Evening star., 1935-01-18
PRESIDENT SETS UP.
BUSINESS L|A|S0N
Administration Will Receive
Suggestions Through Ad-
visory Council.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Roosevelt administration fash
Toned today speaking tube through
which. officials said, all business men
can tell the Government their ideas
on what the New Deal should and
should not do.
After a White House conference
Secretary of Commerce Roper an
nounced that his Business Advisory
and Planning Council, composed of SO
leading business men, had been desig-
mated as the agency to receive Sugges-
tions about pending legislation or other
matters.
In turn, the suggestions will be
passed on to the cabinet officers or
other officials. The move was in an
swer to demands among business men
that some way of freely registering
their ideas with high officials be
worked out.
Jobless First Problem.
H P Kendall of Boston, chairman
of the council, attended the White
House meeting with Roper. He said
one of the first subjects to which the
council would devote itself would be
the best type of public works for the
joblesS
The plan first became known at a
dinner given by Roper last night to
industrial leaders and high officials.
The watchword of this meeting is
cooperation" he said.
Leading business executives also
found today that they had some gov
ernmental support for a theory-held
by many of them-that the N. r. A.
should be continued on the present
temporary basis for further period.
This belief was announced by S.
Clay Williams, chairman of the Blue
Eagle Board, before the National Re
tail Dry Goods Association in New
York.
No Radical Change Expected.
Business also took note of Williams
statement that it was reasonable to
assume it could go along generally as
it has been recently without radical
change by the Government.
Williams conferred early this week
with the President. but it could not
be learned whether he discussed his
speech. One member of the Recovery
Board said he believed he had not.
Thus it was still an open question
how widely Williams opinion was sup
ported in the Government and it was
known some members wanted more
drastic changes in the recovery act.
The council which is to be the
liaison link between Government and
business was organized more than
year ago by Secretary Roper to advise
him on the affairs of the Commerce
Department.
At the Secretary's request 1t also
undertook to study other Government
problems Business men were dissat-
isfled, however. because they felt their
efforts were buried. An official said
today they were to be buried nc
longer.
At the Roper dinner last night were
80 business leaders, IA heads of Gov
ernment departments and legislators
Leaders at Dinner.
They included Winthrop Aldrich
president of the Chase National Bank;
Walter S. Clifford president of the
American Telegraph g. Telephone Co.;
Robert S. Lund. head of the National
Association of Manufacturers; Henry
!. Hartman, president of the Chamber
of ComNerce of the United States;
Secretaries Wallace and Roper, Jesse
H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation; Relief Ad-
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins and
Stephen Early and Marvin Mcintyre
of the presidential secretariat.