Great Kahn

Shout KAHN to a representative group of U. S. citizens and most will think of Otto,* a few of Genghis,/- and a sprinkling of Kublai.** But to U. S. architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group.

The great Ford plants are Albert Kahn's work. So are the buildings whence come Packards, whence Hudsons. For his design of Detroit's Fisher Building he was awarded the silver medal of the Architectural League. From princely fees he gives to charity a princely $75,000 a year.

Like Otto Kahn, Albert Kahn came to the U. S. from Germany (in 1879) but with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand.

*Otto Hermann Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

/- Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Persons so un as to behold his Tartar funeral proces were beheaded in order that the bad news not travel back to his capital.

**Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, Xanadu, who decreed a stately pleasure near the sacred river Alph.