The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-04

The request for this money was by captain Herbert K. Tenn, of Naval Intelligence, with the blessing of his superiors. In fact, the request for funds was transmitted officially by the As- siStant Secretary of the Navy to Senator Adams of Colorado on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Later Captain Fenn appeared be- fore the committee and made Q vigorous plea for funds "to deal with CenSorlng outgoing and in" coming cables and other items"
 The Navy even wanted to start a school to train censors.
 Part of the discussion was off the record and Q good bit of 4t was deleted from the committees published hearings. In the end the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee turned the Navy down. Hence the barage of deniHls. There will be { no censorship, ct least for the time being. ' NO GAS TROUBLES
 The shortage of gasoline in the East raises no problems In the life of Hattie Caraway, though, as ranking member of the Senate Commerce committee, she plays an important role In the inyes- tigation of the alleged shortage.
 The mOtherly senator from AFEAnsas is one of the few members of the upper chamber who docsn't own an autOmo- bile. ,.s... u
 Like the lowliest government clerk, Mrs. Caraway depends on street cars and buses to get to and from her office. Tn the morning she takes a bus near her home at upper Colorado avenue, transferring downtown to a street car which passes the Senate Of- flee building. At night the pro- cess is reversed. '..
 q guess I'm old-fashioned," eays Senator Caraway, "but I like to study the faces of peo- pie on streets cars and watch the sights from the window"
 When in a hurry the senator sometimes takes @ taxicab, but not often. 7 e;
 "YOu see," she explains, T live i'm 6O-cent cab xone."
 NOTE - There's nothing "old- fashioned' about Senator Cara ways economic views. She has one of the most liberal voting rec ords in the Senate.
 SUB- CONTRACTING
 By the Presidents own adrnis- sion, the most pressing domestic economic problem is safeguard ing little business from being forced out of existence by the de- fense program. Concern over this was the real reason behind the drastic reorganization of the moribund OPM Defense Contract Service, which had been set up to avert this very situation.
 But the little businessman isn't the only one having Q tough time. His complaints are plenty justi- fled, but there Is no single cure. It is not as simple as that. There is more to the problem than merely overcoming material short ages and spreading defense or- ders through sub-contractipg.
 There is also the question of cost. Defense chiefs. finally be- coming sub-contracting conscious, are running up against an unex- pected new headache = namely, that sub-contracting frequently means a big increase In the cost of production. Here is one ex- ample:
 4 company, facing heavy eur- talIment Of It's normal business, was asked to submit estimates on se and so eaIlber machine gums. The object was to give this plant defense work ta make use ef its machines and hun- dreds Of trained woFkers,. and also to speed up production es mach-needea armament.
 The company was delighted at the opportunity and submitted a bid - which waa almost 100 pes cent hlgheg than Che price She army was paying for these guns.
 The army is now getting them for e600. The ccEipany's lowe estimate was 9i,iO0. There. was no proeiteeTing involved. 'che bid was an honest figure Of what it would cost the company to make tho gun plus c modest profit.