The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-20

code. But the codes keep slipping by, with no price safeguards. CRISIS
 Today more than at any other time the consumers situation has come to a head.
 The crisis is due to the trans fer of the food codes from the agricultural adjustment admins tration to the MIRA. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and his brain trust group had refused to compromise these codes. In Fred Howe, consumers counsel of the AAA, Wallace had a fighting protector of the public.
 Hut Johnson fay0rs rushing the codes through regardless of the consumer. He has put big business men on the MIRA indus trial advisory board, but has barred consumers representa-. ttves from the code authorities.
 The showdown is coming on the master food code. This covers retail and wholesale grocery dealers doing business of $10,- 000,000,000 year. It is of tre-
 
 housewife. Consumers counsel for the AAA insisted that the code maintain three important points:
 1. Consumers grades and standards.
 2. The right of the govern ment to have access to books.
 3. No price-fixing by food stores.
 Now that the master food code has been transferred to the MIRA this writing--has not yet even have a look at it.
 John Public is awake, but still he may have to. pay the bill.
 NO TOKEN
 Honor guests at the recent Gridiron dinner were Italian Am bassador Rosso and French Ann bassador Laboulaye. It is usual Gridiron custom for the chair man to ask the honor guests to rise while he introduces them to the club. This particular dinner was held just before December 15, when Italy was preparing to continue her practice of making a token payment on her war war debt. In introducing the ann basadors, the toastmaster said:
 "I give you the same token of esteem that you have paid to us in token of your dcbt."
 Roosevelt was sitting between the two ambassadors. He leaned over to the Italian and whis- pered: That's a little hard on you, MT Ambassador. I haven't seen 8. red cent from Laboulaye."
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The legal divisions of both the MIRA and the national labor board are working day and night preparing for an early test of the constitutiAnality of the re- -coyery act. . The issue is expected to center around Sec tion "a, the clause guaranteeing labor the right to collective bar gaining. Jack Levin, legal research director of the MIRA, spends most of his time in the Congressional Library assembling favorable precedents. As sistant Secretary of Agriculture Rex Tugwell worked, his way through the University of Penn sylvania waiting on table. There are two Harrmians (both the children of the late E. H. Hartman, railroad magnate) holding high posts on the MIRA Mrs Mary Hartman Rumsey and William A. Hartman, re- gently appointed member of the industrial advisory board. Handsome, stalwart Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who has just re- signed as executive secretary of the industrial advisory board to take a high post with the U. s. Steel corporation, is devoted to blue ties and chewing gum. He is rarely seen without either. .. The Duke Endowment, created by the millions left by the late multi millionaire to- bacco and water power magnate, has joined the propaganda cam -paign against the presidents monetary policy. It has financed the distribution of a 75-page booklet, written by for mer Ambassador to Germany, Andrew D. White, attacking in- flation. The brochure, "Fiat Money Imitation in France" purports to be histor- ical account of what imitation did to France during the revolution ary. days.
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