Show 1 I economic I 1 criticism ot of this nations arms effort conti continues nuis to mount according to one oft of the ht latest surveys 0 it will be another year before gey 6 our military production rivals th that at or of I 1 en england gland inasmuch as ao behave ww hava three times tho pop ot of B britain and have many times the resources of all kinds I 1 it t Is apparent app areat that weare we are still a long longcay long yay from any ahing resembling an all out arin ament program in soma quarters it la is believed that our actual may be greater than official announcements nou noun cements indicate that in other other words the extent of our arms output Is IE being deliberately played auw down as aa a matter of poll policy whether this Is true or not however a great many authorities t are convinced that some radical i changes must be effected before this nations arsenal of democracy dream is even partially realized there are aie three definite factions involved in the defense program number one is the government here there has been an excessive overlapping ot of activity there has been too much responsibility some of the more extreme new dealers according to informed critics have put their ideological ambitions ahead of anything else at the expense of military production A number of th the a much touted experts who have been given key kay jobs have proven pi oven failures and the tue age old id vices of bureaucracy slothfulness and lack ot of initiative have been retarding elements the second factor Is industry by and large it has responded well to the demands ot of the emergency but certain important segments consciously or otherwise seem to have been unwilling or unable to abandon the business as usual idea this segment ot of industry ip III the opinion ot of its critics has been too cautious too fearful of losing profits that ihas has delayed the harsh changeover from peacetime to a wartime basis of operation the third factor is labor hero here again an important segment has put perso personal hat power and profit ahead ot of the needs of the nation strikes in defense industries have cost the country millions of man days of work they have prevented the manufacture of unknown quantities of planes tanks and other weapons of war in these days a strike carried on by a few workers in a vital plant can sto stop p production in a hundred bundled plants plant A late example is the strike in a plant which produces transmissions tor for motor vehicles that brought the production of trucks tanks jeep beep cars and other motorized equipment men t to a standstill this particular strike was purely a jurisdictional disagreement between the AF of L and the CIO it Is reported that the president is considering a tremendous victory drive involving the s spending pending of a year some soma of the more levelheaded friends of labor are aie telling t it that con continued tinned strikes will result in disaster tor for the trade union movement there are rumors to the effect that production of heavy consumer goods such as motor ears cars may come to a virtual stop inside a few months month s what will come of all this remains to be seen in any ease case it Is plain that the tempo ot of americas amei leas war effort must be tremendously accelerated it if we are to produce the goods which the beleaguered beleaguer ed allies abroad must have it hitler Is to be stopped the hand of hitler can be seen in the recent changes which have hava taken place in the japanese a government and time may prove that hitler won a considerable diplomatic victory when the mod orate konoye government gave the ghost and the saber baber ra nu tup aling government of axis admer ing general tojo came in the adva advantage of oe this to hitler Is clear first it this country is forced to face a naval threat in the pacific its naval efforts in the atlantic will necessarily essa rily be limited we got a two ocean navy and we wont have one tor for tour four or more years it Is unquestioned that a US japanese naval w war a r would be of immense service to the axis second the new japanese government constitutes a threat to asiatic russia rumors humors fly ly about that japan may seize the vital port ot of vladivostok and the only tiesh fresh troops russia has are lit in eastern garri garrisons sour it if japan offered no danger russia could brin baing them and their supplies to b bolster 0 r her weakened forces in europe but it japan threatens she Is between the d evil devil and the deep blue sea in III washington the japanese c change of government made a comparatively small stir As columnist put pul mallon put it the fluctuating wrath of tokyo caus i L ed considerably loss than the ex pecked reaction over committed in china torn with political dis r sension ision within threatened with decoi economic 0 ic starvation tokyo would have hae to exhibit a lot ot of wrath to frighten anyone it is an open so secret cret that many high U S naval officers would welcome a naval showdown with nippon they think we could win that war in fairly quick time but should it come our aid to england program would certainly have to be slowed down to a walk tor for the duration of hostilities in the pacific |