Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON czechoslovakia czechoslovakia and au all that v 1 may hang on its destiny is just an added starter in the up and coming cosmos of A W robertson chairman of the robertson board of the west has remedy in ghouse electric for gloom manufacturing company it is the always alway s assured and hopeful mr robertson who announces his company will spend on additions and betterments this year and from where mr robertson sits just a couple of white 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 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 north 19 windowless houses pasteur iced 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 streets 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 panama new york chore boy and rustler in his youth and hence not through grammar school until he was seventeen then he studied law in in a country office entered practice got corporations 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 IT T WAS only a year ago that robert R young thirty nine year old texan quite unknown to wall street rode herd on the straying van young texan system and corrode herd on railed it it was rail system an 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 man and now the feature writers are just getting around to calling him a titan he won a rock and sock proxy battle for the control of the chesapeake and ohio railway within the 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 battle of the alamo they started the first national bank of canadian which is now in the hands of the fourth generation at culver military academy robert R young was graduated at the head of his class career at its s youngest grad culver was aate and later he 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 1933 1932 he founded his own wall street firm with frank F kolbe his later associate in the van putsch mrs young is the former anita ten eyck okeefe of williamsburg va sister ot of georgia okeefe the painter in 1935 they leased beechwood the astor estate in newport mr young a democrat t like his father paid for a consignment of those famous democratic convention books which congressmen badgering him at a senate hearing insisted nearly so much of a bargain as the van deal you a are re a bigger sucker than I 1 thought you were said senator wheeler a 9 consolidated news feature service L 1 |