The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-27
C.. of c.. Would Be Wise To Muzzle
Its 'NuttY' Speakers

For the most fabbergaStng spectacle OF the week. tke
look at Glenn d. Johnson Virginia businessman and wee
president of the u s. Chamber of Commerce He's prize
example of the why that biggest OF big BUSINESS
ganlzatonS would be wise 10 put huzAeS oh tle eh wa"
speak in it's name :
They seem completely "nutty," living in antastcaly
unreal world of their own wholly out OF touch WIN te m
things which shock and the people and then bus
ness wonders why it is not more popular
Speaking before distinguished audience at the UnVef-
sty of Virginia, johnson said:
Alternating periods of prosperity and depression are
of rhythmic pulSaton the one the natua ana proper
corrective of the other.
81 don't share the politicians morbid fear of even
slight downturn in business added the of official who
never went hungry good times bad n experience,
depressons their worst merely time when some
people forced to do without things which their parents
never had"
the commodities market and labor market In plain words,
to knock down the prices received by farmers Tor Their pro-
and longer hours by creating lines OF obess men at Factory
gates
He also rejoced at the idea that good oldfashioned
depression would make American people give up Their de-
mands for such nonsencal things as higher odage pen
sions depression would stop Welfare State Socialism
and restore American Freedom, he declared
Fortunately this Big Business spokesman answer
ed Immediately and before the audience by man with
quite different vews-Berram M Gross executive secre
tary of President Tumans Council of Economic Advisers
sickened by the cyncism of the small minority
who assert that unemployment is the price we pay Tor ree
dom," Gross declared Indignantly.
1--WE are sckened by those who assert that depressons
inevitable long maintain capltasc mode
of production and distribution.
of the hypothesis that future is
unendng growth and progesstha the misery of
unemployment can be forever prevented"
Now, let's take look at Johnson, not he is, but
he might be if he had just little sanity and sense Suppose
he had said something like this:
"he u. S. c. of c. and business in general wants to do
all they to keep farmers prosperous improve the
and working conditions Of workers. provide the highest
sbe pensions for the old folks and make life constantly bet
for all the American people We want to guard against
the dangers of excessive booms, but certainly don't
want a bust"
Wouldn't that make the average citizen a little
friendly business and help cut the ground from under
Communists who claim the capitalist system is doomed be-
cause it is the foe Of the people?
But this c. of c. spokesman and others like him prefer
to hand ammunition to the Communists by declaring that
under the American system must again have Is mil
lion desperate and tfampng the in hope
less search of jobs their dearoved families hungry and
hundreds of thousands housed in wreched Ioovervles
How Stain and his Kremn crowd must laugh and rub
his hands with gee when they hear of of c. speech like
Johnsons! "See" the Red propagandSts say to the
worlds peoples, that's just what have been telling you
about American Big Business men"