Evening star., 1932-11-17
new PLAN OFFERED
TO HELP JOBLES
DR.. Thomas Nixon Carver of
Harvard Outlines Six
Point Proposal.
lar the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, November l7.--Dr
AZ Thomas Nixon Carver, Harvard profess
sor, outlined yesterday before the Ma
AZ tional Association of Manufacturers a
4 six-point plan for combating unem-
n ployment, and declared that If business
n interests opposed such a plan they
must pay the price of their folly in un-
employment doles or unsupported un-
( employment insurance"
His plan was divided into two parts:
For decreasing the oversupply OF
labor:
al. Exclusion of immigrant labor
"2. Reduction Of the birth rate among
\ the poor, by eugenic restrictions on
marriage and by raising the standard
Of living.
"3. A vastly improved system of popu-
lar education.
For increasing the demand for labor:
81. ENCOURAGING enterprise. by better
schools Of business, suppreSsing the
predatory business, and enforcing the
law .
% Encouraging accumulation. by
safeguarding savings, and by blue SKY
laws
power"
Calls Sharing" Failure.
OF "employment-sharin ne salo:
''This does not necessarily reduce the
total sum of unemployment: 1t only
smears it round. IL throws O1s
burden of helping those who are out OF
work on those workers who have work.
A nroper sense of humor should prevent
the employers from taking creolt 10
themselves for inventing it.
walter G. Teagle, chairman OF the
national work-sharing campaign, re-
norted that 5000 large industrial con-
Germs had enrolled in the movement ana
that in many instances work-Sharing
had been effected without reductions IN
weekly salaries.
The 200 manufacturers voted to con-
arm their previous pledge to cooperate
In the movement
r. H. Clausen, former president OF tne
wisconsin Manufacturers Association,
Eaid that while he opposed compulsory
unemployment insurance, he approved
many Of the voluntary plans for building
I'D unemployment reserves without po-
litical or State interference.
Henry Herrick Bond of Boston. for
n1er Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
aid three lessons had been learned from
the current economic situation:
Cereal Beverage Tax.
flTSt, IlaL II Is unlOIIuIldtc ~ NC
pend on an income tax which RESPONDS
so suddenly to a decrease in income;
second. that emergency taxes tend to
put a further check on business recov-
cry. and third, that the Government
should build up q surplus In times OF
prosperity"
A resolution was adopted favoring
s'the adoption by Congress OF one
point Imposed at one point) manufac-
turers' excise tax and tax on cereal
beverages notwithstanding in fact, in
amounts suficient to permit elin1i-
nation of the present selective sales
The word beer was replaced by
"cereal beverages" when members OBJ
ieeted the original wording would put
them on record as advocating q tax on
something forbidden by law.
Other resolutions opposed Govern
naent competition in the manufacture
|of articles used by governmental
agencies. indorsed the work-Sharing
movement condemned compulsory un-
employment insurance as placing an ex-
cessive burden on industry. urged gov
ernnental economy and advocated the
limiting Of expenditures for relief Of
war veterans suffering from non-mili-
tary disabilities.