Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1934 — Page 14

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NRA LAUNCHES PRICE CONTROL FOR CONSUMER Groups Representing Buying Public Organized in 200 Counties. RV HERBERT LITTLE Timf* Special Writer. WASHINGTON. April 20—The new consumer councils, it developed today, are being set up as a sort ol loud-speaker system so Mr. and Mrs. Citizen can be heard in Washington, where official ears have been especially turned heretofore to ca eh the outcries of capital and labor. Between the demands of these two comes, of course, the humble consumer. whose plight has been seriously in mind, but about which relatively little has been done to date. So, under the guidance of President Roosevelt, consumer councils are being set up in 200 counties—this is just to start the operation—to provide those who buy with a channel to Washington. Along this channel, Washington hopes to hear from consumers as to whether they thing prices are too high. This set-up has the additional, actually the fundamental, purpose of making NRA work. Mrs Rumsev Active in Move Frederick Howe. Mrs. Mary Rumsev, Dexter Keezor and Paul H. Douglas are the four persons within the government who have put across this protective device, now being set up over the country under executive director Frank Walker of the emergency council. Mr. Howe as head of the consumers’ council, a job created by agriculture secretary Henry A. Wallace, and Mr. Kcezer as executive director of the NRA consumers’ advisory board headed by Mrs. Rumsey—all of whom will take a major part in the new Walker scheme—said today that their aim is to bring about ’’fair competition” in selling as well as in labor conditions. ‘ Consumers are anew part n the body politic,” said Mr. Howe. "It is our hope that there will be gradual shift of emphasis, by which people will think of themselves as buyers as well as producers—to produce shoes to wear as well as to sell, for instance.” Stopped Bread Increases Dr. Howes organization led dramatically last June with surveys of bread prices designed to head off price increases during the nearboom period. It has fostered the operations of "sample consumer councils” in several cities, which probably will serve as models for the 200 now inaugurated. Dr. Howe pointed with considerable pride to the one at Youngstown. 0., which has been very active in scanning and reporting on prices. Others are in Miami, Milwaukee and Boston. The present NRA code set-up of business is General Hugh S. Johnson's baby, and represents his idea that business can govern itself and should be checked only when it goes wrong, as shown by results. Opposed to this conception are many economists whose views are expressed by the Federal Trade Commission, which favors strict governmental control at the outset to prevent exploitation of the public which buys the goods which industry produces and business sells. General Johnson has allowed provisions for industry to post and control prices to be put in many of the

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400 completed codes. Uniform prices resulted in many industries. There are some complaints that prices are too high, but the unorganized body of consumers could not make very loud protests. Therefore President Roosevelt has set up in the National Emergency Council outside of NRA the organization of the councils of representative citizens, buyers—housewives of moderate means, workers, county agents, farmers, farm wives.

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Its function—disseminating information about prices and collecting complaints when prices go too high —really is to stop cracks in codes before the code is split apart. This is a brand-new experiment in government. It follows nearly ten months of attempting to do the same thing within NRA and also within the Agricultural Adjustment Administration—attempts that met considerable success in some ways, flat failure in others.

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WORK BEGINS ON PROTECTING BLIND STREETS Crew of 30 Relief Workers Under City Installs Barriers. City officials today began the program to remove hazards caused by unprotected dead-end streets, Memers of the board of works started a survey today to determine which street ends shall be barricaded. Machinery to carry out the program is being set up as rapidly as possible, Walter Boetcher, works board president, announced. Approximately thirty men from the federal emergency relief administration will start setting out trees by Monday morning at unprotected dead-end streets. The city legal department started drafting an ordinance today to require the Indianapolis Water company to erect barriers at all dangerous points along the canal. The

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DANCE MASTERS OF FIVE STATES TO MEET HERE Demonstrations to Feature Sunday Session at Antlers. Demonstration of dancing techniques will be shown to representatives of five states at the annual meeting of the Dancing Masters of America and the Chicago Asoscia-

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