Evening star., 1933-06-21
Committee to Make Plan for
Safety of Industry in
Future.
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
ODE GIVEN ASSISTANCE
Body to Pass on Functions of Gov
ernment Service and Its Re-
lation to Public.

Industrial and business leaders from
all sections of the country will assemble
here next Monday to plan a safer fu-
ture for industry Secretary of Com
merce Roper said today in announcing
the names of those who had agreed to
serve on the Commerce Departments
Advisory and Long-Range Economic
Planning Committee.
The list includes Walter S. Clifford
Of the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., Melvin Traylor, Chicago banker;
Fred I. Kent Of the New York Federal
Reserve Bank, Walter C. Teagle of tie
Standard Oil Co., Gen. r. E. Woods,
president Of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chi
cago; Pierre du Pont of Wilmington,
Del, and Alfred P. Sloan, j., Of Cen
eral Motors.
Purposes Of Committee.
Secretary Roper said this group in
working with officials Of the department
will have two broad purposes:
81. AS a group of practical and ex-
perienced men in intimate contact with
the daily problems of business, it will
assist in directing the work of the de-
partment along the most effective and
productive lines at minimum expense to
the taxpayer.
90 Assist in the selection and the de-
velopment of fundamental long range
studies considered essential in giving
business the desired sense Of direction
in the form of appropriate facts, figures
and other data for the collection and
Interpretation which the research and
statistical resources of the department
afford on rival facilities. Into this class
might fall problems such as the decen-
tralization of industry, adjustment of
international trade between countries
having nationally planned economies,
the relations between the increase in
funded debt and the growth of the
capital equipment of the country"
Roper said in connection with the
studies Of the type indicated the COM
mittee may elect to associate with
itself group Of economists who would
advise 1t as to the utilities and facil-
titles OF the department for the making
Of these studies.
Serve Without Pay.
He emphasized that the committee
members and economists would serve
without compensation from the Gov
eminent
Roper declared the personnel Of the
group had not been selected by the
department.
The names were recommended by
a small group of we'll known business
men," he explained. 'in order that the
membership Of the committee would
be really representative of American
trade and industry, and so that each
member would feel entirely free to
function in the best interest of de-
partmental service to business"
Other names announced by Roper in
cluded Robert G. Ebert of Green Pond
s. c.; Ralph E. Flanders, Springfield,
VT: Alexander Legge, Chicago: Ed
ward N Hurley, Chicago; United States
Treasurer William A. Julian, Robert L.
Lunn, st. Louis; Prof. c. K. Leith, Uni
versity OF Wisconsin; James H. Rand,
New York; Henry S. Dennison. Franz
ingham Mass; Morris E. Leeds, Phila-
delphia; William T. Kemper, Kansas
City; Henry l. Hartman, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce; A. Lincoln Filene, Boston; Clay
Williams. Winston Salem, N. C.;;FH. r.
Stafford. Houston, Tex; George H. Mead,
Dayton, Ohio; George H. Baldwin,
Jacksonville, Fla. and Everett G.
Griggs. Tacoma, Wash.
Meanwhile, Gen. Hugh s. johnson,
industrial control administrator, is pre-
pairing to ask industry to declare an
armistice "on increased producing ca
pacity until we can get the upward
spiral of purchasing power started
I'VE can make no hard and fast rule"
he said, but We are going to ask men,
bers of industry to pull together to try
and get our purchasing power back
We are going to plead very earnestly
with these industries not to use any
further labor-saving devices or any
thing to further increase production"
The administrator indicated to about
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