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Show DOCTORS DISAGREE. The country is being subjected to an exchange of sensational charges and counter-charges as tho aftermath of the abolition of the industrial board created cre-ated to reduce the cost of living by stabilizing prices. Chairman Peek of the defunct board accuses the administration adminis-tration of political motives iu repudiating repudi-ating the program of the organization previously approved 'by the president and in his most recent statement takes parting shots at Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Glass, Attorney General Palmer and Director General Hincs of tho railroad administration. The secretary of the treasury responds with a decidedly warm statement charging that the industrial in-dustrial board has failed in its attempt at-tempt to carry out the original plan which in general he had approved to reach an understanding with producers as to bedrock prices, and, having failed, has disregarded its assigned functions func-tions by fixing minimum prices for the public in defiance of instructions. Its subsequent efforts to force these prices on the railroad administration and its failure to recede from its action in attempting at-tempting to fix prices for the general public for the year, the secretary says, confirms him in the view that the board was "hopelessly committed to a dangerous dan-gerous and unsound policy." He characterizes char-acterizes as a perversion of the truth Mr. Peek's reference to himself, adding that Mr. Peek "has persistently practiced prac-ticed deception in nearly every public statement he has made." The repudiation of tho board by the administration, according to Chairman Peek, may have been due cither to fear of the political effect of the successful operation of a program of which it could not claim authorship or to tho inconsistency in-consistency of the board's achievement in reviving business with a contemplated contemplat-ed Democratic platform for state socialism so-cialism in 1920. Doubtless this matter will be threshed out at the coming session of congress, when it is probable that the reasons underlying un-derlying the controversy will become clear. The imbroglio is discreditable all around. But it has progressed to a point wdiere it is imperative that the public be acquainted with the reasons prompting the exchange of accusations. |