Show national topics interpreted b by y william bruckart Nat national tonai press building washington D C washington probably the most notable incident ot of recent days in washington Is the espilo blast at slon of a bomb by new deal business it Is significant ant and important that the business voice as represented by the chamber of commerce or of the united states has bas spoken in such soch emphatic terms about the new deal it Is further a matter of significance ance that the business voice cratl ariti sized the new deal generally as well as specifically because it Is the first time in the period since president roosevelt took char charge e that Rny anything thIng like unity in business thought has been presented the reaction was instantaneous first secretary roper koper of the depart ment of commerce mustered 21 members of his busl business nes advisory committee for a counter attack it was at almost drowned out by the chambers roar such was not the case however with the presidents reply tic rie waited until the convention had ended to let loose a charge that the business in teresta were selfish it made all the front paged this brings us to the crux of the condition precipitated by the outburst ot of the chamber of commerce convention it Is seldom and I 1 bellene bele the record shows this statement to be absolutely sol true that annual conventions or of the chamber of commerce of the united states have been taken seriously by the newspapers the business men have been looked upon as possessors and promoters of rather antiquated ideas their interests have been and are of a selfish character that Is quite obvious and quite natural but at this time the voice of business speaks more than just bustness business views it speaks politically lE nence lence when business spoke this time the newspapers of the country paid heed the result was an unprecedented amount of publicity was obtained by the chamber through the medium of its convention this year whether this represents a change in the thought of the country surely no one individual of any group Is able to say definitely it must be recognized however that for many months a highly vocal minority of politicians has been accusing the administration of throttling criticism although this thill group fought vigorously and charged the administration with having the greatest propaganda machine ever to exist it obtained little publicity for those views most newspapers dismissed them by publication of three or four paragraphs burled on the inside pages of the metropolitan dallies dairies so necessarily significance attaches to the fact that when alien the business voice was raised in apparent unity the newspapers accorded columns of space to toll it it can an be coaz construed trued in no other way than as meaning there Is a larger opposition to some phases of the new deal at least than most of us had expected r for or quite a while such groups as the american liberty league have pounded away at certain opposition phases of the new unified deal to the washington observers it appeared that these groups were getting nowhere and getting there fast of a sudden sodden however the voice opposed to tile the new deal seems to have found itself certainly at the moment and for the first time there Is an approximation of unity to new deal opposition and that tact fact Is reflected in a rather important way I 1 refer to the courage exhibited in congress where there Is more and more evidence of a decision on the part of the legislators to assert their independence in contradistinction to previous silent obedience to the white house I 1 believe it Is too early to attempt a prediction whether the chamber of commerce leadership will last it I 1 were to make an individual guess I 1 would say that hat leadership of this type will crumble that guess Is predicated upon the record of 0 the past because heretofore it has been true that business bosl ness always suffered defections and presently there was bush bushwhacking w hacking to la its own camp regardless of whether that condition develops again the explosive character of the speeches in the chambers convention hava added a momentum to roosevelt opposition which it has lacked heretofore it Is 13 just possible therefore that even it if business leadership tails falls in its efforts to curb radical tendencies among the administration group a well knit opposition may now be developing pursuing this assumption ton further one hears suggestions around washington to the effect that a genuine and basic issue for or the 1938 1936 campaign may ie be in the making it would seem that mr roosevelt will bo be forced into tile position again of appealing to tile the fo forgotten rotten man of Ms his 1932 1012 campaign who has since been ford forgotten otten the conservative thought of the country meanwhile will marshal behind the home owners the possessors of property and capital and the workers whose income must be taxed heavily in subsequent years to pay for the pro program rant of spen spending spendin din our way out of tb the de ue ri some support Is seen arcq fo this theory nt nf probable issues in 1930 in the recent recen statement of postmaster general fur ley who politically as al chairman of the Tc teijo ijo r it ire c in almost so many words mr parley farley declared that the business interests interest had not been favorable to mr roosevelt that they were not now favorable to him and that there was no reason to expect the support of bustness business hereafter mr parley farley clever politician that he Is recognizes that under present conditions there are more votes on the side of the man who appeals to those who have not than there are on the side of the man who appeals to those who have on the other hand government statistics show that something like ga persons hold life insurance policies that something like have saving accounts in banks that there are arc around 0 home owners in the nation aud and that even at the lowest point of the depression there were more people working for salaries and wages than there were unemployed sir mr Far parleys leys guess apparently Is that so many of these workers have had their incomes reduced that they will support a candidate who promises to improve their condition in their numbers lies the difference between victory and defeat in addition to these factors there Is to be considered the probability of defections caused by such demagogic leadership as the longs and the Cough lins saner thinking people know of 0 course that the programs which senator long and father cough ila have been preaching far and wado are as impossible of fulfillment as was the EPIC program advanced by upton sinclair in his california campaign pal n but it may not be overlooked oyer looked that these men can and will pull together several million voters a 11 no discussion of the controversy between business and president roosevelt would be com the piete without consid hot spot of the it Is the hottest spot in congress right now the situation Is of such a character as to be comparable to a carbuncle on your neck those who have had carbuncled carbuncles carb karb uncles will fully understand A few days ago sir mr roosevelt called the most obstreperous of opposition senators to the white house for a conference on the question of what to do about extending the national industrial du recovery act it Is due to expire by limitation of law on june 16 lie ile cleverly invited hiss bliss perkins ns the secretary ot of labor and donald aich alch berg the guiding hand band of the recovery administration to sit in on that meeting it was only natural that two such avid and new dealers as miss per kalns and mr should hold out for continuation of for a two year period and it was only natural for senators who do not believe wholeheartedly beart edly in all of the principles to insist on a makeshift or temporary continuation the president put th them em into a cockpit to fight it out the resulting disagreement was perfectly logical but the president had put himself in a position to trade with congress since the opponents in congress gr ess did not yield they naturally went back to the capitol and framed their own program they propose to have hava continued with some of its un satisfactory features eliminated to april of next year they probably will be able to muster enough support to pass some such legislation if they do the president will accept it actual ly he has no choice ile he cannot allow the policy represented by to crash completely it would mean a political defeat which the president dent strong as he Is probably could no not withstand v it Is a wiser ind and sadder blue engle eagle that Is proposed la in the senate resola tion continuing wiser that resolution Is blue eagle e quipped equipped with acla sort sora to trim the ta tall 11 feathers of the famed eagle so EO that 1 it cannot operate against bust businesses whose traffic Is wholly within a state In intrastate te nor will it permit price fixing the senate finance committee which dratted drafted this resolution reported it to the senate by the overwhelming vote of sixteen to three that shows better than any words of mine how thoroughly determined that tennte senate group was to override the perkins views on administration policy succinctly the continuing resolution provides for changes in the current law as follows L no price fixing shall be permitted or sanctioned under any code except in codes covering mineral or natural resources sou industries that now embody the price fixing principle 2 no trade engaged wholly in ID in tra state commerce shall be placed under code 3 the president will have SO 30 days in which to review present codes of fair practice in order to revise and adjust each so go that it will conform to the provisions of the new NIIA 11 1 I think this Is the best way out said gal d senator harrison democrat of mississippi chairman n of the committee 1 I feel certain we can pass this reso gutlon without a great amount of di bate and it will give N NKA PA time to U ail I 1 I 1 just itself itsek and gle ghe the courts time ti 1 on n the various of nf nit validity edity P r wegern at item s i |