The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-07


problem needs to be solved, eight
or ten of these groups immediate
~ are on hand to solve 1t, but.
pretty confusinely, they almost in
vaiably do II in eight or ten con-
f.cing. contradictory ways. Put
together and averaged, they don't
make sense.
The current niiX-up between
Lowell Melletts Once Of Govern
ment Reports. Archibald Mac
Leish's Office Of Facts and Fig
ures and Colonel wild Bill Don
ovans Once of Coordination OF
Information IS characteristic OF
the state Of affairs.
Each Is supposed 10 be a source
OF enlightenment TO the public rel
alive to Uncle Sans activities ii
the present world conflicts midst.
What puzzles an investigator,
though. is that, after consulting all
three Of them, he discovers that
the conclusions Lowells drawn
from his reports. the facts and fig
ures Mac has to quote and the in
formation wild Bills" co-ordi-
mated don't square with one an
other bit.
II isn't alone that effort is dupli-
Gated; the confusion nullihes it.
Administrative Jam
Congress recently took notice OF
the seriousness OF. the administra-
tive jam, and decided. FIR. to in
vestigate. and then to correct it.
Some agencies. II was argued,
ought TO be abolished. others ought
to be consolidated; all Of them
ought to be Strengthened out.
Thereupon a legislative investl-
cation was decreed. It's in prog
ress today Three separate COM
mittees Of lawmakers are conduct
ing it. They overlap just as much
as any three executive agencies do
Why one single committee
wouldn't be enough nobody ex-
plains.
1t takes two congressional COM
mittees to investigate a certain
lone incident-the disastrous fire
aboard the steamship Normandie.
Just one committee, for a fact,
has been wrestling with the issue
Of legislation to put a ceiling on
industrial profits and wages. but
that committee has been split So
so right along.
So congress can't very well con-
tend that it's much more cohesive
than the executive bureaus are.
In the meantime the government
comes out with an appeal to the
country. Don't hoard. Civilian
boarding Of ifes necessities will
hamper our military effort and be
bad thing for the hoarders them
selves, later on "
simultaneously Commerce Sec
rotary Jesse Jones broadcasts to
consumers the advice, in effect,
For the love Of mud, begin right
now, this spring, to hoard coal for
next winters use" There's likely
TO be then, he warns, a shortage
OF fuel, and Of railroad cars to
carry it, anyway.
Coal Situation
Today is the time for Us. as
patriotic citizens, TO stock our bins.
II may be sound economics, too,
but that isn't the ground that
Jesse puts it on. He's figuring on
supply and transportation pros
poets six months hence.
How reconcile these divergent
angles? Answering that query, /
hear no echo.
Director James VI. lands Of the
Office of Civilian Defense Is an
other snti-hoarder Folks tend, he
says, to lay in an oyer-supply Of
first aid stuff. in anticipation Of
air raids and what not II would
be terrible. ne remarks, III II were
10 be carried 10 such extremes that
our scrappers in the field were 10
run shy on bandages and miscel
laneous equipment TO patch them
up.
Replying. First Aid Director
Harold F. Enlow Of the Red Cross
informs US that his outfit has noted
no such inclination on civilian
doms part.
Authorities in the ranks OF the
higher-ups surely do disagree.
The puzzle is 10 determine what's
what, who's who and which is
which while the controversy is go
ing on.