The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-30

Il G(l ANl NOtAtk NOAkANNAAhtA &tsONS w ssTN steps In this dlrcetion were taken when a subcommittee of four con- RreSSmen met Co eonEatSer a couple of resolutions introduced by Rep,
 Jerry VoorhlS of San DlmaS, Calif,, calling for the establishment Of a Post. Emergency Economic Advisory Commission, or a National CoMMlS~ sion on Unemployment and Present and poyt~War Economic AdlOSt- ment, or something, Anyway, the Idea is to get going on a study ot this problem right now,
 You might think that eonSidera- ton Of this problem would draw Q big crowd In Washington, or any, where, But not more than 20 peo- pie turned up for the hearings, Maybe, after all, nobody cares what happens to the country after the war Is oVel,
 But a couple Of rather important witnesses didn't think so There was w, L., Batt, a director of oPMS production division and one of the two or three SwinglngeSt, all-oNt de- fonCerS among tho dollar~A-ycar men in Washington, Even the New Dealers gay Bait Is good and M- dugtrialiStS swear by, not at him, The conservative Brookings mStitN- ton Of Independent, economic re- searcherS in Washington sent over their brilliant, economic reScrcllu-- their brilliant Meyer JNeobStein to give evidence something Of this kind ls necessary now, to co-orainate all the thinking, to set up A research stan, to get some plan worked out la advance to win tho war after the war;"
 BAIT CONS TO RAT
 Tho impressive thing about tho way VoorhiS, Bait and JacobStein look At the problem iS that they realize poSt-wNr recovery cannot be any leaf-raking, eoondogging organ lBed with some high caliber talent, capable Of Seeing beyond a port folio of WPA projects, capable of planning productive Instead of nom productive labor aS Q solution for national ailments, his work can 70 down as one Of the really important contributions to modern times, If i6 does tho job right, it can sell tho country on the Idea that everything isn't aS hopeless aS some people think it is.
 Batt is practically lyrical on the subject "if we tackle this prob. lem Of postwar demohllisation Of industry and manpower with an en- ergy comparable to that which we are now devoting Co tho opposite process" he says, we can Euil5 an economy and . standard Of living the likes Of which the world has never dreamed, We can, in the pros. ess, lay tho groundwork for an in- duStrial system ., based on q price structure designed to reach . vast reservoir of potential consumers that have in the past been able to afford only the basic necessities of life"
 HOPE FOR THE LITTLE MAN
 That's offering hope for the lit- te map, if lt was ever offered, and on Q Gay when all the rest of the news Is bad, and it's too hot for comfort to boot, 1t Is pleasant to re- port happy thought,
 All kinds of pitfalls are ahead of the Voorhis proposal, Pressure groups can get hold of it-manu. facturers' associations, labor groups, trade association, farm blocS, poli- tLcianS--and they can wreck 1t. EX. isting government institutions with their Jobs to Save-.National Resources Planning Board, WPA, PWA and the myriad recovery agencieS-can take It for Q ride, What will come out of the congressional hopper remains to be seen.
 Voorhis himself is one of the more interesting of the young con- greSSmen. He was born in Kansas His family is reputedly wealthy, having made fortune in California, He was graduated from Yale in in 1923, and after that worked as a factory hand, freight handler, rancher, school teacher and YNACA worker.
 In the House of Representatives, where he Is serving his third term, he Is known as one of the million aire congressman, but that hasn't kept him from being labeled as a New Dealer, either.