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Wallace's Job Program Packs Political INI Reorganization of Commerce Department First Step Forward in Formulation of Full Employment Policy. By BAUKHAGE New* Analytt and Commentator. WNU Service. 1616 Eye Street, N.w. Washington, D. C. The recent operating and or ganization program (or the depart ment of commerce created very lit tle excitement in Washington or else ?vhere when it was released. I think it made page IS of the New York Times. The Times gave much more prominence recently to another doc ument from the pen of Henry Agard Wallace?his new book, "Sixty Mil lion Jobs," of which I shall speak later. Congress may slumber on the re organization report for yet a little, but when Washington wakes to the real significance of this 10-page, mimeographed document it will find between the lines much upon which to ponder. (Maybe that is why it was double-spaced.) To me, this is s three-tn-one In strument?Just as Its author, Henry Wallace, revealed himself as a three-in-one personality when I called on him Just before the pub lication of his program, his first ap proach to the governmental lime light since the change in adminis tration. The report on what Mr. Wallace in his capacity as secretary of com merce hopes will mean the revitaliz ing and expanding of his depart ment, envisions the metamorphosis of that somewhat turgid and impo tent institution into a vigorous and human organization which will reach out and touch millions of individuals |ust as the government's most virile department, agriculture, does. Sec retary Wallace said frankly at his press conference and also in more detail privately to me, that he thought that the department of com merce should do for the business man, big and little, what the de partment of agriculture does for the farmer, big and little. And it will, if he has his way. Actio* Department Secretary's Coal Wipe out of your mind, if you will, that one-time problem child of the New Deal, the agricultural adjust ment administration. Now weigh the testimony of observers, includ ing anti-Wallaceites, and I think you will learn that^s secretary at agri culture, the author of "Sixty Mil lion Jobs" did a good Job in re vitalizing his department. How much it will cost to do as much for commerce, we couldn't get him to estimate, but he Anally told us that it would be less than one sixth of the cost of one day's war at V-E Day. By a series of calcula (ioni w* arriv*H at (ha flviira of IA million dollar*. Since the commerce department spent about 121 million dollars last year, l(r. Wallace's chances would make a total cost for his revitalized department of 161 million dollars. Those who cry economy will shudder at that fifure but they will hear this answer: If business, bl| and little, wants help similar to that which sericulture demands and gets It will cost something. The depart ment of agriculture cost approxi mately 768 million dollars to run last year, and the farmers wouldn't want it to do less. There will also be another explan ation of the figures which will at tempt to show that part of the ex pansion of the reorganized depart ment is really contraction, and that brings us to the second integer of the three-in-one composition of Mr. Wallace's plan. The plan is more than a blueprint for changes in a. single governmental institution. It is definitely a part of President Tru man's reorganization plan which it is fair to assume would bring back under the commerce rooftree the horde of agencies and commissions which have to do with industry and business. And now we come to part three of the tri-partible function of the Wal lace program. It is by bis own Implication, a part of his recipe for full employment included in his hook, "Sixty Million Jobs," and men tion of that brings me to an ex amination of Mr. Wallace himself. I said that like the program of re organization for his department, Mr. Wallace seemed tripsrtitent to me. When I called upon him, be came down the great, cavernous room which Herbert Hoover planned tor his successor and we sat in chairs about a little table that made a hoa pliable oasis in the midst of the desert vastness of high walls and lofty ceiling. A Presidential Ghost Emergss I had really come to see Henry Wallace, the author of "Sixty Mil lion Jobs," which had just been re ported a best seller in two New York stores. We discoursed at some length on that opus and gradually 1 found myself also talking to Henry Wallace, secretary of commerce, for, as i suggested earlier, many a strand from "Sixty Million Jobs" may be discovered in the warp end woof of the department reorganiza tion plan. As the conversation moved from book to report and back to book again, never getting far from the theme of full employment, I thought I could make out an ectoplasmlc form arising from what had been up until then my two-part, author secretary host. The third being, al though not yet completely mate rialized, little by little became I-1L1 _ a_ a? .a uaiunuLCIIliy V1UU1C WJ uie mica eye. This party of the third part I thought I recognized aa Henry Wal lace, presidential candidate (1948 or at least 19521. Perhaps I would not have believed my eyes if it had Dot been for a statement which a stout supporter of Mr. Wallace had made to me: " "Sixty Million Jobs' comes pretty near to being just about the best political platform the Democratic party can run on in the next elec tion." In one place, Author Wallace says: "There are a few, of course, who think that any government servant who uses the phrase 'full employ ment' is engaged in aome deep dark plot. But they are the exceptions that prove the people's sanity and soundness as a whole." Senator McClellan might be con sidered one of the exceptions from his remarks in the debate on the full employment bill. He said that the measure "says a great deal and actually means nothing except to create an erroneous impression in the minds of the people." He later described it as "soft soap." 'Sixty Million JoW Drawi Commendations Whatever the lawmakers think, the reviewers certainly are full of praise for Wallace's book. The New York Times calls it "a thought fill anH thouffht-Drovnkina fUimiMinn of American political economy," and the Saturday Review of Literature, agreeing with the Times, adda that, "more than any recent work on economic* or politics, it can serve aa a moral testament and intel lectual guide in the eventful, diffi cult day* ahead." , The work appeared first in a busi ness-letter-sheet size with paper cover; it followed in orthodox book form. Later the author hopes, he told me, that it will be printed in a cheap, pocket-size edition. When Mr. Wallace said that I thought I caught his ectoplasmic triplet nodding emphatic approval while ghostly lips formed the words, "for every voter's pocket." Much water will pass beneath the Potomac bridges between now and 1M< or 1033. We have with us at present a conservative congress and the political veterans say that no matter which way the wind may blow abroad. It is hlowing to the right on Capitol hill and., they add hopefully, perhaps not too leftward at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. Secretary - author ? candidate Wal lace's full employment program re quires much more legislation than the full employment bill. That is only the first step. The expansion and re-orientation of his and other departments will be required. Then there will he tncrlal ? ?Ka?a will be at lee* the Wue^printag~oi public works; there will have to ba a aettled polio* providing for foreign loans?the Brettoo Woods program and other stimulants of world trada and tourist traffic. If a too conservative congress did not grant the minimum legislative implementation, the "Sixty Million Jobs" plan could not be carried out. That, however, Mr. Wallace's sup porters insist, will simply make <0 million people who want Jobs, plus their families, vote for the man who believes they can be produced. | BARBS . . . by Baukhuf 1 Two hundred thouaand at Berlin's three million population are mem- | ire ot trade unions. But what have I Met Id to trade T \ ? e e , ^H^anyhody ads yen: ^'Don^t yea The Whit* House had it* Bret real Mint Job since the war began and ooks like a new place. The scaffolds vers up before J-sui render day 1 eonder if the painters had a tip? ' e e e We bar* JO mim? ^ bursas and pules to feed than we ance had hi ralse faod'tsr'Slw^'aow iS^ig ' 1 I m ?? ? ? ' First Rubber Shipment Arrives The nation'! first shipment of rubber from the Pacific since Pearl Harbor, produced under the very noses of the Japanese in the Philip pines, recently arrived at San Franeiseo. Forty-two tons of the precious crude stock was shipped from the Pathfinder plantation of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company in Mindanao. Labor Management Talks Industrial Peace Shown around the table are, left to right: See. Henry A. Wallace, See. Lewis B- Schwellenbaeh, William Green oi the AFL, Erie A. John ston, president ef the V. 8. Chamber of Commerce, Charles Symington, J. Paul Douglas, Robert L. Watt, Joyce O'Hara, Ray Smithnrst, Ted 811 ?ey, Ira Mosber and Philip Murray of the CIO, as they talk labor peace. Here Come the Brides?555 of Em When 4k* farmer hoary liner Larliae docked *t S*a Francisco re cently, the cargo Incleded 555 Aastrallaa war bride* of American *err teemee aad tone M of their children. Hundred* *1 other war bride* are awaltta* traupertatieo free* An*trail* as well as from England, France, and ether Earopean eountriea. They wfll all he broaght here seen. Airliner Soon to Circle Globe ttm b m artist'* tn?b| ?f Iks C?it?ll?tl?'? iaterlsr, ibislag Mm Imi?M?latisMtbartrtlMM fcU^t'alHbMiTto ttj^MMMtr?! -rr-^rt ^'u! "UMIL. 1^1*11 ** *r*~ ??.?-^.^?i - mr ,Y nrjMiii^ Only Lady Exerciser Marie Batier, the only feminine exercise rider at Bollywood Park track, Is shown with Winy and Wine before one of her refnlar morninf workonts. Doolittle Gets Steak En route to Washington, General Doolittle arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu In a "war weary" B-29 and asked for a steak. Jimmy shows that be has not forgotten bow i to do away with this precious item of food. His future plans are un certain. 'Gotta Sign Off Now* "General Walnwright Is a treat toy. Gotta sifn off now, the Japs are closing in. Notify my mother in Brooklyn. What wouldn't I give for an lee cream soda." This was the ?nal message sent oat of Corregidor by Sgt. Irving Strobing before the Ford II Advanced Hoary Ford n, who wu recently oamed preside*! of the Ford Motor com pony, b plctared talkbf to fats maUitbi, who nitpiit from tho EISENHOWER AND RU881AN8 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, ? real diplomat, has been making progress toward friendship with the Russians, but got a setback the other day. . U. S. officials entering Eisenhow er's office found him despondent He was holding a copy of Time mag azine. "Look at that," he said, "six weeks' work gone." Eisenhower pointed to * picture of a female entertainer in a Berlin night club standing on her head, legs apart, holding a picture of Stalin between them. Time had re produced the picture. "And just as I was making some progress with Marshal Zhukov," Eisenhower mourned. "First he would scarcely see me. But re cently we have become pretty good friends. When I go into his office be : says. 'Here's to Ike.' " Eisenhower went on to tell how Zhukov was blazing mad over the Time magazine picture. He had just come from seeing the Russian com mander who had demanded: "What are you going to do about this?" "Nothing," replied Eisenhow er. "What! Ton let the American press make moekery of the mar shal?" exclaimed Zhukov. "That's what we fought the war for?the right to criticize, the right for people to say what they please," said Eisenhower. Eisenhower went on to explain to the Russian that because one news paper or magazine published a pic ture of Stalin, it did not reflect the sentiment of either the Amer ican government or the American people, and that the American gov ernment scrupulously refrained from censoring the press on matters of this kind. However, the Russians continue to be sensitive. It is hard for them to understand the difference between a regulated press as in the Soviet and a free press as in the U. S. A. ? ? ? NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICE President Truman really let his hair down with Senator Burton when he called him in last week tn tell him he was being nominated to the Supreme court. Catching Burton just before the Ohio senator was about to leave for Cincinnati, Truman told him that he had actually promised the Su preme court job to another man, Robert Patterson, now secretary of war, but changed his mind. "Harold," said Truman at the start of the Interview, "I've made up my mind to appoint you to the Supreme court. "You were always my first choice," Truman continued, "but I had some vacillations. I considered appointing Phillips of Denver, Park er of North Carolina and Patterson. "Finally I decided to appoint Pat terson and told him I was going to appoint him." | Truman then explained that It was better te leave Patterson In the war department to replace Stimson as secretary of war. "One of the things that disturbed me about your appointment," Tru- ! man continued, "was the probable claim that I might be playing poli tics in order to get a Democratic senator from Ohio." (Truman had in mind the fact that Governor Lausche of Ohio, a Democrat, Bob can appoint a Democratic senator j to replace Burton, a Republican.) "So I talked it over with Alben Barkley," Truman explained, "and he advised that if I was convinced you were the right man, I should appoint you and let political conse quences go hang." Note?Truman had picked up Senator Barkley at Padueah, Ky., the evening before and flown him back to Washington in his special plane, at which time they had conferred regarding the Burton appointment. Tru man, incidentally, seems to be leaning more and more an sage, experienced Barkley for advice. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF ft President Truman still keeps up his rapid-fire early-morning appoint ment pace, sees as many as 13 visi tors before lunch. Greek Publisher Basil Vlavianos visited Truman the other day, caught him sneaking a yawn and long stretch between call ers. C A new breath of fresh air in the post office department: Gael E. Sul livan of Chicago, assistant postmas ter general. gL Visitors to the Franklin Roose velt Memorial library at Hyde Park have doubled since the late Presi dent's death. Mrs. Roosevelt gave each of Henry Morgenthau's chil dren a trinket from the former chief executive's desk as a memento. C When Nelson Rockefeller was eased out of the state department, workers in that building were startled to see truckers removing the furniture from his office. He had furnished his suite with his own fur niture. 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