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9. We need to have these things done as England manages her com- 

 merce, 'by a board of competent experts free to administer a 

 law with sweeping powers. As it is now, it is done by elective 

 congressmen not always above the suspicion of economic illit- 

 eracy and of representing a district rather than the United 

 States. Congress is no more capable of setting the price of 

 wheat by statute than it is of fixing a railroad rate. The 

 Interstate Commerce Commission and the War Industries 

 Board are good examples for Congress in the conduct of our 

 food policy. 



Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 

 Univ'ersity of Pennsylvania, 

 April, 1918. 



