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Show President of the U. S. Has Biggest Job in the World By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WN'C Service, 1618 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C Once more events bring up the so far unan swered problem, how can the White House be put on a business basis? The White House executive t ise executive fr ices sre the f dquarters of I A biggest or- L.fO"f ! ilzation in the tf ft " f $ Id. The Presi- I ' off! headquarters the eanization world. The Presi- I dent of the United Unit-ed States is the bead of this tremendous tre-mendous administrative admin-istrative set-up. Few people real Baukhage ize the extent of his functions, most of which aren't even suggested in the constitution, and few laws de fine them. They have grown like Topsy. We are reminded of the scope of the presidential duties by Willard Kiplinger in his "Washington Is Like That" He points out that the President Pres-ident as leader of his party runs the party policies through the national na-tional committee. Some times the party line isn't working. You recall re-call the stew over meat? A meeting meet-ing of Democratic party leaders, at the moment when the President was preparing to announce at news conference that he opposed removing remov-ing the controls on meat prices, passed a resolution asking Chairman Chair-man Hannegan to confer with administrative ad-ministrative officials concerning the removal of such controls. The President, at the top executive, execu-tive, heads the executive set-up and he appoints the men who run the executive machinery. He can't talk to each one every day. When there U friction hot-box often develops. There are plenty of examples in history from Ickes and Wallace, back to Lincoln and Seward, and before, Chief Executive's Task Never Ends The President issues "executive orders" which someone has to write tor him but which have the force of law and the President must see that they are properly interpreted. in-terpreted. Again there ia trouble if these decrees tread on congressional congression-al prerogatives. He has to get bills which he fa-i fa-i vors passed. Frequently he writes the first drafts of such bills with the help of his legal advisors. He is expected, if necessary, to "put the beat on" to get them through congress. con-gress. This means a lot of work In ' conference with congressional leaders on the phone and through bis personal agents. A tactless agent can easily upset the applecart. apple-cart. Remember how Tommy Corcoran Cor-coran used to get under the skin of congress? Many others, well inten-tioned inten-tioned and otherwise, who came and went, might be named. The President has to make up the budget, with the help of the budget director. If the director makes mistakes mis-takes or asks tor too much or too little, it is the White House that takes the rap. This involves billions. He appoints the Justices of the Supreme Su-preme court and federal judges, A bad choice may be fatal, and yet one person can't know the personal history of every likely candidate. In this sense the President forms the legal thinking of his era. He Is not only his own and his party's but also the nation's chief publicity man. A slip at the tongue not only can lose an election, but also could start a war. If war comes, he bas to run , it, for the strategy in the field is based on broad objectives decided at home. It was by no means merely military mili-tary opinion which decided when and where the Invasion of Europe took place. These are only a few of the things a President has to think about. We have omitted mention of many minor mi-nor but time-consuming matters such as whether the architectural beauty of the White House shall be altered with a new wing, or where some visiting potentate shall sit at the table. All full of dynamite. It was the death of Woodrow Wilson Wil-son which brought the presidential workload to public attention. He died, as much from overwork as from his disappointment over repudiation repu-diation of the League of Nations. Serious study of the problem of furnishing fur-nishing a means to lighten the presidential presi-dential burden began shortly thereafter, there-after, but it was not until 1939 that specific plan was drawn up and BARBS A Holland-American liner departed depart-ed recently with more than three and a half million eggs aboard-first aboard-first egg cargo of its size since shells ceased bursting. . . Government statisticians art leaving leav-ing Washington In hordes, says Business Week. Maybe the political situation la so bot they think there isn't safety in numbers. submitted to congress. Among other oth-er suggestions for various departmental depart-mental reorganizations, the plan created a presidential staff of "executive "ex-ecutive assistants." About all the public knows about this corps of assistants is that they are supposed to possess a "passion for anonymity." The other thing about them, which isn't usually admitted, ad-mitted, is that they have never functioned func-tioned properly. That, at least, is the private opinion of one insider who has watched them come and go from the beginning. The reason is simple: People who expect a decision deci-sion on an important matter won't take it from anyone but the President Presi-dent himself. Must Keep Close Check on Aide A pitiful example of the breakdown break-down of the White House machinery was the recent Wallace ruckus. . . . The President never need have been placed in the position he was. It is not a President's Job to read over every document submitted to him. No head of a business as big as the government would dream of trying to do that. But somebody should have read both the Wallace memorandum on foreign policy and the Wallace speech and apprised the President of what they contained and Implied. Whether it is trie President's Pres-ident's fault that he didn't have properly experienced hired help, is another matter. That his hired help didn't function, caused the damage. An explanation, if not an excuse, has been offered in this case. The job of reading over public statements state-ments of administration members mem-bers to see that they didn't conflict was handled by the OWI during the war. Before that the White House machinery bad always taken care of such matters. That machin ery had not been again set in motion mo-tion when OWI ceased to function. The fault was not that the Presi dent didn't prevent the Wallace-Byrnes Wallace-Byrnes clash, but that he was not prevented from preventing it I can think of only one similar bad mistake made by President Roosevelt Roose-velt which parallels the Wallace mix-up and it was due to a similar but not the same cause. It involved the highly technical question of the public debt. An "assistant" supposed sup-posed to be an expert furnished the figures on which the President based an important public statement The eagle-eyed financial writers caught it The "expert" was called to account; ac-count; he furnished new figures, was wrong again and caught again. The President was forced to make a second public correction. The duties of a President are simply sim-ply too great tor any one man. So Presidents have always had personal person-al advisors, some times they were given an office, some times they had no official title like Colonel House in the Wilson regime. Today To-day we hear little about presidential "administrative assistants" but we bear a great deal about a group of "advisors" who have failed to function func-tion properly in spite of the fact that unlike the executive assistants they lack authority. These advisors are too "close" to the President And they have been criticized by other members ot the administration tor standing between department heads, the congressional and party leaders. They are all old, close, personal friends of the President They are inexperienced in government Whether President Truman's little circle ot "cronies" has helped or hindered him is beside the question. No one can dispute the fact that they were chosen because ot their loyalty rather than because ot their experience. The question is whether wheth-er presidential duties, as they exist today, can be delegated even to a well-trained, highly capable staff. They can, is the answer, IF such a staff is not blocked by higher authorities au-thorities who, from motives ot love, hate, politics, religion, temperament, tempera-ment, taste or previous condition ot servitude, use suth authority, other oth-er than in the public good. When Oscar, pet seal of the California Cali-fornia Academy ot Science, died, it was found that he had swallowed $7.54 in pennies, nickels and dimes, plus a Canadian penny and an amusement token. But it was the pennies which were fatal the sine ones developed poison. . A Russian engineer claims he has perfected ballbearings so small that 50,000 can be placed in a match box. But will that make it any easier to roll your own? by Baukhage Plenty of meat after the elections, says Chester Bowles. Will there be any gravy? And if so, tor whom? Discords come from Russia, where critics claim Shostakovich's ninth symphony doesn't follow the party lines. The point is that the counterpoint coun-terpoint is counter-revolutionary and aomt ot the semi-deml-quavers quaver with reactionary overtones. Red Feather Flown In Social Badge Is Beacon Of Hope To Sick, Weary, Homeless For centuries the ted feather feath-er has been accepted as a badge of courage and generosity. gener-osity. Robin Hood awarded red feathers to his followers for heroic and generous deeds; outstanding Indian braves often were the recipients recipi-ents of red feather awards for feats of valor and acts of kindness. This year, in cities throughout the United States, the Red Feather will mean hope for the sick, homeless and friendless. Community Chests -of the country have adopted the Red Feather to designate services to or- phans, the aged, the blind, crippled ! children and the sick. In previous years the welfare fund raising organizations from coast to j coast have been known by a vari-j vari-j ety of names and their symbols I have been many and varied. In 1946, i for the first time, practically all ot them are known as Community Chests and all fly the Red Feather. Many Join Movement. Last year, 849 cities in the country coun-try raised close to a quarter billion dollars through community fund raising campaigns. These cities each conducted a single campaign to raise funds to support multiple welfare wel-fare agencies. It was in Cleveland, Ohio, that the Community Chest plan was born in 1913. A group of Cleveland business men, aware of the many fund drives held each year and of the vast sums spent annually to raise money for welfare purposes, evolved a plan to budget the city's welfare wel-fare needs and to hold one campaign cam-paign annually to obtain the money to meet these needs. Before Cleveland held the first Community Chest campaign, 8,000 persons were contributing money for welfare purposes. During the 1945 Community Chest campaign, 606,000 residents ot Greater Cleveland Cleve-land made pledges to support 100 home front agencies and 22 units of the national war fund Support 100 Agencies. This year, the Cleveland Community Commu-nity Chest is campaigning in October Octo-ber for a goal of $4,830,000. Proceeds will be used for the support of 100 Red Feather agencies, including 21 youth and recreation groups, 19 organizations aiding dependent children, chil-dren, 17 hospitals, 14 family welfare wel-fare services and other welfare organizations. or-ganizations. Throughout the nation, the story of the Red Feather is being told as Community Chests wage their annual an-nual fund-raising campaigns in October. Oc-tober. Chicago, which has the largest Community Chest fund in the nation, na-tion, has a goal of $7,939,000 in the current drive. From Community Chest coffers will come 50 per cent NO LONGER G. I. Vet Students Replace Navy 'Boots FARRAGUT. IDAHO.-In an attempt at-tempt to crack the national bottleneck bottle-neck in educational facilities, particularly par-ticularly for ex-G.I.s, education-hungry veterans have opened their own college here. At the site of the sprawling naval training station here, the veterans opened a privately operated, nonprofit, non-profit, co-educational college and technical institute this month. When the navy declared the huge training station surplus, veterans' organizations went into immediate action. They saw the station's vast dormitories, apartments, classrooms, class-rooms, laboratories, machine shops and recreational facilities as the answer an-swer to two major veterans' problems: prob-lems: Lack ot educational facilities facili-ties and housing accommodations while attending school Raise $250,000 Fund. Backed by local business men, encouraged en-couraged by the United States department de-partment ot education and other federal agencies, veterans' organisations organi-sations in north Idaho and eastern Washington formed a private nonprofit non-profit corporation. They called it Farragut College and Technical Institute, In-stitute, Inc., and set out to raise an Initial operating fund of $250,000. Veterans' groups plunked down sums like $10,000 and $15,000 to start the ball rolling. Private clubs and individual citizens came across. The veterans hired a college president Dr.- Joseph H. Kusner, formerly ot Florida, who is a veteran. He rounded up. a faculty. Water Brings $1 AUSTIN, TEXAS. - Fall rains have alleviated a drouth which turned up many eccentricities dur-glng dur-glng late summer months. At Aspermont in the high plains area drinking water sold for a dollar dol-lar a barrel Also near Aspermont the Salt fork of the Brazos, the state's mightiest might-iest river, became a dry channel one day, then was running 25,000 cubic feet a second the following Service Fund Drives ' V T'4 ' ' ) 'I X iA v . V ? ' tt ) 'V' ;f i ''!? '"J ; J;'-V 1; : lit IV'H' & Ji' . .jK"t .. ::.::'''. tr THEY NEED "HELPING HAND" . . . Typical of the millions of children throughout the United States who receive aid through Red Feather agencies supported by Community chests are these youngsters from Cleveland. Top left, a poignant appeal for aid is mirrored in the face of Virginia at Goodrich house; top right, Jimmle, patient at Rose-Mary Home for Crippled Children, is overcoming the crippling effects of spastic paralysis; bottom: Lillian, resident at Cleveland Christian home orphanage, gives dolly the kind of care the home gives her; right: 5-year-old Jerry Is going to walk some day, thanks to treatment he is receiving at Cleveland rehabilitation center. of the operating costs of 192 Red Feather agencies. An additional $906,000 is sought to continue USO activities for the final year. One of the main objectives of Community Chests is to assure a good start in life for ail children. chil-dren. Red Feather youth agencies agen-cies universally strive to prepare pre-pare the boys and girls of today ior weir responsiDuiues out sells of tomorrow. To carry out this objective, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, tor example, will allot the largest percentage of its campaign funds, more than 20 per cent to its Red Feather youth recreation services serv-ices and another 11 per cent to its, child care agencies. Last year, the city's 39 Red Feather youth agencies agen-cies served more than 189,714 boys and girls and provided 183,593 days in camps. Returns Near Peak. As the birthplace of the Community Commu-nity Chest idea, Cleveland has attained at-tained one ot the best records in the nation for its annual fund drive. Total goal of the past 27 Community Chest campaigns there was $115,-888,545, $115,-888,545, of which $113,243,489. or 97.7 per cent actually was raised. In Cleveland Community Chest hospitals contain two-thirds of all the city's public and private hospit The school was chartered by the state of Idaho and acceptable credits cred-its were assured. Federal problems of acquiring the property were hurdled. hur-dled. In Picturesque Country. Farragut where hundreds of thousands of United States naval men were trained during the war, Erosion Raids CHICAGO. Erosion's raids on soil fertility are costing the United States nearly four billion dollars annually, an-nually, according to the Middle West Soil Improvement committee. "The extent of this yearly damage dam-age is Indicated by 'recent U. S. Soil Conservation service estimates that wind and water erosion removes re-moves 21 times as much plant food from the nation's farm soil each year as is taken out by crops sold off that land." the committee reports. Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the conservation service, places the annual an-nual loss as a result of uncontrolled erosion and water runoff at $3,844,-000,000. $3,844,-000,000. He estimates that nearly one billion acres ot the nation's farm lands need soil conservation treatment to protect them from erosion ero-sion and to maintain their productivity. produc-tivity. It is clearly evident that eternal Barrel in Drouth day. Two large reservoirs of the Lower Colorado river system had evaporation evapo-ration in excess of inflow. Wichita Falls, busy wheat and industrial in-dustrial city, prepared for a drouth by completing an additional reservoir reser-voir capable of holding 100,000 acre-feet of water. But the branch of the Little Wichita river, which was expected to fill the reservoir, reser-voir, failed to respond. as Symbol J ' V "J al capacity; their dispensaries annually an-nually give approximately 200,000 free or low cost treatments; all of the maternity homes for unwed mothers are chest supported; institutional insti-tutional care of 1,125 Cleveland orphans or-phans is given only by chest agencies, agen-cies, and 672 children are under foster fos-ter home care through chest auspices. aus-pices. A high degree of co-operation is essential to success of the Community Commu-nity Chest drive. That sort of co-operation is characteristic of Cleveland's annual fund raising event Solicitation of chest pledges is carried out by a corps of 25,000 volunteer workers. City officials authorize au-thorize decoration of downtown thoroughfares; the transit system and railroads permit campaign advertising; ad-vertising; stores feature window displays stressing the work of chest agencies; radio stations, newspapers newspa-pers and theaters tell the story of the Red Feather organizations. For the sick and troubled ot Cleveland, Cleve-land, as well as those of 849 other cities in the United States, the Red Feather this year means hope. For the greater number of persons who wear the Red Feather as Community Commu-nity Chest contributors, the brighter the outlook for those who need a "helping hand." is on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille a picturesque spot in the heart of north Idaho's timber and lake country. It has ample facilities facili-ties for 15,000 students, including housing for single students, married students and faculty. Courses in the liberal arts and in the technical and trade fields will be taught by streamlined methods. Take High Toll vigilance is a "must' if our greatest farm asset soil fertility is to be preserved," Dr. Bennett insists. "The recent ' wartime burden on farm land to produce record yields to speed victory has been succeeded by an equally heavy peacetime load to produce crops to meet the world-wide food crisis," the soil improvement group declares, de-clares, adding that "the only remedy rem-edy that will rescue overworked 'farm land from eventual fertility exhaustion is a program ot effective effec-tive soil rebuilding." Pointing out that any soil rehabilitating rehabili-tating plan should be well-rounded, the committee says it should include the raising of legumes to improve soil tilth and to increase its resources re-sources ot organic matter, regular crop rotation, steady use ot mixed fertilizer containing nitrogen, -phosphorus and potash, and pasture improvement Every Day Is July 4 At Ordnance Depot TOOELE, UTAH. Not once a year but every day it's Fourth of July at the Tooele ordnance depot at least insofar as fireworks are concerned. Unserviceable explosivesAmerican, explo-sivesAmerican, German and Jap. anese which have accumulated at the depot must be destroyed. Depot officers do the task scientifically, placing about 50 tons of explosives in a crater to detonate them. TAhEvSCREENiMDIO Released by Weitera Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IF YOU think an actor's life's an easy one, listen to what happened to Frank McHugh. On the Thursday of his opening open-ing as star of the CBS "Phone Again, Finnegan," he reported report-ed for work at noon on the set of Century-Fox's "Carnegie Hall at Carnegie Hall. Shooting kept him there till 7 p. m., so he was an hour late to rehearsal of the radio show, was still in make-up, and had had no dinner. Eating a sandwich between be-tween scenes, he worked straight through until the program went oft the air at 11 p. m., then rushed to his hotel for a night's sleep, so that he could get up early enough the next morning to be on the movie set at 8 a. m. In 1936, during rehearsal of a radio ra-dio show, Kenny Delmar strolled into the studio, said he was an actor and wanted a job. Homer Fickett, the director, put him to work, and he had a number of starring roles. KENNY DELMAR Recently for old time's sake he did two small parts, a salesman and a bartender, in "Jacabowsky and the Colonel," which Fickett directed for "The Theater Guild on the Air." Few in the audience recognized the actor-announcer who has made such' a hit as "Senator Claghorn" on the Fred Allen show. Ann Sothern, of the CBS "Maisie" and the movies, is having automobile automo-bile trouble. Two weeks ago she got a red-topped convertible. Last week she started off the Metro lot in a red-topped convertible, only to discover dis-cover that it was Lauritz Melchior's. Then, at CBS, Red Skelton drove oft in Ann's car, thinking it was his. And now she's learned that Tommy Tom-my Dorsey has one too! Little Marlene Aames, the 7-year-old who recently made her debut as "Cookie Bumstead" on the "Blondie" airshow, has bad her movie contract option taken up by the Goldwyn studios as a result of her work In her first picture, "Tho Best Tears of Our Life." That realistic thunder you'll hear in "Pursued" came easy. They were shooting an artificially created lightning sequence at Red Rock Mesa, some 10 miles from the Army Ordnance Depot at Fort Wingate, N. M., where huge piles of obsolete ammunition was blown up. Technicians Tech-nicians recorded the terrific explosions, explo-sions, synchronized them with electrically elec-trically controlled lighting and there's your storm! For the first time Lauritz Mel-chior Mel-chior and his wife will spend Christmas Christ-mas in Hollywood; he completes a concert tour December 5, and isn't due in New York, for more concerts and appearances at the Metropolitan, Metropoli-tan, until Januarv 7 Whlnh - f . . auccio that Hollywood will be treated to a gala holiday series of parties in true Danish fashion, till he takes off again by plane January 4. All summer Ted De Corsia's voice made friends for him, when ho starred en NBC's "McGarry and His Mouse," replacement for "Duffy's "Duf-fy's Tavern." Then he got an urgent ur-gent call from Orson Welles and departed for Hollywood, for a featured fea-tured role in Welles' newest picture, pic-ture, starring Rite Hayworth. It la Ted's first movie role, and folks predict that tall, dark and rrM. Ted may be sensational. : Mickey Roonev. after role in M-G-M's "Summer Holiday," jauncnes a personal appearance tour fat vaudeville October 24 At k- head ot a comolete shnw hn i theaters in Philadelphia, Chicago. icirom uincmnau and Cleveland. In addition, he dans to iHait r hospitals in the vicinity of his stops mua siage snows ior the patients. ODDS AND ENDS -When Joan CrmclortTi ouna AnUt.. ru.:..: attended m mifum w. J . - w c3eu cj mn angel, she insisted that her wina be spangled with sequins. . . . Sturgeon Greta Garbos favorite sandwich. osmw Janks has been screemested at 20th CenUuy.Fox. . . . Eileen t aimer of "Road l f ' .. . Ian mad, but as she plays a eery unpleasant woman, most of the Utters request that she be dropped from the show; . . . 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