Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1943 — Page 14

TOUGH-MINDEDNESS custom when called upon to give advice, Bernard M. Baruch talked good, hard sense yesterday before senate military affairs committee; on the problems of What he said about how large our army should be was of the elder statesman’s counsel: “If (Gen.) George Marshall says a specified force is required by our strategical planning, give him what he wants. If you don’t do that, i throw him out. The man in charge of the job should be given our unqualified support. No cheese-paring. No " trading down. Give him what he needs. In such a matter

{ in granting authority and means when responsibility is delegated.” hh That is a sound rule in running a government or operating a business, as well as in fighting a war. But it is astounding how often that basic formula is violated, how often men are charged. with responsibility, but denied the authority and means to make good on their charge, - Discussing congressional criticism of manpower policies, Baruch said: “The best proof of method is the result «and we have no quarrel with our war achievements in the past 22 months. Remember this—records stand; opinions die.” : 2 ‘gn 8 "so.

ANOTHER instance of Baruch straight thinking was in ~ his testimony about utilization of manpower in war industries. He outlined the program he had submitted to get more production, especially in airplanes, and immediately, in the West coast areas—a plan which centers both authority and responsibility in those communities. Then for two hours Senator Wheeler carried on a sort of ‘filibuster, designed to show that the administration, and not congress or the people, was to blame for labor hoarding and waste, Though some of the points he made were well taken, it was a strange picture: Senator Wheeler, who perhaps has been wrong more often than others about this “war, trying to look backward and fasten the blame for past mistakes, and Mr. Baruch, who has been right more than most, refusing to indulge in I-told-you-so, and continually reiterating: “But the important thing is—what shall we do now? «from here on in? That will determine whether we go on to Berlin and Tokyo or stop halfway!”

POST-WAR BUYING PLANS U.S. Chamber of Commeree, reporting on a nation- * wide survey, says that since last December the American people hiave become more hopeful of prosperity and Jess fearful of widespread unemployment in the first year after the war, Confidence in the future is reflected in the survey's that American families are now planning to buy 1,640,000 homes, 38,675,000 automobiles, 2,625,000 mechanical refrigerators, 2,655,000 radios, 2,100,000 washing machines and millions of other major household appliances ‘within six months after peace returns. ~~ Such figures according to the chamber, mean immedi- © ale post-war markets for $7,174,800,000 in homes, $3,307, t 500,000, in cars, $1,215,910,000 in household appliances, $711,410,000 in furniture and floor coverings, plus some $7,500,000,000 in improvements, additions and repairs to Our guess would be that the figures—except possibly those for homes—are low rather than high. This country ted more than 3,675,000 passenger autos in 1941 and each of seven other years since 1925, and has built no W ones for nearly two years. Its pre-war markets for household appliances were, in many cases, larger ian those forecast by the survey. Most people, we suspect.

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fore, for in the all-time peak year of 1925 this country built 927,000 homes. - But also significant is the survey's ding that at least half of the families which plan to buy ies want them to cost less than $5000 each, while only ¥ cent want to spend more than $10,000 each. If the ng industries and unions want a great mass market, Il do well to get rid of their cost-boosting restrictions

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CURRAN, HOWEVER, appears to have had secret information, ‘the possession of which by a vacation sailor suggests a dangerous leak, especially-if such a leak existed before Hitler attacked Russia when the National Maritime union and Comrade Curran were doing their utmost to defeat Britain and assure the triumph of the Nazis in the war. Proving that Curran did have such information the union informed his draft board that he “shipped on the first vessel which, we felt, would call at the

certain conditions which the union wanted to investigate. This letter to the draft board also admits that his purpose “was not to ship out as a seaman but to carry out a policy” of the N.M.U,, which is a part. of the Communist front and is campaigning now to place the Communists in control of shipping and loading on both the Atlantie and Pacific coasts. The minutes of a meeting In New York follow ing the Communist demonstration at the Worlds Telegram to demand suppression of information concerning this Communist infiltration of the American merchant marine have just come to hand. They disclose that Brother Parking got up and said that because they had refused fo join the demonstration under orders from the union office; he and several other .sallors had been set on the beach and not allowed to sail, although the merchant marine is desperately short of sailors and, as Parkins said in the meeting: “We want to keep ‘em ." .. Brother Parkins sald hé kiiéw nothing of the demonstration but that even if he had known he would have refused to join the parade. .

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BROTHER JOSEPH Stack, the port agent, replied that when Brother Parkins admitted he had failed to turn out and record his presence in his union book.

to the bottom of the shipping list. Brother Parkins then said: “I wouldn't picket even for my mother.” Brother Jeffries then denounced Brother Parkins for “insulting you and me and our dead” in refusing to march; another said the union had no room for him and still another moved that Brother Parkins be expelled from the union and thus ruled off the sea for making an anti-union declaration before this meeting. The end of it was that Brother Parkins was set on the beach along with “three or four other fellows in the same position” and his closing remarks to the comrades were: “Why can't we ship out? We promised to keep 'em sailing, we didn’t promise to

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