Black Will Participate In Forum Inquest on Consumer's Shortages

Four speakers, representing as many shades of economic opinion, will publicly probe into the facts behind the current shortages of consumer goods at the second session of the Harvard Forum tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson D.

The speakers are John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Tutor in the Department of Economics, and member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration; Joel Goldthwait, of the Civilian Production Administration; Jarvis Hunt, of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Hazel Sagoff, of the Massachusetts Consumers Committee.

They will trace the effect of consumer shortages on the American economy and discuss the efforts being taken by the government and business to alleviate the shortages. An admission tariff of 25 cents will be charged.

Professor Black has been on the faculty here since 1927. Before that, he taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin.