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...Follette-Monroney report strikes hard at the difficulty of placing responsibility for governmental policy. Congressmen loudly wail that the function of policy formulation has slipped through their fingers and has been lost in the intricate maze of the executive department. The reasons for this sapping of legislative authority can be found in the anachronistic organization of Congress itself...
...this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative-Executive Council, whose function would be to resolve the perennial conflict between the two most active divisions of our government...
...second point concerns the statement by an unnamed professor that "Research is...the essential raison d'etre for a University." I would not for a moment contend that research is not one function of a University. Yet in this era, marked by worldwide suffering and dislocation among all classes and conditions of men, there is certainly a teaching function which is far more important than research...
...Watchdogs. Three committees would keep an eye on the commission: 1) a military liaison committee, which could take its squawks, if any, to the Secretaries of War and Navy; 2) nine prominent civilians appointed by the President, whose function would be to advise, who would be paid $50 a day when they worked; 3) a committee of nine Senators and nine Representatives appointed by the presiding officers of those two bodies, whose job would be to make continuing studies and prepare any necessary legislation. But by the very nature of things, the commission of five would be supreme...
Malnutrition is slow starvation. Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...