Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 5

A U. 5. CHAMBER GETS ~ FARM POLICY PLEA Proposal for Business Aid in' Marketing Problems Sub- . ijeot to Referendum. ‘Recommendations looking to business Co-operation in the establishment of A national agricultural policy which would include a Federal farm board were made to the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States yesterday After two years of study of the farm problem. The recommendations will be submitted to referendum vote of the chamber's membership before they be- come part of the organization's poliey. ‘The meeting of the agriculture group yesterday _afternoon, at which the recommendations were announced, Was marked also by an attack on the McNary-Haugen bill and other “futile { naceas” for the farmer by Julius H Sames, former president of the cham- er. Sees Future Advantage. Mr. Barnes said rising living stand- ards, stimulated by prosperous industry at home and a recovery of any earn- | ing power in Europe, are creating “not | only an equitable adjustment between the farm and industry but hold out the | romise of relative advantage in ferm- fl'ls for the future.” ¥ | Reviewing the rise of prices for cgri- | cultural products since the first McNary- n bill was proposed, Mr. Barnes declared that today the average (Il‘ml price is in the nsighborhood of 168 per cent of the pre-war level. while the average price of all commodities is only | about 144 per cent “Suppose so-called farm leade:ship had succeeded in righting the principle of index relationship into law n 1924 | in a country where 70 per cent of the voters are consumers. That is the kind of short-sighted panacea proposed, which will break down like the British rubber effort and leave h!h! bl:‘rm ex- | posed to distress worse than before. “The votes in Congress which passed | this futile panacea, both those of hon- est-minded wellwishers and those of selfish political purpose. will thank & President of courage and business un- | derstanding. who refuses to allow the farm revival now under way and the superfor marketing advantage which is now in sight for the farmer, to be de- stroyed by the destruction of a mar- Kketing system which has achieved mark- | ed recovery. | Rap Haugen Plan. ! “No authority in the business world has dared to say the McNary-Haugen | plan would work. On the contrary, men of wide experience in the organization of 'great industries have repeatedly warned the country, and emphasized | again today that this plan, in law, will | injure radically the American farm and break down with a confusion that will bring back farm distress from which we are so steadily recovering.” | The farm policy submitted by the eommittee recommended: “Intelligent control and distribuiion of seasonal or annual surplus produc- | tion, thus stabilizing prices and avoid- | ing fiooded miarkets. | “Improved methods of orderly, em-l cient, commodity marketing through co- | operative action. i “Increased unit production. “Utilization of land resources for the greatest benefit to the Nation, both in the immediate and distant future. ‘Development and wmaintenance of | favorable facilities for production and | rketing credit.” b recommendations inclaied es- tablishment of a Pederal iarm board: at public expense. s C. OF C. DENOUNCES UNCLEAN-BUSINESS | AT CONVENTION HERE | = | (Centinued from Pirst Page) | “Chief among such 14 of all those that of purging who induige corrupters of lic serv- uxrp‘ itude of of t of those | ants is even greater than whom they debauch. Principles of Conduct. | “The ehamber emphasizes its prin- ' eiples of business conduct, which pro- vides that ‘col forms do not | alleged | crookedness I am not criticizing,” he 22,110 miles, and carrying | ‘g:;;t of honor last n! |Wife Cites Three Attacks in Auto In Divorce Plea In a suit for a limited divoree on the grounds of cruelty and desertion, Mrs. Dorothy Adelman, 1335 Seventh street, tells the District Supreme Court of three alleged attacks made on her by her husband. Benjamin Adelman, a musician in the Marine Band One month after her marriage, she says, her husband drove his car with one hand and struck her with the other and after tearing her clothes threw her out of the machine. 3 Two wecks later, she asserts, he again abused her and threw her out of the car. and on a third occasion struck her across the face with her handbag. She is represzented by At- torney Harry I. Carroll. completely obsessed with the delusion through a sewer." The Trade Commission, Mr. Humph- rey said, “has been psid the compli- ment” of frequently beinz Included in these attacks, often in connection with | Investigation: “Investigations that are made upon violations of law {o unecover continued. “Some of these investiga tions have no doubt been of great bene- fit to the public and some have done great public harm. But the responsi- bility rests upon those who initiate them. Right to Be Let Alone. “I am utterly opposed to any investi- gation .nitiated by the Federal Trade Commissjon that is not based upon alleged violation of law. One of the highest and most sacred rights of any honest business is the right to da let alone. Tt is as much the duty of the Federal Trade Commission to protect the citizen in his constitutional rigat of privacy as it is to prosecute him for his unlawful acts.” Constructive methods by which the commission is co-operating with busi ness to eliminate unfair trade practices were outlined by Commissioner Hum- phrey, while the procedure from the business point of view by which busi- | ness, dealing with the Government, can forestall trade disputes was explained by Christie Benet, general counsel of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers' As- sociation. The economic aspects of the same problem were discussed by O. H. Chen vice president of the American E: change-Irving Trust Co. of New York, and Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Textile Fight Called. Cheney cited “the fight for the con- sumer’s dollar” within the textile in- qustry, between the cctton, wonl, si'k and rayon producers, and warned against the dangers of “a new comoeti- tion between industries, and between difterent factors in the chain of pro- duction and distribution.” Summarizing the accomplishments of eral New pointed out that 63 of the most. important commercial cities of the country are within this network, leaving | only a very few to be included later. “Twenty-two routes in operation and five others under contract, and sched- | uled for operation during the current year, brings the total mileage of the rmail system up to 12.550.” he said. | “At the present time air mail pilots | flying every day the total distance of | on an average | 5700 pounds of air mail daily.” The end of the year will find pilots flying with mail almost 30,000 miles every ay, he predicted. Business is co-operating in the pro- motion of aviation, said John G. Lons- dale of St. Louis, chairman of the| aeronautics committee of the chamber. £ men are realizing more nnd! more,” he said, “‘the benefits to be de- rived from the quicker delivery of mail | and im t articles and are insist- ing that their cities shall have ade- | uate facilities for making possible their inclusion in the network of air mail and aerial transport lines.” He | said 325 chambers of commorce are now dealing with aeronautics through committees, more than three times the number a ARO. At the cl r’s annual dinner to- night Dr. Alberto Pirelli of Italy, presi- dent of the International Chamber of | Commerce, will be the guest of honor | and principal speaker. Secretary of Commerce Hoover was, ht at_the annual | uet of the American Trade Asso- | tion Executives at the Mayflower | Hotel. association members are |ll‘; r {either national councilors or substitute councilors of the chamber. bryans Squirrels Cause Short Circuit. Correspondence of the Amsociated Press STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.—Gray squir- rels have taken to nesting in a power | company’s conduit boxes here. After rporate absolve from or alter the moral obliga- tions of individuals’ It maintains that | stockholders of corporations owe it 1o themselves, to the Government and to| the profession of business publicly to e te those who misrepresent them. | Such stockholders cannot accept the profits following from corruption and escape the moral stigma which sdheres in such profits. Neither can they permit those who act for them to profit per- rough cOrTupt corporate trans- principles of business conduct n:?ted at its annual meeting in 1924 | ) rticularly does it reafirm the pfl!\crp.lm that ‘business shouid render | restrictive legisiation unnecessary by so conducting sel! a5 1o inspire public confidence.’ Muck-Raking Scored. “Muck-racking” Government investi- | gations, based on the hope of finding scandal and not on charges of dishonest practice, were bitterly denounced by William . Humphrey. chairman of the Federal ‘Trade Commission Most of the 2000 delegates in ai- tendance 8t the meeting attended » Juncheon at the Mayflower Hotel cele- brating ‘he tenth anniversary of the air mail. Postmaster General New was the principal speaker and several of the country’s most prominent aviators were guests of honor. These included | Lester Maitiand, Pacific fiyer; Joseph E. Edgerton first pllot 0 bring & cargo of sir mafl o its destination, and Ambers Banks, who carried the first air mail 1 Washing- ton on the New York-Atiania roule recently opened Mr. Humphrey, after declaring that “po ovher Government agency ever nad & system w0 tyrannical” as the fommer system of the Feders) Trade Commis\on, described Lhe 1evised opers- tien of the commission. “Whatever ehanges political fortune may in the future bring o the personnel of the eommission,” he sald, “the system of ming before trisl or fipding gullly | thout. evidence will never again be used by the Pederal Trade Commission.” | Day of Mud-Shinging. Turniog 10 the subject of Investigs tions, he drclared: “This is the dpy of yorkiess accusations. of unmessired de- puncietion, of muck-raking snd mud- Pinging. A presidential eleetion s ap- proaching. ‘This i the day whep the self-anointed, the holler -than-thou the retormer-ior-pay, the fanatic and the crackbrain, the publicity lover and the professional patriot sre crowding for | the spotiight “1f you were 10 listen 1o the elamor | dsy, you might believe that politics is s vast putrid cesspool, and that the | purity of those engaged in it 15 mees- | Ured by the scandals thut they can hold up 10 the puble gare In such & state | public hysteria calm and just judg- ment. is impossible. The innocest sre ss Miely w suffer as the guilly and the EWity are as Dikely 1o go free ss the in- | Borent | “Iine couniry 81 present \s eyrsed with & plagie of sell-secking pairiols who are the town was plunged In darkness one night electricians found the squirrels | had eaten the Insulation on some of the | wires causing a short circuit PPV FYY that the road to the White House runs | | American finance. ENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, O THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1928, THE 'CONTRACTORS CLOSE MAJOR SURPLUSES * coehece Topay. | Discussed at Session Here, ‘Cnngrcss Policy Attacked at| | Luncheon of Finance Group | of C. of C. Having taken steps designed (o elim- nate irresponsible and financially un- stable contractors from the bullding in- dustry, made plans for further progress i the movement for establishment of | a code of rules of fatr practice for both | The policy of Congress of regulating | general and subcontractors, and having taxes so that major surpluses result was | -|ludlrd many technical matters affecting oty &bl 7 as 8 | the industry, the conference of official | | vigorously attacked by Prot. Thom groups of the Associated General Con- Adams of '\mp I"nhi"m ,-‘ff,"‘,f,:‘,",.fi" | tractors of America will come to a close |a speech al e lunch~on ol e E . Ve | group of the United States Chamber of at the Washington Hotel this afternoon n Today's sessions are being devoted to | Commerce held in the Washington | o otk of the secretarind: eouncll in | Hotel. A 0 2 g o i d eoitomizing and study actions taken by You can't have surpluses year i and 0" eonforence groups. which Ineluded | year out as we have w I_”""” bringing the exccutive board. the advisory board, | Eri{AanDeIN ident’s council and fhe secre- | council of the Assoclated Gen- | ral Contractors, ‘After speakers had described con struetion industry | jackals to the feast.” serted. The policy represents in saving and is an unnecessary burden on the taxpavers, he snid. He told the | members that he opposed the policy of recurring major surpluses principall because it is based upon “viclously high corporation tax rates. If the taxes in the future must be increased. he de- clared, it should be a general increase | whose burden would fall equally on all classes To remedy what he termed defects in At the present Government policy. he sug- | credit conditions gested that the probabilities of mistaken | The new organization is composed | tax estimates should be considered: the (Of members of the esecutive committee | corporation fax should be xeduced to|Of the Associated General Contractors | | not more than a 10 per cent rate, and | #nd 2 representatives cach of 12 allied | legislative machinery should be created | trade bodies. | which would allow the taxpayer auto-| George B. Walbridge, Detroit, chair- | | matically to profit by surpluses and|man of the committee. who presided | | compel him to make up deficits if they |t the session yesterday afternoon, de- | | should occur. clared that “hundreds of concerns op- | In prophesying future developments erating in the construction industry | he said that an increase in the tax bur- den of the country, the cessation with 10 or 12 vears of payments on our for- eign debts and liquidation of the na- tional debt by 1950 can be confidently expected | "The laws which create what was termed & tariff wall between the States against the importation of capital were |deflored by Henry R. Hayes, president of the Investmant Bankers' Association In discussing America's foreign loans he |said that the reason these loans have | | been productive rather than destructive intemperanc afternoon ons in the con- As being “seriously | demoralized.” due to prevailing loose | credits available to frresponsibie con- tractors and to th» mushroom growth | of construction companies, the confer- | ence organized the allied construc- | tion industries committee “fo correct imoroper practices and to stabilize vesterday are in a state of perpetual insolvency. They secure materials and equipment under loose credits reaping their profits | by failure to pay their bills and by | using inferior materiais and providing inferior workmanship. | Quality at Yo 2 A T D Low Prices LUMBER has been the non-political character of | Everything For Building Roy A. Young. governor of the Fed- eral Reserve Board, told of the bene- ficial changes that have been instituted by the reserve board Felix M. 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