Show SIR economic highlights what hat la Is probably the most ou au criticism n of the govern mata men id handling of the defense yio grow hua has in etli lippe arbita li it came from the ahr of u tu tives military affairs lit lee of this com littee voted to lu publish lie report chile hile ulue MILIC voted to it vile llie report criticizes agolli others secretary ickes joi for pu put I 1 haib ix petty tty quarrels abue above national interests tu to use duvid dald t this criticism Is based on tile the I Secre of the problem tu to quote the the relies idles on power electric power unwillingness of mille government officials to provide hydro clec electric energy from government duma dams lu in such till emergency as exists today is ut lit least shortsighted short sighted whatever ei tho the merits ot of any contro contre bersy beelen so culled calle 1 and the administration it Is uie the sense henhe of this Comil committee littee that a squabble at this athla time on oil the subject of mono illy Is a tragic and so sorry r spectacle 11 the report olao also largely absolves the clu minum interests of blame for production product ion when la is yay sa aAU ysAU testimony before this was to the effect that the aluminum company of america no only used its own money for expansion aud aal low fled ere d tho the price but of its own hil lathe dative trebled its production par more inore important Is the section of he report leport which saya by nce e that the administration n has harmed the national lut lonal defense effort ly refusing to po io lotical projects which are aie unnecessary aud and unwise at this time to quote directly agahi the house C committee says emphasis over the ile lits last few ye ears a r 5 has lee beau 1 ill made ale on oil social reform rather than national security As a nation we ive seem to IID have hate forgotten that without national security social reform might well illean meaningless ingless at so 0 o the country has been give ghen high official authority to back up ap the many and varied aried criticisms of the handling of defense that have been made hy by economists business men and others who have no connection v with ath tile the government the report cites a long list of cases which prove la in its opinion that the administration failed to assist maxinem inaam iun expansion of our productive facilities it criticizes the ad ministration ration also for falling failing to coordinate the defense effort under a single responsible head it believes lit in other words that there has been too much division of te ie and that the men charged with various major defense jobs leave not been given gaven the powers that are necessary to achieving maximum results la in a min linum period of time this does doeg not mean that our defense program has bogged down the obvious truth Is that noteworthy progress has been made in many fields especially that of airplane pi addiction by comp comparison arlson with the last war we tire are doing very ery well ft ell but in ili the view of at al most nil lilt experts that la 13 not enough the arms that were needed id to a field army lu in 1011 1911 IV would d scarcely manel M anel a 11 division too to da y uhla this ili 1 a var nm ut of machines and d tile antion alli aia hl li gels ills most its ita industrial plant will all liob ably be the victor the hie filet ithal lutent lall we e LUU call all other powers will do us small berlo ilee I 10 if the limit of output Is not d cry ii strong purlin pressure Is wv now being exerted vii oil the alie bilte to it bandon social for the duration of the einer gency und mid to the whole driff under one head ua its was ft lne alie lu in the itiba ellb war nur some home think that mr air roosevelt iu is at lust last coming toward tho the vic that uila must lust ile done dolic gugula now in ili the meantime ariti cleill such as aa that of tike house committee is 13 becoming more prevalent |