Show t TE TEAPOT POT THE HE report of Andrew W W. Mellons Mellon's purchase in ill Russia of an an- original Raphael for lor has become a teapot In it Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Gifford Pinchot hastily brewed a tempest To ro c calm lm it denials p promptly were issued at atthe atthe atthe the aluminum kings king's Pittsburgh offices He buy the old master from front the soviet govern government gov gov- ern at that price or any other they they- said Go Governor Gornor Pinchot professed to be incensed In Iii 1931 he lIe had suggested that the tycoon lend to Penns Pennsylvania's prosperity loan for jobless aid not aid not to-give to it but to lend it the governor pointed out Additional acidulous acidulous lous bus comment was added in no way intended to increase the prestige of the Keystone states state's Midas So the art world was given giyen a a one-day one sen- sen tation No such amount had ever before been paid in a similar tr transaction The I Pinchot it chot wrath was stirred Then the bubble burst when assertion ass was made that the painting had not been added to the superb collection of Raphael works hanging in his private gallery The incident taking into account that the thc d act passed by the last c congress s prohibits prohibits pro pro- hibits private loans to nations in default to the United d Stat States s reveals one way of getting around the stump It would work about the thc same way as th the method used by an enterprising enterprising enter enter- ing automobile salesman who put over a in rade-in deal and at the same time meticulously meticulous ly i complied with the automobile code The story was brought brought back back by a vacationer fr from m the ithe he west coast I The prospect had an outmoded car for Which he insisted he lie should receive a trade trade- in allowance of The best the salesman could do under the code was waa No dice He Re observed however that the a cus a tomer was wearing a cheap wrist watch Ive always wanted a watch like that he told the theman theman man with the ancient ch chariot riot Ill 11 tell you yon what hat Ill I'll do Ill I'll give you OJ on the trade if you you'll ll sell me that tEnt watch for or I want that watch and I want it bad He got gal the thc watch wat at and h-and and it wasn't bad that is it wasn't bad J for r a three dollar watch He also got the old car car Everybody seemed satisfied Now instead of lending money to Russia Prance ance England or or any of the other countries which are a little behind on their ments a m man n with a lot o of money ought to fo be Table ble to pick up a nice lot of samovars balalaikas bala bala- laikas and Kremlin bells boils or quaint chairs rs in Napoleon apoleon once sat or a that t tonee once onee held helda a morsel served d to Henry VIII At Ata a a million dollars apiece they proba probably ly would b be considered bargains by some connoisseur hindered hin kin dered by the Johnson act from putting his money out at interest |