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Show National Whirligig Truman Puts -Business In Quandary . By Bay Tarfcer WASHINGTON American businessmen have complained to ' the more responsive members of President Trumaa'a official family that they cannot make plana for the critical fall winter months ahead because of the Inconsistent In-consistent ad clashing statements state-ments out of Washington on what ths administration has la store for them. They have voiced these fears, to such comparatively sympathetic sympa-thetic men as Commerce Secretary Secre-tary Char lee F. Sawyer, Federal Reserve Chairman Thomas B. McCase, and Edwin G. Nourse, head of the president's council of economic advisers. At Mr. Truman's suggestion these three have been meeting regularly reg-ularly but Informally with industrialists indus-trialists and retailers In various sections of ths country. So baa Treasury Secretary Snyder, Objective They began their canvasses early In ths year, when deflationary trends had led to curtailment of consumer 'purchases and manufacturing shutdowns. They had two purposes pur-poses in mind. The first was to ascertain the state of mind of the business community Its werrlss and prospects and the second was to try to convince them, that they had nothing to fear from Mr. Truman's broad, long-time program. Basic objective, of course, waa to allay apprehension and to stimulate both confidence and activity thajt would check the Increase In unemployment the caution of customers and the . downward spiralling. Although never admitted by the White House, it waa a deliberate and frontal' attack on the 1O4S-1M0 - recession, albeit mainly psychological. psy-chological. . . I renned Although the three have made fairly hopeful reports to John R. Steelmaa, presidential presiden-tial aid ia this field, they must admit that there ia some reason for businessmen to be confused and lack confidence. The pledges and prospects offered of-fered by the Sswyer-Snyder-Mc-Cabe-Nourse quartet according to their listeners and clinical patients, do not jibe with the outcries of other official spokesmen, spokes-men, Including Mr. Trumaa himself. him-self. ; The Labor' day speeches of President Truman, Secretaries Tobin and Brannan, aa well aa the even more violent outbursts of such Whits House allies la William Green and Phillip Murray, Mur-ray, came at aa especially us-approprlate us-approprlate moment according, to businessmen. They may tend, ea the very eve of the expected autumn pickup, to counteract the soothing words of Messrs. Sawyer, McCabe and Hours, Bright Aa official members of "the family." these Trumaa salesmen could hardly, reply that although sympathetic to business and Industry, the president presi-dent must make vote-getting pledgee contrary to his supposed private objective. - What they did do. instead, la to discuss the bright side of current conditions and to forecast continued Improvement Im-provement oa a short-term basis at least |