The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-10

clude EN- all The up-to-date list
covers Is single-spaced- typewrgt-
ten pages. l counted a page and
then multiplied by Is for my esti-
mated total Of 500
Most of these outfits split up
into OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INTO doz-
ems Of en- and even the compare
tive peeWees INTO several each.
They're scattered among 20 DIFF
ferent telephone exchanges.
Legislative and judicial set-ups
don't figure IN the catalogue. which
Is executive exclusively. II any
body has business to transact with
some congressional group or one
Of some courts creation he has to
hunt elsewhere for his information.
One beauty of the situation is
that It's customary TO refer to the
entire aggregation of executive ad-
minlstrationS by their various mi
tials. For example, suppose VS.
ting cattleman calls at the Office
OF Agricultural Defense Relations,
known as the OADR. TO discuss a
problem that's worrying him. The
OADR quickly ascertains that. as
a livestock raiser. he's inquired at
the wrong counter. so IT politely
directs HIM to consult the AID,
and it's up to him to guess that
AID means the Animal Hus-
bandry Division,
Guessing Game
Such institutions as the ICC and
the TWA have been sufficiently ad-
vertised for the average citizen to
have learned that they're the In
terstate Commerce Commission
and the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, respectively, but how's he to
know that BEW's the Board of
Economic Warfare or that the
OFFS the Office of Facts and
Figures? cs
Is II any wonder that out-of
town folk. in the capital on war
time missions, ind themselves rat
tied? Why. native Washingtonians
can't make sense out of the confu-
sion. Indeed. the very government
workers themselves are puzzled by
il. An Official Of the NDMB INA
tional Defense Mediation Board)
disuatches one Of his underlings on
an Grand to the NDRC National
Defense Research Committee) and
the poor clerk hasn't an idea where,
TO look for II.
wspaper headwriters are
largely responsible for the initian-
cation evil. A name like the once
of Defense Health and Welfare
Services doesn't fit conveniently
into a front page headline. so the
desk editor abbreviates it into
ODHWS. It doesn't mean anything
to the papers readers. but these
are emergency times. so they
mustn't be too critical.
The situation is complicated by
the fact that a considerable num-
Der Of the agencies in question are
Just moving or are soon 70 move
out Of Washington into towns in
the SUCKS. hlALtI Tic liNoAANAASANA
order scattering EN-. since the
capitals so full up that it's suffo-
eating.
Nevertheless. it's severe jolt to
a seeker after the NDMB's real
nonicker ,(National Defense Medi-
alton Board) )a-nd whereabouts to
locate its headquarters in the city's
southwestern area. only to find out
that its beqh transferred to the
heart Of MAJ yland. Some Of 'em are
going farthtr than that, too-away
out to the midwest or more So,
Enemy Embassies:
There's some talk of a taking
over OF enemy countries Washing
ton ambassadoriai erstwhile head
quarters for American government
tai Office occupancy.
Germany. italy and Japan have
had regular palaces for their diplo-
matte representatives. accommoda-
ton and they're pretty tempting.
with the capital as cramped for
room as it is. An embassy or legs-
ton building supposedly is on the
soil OF the nation that operated
from 1t. locally. There's a tradi-