Show NEWS THIS AIN WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK G S ia assistant secretary of state consul general in berlin when hitler rose to power used to be a lot more optimistic about germany set Worrie dOver aling down to trade rights normal trade intercourse ter course than he appears to be now he predicted that evolution would saon follow revolution and urged the world to give G germany ermany a chance to work through a period of stress and confusion today he is concerned about world law and nd order in trade in ler er course and says we ought to be prepared to protect our interests wherever they may be attacked widely experienced and minutely informed in foreign trade mr has been at ao evangel of secretary lulls hulls reciprocal cipro cip rodal 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 for expansion and domination I 1 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 is doing with militarized zed economics my informant 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 outi out reach is based on jug handled trade relations which mean commercial subjugation for any short enders who try to do business with it WE E REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some merry little littie poems such as the bird and the burdock and the tern and the turnip by the 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 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 ol of sodium vapor and their Afi analysis alyis he Is one of this departments favorite scientific de bunkers i one of his high hig h scores here was banishing the death ray bogey pertinent just now in view of our sensitiveness to martian attack in this connection the british gov government emment 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 la 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 connect edwith ed with the inventors switch professor wood by scientific demonstrations put the quietus on all death rays and offered to st stand and up against any of them he invented te tear ar gas for the allies in the world war developed a chemical eye eyd by which we can see and the enemy cant and contributed greatly to the development of ins instruments trumen its of precision and spectroscopic research helas educated at harvard and the university ot berlin THE rhe humanities like sports and L diplomacy are becoming considerably scrambled these days pra professor harry D gideonse j just taking over as head warns man of barnard colon horseback leges depart depar may MayTa take keUs Us ment ot of social al sciences h has a s been up to his ears all his life in dry as dust economics and now I 1 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 and finance and a sharp harp and precise critic of erratic trends of our civilization he is 37 years old born in rotterdam here at the te age of four educated lit at columbia bind and the university of geneva a former teacher of economics at columbia barnard rutgers and the university of chicago a consolidated news features service |