Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND MERRY GO ROUND Trade Mark Drew Robert S. S Allen By Pearson on and Authors Author of ot Round Merry and ARd nd Mora Go WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Privately Privately N R A executives are much concern concerned d over a serious weakness that has suddenly developed in the thc administration tion o of their great reat recovery undertaking The faulty link is the lack of alert ef effective effective effective ef- ef enforcing machinery to check evasions or violations of trade codes Bitter complaints from workers and union officials already are pouring into the thc N R It A of of- of fice In the thc textile industry it is charged that employers are dismissing workers and extending extending extend extend- extending ing the vicious stretch out system of piling more work vork on those who remain The Thc labor advisory board of the N R A has had several secret conferences on the problem The textile code provides that the industry shall snaIl police itself that is is the employers shall establish an 3 agency ency to see that all comply with the codes code's requirements S S S But the labor advisory board has branded this method ineffectual has lias demanded an in independent independent independent in- in dependent enforcement system to check on in in- in It wants special committees one for cac each industry whose sole job will be to en enforce enforce enforce en- en force codes These committees would consist of one representative of the employers one of labor and ind a neutral Complaints would be submitted to the committee which would in investigate investigate in- in and report to the department of justic justic justice jus jus- tic tice in instances where punitive action seemed necessary S S S Roosevelt's close advisers pr privately admit that the thc recovery plan now faces its most crucial crucial crucial cru cru- cial period The blanket code has been promulgated Special codes in many industries have been adopted Industry has been speeded up Everything now depends on the thc ability of people to bu buy It It is useless for factories to start if their product is going to gather d dust st in warehouses It is useless to raise prices if peo if-peo people peo- peo pie cannot buy even at the thc present level That is the crux of the administrations administration's chief worry That is why Roosevelt Roosevell is pushing so hard for wage boosts Prices he knows must not shoot up ahead of wages S S S SEagle Eagle eyes in the administration are glued on price ce increases increases- Last week Macys Macy's department department department depart depart- ment store in New York sent the administration tion a list of commodities on which wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale prices had increased 40 per cent since the New Deal Deat Macys Macy's also reported that the re retailer retailer retailer re- re could not pass along this increase The reason People arc arc not buying even at present prices prices' That i it why Roosevelt is staking his entire recovery plan on the blanket code S S S So elated is the thc Italian government over the boost to Fascist Americans friendship given by bythe bythe bythe the Balbo seaplane visit that it has been in communication with the Italian embassy here hereabout hereabout hereabout about another will good Vill stunt This would be a cruise along the Atlantic seaboard by one of Italy's crack new cruisers The Italians ans propose to to toman man it with young Roman aristocrats especially selected for their looks their manners and their ability to speak English sh The Thc Italians fi figure fiure ure that with historic American Franco friendship a little tarnished by the rows over the war debt and stabilizing the dollar now is the time to get one up on their traditional rivals S S S Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma got a telegram signed Chicago Board of Trade the theother theother theother other day and he is still wondering exactly who sent it Senator Thomas ha had issued a hot statement attacking the market debacle He followed this with a wire to the Chica Chicago o Board of Trade demanding that it clean house In reply Senator Senator Sen Sen- Senator ator Thomas received the following Why blame the thermometer for the heat S S S F. F B. B H. H Santa Fe e. e N. N M. M M. M.-lt It would be difficult difficult dif dif- difficult dif dif- to say what are the most popular pets in the thc nations nation's capital possibly cocker spaniels Incidentally Ray Baker of Nevada former fonner- di di director director di- di rector of the mint has a pair of Siamese cats of wh which ch he is fond but he is continually taking them to the vet L L. C. C P. P Worcester Mass The Thc proposal that the government grubstake gold prospectors and take a share of their strikes got no further further fur fur- further ther than a 3 mere proposal It never did I sound very practical even eyen when we were still on the gold standard Anonymous Greenville North Carolina Carolina- Careful check of your graft charges against Secretary Roper as commissioner of internal revenue under Wilson shows that he was much more scrupulous in collecting income and corporation corporation cor car taxes than his successors Some of oC the taxes collected b by Roper were refunded un under under under un- un der Andrew Mellon S. S H. H Brooklyn N. N Y The The state department department department depart depart- ment issues passports to anyone going to Russia Rus Rus- Russia sia sia except on very rare occasions However since the United States does not recognize Rus Bus Russia Russia sia the thc passport does not mention that country by name but reads instead All countries J. J J. J T. T Chicago President Chicago President Roosevelt was never in the navy He was assistant secretary of the navy for eight years including the thc world war period and had planned to resign and en en- en list He was dissuaded from this on the ground that he lie waS was more valuable as an executive lC Copyright 1933 United Features Syndicate Inc |