Show donald nelson remolded molded Re by government service servie thinks public officials responsibilities are greater than Business mens believes expansion necessary to U S by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington washing ton D 0 As donald nelson head bead of the W war ar production board sips his tea in what Is he th thinking inking ab about lut ile he knows that most of washington thinks he be Is through lie he knows th that t some people that it if he Is b business us a iness big and little has lost a f friend at ourt court H he e r recalls at c that before h he e could walk up the ramp of his plane to take off on this hazy mission to cathay the president dent had c casually asu ally remarked at a press and radio conference that the chief would not necessarily take up his former duties when he returned ile he knew then that in all probability congress would pass the dern bation bill which although it does not name the specifically nevertheless does give power to a new agency v which would make mr nelsons belsons Nel sons organization a mere appendage he knew too that many ot of his colleagues who remain on the board or hold bold other positions wl which itch will affect american economics in the next months if not years hold viks views contrary to his privately he calls them while he calls himself an expansionist A battle between these two categories Is going on now mr nelsons belsons Nel sons fate may influence the outcome because the results of gle may affect americas economy V vitally tally in the next few years I 1 think it is rather important to consider mr nelsons belsons Nel sons own attitude an attitude a philosophy if you will which has gradually developed rince he has been in washington I 1 believe nelson wants to stay in government I 1 believe a as s do a small percentage of persons who are interested te to in his fate that he will be 18 X i W DONALD NELSON offered as good a job or a better one than he has had what the contra ct expansionist 0 controversy tro means to the count rys business ill take up in a m minute anute but first id like to say a little more about nelson I 1 have gleaned my views from no keyhole key hole peeping no rifling of mr nelsons belsons Nel sons flies files but from those who know him well plus some ot of my own observations there are two reasons why I 1 believe mr nelson wants to stay in government one is partly psychological and has to do with what has happened to nelsons belsons Nel sons own attitude toward government ern ment which his closest friends have watched develop the other has to do with this idea ol 01 f expansionism sion ism definition ol of which entails a number of 0 facts and figures some of at which may startle you as they did me when I 1 saw them assembled lor for the first time and had bad them carefully checked and double checked they reveal strAin strikingly gly what the economic problem Is which this country Is facing and which so far it seems ill prepared to meet nelson came here from big business sears roebuck is pretty big he was used to pressing buttons end and giving orders like most big businessmen ness men this particular function Is a poor buffer against the slings and arrows of which washington has more than a FINDS WAYS TO GET THINGS DONE most businessmen as one old time P politician olit ician said to me the other day are immediately affected in one of two ways when they step into public me life there arg are the ones who when the buzzer answered immediately or when the order is criticized or its wisdom or even its integrity questioned explode in haughty anger and there are the ones who learn to take it and go right ahead and find a way to get things done with the chips and quips falling where they may including into their own breakfast coffee nelson is in the latter class he not only can take it but he has grown to like it in fact he has decided unless his friends read him wrong indeed that he wants to be a public servant that he believes he can get more satisfaction out of public life than out of private life that mean that he will simply let himself be kicked upstairs into a sinecure he will demand a job that he believes is a real one in which he can truly serve and now we corn come e to the second thing which ha has s influenced nelsons belsons Nel sons attitude and it like the first brought about something like a conversion ver slon in the man just as he be became convinced thit that a public career offered the best basi opportunity of service so nelson became converted to expansionism in general and to the importance c of f small business in particular and this is one of the causes of friction in the today a notable result of which was the resignation of charles E wilson allson in the course of his experience in washington nelson became convinced v that maximum productivity 0 of f industry is essential to prosperity and more recently that the protection of small business in the coming 0 n 1 readjustment period Is ess essential c n t ia I 1 to maximum production he felt that it if big business were to succeed a and nd the capitalistic system of tree free enterprise were to be preserved little business must be expanded specifically mr nelson believes according to his olten often exar expressed eased opinion that the more little businesses nes ses there are selling the things that a firm like sears roebuck sells the more things sears roebuck will sell in the field ot agriculture although the farm production has n nearly arly doubled the farm population has decreased nearly 40 per cent more expansion what do these figures mean that tha the productive capacity hasteen has been increased tremendously not only n in the war industries but in consumer goods and the expansionist believes that what has been done can be continued provided that obstacles are removed in addition to this revelation ol oi the nations highest productive capacity remember that there are 11 or 12 million men in the armed forces 11 million more in civill civilian an industry than before the tha war and I 1 million in government the 11 II million in private industry Indu str roust must keep their jobs and jobs it business big and small must be b found tor for those discharged from mhd th armed services plus some released release from government work to achieve this according to nelson the country must go expansionist must further every means ol 01 expanding production the he says although at he naturally plans hopes and works for or expansion in his own business does not always see the importance of expansion An in all businesses especially in those which compete with him it donald nelson has the opportunity he Is willing to go ahead doing his part to help expand industry big and little it remains to b bi seen whither leads the road frore china B R I 1 E F S by baukhage the british government has relaxed its rigid blackout rules the people of 0 sweden preparing to celebrate the victory pf af the allies over the axis have hooded the largest fireworks manufacturing company in stockholm with orders for or fiery portraits ot of prime minister churchill marshal joseph stalin and president roosevelt productive CAPACITY GREATLY INCREASES and pow now we come to some of the strange statistics about business big and little the most striking of all to me is this retail trade in spite ol of all the difficulties in its path had an increase of dollar values in sales rates of at more wan 50 per cent in 1943 over 1939 depart department med of commerce statistics show for 1939 tor for 1943 that is expansion under difficulties and here is another the department of 0 labor figures reveal that from brorn 1939 to 1943 the average yearly employment showed a decrease ol of only one tenth of 1 per cent the results of research cond conduct uc tec ec during 25 years by the illinois in heating ventilating cool ing insulating building materials material mechanical equipment of buildings building sewage disposal cUsp osal plumbing sanitation home management household house holc hol art house planning and construction construct loi iol and rural architecture Is ig to be gath ered and collated to solve the post war small home problem |