The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-11-24
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
|NEW YORK.-G. S. Messersmith,
~ assistant secretary of state,
consul general in Berlin when Hitler
rose to power, used to be lot more
optimistic about
Messersnlith Germany set
Worried Ouer ting down to
Trade Rights normal trade In
he appears to be now. He predicted
that revolution" would soon follow
revolution and urged the world to
give Germany chance to work
through a period of stress and con-
fusion. Today he is concerned about
world law and order" in trade in
tercourse, and says, "We ought to
be prepared to protect our interests
wherever they may be attacked"
German barter activities, particu-
larly in South America, seem to be
worrying the traders.
Widely experienced and mi
nutely informed in foreign trade,
Mr.. Messersmith has been an
evangel of Secretary HulPs re-
ciprocal 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 ma
tiOns for expansion and dOmina-
tion."
This writer has just obtained from
friend, an economist returning
from Germany, his first closeup of
what DR.. Walther Funk, German
minister of economics, and his
shrewd bunch man, Hjalmar
Schacht, are doing with their new
militarized economics. My inform
ant, who wrote books about the old,
mellow, berry, bassoony Germany,
had many old friends there and was
steered right into the wheelhouse.
According to him, the new German
formula is as revolutionary as COM
munism. Every atom of surplus
wealth is sluiced into the "dynam-
les" of expansion, and the Reich 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 REGRET the lack of space
w to reprint here some merry lit
tie poems, such as ''The Bird and
the Burdock," and "The Tern and
the Turnip," by
The Debunker Professor Rob-
OF Death Ray ert w. Wood of
Goes Poetic Johns Hopkins,
just recently
honored by the British Royal society
for his work in experimental phys
les. He tossed off a book of them,
along with whimsical drawings, in
between takes of Fluorescence and
Magnetic Rotation Spectra of So
dunn Vapor and Their Analysis"
He is one of this departments
favOrite scientific debunkers.
One of his high scores here was
banishing the death-ray DOGGY
pertinent just now in view of our
sensitiveness to Marian attack.
In this connection, the British
government has good reason to
give him a medal. An inventor
was demonstrating his death ray
to British war Office representa-
tiveS at Dawn. He focused the
ray on a cow in a meadow 200
yards away and threw a switch.
The cow Topped, dead as a
mackerel. The inventor collect
ed and departed. Then they
found the cows feet wired to
an underground circuit, connect
ed with the inventors switch.
Professor Wood, by scientific dem
onstrations, put the quietus on all
death rays and offered to stand up
against any of them. He invented
tear gas for the Allies in the World
war, developed a chemical eye by
which 'we can see and the enemy
can't" and contributed greatly to
the development of instruments of
precision and spectroscopic re-
search. He was educated at Har-
ward and the University of Berlin.
THE humanities, like sports and
1 diplomacy, are becoming consid-
erably scrambled these days. Pro-
fessor Harry D. Gideonse, just TAX
,u ~. ing over as head
Warns: Man of Barnard col
On Horseback lege's depart
Nav Take Us ment of social
sciences, h S
been up to his ears all his life in
dry-as-dust economics, and now, in
his first workout before the under
graduates, he swings on swing as
musical Hitlerism." He says, with
the current divorce of reason and
emotion, and with the latter going
haywire, some IMAM on horseback"
is apt to get us.
Professor Gide0nse is of Dutch
birth. He is canny and cagey
thinker, the author of several
books on world economies and
finance, and a sharp and pre-
else critic of erratic trends of
our civilization.
He is 81 years old, born in Rot
terdam, here at the age of four,
educated at Columbia and the Uni
versity of Geneva, former teacher
of economics at Columbia, Barnard,
Rutgers and the University of Chi
cago.
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