Evening star., 1932-11-18

Gov. Roosevelt is bringing with him
to WASHINGTON next Tuesday for the
debts conference with President Hoover
the man who was head Of the President
elects late campaign brain trust
Prof. Moley, professor Of public: law at
Columbia University. DR.. Moley Will
sit at the Governors elbow in the same
capacity that Secretary Mills functions
on President Hoover's behalf. 1t would
seem from the professors choice for
that delicate mission that he Is not
likely to be missing from Washington
during the forthcoming administration.
There are even suggestions that he may
be given O cabinet portfolio. OF Gov.
RooSevelt's abiding confidence IN MS
knowledge and judgment there Is no
doubt. Some authorities thought that
the President-elect's Washington ad-
wiser during the debts seance with Mr.
Hoover would be Bernard M. Baruch or
owen d. Young, both insistently men
toned for either the. State or treas
ury portfolios, or both. Baruch is an
unconnpromising anti cancellationist.
Young is more open minded. Prof.
Moley's specially is crime. Perhaps
Roosevelt thinks it would be q crime 10
cancel the debts.
About the time the order for extra
dition of Samuel insult was being
siQned at the White House the quaint
story was being retailed in Washing
ton that insults financial troubles, IN
part. sprang from his patriotic sup
port" of President Hoover's depression
policy. Specifically, SO the yarn runs,
insult, having been invited to the
Presidents conference OF nduSLrlal
leaders in the early Winter OF 1929
1890 responded so literally to the plea
to maintain wages and employment
that insult properties" underwent
ruinous financial sacrifices. The trouble
with this tale is that none of the insult
operating properties-the ones that
employ men and pay wages-s In any
way involved in the scandals for Wnlcn
insult is about to be called to account.
The Commonwealth Edison, the Peoples
Gas Light & Coke, and the Pubic
Service of Northern Illinois companies
are not in receiverships and are all
going strong. Their earnings are al
fected by prevailing conditions, but each
Of them is earning and paying bono
interest and stock dividends regularly.
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DR.. Julius CurtiuS, former German
foreign minister, who two years ago
was one of the arbiters. OF Europe, Is
making his first acquaintance with
washington and American public men,
except Secretary StimSon, who met him
in Berlin in 1881 moratorium days.
Curtius, Rhinelander by birth and
lawyer by profession, is in his early
ffties, small but Stalwart OF stature,
smooth-shaven, dark, bald and suaVe.
He conquered the English language
practically within the past year, for the
purpose of his present American lecture
| tour. Trusted counselor OF former
Chancellor Bruening at the foreign
Office. DR.. Curtius preceded his chief
onto the scrap heap because of the
wreckaRe of the German Austrian
tariff "Anschluss" scheme, which was
Curtius' brain-child. When the World
Court branded it Illegal and Germanys
always delicate relations with France
were strained by the proposal, DR..
Curtius was retired from the Wilhelm
strasse. He is accompanied on MS
American travels by his tall and hand
some son Claus, student of law at
Columbia, and by Frau DR.. Curtius.
Among the several thousand Afneri-
cans who recently received considera-
| tion for Jobs with the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation-and got 'em-was
one who has q warm place in Herbert
| Hoover's heart He Is 75-year-old
| Charles David Marx, Palo Alto neigh
| bor and friend, who was professor OF
civil engineering at Stanford University
when the President was a student there
| In the early COS. Prof. Marx is chair
man Of the r. +. C.'s engineers ad-
visory board, and probably the most
| beloved figure in the whole organiza-
ton. One OF his habits is to roam
around the corridors Of the old Com
mercs Building humming or singing