Show digest plan for local offices to aid demobilization vets and civilians problems would be tackled in own communities re employment Is major goal by BAUKHAGE news analyst no and commentator service union trust building washington D C these days it is popular to criticize democratic methods for their la lack c k of 0 speed the legislative mills do grind slowly as we have noted with many ot of the measures delaying readjustment to the peace to corn come e but in the case ot of the first steps toward preparing for demobilization which have brought up such hearty disagreements it so BO happens happe ns that quite knobs unobserved arved by most observers the machinery has b been grinding steadily ahead just the so same me this w was as achieved by executive order and nd on the surface at least it appe appears rs that work has been done while congress was disagreeing since february 24 when the executive order creating it was issued the retraining and Re employment administration has established more than information centers which will be the contact point with discharged veterans and war workers it also erected the framework of a system which can be expanded to take care of the peak demands when demobilization starts in earnest these information centers are the vital vi tal points of contact between government erdmen t agencies and the cit citizen littzen v veteran or civilian who Is starting c on n the road back to peacetime existe existence ce the philosophy back of this whole readjustment plan is based on the idea that a man or woman can best be served by his own friends and neighbors the government local or federal helps but the local community whose own prosperity depends on the prosperity and h happiness of its members is the best ot of guides philosophers and friends the retraining and reemploy anent administration Is the child of the baruch hancock report which is a lengthy document embodying the results of a long study and presented a as a suggestion lor for appropriate legislation since the lawmakers were slow in their lawmaking law making the president issued his executive order tm under der his war powers he put the new administration under the office of war mobilization its head bead mr byrnes named general kines hines head of uie the veterans administration as administrator of the retraining and Re employment setup new agency works with other U S bodies under general hines was created a policy board made up of representatives senta tives of the various government agencies whose functions fit into the picture the purpose being to make use of existing government agencies insofar as possible rather than to create new ones the agencies represented on the board are labor federal security war manpower selective service the war department part ment navy department war production board this board has general supervision of all activities affecting the returned veteran or the discharged war worker and it consults with congress on matters which would promote the processes of readjustment specifically this is a large order for it involves getting jobs getting the right job for the right man training for jobs train training fag the right man for the right job and assuring an expert and sympathetic handling of the process from the human as well as the economic standpoint it also deals with all the multifold benefits and rights of the GI bill of rights already dealt with at length in these columns the man on whom most of 0 the responsibility tor for carrying out the administrations work has fallen so far is C W bailey executive secretary of the policy board following the theory of utilization ot of existing agencies the board immediately fumed to the three government agencies which were already engaged in activities similar to those or including those which the R R has to do namely selective service with its offices in all parts of the country through which virtually everyone who entered the armed services had to pass the united states employment service with its 1500 1600 full time offices which have been the main channels carrying the war workers to their jobs and finally the vet erans administration with its hundred offices with a personnel ex exi i perien ced in handling ex soldiers claims since the end of world war 1 I committees were appointed in the various states composed of representatives senta tives of these agencies whose function was to assist in the creation of the information centers in many states these committees have been able to report that the organization of these smaller groups Is now adequate to handle the present load in other states the completion of the organization Is underway mr bailey tells me that li he feels that a national framework haa ban been constructed ted upon which the complete organization can be raised as demobilization begins and war industries are cut down tills this Is the organization which has been functioning under the executive order it Is ake taken to tor granted that it will be continued in function if not in exact form and of course provided with adequate funds for expansion pan sion by current or future legislation but the point Is that in the in action has been taken without working for the legislative bodies to deliberate and adumbrate w while hile the readjustment program merely marked time administration eager to make good showing since the democratic administration is open to sharp criticism it any phase ol of the adjustment pro gram drags considerable effort will be made to show results pressure applied to congress to hurry the legislation was exerted too with th the e republicans perhaps in the less les s advantageous position since the original measure offered by the administration was considerably 11 altered I 1 first in the senate and later to 14 the house when the president was asked for comment on governor deweys deleys charge that the new deal was afraid of 0 the peace because it was uncertain that the economic problems would be satisfactorily solved the president merely said we could say that he smiled broadly meanwhile some members of the administration not sure whether smiles miles were in order have been out in the field attempting to find out just what has been accomplished toward oward opening the way to full employment which Is generally admitted to be the one sure answer to the danger of a depression the work of the retraining and administration if it can show a good record can be an example of one of the first concrete steps reports of the informal investigators have not been made public we do know that in some communities the local people have responded we well II 11 many energetic mayors and chambers of commerce are ready and anxious to show their local industries dus tries the benefit of the possibilities of expansion they have been active to in making plans which will get the returned veteran or war worker a job or get him in contact with the proper source for training which will make him a potential benefit to the community in such places the committees are quickly and easily formed and are prepared to function in some cases are already functioning effectively after all the federal government by a unanimous vote in congress produced the GI bill of rights that welfare program opening a thousand effective channels for human readjustment physical moral intellectual tel and economic to normal lue life to millions of servicemen it devolves upon their friends and neighbors to see that their ben benefits eilts remain the benefits of the community rather than lose them to some more energetic society or by complete neglect to ob oblivion uvion total federal receipts jumped from in fiscal 1843 1943 to in 1914 1944 an increase of per cent according to a recent U S treasury report analysis of the report by the federation of tax administrators shows that more than of the 1944 total or per cent was brought in by income and excess profits taxes all other taxes yielded about almost equaling the total federal receipts to in 1941 BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage placements ot of physically handicapped persons by the United states state employment service may total nearly a hau half millton million in 1944 because because ot of the dig disruption of rail facilities by the fighting in southern france american made trucks ar are e being shipped to europe lor the transportation of prisoner ot of war parc parcels elst curate curare a deadly poison that native indians ot of the amazon called flying death because they used it to make poison arrows is now saving lives of the 11 fighting men of bunted nations the office of the coordinator of 0 inter american reports curare Is now used to relieve spastic paralysis and to relay relan the muscles of mental patient I 1 undergoing convulsive shock |