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miDAY, AUOUfT 16, 1647
Army Promotions Streamlined...
After 170 y«*n the army hen finally
ntreamlinod IU promotion ayatam. On Aug
uat 7, the old ayatem of promotion by aen-
iority waa thrown out the window when.
Preaident Truman signed the legislation
setting up a permanent promotion-by-merit
program for the army and navy.
The legislation is intended to eliminate
the leas capable officers from command,
and to encourage the younger, better quali
fied men to work harder, with a goal in
sight. Heretofore the army has promoted
its officers largely through a seniority sys
tem rather that through the individual qual
ifications of its officers. Through the use
of thin system many top-notch men kept
in the background during the most useful
period of their! careers, merely marking
time until their names came high enough
on the seniority list to warrant a promotion.
This act will not only bring to the top
youthful officers with proven ability, but
will also offer careers satisfactory enough
to attract capable men from other occupa
tions, and will retain in service men who
would otherwise choose mufti over 0. D.
The new plan provides for promotion of
officers by selection in the iow ranks, with
boards of officers determining the qualifi
cations of applicants for advancement Fail
ure to meet the advancement qualifications
twice In succession, authors of the bill said,
will automatically drop an officer from the
service. Officials said the navy has followsd
a system of selection, with modifications,
for years.
In addition to setting up s new promotion
system for the army snd lightening the
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navy’s existing advancement system, the
bill cuts down on the number of high rank
Ing officers in both services, and abolishes
in peacetime the wartime rank of five-star
officers. However, it does not affset the
rank of the eight officers now holding five-
star rank. Four-star officers will be limited
to five for the army, four for the navy,
four for the air force, and one for the marine
corps. There will be 62 three-star officers.
The array will have 122 major generals and
202 brigadiers.
For the navy, the legislation introduces
for the first time the selective system of
promotion in the grade of admiral. Here
after. an officer of admiral rank must just
ify his retention in that rank after each
four years of service.
The new law provides also foc^gommiss-
ioning of all officers in the regular army
rather than in a branch of the army, such
as the infantry or the artillery.
It will take several years for the entire
new program to get into full operation,
for some parts of the new law do not become
effective until after 1951, though most are
effective imediately. Until such time as the AGGIB ethics?
armed services’ strength reaches the levels j
prescribed by permanent law, the new law j. , r ^ k
continues the present system of temporary ^ two Ttsaa S
Exports Down-What Now?
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promotions for temporary-duty officers.
It took s war and the Induction of mil
lions of civilians to bring the armed forces
out of their lethargy. Now they are awaken
ing to the fact that the horse and buggy
should be taken out of their administrative
as well as their tactical functions.
were offirem in
‘U' S. Has Enough
Coal Reserves For
1,500 More Years’
In
Jese espe
dined II per
cent Mew tkoee
of Key. The
dowtasn I s
underway. For-
dgneie s r e
earetnt, thru
wlee of goods
to tho U 8., on
ly about one-
third the dollar*
needed to pay
for goode ro-H
ceivfd from the
U. 8. Almost Srwncfr
two thirds of the bill must be paid
out of loans, through salts of gold
and securities, and by gifts.
Foreign countries are feeling the
pinch of thdr rapidly expiring dol
lars. Britain and France are fast
using up U. 8. loaas snd are un
able to replenish dollar supplies
by large exports of their own.
Some of our host customers, the
Latin American countries, who
emerged from the war in a vary
healthy financial condition, are now
reaching deep into their
wisssvrt
light,
1,500
The Atom And Society
During ths pint esntury snd • hilf,
Mlsncs and Invention h»vs lissn wfifill . _JL I ^ , .
riAngiwi At sn socslsrstsd pscs in ths condi- machine pruductlon hi* shift*! our sttsntlon ft*' On »He memin* «f July
llmt. und.r wM.h m.n Mv«. Till. m*t mo- •ml InUi-Mt •«>y from Urn M utUty of pro- Tit?.
. MM tal tho ttitwl rondltloiM of Ilf, hu not, duct ■ mon con tmxlur. in th« number of nL u!,, f r.mnU
howtvsr, boon KrompnnM by any corroo. r |n " ,l ‘ * u, * ,
ponding things In msn's behavior tendencies
nor in his concspts of whst his roistionahlps
with othsr men should bs. As i msttsr of
fact, sxsmlnition of ths history of our popu
lar concept* of social, economic, snd pofit
i Aggies
• In my outfit These
young men finished school In the
mjddlt ’SO’s, and to me their na
tions wore s Bring tribute to this
fine school. In matter* of othtoa.
f r lend It nen n and reliability, theee
twe mas were regarded sa model i
by the men of the organisation
Dus to their Influence l ehoee Tee
sa A A M., heeauM I wanted to
hoeomo s part af anything that wse
e« high In lie ideal* as thte esheoi
aeemed to he
•{{•B*ajandard*of soclsl vnluos snd tmhavior. sppsinlment, asfln*
Ths ohang* from hand cnflsinsnshlp to Is esMei, but in a M
w w
(hen
things ho can Imi v Human brings ars, t fsar. I find thsi'ihl KssEi wonTmlleinir Um
gradually bssomlng mors acquialtivs am fills was se 4«M that the hook*
m«I(-centered Tho number snd siso of ons’s I (ww J l>t y t ?ll' a , i .
poMMloA. .r* uwrmtly l«omln, »«• Ltfe 5Sbm ‘5*
imiKirUnt to us than his social character f, nd them there Wtwn he retuma.
and norviiM-s. Undsr our modern machlns pro- Aggiee ere eunpoaediy tramp.)
relations reveals relatively few Important duction program, Jobs hive been simplified for the trade* end profession* and
changes during the past three thousand snd made more and more repetitive. Fewer to ‘•J* ••J* ^ ,n 2* ,**?"■
year*. Here we are, in the middle of an ex- skilla are required of a worker. Each work-1 JU ftwro* iTn^'r^nm Tmorr'Af'
tremriy complex and difficult modern world, er has become a part of a machine-like or-| gwe for * peraon whom ethic* are
(ranization, with less snd less opportunity to *o lew as to permit thievery,
express his own originality or initiative on I * bope that honesty wUI continue
the job. Greater mechanization of production
processes is shortening the hours of labor
and increasing the hours during which the
worker will engage in other activities that
will make his community either a better or a
worse place in which to live. •
In earlier days, the employer and his em
ployees knew and respected each other. Each
understood the other’s personal problems and
needs. Today most of the stockholders of a
corporation have never met any of the em
ployees. The stockholders leave the selection
of officers to the board of directors, who hi
turn leave the development of personnel and
production policies to administrative officers,
whose terms of employment require them to
produce a maximum volume of goods with a
minimum expenditure of money. Many of
those who own the plants now fee! little or
no responsibility for those who work for
them. The laborers therefore organize to pro
tect their rights, which management is paid
to restrict. This conflict between labor and | FRIDAY and SATURDAY
capital frequently endangers the common
welfare of both, and of the public.
All of this, of course, sn old story. Rap
id developments and inventions in the physi
cal sciences have euddenly made our world
For Utin America fcste la so
M a rubai ! F’t»n » H hough one,Is '
posed. Currently ear am
bonb r rantomer* ST* banniSg OUT-
chesee of non <>»»*ntlal end lux
ury Items.
Change* in U. 8. pro*perity **e
to be expected m the dollar famine
curtail* foreign ordefB. IndimtflaS
which wUI be primarily affected
See SPEN< F.R. Pa*. 4
Tho United States has eno
si reserves to supply all this
requirements in boat,
it, power, end other usee for
• yean, sa sagiassr reported
at the meeting of tho American
Society of Meehaakel Engineer*.
Dr. Harold J. Kaee, vice-presi
dent and director of research for
Bituminous Coal Research, In*.,
Pittsburgh, said that at our pr***nt
rate ef consumption, there will >*>
enough coal for another one sad
sse-hsif in Ulan is
Pristine out that ess) ess new
te make almost asp type
er nmthetle them teal pro
. mss mm lari mm to
Wiki apst mm fisMi
of shortage* in many mtserole.
m ssd natural gsa
It sseugh IS
» MM thrif present market*
(Wm MMMtroAhk tiamm #a# gtroisl ihasa
M ImBBm ■MMMwIll Mwww wn t^ bepw
supply ef the twe products would
lari only right and ene-hatf year,
Dr. Bose declared
Re said that 111,000,000 er more
la spent each year la tht* country
es research and engineering work
related to seal.
Europe need* U. 8.
reconstruct their war
nomies. Expansion and pro gras* tn
Latin America la ■till in the in
cipient •tags, and U. 8. export* are
L. AM.
FOOD MARKET •
ntU MUVBBY
TO OOLLHOH •lATWH
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attempting to find our way by means of
social concepts snd ideals that were none too
adequate in s much simpler primitive soc
iety. Instead of improving our techniques of
social relations, to make them more adequate
for meeting complex modern conditions, it
appears that we are allowing the obvious in
adequacy of these ideas to lead us into weak
ening them still further. h ,
Let us look, for example, at that sense
of responsibility for the welfare of our fellow
men which developed in primitive communi
ties. The young members of the community
participated in food gathering and other
vital activities, under the sympathetic guid
ance of older members. If some individual or
family in the community met with misfor
tune or accident, everyone was sympathetic
and practically helpful. The occasional per
son who appeared unwilling to help an unfor
tunate neighbor was immedfrtely criticized
and disciplined by the community. Those who
were most generous and helpful to others
were held in high esteem by all.
, Suddenly, about a century and a half ago.
science and invention began to enlarge our
communities very rapidly. At the beginning
of the Nineteenth Century, men could not
travel any more rapidly than had their an
cestors at the beginning of recorded history.
News of what had happened in any given
place could hot spread more rapidly than a
horse could gallop—ten or twelve miles per
hour, perhaps. Nsws of a catastrophe in Cin
cinnati could not lie known in Columbus in
less than a day’s time, and then it would
have taken at least another day or two to
get any help to Cincinnati. With ths Invention
of steam engines, railroads, telegraph Instru
ments. automobilee, airplanes, and the radio,
howtVar» we can now be well Informed with
in a few mtnutee of the needa and dletreae of
Mraona In ail parts of the world. Aa far aa
knowledge of need for outaide help Is con
cerned, the whole planet has suddenly become
one great, complex, and confuting communl-
Effecta of the Machine Age '
It a similar manner It would be poeaible
to trace the effects of modem developments
in physical science and invention upon our
I to be * virtue for which A*rie*
I ere known.
Sincerely,
F. W. SHEPPARD
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infinitely complex and confuaing. There have i l)t*ar Rlllh
been almost no corresponding developments
or inventions In the social scicncea. Man now
finds himself In the midst of a new and utter
ly confusing practical situation In which he
must act. with nothing to guide him other
than some natural tendencies that were de
veloped to meet primitive conditions cen
turies ago and a few rapidly weakening Ideals
of human relations that were invented
serve a very simple community life.
M. R. TRABUE
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