Milford chronicle., 1933-11-10
SAYS NRA is AIDING
IN KENT COUNTY

G.. Leslie Gooden, of the Ken
County Recovery Board, has sent tn
following letter to the Chronicle:
November Z, 1873
Editor the Milford Chronicle,
Milford, Delaware.
Dear Sir:-Having had the heart.
cooperation of all the communitie:
of Kent County in carrying cut th'
Presidents plan for National Re
cOvery, feel that statement now
of few of the things that are being
accomplished by the movement
might be in order.
The object of the NRA is to put
industry and business workers into
employment and to increase their
purchasing power through increas-
ed wages. The secret of NRA is CO.
operation. That cooperation has been
most generously given by well over
ninety per cent of Kent cOunty's
business men through the signing
of the blanket codes and through
the signing of specific codes. The
employers campaign helping to
bring this about was very ably con-
Quoted by the civic leaders of the
various communities while the
Consumer Campaign was very thor
oughly put on by the ladies of their
respective communities under very
efficient county leader.
This concerted effort to cooperate
with NRA has already increased EN-
ployment and salaries. and through
increased payrolls has put much ad-
ditional money into circulation.
While our county was little afflicted
with child labor and sweatshops
NRA'S abolition of these alone justi-
fies its existence. 1t has also wiped
out many other unfair practices
throughout the Nation ending the
60c a week paid in some mills and
soc a week paid in some mines. A
measure of its value lies in the fact
that approximately 40 per cent of
the unemployed seeking work have
found it. Doubtless prophets of evil
still exist in our midst and they will
continue to discredit the merits of
the Recovery Program, preferring to
be blind to the accomplishments
mentioned above. AS Donald r.
Richberg said at a luncheon meet
ing in Philadelphia last week:
1T will be interesting to call the
roll of the opponents of the recoV-
cry program of the President-as
the gradually emerge from the cy-
clone cellars to which they retired
on the fourth of March. 1t is evident
already that the roll is likely to in
clude most of the discredited and
incompetent leaders of private and
public affairs who guided the Amer
lean people down into the depths of
the depression, while they them
selves worked feverishly to save
their private fortunes by betraying
their obligations to those who trust
ed them. The roll call should in
clude many of the debated big
men who had star parts in the Fol
lies of 1929" the big tax-evaders
who wiggled out of supporting their
government, the big bank wTeckers
who ruined their depOsitOrs, the big
investment cOunselors who misled
their customers, the big public util-
ity operators who .bled their stock
holders and the public at the same
time, the big industrialists who
wasted billions in expanding their
plants while they helped to destroy
their customers, the big profession
al gamblers of the stock and grain !
markets who did not even play the |
game fairly with their own assOci- )
ates and who infected legitimate
business operations with the deadly
fever of speculation. Coming to the
support of these precious big" men, !
will be heard again the voices of the |
professional misguiders of public |
Opinion-the subsidized economists, |
statisticians, financial writer's and |
high power publicists who make |
business of creating public opinion
contrary to the public interest-and |
who are masters of the art OF per-
suading people that their best |
friends are those who make the most /
money OUT of them, and that their |
worst enemies are those who try to |
help them make more money FOR |
"These are the men who today
have the audacity to tell the Amer
ican people that the Recovery Pro-
gram of the President has not aided.
but has in fact retarded the revival /
of business. These are the same men
who exhorted the people for more
than three years to continue suffer-
ing patiently because prosperity was
just around the corner. These are
the same men who never could pro-
duce plan to stop the downward
spiral of the depression. But now,
after a wise and courageous Presi-
dent has devised a plan and has
guided the people out of the depths
Of despair into which these incom-
Detents had led them, they crowd
unashamed to take COM
nand again, shouting shrilly that
he Presidents plan was not needed
md is only retarding an inevitable
'eturn to prosperity. Perhaps they
,an fool some of the people all the
ime and all of the people some of
he time; but we can be assured that
hey will not be able to fool all the
jeople all the time-or even for a
Iery long time.
Those who have been giving all
heir energies for months to carry
ng forward the Presidents program
Inow that the facts are piling up
which will eventually crash down
lpon the professional misguiders of
'ublic opinion and silence their
visited tongues. Week by week the
tatistics of industrial operations