Show j A W Washington ashi gt nj- nj Daybook yb ki I IBy By RODNEY BUTCHER DUTCHER WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V Sept 30 Even 30 Even if Val Walter r S. S Gifford and the new unemployment unemployment unemployment un un- un- un employment relief committee do a n avery avery very good job they can hardly be guaranteed against criticism and at- at tack ack These Hoover commissions n nearly always encounter trouble great or small sooner or later They are damned in proportion to their heir importance Among the really hefty ty commissions engaged In trying to solve momentous problems you cant can't find one which if it it hasn't been attacked from without hasn't gone and picked fights lights of its own Of Ot course no one ever bothers such Hoover commissions as those on the battle battIe of Monongahela the Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellow Yellow- stone park boundary and the Alaska highway and they dont don't go bothering I anyone else either But when you think of the federal farm board and the national commission commission commis commis- sion slon on law observance and enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment and of all aU the brickbats hurled at them since they first tackled the I large questions of agricultural distress distress dis dis- dis tress and prohibition respectively you get to worrying about the unpleasant unpleasant un un- pleasant c experience that may be in store for Gifford and his associates this fall and winter as they go up against the pressing matter of relief The farm arm board holds the record o of course Perhaps because it has had lad the nerve to do so 50 many astonIshIng astonishing aston aston- things Any federal body which was willing to enter the wheat and cotton markets in such a big way fight the grain trade subsidize wine concentrates and tell the cotton planters to destroy a third of their crop might well expect to create immense immense im im- un- un mense furor a Everybody took a kick at the Wickersham Wick Wick- commission after its prohibition prohibition report but since then in re report report report re- re port after report the commission has been taking kicks at everybody else And of course nearly everyone by this commission tosses some mean me-an comment right back at It it There is a White House Rouse conference on child health and protection and like the other important commissions commissions commis commis- has done a great deal of ot constructive constructive constructive con con- work But even this was good for one warm row and that I came about at its meeting here when the U. U S. S public health service appeared ap- ap I to be trying to gobble up the U. U S. S childrens children's bureau Many members mem- mem hers ibers of ot the conference were just as sore as could be by the time the sessions sessions ses ses- I were over The emergency committee on employment employment em em- struggled a along 1 Ion a n g for months despite an almost complete lack of authority to do anything at ataU atall atall all aU and then its chairman Colonel Arthur Woods walked out along with several other members The general understanding is that President HOOver Hoover Hoover HOO- HOO Hoo Hoo- ver and Colonel Woods couldn't agree concerning measures that might be taken for relief o Q 0 The federal power commission Is 15 usually referred to as a Hoover I commission because it has hils been re reorganized reorganized reorganized re- re organized and Hoover has appointed Its members That one got ot off to a a. flying start by firing its solicitor and chief accountant who had many ad admirers admirers ad- ad in hi the senate The senate undertook undertook un un- to reconsider its confirma tion of the chairman and two other members got itself roundly bawled I out by Mr Hoover and then threw the question of the legality of th the the- commissioners' commissioners tenure right into the courts The Hoover tariff commission has been getting along by keeping quiet and not upsetting any apple carts but Henry P. P Fletcher is quitting the chairmanship because one hears he is rather bored Other commissions have been razzed for recommendations reports or acts or acts or Just for alleged sins of omission Its It's a puny one that hasn't found opposition in some quarter |