Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton z doctor ot of gold NEW YORK when secretary calls in ia a money doctor he sends for dr jacob viner ol of chicago currently summoned to washington to diagnose gold troubles gold the experts tell me keeps getting out of bounds one way or another burying a few billions ot of it in kentucky seem to help and theres no knowing how long uncle sam can go on borrowing money to buy and impound it offstage financiers and governments are worried about gold and it is understood that our treasury department part ment Is shaping a policy hence dr biners presence in washington dr viner of the faculty of the university of chicago was chief adviser to the treasury in 1934 loaned by the university and returned to chicago with the understanding that he would be standing by if they needed him badly oddly enough this trusted consultant in our vast experiment in managed economy belongs to the back to nature school of finance he has vigorously opposed artificial wage and price stimulants as aids to inflation and at the depth of depression when the cry everywhere was for higher wages he was for lower monetary wages also prices but for higher real wages he says all this parallel jockeying of prices and wages comes to nothing and possibly something worse the real wage determined by its purchasing power is the only important consideration and that dr viner believes rises only with the tree free and normal flow of credits and goods around the world with low tariffs or no tariffs at all this being his pet idea he is definitely placed as a liberal but he think we will get anywhere by strong arming economic laws he is canadian born forty five years old naturalized in 1914 he was graduated at mcgill university took his doctorate at harvard and has been teaching lecturing and writing since at one time adviser to the shipping board and expert for the tariff commission his eminence is is in the field of scholarship lie he is the author of some profound and to this department quite incomprehensible 1 monographs on money and credit he is visiting professor at the graduate institute of international studies at geneva and has a towering reputation in in europe communist bogey man PUDGY bristling little bela K kun who once seized and ruled hungary hangary may or may not have been executed in russia reports are meagre and conflicting A few ew weeks ago a wayfarer back from europe told me kun was suspected of working with the Trotsky ites but that was just rumor and there is no explanation of what has happened if anything did in the main ports of entry in south america and europe they turn in in a riot call and burglar alarm ev ery time it is whispered that the squat swarthy and mysterious bela kun is in the offing off irig for some reason international police have put him down as it the ie chief spreader of the communistic virus although he has figured in no main events since admiral horthy chased him out of the pink and white ro cocco palace pa I 1 ace at budapest born in Kolozs va transylvania he acquired a law degree at the university of vienna he fought in the hungarian army was taken prisoner by the russians converted to communism and joined the red army he easily topped over the mud mild karolyi and for a brief period ran hungary europe has been steadily pegging him from one coun try to another in m a lot of fast triple plays portugal to spain to brazil it was last summer a 01 military politician ol it ician to act at the first sign ol of QUICK Q russian weakness the germans mans s renew their drive to laithe break lak the franco russian pact and to further farther their planned coalition of european powers against russia gendral Gen iral ludwig beek beck german chit chief of staff makes a courtesy call on general marie gustave gamelin french chiet chief of staff officially noted no ed as a courtesy call but promptly inter prated by french newspapers as politically inspired general beck a shrewd political strategist has been called the head of the german army brain trust he has been an advocate of totalitarian war insisting that ecos and spiritual forces were as important as the force of arms ile he was elevated to his present post october october 15 1935 in an impressive ceremony by which he became the su cressor of moltke and von hindenburg ile he is of the old army caste formerly a monarchist and his present activity with that of general von blomberg aiom berg is another indication of the rising power of 01 junkers and army leaders econ solid ted news features feature W u service |