An Admirable Committee
If greater matters did not make superior claims on pub. attention the importance of the successive reports of the Sel Committee on National Expenditure would be recognised f the immensely valuable documents that they are. Two repo issued this week have dealt respectively with lagging outp in factories and with human wastage in the army. Poin out the waste caused by leaving valuable machinery for hours, the committee advises that factories should run ses days a week, but individual employees• work only six. recommends improved travel-facilities for workers, with issue of priority-passes where .necessary, and that any exc fares over 3s. a week at factories engaged on Government 11 should be paid by the employer ; and, in a passage suggest of Stakhanovitism in Russia it urges that " outstanding me and exceptional efforts " should be rewarded, and public given in the Press and on the wireless." The Trade Unio it is to be hoped, would not combat this where production vi to national safety was concerned. In regard to the Army, principal suggestion is the obvious, but by no means supel fluous, one that intelligence-tests should be employed, with view to establishing some rational relation between a rectal mental capacity and the use to be made of him. Whether it anyone's business to prevent these valuable reports from summarily pigeon-holed seems doubtful.
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