| Show Observer Takes Critical Inventory Of Perils Now Nov Threatening Recovery I By BURTON KLINE Within the next GO 60 days das the country country coun coun- try ry must brace itself for a shock You may ask how on earth a nation that hat has taken the raps of the pas pasour past t four our years can be shocked again The answer Is simple In the past tour four years the people of America have been aen handed a shining hope of rising beyond reach of the thc raps The shock shoe will come of a probable chill chiU to that tha hope hop lope and the chief salvation left lef them hem will be that they shall not aban aban- don on hope entirely In 60 days more N R A will stand act pt as a failure but as bogged down under the thc mountainous task it tackled From the president down every force orce behind N R A has striven with might and main to perform a miracle that lat had to 10 be done overnight No leadership on earth could have mastered mas mas- what it set out to accomplish accomplish- remodeling in 90 days the enormous complicated mechanism of the greatest greatest great great- est of industrial nations This alone was enough and N R A attempted more overnight nore overnight industry from under a mountain of ofle the le accumulated economic blunders of f years Observers who know know- American business down to the ground and andave have ave had inside looks at the les of N R H A have seen for tor weeks what is coming Have watched i it with growing apprehension with sin cere ere grief NO O HUMAN BLAMABLE The pity of it is that no human thing ling is to no blame blunderer who might be removed and replaced Events circumstances things imponderable but of gigantic scope threaten threat threat- en n to overwhelm the recovery drive This lor for example Hardly had Mr Roosevelt warmed the presidential chair hair than he proposed as a way ou out of f the depression the putting of millions millions mil lions of idle Americans back to work and nd so to buying again Government and nd business as partners should boss bossie the ie proceedings The nation hurrahed Business itself sick devil that it was turned monk In fact Mr Roosevelt Roosevel uncovered an unexpected third parter part part- the ncr the effectual effectual- er only one so far some ome millions of Americans fired to o religious fervor by this blinding ne nev ew w. w hope pope of soaring out of their mis cries ries Without a seconds second's delay the para to perform this miracle was set et up The presidential wand was waved and the country waited wafted with faUn faith and with b bated breath But Bu behind this moral miracle endless practical radical practical miracles had first to be wrought Running the hundreds o of thousands of ot shops and factories o our of 01 our ur millions turned out to be something more than a revival meet meet- Lag ng Improved itself a technical anc and administrative task of staggering size and nd complexity Rushing into it N NR R A discovered instanter all the tri tough gh things concealed con con- and f Its gaps and nd holes were likewise discovered- discovered iome some of them of fatal importance This for one N V R E A DISCOVERS DI A AMYTH lYT When the thc great partnership was set up N l It d into these hundreds hundreds nun hun hun hun- reds of trade associations fostered when Mr Hoover w was s secretary o of commerce He or his made madea a proud list of them Every line of trade rade and manufacture appeared to have lave one or more of these ons At last it was boasted American Amerian Ameri Amen can an business was organized for partnerships partnerships part part- of its own On this roster ready to hand N RA WA I Iby leaned heavily Here Herc was a handle by which business could be grasped and hauled as a whole into the new and greater partnership By this simpie simple simple sim sim- pie means a vast world of detail could be handled with ready made skill and nd experience S The accuracy of ot this list prepared by Mr Hoover was taken for granted In feverish haste to get going goins N R A seized upon it at face acc value value and and found it a myth a mirage Those trade associations had truly enough existed existed once once in good times Hard Hardtimes Hardtimes Hardtimes times had left half of ot them skeletons The list itself was a skeleton Some of the thc tougher bodies had weathered the financial famine Many were vestigial 1 if even cven that In eight weeks or days daj's N R A Ahad had either cither to reconstruct reconstruct recon Mr Hoovers Hoover's eight years of labor or tug on without it No one will wm ever accuse the N R A administration of stinting a second of its time or an ounce of oC its energy No Noone Noone Noone one can belittle the wonders it has accomplished or the courage it showed when that was our dir direst dirst st need It swelled Its personnel from the estimated to well over 1000 work work- ers It scorned its own codes in the matter of hours But not even General Gen eral Johson Is an army anny and time cannot cannot cannot can can- not be stretched The days are but 24 hours long and riot not the most brilliant bril and dogged leadership could pack into them more than so much WINTER PLAYS A PART So it is not alone the magnitude of ot the job but time that is laming the recovery drive For all the glare of publicity thrown on the codes only 1000 have been submitted only 30 approved approved with with more than others yet to come Winter also is coming with millions mil mit- lions still out of ot work still in distress a a distress perhaps to be made desperate desperate desperate des des- by dashed hopes and a dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- disappointment Some Som of these millions are frac- frac now Time impersonal im- im personal thin things are not the only mountain that N R H A must burrow from under in the next few weeks Forces personal enough oppose it The farmers for tor one Nothing so far thought of has wiped Continued on oh Pate Pace Five O Observer Takes 51 1 Critical i Inventory S i Continued fr from m rout J out th tb the tragic disparity between t the farmer takes for fot what he be s l seB and pays for what he buiN buys bui N 2 R R-A R Is 15 not nough enough for h him Quite ap apart r front from the written rec recovery program i gram he be wants inflation an and will g goad con f gress to get it when it-when when Inflation wl will i j l but bloat all prices and arid leave leav The the farmer where he is at the little e endl ld of the horn a Con Congress ess on n. n its it own a accord cord will soon be on N R A like a aton ton of bricks Snipers are at atit it from rom the b back ek offices of ot shop and factory The codes by bJ lifting costs and prices have fright r J I ened cued buyers an wilted and retail The business wolves of an on older olden day whose philosophy of ot and N R A was primarily set up to abolish are herding t to have It out of their wa way f fN N R A has enemies still more dead deat ly fantastic IY fantastic optimists who battem fast to any good goot thing and sad make mak ill it look silly All in in all In not many weeks week N R A will have gone through a terrible t tea test j of ot fire And the country itself go through a J. J worse one Its Ib people cople need to brace themselves for the sensible thing is throw out ut the warning Unless they are willing to take N R B A not as present t acco but as still sUU the only promising prom prom- ising the I plan coming winter ma may bring on a a. dangerous psychological cal sag w UI The The story of the recovery drive MT far tar is magnificent But It is not recovery Two and a qua quarter r million of ot the idle back to work is dous dons inspiring But It only chips a at the problem of reemployment For or all these commissions many are t to b l praised for all the omissions no per r.- r. son is to blame One thing alone h has s been lacking which the country itself can and must supply That 1 is Li time At that the time required may mayb bai i shorter than then the maze of present di dif appear to call caU for J. J years or three with enlightened youth coming on may maybe be enough But if that is not cheerfully forthcoming forth coming a suffering country may suf suf- fer still more It is not hyperbola to predict that its destiny for th the next ten years may hinge this winter on two forces and the faith aith they r re re- tam tain in each other the other the people an f. f 1 the president of the thel United States State or I- I Copyright 1933 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |
