The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-02-07
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

by LEMOEL r. fAN yin
consolidated Features-wNU ServiceJ
NJ EW YORK.-Adam Smith de-
scribed economics as a science
and then added, Science is an anti
dote to the poison of enthusiasm"
FDR's Economist 80 p prnD;
An Antidote to dent Roose-
POISON of ZecP velts person
al economist,
rarely heard or seen, serves as such
an antidote when impulsive action
is indicated. He is the somewhat
dimly outlined DR.. Lauchlin Currie,
CRAVING at 81, clothed in gray, as
though in protective colorinG, a
shadow-shape in the Washington
fogs of doubt and uncertainty.
DIR. Currie not only delves into
mountains of detail, as did Hay
and Nicolay for Lincoln, in an
other critical hour in March,
1869, but he is a deep fount Of
economic doctrine. He has not
been credited with the inspira-
ton for the lease-lend bill for
aid to Britain, but it is interest
ing to note that in April, 1898,
he put forward a plan to solve
railroad troubles by q leasing
lending procedure in which tho
roads would get equipment
much In the manner In which
Britain would get war goods IN
der the new bill.
AS the 'last of the brain-trust-
ers," he is an advocate of the full
utilization of technical resources by
clearing them of financial entan-
clements and commitments, so far
as possible. The late Thorstein Web
len foreshadowed these techniques.
DR.. Currie is a native of Nova
Scotia who became an American
citizen in 1884. He joined the New
Deal in that year, three years after
taking his electorate at Harvard, as
an assistant economist under Jacob
Viner of the treasury department.
Later he was taken over by Mar
riner Eccles of the Federal Reserve
board as an assistant in the di-
vision of research.
He is not only the Presidents
personal economist, but his liai-
son man in economic matters,
appointed as one OF those six
White House assistants, with q
passion for anonymity" which
passion seems fairly authentic
In his case. He was q teacher
at Harvard and an industrial
consultant in Boston before go
ing to Washington.
All of which is a reminder that
the average mans wife is his per-
sonal economist and that she fire.
quently is an "antidote to the poison
of enthusiasm"
IF ADAM SMITH were alive, he
would note that Mile. Eve Curie' 3
scientific antecedents had not
dimmed any of her enthusiasms.
Science Has Not Inc M oaueh %
Curbed Emotion rie arrives on
OF Mile. Curie the 5: 5. E1-
ing with enthusiasm for free France
and for democracy and civilization
In general, science or no science.
Her previous trips over here had
made her q favorite in this country
and her charm, intelligence and
beauty have been eloquently ex-
to1led.
Her burning black eyes might
be called can antidote to the
poison Of indifference" She
qualified In science, ut the S0r-
bonnie, but turned TO music In
1925, = gifted pianist, praised by
her friend PaderewsId. With
AL her other gifts, she Is an ath-
lete and a frst-rate bowler.
And with all that, women raw,
about her clothes. Writing has sup
planted music as her chief interes
and she has been highly praised TO
her biography Of her mother, pub
hshed in 1888. Her proficiency il
higher mathematics rounds out
perfect score for one of the mos
highly esteemed of our gang-planl
celebrities.
+ RIGA MORINI, whose recen
~ concert drew an overflow crow,
70 the Town Hall, frequently ha
been called "The greatest woman
violinist." She doesn't like it. Will
she notes that there have been, il
nearly three centuries, only 70 dis
tinguished women violinists, a
against thousands of men, she in
sists that the lag Is due only to tn
fact that women have been too bus,
with homes and children to brinI
through their talents. She think
the above accolade Is patronizing +
her sex.
When Adolf Hitler's tanks rollet
into her native Vienna, the comel,
young violinist moved out, with ne
IS, 900 Stradivarius. II was in 1872
- that she first came 70 New York,
child prodigy in pig-tails, making
her American debut with the New
York Philharmonic in q recita
which one critic termed "the great
est violin sensation since Kreisler.
Her father was Italian, one OF
loNg line of rnttaicfapa hat roUa q,