Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1930, Page 28

B—12 L FEDERAL WIXING N BUSHESS HI == Barnes Urges Svinment to Limit Activities to Being Umpire. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Au- gust 7.—Government intrusion in busi- wess is opposed to the American tra- dition, Julius H. Barnes of Detroit. thairman of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United Stats, told the Institute of Public Affairs here last night. ‘The proper role of government, he said, is that of an umpire between con- fSicting private interests, rather than that of a competitor. American business itself, Mr. Barnes said, is advancing to a sounder system of human relations, which will be far more satisfactory in the end than an secumulation of welfare legislation, want state old-age pensions. The do not want these sys- tems developed by the state because | they believe there is a protection more flexible, more sturdy in the quickening of private conscience and in the effect- iveness of private care. “In America there is a growing sense of the responsibility of great wealth. Large private fortunes do not of them- selves longer enlist admiration. In the business world, management is en- gaged as never before in devoted efforts to equalize employment, to stabilize employment. The history of state aid in various forms inaugurated by gov- ernment carries evidence that it is de- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. 1930. EE.E$ P , Barnes declared “we have a right to maintain the American standard of living until her nations can overtake us.” He said at President Hoover “had to stand fully alone for flexible clause We Have the NEW MAJESTIC which is the greatest sign of good will toward other countries,” and he indi- cated any Government policy would be short sighted which set up a permanent barrier delaying the rise of standards in other countries, ing our way,” he said, as a principle of Government. e test of its fairness will be the ce in home markets of foreign and domestic goods moving free- ly, but until that time comes we must not turn open our raarketa to for—mn proaucgd by eheap lecr. s population were to advance in “We are “t0 a fair tai p<d , | Europe living standards, there would be no sur- pluses, and when all countries are equal, there will be no protective tariffs.” Discussing conditions in foreign coun- tries, Mr. Barnes said that “Great Britain, the old seat of individualism, has become warped by trade unionism carried to extremes, which in a single eration has created a type of work- man who is not welcome in the labor markets of other countries.” Developing the thesis that “any gov. ernment activities which tend to check the free flow of goods are harmful to social welfare,” Mr. Barnes cited the effect of government regulations on the free flow of gold in Argentina, on the coffee trade w7, u s industry of Japan e rer tndus- tries in Mexico as a warning against nwise stimulation by government les and’ price dtpressions resultivg irom official effort to regulate arbi- trarily flow of commodities, the absorp- tion of which,” he said, “is prevented by hampering barriers set up by gov- ernments.” LAYS FARM ILLS TO BUYING. UNIVERSITY, Va., August 7 (#).— Henry C. Taylor, director of the Ver- mont Commission on Country Life, in an address before the Virginia Institute of Publie Affairs. today said farmers have suffered primarily from the high prices they pay for things they buy, rather than from low prices for the products they seil, a5 chief basis of complaint on the J”:’ k fermers,” he sald, out of the faet that certain ditions of our econcmic ST Aanged In such manner as to in- crease the prices farmers pay for what they buy without s corresponding change in prices of the things they have to sell. ““The bad situation for the farmer is the result of the application of the new theory of limited competition, controlled production and prices by manufacturers and controlled rates for middlemen's services determined by business men in thelr own interest. 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