Evening star., 1938-04-13

OF Tennessee, Relief Administrator Hon.
Klns OF New York, Ambassador Kennedy
OF Massachusetts, Solicitor General
jackson OF New York. R. F. c. Chairman
Jones OF Texas, former Gov. McNutt of
Indiana, Gov. Moore of New Jersey. Gov.
Murphy Of Michigan Franklin D. Roose-
velt OF New York, Senator Tydings of
Maryland, Secretary Wallace of Iowa
and Senator Wheeler Of Montana.
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smashing Of the reorganization bill
brings anguish to many an aspiring
heart and wrecks ambitions in any num-
Der OF breasts where hope but yesterday
sprang eternal. Perhaps the rosiest
dream to go glimmering is that of Harry
hopkins, slated to be cabinet officer No.
II. as secretary Of a new department of
welfare. Chief among the others who
must now put warnings and expectations
In cold storage are the secret SIX" the
gentlemen with "a passion for anony-
mlty, Who were to be assistant presi-
DENTS Still other plums which must
wait while before being picked are the
proposed civil service administrator and
auditor general, both Of whom went out
the window when the House rose in its
might and dignity at sundoWn on i'm
mortal April g.
No wonder the Federal Trade Commits
sion Is about to transfer it's far-fung
actlVltles into gorgeous surroundings at
the Apex Building at Pennsylvania and
constitution avenues. F.. T. c. zeal in
safeguarding our liberties apparently
knows no limit. It has just charged the
american Memorial Co." with unfair
competition in the sale of tombstones
while the "Run-Proof Laboratories" are
accused OF similar misdemeanor in
marketing silk stockings. On the same
Gay the commission dealt these sledge-
hammer blows for the safety of democ-
racy 1t published the names of concerns
which have entered into F.. T. c. stipula-
tlons to discontinue unfair advertising of
poultry remedies, tooth paste and baby
chicks.
There has just been issued pamphlet
containing the recent testimony of Ber-
nard M. Baruch before the Senate COM
mlttee investigating unemployment and
relle1. 1t Is supplemented by charts
comparing income taxes paid in New
York and Great Britain. Mr.. Baruch
told friends it would have been much
easier not to appear before the commit
tee, but, having been invited, he felt he
could not refuse. His remarks opened
with remarkable statement which OBJ
tanned little publicity at the time, as
follows: Il am honored and privileged
to testify from my experience on the
problems Of the economic system under
which we live. This system has been
good to me and mine. My father, scien-
tist, was an immigrant and a refugee
from attacks on freedom in another
country, to find himself fighting against
what he regarded as oppression of the
Confederacy in this country. My moth
ers people had been here since before
the Revolution. They were both of a
race and religion which have not always
been granted liberty and equality of op-
portunity in other lands. am as proud
Of one as of the other. For both of
them, and for myself, feel grateful to
the political and economic system which
has nourished and honored US, and so
confident of its principles that cannot
agree with those who now seem to feel
that because 1t has faltered 1t has failed.
I do not believe that in those essentials
1t should be condemned in favor Of the
improved experiments we see going on in
other and less liberal lands. From what
I know Of those alien countries and Of