Show S WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK 1 By LEMUEL EMUEL F. F PARTON I NEW YORK The The other day dar a I brisk dapper little old man stepped into a big Wall street investment Investment In in- vestment banking office and asked for the top boss W. W C. C f Durant n with an air ot of otIn ofIn In Scrimmage assurance lie He had an audience Again at 77 11 and came out full of business and stepping high A friend who was wa doing business busi busl ness there that day dar reports to tome tome tome me that the peppy visitor was wa William O. O Durant twice head heal ot or General Motors once the master mater of 01 anI and that at the are ale of or 77 17 Mr Durant was wal scouting new capital for another big ble tourney In 10 motor finance My Ir friend couldn't learn whether er he got rot It U but said ald he be had heard there was wal a deal on which might put Bin Mr Durant on OD the main maID line again lie He said the little little lit Ill tle tie Napoleon of or early day dar auto finance look looked ell as al If U he were about to merge merre all aU companies and skim the cream It was in 1910 1810 that the bankers banken crowded Mr Durant out of the presidency presidency pres pres- of or General Motors Moton He was back in tn 1915 aria and out again in 1920 in the war post-war crash in which he jettisoned of his hll owns own money trying to stop the downslide down down- slide lide of the stock tock He lie took his losses casually and was busy for years in daring market forays but never q quite converted any of his hi passes passe An acquaintance of this writer who knew Mr Durant well weD told me how he laughed off oil his hll second relinquishment relinquishment relinquishment re- re of hit his motors kingdom I built the greatest automobile automobile automo automo- automobile bile building In III the world at Detroit he be said alII according to tomy tomy my Informant and aad when I did It I fixed It so 0 they ther wont won't soon loon forget forret me Hidden somewhere In every column and every capi capi- capital capital tal tat and big stack of 01 that building banding there is ls a deeply chiseled D. D There wasn't anything anonymous anon anon- about that Job and I took good care to leave my mr mark on It So So did the king in Kipling's poem when he was pulled off oft his big palace palace palace pal pal- ace building Job when They said thy use is fulfilled He Carved on every timber and cut on every stone tone and the poem concludes After me cometh a builder tell him I too loo have bave known FOR pon several leveral years years Dr Karl T. T Compton president of Massachusetts Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the nations nation's greatest scientists has haa explored the theno For Science Science- no man mans man's 8 land Government between an ex ex- Collaboration Pending government government govern govern- ment meat and an expanding expanding expanding ex ex- technology He thinks think they ought to get together but he is no advocate of bureaucracy or extreme federalization He doesn't like Uke the idea of the government getting on anybody's neck He thinks think the government government government gov gov- with its vast resources might be an invaluable collaborator with science and should be in fact but he be advances advance this idea warily as he finds creativeness and social progress in the old Am American free free- for all without elaborate governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental trimmings He Re never claimed an aD Ivory tower and sees lees the problem In tn its It simple social components component of 01 jobs a rising standard ot or living social progress and security lie He notes the killing job potentialities ties of or the machine in ID certain Individual Instances and assesses assesses assesses as as- industrial management with finding a corrective This qualified admission Is II in sharp contrast to the view of ot Dr Robert Andrews Andrew Millikan another distinguished scientist who has haa wrestled with the same problem Doctor Millikan is for throwing the throttle wide open with the Ute certainty certain certain- ty that machines ultimately will wID make more Jobs than they destroy Both however prescribe as a cure for our technological ills more of the hair of the dog that bit us The difference in view is that Dr Compton urges urge certain collective rationalizations and judicious self self- imposed controls by Industry and management For many years fear Dr Compton Campton has been blasting at the Inner citadel of or the atom to seize elze there the hidden golden olden key of or power which has haa long been beeD the In the Ik of or pie sky the great creat physicists He lie batters baUer down a rampart now and then and In III Inthe inthe the long lonc view of the scientists thinks think that we may mar some Bome day lIay tap lap reservoirs reservoir of or energy so vast that all aU our present ills will III be easily soluble therein He lIe has baa headed beaded M. M I. I T T. T since Ince 1930 Now rounding 50 He lIe was head of the department of 01 physics at Princeton Princeton Prince Prince- ton before 1930 one of the most richly garlanded men of his profession profession sion slon in is honors and records of achievement O 0 Consolidated News Newa Features Feature Service |