The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-26
Fourth Term Theorists Will Muff ReconveFsion Prosrom. COP Charges
By the Repuhlican NatlonaI Committee

By the Republican National Committee
 THE administration viewpoint on reconversion was voiced by President Roosevelt when he said, we must anticipate that there may be unemploy- ment during the period of reconversion."
 As usual great many reports have been com ped and suggestions tabvlated and proposals filed Definite. practical recommendations were Contained in the Baruch-ancock survey for the termination of contracts and the disposal of surplus government property, Very large sums of public moneys are in volved; the total amounting to over one hundred billions of dollars. Six and half million acres of land must be disposed of and factories worth six teen billion dollars,
 Properly administered all this can, and should be, translated into jobs and farms for returning veterans and for those displaced from war work,
 There is as yet no indication, however that the administration has anything more substantial to offer in meeting this situation than the creation of some special agencies and committees to consider it.
 Apparently, it is not considered as very pressing since President Roosevelt in August of this year di- reeted that census be made of war industries and employment. This will require year, during which the situation will change SO radically as to make the completed census virtually worthless except for historical purposes.
 NEITHER veterans nor workers are likely to be much interested in history, however. The veterans have been making it. the workers have been supplying lE, and reasonable amount of peaceful fun
 This fact seems to be ignored by the present ad-
 nistration in its familiar zeal for creating crises instead of johs But 1t is the most important factor Failure to recognize 1t IS one of the basic faults Of the administration.
 Contrary to President Roosevelt's statement that "reconversion is huge and intricate task requiring careful preparation" reconversion can Do brought down to size and vastly simpllfted If It is regarded as basically O matter of providing individuals With Iobs in factories or on farms, that produce goods, or harvests for individual purchase by individual buyers, ,,.o
 That conception Is too simple for those who like to talk of huge and intricate tass but 1t IS what most Americans are interested in or course such ndiViouali1ation would not be practical under con- tinued oentralization of Washington. So long as business centers there 1t will continue to loom aS Q huge and intricate-and permanently unsoNeo- RECoNvERsIoN under Roosevelt Fourth Term could be expected to follow the same pattern as the Repression which lasted through Terms one ana Two from 1888 to 1889, over ttice as long us a"S other depression in a 100 years.
 A total of lo,20s,000 persons were on relet or Federal Works Projects when war orders from abroad interrupted our depression in 1889. That was Just A09O0O less persons than were on relief or Feaera Works in i9SS It cost U. S. taxpayers 0oo0oO to get those 460,000 persons jobs unoer nuge Ano intricate plans" carefully prepared by the New Oea That's SsSoSl apiece ,...,.
 Thcre Ia no sound reason to believe that Fourth Term theories on reconverson would DC any DetVsr'