Evening star., 1942-12-02
America May Supply
Reborn French Army
Eberstadt Tells NAM
Witherow Hits $4,000
Solory Limit as Plank
OF Communist Porty
BY the Associated Press.

'I' 1OitIN, DCI. d. lit
United States may be called or
to supply a ''rejuvenated" French
army, the vice chairman of the
War Production Board said to-
day, while one of the Nations
leading induStrialists asserted
he was mot fighting for a quar-,
OF milk for every Hottentot.
Ferdinand Eberstadt, the WPR
executive. III speech at the opening
of the 47th convention of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
said:
You must not forget that war is
matter of change and hazard. and
that what is true today may not be
true tomorrow.
We may. for example lit is to be
hoped, have the privilege of sup
plying rejuvenated French Army
which, although it would cause a
change in our calculation. would be
a very agreeable burden, indeed"
Capital Should Help Rebuild
NAM President w. P Witherow
who is also president of the Blaw-
Knox Co. suggested that private
capital be encouraged to provide the
motive power for postwar recon-
struction and added:
PERSONALLY. l am not interested in
any other form Of government or
form of economy than our own. I
admire beyond expression the stand
the Russians have made.
They are fighting nobly for Russia
and Soviet ideals. We're fighting for
America and American ideals
Il am not making guns or tanks
to win peoples revolution I am
making armament to help our boys
save America. l don't want
any modified" free enterprise or
bill OF rightleSs democracy.
Immediately after the war, Gov
ernment aid to war-torn countries
Is foregone conclusion But not
the rehabilitation of their economy
or the reforming of their lives l
am not fighting for quart of milk
for every Hottentot or for a IVA
on the Danube, or for governmental
handouts of free Utopia
Mr.. Eberstadt said this country'S
war production volume had been
enormous" although 1t had fallen
short to some extent and in some
fields Of the inspiring goals which
Our President very wisely set for us.
He told the Nations top-ranking
hdustrialiSts gathered for the con-
Sentlon that:
You. of all people should be
sentlest in your judgment of the de-
gree of confusion, intricate regula-
lions, and conflicting Instructions
which must necessarily have accom-
oanied the creation in so short
time OF war business exceeding
800, 900 900 900"
This was the first meeting of the
NAM since the United States en-
,ered the war, year in which bus
ness and businessmen underwent
The most drastic regulations in the
Nations history. Among some of
Them expected 10 draw special fire
Of the speakers from industrys
ranks were:
The $4,000 limitation on salaries:
The law empowering the Army. Navy
and Maritime Commission to re-
negotiate war contracts. the Ma
Slonal War Labor Boards rulings on
.abOr problems which have affected
industry.
Mr.. Witherow dwelt on some of
them.
He described ''rationing, renegotia-
tion, shortages. Investigations, in
dictments, missionaries antitrust
suits, conflict, overlapping. red tape
and confusion National Labor Rela-
lions Board. WLB and other alpha
betical slow downs that took thes
time of management as so many
things in the knapsack industrialists
have to carry.
Enterprise Must Return.
American industry knows that
in total war some extensive controls
are necessary, But we must
know also that our sacrifices are
temporary Any suspension of free
enterprise should be for the dura-
ton only" he said.
He suggested production of war
material, manpower problems, war
and other major under
should have single headed
in a war cabinet.
Asserting the idea of S25 900 linn
itation on salaries was "unblushing-
ly borrowed from the public plat
form of the Communist party in
1928" Mr.. WitheroW said:
Tt constitutes open, recognizable
and unmistakable surrender to those
who desire to change our form of
society and government. 1t is
ceiling on initiative"
Commenting on the postwar re-
period, the industrial
ist said:
IF Government undertakes
wealth plan on an inter-
national scale. it may benefit those
in foreign lands. but only by the i'm
of the American
people
Pew Attacks New Deal.
J. Howard Pew, president of the
Sun Oil Co., another convention
sneaker, said production would fail
if the Government became the die
tator of industry.
I'm Washington at times
the aim seems to be-not winning
the war-but the substitution of
nolitical domination for industrial
Self-eovernment,' MI. Pew declared
THE industry of this country CAN
not be run from Washington. This
war cannot be won in Washington,
But II can be lost there
Asserting that this is no time for
business reform" Mr. Pew contin-
ued:
unfortunately the socialiStic
PLANNERS of the New Deal are re-
ceivine encouragement from many
men whose faith in the worth of the
American system is beyond chal-
Ienoe Against their better judg-
ment they are willing to accept mild
doses of RECOMMENDATION on the
around that by so doing we shall be