Show PANDORA OR PANACEA S 1 O NCE CE upon a time Jupiter in vengeful spirit spir spi It it summoned Yul Vulcan an Olympian smith tomake to tomake make a a statue Enlivened it was Pandora who vho was entrusted with a box as a gift to her bridegroom wooed and won her I a and ll from om the beauteous creature c received the box Immediately he opened it out flew all t the e eevi evi evils s that flesh is heir to the last being hope Then in those remote times there was Panacea daughter of with power to heal every human ill And Prince Ahmed's apple appl apple th the apple of Samarcand likewise likewise cured cfred ed all disorders Corning Coming to a later day there was Sir Launcelot who touched the tho wounds of f Sir with Sir Gilberts Gilbert's sword and wiped them with the cerecloth and anon anona a man was he never in all his life w Well cU all that was a n long time ago ago but but now for going on close to a year we have had the N R A A. and at its head tho the gallant and blustery General Gener l Hugh Thigh S. S Johnson Hailed as asa asa a pan panacea cea for all our economic ills 1115 as the apple ap ap- 5 of the eye of the administration and as the sword with which the depression was to be battled to a whisper it has been on tho the other h hand nd denounced as a Pandora's box out of which hitherto unknown evils and menaces have flown to vex business and industry Pl Planned nned to release American enterprise from the restraints of the Sherman antitrust law t to tc open the Ithe way ay for fair c competition to adjust adust ad ad- just wages and hours and to put the nations nation's 1 unemployed back to work and thereby defrost b buying ying power nevertheless General Genera Johnson h has s been deluged by complaints that codification codification tion of industry is destroying it that big business busi ness is wiping out Ittle business that labor is destroying capital apitai and ancl that destroy destroy- i ing labor It is called socialistic communistic fascist f capitalistic and what have you So that is why beginning yesterday Wash j ington gt nis is SiB having its N R B. A A. field day For the first time in ll history story all the major ind industries S. S of the he nation are arc ir r represented by men sp specifically cally and lawfully chosen to speak for them S Th They y arc are not propagandists politicians or I J for chambers of commerce whey They lh y are are e authorities assembling to point pu put JUu lAi and he J weakness 8 oj d igi in I. I j 4 r The objective is such revision of endeavor endeavor en en- deavor as its' experience demands The he public hearing of yesterday will he-fol he lowed on March i i by the gathering of the themore themore themore more than code bound by bythe bytho the tho agenda to present only factual matter for consideration While some of this may go before before be be- fore the tho me meeting ting with pronounced emphasis there are arc to be n no soapbox orations and no campaign speeches es These sessions come pretty close to being trial by jury for N R A A. General J Johnsons Johnson's opening statement was pungent and character character- Itis It-is a clear reflection of his Ilia and President President dent Roosevelt's estimate of national recovery looking backward and a forecast as well If one makes allowances for the thunder and Bud force usual in the the- administrator so some e of the storm and andl tempest of the opening blast pears It is interesting material for analysis on its own account but it will be more profitable profitable profit profit- able to await the outcome of the whole meet before attempting to assemble all aU the pieces of the saw jigsaw puzzle of the tho national recovery effort by governmental direction for direction for it does remain a puzzle puzzIe to be put together The code authorities and General Johnson are bound to discover that some of the pieces do not fit The administrator admits as much and even eyen indica indicates es how they will have lave to be reshaped When this historic meeting is over it will probably turn out to be the most fateful clinic on business and industry ever eve held in America 1 |