The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-07-20
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by William Bruckart

tdent eventually named the NRA
board of review of which Clarence
barrow Of Chicago was chairman. If
Senator Nye takes up the cudgel along
with Senator Borah, therefore, his at
tacks and criticism obviously will be
directed at New Deal policies the way
they worked out In NRA. With the
Republican fire charging Mr.. Roosevelt
with full responsibility, it becomes
plain that Senator Nye will be an
other thorn in the administrations
side despite any statements he may
make that he merely wants to correct
some of the shortcomings.
Notwithstanding what the two lone
wolf" senators have to say or what
Mr.. Fletcher and front-line Republican
orators charge, the Roosevelt forces
are understood to be digging in behind
the Presidents question to his radio
audience.
A good many observers in Washing
ton are inclined to the opinion that
President Roosevelt
Too Much Is BEGINNING to
nu,I:c-s:. shake dow n hi
various boards and
commissions and agencies to which he
entrusted particular phases of the re-
covery program. The chances are, say
these observers, that Mr.. Roosevelt
has seen too much duplication and
overlapping Of effort and is now en-
gagged, through trusted advisers, in cor
relating the efforts to the end that
some Of the numerous alphabetical
agencies" can be retired.
The view above mentioned appar-
emily was given birth by the selection
Of Donald Richberg to serve as head
of the so-called executive council for
the next several months. Mr.. Rich
berg was given leave from his job as
general counsel for NRA In order to
take over the new work in which he
succeeds Frank c. Walker. 1t was an
nounced that Mr.. Walker will have
merited vacation concurrently with
the Presidents rest, and that Mr..
Richberg would act as the eyes and
ears for the Chief Executive.
But there is more to the situation
than those statements. The President
Is aware that there is an undercurrent
of differences among some Of his adj
visers, and such condition, of course,
is not improved by overlapping of au-
thority. It is quite evident, therefore,
that Mr.. Richberg has been assigned
to the job of untangling the skein
where several strings have become
knotted. And, further, it seems to me
to be only natural that there would
be such difficulties where the struc-
ture of government has expanded so
rapidly.
If one examines all of the facts as
they stand, therefore, and has in mind
how rapidly things have changed since
Mr.. Roosevelt took office in March,
1888, 1t would appear that the time
has come for the settling down proc
ess.
In some quarters in Washington, the
feeling has prevailed that Mr.. Roose-
welt went on the Hawaiian cruise in
order to let administration affairs
rather settle down of their own ac-
cord.
Although foreign trade experts are
scattered throughout the government
and are doing every
Exports thing in their power
cI,,,,o to promote foreign
trade, exports Of
American farm products continue to
slump, and only recently hit the low
est point in twenty years. The Depart
ment Of Agriculture made public fig
ures the other day disclosing that ex-
ports Of farm products in May aggre-
gated exactly so per cent of the aver
age from 1909 to 1914. Since those
years are regarded as normal and do
not include the peak years after the
end of the World war, May exports
this year obviously were not much
more than one-third of the record
years.
There is always decline in exports
of farm products in the spring, but 1t
seems to have been a lot worse this
year than usual, the total being con-
siderably below May Of 1888. Cotton
apparently was the commodity for
which there was least demand, and
when cotton exports fall off the whole
average drops because our cotton ex-
ports cut big figure il the total
shipments abroad. Department of Agri-
culture figures show that there were
only $4,000 bales of cotton exported
in May, whereas in May, 1888, the
shipments of this commodity amounted
to 62S,O0O bales. Japan, Great Britain
and Germany, the three principal buy
ers of American cotton, each took less
in May this year than in the same
month of 1888.
These conditions have happened de-
spite creation of the Import Export
bank, of which George N. Peak is
chairman, and the designation of
Francis B. Sayre. assistant secretary
of state, to give special attention to
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