Show I Peace Planners Emphasize Emphasize Need for Orderly D Day planning Board Report EnVISions Reintegration tion of Men Into Services Where Skill Ability Are Recognized By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator Next wee week s a release of Wash Nash Ington DIgest sill 1 be written from Quebec where D B R covered the history making Roosevelt Roosevelt con conference conference ference for Western Newspaper Union and Its affiliated news news- newspapers newspapers papers Wo U ServIce Union Trust Building Washington D C CAs As the plans which received their final approval at the Quebec confer conference conference ence start turning from ink and pa paper paper per to moving men and machines the thoughts of other planners turn toward another zero hour hour- hourD D day The war Is not over by any means but hard headed beaded people who realIZe that you can t walt wait until it rams rains to prepare for a rainy ramy day know that you can cant t walt wait until the sun comes out to buy your summer clothes D day Is as important as M 11 day Demobilization is as big a problem as mobilization Various plans have been worked on none has been perfected The PresIdent has offered one The Republican party will offer another Industry WIll present its program The me ad an ministration whoever hoever Is at the helm when peace comes sill ill have a heavy responsIbility The National Resources Planning board has al aI already ready made a report expressing its opinIons on a plan drawn up by a specIal committee on post w tr re readJustment readjustment adJustment which at least least gives us usa usa a point of departure Plan Needed Now I IThe The board points out that vIctims of the war ar are already coming back and the time IS rIpe Only tIlI We other day I went through Walter Reed hospital here and saw some of those victims Saw photographs of the conditions m whIch they come back end and others showing what medIcal skill has hag done for them I also saw the workshops where wounded men are being fitted to take up work shach In sp to te of their handicaps they could learn to do ThIs plan emphasIzes the need for foran foran an orderly demobilizatIon It IS im important important to get every man who can be spared from the armed forces the moment he can be spared WIth WIthout without out threatening the nation nahon s security hack back into civilian life I know how glad I was when I got out of urn form into cIvvIes after the last war But the report zes that still more important than speed IS order in We not only want the men out of the armed servIces we e want ant to get them into peace services where skills and abil lues ties can be fully recognized uti and rewarded That is the thesIs of the planning board ResponsIbIlity for the placement of veterans m In industry Is acknowledged edged by the re employment divi division slon sion of the selective servIce system under the selective service act The selective servIce system is not per feet perfect but considering the Job It had to todo todo do It has worked out in a manner that is a trIumph of the democratic method Draft boards are groups of neIghbors who pass upon each regIstrant and on that basIs select selector selector or reJect him hlIn The same system wIll put the sold er back into hIS old job it If his old job is there and If he can canfill fill It it But many had no Jobs Others for one reason or another wIll be un unable unable able to fill the ones they had before the thear war ar These cases must be taken c care are of Board Boards Board's Principles Business has been shuffled and shifted about Just as the men them themselves themselves selves have It may be d to get man and job together The problem Is intrIcate but the corn com has tried to lay down certain principles Here they are 1 Three months furlough at the end of the war at regular base pa pay y not to exceed a month plus plu s family allowances 2 Beyond that time if necessary unemployment insurance for 26 2 8 weeks withe for those who register with wi th the government employment Ice servIce 3 SpecIal aid and counsel regard big ing regarding readjustment and compensation 4 4 Special provision Including tul tui and allowance for the anon of education interrupted by th the e war or to follow a special course of o f training 5 Veterans credIt for old age and survIVors insurance on the basIs of s service in the armed forces 6 0 Opportunities for agrIcultural employment and settlement for a limited number of well fed men But no dumping of men on farms SImply because industrial employment em IS not ImmedIately avail available available able Re Training Program Similar r provIsIons must be made for war workers worker as war industries close or change over Means Mean bile hile the government will maintain cen centers centers where assIstance and retrain retraining ing for cIvilian jobs can be arranged In order to pre present ent a too rapId at attempt attempt tempt at over change of industry a moderate policy polley of continuation of oar ar contracts some of whIch can be continued In the natIOnal good goodOf goodOf Of course nothing can be done permanently to stabilize the labor sItuatIon WIthout a rapId expansIon of peace tIme industry toward to a goal of full employment It Is well un tin understood even by the most fervent of government planners that private industry and ard not the government must eventually furnIsh the employ ment Already industry IS offering plans of ItS own but it cannot be expected to do the whole lob Job One suggestIon is that government loans be made to industrIes turning to peace tune pro production in proportIOn to the number of men such industries employ Business cannot take over the bur burden burden den alone In 1939 we were at peace although we were making alot a alot lot of war var supplies for the Allies Then 41 4 1 mill on workers were em employed employed m in munitions making EIght and SIX tenths mIll ons ens were work mg on farms or agricultural pur purSUItS pursuits SUItS At the end of last year ear the workers m in war plants had more than doubled They were 10 5 mil millions lions hons In agriculture unemployment has not greatly changed speaking farm workers amount to 8 9 mill ons But the men in the armed forces more than dou doubled doubled bled In the same perIOd the un unemployed employee employed had decreased from S 8 7 millIons to 1 mIllion Some of these we e shall hall always have wIth the us-the lame the halt and of course the lazy But it IS estimated there acre ere persons Jobless and de ng work m in July of this Year There may be points to the corn com s plan o 0 abich objections will be raised It IS not offered as asa asa a working drawing mg merely as a basIs of discussIOn but how much better such sucha a procedure Is than the policy after the last war when the sold er was a football and where each congress tried to vote more dollars out of the treasury wIthout rhyme or reason money which d do t provIde jObs which m in many cases pitifully fal d of its purpose and in others simply filled the cot cof coffers fers of the bootlegger and the shark and left the recipient nothing Diary of ofa a Broadcaster Oyer the land the VIctory gardens are bring ng in theIr rich YIelds to many a person who ho probably never worked as phys hard for catty hIs supper before And probably never had more fresh sweet and luscIous vegetables But I wandered over a farm re recently centy that was crying for rain I couldn t help thinking as I I pushed through a wood lot bes de a shrunk shrunken en stream stained brown from the yellow leaves that carpeted it it howall how howall all the laving things were ere angUIsh anguishing mg ing WIth thIrst TWIgs snapped un tin der under tinder one s feet like dry bones there was happy an ugly growl instead of a hap happy py hum from the It insects seemed that only the tough blue bottles could survIve Not far from the stream where the earth in the bed of a spring was still damp one cricket was singing gratefully but there were few of hIs fellows about Leaves on tall weeds hung to the stem like a flag at half haU stat staff staffon on a day aday when no breeze stirs one yel low yellow headed flower stood out in a spot of color it ft looked like a very sleepy little girl her damp locks glued to her face almost conceal ng her t red smile I thought I wIsh I could stay here until the ram rain comes singing through the leaves wetting cracked lips of the peeling furrows I be e Sieve lIeve I would hear a real hymn of rejoIcing go up |