The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-06
BUSINESS HALH
AWAITING LEADER
BARNES ASSERTS
President Of Chamber Of.
Commerce Deplores
Lack Of Policy

+ CLEVELAND, o., May 5.--(By the
Associated Press American business
z is faltering, awaiting a renewed ex-
preston of governmental policies.
Julius H. Barnes of Duluth, Mimi,
president of the United States Cham
{ her of Commerce, and spokesman for
.three-quarters of million affiliated
& members, said tonight in outlining the
aims and ideals of the organization at
the first general session Of the twelfth
annual convention. He urged a vigor-
GUS rededication of the nation to the
traditional American policy of COM
petitive private enterprise, unhampered
by unintelligently directed govern
mental influences.
The address concluded the prelimin-
{ airy session of the convention in which
the national council, composed of rep
resentatives of some 1900 affiliated
!. commercial organizations expressed al
most unanimous opposition to the
pending Soldier Bonus Bill. Taxation,
transportation, immigration, foreign
trade as influenced by the Dawes re-
port and various problems of industry
are scheduled for consideration in group
meetings during the next four days.
Board Nominees
Seventeen nationally known BUSH
ness men were, nominated for places
ON the board of directors of the cham
Der, as follows:
rs Alvan T. Simmonds, president. Sim
inonds Saw and Steel company, Fitch
bury. Mass. Ernest 7. Trigg, presi-
deiphia; John. M. Crawford, Parkers-
,hgrg. w. ", president, Parkersburg
rig ana Reel company; NJ. j. Sanders,
i president Oklahoma. Railway company,
/ Oklahoma City; John w. O'Leary
wee president Chicago Trust company,
Ghicago; William j. Deans, president,
Nichols, Dean and Gregg. St. Paul :
Lafayette Hanchett, Salt Lake City !:
o. M. Clark, president Clark Wilson
Lumber company, Oregon; Arthur &.
Bent Bros, Los Angeles; Robert r.
Ellis, president, Hessig, Ellis Drug
company, Memphis, Tenn; Frederick
J. Haynes president Dodge Brothers.
Inc. Detroit; Felix NJ. McWhirter.
president. Peoples State bank, Indian
apolis Edgar W. ]. Hearty, president.
Kemper, president, Lumbermen's Mu-
kemper, president Lumbermen's Mu-
tual Casualty company, Chicago Rich
ard +. Grant, vice president, M. A.
Hanna company, Cleveland: Carl e.
Gray, president, Union Pacific COM
pany; Omaha.
The directorate is composed of thir-
ity-four men, half of whom are elected
at each annual meeting. Today's nom
nations are equivalent, to election by
the.s convention on Thursday, except
that four men were nominated, from the
. sixth geographical district in which the
bylaws stipulate that only three shall
be named. This means that only three
OF the four can be elected and that an
other candidate must be substituted for
the fourth in the convention bhlloting.
The council refused to submit to q
national referendum of the chamber the
proposition of adoption of the metric
INIT system as the American Standard,
The resolution against the bonus.
introduced by Meyer ID. Rothschild of
New York, representing the National
Jewelry board Of trade, expressed the
hope that This own conviction" would
lead the president to veto the meas
uress 90 =. =. +