Evening star., 1936-03-31
EAGLE GHOST
AWAITS REVIVAL
Business Men Wondering
What Berry's New Ap-
pointment Means.
RY CARLISLE BARGERON.

BY CARLISLE BARGERON.
Although today marks the legal
demise of the N r. A. the ghost OF
the Blue Eagle is still lowering over
business. In so far as its effectiveness
was concerned, it went out last May
as result of the Supreme Court de-
cision, but it has had statutory
existence and 1000 employees until
today.
From the manner in which the buSi-
ness men have been sending their
representatives here the past several
days they are apparently not yet con-
vinced that there won't be resurrec-
ton of the organization in some form.
And there is question whether these
representatives can carry back any re-
assurances after coming here.
Only few days ago Mr.. Roosevelt
announced the creation of an "analy-
sis division" to be headed by Secre-
taries Roper. Perkins and Wallace. and
appropriated 100000 with which
further study could be given to the
good and the bad of the N. r. A. At
first this was looked upon as a plan
of keeping the organization together.
In fact, only a few days before the
Presidents announcement, one of the
some, 70 N. r. A. executives had called
his secretary, who had moved on to
another alphabetical agency. and,
warning her to keep it dark secret,
told her to be prepared to come back.
She was considerably startled a few
minutes later when a widely known
radio newsmonger announced that
legislation for a new N. R. A. would
be sent to Congress April IA.
Impression Persists.
However, from the Department Of
Commerce there came presently a
statement that the 1000 N. RIA. en-
ployes had no chance of being blan-
keted into the new analysis division"
that only a comparatively few were
to be kept, not more than 80, and that
they were to receive very small SAL
aries. In spite of this the impression
persists in some business circles that
Mr.. Roosevelt hasn't yet given up hope
of reviving N. r. A. A lot of analyzing
could be made by the analysis divi-
sion" for 100000. it was pointed out.
Yesterday word came from Mr..
Roosevelt's fishing yacht that George
L. Berry head of the Printing Press
mems Union, and whose was the last
big" name to be associated with
N. R. A, had been appointed Co
ordinator for industrial cooperation"
What this means was not readily ap-
parent. 1t was said Berry was to CO.
ordinate avenues looking to an in
crease in industrial employment. His
views on how to do such co-ordina-
ton as this are we'll known. He wants,
in effect, another N. R. A.
The alarmed business representa-
tives we're told in some supposedly
informed quarters not to pay any at
tention to this "Oh, the President
just wants to give George something
to do" they explained. But the busi-
ness representatives are apprehensive
that they will wake up some day to
find that Berry has established an
other N. r. A. He has been most
persistent in this direction.
Record OF Persistence.
He is the third co-ordinator in the
Roosevelt government Frank Walker,
as head of the National Emergency
Council, co-ordinated for a long time
and then Donald Richberg co-ordi-
mated for quite a spell. After the
Supreme Court knocked the N. r. A.
out, Berry was assigned to 90 down
there and coordinate. The first thing
he did was to get s6,000-a-year pub
licity man and call convention Of
business and labor leaders to study
ways and means of reviving N. r. A.
The business leaders were so cold to
this that Berry asked them to come
to Washington and confer on some
thing anyway. They wouldn't even
do this, but the labor leaders did and
several weeks ago Berry announced
that this council" which had been
formed had studied the situation most
carefully and was in favor of some
thing closely resembling the N. R. A.
Between times, Berry has toyed with
the idea of running for the Senate
from Tennessee. For long time he
has been anxious to serve the Govern
ment. He is quite wealthy and the
job Of being head of the printing
pressmen doesn't take up anywhere
near all Of his time. Several times
he has been a candidate for the
Democratic vice presidential nomina-
tion.
Most of the business representatives
with whom this reporter has talked
intend to stick around for few days
to find out what he has in mind in
connection with his new co-ordinating
appointment.