Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Bryan Theory Again Ad-
vanced by Seekers of Bust
ness Tonic.
NEED FOR STEADY WORK
IMPRESSED ON INDUSTRY
Dean Donham Believes Govern
ment Should Cooperate in
Providing Jobs.
BY JOHN r. SINCLAIR.

I'VE" 1OFSh, April 4.-J0hn ID.
Rockefeller jr, builder of the $3.50 .00o.-
600 radio city in the heart of New York.
Is being deluged by petitions and letters
to change its architectural design.
One architect declared that the pho
tographs Of Radio City pictures it TO be
the most hideouS architectural group
that have ever seen. I have never
seen anything worse in the shapeless,
packing box like, shutterless houses
scattered over the prairies of our Mid
die West"
c. c. Harris of New York, wants tn
know If buildings have to be ugly in
order to be a financial success II so.
how about Empire State, American
Radiator, Bank of Manhattan and the
r. c. A. Building?
Another New Yorker puts it this way:
II Heine was right that architecture
is frozen music. then Radio City is
frozen jazz Cana Mr.. Rockefeller see
the light before it is too lat.?"
Radio City has the financial backing
ana the resources TO make it the most
beautiful place in the world-.jeweled
towers, more BEAUTIFUL than ever realized
in even the widest dreams-parks
drives, green grass and spiral sky
scraperS sparkling in the sunlight, and
set In the midst of great city. facing
the worlds greatest thoroughfare.
John D. Rockefeller, jr.. is In Arizona,
away from telephones and secretaries
and committees and over excited peti-
TONERS. Still, the adverse criticism has
had its effect, for announcement has
been made that new model will be
worked out and shown within a month
Free Silver" Campaign Revived.
The silver myth continues in nanv
placesi / have received a number of
letters from readers contending that
the present world business troubles
would be greatly IeSsened If the free
and unlimited coinage of silver" advo-
Gated by. the late william Jennings
BRYAN Is years ago. was in force
When Mr.. Bryan was cfampioning
free silver at the ratio of l6 to /. he
was advocating a plan which, If 1t had
been adopted, would have caused tho
world to- ifaye sold all the silver which
the United States could buy and taken
in exchange american gold on the basis
of giving the United States is ounces
OF silver for every ounce of gold taken
Why. so? Because at the time that
Mr.. Bryan was championing free sill
yer the world price of silver in its re-
lation to gold was on the basis of 80
ounces of silver for every ounce Of gold
Hence, Mr.. Bryan was telling the Amer
lean people and the world that silver
was worth twice as much as it really
was selling for on the market He
would have. opened the. minis of the
United. States. TO the markets of the
world on the basis of Is to /.
1t was. a wild gestureTin the wrong
direction. II. would have wrecked the
monetary system Of. the United States
Tor many years; and yet his plan came
near winning in presidential election.
All this occurred only IS years ago.
Now silver is taking the long count 1t
is down, and almost out. And it will
never again occupy the throne with
gold, as it. did for So many centuries.
Business 'Adrift."
Dean Wallace B. Donham of the Har-
ward Graduate School of Business has
issued new book entitled Business
Adrift." In it the head of this great
Harvard Business School pleads for
co-ordinated policy OF all the business
problems that affect society.
In the matter of work, Dean Donham
believes that industry and the Govern
ment should provide work for every
one who wants it. But just now this can
be accomplished he is not prepared TO
say. He admits, though, that it Is
major problem which must be solved,
If civilization is to enGure.
With regard to the future of business.
Dean Donham makes this statement:
OF course, Soviet Russia has a big lob
on her hands TO train her labor to use
machinery. i doubt however, If her
task. is half as difficult as our task of
training our business men to work CO.
nperatlVely in carrying out a general
plan"
That point of view is we'll stated by
Alfred North Whitehead Harvard
philosopher and mathematician, in his
introduction to Dean DOMAINS book
when he said:
Either we must succeed in providing
rational coordination of impulses and
thoughts or for centuries civilization
will sink into mere welter of minor
'excitements. We must produce a great
age, or see the collapse OF the upward
striving of our race"
That's a fair statement of the great
choice which confronts civilization at
this time!
Keynes FavOrs Tariff.
John Maynard Keynes, distinguished
British economist and author of The
Economic Consequences of the Peace
Is out for a tariff for revenue to aid
the British treasury to meet its growing
deficits.
In this, he is opposed by many re-
Sponsible British economic thinkers, in
Guiding the editors OF the Economist,
the Nation and the New Statesman.
Mr.. Keynes Would rebate on imports
used for remanufacture Yet these
articles are so important to British t'fe.
and loom so large. that il rebates were
widely applied, the ta=a:. = ;TS.vse xag
government purposes would be -ei5
little. a..
True. Mr.. Keynes does not suggest a
tariff as permanent" measure. but as
temporary one, to be withdrawn as
soon as the crisis is passed But what
nation ever went back to free trade,
after putting on a tariff?
The United States can bear the un-
economic burden of a tariff because of
the variety of her own resources and
the wide extent of free trade within her
borders" comments the New Republic
But 1t is difficult to think of Great
Britain except as closely linked in a
complex of international trade: for her
to encourage, even slightly. Instructions
to that trade is to embark on suicidal
course"
This position stated by this Liberal
weekly is the one most widely accepted
by the present Labor government, as
wei as by large majority of the
Liberals.
Tt is the Conservative party, led by
Stanley Baldwin, that is preparing TO
champion tariff for protection.
ICopyrisht. 1881, by the North Ameriean
HRusenanar