Evening star., 1934-04-29
BUSINESS HEADS
OF NATION GATHER
c. of c. Sessions to Air Re-
covery Progress and
Prospects.

With main interest certered on the
recovery program, business men from
all over the country are beginning to
gather in the Capital for the twenty
second annual meeting Of the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States,
which will afford forum for discus
sion both of the new ventures into
economic fields which the past year
has witnessed, and of prospects for
the future.
Preliminary meetings of the organi-
cation will be held Tuesday, and the
formal sessions will be launched The
following day. The convention will
be concluded Friday.
Conforming to custom, the Presi-
dent has been invited to address the
annual dinner Thursday night, but ii
was said yesterday that acceptance
was in doubt.
Last year President Roosevelt, just
a short time in Office, made his men,
orable address before the Chamber. IN
which he heralded the birth of the
new deal-urging diScontinuance of
wage cuts, bespeaking higher pay and
pledging assistance to do away with
"cut-throat competition"
Policies to Be Discussed.
Even in the absence of the Presi-
dent, however. administration leaders,
who have a place on the program, are
due to go into various phases of the
administration policies.
Gen. Hugh S. johnson is to address
a dinner meeting of American Trade
Association executives at the May
flower Wednesday night, with the
Operations of the N. R. A." which
he heads, as his subject; Secretary of
Commerce Roper will speak at the
annual banquet Of the American Sec
ton of the International Chamber Of
Commerce at the MayfloWer Tuesday
night, while Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace will talk on The Future of
Agriculture" at the final plenary ses-
sion of the convention Friday. Other
Government officials speaking at the
several sessions are. Eugene Black,
governor of the Federal Reserve
Board, who is to address the annual
dinner, along with former Represen-
tative Davenport of New York and
Joseph B. Eastman. Federal co-ordi-
nator of transportation, and John H.
Fahey. chairman, Federal Home Loan
Bank Board. both of whom will ad
dress the trade association executives
Gov. McNutt to Speak.
At the general session THURSDAY
Gov. McNutt of Indiana will speak,
with Public Expenditure" as his
topic. The American business men
also will hear from a neighbor at this
session, in the speech of w. Sanford
Exams, president of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce of Winnipeg,
whose topic will be "Canada's Re-
covery Program
The widest discussion of the recov-
cry program is anticipated at the sew
eral round table meetings that will
mark the convention, when members
are expected to relate their expert
ences under the various legislative eX-
perimentS that have been made since
March of last year. These sessions
have been arranged to cover the man.
ufacturing industries, natural resource
industries. retail and wholesale trade,
capital financing, regional and city
planning, regulation of transportation
and communication, capital goods in
dustries, public expenditures and tax
alton, agriculture, trade and other
subjects.
The National Councillors will be in
all-day session Tuesday. At the In
ternational Chamber banquet that
night. DR.. William Mather Lewis,
president of Lafayette College, who
formerly headed George Washington
University, will speak, with Secretary
Roper.
At the formal opening of the con-
vention Wednesday, the business men
will hear Henry I. Hartman of Bos-
ton. president of the organization.
and A. w Robertson. chairman of the
board of Westinghouse Electric.