ON THE SPOT!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 9

ON THE SPOT!

AMERCAN BUSINESS Sensational Statement By Ford ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT PITTING SOMETHING OVER THE PEOPLE (By Telegraph— Press Association—Copy right! Received April 29, 10.25 p.m. NEW YORK, April 28. Something of a sensation ha? been caused by a statement attributed to Mr Henry Ford during the course of an interview granted here to-day, after his conference with Mr Roosevelt yesterday. Mr Ford said “The people have a leader who is putting something over them. Declining further to elaborate his statement and stressing later that ne lever said anything against Mr Roosevelt, the manufacturer declared: “There are a lot of people who are looking for a leader and they have one who is putting something over them and they desene it. The people ought to be their own leauers.”

Mr Henry Ford, addressing the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, made a two-sentence speech:

M VVe are all on the spot. stick to your guns and I will help yon all I can, with the assistance of my son.”

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says: “Frustrated in its attmepts to enlist the goodwill of Mr Ford behind the administration’s recovery drive, White House is turning its attention to the businessmen’s co-operative manifesto, and it is understood that a conference of those who signed it will be called. The President further intends to send a message to Congress asking for anti-monopolistic legislation which, while not expected to be drastic as at first contemplated, nevertheless will be in the nature of a warning to the recalcitrant business groups.’’

GETTING WORSE BUSINESS CONDITIONS CONFESSION’ BY MORGENTHAU Received April 29, 10.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, April 28. That the Administration is seriously disturbed over business conditions, is seen in an informal statement by the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, to the Press. “Of course they are bad and are still getting worse,” he said. He confessed that he could not see a sign that the bottom had been reached, but declined to comment further.