The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-18

to the WnlCe House.
 The Presidents remarks cen- tered about the necessity for planned production III order to keep plants working at a steady level throughout the year. He held that industry itself should ef- feet such stabilization by fore- sight and collaboration.
 The manner in which the dis cussions were inspired had lot to do with their turning out to be so cordial. George MacGregor Harrison, the labor leader who conceived the idea and sold it both to Roosevelt and the indus trialists, did not even ask to be invited to the White House meet ing.
 The 42-year old head of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, who is a member of the A. F. of L. Executive Council and chair man of its committee negotiating peace with the CIO, told the President not to bother about him.
 My only interest is to help solve this recession problem" Harrison said. "If that can be done it will mean employment for workers and this is what I am after"
 At the meeting Roosevelt first turned to Alfred P. Sloan, chair man of General Motors, and pointed out that in the first half of 1897 the automobile industry operated at a high rate of pro- duction, then was forced to let out tens of thousands of workers when the market became glutted. Addressing M. W. Clement, head of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Roosevelt cited similarly that the railroads had dumped orders for a years supply of rails on the steel companies with demands that they be filled in three months.
 "If those orders had been spread out" he said, "and the automobile manufacturers had done the same with their pro- ductiOn, it is safe to say that both industries today would be operating with full payrolls."
 The President emphasized that he was as anxious as his callers to reduce government expendi- lures and balance the budget. But neither was possible, he conten- ded, without the cooperation of industry. If industry could not manage its affairs to keep men at work, then the government had to take care of them.
 People will not starve," he said. 'Tf they can't get employ ment in private industry then the government has to find it for them. When your compan- ies lay off hundred or two hundred thousand workers; they throw the burden of taking care of these people on the gov ernment. It is perfectly obvious, gentlemen, that if industry doesn't do the job, then the gov ernment has to step in. You can't complain about that" Modified MIRA
 The President proposed no con- crete plan to solve the industrial problem, and the business leaders made no suggestions.
 Roosevelt did mention briefly the desirability of setting up a central statistical agency to sup ply industry with information enabling it to plan its operations.
 He has been turning this idea over in his mind for some time and has discussed it with other business leaders.
 Donald Richberg, former NRA boss who sat in on liie confer ence, has been trying to sell him on new MIRA for more than a year, but Roosevelt has been cold to the idea. Instead he has been trying to work out plan that would make it possible for industry to plan production un- der vernment supervision without an elaborate bureau cracy of codes and administra- tors.
 Justice Sutherland
 Justice Sutherland, who now steps down from the Supreme Court, will be known to future generations not SO much for his opinions as for the fact that d,.r- ing period of vigorous, sorae- times vitriolic court dissent, he re- mained courteous, kindly and even- tempered.
 KindlinesS is written in the Jus tice'S face. It is not strong