Show CRISIS IN MANPOWER problem of alamp mangov met er means as much to the fa farmer r met w with h wat one hired hand or the merchant with th a single clerk as it does to the in d alist who employs a thousand persons it is all a matter of proportion patti n the mar program has reached such a stupendous p s size that the h tu bati a ua arup proper distribution of manpower assumes nal as a much imports importance to as a the right use of ate steel at oil i I 1 rubber or a any 3 y other essential neaten material I 1 or product it has he s been such a short time since me I 1 there h 11 was more manpower than m industry and agriculture could absorb that we may be a bit slow in waking up to the fact that today each man and woman who can an be used to help I 1 m the battle 0 of production I 1 is a needed and needed badly for the be benefit n silt then of farmers whose crops and livestock will suf for fer this year if manpower is not replenished pleni ples I 1 shed hed for the benefit of the armed services which have set thew their sights before at possibly a Y 10 million matlion m uniform for before 1944 for the benefit of the factories which must at turn out at ammunition shoes clothing supplies and ad pr processed ased foods in ever increasing quantities for fighters civilians civi vi hans and allied nations a c careful re stock taking of manpower is a r re fo quiren where manpower Min power Is wasted our ne new congress must make sure th that those in charge ol 01 of this tak t in washington W cast about to see where able bodied ad 1 e 1 are I a eing needlessly a employed to P id and aid in that h t c city it Y of washington these so au are now rubbing b b elbows b with thousands of clerks k aad auditors taw m ate stenographers heis eis and others who C could old be used elsewhere without interfere int erfer ing g with the war mar effort in any meah a me recent figures showed that there were 2 2 60 63 00 persons person on a the ih e civil vu I 1 lan ion payroll rail of pay the federal govern over men benl t th this imers is in not only a million more met than were in our aimed forces fare in for foreign g lands at the time lime the president t made his addao at the opening OP ng of the present presen t congress C oo ress but it is ahr three on tia times as s mu mil v as were on the governments government s civilian payroll during the first world war of course this is d bigger war mar but that only furnishes an even greater reason why the government should lead in conserving manpower for our farms and factories the renegotiation law A single measure introduced in carig congress Con giess last year would require thousands of new pay rollers to carry out at its provisions this was the net act providing that the army navy and maritime commission should each check its war mar contracts so that renegotiation could be demanded in cases of exeas execs excessive s ive charges the purpose of this legislation to make sure that the government was no not paying to too much for its materials and supplies ft mas as not questioned t I 1 d but the proposed method a of I 1 rechecking ter or k ing all 11 war contracts called for r the hiring of such a large number in b of new federal led 7 ra employees e that ame amendments to th the bill war were an quickly kly demanded d although the he bill ha han been rewritten and amended intend it I 1 still a till places place upon the army navy and maritime commission commis sion so much of the responsibility r III ih y v f for or examining reexamining re th their contracts that thousands of new auditors and accountants would be needed n this violates the principle that on united led war effort calls for far the placing of af every available noc man and ad woman in productive work at the a same time helping to keep the thet taxpayers 11 1 federal iced as light as a P possible consistent wit with I 1 wartime artz ar demands demand t an 0 acceptable inside amendment to this I 1 law ow tut not alt yet apted adopted would leave it to the be department of internal revenue to uncover instances of c excess profit by using t this h a established fish u oil checking h join g system at the other departments w would old not have ave to hire extra people to wade through the 95 pe per oer cent n t or or more are of war contracts w which w h are honestly and conscientiously boesl Y mote executed d heie is but one example of how manpower can be conserved con in these da dais af w when hc t the efforts of all must most be directed toward winning the w war or |