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ELIOT CALLS FOT PLANS AFTER WAR

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It is justified for government to pay industry for conversion to war. It seems equally justified to subsidizer pay towards conversion back to peace, according to Charles William Eliot '20, Director of the National Resources Planning Board, who spoke Friday evening in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room under the auspices of the Harvard Post-War problems Council.

"With the country under a severe rationing system controlled by the government," he said. "We cannot stop government subsidy immediately. We must taper off, finding, as will no doubt be necessary, new fields for government subsidy, until men in the armed forces have been absorbed by peace time production."

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