Show WHOPS NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON czechoslovakia and all that czechoslovakia C may hang on its destiny Is ju just st an added starter in the up and coming cosmos ot of A W robertson chairman of the robertson board ot of tile the west haa Has remedy in ghouse electric for gloom 4 manufacturing company it is the always assured and hopeful mr robertson who announces his company will spend ork on additions and betterments betters ants this year and from where here w mr robertson sits j lust us t a couple of wh white iw chips compared to sp endings to come mr robertson is the H G wells of industry his shape of things to come which he has been outlining for the last year or two includes the following specifications migratory humans shifting north and south like the birds just whether the he children will be born in the north or the south he said is not quite clear to me but I 1 expect we will follow the policy of the birds and have the children in the he north windowless houses pasteur laed air and artificial sunlight one man planes with folding wings kept in the hall rack with the umbrellas pocket radios for two way talk with anybody anywhere noiseless cities with double deck d C ck streets s t re ets flat houses with a push but ton crane which will park the the auto on the roof he was a farm and village boy at ran panama ama new york chore boy and rustler in his youth and hence not through grammar school until he was seventeen then he studied law in a country office entered practice got corporations tor for clients and then began owning and operating them at forty six he was president of the philadelphia company and now heads a company he pays liberal wage bonuses and urges friendly operative cooperative co relationship tion ship between capital and labor T WAS only a year ago that rob fert 1 ert R young thirty nine year old texan quite unknown to wall treet street rode herd on the straying van young texan system and corrode herd on railed it it was rail system all bewilderingly complicated but finally sifted down it appeared that mr young had picked up a rail empire with an original investment of he is a quiet inconspicuous unassuming u mi n 9 man and now the feature writers are just getting around to calling him a titan he won a rock roch and sock proxy battle for the be co control atrol of the chesapeake and ohio railway within the he last few years he has infiltrated gently into high finance which is just now becoming acutely conscious of his presence his family was in and around canadian texas before the b battle attle of the alamo they started the first national bank of canadian which is now in the hands of th the fourth generation at culver military academy robert R young was graduated at the head of his class career at its youngest grad culver was aate and later latar he be prophetic attended the university of virginia with the du ponts fonts in 1916 he got his preliminary workout work out in finance and joined general motors in 1922 in 1932 he founded his 0 own wn wall street firm with frank IF kolbe his later associate in the van putsch mrs young Is the former anita ten eyck okeefe OKe ete of williamsburg burg va sister of georgia okeefe OKe ete the painter in 1935 they leased beechwood the astor estate in newport mr young a democrat like his father paid tor for a consignment of those famous democratic convention books which congressmen badgering him at a senate hearing insisted nearly so much ol of a bargain as the van deal you are a bigger sucker than I 1 thought you were said senator wheeler 0 consolidated news rea feature tures service skating skating apparently was originated by the primitive norsemen norseman Nor semen whose sag sagas as boast of the ability of thet their r fighters to move swiftly over the th ice on bone runners attached to th the feet with leither leather thongs other nations took up the ar art the swedes danes finns and dutch all contributing to its early development in the third century theart theart of was introduced in europe and this led eventually to thi the development of metal runners and thus thua to great grea t improvement in skating technique |