The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-17
PUBLIC WORKS
AIM is LAUDED
BY STEEL HEAD
Program Essential to Care
for Unemployed, 6. M.
Verify Says.

HW ffwrs Special
NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-THE public
works program Of the sdministra-
ton is plain matter CT necessity
and not a matter Of courage or
vision on the part Of the govern
ment. in the opinion Of George M.
Verify chairman Of American Roll
ing Mil Company. There is no real
justification for criticism Of the pro-
gram. he states. as under existing
conditions the government has no
other course.
The government has "a back
breaking proposition on its hands"
in attempting 10 solve the unem-
ployment problem soundly and per-
manently. This can be done only
through a return of industrial &C
tivity
II industry could corral all the
courage and vision Of the world, 1t
could not. according 10 Mr.. Verify,
create a demand for durable goods
until the public feels free 10 and
Is willing to buy them.
Courage Challenged
The courage and initiative Of
private enterprise" remarks Mr..
Verify in today's Daily Metal Trade,
lis challenged when conditions en-
tirely beyond its control have been
created that have dried up purchas-
ing power at It's source.
The dramatic adventures during
the last eighteen months, covering
the whole gamut of financial. po-
litical. social and industrial activity
and reform, has stirred up so many
doubts. anxietieS and uncertainties
that their combined influence has
temporarily restrained the courage
and initiative of that large part of
our entire population, who are the
real consumers of industrial prod
ucts. and who always have worked
and served to the best of their
ability.
Too Much Reform
After eighteen months of strug-
Gle TO get out of depression it is
clear that We have had too much
of attempted reform in advance of
recovery. We have taken our patient
from the hospital and have given
him exercise in excess of his return
ing strength.
As far as commerce and industry
are concerned. it has not been a
question of courage or of vision, 1t
has been a matter of common eau
ton. A ship can make no speed
IN a fog
When the sound and substantial
citizenship of the nation comes TO
feel that We are past the period OF
Inflammation and denomination
and attack as to the soundness and
righteousness of their motives; when
they come to feel that their business
enterprises, large and small, are to
again have a chance to profit as
they serve: that their governments
policies on finance and on monopoly,
discovered or attempted, in either
labor or bushes, are consistent with
the best traditions of our history;
when these things are an accom-
pliShed fact they will promptly be-
Gin a new era of planning of con-
Stunning and of buying that will set
the wheels of commerce and in
dustry in motion and take the prob
lem of unemployment of the hands
Of their government.
Initiative Dormant
If We are to go ahead again as
We always have and as our business
organizations of all kinds are so
ready and anxious to do, our gov
eminent must join us in recognizing
that no organized or unorganized
group holds all of their evil or of
good: that each and every group
have their proportion of wrongdoers,
which is usually small, and that
every one of them have a preponder-
Gus Of the constructive and the
good
We must deSist in the defamation
+ Of the character. purpose and ability
T Of large groups of our citizens where
only a few are guilty; We must de-
nounce wrongdoing. chiseling and
I Chicanery whenever and wherever
I found"