Evening star., 1933-03-17

Henry I. Hartman OF Boston, presa-
dent of the Chamber Of Commerce OF
the United States, brings to Washing
ton the message that events at the Ma
tional Capital since March have
proved the finest tonic American busi-
ness has had during the past three and
a half years. The Roosevelt program
of action, and action now" Mr.. Harri-
man says, has electrified commerce and
industry from coast to coast, filled them
with genuine hope and rallied economic
leaders, regardless of politics, around
the Presidents banners as they've sell
dom been before. Banking reform,
Federal retrenchment and abolition OF
prohibition are all prosperity MAKERS
the Chamber of Commerce executive
declares, and F. D. RS audacious leao-
ership in effecting them extorts we'll
nigh unqualified enthusiasm. II the
business world sees anything IN tne
Roosevelt recovery program wnlcn !!
might be inclined to criticize. IT wouio
probably be the project to spend vast
sums of Government money on public
works In the name Of unemployment
relief But even in that direction, If
the President leads, Mr.. Hartman IS
inclined to think, the country will fol-
low, so strong a grip has ne acquired
on the popular Imagination.
From an out-of- town constituent OF
these observations, a feminine admlrer
of the New Deal, comes the suggestion
that. in light of current rapid-nre oe-
velopments at washington, tne FLeSi-
dent might well be called "Frankiin
DYNAMO Roosevelt" instead of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. Dynamo comes from
"dynamis." which is Greek for force"
That's F. D. r., all right.
Already the suggestion is making the
rounds in Washington that Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's first Ambassador to the
United States, to take the place OF re-
firing DR.. Won Prittwitz, may be MS
half American right-hand man. Ernest
Franz Hanfstaengl, Harvard '09. Herr
Hanfstaengl is given credit for lntro-
ducing American ballyhoo methods into
the "Nazi' organization, especially Tor
publicity purposes. None Of the Ger
man Fascist dictator's cron1es stanos
closer to him than Hanfstaengl, whose
mother was member OF an ar1stocratlc
Boston Back Bay family. He was a
Hasty Pudding Club member. the IA
NOUS Harvard institution OF wnlcn
President Roosevelt was once librarian.
Speaking of colleges, Amherst. which
was at the top of the heap during the
Coolidge regime, bounds back into the
picture at the outset Of the Roosevelt
reign. 1t has worthy representatives In
mighty places in the persons OF Repre-
sentative Henry T. Rainey, Speaker OF
the House, and former Representative
Lewis w. Douglas, the new director OF
the budget. Time flies. Rainey got his
A. B. at Amherst in 1888, IL years be-
fore Douglas was born!
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Complete absorption of the public
mind in the dizzy progress of events at
Washington caused little or no atten-
tion to be paid to the significant
Supreme Court decision handed down
on March 13 in the Appalachian coal
combine case. In an opinion written
by Chief Justice Hughes and concurred
in by the entire bench except Justice
McReynolds, the. Court took what IS
previous rigid interpretations Of the
Sherman anti-tr,iSt act. : It points,
lawyers and corporation leaders believe,
to the ultimate liberalization Of the
whole concept of antitrust stat
utes. The decision authorizes bitumi-
nous producers to combine to stabilize
their industry against the disordered
conditions now threatening its collapse.
The Supreme Court reversed q contrary
Judgment of the Federal Court Of West
Virginia and held that the plan of 1877
Appalachian operating companies to
erect combination selling agencies in