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These plans provide for the re- gulation of the river at its narrowest and fastest point, at Orsova, where the strong current flows between crags known as the "Iron Gates."
Rumania
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1933.
"BRAIN TRUST" OF AMERICA
U.S. PROFESSORS AS
POLITICIANS
“MASSED POWERS OF DIVERSE INTELLECTS"
(By Russell Owen.)
"The Roosevelt "brain trust” is a obvious, and from among the most
At this point the Danube forms share. if not a delusion. It is a liberal of them, from the ranks of the boundary between
jigsaw puzzle of men, many of the labour and industrial evolutionists, and Jugoslavia, and engineers of pieces not fitting together. Instead he has drawn some of his most the two nations have collaborated of a professorial oligarchy, it ba-valued advisers. to work out the present scheme.
comes upon examination a reflection It is this which so thoroughly dis- The plan would not only increase of every possible type of thought on rupts the preconceptions of one who the tonnage of shipping which can financial, sociological and govern-seeks a "brain trust" of cap and pass through the rapids between mental subjects. It is a projection gown. Even the professors who the Iron Gates several times over.or an attempt at a projection-of are among the governmental ex- It would also make possible the the trends of social development into perts, those who hold office, are creation of two of the most the business of getting things done from being academic in appearance,
In by statecraft.”
language or powerful generating stations
manner. The only characterises When it was discovered that thing which Europe.
all of They would be capable, the President Roosevelt, even before his them is their ability to think quick- authors of the scheme claim, of election, was consulting with the ly and express themselves forcibly generating energy equivalent to academies; that, not antisfied with and logically-backed by years de- 748,000 horse power.
the advice of politicians and buai-voted to, the topica with which they..
scheme.
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Shakespears Folior
Was
turning to deal.
A Phrase of Scorn
The Industriai. Control Bill has
It is estimated that it would cost ness men, ho about £7,000,000 to carry out the scholars, an expression of shocked | Co-Ordinating Ideas
surprise at this dilettante approach The great thing which Franklin British Contracta
to national problems rolled from Roosevelt has done was not to foriginate ideas, but to bring to bear Observers point out that if the Maine to California. plans are adopted by the Rumanías
upon ine system of society and and Jugoslay Governments, an op- Whatever the cause, the effect government ideas which have been portunity will be provided for Bri- remained; the "brain trust" became germinating for years in the minds tish contractors, who are highly a phrase of scorn to many and of of thoughtful students of our times. skilled in this particular kind of approbation to the few who realized enterprise.
what it meant. For the "brain long been crying for recognition; It is proposed that at the Iron trust" is not professorial, although the Kent plan is at least ten years
old. Gates and at Greben, where the professors are prominent in It river is narrowest and fastest and It is composed of men, idealists:
Mr. Roosevelt sensed the changes that people could go about their the fall in the bed greatest, canals and pragmatists, who are prominent and realised that only by under- business without fear of bullet should be built with locks en-in business, in finance, in industry, standing them and finding ways of or bomb. wondered whether these dreams through at a time.
But the sceptics abling 20 or 30 ships to paa in law-in every vocation and lane mecting them could the country re-
of thought which has a part in our cover.
Through his advisers he sought This would enormously speed up national design. Now not over-roscate,
traffic on this important European B. that Britain had withdrawn.
As one of the most prominent the men who, in office or in univer- sity retreats, had been impartially thoroughfare. would not the Irish proceed to
members of its faculty said: At the same time the surplus fight among themselves?
"I'm not a professor. I'm a poli-examining the effects of mass pro- So it water would be harnessed to tur- tician."
duction, international complications Iproved in the event. The years bines and would produce at the And yet his brain spine theories, and financia! lustcbility; he brought succeeding the catabishment of Iron Gates 404,000 h.p. and at the his mind is facile, he is a fisher of to his study the resources of their the Free States were accom- Greben rapids 380,000 h.p.
minds. men and Ideas in the body politic, panied
No matter how unconventional by bitter internecine This current could be used to that they may be adapted under the strife. Under the British regime electrify the railways and to supply Roosevelt banner of the new org.
might be the ideas of a man upon a Hong Kong, Baturday, Sept.-9, 1933. the "Black and Tans" were ac-power to new industries.
subject, Mr. Roosevelt thought them How It Originated cused of brutality. But excesses It would be exceedingly cheap to
over, absorbed them, talked of them as shocking were committed in produce-it is estimated that if the trust" may best be illustrated by a them or tucked them away for Perhaps the origin of the "brain with his friends, and either rejected Irish Free State. the Irish civil war, and the turbines.ran only for 5,000 hours A story told by Louis M. Howe, the future, reference.
measures by which the Govern-year the cast of production of cur- president's secretary, who has seca
He pretenda to no.omniscience in Ireland or, least, the southernment reduced its enemies to sub-rent would be only 0.14d. a kilowatt
Franklin Roosevelt reach out from divination of the best way to solve part of it, maintains its reputa-those employed by Britain in
mission were more drastic than an hour.
chair to which he is confined by a particular problem, but there is tion as a dietressful country suppressing the rebellion of
physical Hmitations and bring to no doubt that he has been the The Free State Government's 1916. In the first elections held]
him men of thought, of the old and catalyst which has crystallised the The Duke of Devonshire in") action in revoking permits to in the Free State, intimidation, herited as fine a copy of a Shake-try, Howe has brought many of and Wagners, Morgenthaus, Dickin- new order, from all over the cous-thoughts of the Swopes and Kents carry revolvers and attempting to quote Mr. Cosgrave, "of the speare First Folio as the Rosebury them himself; so has Raymond sons and Thompsons, and put them. to disarm the National Guard, basest kind was indulged in example which realised £14,500 Moley, Assistant Secretary of State. to work, has sharpened the antagonism under a political label. Neither cently. It is now, owing to the in- Mr. Roosevelt was Governor, of between the Opposition and Mr.sex
The keep mind, which sits in the even religion exorable Death Duties, in Hunting New York and was searching with Oval Room of the White House at nor age nor de Valera's followers. There have was spared." "General" Rory ton Library, in California,
all his elasticity and originality of night, listening, weighing and sort- been angry всепев in Dall O'Connor, vowing to "wade It was bought originally by the
mind for
understanding of ing, is the mind of a man whose car Eireann, and the police in col-through seas of blood" to create Duke of Roxburgh as far back as modern economics.
is attuned to the pulsations of his leeting the
weapons, have
A republic, entrenched his troops 1790 for only 34 guiness. When He had found men who said their country's life, and who sees nothing en- in the famous Four Courts, his agent at the sale was flinching theory or system was right and all reprehensible in carting out an old countered many refusals from which were bombarded and ruin-at 20 guincas the Duke hastily others wrong, mostly business and order for a new, if the old has persons who decline to become, ed. Michael Collins was mur-passed a note to him with the ap! financial men who were inclined to ceased to stimulste. Born an aristo- in their own words, a defenceless dered and a number of rebel quotation, "Lay on, Macduff, and believe that their knowledge of the cracy, he has no fetishes. target for cowardly assassina-leaders were executed. Such damned be he who first cries 'Hold, subject was the last word. tion, Critics of the Govern- was the Free State's Initiation enough.""
Product of Many Minda ment allege that this step has into the blessings of autonomy.
One day. Colonel Howe found ́a; The King's Shakespeare at Wind- Professor of Economics, a brilliant brain trust" such
It is all that which makes the been taken at the instance of the However, the resistance was sor is a Second Folle which, ac exponent of his subject, who was
a power in Irish Republican Army an un- gradually crushed, and after the cording to Milton, Charles 1. read doubtful. Mr. Roosevelt asked him American affairs, for it is merely official organisation, but one cessation of hostilities brighter and re-read during his imprison
ito call which is supposed to exercise R
days appeared to be in store for ment. It bears the motto in strong "moral influence"
the youngest dominion. During Charles's hand, "Dum spiro spero." the authorities and that as long grave's administration the Free
the latter years of Mr. Co Facts You Did Not las members of this force do not State enjoyed a calm and pro parade their guns, too ostenta-sperity to which she had long
Know. tiously they will not be required been
a stranger. The chill to hand them over, Whatever wind of depression left her com daily riders in subway, trains soon! According to acoustical experia
The detachment -- with which, heị may be the truth of this asser-paratively unscathed. In appeal lose their sense of hearing as far pursued his subject, the apparent tion, recent developments scaring to the country in February: as finer tones are concerned. cely substantiate Mr. de Valera's 1982, 3. Mr. Congrave could
real men of science is so evident in Woman Hopes. To Live claim that since he assumed render an account of a steward A Berlin scientist claims to 'their willingness" to discard their
Until 1940. office peace and security have ship conscientiously fulfilled, operate a half volt electric motor own theories if proved fallacious, reigned in the Free State. Re-But as Sir James O'Connor has with energy derived from sunlight appealed to Mr. Roosevelt. He, him- sponsible citizens, including expeople have never had political
written: "The majority of Irish reacting on a photoelectric cell.
ASSURED IN ́ DREAMS self, will toss an idea of his own Ministers, do not carry weapons opinions.
out of the window with no evident
Belgrade. unless they have reason to ap- ject to political emotions, and are have been invented to increase the that it will not stand up. So the banovate, near Zemun, is 112.
They have been sub-
Beat sections mounted on rollers reluctance if he can be persuaded
Draga Tatich, who lives at: Do- prehend attack, and the Irish easily worked up to a pitch of seating capacity of buildings In "brain trust" was formed, Republican Army which, in his enthusiasm by an agilator, which sports and games are held.
She has ordered a fine marble Roosevelt's Practicality tombatond on which, in engraved election campaign, Mr. de Valera living or dead." Mr. Coagrave's
But this unorthodox approach to promised to disband, is notori-services were forgotten: Mr. de Cabinets that contain public tele public matters was balanced by that 19.....
"Mère Lies Draga Tatich-~1821-→→ ously in favour of terroristic Valera's persuasions gained the phones and sell stamps mochanically other Roosevelf quality of practi She will not hava a 3 added for methods. Although the Anglo-day. In eighteen months his have been installed along the streets, cality, which makes him soch aahe is convinced that she will live Irish Tranty
of 1921, aroused Government has largely undone in several English cities.
master politician, and the group of at least till 1940, little jubilation in Ireland, It was the progress of years. It aboilsh- patirano je "S
{advisers-which surrounds him can- In preparation for the day when ed the oath of allegiance, thus Glacier National Park is the not be comprehended unless this she does die, however, Draga has: regarded as a good bargain for allenating British sympathies, eastern limit for some planta native quality la taken into consideration. Paid a pay band 20 gohlen the "Free" Stato except by the It repudiated the land annuities to the Pacific const and the southern The President not only dips into pounds to play night and day after irreconcilables. Indeed, many payable to Britain under the limit for many Canadian plants:" the deep wells of thought out of her death for three days, and pro- prominent Sinn Felners boasted treaty, thus provoking tariff repas policia
which have been drawn some mised a considerable sum to the lo- that they had won a great vic-prisals which have caused heavy Eforta are being made to atimu. knowledge of the direction of social al church on condition that the tory. They had done what loss to Irish agricultural in-laba gold mining in Australia and development; he also bears con- bella toll for her seven full days and Germany had failed to do dustries. It has revived a the state of Victoria han
- brought → England to her domestic feud which, in process a' substantial, increase in pros knees," Among the majority of being healed, has again betion:
over
come a mentice to good order t
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the machine through which the
The professor began his dissorta-President is applying to the press tion on economica by saying that neing problems of our time the ma- thought what he and others had tured thought of many men other been teaching and writing about for (Continued on Page 18.) years was based on false premises and should be re-examined and} revalued.
honesty of intellect, which among
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ded stantly, in mind that no Utopia is nights, CAR ORGA
possible, and that, what is accons Draga saya that she brass her plished for the people of the United confidence that she, will live til States must be with the co-operation" 1940' on the fact that her mother
directed, has appeared to her many timen in
of those who have hither and controlled the
there was genuine relief at the r. de Valor professes to be For, has of travelers folding settlement. It was thought that friend of beland.There are checker board has bass invented the nerve-shattering conditions occasions when it is becomary to which the places are which had obtain for nea
rray, to be delivered from one's in holes by pars passing « törough liberal
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