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Show !! j ! Whose Idea? ( j Lest there bs any argument about "who started this i NRA idea," it may be of interest to know that it is at least j '. vears old .-md' nrolvil'iv !K)i). I ' Thomas Carlyle, the LXigiisn essayist and reformer, laid ' iDun the grouudw.uk -;f Ihe present plan in a book called I 'Past and Present." jf v--v '"t fnr llm Me o" it. whol" ' thapters of the book could be published today and accepted bv every reader as describing 1928-19.".S conditions. Carlyle even went so far as to see that a "war psychology" psychol-ogy" would be needed to put over the plan. The Roosevelt ' administration is frankly trying the same thing to put over the NRA scheme. Like Roosevelt, Cai l.vle noted that "government can do much, but it can in no wise do all." He proposed new codes nf elides for industry much as Roosevelt is doing. Nothing much came of Carlyle's plans. Maybe stern nc-cssitv has taught us. today, that they are not only worth trying, but have a good chance for success. |
