Contrary to previous reports, Presi Jdent Roosevelt has not appointed fa single successor to General Hugh Johnson as head of the National Recovery Administration but has distflbuted the duties of this office among a committee of seven headed by Mr, Donald Richberg. The idea of decentralization disposes of the 20- talled dictatorship of General Jobnson for the committee will handle only broad policies, the President reserving to himself power to Judge on @ecisions and future legislation which, of course, makes President Roosevelt more powerful than ever before. Not outside Germany or Italy does there exist such an Individual concentra: tion of power in one man's hands but it will probably be all for the best for President Roosevelt fills admire ably a role which pleases him—an elective administrative chief personally responsible to the people who elected him. Mr. Herbert Hoover, however, views the situation from a different angle. He sounds an alarm-Ing note to the people by announcing that President "Roosevelt with his "New Deal policies is not pulling the United States out of the mess but is advancing towards a dictatorship, which strikes directly at the tradi-Ulonal liberties of tie American people. He further warns them against the wholesale surrender of authority of Congress to the President, accord~ Ing to cabled excerpts from his new book. Mr. Hoover be afraid of a bogey of his own manufacture for an administration which adopts firm economic policies to lead a country out of the mess caused by reckless individualism is hot necessarily heading for political dictatorship but to sanity. control over the buildings of factories and workshops and the treatment of workers. Further, employers now take a greater interest in the welfare of their workpeople than was once the cease: and it Is generally realized that better work is done in pleasant than in unpleasant surroundings. In many places instead of coal dumps there are now workers' tennis courts: and modern town planning has given. us warden villages instead of the old which 220 are in the Greater London area, and there are plans for many more. During 1982 and 1993 more than 88.000 workers wore absorbed the new factories which wore started throughout the country, nearly 35,000 ut there finding fobs' in Greater Tondon,
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