The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-02

broad, with fine large head and
an engaging smile. He runs to
browns. Light brown hair and eyes
and Well-tanned complexion.
He has a manner of raising his
eyebrows when he talks, wrinkles
up his forehead. He talks little
bit out Of the lower right hand
corner of his thin-lipped mouth,
but it isn't John l.. Lewis like
toughness that spills out. He might
get tough if he had to, but on first
acquaintance he's >lild-mannered
and soft-spoken, though without a
marked New England accent.
Bowles got over his first Wash
ington hurdle all right. He agreed to
the press conference by long dis
lance phone from Hartford the
night before, but he got cold feet on
arrival. How many people will be
thcrc?" he wanted to know. About
so, he was told. my God!' he said
How long will it last?" They told
him about half an hour or SO. How
do / end it?" he asked next, do /
fall over in a dead faint?'
AS matter OF fact, his first
Washington conference ended on a
note OF comedy. Someone asked him
If he wanted to set in a plug for
the Danbury Fair and he replied
that it was darn good fair and If
anybody had the gasoline he ought
to go.
WILL HE BE ANY GOOD?
What kind of q general manager
will Bowlcs make for OPA? An easy
answer is that he should do a bet
ter job than fireball Lou Maxon
ever could have done, for Maxon
was one of the most unfortunate
choices of businessman executive
ever brought to Washington. He was
seldom here and he made every
body mad when he was. Without
having MaXon In mind at all, BoWles
summed up such situations with a
are highly capable and others are
less So"
BoWles remarked that 1t would be
his responsibility to find outstand-
ing people and then TO trust them
to do the job which has been as
signed them. AS an example, he
mentioned til experience he had as
OPA director for Connecticut in en-
forcing OPA orders. II the volunteer
OPA workers went into the stores
In a friendly manner, telling who
they were and what they were there
for. asking II they could be OF any
help In explaining regulations, post
Ing prices and ration point values,
excusing first mistakes and being
helpful, they got cooperation. II
they found mistakes on third or
fourth visits they could know the
storckecper was a chisler.
on economists, whose role IN OPA
has caused so much strife, he said
he didn't know OF any business that
hadn't brought IN some economists
so why shouldn't the government,
Subsidies he viewed as II neces-
sary evil Most people, BoYlos said,
think that on every Issue the gov
eminent has choice between a
right way dna wrong way, when
really the government usually has
a choice between three or four bad
ways, IN disc J66iDg subsidies, how
ever, everyone concentrates on The
faults and not on the chaos that
RESULTS II subsidies are not used,
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