Evening star., 1933-04-16
NATIONAL INDUSTRY
CONVENTION URGED.
Dr.. {. A. Walsh Foresees
Call as Growing Service
of President Roosevelt.

Asserting that President Roosevelt's q
crowning service will come when he
summons and presides over q national
industrial convention, Rev. DR.. Edmund
A. Walsh, S. j.. vice president Of George
town University. speaking yesterday at
the thirty-hfth annual convention Of
the Eastern Commercial Teachers Asso-
ciAtion, forecast q new economic con-
stitution-"a declaration of dependence
between capital and labor"
Another speaker, DR.. Harold Stonior,
director OF education Of the American
Bankers Association. predicted q COM
promise with socialism by America, as
serting that craftsmanship based on
political considerations Is due to pass,
and that at present the United States
u IN the beginning Of an era when
craftsmanship will be based upon eco
nomics and economic problems.
The association elected John r. Rob-
inson. head Of the business department
Of Burdett College, Boston, president for
the coming year. Other officers also
were chosen at the closing session. Mrs
Samuel North of the Western High
School In Baltimore, wife Of the high
school supervisor for Maryland, was
named vice president: Harry l. Good
director Of commercial education in
Buffalo, was retained rs secretary, and
Arnold M. Lloyd. principal Of Banks
College, Philadelphia. was reelected
treasurer. Miss Catherine Nulty Of the
University Of Vermont. last years vice
president, was chosen editor Of the year
book.
Discusses Russian Communism.
Father Walsh spoke on Capitalism at
the Crossroads" and. following q dis
cuSsion Of communism rs 1t Is exemph-
fed in Soviet Russia. he declared:
If have not misinterpreted the his
toric opportunity now at hand. Presi-
dent Roosevelts crowning service will
come when he summons and presides
over a national industrial convention.
Procrastination is the favorite meat on
which resentment feeds. Let 1t not be
called q conference. but q solemn COM
pact Industry. labor, management,
finance and the general public would all
be represented. not by suborcinates, but
by responsible leaders. Let the Presi-
dent lock the door behind them. to
open it only when they come forth bear
ing q new economic constitutions
declaration of dependence between capi-
tai and labor"
The declaration of dependence which.
he said. the present leaders should
evolve. will be the means by which
democracy will achieve its full stature,
immune from the cycles of desenera-
tion prophesied by Aristotle for popu-
lar rule. and capitalized today by Soviet
hotheacs as inherent to our present in
dustrial system"
Political democracy" Father Walsh
said, was Americas gift to humanity
in 1888. Industrial democracy lies
within her giving in 1888"
Business Called Dectsr.
In his forecast of q compromise
with Socialism" DIR. Stonier said that
while for generations man was con-
csrned with the relationship that
should exist between church and state,
the primary problem today Is the re-
laticnship between the state and busi-
ness. Observations today. he said,
show q trend toward domination Of
business by the state, pointing out that
in certain countries the two are vir-
tually one. In the United States, he
continued, business. during the de-
preston. CT its own volition summoned
the doctor" in the form Of Federal
or State governmental aid.
The question now is, will the patient
ever recover to the point where he will
have the direction Of his own activities
without domination Of the doctor?"
Resolutions adopted in the closing
business session included one urging
upon the Secretary of the Interior the
retention of commercial service through
the Office of Education. Another
called upon educational authorities to
provide in the schools economic guild
ance. economic Judgment and eco
nOmic citizenship for the students. A
third resolution urged school authori-
ties to install modern ofiice equipment
in the class rooms 30 the training of
future Office workers may be kept
abreast of the Developments In actual
practice.