| Show THE SURE-SHOT SURE LOSER I IT ITIS T IS TOO evident that Clarence Darrow and General Hugh Johnson are about to inflict a vitriolic conflict between themselves upon a harried country Both are men of all too many words and it would have been better if we could have been spared the meaningless rue ruc ti tion n. n Whichever participant comes out the winner the public is the sure shot loser Darrow ace defender was faced by a great opportunity for lor service as an au impartial judge Instead he chose to be a prosecutor The re report re- re port of the review board of which ho lie was was' chairman failed wholly to present the finding finding find ing of facts but instead in words itis it itis itis is a mountain of prejudice The Tho he clear purpose in placing placing- with the boa board d the many complaints from small busine business busi busi- ne ness enterprises PL ht the codes were crippling I them was to assemble emble all relevant facts lel leading leading lead ing to a conclusion as liS to whether or not codification codification I cation of industry docs does foster monopoly and destroy fair com competition pc tit ion and to indicate what I should be done about it The report fails to toO todo todo do O this The Tue cost of tho the whole matter in time and money is a total washout Even the bitterest enemies of or General Johnson John ohn- T son will wiIl concede that his reply to the report is is well grounded The minority report of or J Joint John F. F Sinclair will command more respectful attention attention at ate than that of Darrow and tho the other four members of the bod body For such time as business business busi busi- ness may remain under codes Mr l Sinclair's proposal that several review boards for consideration consid consid- cration n of minor appeals be set up UI within N R It A and that a n permanent review board of appeal independent of N R R. A be constituted will win wide wid id approval This nation at a n time when ceo economic conditions conditions con con- were wore in the height of chaos accepted in its desperation the revolutionary program of the new leal We Ve arc are beginning inning to find out now what parts must be scrapped Experiment ment is proving that some of them will be bemore bemore more or less permanent wheels in the business and industrial machinery of the countr country but only after aftel gears have been made mado to mesh better better better bet bet- ter and the wheels to turn with less Jess friction and lost motion The Darrow board could have given valuable service if it had recommended mended what to save and what to discard The report indicates that the United States must go either fascist or communist It will vill do O neither All competition says the re report report re- re port is savage wolfish w and relentless Under Under Un Un- der an old deal or a new deal this people would not tolerate business of that character Moreover no new deal ever will drive rugged individualism out of of America It is in indigenous indigenous indigenous in- in to the tue soil The principle goes back to the founding Hays clays of the nation and is a guarantee of the fundamental law This people will insist though that this in individualism individualism in- in the rights to the fruits of individual indi vidual initiative genius and daring shall lie be ruggedly honest and fair It will insist that in n the exercise of constitutional guarantees no individual or group ma may infringe upon the rights of other individuals and groups That which is savage wolfish and relentless must be bc e driven out There can be and there thele must be found a way to establish fair competition without putting a policeman to watch ever every worker and every employer It is to th that t end that hat this new deal or some sonic other new deal must strive It is with this objective in view that fair- fair minded and nonpolitical critics are arc examining the he many instrumentalities of the whole recovery recovery ery cry setup Not all the criticism is destructive Not all springs from partisan sources Not all of it is is' launched from the citadels of capitalism capital- capital ism sm nor from the strongholds of labor It is isa a small minority of the American people peo- peo pie ile w which lc is committed to the high purpose pur- pur pose of of bringing the country out of turmoil strife and confusion s1 victoriously Live and let live Mot Io t of the tried and true old principles will survive many new and en- en 1 Ii lightened i g li h t ten C fl e C d ideas will fit into a modern sch scheme i uie c. c Traditional Americanism will not give jive way to alien political or social doctrines In n offering this cou country try choice between fascism fascism fas fas- cism or communism NT 1 Darrow and hi his llis concurring concurring con con- colleagues look with clouded vision on the he American scene become converts to a dc- dc distraction which happily has not seized the overwhelming majority of the thc citizenry cit cit- which remains calm and dogged resolved resolved resolved re re- re- re solved to go on n to victory They shout as as' Hamlet said to tho the king Icing Let the galled ja jade e wince our withers are |
