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Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-26 | Page 6 | News behind the News

Type issue
Date 1939-08-26
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title News behind the News
Type article
Date 1939-08-26
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 6
OCR Text u. u 1 NEWS S BEHIND BEH I ND THE TH NEWS 1 4 By Alan Aan n Barth SU Substituting I for Ray Tucker WASHINGTON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-There's There's Theres not much room left in the fighting forces for heroics or heroics or for heroes That applies especially to the the commanders Nowadays they're expected to be mechanically perfect perfect per per- feet tools forged and tempered for a highly technical task Just that type of individual has been pulled out of the heap by F. F D. D R. R for the top operating posts Inthe in inthe inthe the army and the navy All of the recent eulogies published published pub pub- about the army's new chief of staff George C. C Marshall couldn't make him seem glam glam- orous But he knows as much as any man living about a particular lar subject subject logistics The term is a military one meaning the science of moving troops and supplies Army men distinguish it from tactics the handling of troops in battle and from strategies strate strate- gics gies the planning of a campaign campaign campaign cam cam- Marshalls Marshall's reputation was earned during the World war when he managed the military military mili mili- tary miracle of shifting half a million tr troops ops with equipment and nd artillery from St St. Mihiel to the Meuse A contemporary general Is a desk man Marshall makes ita ita it ita a habit to get to his desk in the war department every morning at The men under him there respect and admire him him him- even ven the men passed by to make way for him There was no push or politics about his tion He got the job because In the course of conferences with F. F D. D R. R over the national defense defense de de- de- de tense program the commander in chief recognized him as the nearest thing to a precision Instrument in instrument instrument in- in strument available The navys navy's chief of operations Admiral Harold L. L Stark is a afar afar afar far cry from John Paul Jones He has had 40 years of polishIng polishing polishing polish polish- ing for his post And still a galaxy of seniors in the service were skipped when the President President President dent pulled Stark to the top after after after aft aft- er only two years In the rank of rear admiral His comparative comparative tive hes he's 58 will enable him to continue in this job for a four or five year period period- one of the prime considerations motivating the choice Navy men still gasp when they tell about a stunt Stark pulled successfully during the World war He took two divisions of torpedo boat destroyers ton antique tubs of the category no longer used all the way from Manila across the Indian ocean at a season when the southwest monsoon was at its height through the Red sea and into the Mediterranean to take part partin in the antisubmarine campaign It was no armchair admirals admiral's pleasure cruise Starks Stark's specialty is gunnery When he captained the dreadnought dreadnought dreadnought dread dread- nought West Virginia the ship took the fleets fleet's battle efficiency pennant But he has administrative tive as well as sea experience He was on Admiral Sims Sim's staff in London after the war and was aide to two secretaries of the navy Charles Francis Adams and Claude A. A Swanson Louis Johnson assumed the as assistant assistant assistant as- as of the war department slightly more than two years ago under the definite impression according to well in formed sources that hed he'd speedIly speedily speedily speed speed- ily move up to th the top title It has become apparent gradually that Harry Woodring didn't share this impression Johnson has found plenty to keep him busy however has shouldered enormous responsibility In this critical time The assistant secretary of wars war's job is distinct from the secretary's secretary's secretary's secre secre- tary's by law Under the circumstances circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- Its It's just as well that this is so The former is in di direct direct direct di- di charge of the vast purchasing ing program under the national defense act and deals with the whole complex network of Industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial mobilization He has studied Intensively the errors of our last industrial mobilization and has laid elaborate precautions against repeating them The war departments department's departments department's depart depart- ments ment's files flies after the World war left many purchases strangely unexplained largely through their Incompleteness Therell There'll be nothing of that sort again say men working under Johnson Theres There's a complete record record record rec rec- ord of everything that's being done Johnson regularly joins General General General Gen Gen- eral Marshall at the department at a. a m m. Theres There's hardly a detail of the business end he doesn't have a finger In Army men say of him that he knows more about the organizational side of the army than any assistant assistant assistant as as- secretary secretary secretary-or or secretary secretary- of war they've ever had Copyright 1939 McClure Syndicate
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