The Huron Expositor, 1941-02-28, Page 6EheSNAPS140T GU111)1
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v,, efence and the writer was
414 called hiSpecialSpecial Assist-
0,*phone call came from Montreal
fk 'Pluming. The voice at the other
of the line asked:
S.'"What 49 you ?mow about such-
, Andseuch an Air Force contract?"
The reply was that of a man plead-
' jug consplete ignorance, who not only
knew nothing about this particular
deAl, but who had iso knowledge of
any orders for equipment, past, pres-
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ent or future, for Air Force, Navy ei
Artily. All we knew about war con-
tracts, we said,, was that every now
and then somebody beet a pathway
to the door, asking assistance in the
business of selling better mousetraps,
parachutes or clothing to the armed
services. We added that we had no
vestige of an idea how to help any-
body get tun. order, that we had no
open sesame to the cupboard where
commissions are kept, that if we did
possess such avenues we wouldn't -at-
tempt to use them, not merely on
highly moral grounds, but primarily
because if we did the Minister would
probably issue instructions that we
be shot at dawn next day, which is
much too early to get up.
Our telephone caller then proceed-
ed to elucidate a specific case. His
friend so-and-so had been in Ottawa
on three or four occasions, attempt:
ins to sell his wares for use by the
Air Force. He had not been able to
reach first base. He had been get-
ting the run-around. The Supply tel -
1O'\ s listened to him politely. The Air
Force ,people gave him appointments
KVer,Ithody took 1)Qtfte and Opened
Nowijes. ie
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hadorMed that the or-
ss.l
ust been i
der was going elSeWhore, to a cora-
tpany, In fact, which manufactured
the article required from raw mater-
ial- imported from a foreign land„ not
even friendly- to the British, although
not at war with, us. This, said the
voice on the phone,. clearly' indicated
that Supply must be rife with poli-
tics and that the order could not be
had because the gentleman who want-
ed it had always backed the wrong
fosse at election time.
For his own edification (and, it
might as well be said, for that of the
Minister, should inquiry divulge any-
thing which might prove embarrass-
ing, for it was said that the Injured
Party was about to go and cry an the
shoulder of the first Oppositionist he
could find) your observer delved into
the matter. The first, port ,of call
was a highly placed official of what
was then the Supply Board and is
now the Ministry of Munitions and
Supply. (The official in point, it might
be said, has always been a Conserva-
tive. Since the Ministry came into
being he has been promoted to an
important key This gentleman
sent for his files and consulted them.
It was quite true, he said, that. this
particular purchase was being made.
It was also quite true that it was
not being bought on a. sealed -tender
. . .
"ilitS,PORESI FOR 4iW ICH
TyklACKO CAN BE *MOKED."
basis. The order, as a matter of
fast, was going to a firm specified by
the 11,C.A.F., which wouldn't hear of
it. going anywhere else. Did this
meansthat somebody in the Air Force
had a pet manufacturer, to whom he
might be related by marriage, or who
might be helping a wartime officer
to keep square with his banker? We
made inquiries, by the simple pro-
cees of going to the top of the R.C..
A.F. itself,
It was completely true that the Air
people had requisitioned these goods
and had specified a given manufactur-
er. the only one capable of delivering
the merchandise required, we were
told. It was quite true that the raw
materials, or a large part of them,
would come from outside Canada, or
had already been imported. And what
about the poor Canadian manufactur-
er who felt he should have had a
shot at the order? Well, it was too
bad about the gentleman, but, after
all, he was only just ,getting into the
ONEY saved
NO
buys planes, •tanks, ships,
guns, munitions, supplies, to
bring Victory
ONES saved NO
flows back into Canadian
pockets in wages and purchase
of necessities
MONEY saved NO
Buy
will provide after - the - war
protection for those who save
WAR SAVINGS
CERTIFICATES
Regularly
This space donated to the
Seaforth and District War SavindS Committee
By -
The Huron Expositor
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imaineas of eXpeAnelrtif4K ,1r414,, 4/41plez4, wul g. ip, Uu the ,pentighted
typo of goods a41,. on 1110, ow Is- manufaeturer much as 1pepectors
rsia,(1::rnea7tulerdillall wmanatkeed,thbeeracatutsre"ahe htlia:lk 10 00 -liolban where the
1 average citizen is glippertieg itis ov.
none and couldn't get Any for some erdraft. These gealemen, have ,, wa4 'l lt
ac -
time to come. And the Air Force cess, under law, to the manUituatur-
wanted that special raw material, be- er's cost figures. It Isn't a 'question
cause they .believedsit was pf a Ottal- of .giving the preducer of goods a
ity s� natieh higher than any other to couple of weeks werniug tat he Is
be had that it would save livea., give about to have a visitor from Ottawa
a greater margiu of safety to the flier 1 peering over his shoulder. The audi-
under •certain conditions. tor simply walks in. And the audi-
The case is not an isolated one in for may then proceed -and does pro -
the writer's own experience (if names 1 ceed, in many, cased -t� recommend
are not mentioned it is solely because a revision of the contract figures, up -
there is no desire to harm the order- wards or downwards, to keep the
seeker, who thought better of his manufacturer within his legal ten per
plaint when he learned. the facts). cent .basis. Why upward as well as
Before the war ,we had the Bren Gun dosvuward? For the excellent reaeon
episode. Throughout the last Gener- that the exigencies Of emergency
al Election campaign a great pait of production are extremely likely to
•the tumult was based. on what was send costs soaringiin a manner not
loosely called The Equipment Sean- contemplated in the beginning., There
dal. Editorials still appear from time are times when the matter of .prim -
to time ita certain newspapers *Well 'asy, importance is to get delivery,
maintain, usually with considerable not to reckon toe size of the invoice:
vehemence, that the Federal Govern- The picture often changes while or-
ment plays arrant politics in letting ders are on the way through the
its war contracts. In this article and mill; a nornial condition at the time
the one which follows it, therefore, an order was issued often becomes
an attempt will be made to assess the an emergent condition while it is In
manner in which Canada's war pur- transit, due to breakdowns in other
chases are made and to find out where plants, to the rerouting of goods in -
if assywhere, the ship has sprung a tended for use here to use beyond the
leak, Many of those who read are Atlantic, to all manner of causes. It
men who are in constant, day-to-day isn't easy on the experts from the
contact with the Supply Ministry.' To Department, nor does it create a life
them much that is said may sound of b]iss unalloyed for the manufac-
like First Primer stuff. That is prim- turer. -
arily because the first effort is to as- What. may be said, then, is that in
certain what Supply dees, how it does so far as it is possible to visualize a
it and how it goes about proteeting 'normal condition, war supply orders
the taxpayer. The question, "Does are- placed with the producers best
the Department fail in providing this equipped to make delivery on requir-
protection, and, if so, how and ed dates at lowest cost figures, and
where?" will also come up for discus- that the Government, in the final an-
sion, here and later. alysis, , controls cost and profit
We'began with a War Supply Board through its audit machinery. Tihere
under the Department of Transport, are loopholes in such a system, as
and it seemed in the beginning as if there are loopholes in banking, in
scarcely a train or a TGA plane reach- the operation of railways, in the busi-
ed Ottawa which did! not disgorge the ness of driving a Milk wagon. It is
person of a new expert of some sort, still impossible to legislate 'Common
come to Bytown for the purpose of honesty into the citizen, whether he
helping the Government spen4 money be politician, manufacturer, paid of -
on the war. Soon Mr.. King, or Mr. 'ficial,or what -have -you. Thus far,
Howe, was having a home, consisting however, it seems only fair to say
Of glorified hutments, built for these that the citizens who are prepared to
gentlemen,. out Wellington Street. come forward with specific case -ex -
Soon it became apparent that the amples of pork -barrel tactic s have
machine was becoming too big to op- been few and far between.
et -ate as an adjunct of a - Ministry,
(With Mr. R. A. C. Henry as contact-
Turning briefly to the more emer-
man for the Minister . . . and how gent phases of war -buying, it must
the Oppositioneers cried aloud when
the appointment was made!), that
the armed services of Canada consist
not merely, of Navy, Army and Air
Force, but that a fourth quadrant to
the compass had sprung up,. Supply.
Could anyone say Supply was less
important than any one of the other
three? So the Ministry came into
being. Mr. Howe forsook Transport
to 'become its full-time Minister and
the experts went to work to spend
their millions of dollars, their tens
and hundreds of millions'," the project
looking asif it might be our most
important contribtition of all to the
task of defeating. Autocracy. Since
all this began, a ii,aatter of 15 months
ago, our commitments (bills paid for
goods • delivered', promises to pay for
goods oE the way) have reached a
figure considerably in excess of $250,-;
000,000, which is close to $400 out of
the pockets of every Canadian family,
and doesn't even -closely total our
share of the war -cos f to date.
,How is this money, spent? Hit or
miss? Does anybody buy anything he
feels like buying? Is emergent buy-
ing slowed down by the time-lag of
asking. for tenders? Have we fash-
ioned a' new bureaucracy in this war-
tiMie department?
In the first place, the Supply De-
partment is primarily in business to
purchase 'materials for the armed -
services of. Canada, which means not
merely -4o buy, but to find the mater-
ials required, to supervise the flow of
raw or semi -processed materials to
suppliers and of finished . products to
the Forces. To do this Mr, ,,Howe
has surrounded hiniself with a bat-
talion of 3,1bO men and women, rang-
ing all the way- from his Deputy Min-
ister down through Buyers,- Auditors
and other experts to filing Clerks. Un-
der what may be termed normal con-
ditions of purchase -if such' 'a quality
as a normal condition can be deemed
to exist -here is what happens when
the Navy, the Army or the Air Force
walks in with a requisition.
The first step is diseussion between
the Service concerned (its' experts in
the materials required) and Supply's
Opposite sumber experts. Specifica-
tions aro discussed. Supply makes, a
rapid survey of available plants and
materials and asks for tenders. The
tenders arrive and are opened. The
order is givento the tenderer best
qualifiesras to price, plant, ability to
flnasfce his orders, to provide raw ma-
terials -without hitch and to make de-
liveries on the specified dates. He
may be the lowest bidder. He may
not be. A low bidder who is not go-
ing to be able to make delivery is
not as good a bidder as the one at
a higher price who can. But the suc-
cessful bids are public property and
it bas been Government policy to re-
lease the totals of all contracts and
engagements to the press. (Whereup-
on the unsuccessful manufacturer,
seeing thPm, cries, "We was rebbed!"
laying it all to politics, either forget-
ting or not mentioning, that he
couldn't have come in -With his order
on the deadline date, or might have
run short ofraw materials en route):
If the Government Is playing fivor,
ites at least it is publishing the evi.
dente .of its own perfidy. ;-
.All contracts with the -IgUpply
istrY 'are subject to ,andit as they' go
aletg. Departnient antihero are eon-
stantlY en the ineVe trona plant te
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be admitted that circumstances ar
present here which give cause fo
much more viewing -with -alarm. - t
called. The idea is to get a Job done.
The Air Force, or the Army, or the
Navy can't wait. So what?
Possibly"the Supply experts consult
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LONDON and WINGIIAM
NORTH
Exeter
Hensall
!Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingharn
SOLTH
*ingharn
Belgrave
Blyth
Isoiadesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensel'
Exeter
C:N.R. TIME
EAST
Goderich
HolmesvIlle
Seaforth
St. cloSumban
Dublin
Mitchell
WEST
Mitchell
Dublin
Seaforth
Clinton
Goderich.
A.M.
10.34
10.46
10.52
11.00
11.47
12.06
12.16
12.27
12.45
P.M.
1.50
2.06
2.17
2,26
3.08
3.28
3.38
3.45
3.58
TABLE
A.M.
6.15
6.31
6.43
6.59
7.05
7.12
7.24
11.06
'11.14
11.30
11.45
12.05
P.M.
2.30,,
2.481
3.00
3.12
3.23
3.29
3.41
9.28
9.36
9.47
10.00
10.25
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
Goderich
e MeAnset
✓ McGaw
o. Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught . ..
Toronto
WEST
those whose dislike of the Adminis-
tration leaves Mr. King on his way to
the plate with a count of two strikes
in advance.
Suppose .a new airport has to b
built in a hurry, or a new plan
thrown up in haste, or goods aequi
ed to go into the fabrication of som
urgently needed material (and what
is there, nowadays, that isn't wanted
in a hurry, one day or another?): No
time is available for tenders to b
e
r- MeNaught
e Walton
Blyth
Auburn.
MeGaw.
Menset
e 'Coder -10i
Toronto
P.M.
4.20
4.24
4.32
4.42
4.52
5.05
5.15
9.00
A.M.
8.30
12.03
12.13
12.23
12.32
12.40
12.46
12.55
Good expression is the Important point in baby shots. Watch for thern--
and let your subject be his natural self.
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TT'S easy enough to get good baby the backgrOund, producing fhe
pictures -if yoti go at it the light, cheerful effect that is so de-
., right way. The secret of the whole sirable in a baby picture. The third'
,matter is to pick your subject when light, if used only for the back -
he's in a good mood -and just let ground, will make no practical dif-
him be natural. Give him a toy- ference in the expostire.
something bright, something that's Very satisfactory snapshots of
colorful and maybe new to him, and babies and -small children can be
he'll provide the expressions you made with a box camera or a sim-
Writ t. pie folding model. However, if
This is one case where you don't were 'choosing a camera especially
need to 'Worry about small details for these pictures, I would want a
of the pose, or about special light- shutter with Speeds up to at least
ing effeets. Good expression - a 1/100 second, so that when the sub'.
genuine, natural effeet-is more im- jest was lively and active I could
portant. And the beet lighting IS still get good sharp snapshots. And
simple - a soft, overall lighting., 1 Weald want an eye -level view'
with plenty of inutnination in the finder -I find it the most etinven-
shadows. , lent type tor these shots.
Indoors, yon, get ,thle type a Rnt whatever camera you use, re-
lighting by proper placing of your rnetaber,the points above-bale/tee
photo lights: Spaee them rather 3/our lighting, for oat shadows, let
vSell ttpart - One t6Warthe' snb. the'dhild bo hatUral, and watdh for
leet'a left, one over torhird the good expressions: DO that, and
right. It you'llive a third llght, It Yo911 get oatitsfYhig. iiie Tea.
MO often be Used to brighten ujl 311 Sohn Van Minot
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