Show baunton wa unton digest changes scheduled for manpower commission 1 I english system seen as successful model mcnutt unable to obtain efficient and experienced force of experts by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust washington D 0 two days before the office of 0 war information announced the now famous work or fight order I 1 wrote strange sounds are coming through the keyhole of the wide door of the office of the federal security administrator paul mcnutt they have nothing to do with federal security but they have a lot to do with that other function of the administrator 0 on n whose broad sh shoulders rests heavily e vily the chairmanship of the manpower commission the noises I 1 refer to are the preliminaries limin aries ta to a bigger noise the manpower commission Is just about to blow up said a certain official to affie me one who has followed io wed its operations very closely but because of some strange premonition refused to get entangled with them he is entire entirely I 1 y sym sympathetic sympathy pathe tic with the effort but like others other a WI whose I 1 ose duties are affected by the ramifications of 0 the manpower situation he Is chagrined and confused cont used by abat what is happening and still more by what happened when the manpower situation was first turned over to mcnutt who Is known as a good administrator there we was s a long and patient wait tor for something to happen nothing did no wonder said neutral observers he has no authority then he got the authority by pres presidential d e ukase earlier it Is true li he e had made it plain that he felt that there should be passed by congress a national service act which would lay jay upon all civil civilians lans the similar obligations placed upon the young men of military age so many people who thoroughly disliked the idea of a draft of labor of any kind nevertheless erth eless dec declared such a step was inevitable that I 1 was positive that it was coming and so reported now it seems tar far away the substitute was supposed to he be the setup under mcnutt which would work through the united states emp loy ment service selective service was even made a par part t of McNut ts organization end and general hershey who had seen that institution through from its incept inception Jon with better grace than many would have shown accepted the subordination of his functions like the good soldier that he Is more authority but many a week has passed since that step was taken various directives have been sent to the draft boards enlarging the of deferment for essential farm and industrial occupations but still the system click it is now reported that mcnutt feels that he needs still more presidential authority conferred upon him it was thought when the last reorganization of the manpower agency was made that the united states employment service would work side by side with the selective service the one recruiting labor the other recruiting fighters end and the question would be settled between them under a single head then according to one of the members of the commission without informing anyone in advance he did what many feel was a direct violation of the key policy turned over the question of deferment to the department of agriculture this is the step which those who opposed it feel Is going to force a change in the setup one once e more administration of manpower recruitment was supposed to be centered in the commission naturally members of the department of labor who felt that recruitment tit of workers should be handled by that agency consider that no successful solution will be reached until the entire manpower question is put under a single person of cabinet rank and administered by that head right down to the local setups they point to what has been done in england where the system seems to be working successfully under the british labor minister A system has been worked out there where the local administration has wide authority under a firm general policy the reason why a similar plan was not followed here Is possibly because of ct the feeling against secretary of labor perkins ns too many people would object if the work were turned over to her and it was believed that the president was about to cut the gordian knot when the BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage for every egg laid last year we need 13 eggs this year to teed feed ourselves and our allies e many americans in the pacific coast states were as disappointed as the chinese in the failure to announce an offensive in the far east in 1943 they say they feel eel as it washington was a lot further from san francisco than australia plan was announced whereby miss perkins was to be transferred to the head of the federal security administration is tra tion mcnutt would go to interior and secretary of interior ickes aou would id head the labor department iches refusal that scheme fell through because ickes want to make the shift the result is that mcnutt has been left to struggle with a problem for wh which ich some of his most sympathetic critics say he is not fitted he has been unable to obtain an efficient and experienced staff some posts are still vacant others are said to lack the technical knowledge necessary to mcnutt or anyone in his po r atlon such expert assistance would be available in the labor department for even those who speak least respectfully fully of madame secretary admit that she has built up an excellent force of experts in her department part ment As one veteran of the labor front s said aid to me if the war lasts long enough we may establish a workable and efficient system like the british look for at least one more makeshift experiment meanwhile lets hope we can muddle through that was the state of things u up P until february 2 1943 then came the announcement of the list of n non 0 n deferrable jobs the cynical may still look upon it as a makeshift make shift experiment by april 1 well know whether mcnutt has cracked the hardest nut in washington or whether we still have to muddle through nazi indicate new status when hitler tailed failed to appear or even to speak to his unseen audience on the tenth anniversary of his accession to power it was only natural that many people felt that this was part of the peace offensive which it was known the reich heich was preparing the unconditional surrender conference at casablanca was supposed to have pretty well quashed the nazi peace drive but apparently the retch reich still has hopes when I 1 learned that goering and not hitler was delivering the oration of the day two pictures flashed vividly into my mind one I 1 witnessed personally in depte september m ber 1939 from the press gallery galler y of reichstag and the other was described to me the latter is said to have taken place in the famous hunting lodge of goering outside of berlin A millionaire american manufacturer sat with him it was not long before pearl harbor the american had a peace drive of his own he outlined it to goering it was this get rid of hitler set up a more liberal government agree to get out of france it if england will make peace the man to do the job goering the fee one million dollars according to my informant goering was willing but the scheme was never put through names goering hess the other scene was the occasion ot of hillers Hit lers announcement that he had invaded poland it was then that he declared that he was going to the front and that if anything happened to him he had decided that his successor would be his air marshal who sat at the reichstag presidents desk resplendent in one of his musical comedy uniforms and said the fuehrer if anything happened to goering hess would be the second choice the solemn and lanky hess dressed in the brown uniform of the party rose ands and saluted as had the grinning goering hess when things go according to his wishes painted his toenails and took wings for england there has been comment in washington lately over the different tone in the official issued by the german high command experts say they seem to indicate that the generals have taken over recently it was rumored that hitler had fired his intuition which he be said directed his military strategy and he was letting the professionals run the army it is just possible that hitler will some day meet the same fate of the intuition which he so unkindly purged even the most thickheaded nazi could hardly believe that the allies would ever make peace with a government with hitler at the head there Is talk again ot of an overall agency having the last word on a all 11 the problems affecting the civilian population under war conditions james byrnes stabilization administrator would head it the war has shrunk the comics syndicates aie studying means ot of compressing their humor and drama into tour four instead ot of five columns |