Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1925 — Page 18

ARMY IN NEXT WAR TO RUN FACTORIES Plans for Industrial Mobilization Already Worked Out — No New Legislation- Needed.

By Ludwell Benny (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 20,—Industrial preparedness will be the chief aim of the War Department of the n erw Administration. Officials tjoday pointed out that General Perking and his successor as chief of #taff, Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, §ave’ put into working order the plans for pre-war training of a large citizen army and speedy personal ljiobilization, and that plans for industrial mobilization must now be lv>ught to an equal state of fKTi'ciency. Ccjntrol of railroad transportation & the event of a major emergency, the basis of the tentative plan of

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the department. Thp plan Is being worked out In great detail, based on the experience of the United States and other countries In the World War. No New Laws No new legislation will be sought for this purpose, a9 existing laws are considered adequate. In time of war the President is empowered “to take possesson and assume control of any system of systems of transportation,” under the Army Appropriation Act of 1916. The Transportation Act of 1920 stipulates that none of its provisions shall limit such powers of the President. The tentative plan, drawn top by

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Assistant Secretary of War Dwight L. Davis, follows: 1. Possession and control by the Government of the lines taken over is essential in order that the Government may make the necessary demands upon the railroads and insure obedience as a matter of right. 2. Effective mobilization and use of transporation resources Is Impossible unless the lines taken over are operated as a single unit system under one control and one administration. 3. Requirements of the Govern-

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ment can be carried out most effectively, intelligently and successfully by availing of the existing organizations of the several companies and by making full use of the trained experience and skill of their personnel. 4. The Secretary of War will select an Executive Assistant who will direct operations under the Secretary. 6. The Secretary of War will also be assisted by an Executive Committee, consisting of railroad presidents nominated by the Association of Railway Executives and approved by the Secretary. 6. Maximum use will be made of individual companiee as corporate organizations, and there will be no interference with any company in management, operation or domestic arrangements, except when interference is absolutely necessary. Davis has even tackled the difficult problem of payment for the use of the roads, and has specified in detail the provisions of a sample contract between the roads and the Government providing for quarter annual payments at the close of each quarter. In this connectlpn he has submitted for the consideration of railway executives now, the fol-

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lowing tentative recommendation ot the War Department: Compensation "Compensation to be paid to carriers should be a sum equivalent to the average annual net railway operating Income for the three years ended on the 31st of December next preceding: except that if exceptional

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