Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK G S assistant secretary ot of state consul general in berlin when hitler rose to power used to be a lot more optimistic about Messer Nesser smith germany set worried over aling down to trade rights normal trade intercourse ter course than he 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 confusion today he is concerned about world law and order in trade intercourse ter course and says we ought to be prepared to protect our interests wherever they may be attacked german barter activities particularly in south america seem to be worrying the traders widely experienced land and minutely informed in foreign trade mr Messer sinith has been an evangel of secretary nulls lulls reciprocal cipro cal trade policies his zeal in this is not lessened but he reveals deep concern over the subordination of the rights of business and property to the will of individual leaders or nations tor for expansion and domination 11 this writer has just obtained from a friend an economist returning from germany his first close up of what dr walther funk german minister of economics and his shrewd hunch bunch man hjalmar schacht are doing with their new militarized zed economics my informant who wrote books about the old mellow beery bas soony germany had many old friends there and was steered right into the wheelhouse according to him the new german formula is as revolutionary as communism every atom of surplus wealth is sluiced into the dynamics of expansion and the reich outreach is based on jug handled trade rest creations reat actions ions which mean commercial subjugation for any short enders who try to do business with it WE VE REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some merry little poems such as the bird and the burdock and the tern and the turnip by The tt r ii professor rob of death ray ert W wood of goes poetic johns hopkins J just u s t recently honored by the british royal society for for his work in experimental physics he tossed off a book of them along with whimsical drawings in between takes of fluorescence and magnetic rotation spectra of sodium vapor and their analysis he is one of this departments favorite scientific de bunkers one of his high scores here was banishing the death ray homey bogey pertinent just now in view 1 of ai our sensitiveness to martian attack in this connection the british government has good reason to give him a medal an inventor was demonstrating his death ray to british war office representatives at dawn he focused the ray on a cow in a meadow yards away and threw a switch the cow flopped dead as a mackerel the inventor collected and departed then they found the cows feet wired to an underground circuit connected with the inventors switch professor wood by scientific demonstrations put the quietus on all death rays and offered to stand up against any of them he invented tear gas for the allies in the world war developed a chemical eye by which we can see and the enemy cant and contributed greatly to the development of instruments of precision and spectroscopic research he was educated at harvard and the university of berlin THE T HE humanities like sports and diplomacy are becoming considerably scrambled these thesa days professor harry D gideonse just taking over as head of barnard colon horseback leges depart may MayTa take keUs Us ment of social sciences has been up to his ears all his life in dry as dust economics and now in his first workout work out before the undergraduates he swings on swing as musical hitlerism he says with the current divorce of reason 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 economic s and finance and a sharp and precise critic ot erratic trends ot of our civilization he is 37 years old born in rotterdam here at the age of four educated at columbia and the university of geneva a former teacher of economics at columbia barnard rutgers and the university of chicago 0 consolidated news features feature service |