Show Blowing Hot and d Cold MANY there arc who will admit that Ed- Ed kyL ward A. A of Boston is one of thc the country's oU try's outstanding merchants Not so many acclaim him as an infallible prophet despite the fact that he has covered the great great- er r p part rt of f the United States in his rc recent travels ravels to o get set hand first information about abot it anti and to impart a t his bis is a advice i t to b busi- busi si V V 1 i iii t i L if v r t ness men inca at innumerable luncheons and ban ban- In a year end statement he lie describes the outlook for 1935 as at the same time very verj er bright and and very dubious In tl thus us blowing hot ho and cold in the same breath he lie predicts that tha the United States may mar experience full fun cry within the year or worse luck may be bo jn in ii such a crisis that the government will have to swing ying far to the left His viewing with alarm is based on a most astounding premise It serves to remove him from among those to whom the country should look ook for sage counsel He Ie warned that tha if business and the supreme court to lo quote a Boston dispatch of the Associated l Press ress failed to cooperate with the president the country might be comp compelled to turn to socialistic socialistic so so- measures He had in mind that the nations nation's highest court ma may rule that certain vital parts of the new deal den I are arc unconstitutional thus demolishing our half built structure structure ture turc of recovery V The sort of cooperation on the part of the supreme court that Mr Ir Filene seems to have haven in n mind would wipe out both the constitution and the faith of the nation in the court itself Business banking labor farming and all their cousins may cooperate with the thc president or whomsoever the they wish and it is nobody's business business business busi busi- ness but their own The audacity of the Boson Boston Bos Bos- ton on merchant in shaking his finger under the noses of the justices on the supreme bench barely escapes being contemptuous They may however if it they take any notice of the absurd ab ab- surd urd utterance regard it as proceeding from froman an acute attack of depression jitters and let it ito go o at that They rhey know it is not written that they hey shall cooperate with the new deal or the theold theold old Id deal Theirs is the square deal department and the they are arc seeking no lay Jay advice on lion to torun torun toun run un it |