago before going to Washington in 1933. IT WOULD be hard to say whether big, swart, dead-pan Col. Fulgen-cio Fulgen-cio Batista, Cuba's power man, headed in from right or left. Possi- Political Form fJe maTnTdea Of Power Men with all such Hard to Place cu"ent inno: vators, and their political orientation is merely academic. A year ago, the news scouts were reporting that Batista was swinging right. The news today i is that the Cuban Communist party is backing him for election to the presidency. Also news ts the mere fact that they are having a presidential presiden-tial election in Cuba. Batista was cane-rustler, barber, ditch-digger, ditch-digger, brakeman, soldier and stenographer, before he seized Cuba with the flight of President Presi-dent Machado. He Is of Cuban, Indian. Chilean origin, with Mongoloid features and big muscles. iConsolidaied Features W SV Servlce.i |