| Show I I WHO'S i NEWS THIS 3 i i rr WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW EW YORK G. YORK G. G S S. S assistant secretary of state consul general in Berlin when Hitler rose to power used to be a lot more optimistic about M Germany German set set- Worried Over down to Trade Ri Rights normal trade in intercourse intercourse intercourse in- in than he lie appears to be now He predicted that evolution would soon follow revolution and urged the world to give Germany a chance to work through a period of stress and con con- fusion Today he is concerned about world law and order in trade in intercourse intercourse intercourse in- in 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 worrying the traders Videl Widely experienced and mi mi- minutely minutely informed in foreign trade Mr 11 has bas been an evangel of Secretary Hulls Hull's reciprocal reciprocal reciprocal re re- re- re trade policies His zeal zealin zealin zealin in this is not lessened but hut he lie reveals deep concern over the thc subordination of the rights of business and property to the will of individual leaders or nations nations nations na na- na- na for expansion and domina domina- tion This writer has just lust obtained from froma a friend an economist returning from rom Germany his first up close-up of what Dr Walther Funk German minister of economics and his shrewd hunch man Hj Hjalmar almaI Schacht are doing with their new militarized economics My informant informant informant inform inform- ant who wrote books about the old mellow beery Germany had lad many old friends there and was steered right into the thc wheelhouse According to him the new German formula is as revolutionary as com com- Every atom of surplus wealth is sluiced into the dynamics ics cs of expansion and the Reich outreach outreach outreach out out- reach is based on jug-handled jug trade relations which mean commercial subjugation for any short-enders short who try to do business with it WE E REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some merry little litle little lit- lit tle le poems such as The Bird and the Burdock and The liThe Tern and the TurniP by TIL n i. i The Professor sor Rob- Rob Of Death Ray ert crt W. W Wood of Goes Poetic Johns Hopkins j just jus U S t recently honored by the British Royal society for or his work in experimental phys phys- ics ics He tossed off a book of them along with whimsical drawings in between takes of Fluorescence and Magnetic Rotation Spectra of Sodium Sodium Sodium So So- Vapor and Their Analysis He is one of this thi departments department's favorite scientific One of his high scores here was banishing the ray death-ray bogey bogey- pertinent just now in view of our sensitiveness to Martian attack In this connection the British government has good reason to give him a medal An was demonstrating his death ray to British war office representatives tives at Dawn He lIe focused the ray rayon on a cow in a meadow yards away and threw a switch The cow flopped dead as a mackerel The inventor collected collect collect- ed and departed Then they found the thc cows cow's feet wired to toan toan toan an underground circuit connected connect connect- ed with the inventors inventor's switch Professor Wood by scientific fic demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations dem dem- put the quietus on all death rays and offered to stand up against any of them He invented tear gas for the Allies in m 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 precision and spectroscopic re re- re search He was educated at Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard and the University of Berlin O OHE THE HE humanities like sports and diplomacy are becoming considerably considerably considerably consid consid- scrambled these days Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Harry D. D Gideonse just taking taking taking tak- tak ing over as head Warns Man Of Barnard colOn colOn colon col- col On Horseback leges lege's depart- depart May Take Us ment of social sciences h has a s been up to his ears all his life in dust dry-as-dust economics and now in his first work-out work before the undergraduates undergraduates undergraduates under under- graduates he swings on swing as musical Hitlerism He says with the current divorce of re reson reason son and emotion and with the latter going haywire some man on horseback is apt to get us Professor Gideonse is of Dutch birth He is a canny and cagey thinker the author of several books on world economics and finance and a sharp and precise precise precise pre pre- cise critic of erratic trends of our civilization He is 37 years old born in Rotterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam Rot Rot- here at the age of four educated at Columbia and the University University University Uni Uni- of Geneva a former teacher of economics at Columbia Barnard Rutgers and the University of Chicago Chi Chi- cago Q Consolidated News Features Service |
