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Johnson Will
Not Tolerate
Expoltation
Confer With President On C WA Extension
I
Charges Complaints
Made By Firms
Subdued Workers'
Were
'Who
Code Authorities To
Prevent Oppression
Division Formed To Look
Into Intolerable Credit
Facilities Now Used
WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 25. -
(P) - General Hugh S. Johnson,
NRA administrator, tonight charged
that 90 per cent of the complaints
that small business concerns were
oppressed by large ones came from
establishments which said that "to
survive they must exploit their
Johnson made it clear that code
authorities would prevent any such
oppression.
Speaks At Banquet
The administrator spoke before a
huge gathering in the municipal au-
ditorium at the annual banquet of
the Worcester Chamber of Com-
merce. With his secretary, Miss
Frances M. Robinson and assistant
secretary of labor Edward F. Mc-
Brady, he flew to Boston this morn-
ing and completed the journey to
Worcester by automobile.
"The line has been drawn at un-
justifiable exploitation and we must
continue to draw it," Johnson said.
"This act must be executed in sym-
pathy and common sense, but the
very fundamental of its purpose is
that a unit that cannot live except
by exploitation should not be pre-
served. Regional differences in liv-
ing costs, the higher cost in larger
cities, exceptional cases of honest
hardship, all these are recognized."
Price Stabilization Complaints
The other ten per cent of com-
plaints, the administrator continued,'
came from the effect of price stabili-
zation and other regulatory prac-
tices. These were being examined, he
said, and true exploitation would be
stopped. -For this purpose, he added,
the President has approved a plan,
suggested by Senator Nye with an
amendment by Senator Norris, to set
up a board which shall have sum-
mary powers to recevie and inquire
into any complaints.!
-Associated Press Photo
Jesse Jones (left), chairman of the Reconstruction Finance cor-
poration, and Harry L. Hopkins (right), CWA administrator, are shown
leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt
regarding his plans to ask congress for $850,000,000 to continue the
UWA until May.
Music School, Play Production
Will Produce The Gondoliers'
Permission to present Gilbert and
Sullivan's colorful operetta, "The
Gondoliers," in the spring was grant-
ed yesterday by the Dramatic Com-
mittee it was announced by Valentine
B. Windt, director of Play Produc-
tion.
The proposed operetta comes as
part of a plan to bring more closely
together the various theatre arts on
the campus by Prof. Earl V. Moore,
director of the School of Music, and
Mr. Windt. The School of Music has
requested that Play Production offer
a music-dramatic course in play pro-
duction suited to fit the needs of the
music students
The plan to offer music-dramatic
courses in the Play Production de-
partment has been formulating for
Announce Date
For Freshman
DailyTryouts
Candidates For Editorial
Staff Asked To Report
February 16
,We are also setting up a division
under Mr. Whiteside and Col. Mont-
gomery to try to relieve the intoler-
able credit facilities now available to
the little fellow," Johnson said. "ButJ
aside from the conjectural com-
plaints, by and large small business
has benefited-by increased price,
by protection against chain and
monopolistic price practices, by every
device which we could invent and
apply."
Offers No Blunder Excuses
Concerning the six-months-old or-
ganization, Johnson said, "Square
pegs had been found in round holes,
and experience in certain instances
had shown errors, but "we have;
never tried to hide, nor gloss over,
nor offer an excuse for a blunder."
"I do not mean to boast of blun-
ders," he continued, "but I do think
that the President's policy of doing
whatever government has to do in
the absolute open and without any
expedient for political subterfuge in-
tended to fool at least 'some of the
people some of the time' should be
-and I think it is-the most con-
fidence-inspiring policy of recent
times."
Proving 'There's One
Born Every Minute'
Mr. P. T. Barnum's classical ex-
pression proved true in Ann Arbor
yesterday. So as not to disappoint
any students wishing their pre-ex-
amination humor, a member of the
Gargoyle staff offered for sale is-
sues of the January number of the
magazine when all of this month's
were found to be sold out. Not only
did he succeed in getting rid of these
but he was taking orders on the
September Gargoyle when he was
apprehended by irate purchasers who
said that they didn't care for the
latest fall fashions.
Today Is Last Day To
Break Room Contracts
Freshmen who complete their
first semester work with an average
of C or better, and who do not re-
ceive an E in any course, will be
eligible to try out for positions on
the staff of The Michigan Daily
during the first week of the second
semester, it was announced yester-
day.
Try-outs for positions on the edi-
torial staff are requested to report
at 3 p. m. Friday, Feb. 16, at the
Student Publications Building, May-
nard St. During the first weeks all
try-outs will be taught the mechan-
ics of the newspaper's publication:
how the articles should be written,
the style which The Daily uses, the
way to write headlines, to read copy,
and to read proof.
Eligible For Senior Jobs
All try-outs will be eligible for sen-
ior positions of importance, each of
which pays a substantial salary. Be-
fore gaining these senior positions,
junior members of the staff serve as
night editors, when they have charge
of putting out the paper, and a sal-
ary is paid to them for this work.
During the sophomore year candi-
dates for hte higher positions on the
paper work as reporters, without pay.
The Daily is run on a highly com-
petitive basis. Night editors are
chosen from the sophomore report-
ers, those who are not chosen being
dropped from the staff. From this
group of night editors, men are
picked for the senior positions. Here,
again, those who are not chosen are
dropped. Senior positions open on
the editorial staff are the managing
editorship, the editorial directorship,
and the city editorship.
Similar to City Daily
Work on the paper corresponds
to that on a regular city daily. As-
signments are posted daily for each
member of the staff, and he is ex-
pectedrto have his assignment in
sometime before the paper goes to
several months, Mr. Windt said, but
official sanction was received yester-
day. The project is only an experi-
ment, he declared, and if it proves
successful it will be developed and
continued next year.
The teaching will be under the di-
rection of Emily V. White, Arthur
Hackett of the music school, and Mr.
Windt, with Prof. Davis Mattern and
Professor Moore acting in an advis-
ory capacity. Mrs. Bertha Bright
Knapp, Grad. will assist in the dra-
matic productions.
It is expected that the operetta will
be presented the last week in March.
While the production will feature
music school students, Mr. Windt
said that some play production stu-
dents who are qualified may take
-part. The success of the Dance Dem-
onstration Wednesday night and pre-
sented in conjunction with the Dance
Club, the physical education depart-
ment, and, Play Production was in-
strumental in bringing about a closer
relationship between the theatre arts.
Students in the School of Music
who are interested in the course are
asked to see Mr. Windt between 11
and 12 a. m next Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, or Thursday in his office
in the Laboratory Theatre. All stu-
dents electing the course must be
approved by Mr. Hackett and Mr.
Windt.
2 Woen Give
Clew In Hunt
For Kidnapers
One Woman Saw Struggle
li Bremer Aito; May
Lead To Lair
ST. PAUL, Jan. 25.-() -Two
women who said they saw the abduc-
tion of Edward G. Bremer, banker,
Jan. 17 gave information today that
may lead to the lair of the kidnap-
ers. One woman said she saw a
struggle in the Bremer car after
he had taken his young daughter to
school, while the other was reported
to have given the license number of
the car in which he was carried
away.
Details of the stories told by the
women were withheld. It was not
announced why the women, if they
were sure of their facts had kept
silent for more than a week.
There was considerable specula-
tion as to why the Federal investi-
gators today became more active in
seeking the gang of abductors who
have demanded $200,000 ransom,
which is now awaiting them. Some
thought it had been decided that
Bremer had met a fatal end, leaving
capture of his kidnapers as the main
object to be attained.
It was reported the ransom had
not been paid up to today.
Whether a concentration of Fed-
eral operatives presaged an impend-
ing raid on a suspected hideout or
apprehension of persons believed to
haveknowledge of the crime as the
result of two anonymous letters re-
ceived the last two days by W. C,