Evening star., 1935-04-30
NEW DEAL HASTE
HIT BY HARTMAN
c. of c. Told Too Much Is
Sought in Too Short
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be vastly lowered; the income of the
Government will rise and the budget
will be balanced"
Harrimans speech was warmly re-
ceived, but more marked demon
stration was accorded Fcrney johnson
of Birmingham, longtime general
counsel of the Seaboard Airline Rail-
way and the National Association OF
Owners of Railroad Securities, who
administered lashing attack on ad-
ministration policies and personalities.
Many Of his hearers arose and
cheered at the conclusion Of his ad-
dress.
Ames Charges Bungling.
Some vigorous language also came
at a luncheon session, c. B. Ames,
chairman of the Texas Co.. asssiling
what he called 'the bungling effort
of Washington bureaucracy to regi-
ment American business"
Ames, who few months ago
headed group of 100 major busi-
ness leaders in recovery conference
proposed that the new N. R. A. pro-
vide only for voluntary codes. He
declared "the best thing about N. l.
r. A., N. r. A.. the Blue Eagle and
the administration Of them is the fact
that public sentiment has repudiated
them
On the opening program also was A.
o. Dawson Of Montreal, president of the
Canadian Chamber Of Commerce. who
discussed economic conditions in the
;oH ho eoid 6hce
a sound recovery. due in large meas
ure to the natural rebound from
depressed conditions, to improvement
in Great Britain and the United
States and to the fact that business
has been on the job"
Sees Hope in Critics.
In his review, Hartman, who Is
dropping the reins at the Chamber
after three years and probably will be
succeeded by a classmate of President
Roosevelt, Harper Sibley of Illinois,
cast up the encouraging and dis
couraging factors as he sees them,
He commented in passing that the
growing spirit of criticism" of the
administration "is, to my mind, evil
dence of real recovery, and an indica-
ton that the crisis in our economic
life is passing"
On the favorable side. he enumer-
ated growing employment, particularly
In the last five months; gain in
construction; a S400, 600, 900 increase
in dividends in 1884 over 1888: bank
ing stabilization and availability OF
Carital: refunding activities and high
er farm income.
There also was word of praise
for the s4,88o,o 100000 work-reliet
program.
Many doubt the advisability OF
the huge program of Government
expenditures which has recently been
adopted by Congress" he said. THE
Chambers position was that the
general appropriation for relief for
the succeeding year should be s2,000,-
100000 instead of S4,000,000 900, but
it cannot be doubted that the expen-
diture of this vast sum by the Federal
Government will stimulate business
during the next fiscal year."
But there are also very substantial
entries on the debit side of the ledger
the speaker continued. Business i:
justly apprehensive of the increasing
interference of Government in the
affairs of business, as exemplified in
some features of the N. r. A., the
A. A. A. and the T. v. A.; of the
growth of our debts and taxes; of the
ever growing number of those on re-
lief; of unsound labor laws, such as
the bill for a 30-hour week, and the
labor disputes bill; of the increased
burdens that will suddenly be placed
upon business by measures for the
creation of social reserves, desirable
5n their idealism, but unsound in
some of their practical applications;
of destructive. rather than regula-
tory. utility holding company bill, and
of fantastic schemes for the shar-
ing of wealth through taxation. Busi-
ness has a genuine fear that the
initiative of the American people and
the spirit of its institutions, which
have carried America so far on the
march of human progress, are to be
stifled by mass of governmental re-
strictions and regulations"
johnson Stirs Audience
In his summation, johnson brought
many in the audience to their feet
when he said
The sooner our people understand
that this continent was civilized by a
self-reliant majority, that this Gov
eminent was founded by a self-reliant
majority, that the system of private
ownership Of property and private
operation of business, free from COM
petition by the National Government
is bedded in our lives and habits, and
is the only status contemplated by the
Constitution, the sooner can all citi-
zens. including the unemployed, bend
their energies toward a confident re-
covery. In so doing they will progress
more surely toward adequate and dis
eliminating relief of dependent un-
employed as a recognized by-product
of social Organization but not as the
principal aim or function of Govern
ment in anv Western civilization