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Show i i.un i "uj mmni Wallace's Job Program Packs Political TNT Reorganization of Commerce Department First Step Forward in Formulation Of Full Employment Policy. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W. . . Washington, D. C. Ths recent operating and organization or-ganization program for the department depart-ment of commerce created very little lit-tle excitement In Washington or elsewhere else-where when It was released. I think It made page 15 of the New York Times. The Times gave much more prominence recently to another document doc-ument from the pen of Henry Agard Wallace his new book, "Sixty Million Mil-lion Jobs," of which I shall speak later. Congress may slumber on the reorganization 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 a three-in-one InstrumentJust In-strumentJust as its author, Henry Wallace, revealed himself as a three-ln-one personality when I called on him just before the publication pub-lication of his program, his first ap- E roach to the governmental lime-ght lime-ght since the change In administration. adminis-tration. The report on what Mr. Wallace In his capacity as secretary of commerce com-merce hopes will mean the revitalizing revitaliz-ing and expanding of his department, depart-ment, envisions the metamorphosis of that somewhat turgid and impotent impo-tent institution Into a vigorous and human organization which win reach out and touch millions of individuals just as the government's most virile department, agriculture, does. Secretary Sec-retary Wallace said frankly at his press conference and also in more detail privately to me, that he thought that the department of commerce com-merce should do for the business man, big and little, what the department de-partment of agriculture does for the farmer, big and little. And it will, if he has his way. Active Department Secretary's Goal Wipe out of your mind, if you will, that one-time problem child of the New Deal, the agricultural adjustment adjust-ment administration. Now weigh the testimony of observers, including includ-ing anti-Wallaceites, and I think you will learn that as secretary of agriculture, agri-culture, the author of "Sixty Million Mil-lion Jobs" did a good job in revitalizing re-vitalizing his department. How much it will cost to do as much for commerce, we couldn't get him to estimate, but he finally told us that it would be less than one-sixth one-sixth of the cost of one day's war at V-E Day. By a series of calculations calcula-tions we arrived at the figure of 40 million dollars. Since the commerce department spent about 121 million dollars last year, Mr. Wallace's changes would make a total cost for his revitalized department of 161 million dollars. Those who cry economy will shudder at that figure but they will hear mis answer: If business, big and little, wants help similar te that which agriculture demands and gets it will cost something. The department depart-ment of agriculture cost approximately approxi-mately 769 million dollars to run last year, and the farmers wouldn't want it to do less. There will also be another explanation explan-ation of the figures which will attempt at-tempt to show that part of the expansion ex-pansion of the reorganized department 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 Truman's Tru-man's reorganization plan which it Is fair to assume would bring back under the commerce rooftree the liorde of agencies and commissions which have to do with industry ana business. And now we come to part three of the tri-partible function of the Wallace Wal-lace program. It is by his own implication, a part of his recipe for full employment included in his book, "Sixty Million Jobs," and mention men-tion of that brings me te an examination ex-amination of Mr. Wallace himself. I said that like the program of reorganization re-organization for his department, Mr. Wallace seemed tripartitent to me. When I called upon him, he came down the great, cavernous room which Herbert Hoover planned for his successor and we sat in chairs about a little table that made a hos BARBS Two hundred thousand of Berlin's three million population are members mem-bers of trade unions. But what have they got to trade? If anybody asks you: "Don't you know there's a war on?" the answer an-swer is "yes" and whether you like it or net it will be for six months after a formal declaration of peace which isn't even in sight yet ftirtiaflttf'i &VUa"raffiaXji i I pitable oasis in the midst of the desert vastness of high walls and lofty celling. A Presidential Ghost Emerges I had really come to see Henry Wallace, the author of "Sixty Mil. lion Jobs," which had Just been reported re-ported a best seller in two New York stores. We discoursed at some length on that opus and gradually I 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 and woof of the department reorganization 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 ectoplasmic form arising from what had been up until then my two-part, author-secretary author-secretary host. The third being, although al-though not yet completely materialized, mate-rialized, little by little became translucently visible to the naked eye. This party of the third part I thought I recognized as Henry Wallace, Wal-lace, presidential candidate (1948 or at least 1952). Perhaps I would not have believed my eyes if it had not 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 election." 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 employment' employ-ment' is engaged in some deep dark plot. But they are the exceptions that prove the people's sanity and soundness as a whole." Senator McClellan might be considered 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 Jobs' Draws Commendations Whatever the lawmakers think, the reviewers certainly are full of praise for Wallace's book. The New York Times calls it "a thoughtful and thought provoking discussion of American political economy," and the Saturday Review of Literature, agreeing with the Times, adds that, "more than any recent work on economics or politics, it can serve as a moral testament and intellectual intel-lectual guide in the eventful, difficult diffi-cult days ahead." The work appeared first in a business-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 1948 or 1952. We have with us at present a conservative congress Bnd the political veterans say that no matter which way the wind may blow abroad, it is blowing to the right on Capitol hill and, they add hopefully, perhaps not too leftward at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. Secretary author candidate Wallace's Wal-lace's full employment program requires 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 be special taxation; there will be at least the blue-printing of public works; there will have to be a settled policy providing for foreign loans the Bretton Woods program and ether stimulants of world trade and tourist traffic. If a toe conservative congress did not gTant the minimum legislative implementation, the "Sixty Million Jobs" plan could not be carried out That however, Mr. Wallace's supporters sup-porters Insist will simply make 60 million people who want Jobs, plus their families, vote for the man who believes they can be produced. by Baukhage The White House had its first real paint job since the war began and looks like a new place. The scaffolds were up before J-surrender day. I wonder if the painters had a tip? We have 20 million less horses and mules to feed than we once had in this country. But the land used to raise food for them is now feeding human beings. .WEEKLY NEWS Settlement of Oil Workers Pay May Set Reconversion Pattern; Ease Curbs on Consumer Credit -Released by Western (EDITOR'S NOTE! When opinions art expressed In these columns, they Western Newspaper Union' news analysts and not necessarily of this newipp" Their guns taken away, Jap naval shore patrolmen walk streets with rooden staves to maintain order among disarmed sailors in Tokyo. LABOR: ' U S Acts Acting energetically, Secretary of jabor Lewis Schwellenbach took he all-important oil workers' wage iispute virtually in his own hands by transferring negotiations to Washington, D. C, in an effort to effect a settlement that was expected ex-pected to set a pattern for the re-eonversion re-eonversion period. With the Oil Workers' union de mand for a 30 per cent wage in-J trease embodying the program of Ither powerful CIO organizations, nd with the oil companies' offer of i 15 per cent boost representing the usual compromise, final disposition disposi-tion of the case would go far toward to-ward determining the amount of "take-home" pay for employees during the ensuing months. Schwellenbach's decision to shift the parley to Washington, D. C, from Chicago, HI., followed upon an early deadlock in the bargaining over the union's insistence that the Iispute be settled on an industrywide industry-wide basis and the companies' stand that contracts should be signed by Individual plants. Meanwhile, over 1,500,000 persons Were affected by the strike of AFL elevator operators and building service employees in New York, with business losses running over $1,000,000 a day and production of winter and summer garments virtually vir-tually stopped. Balking at a war labor board award of $28.05 for a 44 hour week, the union asked $30.15 for a 40 hour week. , JAPAN: Historic Precedent September 27, 1945, went down in history as the red-letter day on which a Japanese emperor, unbending unbend-ing himself in defeat made a personal per-sonal call upon a victorious U. S. commander to break all precedent God to his people, small wiry Hirohito, in formal morning clothes and high silk top hat, was very much man to Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, who, steeped in occupational occupation-al duties, met him in informal mili tary attire and without a tie. Motoring to the American embassy embas-sy in Tokyo for the visit Hirohito made his call just as MacArthur set about shaping plans for the re-education of the Japanese people and stripping Nippon of all its war-making potentialities by an economic reformation. In recasting the Japanese mind, MacArthur chose to pursue the present policy of working through native personnel. Japanese press, radio, movies, government information informa-tion bureaus, schools and various social so-cial groups Would be used as mediums me-diums for the dissemination of democratic principles and ideals for world co-operation. In Japan's economic reformation, the U. S. will strive for the eradication eradica-tion of all potential war industry, confining the Nipponese merely to civilian production. At the same time, efforts will be made to break up the business monopoly of the four great houses of Mitsibushi, Mitsui, Yusada and Sumitomo, and promote pro-mote widespread ownership and trade. Organization of labor and agricultural organizations also will be encouraged. Meanwhile, Japanese economic experts called for a resumption of trade with the U. S. to speed Nippon's Nip-pon's postwar recovery and stave off impending privation. In return for American cotton, wool, salt oil, iron, sugar and leather the Japa-nese Japa-nese proposed exports of silk, gold, porcelain ware and lacquer goods. TIRES: Demand Mounts While the production of new automobile auto-mobile tires is making fair nrae. ress. prospects for the elimination of tare rationing in the near future are not promising, according to the National Na-tional Automobile Dealers associa tion. Although the tire industry is planning plan-ning on the production of approximately approxi-mately 12 million tires between October and the end of the year, "ome will be reserved for new cars. THE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH ANALYSIS- Newspaper Union. CREDIT: Ease Controls In a move hit by OPA because of inflationary possibilities, but rapped by finance companies because of its restricted scope, the government removed all credit controls, over building renovation and eased regulations reg-ulations on loans for services or non-essential purchases. Remaining unchanged in view of popular demand and limited supply was the 12 month credit repayment for washing machines, vacuum cleaners, bed linen, mattresses, boats, watches, cameras, automobiles, automo-biles, pianos and furniture. Though OPA resisted the restricted re-stricted easing of credit regulations for fear of a scaling of prices upward up-ward in face of heavy buying, certain cer-tain financing groups declared that continuing restrictions placed low Income classes at a disadvantage and price control and rationing as sured markef stabilization. ARGENTINA: Buck Change Problem center of South America, Argentina was under another state of siege as the gov ernment of Pres. Edelmiro Farrell, controlled by CoL Juan Peron, round ed up economic, political and labor leaders following an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the present regime. In extending mill' Colonel Peron tary rule and sus pending constitutional guarantees of speech, press and assembly, the government gov-ernment declared that it was forced to move to stem "a growing campaign cam-paign aimed at alteration of the (existing) order and conducted by the oligarchy (powerful interests) . . . " Liberty would be restored when the various groups would know how to use it Farrell added. The abortive revolutionary attempt at-tempt by two top Argentine generals followed close upon the heels of widespread demonstrations of demo cratic elements against the pro-military Farrell-Peron regime, maintaining main-taining the present economic and social so-cial setup in the face of persistent demands for its liberalization. JOBLESS BENEFITS: Shelve Bill 1 Declaring that the current wave of strikes has confused the question of whether a real need exists for the lengthening of unemployment compensation payments up to 26 weeks, the powerfid house ways and means committee held up a senate bill providing federal aid for extension exten-sion of benefits. By its action, the house group dealt a body blow to President Truman's Tru-man's program for jobless aid, since the senate in passing a modified bill previously had refused to boost unemployment un-employment compensation up to a maximum of $25 weekly. The senate sen-ate measure would have permitted the federal government to advance sufficient sums to the states to spread jobless payments ovei 26 weeks. House committee rejection of the bill stirred labor's wrath, AFL Pres. William Green accusing the congressmen con-gressmen of "callous disregard of human needs," and CIO Chieftain Philip Murray calling upon the CIO and its Political Action committee for an all-out drive to "secure reversal re-versal of this shameful act" ARMY SEEKS MISSING Army "search teams" are combing the battlefields of Europe Eu-rope and the Pacific for personnel person-nel now listed as missing. Consisting of five soldiers, one of whom speaks the language of the locality, search teams are assigned a certain area of approximately ap-proximately one and one-half square miles. Information on missing personnel is consolidated consoli-dated to speed investigation. It OIL: U.S. -British Pact Virtual monopolists in oil, the U. S. and Britain came to an understanding under-standing for the orderly development develop-ment of petroleum trade in the postwar post-war world in a pact fashioned in London by Secretary of the Interior Ickes and British officials and subject sub-ject to senate ratification. Removing vigorous opposition to any control over domestic production produc-tion as envisaged in a previous agreement later repudiated by the U. S., the new pact only provides for advisory regulation of American and British operations overseas.' Both countries have extensive oil holdings in foreign lands, notably in the middle east, where deposits are reportedly as great as in the U. S. In drawing up the agreement, Ickes and British Fuel Administrator Administra-tor Shinwell provided for mutual respect re-spect of all concessions and rights obtained by either country, and also pledged non-interference with operations. oper-ations. MEAT: More Available Because of the seasonal increase In the marketing of range fed cattle, cat-tle, OPA removed point requirements require-ments for lower grades of beef, veal and lamb through most of October, and also made hamburger, lamb and veal patties, short ribs and brisket of beef, breast and flank of lamb and shank of veal ration-free. In addition, points were lifted from such low-grade meat products as sausage, frankfurters, luncheon variety and canned meats. InNcontrast, however, the continued contin-ued tight supply of hogs and finished fin-ished cattle necessitated the retention reten-tion of current point values on pork cuts, bacon and other cured meats, and choice selections of beef, veal and lamb. Though fats and oils were kept on the rationing list, point removal on cheaper meat will furnish fur-nish additional stamps for these items. Henry II Takes Over To husky, 28-year-old Henry Ford II, who in college displayed more of a penchant for sociology than engineering, engineer-ing, went the presidency of the huge Ford Motor company, following the retirement re-tirement of his famed grandfather rom active service with the firm. Upon assuming his post, Henry the II declared his ambition was to return Ford to leadership in sales again, the company having trailed Chevrolet throughout most of the decade preceding preced-ing the war. On his toes, young Ford had shown the new 1946 model last July, only two days after government authorization author-ization for resuming civilian production, produc-tion, and the firm was well off to postwar post-war output when impeded by strikes. , Retiring at 82 after having resumed the presidency of his famed company in June of 1943 upon the death of his son, Edsel, Ford declared that he would devote de-vote most of his energies to his outside interests, chief of which have been utilization of farm products in industry. EUROPE: Occupation Problem In war or in peace, old General Patton, with a mind of his own continued con-tinued to make news, the latest ocasion being his clash with General Gen-eral Eisenhower over the use oi competent former Nazi civil servants serv-ants for a restoration of German economy to head off threatened chaos this winter. Besides being asked for an immediate imme-diate report on the number of former for-mer Nazis still holding office in 3rd army territory, Patton also was directed di-rected to give Eisenhower a personal per-sonal accounting of his control over the Bavarian region. For a hard peace, Eisenhower favors a ruth less denazification of Germany's political, educational and economic life, and an early establishment of a Reich living standard no higher than surrounding countries'. Though the first to be called on the carpet Patton's attitude is known to be shared by other U. S, officers seeking to avert starva tion, frost suffering and epidemics this winter in the shattered nation. FAR EAST: Native Uprising Even as Chinese and British forces took over Indo-China, native Annamites rose in rebellion at the prospect of a return of French rule, terrorizing the European population of the state, which normally exports much rice, rubber, high-grade coal, spices and tin. Frenchmen were the principal targets tar-gets of native wrath, since many, under protection of Chinese and British guns, have displaced Annamites Anna-mites holding public offices preliminary prelimi-nary to re-establishment of French colonial rule. Strangely enough, the Japanese, who promised Indo - Chinese independence inde-pendence during their military occupation oc-cupation of the country and still remain re-main in force prior to their complete com-plete demobilization, have been called upon to help assist under, manned Allied units re-establish peace. GOOD NEIGHBOR: Aids Health Remote, disease-plagued regioni of the Amazon systems of Peru and Bolivia have been equipped by modern mod-ern health measures to nrnirrot. human welfare. The menace of malaria and cthei tropical diseases has hen erably lessened in the two countriet oy inaugurauon of hospitals and meaicai services by the U. s South American nations through the insuiuxe oi inter-American affairs. Iffil 1 On the New York Scenic Railway: The long parade and the exciting band music in the flerce rams i winds north along Fifth Avenue iritvi harHW onvnnfl among the and pe- destrians brave enough to pause and watch. (What dope insisted upon that parade, anyhow, in such pneu monia weather?) . . . Tne Know oi nuts cluttering up Columbus Circle exercising their Constitutional rioMa with double talk about next war. ... The blinking elec tricks on the Broadway signs em hoiiishorf hv the rjenmanshlD of th furiously falling rain. . . . The 59th Street management's reply to freezing freez-ing tenants: "No heat until October 1st!" The Waldorf has it however. Mia l.ihertv. everyone's favor ite pin-up gal, winking happy hellos to shiploads of returning veterans, who fought for her honor. Th raconhonv of buses, taxis trollevs. ears (and women) as they merge at 34th and Broadway in what seems like an inextricable tangle-then tangle-then miraculously emerge again without a fender dented a sym phony of NYClatter The aroma of oncoming autumn heralding the return of King Football and ran-ran coon coats the sienal that Ma Na ture's getting set to wield her brush with those maeic browns, yellows and reds. . . . Staten Island's shore line still brimming with the imple ments of war. . . . Newly inducted soldiers, without war ribbons look ing like overgrown Boy Scouts. Broadway, washing her face of war paint, trimming her wartime war-time hustle and bustle and setting set-ting her coiffure with the brightest bright-est of lights for the postwar . hoopla. . . . Faces and facades, absent for too long, reappearing with joyous smiles, like exiles who've been given a reprieve. ... The red, white and blue service flags now flecked here and there with stars of gold-grim gold-grim reminders of those who fought the good fight and won't come back. . .. The be-medaled private, cane in hand, strutting down Vth, tilting his MacArthur corncob pipe at a Jauntily precarious pre-carious angle. The book stores along the Gayer White Way advertising "Social Dancing" instead of "How to Pre pare for Your Army I. Q. Test" . The 42nd St Army & Navy stores offering "Tailor-Made Sailor Suits" at reduced prices. . . . Drug-stores with signs shouting, "Yes, We Have Bobby Pins." . . . The honey-sweet "Thank you" from the cutie behind the ciggie counter at the Waldorf. . . . The dance hall on 7th Ave, where the G.I.s go to cut a rug on Saturday nights. It is called "The Midtown Youthopia." . . . The sub ways, returning to their eerie dawn- patrolling half empty, looking semi-nude without their early ayem sleepy war workers. The chatterers in Brvant Park trying to figure out what's worth arguing about . . . The medieval architecture of St Patrick's, getting its modern face-lifting grudgingly yielding to the hordes of busv work. ers while kids feed the pigeons on the step. . . . The faded nicture of FDR almost hidden in the side window of a downtown picture gal lery. . . . The wisies who diller-dol- lared their war time moo on nonsense non-sense and frillies eyeing the Wise Men who sunk theirs in bonds and are holding on to them. . . . The big, new department store being dug at 53rd and Vth, with a knot hole fence knee high. . . . Sign in the window of a 72d Street eatery "Waiter Wanted Bring References." Refer-ences." The colorful ribbon of light whirling around the neck of the Times BIdg. waving all that good news to the Broadway gapera. . . . The Brooklyn Navy Yard and its half finished ships. ... The one-armed window gazer on Madison and 43rd with battle ribbons on his gray flannel flan-nel civvies. . . . The long line of want-addicts in front of the Madison Avenue U. S. Employment Employ-ment offices. . . . The Bowery Joynt offering a "Victory Bath" and shower for a dime. ... A returning sir force captain being be-ing greeted with a sticky "heloooo, dahleeeennng" from a sub-deb in an East Fiftieth sub-cellar. sub-cellar. ... The Tower of Babel that congregates in the St. Mor-ltz Mor-ltz lobby and spills out on the sidewalk. . . . That "situations wanted" ad in the Times of a well known war analyst A ferry dawdling across the Hudson Hud-son like a glacier of molasses. . . The tattered shoes of shoeshlne boys. ... The Belasco Theatre's umque marquee with its hanging lanterns ... The Players Club where thespian Edwin Booth once lived. The furnishings in his room remain intact. ... The Waldorf's opulent residential suites decorated with garden terraces. ... 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