Show Team Work Needed been doubt douht as to the thc lack of F THERE has ever eyer any IF ordination co-ordination in our war preparations the thc controversy controversy contro contro- versy between William G. G G McAdoo director of trans traus- transportation transportation and Herbert Hoover food administrator should remove lemo it The nature of the argument is is con cotI- wincing proof that our fo food d program and our transportation tation program program are n not traveling in the thc same general g direction notwithstanding the fact that both seek the same general end Without W delving del n into the merits Of tf the thc differences difference the between two important branches of war i it is plain that neither measures up 11 to the high i standard desired by the thc people No o doubt do bt the chamI cham- cham officials will defend their acts on thet the I pious of or both hoth t J grounds that each is doing the thc best bat he can and that to err is human Either one or both hoth branches might prove provo itself thoroughly thoroughly efficient efficient but the thc fact remains remains that they arc not rendering one hundred per cent efficiency harmonious to the nation so long as they arc are not only whole The cry of the nation has not peen soo sQ much for efficiency in the individual branches of the tile greater it for closer organization of government as it has been heen a n n. n all of them Two good horses will not always m. m make fluke aall a good team for both hoth must work together to render collective service In the tho conduct of war team work is essential and all branches must move as one The Thc departments of tl the e United States have not been doing this and that is why win we hear a clamor for co The The differences existing between Mr l r. r Hoover and constitute concrete illustration Mr r I Mr lIf McAdoo Adoo a Hoover protests that the thc railroads are not gi giving gin n him efficient service aril and Mr McAdoo defends himself with the declaration that he stands rea ready y to help the food administration j l Where are arc the railroads asks Hoover Where is the food foo-d 1 answers McAdoo Perhaps both Mr r. r McAdoo feA oo and Mr 11 Hoover can answer the questions concerning concerning- their ind individual departments departments depart depart- ments but this does docs not move mo food or win the war ar The Thc connecting conne tin link is lost when Hoover Hoo docs does not know about transportation and McAdoo l does docs not know about food The nation holds them responsible collectively and not as ns individuals Each Ea h and every department must work as one in the winning h hof of the war Food is of little value alue without shipping and transportation Thc people will hold the administration responsible but times are arc too perilous to be e satisfied with a s system stem which only fixes blame lame for disaster The fact that the thc theRus Rus Russian inn people can cnn attribute their downfall to the Bolshevik iki docs does not save e them from their fate The Thc American American people are chiefly concerned with winning the war and no amount of f fixed responsibility can justify ins jus- tHy a defeat Cordin ordination Coordination tion is 5 lacking and it is essential essential essen essen- to our success At the present time lime we are not so much concerned with ith the thc individual standing standing- of the two of both work- work departments as we are with ith the efficiency ang ing to a Do common goal Pa Pa J td |