Show M W Jq Control of oj Purchases THE national notional value alue of tho the staff of successful busi busi- ness nesa men who havo have been made advisers ah of t the e administration Jn in war is to be established as consideration consideration consideration con con- is given cn the Chamberlain bill proposing a secretary of munitions These men have lave been called by the government go to act in itt advisor advisory capacities and they limey they have been selected largely largel on showings made mode in private life As a result res the government lia has at its beck lieck and call th the tho soundest advice ce our business world t sin run produce If it is to count for naught they ther are arc wasting their time as it is apparent that the time officials in ma charge of the time departments are arc not disposed to take advantage c of the tho experience gained in years of successful sue suc business The rime secretary of war mr mal anti the thc advisers arc now at nit atthe atthe the time parting of the ways as as they disagree on centralized centralize control of war ar purchases Mr Baker linker holds hold that no noman noman man is is big biS' enough to supervise time the undertaking which winch might be he regarded ard d as conclusive o if personal deficiencies uncovered in recent est in investigation investigation- g 3 at Washington were general We Wc cannot be converted to the time success of oC time the existing systems s of tanking making purchases as we reflect on clothing shortages in tho the army which were not corrected corrected cor cor- until un until til n after fter the arrival of zero Yea weather t her Something something Some Something Some some- thing is is wron wrong with tho tue existing existing- systems and it i is not notto notto notto to be corrected without a change chang The advisers of f the time administration o 1 differ with the time of why centralized centralized- secretary war and anti see lec no reason control of purchases cannot be made successful when given en the time proper degree of support by the President The Time country at large largo will be inclined to give gi weight to the tho conclusions of these men knowing lalo that their ice advice advice is prompted b by patriotic motives and is backed by St successful experience with big business If we arc arc to cling to tho the secretary of war and amid d disregard the advice ad I Inn offered by br b our busin business ss men we arc doing the advisers an nn injustice Time The majority of these men have e proved pro I I their worth in the field of business and 1111 they might well bo ho released to their own enterprises if they are of n no value alue to the thc government gO 1 When rhen hen W we reflect on tho the struggle we made to bring the time allies in touch with a central organization which would make mako this one war for one purpose we arc are in inclined inclined in- in In- In dined to place liace our faith muLti in centralized d control of our war imp program The United States must keep to the time program program which will wilI best serve all of the time allies and I hence our pro program must he directed along definite lines I If it is good in the world it i is good in the time nation and what benefits the nation cannot injure the war de I de-I hePa he- he Pa it lIt t. t |