General sympathy will be felt with General Hugh Johnson at his onerous task as head of the National Recovery Administration. Shouldering one of th Diggest "economic "and _commer-dal tasks in modern ages the degree of failure could have equalled the degree of success had not common sense Relped him. Now he has requested President Roosevelt to relieve him. of his post and create a commission to direct the altairs of the Administration. It will probably be wise act on the part of the President it he accedes detracting Irom General Johnson's efforts it will considerably lighten the Administration's work by distributing responsibility and will also remove that suspicion of dictator~ ship which a one-man show invariably "creates in this world of dictators. General Johnson's role has not been an easy one to fill. After battling with the big business concerns to adopt the Administration ideas resulting in the final capitulalon of the Ford Company, he found himself immediately attacked by Mr. Clarence Darrow, head of the special committee to Investigate the URA, with the charges that the URA. Codes ala big business at the expense Jot the small business concerns. Per= haps this is so as centralization is the tendency of modern industrial and commercial development, but when the outcome of a scheme of industrial Fegulation for national recover Immediately becomes the basis for a counter-proposal of outright talism as the only corrective.
was mentioned the Darrow Fepnrt, no wonder the General feels it is high time he relinquished his duties without betraying the trust and confidence of the Chief Executive wno appointed him.
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