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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1935. *» A-3° N.R. A EXTENSION URGED BY JOHNSON Sees Doom of Profit System if Law s Modified Too Drastically. (Co nued From First Page.) especially of unregulated and uncon- trolled operation thereof, as a reliable plan for keeping our people employed.” “When the structure smashed in 1929,” he added, “it was not a sledge- hammer cracking up a solid brick. It was the collapse of an empty shell.” With this collapse, and the down- ward spiral which followed, Johnson said, only five types of concerns could survive. He named them as ‘“the ing complete_restoration of the anti- [for interest charges that, at even 2 trust laws. Those in charge of the |per cent, would amount to $100,000 legislation contend some exemption or $120,000 annually snd' for the from opera quired to pe! together and negotiate codes. Richberg to Fight Case. With the life of N. R. A. in the balance, Donald Richberg meanwhile has arranged to appear before the Supreme Cour to plead for the agency he has helped direct since the earliest Blue Eagle days. Attorney General Cummings an- nounced yesterday that Richberg, head of N. R. A’s Administrative Board and still listed as its general counsel, would represent the Government in the Schechter poultry case, which is to be argued May 2, as a test of the consti- tutionality of major phases of the law. Assisting Richberg will be Solicitor General Stanley Reed, one of whose first actions after his recent appoint- ment was to engineer dismissal of the Belcher lumber code action, which also centered about the N. R. A.'s consti- tutionality. MEDICAL SOéIETY of those laws is re- | necessary amortization df it business men to get | $5,000,000 or u.mm,m'n'o,2 P Legal Tangies Feared, Transfer of endowment funds of local hospitals which might come into the project would present further com- plications and probably would bring about many legal difficulties and much litigation. The report lauded the high stand- ards set by Washington hospitals, stat- ing that the system here is unsur- passed by any in the country. Diverting its attention from the medical center, the committee called attention to needed improvements in local conditions, chief among them be- ing that the “rehabilitation of the Health Department is not only highly desirable, but urgent.” Coples of the report, after it had been adopted by the society as a whole, were ordered sent to Commissioner George E. Allen, Karl W. Corby, chair- man of the Commissioners’ Commit- tee, and all members of the committee and to other persons, organizations or institutions interested in the project. SOCIALISTIC BUND MAKES HUGE GAIN total in yesterday’s balloting for mem- bers of the provincial councils, The bund, which claims a mem- hip of 40,000, is described in some rters as “the Netherlands edition of tlerism” because of the similarity of Wins 39 Seats in Balloting for | its name with that of Germany's Na- Members of Provincial Coun- oils in Netherlands. By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, April 18.—The Na- tional Socialistic Bund has won a striking victory in its first appearance [ in a Netherlands general election, gaining 39-seats or 7 per cent of the &/ Turn your old| Actually, however, the party is mod- eled more nearly along the lines of- Mussolini’s Fascists, ‘The National Socfalistic gain is sig- nificant in view of the fact the pro- vincial councils elect new members for tionalist Socialist party. Phone North 1600 New Prices Are Effective Today Rinaldi@@ln_e- the Netherlands upper chamber. _ — _—--_———-—-q - Rinaldi Coal Co. Announces Present REDUCED | Prices on COAL | The Greatest in Many Years concern with the big war chest and S e & swollen surplus,” “the natural mo- e trinkets, jew- nopo}y." ‘the dealers ig mdlspe“nsl- 1 s bles,” “the sweatshops” and ‘“the OF CENTER BACKERS NEWS SERVICE HEAD elry m?)l&??h:ts into 649 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Il ghoul—buyer and operator of bank- rupt stocks and assets.” “This is where our economic sys- tem was trending from before the war and to its utter and complete collapse in March, 1933,” he added. “This is what happened to us under the anti-trust acts, the Federal Trade Commission and the doctrine of laissez faire, and it happened unin- terruptedly and with no relieving in- cident for a period of 25 years. Says Need Is Obvious. “I don't know a great industrial country that does not recognize the necessity for taking control of this | tendency which is going on all over | the world. “I freely admit the faults and er- rors of the N. R. A. and will fight as hard as anybody to correct them. But it was the first intelligent at- tempt ever made by this Government to check this tendency. I won't admit its failure. Especially I won't ac- cede to any madness that would re- move its control and go back to the unregulated condition of futility that preceded it.” Johnson added that “we have got to keep control of this economic ma- chine and prevent and turn back many of the tendencies of the past 25 years.” Conceding many mistakes in his administration of N. R. A, Johnson | told the closely listening Senators he | was “inclined to agree” with the crit- | icism by Senator Nye, Republican, of | North Dakota, that the recovery ad- ministration was preserving monopo- lies in the code structure. | When Nye made that criticism | Johnson said, “we were still in the | throes of making codes and a good deal of abuse crept in.” “I do not for one moment con- tend,” he said, “that there were not serious lapses in this Tapidity of prog- ress, that rotten provisions did not | creep into codes, that personnel was‘ not far from perfect, that code au- thorities were properly organized, that | administration has been perfect or even very good. Takes Blame for Errors. “But I do contend, and I think I can show, that such faults as arose | were due to my bad administration | rather than bad law, that many 11‘ not most of these errors of mine are | in process of effective correction. “I am very sure that to destroy | N. R. A. because there are these | creaky joints in its structure would be like burning down your house to get rid of a few rats in the attic.” Summarizing the record of N. R. A, Johnson said it had “succeeded in ar- resting the destruction of the little fellow in business,” but he admitted | it had not “fully insured the rights intended to be granted to labor.” “Where has N. R. A. failed as to the small enterprise, iabor and con- sumer?” Johnson asked. “I think that to all it has brought & vast balance of good. In each it TO ALL & STOCKHOLDEH.S OF C.”A. MUD- » DIMAN COMPANY: D e holaars il be gzld nN the office of the company. 911 16 a for "the purpose of amending the charfer of the company and to provide for diminishing he amount of its capital stock by reduc- ing the total par value of the same, and to convert the present outstanding preferred and common stock into a new issue of eommon stock. 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DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN BUY A new 1035 Bulck &, completely gauipped. delivered in Washington. for s B erson & Orme's, 13th and M SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 l":s’i?l m%el?ded l"m Phflulrs}?tced service, ng _als i arl Ber SSD% INom.‘ nuu}l'ul 1460, ANNUAL MEETI Washington Per lon will be DAILY TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND PART loads to and from Balto, Phila. and New ork greauenc tripe fo otner 'Easiern €O. pnune Demur mv' o YOUR ROOF NEEDS F | and should have the full support of Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson (right), former head of the N. R. A, and his son, Lieut. Kilbourne Johnston, as they appeared today at the N. R. A, hearings before the Senate Finance Committee. —Harris-Ewing Photo. has brought some harm and some of " the harm is avoidable. The h(tle‘ fellow has suffered from having to pay higher wages, but he has bene- fited by being preserved. To the ex- tent that he has been hurt by bad administration we must cure that. Would Aid Labor Further. “Labor has been immensely helped. It has been hurt by not getting the benefit intended by section 7 (A). We‘ should cure that. “The consumer has been helped by being given the power to consume at| all. He was on the verge of losing it. “On the whole my conclusion is| clean up N. R. A—don't destroy it. Let us scrub our infant offspring vigorously, but let us not throw the baby down the drain pipe with the dirty water.” Defending the fair practice pro- visions of the codes against charges that they created monopoly, Johnson said something of this nature was necessary to make it possible for in- dustry to accept minimum standards on wages and maximum hours, He contended fair trade practice control could not be restricted to the natural resource industries. “The extent to which you need fair trade practices to protect wage sched- ules is not & question of natural re- source or processing or even selling,” he said. “It is a question of the cir- cumstance of each particular case in every field of commerce and industry. “We can not consider destroying N. R. A, promulgating a naked hours and wages law, and setting the anti- trust acts to work on the chaos thus created, unless you are willing to countenance a repetition of the deadly lethargy toward effective control of | our economic system of the past quar- ter century, with its ensuing destruc- tion of employment and small enter- prise, and of every safeguard that jus- tifies the existence and expense of national Government.” Sees Theories Outmoded. Discussing whether N. R. A. should attempt regulation within a State, Johnson said “we are faced by a new condition that transcends any legal theory.” N. R. A., he added, “taught beyond question that John Marshall | was right when he sald ‘in commerce | we are one people.’ ” The former administrator said he| had no doubt the courts would uphold the Government in regulating com- merce within & State, and that “the | only question is a practical one, how | far it should go in doing so.” He conceded there would be “great difficulty” in carrying regulation into the small service industries. He said it was one of the “greatest mistakes” ox N. R. A. to have attempted to do "It has been demonstrated that these trades are not practically ad- ministrable by a national code,” John- son said. “But the wages and hours provision might be enforced therein by a revivified Blue Eagle. Trade practice agreements can be approved and administered on a local basis only State legislation and State agencies. “My answer to my own question is that N. R. A. should attempt intra- state regulation through codes wher- | and practically unlimited capacity to | consume. abuses which they sought vainly to eliminate are not allowed.” Sees Co-ordination Lacking. ‘Turning away from N. R. A. proper, Johnson said “one of the most valid criticisms against the whole New Desl is the fact that from time to time it has sorely lacked co-ordination.” “One agency,” he added, “has been vigorously pushing a policy in one di- rection, while a co-ordinate agency has just as vigorously been pushing & | conflicting policy in a diametrically opposite directo: One fundamental lack of co-ordina- (Continued From First Page.) for it might mislead the sponsors of the project to expect revenues that do not exist, and it would be most unfortunate to delude the public mind with the idea that the existing hos- pitals exact a profit in the charges for the services that they render. Every one of the local community hospitals is, and always has been, on a strictly non-profit basis. If the use of operating revenues to amortize debts or to effect betterments be re- garded as profits, then the proposed center would need to make profits for the same purpose.” of reducing costs of hospitalization through the establishment of the med- | ical center seemed to the society to be improbable of fulfillment, and that the “probability recedes into the realm of the impossible when it is borne in mind that additional funds must be provided, apparently from income, tion, he said, lies in the fact that “we | have unlimited capacity to produce “Yet,” he added, “we aren’t produc- ing and we aren't consuming. The guts of the trouble is with our dis- tribution machinery—our medium of | The report stated that the prnmtse‘ COAL PRICES exchange money. We aren't getting | goods to those that need them and | the prime difficulty is money.” Johnson contended that due to lack | of co-ordination in the administra- | tion N. R. A. was “in an impossible | Stove, $11.95 REDUCED IS INJURED IN FALL George Hargreaves Breaks Arm Slipping From Witness Stand After Testifying. By the Associated Press. George Hargreaves, business man- ager of the International News Serv- ice and Universal Service, Hearst news agencies, slipped and fell yester- day as he left the witness stand after testifying at Federal Communications Commission hearings on leased wires. An X-ray today showed he had broken a bone just above the elbow in his left arm. Hargreaves had asked that certain charges in connection with leased wires be eliminated or reduced. He also asked that teletypwriter exchange service be extended to small news- papers to replace the pony telephone system. Egg, $11.65 A.Xahn Jne. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 43YEARS at 935 F STREET 21x27—very fine Bi quality. Well filled, ever it is clearly necessary to protect interstate commerce and not other- ;| wise, and that it is not so necessary in service industries.” . Price-Fixing “Bugaboo.” Johnson said “price-fixing under N. R. A. is just & big bugaboo.” He as- serted only nine codes contained any provisions for price-fixing or rate con- trol. As for the basing point price sys- tem in the steel industry, which N. R. A. critics have attacked as one of the most vicious kinds of price fixing, Johnson said it was practised in the industry long before N. R. A. “I have always condemned it,” he testified. “The first thing I did when situation with regard to enforcement” because the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department did not vigorously enforce N. R. A.'s provisions. Bonus to Come First. Next week the Senate committee will turn to the now crystallizing issue of the bonus before starting to frame the new N. R. A. bill, but that will cause a delay of only a few days. other administration leaders have been working behind the scenes to com- promise conflicting views in the Senate. They have reached an agree- ment with Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, ome of N. R. A’s severest critics, for elimination of price fixing. One exceptioin is made by the leaders, however—natura] resources industries. The administration has taken the po- sition that in such industries price and production control are needed to prevent waste and to eliminate vicious competition resulting from ever- production. With this Borah has not agreed. anti-monopoly provisions of the law. Borah and other critics are demand- EEEFREREREREEEEL] SPECIAL'T Already Chairman Harrison and | A major conflict will come over the | Nut, $11.65 Office Open From Buckwheat, $8.70 Greatest Reductions Since 1919 Effective Today, Thursday Pea, $9.90 7 AM. to 10 P.M. 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