Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-30 | Page 2 | Hoover Aide Offers Finance Program to Help Trade Revival

Hoover Aide Offers Finance Program to Help Trade Revival i i of Antitrust Antitrust An An- C. C of C. C Chairman Urges Law Revision Disarmament Disarmament Dis Dis- armament Fairer Taxes 8 Br United Untied Press FlU ATLANTIC CITY N. N J J. Sept 30 One One of President Hoovers Hoover's closest advisers Julius H. H Barnes chairman ol ot the United States Chamber of Commerce has suggested a concrete national program which h he believes bring better times Restored confidence is the primary need of the day Barnes told the tile annual annual an an- nual meeting of the American Electric Electric Elec Elec- Railway association Fear Pear and timidity cause paralysis in a thou- thou land zand directions he said To revive confidence and energize business anew he proposed a broad program of international cooperation and of or governmental action to free freel commerce from hampering hamperIng- Specifically he urged that the United Stat States s 1 Join the world court and thereby thereby thereby there there- by show international cooperation and wilL good FA FAVORS DISARMAMENT tENT 2 Prepare to support a R sound program of international finance to follow tollow the short moratorium 3 Press for e effective results from the coming disarmament conference 4 Stretch and spread employment employment employment employ employ- ment to the utmost According to the special conditions of each industry industry industry indus indus- try adopt the shorter week 5 Relieve the year old antitrust antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust laws which toda today destroy the small sinai business because it is unlawful to consult regarding production and distribution 6 Frame our tax requirements to spread justly and fairly where it itcan itcan can cau best be borne without Injury URGES ECONOMY Give Industries like 7 regulated the railroads a fair chance to maintain main maIn- tain their earnings and credit 8 Exercise economy In lu national expenditures 9 Reassure the individual AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican that we shall preserve the tradition tradition tradition tion of private enterprise and that government shall be bc an umpire only Terminate the emergency operations operations operations op op- op- op In commodities of the farm board Transfer to private operation the government barge lines on western west west- ern erzi rivers End the agitation for government operation of Muscle Shoals OBJECTS TO DOLE 10 Continue to adjust the pro- pro tad tariff to represent only the difference In wage scale and living standards against cheaper labor com corn 1 Use the great reservoir of American sympathy and its genius for organization in caring for cases of individual misfortune 12 Avoid in any form donations from rom the national treasury as charIty charity charty char- char Ity ty doles but maintain employment in n justified public works until private private private vate industry can reabsorb its full quota quota-