Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND GO GO ROUND Trade Mark lark By Drew Pearson and arid Robert S. S Allen AlIen Authora Authors of at Wn Washington Round Merry end and endMore More Ioro Round Go WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It It looks as if old John Public the guy who has been taking N R A Aprice Aprice Aprice price boosts on the chin and saying nothing has hils finally awakened In the hearing on the retail coal conI code the theother theother theother other day an unobtrusive individual got to his feet and asked for the floor I represent the consumer he said S Coal dealers and N R A officials gasped Never before had anything like this happened They let the intruder intruder Fred Fred Hoisington of New NewYork York York make make his spiel and afterward jumped on him with all their feet This however was just the beginning Vanous Various Various Vari Van ous consumers and consumer organizations had been getting up p steam Among these was Mrs Roosevelt The first lad lady of the land is a careful careful careful care care- ful buyer Mrs Roosevelt helped to sponsor a meeting of consumer organizations last week One of the most healthy achievements of this conference was was the th-e realization that the consumers consumers' consumers consumers' consumers consumers' con con- sumers' sumers advisory ad board of the N R A had been beena a complete flop Mrs Mary Harriman Rumsey Rumsey Rum- Rum sey scy the chairman is is well-meaning well and de delightful dc- dc but completely inadequate An inheritor in inheritor inheritor in- in heritor of the Harriman railroad millions she has little realization of the consumers' consumers lem At last weeks week's consumers' consumers conference she was put on the spot Professor Colston Warne of Amherst among others grilled her for her boards board's failure Yes yes replied Mrs Rumsey I Tully fully agree But what would you have the consumers consumers' consumers consumers' consumers consumers' con con- sumers' sumers advisory board do about it Professor Warne is tall taU and slow He blinked at Mrs Rumsey for a moment finally drawled You could take a position and then if it wasn't adopted you could resign This is what Professor W. W F. F Ogburn first head of the consumers' consumers board did but it is the last thing Mrs Rumsey wants to do dp Mrs Rumsey is having the time of her life and would not give up her job for worlds CRISIS T Today day more than at any other time the consumers consumers' consumers consumers' consumers consumers' con con- sumers' sumers situation has come to a head The crisis is due to the transfer of the food codes from the agricultural adjustment administration to the N R A. A Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and his brain trust group had refused to compromise compromise com corn promise these codes In Fred Howe consumers' consumers counsel of the A A A Wallace Vallace had a fighting protector of the public But Johnson favors rushing the codes through regardless of the consumer The showdown showdown showdown show show- down is coming on the master food code This covers retail and wholesale grocery dealers doing a business of a year It is of tremendous imp importance to the housewife Consumers' Consumers counsel for the A A A insisted that the code maintain three important points 1 1 Consumers' Consumers grades and standards 2 The 2 The right of the government to have access to books 3 3 No price fixing by food stores John Public is awake but still he may have to pay the bill 1 ROUND MERRY ROUND GO The legal divisions of both the N R A and the national labor board are working day and night preparing for an early test of the constitutionality constitutionality of the recovery act The issue is expected to center around Section Ia the clause guaranteeing ing labor the right to collective collective tive bargaining Jack Levin legal research director of the N R B A spends most of f his time in the congressional library assembling favorable favorable favor favor- favorable able precedents The Duke endowment created by the millions millions mil mu- lions left by the late multimillionaire tobacco and water power magnate has joined the propaganda propaganda propaganda pro pro- against the presidents president's monetary policy It has financed the distribution of a page 75 booklet written by former Ambassador to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many Andrew D. D White attacking inflation S I The brochure Fiat Money Inflation in France purports to be a historical account of what inflation did to France during its revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary revo revo- days Copyright 1933 by United Feature Syndicate Syndicate Syn Syn- Inc |