The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26

Sig question is whether this new Small War Plants Corporation is to be administered by real friends for little business or by the same conservative big business men re- sponsible for leaving little business out in the cold.
 This has been one of the big gest botches of the defense pro- gram. Tn Germany every little garage has been given a war or- der, small part of an airplane to put together and then send to the assembly line. In England, Beaverbrook licked the bottleneck on airplane production by distri- outing the business among a host of small factories.
 But in the United States, the big motor and munitions moguls insisted on taking the time and much needed steel to erect brand new plants covering acres of land, instead of farming out production to small factories forced into idle- ness because of lack of materials.
 Finally Congress. exploding over the plight of small business, en- acted the bill for the Small War Plants Corporation under the lead- ership of Senators Jim Murray of Montana and Jim Mead of New York.
 QUESTIONABLE TRIUMPH
 This was 8 great triumph over the $1-a-year men and their big business-minded bureaucratic pals. But now if certain of Nelson's $1-a-year generalissimos have their way, little business is apt to con- tinue just as much out in the cold as before.
 For the man strongly urged on Nelson as head of the Small War Plants Corporation is Mark Brown, big shot Chicago banker. Leader of this undercOver drive for Brown is his close buddy Sid- ney Weinberg, Wall Street bank CT and NeIson's executive assist ant. In inner WIPE circles, Weinberg is credited with being largely responsible for the re- tention of so many business-as- usual minded $1-a-yearers in WIPE.
 Meanwhile, other advisers are urging Nelson to appoint Louis Holland of Kansas City, who last year did an outstanding job of or- ganizing small plants in his area into co-ops, which succeeded in obtaining war orders. Holland intimately knows the problem of small business, is a forceful and able executive and would make an ace choice for head of SWPC.
 Another champion of little business urged for appointment to the board is Pete Nehemkis, who did an outstanding job on the investigation of mOnOpOlies two years ago, and who knows intimately the problems of little business. Also proposed for the board Is Elizabeth BrandeiS of the University of Wisconsin, daughter of the famous Supreme Court justice who spent a life- time crusading for little business.
 NOTE: Secretly, Nelson already has promised 6 place as board member on SWPC to Theodore Crank, New York Washington lawyer with potent Tammany con- nectionS, and conductor of the American Forum of the Air.
 ANOTHER DOLLY GANN
 The old argument of Dolly Gam and Alice Longworth as to who sits where at dinner still seemed to be just as burning in the minds of some military leaders despite the fact that we are engrossed in our most difficult war in history.
 The other day Q meeting was called by Secretary of Agricul- ture Wickard to consider food requirements not only for this country but for the United Na- tions. Attending the conference were representatives from the Army and Navy. Agriculture De- partment and other interested agencies, and the Department of Agriculture Issued a formal press release giving the names of those who attended.