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Munitions Board Should Be
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Replaced By Single Official
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON.-—(NEA)—One of the big weak
nesses of the military unification set-up which has
been exposed by the Korean emergency is the Mu
nitions Board.
The report of Senator Lyndon Johnson’s Senate
preparedness subcommittee, which lashes out at the
slowness of the build-up of the services, says this
about the board: .
“One of the fundamental failures to effective pro
curement coordination has been the lack of an offi
cial, other than the Secretary of Defense, in the
Department of Defense with the authority and re
sponsibility, and the sole job of overseeing and ex
pediting procurement for all the military services,
and resolving conflicts between them. It appears
that the Munitions Board was intended by statute
to perform that function. %
“However, three of the four members of the board
are under secretaries fronr each of the three mili
tary departments. They cannot be expected to
have the objective perspective required for unified
procurement.”
FEach succeeding Secretary of Defense has tried
to do something about bolstering the board’s au
thority and activities, but with not much success.
No matter .what has been odne, the board has suc
ceeded in remaining a kind of nebulous, upper at
mosphere organization which never seemed to do
anything more concrete than turn out dull reports
about what had been purchased some time back.
The board was not set up to do any purchasing it
self, but sort of supervise and coordinate it,
MULTI-PERSONNEL CHANGES
HAVEN'T HELPED
New chairmen came and went. Staffs were
shifted. No matter how mruch personnel of the
board was changed to get it a going concern, the
result was always more of the same,
The most recent and drastic effort to improve the
board was attempted last summer by Secretary of
Defense Lovett. It aimed at providing a maximum
centralization of control over military supp”.
Lovett ordered the services to furnish the board
detailed production schedules. He gave the board
authority to monitor and police all delivery times.
He gave the board authority to change any orders
of the individual services to avoid overstocking or
duplication of orders. -
He instructed the board to set up special task
forces to see that special procurement programs
were going smoothly. He gave the board power to
allocate the scarce machine tools among the three
services, '
On teop of that, Lovett wrote a regulation forcing
the services to report to the Munitions Board any
important deficiencies or bottlenecks which the
board might not know about otherwise.
All this, however, apparently has not done the
trick, at least, not to the satisfaction of Senator
Johnson's preparedness committee. The main target
of the report, of course, is the White House for not
ordering a tougher policy of cutting back civilian
production to permit the military to meet its needs.
COMMITTEE WANTS COMPLETE REFORM
Nevertheless, the members of the committee
make a major point of asking for a reform of the
whole setup: i
“We believe that what is needed is an under sec
retary of defense with complete responsibility for
the supervision of procurement of all three mili
tary departments, or 2 broader delegation by the
Secretary of Defense to the chairman of the Muni
tions Board of such powers held by the secretary
as are necessary to permit him to act as a ‘pro
curement czar.’
“Such an official could make his decisions more
quickly, could, with finality, resolve conflicts be
tween the services, and could scissor through the
red tape which normally surrounds a conference
type of operation.”
In other words, what the Senate “subcommittee
demands is a man instead of a board to do the job.
And that is probably what Lovett is going to have
to end up providing. The surprising thing is that it
hasn't been done before.
The lesson of World War II was forgotten quickly
when the Munitions Board was set up originally in
the National Military Establishment. After trying
several ways of geiting military procurement prop
erly controlled during the last war, they ended up
with a “czar” in the form of General Somervell,
who got the job done. There is some talk of getting
him back.
When people understand each other, they don’t
shoot each other. The human animal has about the
same loves and difficulties in Guatemala as he
does in the United States or in Canada.—President
Truman.
Many Americans still believe profoundly that
exporting is desirable, that exporters are gentlemen,
scholars and benefactors of the human race, that
importing is undesirable, anad that importers are
liars, thieves and scoundrels taking food out of the
mouths of American babies.—~Vergil D. Reed, ad
vertising executive,
It's Unfair To Needle Allies
While Our Own Effort Lags
Nothing could be more unfair than to demand
that our Western Allies knuckle down harder while
we ourselves permit vital defense efforts to lag.
There is impressive evidence that this very thing
is happening.
The able Senate Preparedness Comnrittee under
Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas has turned up
defense production facts which are difficult to
blink. For the period from April to June of this
year, aircraft deliveries were 24 percent below ex
pectations; tank deliveries 40 percent below; elec~
tronics equipment 30 percent short, and guided
missiles 70 percent under the goal.
In all, deliveries for all kinds of weapons and
equipment fell $600,000,000 behind projected ob
jectives,
The committee properly chided Major-General
George H. Olmsted, director of the Defense Depart
ment’s military aid program, for attempting to con=
ceal some of these facts.
When original schedules for arms shipments. to
Europe collapsed, his office simply lowered its
sights to easier goals. Later, because these more
limited aims were surpassed, the general mislead
ingly told newsmen overseas shipments were “well
ahead of schedule.”
This kind of performance has no place in a naticn
trying to seriously contribute the lion’s share to
defense of the free world, We cannot inspire con
fidence in the American government by resort to
statistical trickery. Both the people at home and our
friends abroad are entitled to a ¢)-aight story.
In this case, the story is not a happy one, Ac
cording to the Johnson report our production defi
ciencies can be laid to shortages of materials, man
power and machine tools. We seem not to have
learned the lesson of World War ll—that ample
provision for greatly expanded output of machine
tools is fundamental to the entire defense effort.
These shortages exist, said the committee, be
cause production is badly.coordinated and because
we Americans do not “have the courage to put guns
ahead of butter.” In other words, we are still too
intent on maintaining business as usual and run
ning the defense program as a sort of side-show.
The hard decisions that would give defense the
dominating priority it needs are not being made.
All this means, of course, that neither we nor our
Allies are getting the sort of defense we presum
ably want. For example, the Johnson committee
declared “the sad fact is we do not have a mod
ernized air fleet which begins to approach our tar
get of 95 wins.” To authorize 140-odd wings, as is
contemplated, will only add to an illusion of
strength which does not exist. We are still just
paper-strong,
We are asking the Europeans to face the reali
ties, to slash through the underbrush of prelimi
naries and get down to business. We had better
practice what we preach.
Socialism In Turkey
While nobody hates the, Russians more than the
Turks, there is little realization of how completely
socialized the Turkish economy is. Farms and most
small businesses are privately owned. ok
But the governmemt owns and operates all the
major industries, including railways, coal mines
and even the building which for centuries has
housed the famous Istanbul bazaar.
The government is even building the new hotel
which it hopes will attract many more tourists to
Turkey. But the plan is to sell this property to a
private operator, once it is built. :
One of the major side-line efforts of Marshall
Plan mission in Turkey has been to convince the
government that it should do more to develop pri
vate industry, and divest itself of much of the 70
percent of Turkish business which it now controls.
It is important that our people have a real ap
preciation of the fundamentals of sound economics
because of the vital part they play in every-day
life in good times or bad.——James L. Madden, act
ing chancellor, N. Y. U.
It is part of the policy of a great university to
tolerate, indeed to promote the discussion of issues
no matter how controversial they may be.—Law
rence A. Kimpton, chancellor, University of .Chi
cago,
Expanding our capacfty i+« I 8 not going o
bankrupt us or over-strain us if we avoid waste
and apply the self-restraint of good management
and austerity in our military departments.—Rob
ert A, Lovett, Secretary of Defense,
You (Americans) have already lost one freedom,
the freedom to spend 25 percent of the money you
earn. It could be 40 percent or more. It's just as
easy a way to get to socialism as any other.—Sena
tor Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio).
The only record to come from the (1951 Ameri
can Legion) convention was criticismr of our gov
ernment—the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the Administration. — Colonel Joseph
Donahue, commissioner of District of Columbia.
If ever there was a time when inspiration and
leadership were needed this is the time, this is the
nation, and with God’s help, the American Legion
will be the instrument.—Donald R. Wilson, nat
ional comnrander, American Legion.
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Government Asks Farmers To Push
Production For High 193] Yields
BY OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. .—(AP)
—The governmrent yesterday call
ed upon farmers to ptash produc
tion next year four percent above
this year’s near record yields to
meet “the greatest needs we have
ever faced.”
Announcing planting goals for
spring crops, Acting Secretary of
Agriculture Clarence J. McCor
mick urged growers to put forth
special effort to beost production
of livestock feed grains so that a
high level output of meat, milk
and eggs might be maintained.
Acting in the absence of Secre
tary Brannan, who is on an offi
cial trip to the Near East, Mc-
Cormick acknowledged that farm
ers will have a tough job because
of shortages of fertilizers, some
types of farm machinery and a
tightening farm labor supply.
Help Promised
Promrising as much help as pos
sible, the Department said it
would be prepared to support pro
ducer prices of corn, cotton, wheat,
rice, soybeans, wool, milk and but
terfat at maximum levels permit
ted by law. That level is 90 per
cent of parity. (Parity is a stand
ard for measuring farm prices,
declared by law to be equally fair
to farmers and those who buy
their products.)
However, no supports were
promised for hogs, beef cattle,
poultry, eggs and other perishable
products. None of these products
is being supported this year.
Because farmers have just about
reached the limit of new crop
land, they will have to try to in
crease the yields in order to meet
the higher production goals, Mc~
Cormick said. If goals are attain
ed, planfings would total about
377,800,000 acres compared with
374,600,000 this year and twice as
Man Consumes
~ One man told us he tock baking
soda for years. Claiths he has used
over a barrel of it for stomach gas,
out got anly temporary relief.
Recently he quit the soda habit
and took CERTA-VIN. This new
medicine is bringing REAL, lasting
relief to many Athens gas victims
because it is taken BEFORE (not
after) meals and thus works wth
your food. It helps digest your
meals faster, so your focod doesn’t
lay there and ferment. Besides re
lieving gas, CERTA-VIN also con
tains Herbs with Vitamin B-1 and
Iron to enrich your biood and
make your nerves stronger. Weak,
miserable people soon feel differ
ent all over. So don’t go on suffer
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Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Eiberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
-3:30 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
8:48 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
Leave for Elberton. Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Leave for Atlanta, South and
West— |
5:45 a. m.—Air Conditioned. 5
4:30 a. m.—(Local).
2:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily, Except
Sunday) 12:35 p. m.
Leaves Athens (Daily, Except
Sunday) 4:15 p. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Mixed Trains
Week Day Only
‘rain No. 51 Arrives 900 a m
Ifrain No 50 Departs 700 p. m
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATFENS, GRORORA
much farm produce would go to
market as the 1935-39 average.
“The challenging level of the
goals reflects the strong demands
of military preparedness, our
growing population, our rising
standard of living, and our great
efforts to share our production
with those nations which are join
ing us in the defense of freedom,”
the acting secretary said.
Feed Priorities
Because livestock and feed sup
plies are shrinking rapidly, the
Department asked farmers to give
corn and grain sorghums prior
claim over all less productive feed
crops.
In the case of corn, the govern
ment set its sights on a crop of at
least 3,375,000,000 bushels, nearly
375,000,000 more than this year.
Even if such a crop is produced,
supplies would not be large
enough, the Department said, to
permit rebuilding of reserves.
Another big cotton crop was
recomrmended. The planting goal
was set at 28,000,000 acres com=-
pared with 29,510,000 planted this
year and about 18,000,000 in 1950.
By increasing acre yields, the De
partment said, farmers should be
able to produce 16,000,000 bales
compared with 15,771,000 this
year.
The Department - also recom
mended acreage increases over
this year of 3 percent for pota
toes, 36 percent for sweet pota
toes, 6 percent for dry beans, 14
percent for barley, 3 percent for
flaxseed. It asked about the same
acreages for oats, wheat, rye and
tame hay, and reductions of one
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percent for soybeans and rice.
A soybean goal of 276,000,000
buschels was set. This compared
with 278,000,000 produced this
year,
Building Materials
Show Liffle Price
Change In Nov.
Prices of building materials in
the Atlanta Metropolitan Area re
mained fairly stable during Nov
ember, according to Brunswick A.
Bagdon, Regional Director of the
U. S. Department of Labor’s Bu
reau of Labor Statistics in the
South. Of the 44 commodities in
cluded in this monthly survey,
prices of 75 percent remained un
changed; while 23 percent showed
a slight increase during the month;
and only one item showed a de
crease of 1 percent.
This is a continuation of a series
of monthly reports of average
prices of building materials pub
lished by the Southern Regional
Office of the U. 'S. Bureau of La
bor Statistics. The purpose of the
series is to porvide for general
information, the trend of average
prices charged by dealers to con
tractors for a list of materials im
portant in home building. Price
quotations, effective the 15th of
each months, are obtained from
representative dealers who are ac
tive in the distribution of ma
terials for homebuilding use. The
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to builders or contractors,
also include delivery, whenever
necessary, to the job site or eon
tractor’s shop.
Prices are averages of quotations
received, and may not agree ex
actly with any individual guota
tions. They indicate the prevail
ing prices of most homebuilding
materials, but are neither the only
prices nor the lowest prices at
which valid transactions are tak
ing place. They are usually lower
than over-the-country prices to
householders and others purchas
ing small quantities to be used in
repairs, maintenance, and similar
jobs.
Atlanta prices are averages of
quotations from firms having their
places of business in Fulton Coun=-
ty, and are not neccessarily the
same as those in some of the out
lying cities in the Atlanta Metrop
olitan Area.
Cinderella Wants
A Golden Slipper
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5§ —
(AP) — California’s 16-year old
Cinderella wants more than a
golden slipper from her million
aire “prince.”
Martha Morris De Vigier, Tor
rance, Calif., high school coed,
had a whirlwind courtship and 15-
day European honeymoon with
Roland De Vigier, 28.
But Monday, charging mental
cruelty, she sued for separate
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Martha is reported in higjy,
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Calif. They were married at
Quartzite, Ariz., Nov. 14.
Her mother, Mrs, Charles ).
ris, informed in Torrance of 1,
suit, exclaimed:
“It’s all so ridiculous. Why, op),
Sunday I ate lunch with them and
they were very happy!”
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