Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-09
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Prof. Arnold Makes
Reservation on
Monopoly Ghosts.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

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Tn THE village where this writer
lives there is an old-timer who is
an authority on local ghosts.
When asked whether he really
believed in ghosts, he said, mo, but
know they be-" Prof. Thurman w.
Arnold, authority on the myths Of
capitalism, seems to make a similar
reservation as he prepares to sign on
as q trust-buster President Roosevelt
dominates him to succeed Assistant
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson.
fighting. however. the ogres, rather
than the ghosts Of monopoly.
In his books. THE Symbols Of
Government" and THE Folklore Of
Capitalism" recently published, Prof
Arnold OF the Yale faculty brings
old Dean Sumner and his "folkways"
down to date. Among the idea
wranglers in the Washington rodeo
this observer has noted at least IS who
have been indoctrinated by Mr..
Sumner, and Yale men, alumni or
faculty. have . sort of esoteric Sumner
bund. Many of the goings-on in the
highly literate Washington of today
are esoteric. and 1t seems plausible
that the late Dean Sumner has had
more to do with their genesis and con-
tinuance than the Corcorans and
Cohens.
Prof. Arnold. ~ years old. grew up
in Laramie, Wyo., and went to Prince
ton and Harvard Law School. He
practiced law in Chicago and Laramie.
was lecturer on the University of
Wyoming law faculty. and dean Of
law at the University of West Virginia.
He entered the war as lieutenant.
came out as a major and Judge
advocate, went to the Wyoming Legis-
lature in 1921 and was later Mayor Of
Laramie. In 1884 he was In the
Philippines. as adviser to the Governor
General on the Jones' ostigan bill. He
was In Washington in 1886 as trial
examiner for the s. z. c. and was
special assistant to the Attorney
General in tax cases. In 1897 he
argued several tax cases before the
Supreme Court. He has been with the
Yale law faculty since 1880.
In 80 years of successful Colonial
administration, Sir Harold Mac
Michael. who now becomes high COM
missioner of Palestine. has been
humorist and a pragmatist who ad-
hered to only one rule-"no theoriz-
ing" He particularized and person.
allied each situation and solved 1t by
courtesy and good humor. World
Jewry approves his formula and gives
him warm Endorsement as he takes
over his new command.
The son Of a clergyman. he was an
honor student in the classics at Cam
bridge and has written several
scholarly books. He went to the Sudan
in 1905. . year after his graduation.
and. as the years passed. became
quietly and unobtrusively influential
as chief adviser to the governor gen.
eral. He dislikes make-believe and
spoofed empire showmanship.
The Supreme Court rules that
Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman
Of the board of the National City
Bank, must pay an income tax de-
flciency Of s72s, 709. in addition to q
fraud penalty Of $364,254. It has to
do with his 1929 income and stock
transfers to his wife.
There was q time when this ap-
proximately 81, 000,0 was something
that Mr.. Mitchell might find in an old
vest His lawyers have commended that
he tossed in $30,0OO,000 of his own
money, trying to put out the fire in
1929. Varied and venturesome have
been his moods and his deals. and he
has had little in common with the
coldly acquisitive New England finan-
ciers of Wall Street tradition.