Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-30
Plan For Easing Nations Business From War
 Back to Peace.
GOVERNMENT BUSY
 MAKING PLANS
Industrial Reconstruction Will Be the Main Object
 of This Organization.

+Ee war, the war industries board seems certain to continue in exist ence and play large part in the transformation of war manufactur- ing back to peace time production. This is one feature of the govern- ment's program for easing the na- tion's business from the pitch of war to the pursuits of peace without con- vuising it in the progress. In a sense, the program is tentative, be- cause it's formulation has just be- gun. Nevertheless the planning for Ieace is giving all government agien- cics in Washington these days ma terial for as systematic thought as the prosecution of war.
 Industrial reconstruction, next to Rehabilitation of the army, is prob these plans. How to stop the manu- lecture of shells, of guns, of army and navy supplies, without stopping the industrial wheels which made them, and to furnish new work for these wheels, is aproblem which the agiencies of the war industrial board means that the hundred of industrl- al and commercial leaders who have been called to Washington will have to continue their services for essen-
 tial peace work. or substitutes for them be found.
 Manufacturing plants which now
 lock to the war industries board for assistance in obtaining materials and
 which in ture comply with the force
 fu: suggestions of the ybOard, event.
 ually will call on some government agency to aid them during the prog rcss of facing about toward peace production. The war industries board is the only agency equipped
 with the machinery and supplied with the information to give. this guid- ance. For that reason, the officials in closest touch with currents of ideas within the government insist that the war industries board will continue in existence indefinitely after the war, regardless of when tho war ends.
 Officials intimate that means will be found of continuing the current plans for eliminating strikes, of giv- ing labor greater voice in the man. agenemt of industrial plants, and of extending both labor and trade fed Eelations to promote collective par i gaining. They suggest that the gov crnment, through the War Finance corporation, may aid in the conver- sion of industries from war to peace fCcting, reversing the existing priority Of war enterprises. Railroad trans
 portation, industriail production and ocean shipping must be co-ordinated end supervised for few years after peace comes as they have been dur l tug the war, in the opinion of gov
 erMment leaders. Employment agen- Cies. universities and schools churches and other social organiza' l tions must cooperate to facilitate the placing of returned osldiers in the oc- equations where they are best fitted al.d most needed.
 To do all this, it is the belief in
 mary official circles in Washington l that most government agencies which
 have sprung up during the war must continue to function for an indefin-
 ite time afterward. These include the War Industries Board, Shipping
 Board. War Trade Board, Food and Fuel Administrations. War Labor l Board and the War Labor Policies
 Board, numerous divisions of the
 Council of National Defense, War 1 Finance Corporation, and many other l connected agencies.
 The Railroad Administration has
 21 months to live after peace is sign 1 ed, unless future Legislation should 1 change existing plans for restoration
 of railroads to private control. The
 Red Cross, Young Mems Christian
 Association. War Camp Community
 Service and similar institutions will
 have big work to perform in con- junction with the government long ] after the war is over.
 1 in realization that the question oi
 hcw to accomplish all these compli- cated matters will be as big ques-
 tion as that of how to make war has
 beeh. nearly all government agencies
 now are bestirring themselves quiet ] ly tl taking stock. In congress the
 spirit Is reelected in at least three