Evening star., 1943-04-14
Postwar Production
OF u. 5. Seen 40 PET.
More Than in 1910
Planning Committee
Meets to Report on
Research Program
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 14.-Possibili-
ties of postwar America fully en-
ployed and turning out 40 per cent
more useful products than in 1910
were outlined today in a report on
progress of the Committee for Eco
nomie Development, business
group organized to promote indus
trial planning.
Within two years after the war,
In the opinion of Paul G, Hoffman,
chairman of the group and presi-
dent of Studebaker Corp, America
can achieve those production and
employment goals.
Mr.. Hoffman, at press conference
preliminary to a meeting of the
committee today. predicted a tre-
mendous, pent-up, continuing de-
mand, domestic and international,
coupled with the greatest volume
Of savings" the Nation ever had.
Meeting this demand, he said,
should in itself accomplish the OBJ
tective Of high-level employment.
Bold Planning Stressed.
The committee has made con-
siderable progress in its efforts to
get businessmen to plan both intel
lgently and boldly Mr.. Hoffman
reported.
Just jobs are not the answer" he
asserted, "for we might have all en-
ployed but still have low standards
OF living and lack freedom. We want
to point the way to both high en-
ployment and freedom"
To help as many as possible of the
Nations 3,000,000-odd enterprises in
their postwar plans, their estimates
of postwar demands and their gaug-
Ing OF labor and mechanical needs,
the committee asked its research di-
vision to study these top problems:
How to attain high employment
end productivity, business incentives,
and the relation of taxation to these
incentives, and reconversion prob
lens, including termination of war
contracts. disposal of surplus stocks
and OF Government-financ plants.
Other Topics Studied.
Also outlined as subjects of re-
search by a staff headed by DR..
Theodore o. Yntema, on leave from
the University of Chicago, were these
topics:
Experience of the 1918-1920 post
war period, removal of wartime con-
trols, money and banking, changes
IN the tax structure, job migrations,
unemployment prospects, agriculture
and international trade and finance,
Information uncovered will be
made available to businessmen
through the committee.
Mr.. Hoffman said conclusions al
ready reached were these: Individ-
ual enterprises must plan now; for
a successful postwar America, there
must be favorable business en-
vironment.
He emphasized that the commit
tee, financed by business and work.
ing with-not for-other Govern
ment and private research groups,
was mot a group to plan for indi-
vldual businesses" but was designed
- stimulate postwar thinking by
businessmen themselves.
Met With Jesse Jones.
The mechanics of organizing a
Nation n-wide committee, Mr.. Hoff-
man said, mostly had been accom-
plished since the group was set up
early this year, an outgrowth of a
meeting of businessmen with Sec
retary of Commerce Jesse Jones.
The SO community chairmen who
have been appointed to date in in
dustrial communities all the way
from Maine to California" Mr.. Hoff-
man said, "are pioneering for more
than 1000 community chairmen who
will be at work within a period of
months"
Secretary Jones will speak TODAY
at the national meeting, along with
Beardsley Ruml, father of the pay
as-you-go plan and treasurer of
r. H. Macy & Co.; Walter D. Fuller.
president of the Curtis Publishing
Co.. Philadelphia; Walter H. Gard
ner, sales manager of the Keystone
Steel & Wire Co., Peoria, Ill, and
r. r. Deupree, president of Proctor
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