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disadvantage to consumers - unfair to consumers. The point of it was that although they sometimes agreed the code was all right, often there was just a long complicated economic analysis that Johnson couldn't make head or tail of. I think in those cases they just abandoned the committee and adopted the code anyhow. There was always a report from the Consumers' Committee before a code was adopted. A code would be accepted even if they recommended against it, but they always wrote a report on every code.

There really wasn't much for the committee to do. One of the things they insisted upon, however, for example, was this abandonment of the loss-leader, which according to Ogburn was a great way of raising the standard cost of things. They crusaded against improper advertising and things of that sort. It was usually on price and restricted output, and such things, that they concentrated.

Ogburn came in with a lot of things, which according to Johnson complicated the issue, but by this time the NRA was going on codes of such small industries that it was already over-complicated. If they had stuck to the basic industries, the complication that Ogburn introduced would not have been so important in holding back the code program, but they might have been more useful in introducing the consumer's point of view as an economic matter at the point where the production and labor points of view were