"Most Advanced Thinker"

Last fortnight, after eight months of unsuccessful wrangling with AAA and NRA officials, the flour millers became the first industry to walk out cold on General Johnson. Their departure raised the question: Should the Administration crack down with its biggest club--power to license industries if they want to do business at all. That posed another bigger question. NRA was given two years of life by the Recovery Act but the licensing club was given to the President for only one year, ending June 16, 1934. If the President wants to use the club after that date he must get Congress to renew his power. He intimated to the Press that he would ask renewal. Last week before abruptly leaving for Miami, General Johnson announced that he did not favor renewal.

Behind him he left orders for the greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks ago.

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