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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Paw the Patman Bill
They Love King George
Parachutes?
Puzzle for Solomon
The senate votes, 5f> to 33, to pay the
Veterans their bonus In cash. That
vote, not being a
two-thirds vote,
would not overrule
the Presidential
veto, which is ex¬
pected.
The Patman bill,
wisely approved,
gives the veterans
their money to
spend In their way
for things they
want. Under that
bill veterans are
to he paid with new
money. That money
as soon ns received
Arthur liriahnne would all vanish. In
purchases In every corner of the
United States.
New United States money is exactly
as good ns new bonds, since paper
dollars and paper bonds get all their
value from the name of the govern¬
ment printed on them. There are no
longer any gold payments promised or
Implied. If government money Is not
good, government bonds are not good.
President Roosevelt, congratulating
King George, says: “It Is gratifying
to contemplate the wise and steadfast
Influence which your majesty has ex¬
erted for a quarter of a century."
That was about all that the President,
with the best of Intentions, could say,
for the British ruler’s popularity Is
based on sticking to his job, which Is,
letting his people alone, while they at¬
tend to their business In their own
way.
The king seems to think that those
who have built (he greatness of the
British empire to its present height
may be trusted to continue building it.
Some “best minds” here feel that
any success or progress In tlie United
States has been more or less of an
Accident, under bad management, and
needs to start again on a new plan.
Time will tell whether n government
policy of ‘‘let them alone" or ‘‘tell them
bow” is better.
Five killed, eight Injured, in an air¬
plane crash. The dead Include Senator
Cutting of New Mexico, who will he
deeply regretted by his state and by
the senate.
Flying In fog, fuel gave out. The
last radio message was: “Fuel’s get¬
ting low. We can’t find a Krenk in the
fog. It looks like a forced landing.”
Both pilots were killed; they did
their best
An occasional disaster will not dis¬
courage flying, hut ttds particular ac¬
cident raises again the question. Should
not nlrplone builders concentrate on
parachute protection for passengers?
King Solomon never solved any such
problem as this: A New York manu¬
facturer wished to advertise “invisible
panties,” in usual words—small trous¬
ers worn by modern women. NRA
rules say that If the article advertised
Is not Invisible, the advertising Is
“false and misleading and violates the
code.” If those panties are invisible,
NRA cannot pass on them, and their
manufacturer must not attempt to dis¬
play them on models, for evident rea
sons dealing with morality.
Eight million young women In Ger¬
many are unmarried. The government
invites 333,000 of them to marry
“healthy, virile, hereditary farmers.”
To lead the unmarried German girl
to the “virile, hereditary farmer" may
be easier than making her marry him.
A labor law compels women under
twenty-five years of age to serve one
year on farms before they can take
other jobs.
Once you begin to tell human beings
how they must live, life becomes com¬
plicated.
Pope Pius, addressing 130 German
pilgrims, spoke plainly about Ger¬
many's present Hitler government:
“They wish in the name of so-called
positive Christianity to deehristtanize
Germany, and they wish to conduct
the country back to barbaric paganism,
and nothing is left undone to disturb
Christian and Catholic life."
The pope’s words referred to the un¬
pleasant welcome home of 2,0(10 young
German pilgrims that went to Rome
to receive the papal blessing.
Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency
relief administrator, uses language as
plain as that of Mussolini or Stalin.
He finds that we have in America a
class of “oppressors," rich men. and
promises that that small, oppressive,
business minority “who extol poverty
and profits In the same breath” shall
be made outcasts in ttie "new order"
that Is coming.
One English town will celebrate the
king’s jubilee by distributing free beer.
Might it not be a good idea to make
light beer part of the regular food sup¬
ply of men in this government's CCC
camps?
Minus government tax, it would cost
little, keep men contented, abolish or
diminish complaints of some workers
■pending their small supplies of money
with bootleggers.
©. King Feature* Syndicate, Isa.
WNL Service.
CURRENT mTS
PEEK THINKS UNITED STATES NO
LONGER IS THE BIG CRED¬
ITOR NATION.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
©. Western Newspaper Union.
/“T FORGE N. PEEK, in his capacity
'-J of advisor to the President on for¬
eign trade, has Just made public sta¬
tistics that tend to show tiie United
States is losing its po¬
sition as the world’s
chief creditor nation,
and makes recommen¬
dations that are in ac¬
cord with the growing
trend against interna¬
tionalism in the ad¬
ministration and in
conflict with Secretary
Hull’s program of re¬
moving barriers f<> In¬
George N. Peek ternational trade by
reciprocal trade agree¬
ments.
Stating that whether or not this
country still owes less to other nations
than they owe to it appears to depend
on the true value of defaulted war
debts. Mr. Peek recommends these Im¬
mediate steps:
“1. The inauguration of a detailed
study of our direct investments abroad
and foreigners’ direct investments in
tiie United States, to supplement the
studies now in progress of capital
movements.
“2. A review of all national policies
based in whole or in part upon our in¬
ternational creditor status.”
The proposal seems to lead toward
high tariffs and a policy of allocating
onr foreign trade among other nations,
as is done by many of the European
countries.
Figures compiled by Mr. Peek indi¬
cate that the United States is a net
international creditor by $16,897,000,-
000, but this includes $10,304,000,000.
principal amount of war debts owed
by foreign governments, and also for¬
eign bonds held by private Investors
in the United States Invoiced at their
face value, and a pre-depression esti¬
mate of the value of American branch
factories abroad and other direct in¬
vestments in foreign countries. Mr.
Peek strongly infers that a re-estima
tlon of these “assets" will result in
such a scaling down that tiiis country
will no longer l>e a creditor nation and
need not act as such.
By his recommendation for a re¬
view of all our national policies based
in whole or in part on our international
credit status, Mr. Peek unquestionably
means that there will be no further
validity to the argument that as a cred¬
itor nation we must open our markets
to imported goods, and that imports
need be only sufficient to balance cur¬
rent exports, taking Into consideration
such invisible items of international
trade as shipping services und tourist
expenditures.
* PRESIDENT resented the ROOSEVELT criticism of his strongly New
Deal policies by tiie Chamber of Com¬
merce of tiie United States, and re¬
torted by calling to tiie White House
Secretary Roper’s business planning
and advisory council for an endorse¬
ment of NRA extension and the social
securities program. Then to the news¬
paper correspondents Mr. Roosevelt
scored the action of the chamber, as¬
serting that in too many cases so-called
business organizations misrepresent
the business men for whom they claim
to speak, and that he did not believe
a*»gle speech made at the chamber’s
meeting contained any mention of the
human side of tiie picture. He de¬
clared the business organizations were
not indicative of the mass belief and
that be would go along with the great
bulk of the people.
Several members of the business ad¬
visory council were also members of
the Chamber of Commerce, und it is
said they resented tiie President's ac¬
tion in seemingly using them to offset
the attack by tiie chamber. Some of
them were on tiie point of resigning
from the Roper council, but were pla¬
cated by Mr. Roosevelt who assured
them their views were highly valued.
IN THE crash of a transport plane of
* Transcontinental Western Air near
Atlanta, Mo., Senator Bronson M. Cut¬
ting of New Mexico and four other
persons fell to their
death. The pilot was
unable to land at
Kansas City because
of a dense fog and his
fuel gave out before
he could reach hd
emergency landing
field at Kirksville
Besides Mr. Cutting
those killed were Miss
Jeanne A. Hilllas of
Kansas City, Mrs. Wil¬
liam Kaplan of West Senator
Los Angeles, and Har¬ Cutting
vey Bolton and K. H. Greeson, pilots,
both of Kansas City. Eight passengers
were seriously injured.
Bronson Cutting, a millionaire of an
aristocratic family, was a radical Re¬
publican and was one of the outstand¬
ing members of the senate. He sup¬
ported Mr. Roosevelt for President in
1932, but when be came up for re-
election last fall be was not given the
endorsement of the administration.
His victory was contested by Dennis
Chavez and the case is still before the
senate elections committee. Mr. Cut¬
ting was born on Long Island in 1888,
graduated from Harvard and there
after went to New Mexico, la the
World war he was an Infantry cap¬
tain and assistant military attache at
the American embassy In London. He
was appointed to tiie senate in 1927
to fill a vacancy and was elected next
year to a six year term.
The senate on being advised of the
tragedy adjourned out of respect to
memory of Senator Cutting, and
the house cut short Its session.
A FFIRMING a decision of the Su-
preme court of the District of Co¬
lumbia. the United States Supreme
court held unconstitutional the railroad
retirement act, ruling that many of
its provisions are invalid. The act pro¬
vided for a system of old age pensions
for all railroad workers. The decision
was read by .Justice Owen J. Roberts.
It condemned many provisions of the
law as “arbitrary,” placing an undue
burden on the railroads and having no
relation to safety and efficiency in the
operation of the railways.
The act was passed by the Seventy-
fourth congress just before it closed,
and had the tacit approval of the new
administration, although President
Roosevelt said he believed it would
have to he perfected by amendment.
It set up a compulsory pension plan,
requiring contributions by both the car¬
riers and the benefited employees. The
District of Columbia courts held that
(lie law went too far when It Included
intrastate as well as Interstate employ¬
ees and when It gave workers retire¬
ment credit for the time they had
spent in the service prior to passage
of the act.
A LL the vast British empire eele-
** brated the silver jubilee of King
George V and Queen Mary—the twen¬
ty-fifth anniversary of their accession
—and for three months
there will be a contin¬
uous series of fetes in
the United Kingdom
and all the dominions
and dependencies. Lon¬
don, of course, was the
scene of the chief cele¬
bration on the open¬
ing day, and the me¬
tropolis was thronged
with visitors. Hotels
and rooming houses
King were overcrowded and
George the king ordered that
Hyde Park be kept open so some of
the overflow thousands could sleep
there.
There were seven state processions
the first day. Tiie first was that of the
speaker of the house of commons, Capt.
Edward A. Fitzgerald, with five ancient
gilded coaches; the second, that of
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald,
with six coaches in which rode the do¬
minion prime ministers. Then came a
two-coach procession of Lord High
Chancellor Sankey, and one of the lord
mayor of London, Sir Stephen Killik.
The fifth procession was that of the
duke of York, from Buckingham pal¬
ace, two carriages with a captain’s
escort of the magnificently appareled
royal horse guards.
The prince of Wales, as heir to the
throne, came sixth. He had with him
a captain’s escort of the Life Guards
and two carriages, in the first of which
he rode with Queen Maml of Norway
and his brother, the duke of Glouces¬
ter, like him, a bachelor.
Finally, in the most gorgeous parade
of all, came George and Mary, and ns
their ornate coach, drawn by the fa¬
mous grays, passed, the voices of all
loyal Britishers rose in a roar of
“God bless the king and queen.” The
rulers, accompanied by all the other
notables, went to St. Paul’s cathedral
to give public thanks to God.
rxiSREGARDING the wishes of Pres-
\J dent Roosevelt, the finance com¬
mittee of the senate adopted and re¬
ported for passage a simple resolution
continuing the nation¬
al recovery act until
April 1, 1938, and at
the same time making
these provisions:
1. No price fixing
shall be permitted or
sanctioned in codes,
except in those re¬
lating to mineral or
natural resources
which now have price
fixing provisions. Donald
2. No trade en¬ Richberg
gaged In intrastate
commerce shall be eligible for a code.
3. The President is given specified
time in which to review present codes
to carry out the conditions laid down
in the first two exceptions to the reso¬
lution.
Both President Roosevelt and Don¬
ald Richberg, head of the NRA, had
urged the passage of a new two-year
NRA bill which would set up a stricter
dictatorship over business and indus¬
try. The senate finance committee,
however, would not consent to this and
instead passed the resolution, which
was drawn up by Senator Clark of
Missouri and approved by Chairman
Pat Harrison. Twelve senators first
called at the White House and the
President seemed willing to accept the
continuing resolution until Mr. Rich¬
berg came in and protested urgently;
whereupon Mr. Roosevelt turned It
down. The committee then took the
action noted by a vote of 16 to 3. de¬
fying both the President and Rich¬
berg.
D AHIA. third city of the republic of
Brazil, was overwhelmed by furi¬
ous storms and torrential rains, and
the destruction was extended to all
the surrounding country. Communica¬
tions were demoralized, but fragmen¬
tary reports told of terrible scenes of
death and devastation. It was believed
that at least 400 lives were lost and
probably 2,000 persons rendered home¬
less. Rescue and relief work was be¬
ing carried on as well as possible by
hundreds of soldiers and the govern¬
ment agencies.
'TMVO thousand young Catholics of
•a Germany made an Easter pilgrim¬
age to Rome, and on their return home
they were treated as political suspects,
stripped of their mementoes and held
for a time in a concentration camp.
Addressing another group of Pilgrims
from Germany, Pope Pius made a
strong protest against this action of
the Nazis who, he said, "wish in the
name of so-called positive Christianity
to de-Christianize Germany, and they
wish to conduct the country back to
barbaric paganism, and nothing is left
undone to disturb Christian and Cath¬
olic life.”
'T'HE senate committee named to de-
vise a means of curbing such at¬
tacks on the President as are fre
quently made by Huey Long on the
floor of the senate has
not yet reported, but
it is said Senator Ben
nett Champ Clark of
Missouri has figured
out how it can be
done. Clark Is the
upper chamber's chief
expert on parliamen¬
tary procedure and
for four years he was
parliamentarian of the
lower house. His
Senator plan is to rewrite rule
B. C. Clark 19 of the senate rules
to include the President and so pro¬
tect him from unwarranted attacks
and slanders. That rule reads at
present:
“No senator in debate shall, direct¬
ly or Indirectly, by any form of words
Impute to another senator or to other
senators any conduct or motive un¬
worthy or unbecoming a senator.”
One of Long’s favorite ways of
launching his diatribes is to rise to a
question of personal privilege, and
Clark proposes that in this respect the
senate rules be changed to conform
with those of the house. In that body
when a member feels he has been ag¬
grieved he must explain exactly how
he has been Injured before he is per¬
mitted to speak. The speaker decides
whether or not his injury is Justified.
Senator Glass of Virginia has failed
at various times to silence the “King
fish” and he, too, has a plan he thinks
might help accomplish that end. He
recommends a requirement that all
amendments offered to an appropria¬
tion bill be germane. Such a require¬
ment would affect other senators, hut
Glass’ move admittedly is directed
against Long.
YUGOSLAVIA’S dictatorship will
* be continued and enlarged, for
Premier Yevtitch’s government party
won a sweeping victory at the polls;
this, despite the fact that the small
towns and villages of Croatia gave an
overwhelming vote for tiie opposition
leader, Dr. Vladimir Matchek.
TN THE name of 400.000 Knights of
1 Columbus, Martin H. Carmody, su¬
preme knight of the order, has sent to
President Roosevelt a letter urging
American diplomatic Intervention on
behalf of Catholics in Mexico. The
matter has been up in congress at va¬
rious times but quite naturally the ad¬
ministration is hesitant about interfer¬
ing in what Mexico considers a domes¬
tic affair.
SECRETARY ICKES’ Department of
^ the Interior has now been elevated
to the level of the State, Treasury and
Agriculture departments, for congress
has granted one of Harold’s dearest
wishes and given him an undersecre¬
tary, whose salary is to be $10,000 a
year. This was a senate amendment to
the Interior department appropriation
bill, and was accepted by the house,
243 to 92, only after considerable pres¬
sure had been applied by the adminis¬
tration. Many of the house Democrats
have asserted that Mr. Ickes snubbed
them, and they would have liked noth¬
ing better than to administer a rebuke
to him by defeating the amendment,
hut the party leaders drove them into
line.
POLICE of Havana apparently are
» well on the way to solution of the
mystery of the fire which destroyed
the Ward liner Morro Castle, and other
recent marine disasters. They have ar¬
rested three men, all natives of Cata¬
lan province in Spain, and say that
they found on their persons letters of
Instructions concerning the destruction
of the steamship Magallanes of the
Spanish line, which was soon due in
Havana. The documents, according to
the authorities, ordered the accused to
“take necessary action to precipitate a
disaster similar to that of the Morro
Castle." The police say the prisoners
are well-known anarchists.
r'OREIGN MINISTER PIERRE LA
t 1 VAL of France and Ambassador
Potemkin of Russia finally fixed up
the mutual assistance pact between
the two countries in a way acceptable
to both and it was signed In Paris.
M. Laval then prepared to leave for
Moscow, planning to stop in Warsaw
en route.
It would seem that Laval had his
way with the treaty, for it subordi¬
nates military action of the two powers
to the procedure of the League of Na¬
tions. to provisions of the Locarno
pact and also to the Franco-Polish alli¬
ance.
A RIZONA’S victory over the govern-
ment in the Parker dam case
ruled on by the Supreme court alarmed
the New Dealers for the safety of
some of their other big projects of the
same nature. The court decided that
Secretary Ickes, as public works ad¬
ministrator, was without authority to
dam navigable rivers unless specifically
ordered by congress and that the law
creating the PWA had not listed any
such specific projects as tba Parker
dam.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building Washington, D. C.
Washington.—Probably the most not¬
able incident of recent days in Wash¬
ington Is the explo-
Blast at sion of a bomb by
New Deal business. It is sig¬
nificant and impor¬
tant that the business voice, as repre¬
sented by the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, has spoken in
such emphatic terms about the New
Deal. It is further a matter of sig¬
nificance that the business voice criti-
sized the New Deal generally as well
as specifically, beenuse it is the first
time in tiie period since President
Roosevelt took charge that anything
like unity in business thought has been
presented.
The reaction was Instantaneous.
First, Secretary Roper of the Depart¬
ment of Commerce mustered 21 mem¬
bers of his business advisory commit¬
tee for a counter attack. It was al¬
most drowned out by the chamber's
roar. Such w-as not the case, however,
with the President’s reply. He waited
until tiie convention had ended to let
loose a charge that the business in¬
terests were selfish. It made all the
front pages.
This brings us to tiie crux of the
condition precipitated by the outburst
of the Chamber of Commerce conven¬
tion. It is seldom, and I believe the
record shows this statement to be ab¬
solutely true, that annual conventions
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States have been taken serious¬
ly by the newspapers. The business
men have been looked upon as posses¬
sors and promoters of rather anti¬
quated ideas. Their interests have
been and are of a selfish character.
That is quite obvious and quite nat¬
ural. But at this time, the voice of
business speaks more than just busi¬
ness views. It speaks politically.
Hence, when business spoke this time
the newspapers of the country paid
heed. The result was an unprecedent¬
ed amount of publicity was obtained
by the chamber through the medium of
Its convention this year.
Whether this represents a change in
the thought of the country, surely no
one Individual of any group is able
to say definitely. It must be recog¬
nized, however, that for many months
a highly vocal minority of politicians
has been accusing the administration
of throttling criticism. Although this
group fought vigorously and charged
the administration with having the
greatest propaganda machine ever to
exist. It obtained little publicity for
those views. Most newspapers dis¬
missed them by publication of three or
four paragraphs, buried on the inside
pages of the metropolitan dailies. So,
necessarily, significance attaches to the
fact that when the business voice was
raised in apparent unity the newspa¬
pers accorded columns of space to it. It
can be construed In no other way than
as meaning there is a larger opposi¬
tion to some phases of the New Deal
at least than most of ns had expected.
• * *
For quite a while such groups as the
American Liberty league have pounded
away at certain
Opposition phases of the New
Unified Deal. To the Wash¬
ington observers it
appeared that these groups were get¬
ting nowhere and getting there fast.
Of a sudden, however, the voice op¬
posed to the New Deal seems to have
found itself. Certainly* at the moment
and for the first time, there is an ap¬
proximation of unity to New Deal
opposition and that fact is reflected in
a rather Important way. I refer to
the courage exhibited In congress
where there is more and more evi¬
dence of a decision on the part of the
legislators to assert their independence
in contradistinction to previous silent
obedience to the White House.
I believe it is too early to attempt a
prediction whether the Chamber of
Commerce leadership will hist. If I
were to make an individual guess I
would say that leadership of this type
will crumble. That guess is predicated
upon the record of the past 'because
heretofore it has been true that
business always suffered defections
and presently there was bushwhacking
in its own camp. Regardless of
whether that condition develops again,
the explosive character of the speeches
In the chamber’s convention have
added a momentum to Roosevelt oppo¬
sition which it has lacked heretofore.
It is just possible, therefore, that even
If business leadership fails In its efforts
to curb radical tendencies among the
administration group, a well knit oppo¬
sition may now be developing.
Pursuing this assumption further,
one hears suggestions around Washing¬
ton to the effect that a genuine and
basic issue for the 1936 campaign may
be in the making. It would seem that
Mr. Roosevelt will be forced into the
position again of appealing to the
forgotten man of his 1932 campaign
who has since been forgotten. The
conservative thought of the country
meanwhile will marshal behind the
home owners, the possessors of property
and capital and the workers whose In¬
come must be taxed heavily in subse¬
quent years to pay for the program
of spending our way out of the de¬
pression.
Some support Is seen for this theory
of probable issues in 1936 in the recent
statement of Postmaster General Far¬
ley who spoke politically as chairman
•f the Democratic national committee
In almost so many words, Mr. F arl
declared that the ,
business interest “
had not been favorable to Mr. r 00
velt; that they were not now f av
able to him and that there w as
reason to expect the ^
support of bust V
ness hereafter. Mr. Farley, clever p
tlcian that he is, 0
recognizes that an
der conditions ’
present there are mor
votes on the side of the man who an
peals to those who have not than
there are on the side of the man
appeals to those who have.
On the other hand, government sta
tistics show that ’
something lik e 65
000,000 persons hold life Insurance
policies; that something like 20 .(kki,ooo
have saving accounts In banks; that
there are around 10,000,000 home own-
ers In the nation, and that even at the
lowest point of the depression there
were more people working for salaries
and wages than there were une®.
ployed. Mr. Farley’s guess apparently
is that so many of these workers hare
had their incomes reduced that they
will support a candidate who prom.
Ises to Improve their condition. i n
their numbers lies the difference be-
tween victory and defeat.
In addition to these factors, there li
to be considered the probability of de¬
fections caused by such demagogic
leadership as the Longs and the
Coughlins. Saner thinking people
know, of course, that the program*
which Senator Long and Father Cough-
lin have been preaching far and wide
are as impossible of fulfillment as
was the EPIC program advanced by
Upton Sinclair in his California cam¬
paign. But it may not be overlooked
that these men can and will pull to¬
gether several million voters.
* * •
No discussion of the controversy be*
tween business and President Roose-
velt would he com¬
fy nA the plete without consid-
Hot Spot oration of the NRA.
It Is the hottest spoi
in congress right now. The situation
is of such a character as to be com¬
parable to a carbuncle on your neck.
Those who have had carbuncles will
fully understand.
A few days ago, Mr. Roosevelt called
the most obstreperous of opposition
senators to the White House for t
conference on the question of what
to do about extending the national Ip ’
dustrial recovery act. It is due to
expire by limitation of law on June 16.
He cleverly invited Miss Perkins, the
secretary of labor, and Donald Rich¬
berg, the guiding hand of the Recovery
administration, to sit in on that meet¬
ing. It was only natural that two
such avid New Dealers as Miss Per¬
kins and Mr. Richberg should hold out
for continuation of NRA for a two-
year period. And it was only natural
for senators who do not believe whole¬
heartedly In all of the NRA principles-
to insist on a makeshift, or temporary
continuation. The President put them
into a cockpit to fight it out. The
resulting disagreement was perfectly
logical but the President had put him¬
self in a position to trade with con¬
gress.
Since the NRA opponents in con¬
gress did not yield, they naturally went
back to the Capitol and framed their
own program. Th«(v propose to have
NRA continued, with some of its un¬
satisfactory features eliminated, to
April of next year. They probably will
be able to muster enough support to
pass some such legislation. If they
do, the President will accept it. Actual¬
ly, he has no choice. He cannot allow
the policy represented by NRA to-
crash completely. It would mean i
political defeat which the President,
strong as he is, probably could not
withstand.
• • •
It is a wiser and sadder Blue Eagl* 1
that is proposed in the senate resolu¬
tion continuing NR-L
Wiser That resolution 1»
Blue Eagle equipped with scis¬
sors to trim the tail
feathers of the famed eagle so that It
cannot operate against businesses
whose traffic Is wholly within a state-
intrastate—nor will it permit price
fixing. which
The senate finance committee
drafted this resolution reported it to
the senate by the overwhelming vote
of sixteen to three. That shows better
than any words of mine how thorough¬
ly determined that senate group was to
override the Richberg-Perkins views on
administration policy. Succinctly, i ,ie
continuing resolution provides for
changes in the current law as follows-
1. No price fixing shall be permitted
or sanctioned under any code except in
codes covering mineral or natural re¬
sources industries that now embody
the price fixing principle.
2. No trade engaged wholly in {
trastate commerce shall be placed on
der code.
3. The President will have W day*
in which to review present codes 0
fair practice in order to revise ao
adjust each so that it will conform
the provisions of the new NRA. „
”1 think this is the best way out.
said Senator Harrison, Democrat 0
Mississippi, chairman of the cnmui--^ this reso¬
“I feel certain we can pass of a*
lution without a great amount
bate and it will give NRA time to *'
just Itself and give the courts finm •
rule on the various questions of -
validity.”
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