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Show tj0 J HUGH S. ljjOHNSON Washing-ton, D- C. ARMS PRODUCTION ,ii'5 Dace arms production 0Ur.,Sneed any declaration of an doesn't need any lation t0 em:rdgiTup n nee?, juft one thing. spe! H and responsible manage-.uthorized manage-.uthorized and resp goyern. 1 itfeU That seerns so plain m t fn need argument. Even. a Nobody would dream of start ing one without that. Mr Knudsen says that the public unsold" to the necessity for speed end production, but that indus ry and la'bor are asleep. Atoost aUhe moment he was saying that, another member of the rearmament ad vi ory overhead, Mr. Nelson was teStag u. that the trouble is that the public is apathetic, asleep. This is not to criticize these gentlemen. gentle-men. They have done marvelous jobs of making without straw such cricks as we have manufactured. The "straw" that management of a great effort needs is authority. They haven't got it. But did anybody ever hear of any determined effort on their part to get it? It is well known that there has been none. In the absence of such an effort, ef-fort, perhaps we should look twice at these indictments of the public, of labor and of industry-especially when one of these authorities says that the public is to blame while the other feels that the public attitude is satisfactory but that industry and labor are the goats. Whenever a man, or a group of men, step into the driver's seat, there is only one goat when the bus doesn't run. It is the man at the controls. If he didn't get the right gasoline or has accepted a faulty accelerator, it doesn't lie in his mouth to blame either the passengers passen-gers or the rest of the crew. Mr. Knudsen is right about the public attitude. The public has been far ahead of government for defense from the very start, ahead of both congress and the executive department. depart-ment. It balked at nothing. It is ready for any sacrifice. As for labor and industry, they are the public. Their response at such a time depends entirely upon government govern-ment leadership of them. They are the lead, swing and heel horses of this team. They can haul the load and put every ounce of their weight on the traces. But they can't set the pace and direction without a guiding Intelligence and inspiration to spark the effort There Is no hanging bak on the Industrial side. It has never been more willing and eager since World War I. The solution of our problem doesn't reside In words and gestures 1 and laws and new, strange and un- American devices. It resides in work and common sense and competent com-petent leadership. TERRIBLE URGENCY Just now, in the highly successful sheep-herding process of forming more or less panicky public opinion, opin-ion, there are three principal shib- : boleths or sloganeercd conclusions floating about Washington. The first is a sort of hushed whisper whis-per that the next 120 days will decide de-cide the fate of the world, including ours. This is the "terrible urgency" mystery and out of It grows a second-that we should begin financing financ-ing the British Empire over thin short crisis by gift or loan, secured or otherwise to the extent of about $2,000,000,000. A third, somewhat inconsistently, Is that this is a strug. gle to an absolute knockout between Hitlerism and democracy, that we must get into it with force of nnm and that it must go on until ono 1 or the other Is wiped completely o-T . or the other is wiped completely off the slate. No matter which of these conclu. s.ons or any variation or opposition of them hem, there seems ,0 be no difference of opinion whatever that we must get our Industry il0 n all-out. hlKh .peed war VJ t.on immediately and tha, vc not doing it So let'., ski,, doing it So let', skip ,. fl everentf:,l;tt0ti,ke'l0"KW1''- -Brill F P0,,0!,n, toR" the Snrbaov:::;,; "he l!ilnK-.lln.lv " ",H K'"l".l. Is ; TLZ: " ...u.e :::,', 7- n s"l'-''ior ,inv with nil i hn ;,lr"'"-n rrrm(J K f 11'"W mi tlinnicl, iiit,., i Nl'oln, c'"l'nred wll " ' '"r "'v"" lk.. o , """ |