The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
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By LEMUEL r. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-An ecstatic young
\ y newspaper woman, reporting
on DR.. Herbert Feis of the state de-
partmeht, averred that his dream
His Eyes Reflect fie s the soul
Poetry; Mindon of young Shell
Rubber and Tin iey; ne may
but the chances are that he is think
ing of rubber and tin.
John Masefeld had some such
thoughts in mind when he wrote
"Cargoes." This poet, however,
scans only trade balances, and his
dreams are precise and statistical.
DR.. Feis is economic adviser to the
state department, and it was he who
schemed the barter deal by which
we would acquire needed rubber
and tin and get rid of the necklace
of millstones hung around Uncle
Sans neck in the form of that
aforementioned surplus of H.
100000 bales of cotton.
The news from London is that
the barter deal is under way,
Prime Minister Chamberlain
having informed parliament
that negotiations have been
opened. Wheat also will be in
eluded in the bargaining, as
England needs both wheat and
cotton as much as we need rub
Der and tin. Here may be a
working commodity axis, which
MachiavelIi so vehemently de-
clared was always more impOr-
tant in the long run than any
political axis. And, incidentally,
DR.. Feis has read Machiavelli.
He is hold-over from the Hoover
regime, appointed to his present
post by Secretary Stimson, who was
impressed with the insight and in
formation in DR.. Feis' book, ecu
rope the Worlds Banker" He has
been used by the department in
clarifying confusion and in boiling
down vague policies to definite pro-
cedure.
DIR. Feis is a New Yorker with
a Harvard Phi. D. He was pro-
lessor Of economics at the Uni
versity Of Kansas and the Uni
versity of Cincinnati and direc-
tor of research for the council
Of foreign relations. Like many
men. given to meditation, he
smokes a pipe, blows rings and
comes out of the haze with an
idea or bunch as sharply defined
as If It had been cut by q
-1apidary.
PHILOSOPHERS getting on in life
= are apt to think in THINE, as
contrasted with our workaday Tau
time, both of which are currently
Hopes to Bring A. Milne. the
Human Variables distinguished
into Uniformity British math-
time, like tea-tine, is stretchable,
unlike the swingtime or springtime
of youth-an of which was expound-
ed in different terms by the aging
Montaigne-and in this time zone
there may be written of, or at least
discounted, much imminent disas-
ter; and somehow in this temporal
king's-x irresistible bodies may
meet immovable masses without
any bystanders getting hurt. / have
known wise old gentlemen who car
ried their THINE in one pocket and
their Tau-time in the other.
Such is the 80-year-old Gin Tau
tirhe) Lucius N. Littauer, whose
So, 900, 900 Littauer center is dedicat-
ed at Harvard. His foundation was
established to ''bring about better
understanding among mankind"
1t was Mr.. Littauer who, as
q congressman from New York,
sponsored and established the
United States bureau of stand
ards. It worked out nicely.
Uniformity in machine appli-
ances and spare parts was cas-
lily attained. Moving from ma
chimes into social adaptations
and adjustments, Mr.. Littauer
found human variables could not
Jas yet-be calculated like
metaltvariables. Hence his new
bureau Of human standards at
. Harvard.
Like the late Chauncey M. Depew,
he has been honored by statue in
his own town, during his lifetime.
The town is Gloversville, N. Y,
where, after his graduation from
Harvard, he picked up his fathers
glove manufacturing business. His
later years have been absorbed in
his manifold philanthropies, to
which he has given many millions
of dollars. Thinking in Mr.. Mines
long stretch OF, time, he is calmly
assured that, in due time, all will
be well with, the world, but that
1--WE must oppose absolutism in any
guise, from any source"
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