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ERIC JOHNSTON’S RISE MEANS FRIEND AT COURT FOR RADIO
It Is apparently not generally known that Eric Johnston, progressive young president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, who has come into such great prominence recently is connect¬ ed with the radio and electric industry and has been for years* Mr. Johnston, who has even been mentioned for the presidency is the head of three large Western electric and sales manufacturing cor¬ porations The Brown-Johnston Company, Zenith Radio distributors in Spokane, WayneBurnaby, electrical contractors, who work on Jobs of a million dollars each, or better; and Columbia Electric and Manufacturing Company, manufacturers.
Mr. Johnston, talked of as a Senatorial possibility from Washington State and also as a key-note speaker at the Republican National Convention, has become the most prominent and active spokesman for American business, is a break for his own particular branch of it, of which the radio industry is an important part.
Mr. Johnston, who is only 4 5 years old, was the principal speaker before 1000 representatives of the electrical industry and other business executives who attended the 10th .Annual Meeting of the Electric Institute of Washington, D. C. , recently, the presiding officer of which was George F. Kindley, Vice-President of Edgar Morris, Zenith distributors in the Capital. Shortly after speaking there, Mr, Johnston revealed his plans to visit Russia next May on behalf of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and at the invitation of the Russian Government,
Addressing the Washington Electric Institute, Mr. Johnston
said:
”I was very glad to hear Dr. William McClelland, Chairman of the Union Electric Company of Missouri, talk about free enter¬ prise or what he calls 'individual' enterprise. It was a lionheerted man who, even as little as a year or so ago, stood on a public platform and talked about free enterprise. Those who did so did it in hushed tones and didn't wish to be quoted. But now we have a sudden yest almost an alarming conversion to free enterprise, or individual enterprise if you wish to call it that. Even Earl Browder is for free enterprise, I am not so sure whether these people have searched their souls or are watching the polls. I am not so sure whether they speak from conviction or from convenience. But even though everyone is for free enterprise today, I think that we should make certain distinctions,
"I am one of those who believes with every fiber of his being that our political freedoms, our unique individualism, our enrichment and expansion as a nation, are dependent upon the Job of
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