The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07

welcomed, but they will come only
during the few months required to
set up machinery for a selective
draft.
Men VIII Be Told
From then on. men will be- told
If and when they are to fight.
Those who do not fight will be
told to find essential work.
Their wages may be regulated.
They will not be permitted to go
from one place to another-as they
did in the last warm order to get
higher wages unless the govern
ment considers such movement
beneficial from the military sense.
Women and children will be put
to work in the places left by fight
ing men, so that industries essen
tial to warfare may not suffer.
Laws fixing minimum working
hours and pay CT women and
children will be brushed aside
where government considers that
necessary.
Prices Will Be Set
Prices will be set within GER
tain specific limits.
This may cover prices of all
goods, or it may cover only living
essentials such as food, clothing
and shelter. This point is now
being debated in Washington by
the war resources board.
The average man will find all
his private financial transactions
under constant scrutiny. The gov
eminent will stop any of his deals
which it considers inimical to the
national defense.
The amount of the rent he pays
for his apartment or house will
be- fixed.
If he owns a house, the rental
value of that may be fixed, too.
If he does not own a house but
decides to build one because his
wages are good and are coming in
regularly due to wartime employ
ment, he may have to ask the gov
ernment's permission. He will not
get that permission if the govern
ment decides that construction CT
other buildings, maybe army bar
racks, are more important in the
conduct of the war and require all
the labor that is available.
His supply of electricity for light
and heat in his home may he in
terrupted, rationed, or cut off at
any time. The government may
need the power for defense pur-
poses, and the war comes first.
Two Broad Plans
His trips on railroad trains, buses
and airplanes will be subject to
cancellation by the government,
depending on the demand for
facilities to transport men and ma
terials for the battlefield.
The specifications for these
sweeping controls of everyday life
are laid down in two broad plans:
One covering mobilization of in
dustrial resources, the other mo-
bilization of manpower. Today
these are only plans. They can
not go into operation until con-
gress passes enabling legislation
or the President prcclaims them
in effect under the war powers
the constitution gives him. But
they have been worked out grad
ually by the army and navy de-
partments ever since the World
war ended. And Mr.. Cherne OBJ
serves in his book, Adjusting
Your Business to War;" that "war
presents little time for parliament
tary quibbling" and there is little
doubt that shortly after M-day
mobilization day. they (the plans
here discussed) will be effectuat-
ed almost in exact detail"
Plans Dictator-Like.
In justification of such dictator
like plans for a democratic coun-
try, Assistant Secretary of War
Johnson says in his fcreword:
Modern war has become not only
a conflict of soldiers but of eco
nomic systems, and other things
being equal, the timely and effec-
tive mobilization of industry and
control of economic resources will
determine the final outcome"
Aspect of Plans.
Agreeing heartily with this the
sis, the Cherne study pictures the
army-navy plans in two principal
aspects:
(1) AS a means of conducting
war most efficiently and coming
to victory most quickly.