Evening star., 1925-09-04
THE VOICE OF BUSINESS
BY WILLIAM P. HELM, JR.

! impediment to business prosperity is
| the mass of State and Federal re-
strictive laws and the chief public
need is relief from their effect, The
| tax and antitrust laws particu-
larly obstruct business and retard the
country's growth. To the extent that
| this is so, they need modification.
ITO protect our country from our
| lawmakers it would be we'll to con-
slider a constitutional provision that
all laws should become void unless
| re-enacted at the end of specified
time, during which their usefulness
could be subjected TO the test of
experience. Business should be left
free to adapt itself TO the growth of
and changes in our own country and
throughout the world
Thrift and Industry.
| From John w. Craddock. president
of the Craddock Terry Co, shoe
manufacturers of Lynchburg. Va.
comes the following expression.
in a general way / would say that
] what business needs is the applica-
ton of thrift and industry and to be
left to itself, free grom governmental
interference as well as from expert
advice and propa aganda.
| THE successful business man to-
| day must develop initiative and work
out his own problems, and the great
est fault, as I see it, is the tendency
| to look to the Government or to
some expeW source for advice and
guidance, rather than applying the
| homely and eternal principles of
! thrift energy and enterprise"
Jesse 1sidor Straus, president of the
great New York department store en-
| terprise, r. II. Macy & Co., voices the
| opinion that 'the election or appoint
ment of men of narrow outlook, OF
| insufficient education, of inability to
| interpret intelligently national and in
= ernational influences and tendencies
v4s responsible for many of our ills. F"
| He adds:
'"The chief public need today for
| business prosperity is to put into pub
| lie office-Federal, State and munich
paI-men of better mental caliber and
greater devotion to true public inter-
| est, who are equipped to give and can
give deep study and thought to the
consequences of their acts.
'I should advocate a prohibition of
| candidacy for any other public office
on the part of any Qfficeholder dur
! ing the term for which he was ap-
| pointed or elected. He should be re-
garded as having pledged himself to
| complete his term of Office, health per-
mitting."
We nave 100 nluCn CenLrd1lZeO gov
ernnent at Washington" says o. o.
Axley, manager of the Southern Lum-
| Der Co, Warren, Ark. On behalf of
| his company, one of the largest of the
South, Mr.. Axley says: 1.-The, poll
! ticians need to refer to the States
many things that they would like to
| have a Federal Government handle
| through bureaus, committees, etc.
| This was never intended by our orig
| inal Constitution.
| Faith i'm the Fundamentals.
! "a stronger faith in the fundamen.
tails" Mr.. Ax1ey continues; coupled
with a stronger desire to obey laws,
constitutes our immediate need. I'm
| fortunately, we have lost some faith
1, I'm our business affairs because of the
politicians, for whom we ourselves are
| largely responsible"
/ Make 1t legal for manufacturers to
| adjust production to consumption and
one of industry's evils overproduction,
will be eliminated. in the opinion of
/ Charles S. Keith of Kansas City, NO.,
president of the Central Coal & Coke
Co., which also is IL great numbering
concern. Speaking of the latter ac-
! tivity, Mr.. Keith says:
ITO accomplish this-eScess produc-
tion-it would be necessary to have it
legally permitted.atoeadjust production
to consumption. To get the full ben