Show 0 MONEY a definition I 1 think we ve are going to come out ot of our economic troubles with a much more general understanding ot of the unimportance of 0 money than most ot of us Is had before e ali alons of people have learned how to get along with substitutes for or money A lot ot of them have learned that money Is not wealth but Is merely a symbol of wealth real wealth Is commodities that can be used and nothing else the best definition ot of money I 1 have ever seen been was written by a german economist paul helfferich ike he sald 1 money is a medium sot lot storing commodity values and conveying them thru time and spacer space SCRIP juat ai good good any money Is good money which w alch everybody Is willing to accept us As such practically the whole nation has gone on a scrip basis and until we try to spend some of it outside of the united states it la is just as aa good tg as gold the th only thing that mates makes gold the best money Is that it la in the one substance which everybody in the tha world accepts at the game barn value but when everybody in corners comers accepts the local scrip at its taco face value the scrip Is just as good money as gold money I 1 neither scrip nor gold Is wealth both are merely yardsticks with which to measure wealth FORSTER has served lung long I 1 was glad to learn that rudolph forster Is to keep his job as executive clerk in the white house I 1 have known him since he was first appointed by president mckinley in 1897 be has held that post continuously through the entire administrations of seven presidents and Is now S starting on his eighth no man in washington has had so 60 many state secrets pass through his hands as rudolph forster and nobody has ever talked less about the confidential information which has come to his knowledge 31 or 32 I 1 franklin D roosevelt Is either the thirty first or the thirty second president ot of the united states according to which way you count I 1 notice that publishers Auto castor caster service referred to h him ina last week as the thirty first president it Is perfectly true that he Is the thirty first person to hold that office but one of his predecessors mr cleveland was elected two different times with ft tour four year interval between his two terms s I 1 so it if you count number dennial administrations mr fr roosevelt Is the thirty second not that it makes much difference C CHINA A being united I 1 dined the other day in new york tork with a gentleman who has been engaged in business in china for several years he gave me a new picture of 0 the condition of the chinese people china today Is 16 actually actual prosperous ite it industries ore are booming and except in lil districts some of the remote districts there Is something mg like ilk real prosperity judg judged ed by chinese standards atan dards y the most meet Interesting thing my mytr friend lend said raid however was that the chinese people are more nearly unified today as a nation than they have ever been the japanese a aggression gg in manchuria has bas stimulated chinese patriotism my friend expressed the opinion that china would make a very effective resistance to 0 o japan t that it might take years but eventually chi its china including manchuria will be cont con t l Z trolled strolled by the chinese P PERKINS E it K I 1 INS 7 in new york rork i I 1 frances F the first woman mem r r her ber of the cabinet Is in private life mrs airs paul wilson her husband Is a statistician they have a daughter suzanna who Is now about sixteen years old so sharp a line does miss perkins draw between her public life and her private life that it was not until her name was vaas announced as secretary of labor that most of the newspaper men in albany where she was head of the new york labor bureau even knew she was married since the laws of new york do not require a married woman to take her husbands name unless she feels like it she Is still legally frances perkins ns although in the district of columbia she may have to sign the federal payroll as mrs paul wilson 1 l |