Show Z 1 on aft av xa 0 0 I 1 I 1 4 r ia I 1 11 wallace s job program I 1 I 1 1 1 I 11 i 1 d 1 1 I 1 1 1 V tv 1 I 1 packs political TNT I 1 I 1 I 1 1 l f I 1 11 0 K 1 l reorganization of commerce department 1 I 1 i I 1 lil f first step forward in formulation 1 P N I 1 of full employment policy I 1 k s fl 1 1 1 I 1 kl I 1 1 by I 1 I 1 va 1 I 1 news analyst and commentator I 1 1 i 1 service 1610 eye street NW V Y washington D C pp ap the recent operating and or I 1 I 1 program tor for the department 11 1 I 1 me n t of commerce created very lit 1 1 I 1 4 tle tie excitement in washington or elsewhere when it was released I 1 think I 1 it made page 13 of the new york times the times gave gage much more il 1 I 1 prominence recently to another document from the pen of henry agard 11 wallace hwallace his new book sixty million 11 jobs of which I 1 shall speak later I 1 congress may slumber lumber 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 1 between the lines much upon which I 1 I 1 to ponder maybe that in why it li t was double spaced F I 1 to me this Is a three i ln no one instrument f ment just ns as its author henry IV wallace revealed himself as a three ln in one personality allty when I 1 V called on him just before the publication i li of his program kilo his first 0 approach I 1 aroas h to the governmental limelight since the change in administration I 1 I 1 tra tion I 1 the report on what mr wallace i in his capacity as secretary of commerce 1 1 hopes will mean the 1 and of his ment meat envisions the metamorphosis of that somo somewhat what turgid and impotent 1 11 institution into a vigorous and 1 V human organization which will reach out and touch millions of individuals just as tho the governments most virile 1 department agriculture does docs secretary 10 I 1 wallace said frankly at his press conference and also in more 1 1 I 1 detail privately to me that he 1 thought that the department of commerce should do i for the business I 1 P man big and little what the department J part ment of agriculture does for the farmer farmei big and little and irwill if I 1 I 1 he has his way ll 11 active department 1 Secre goal wipe we out of your mind it if you will thavone that onetime one time problem child of the new meal deal the agricultural adjusts adjust 41 ment administration now weigh I 1 1 1 the testimony of observers including anti andi thin kyou will learn that as secretary of agriculture the author of sixty million 11 k jobs did a good job in revitalizing his depart department departie me nt VI av how much it will cost to do as aa much for commerce we ge get t 1 him to estimate but he finally told v us thai atwould it would be less than one j sixth of the cost of one diky days s war at veday V byba series 0 of I 1 calculations T we arrived at the figure of 40 aj 1 I 1 million dollars since the commerce department spent about million millio n f I 1 dollars lost last year mr wallaces I 1 changes would make a total cost for I 1 his revitalized department or of jul million dollars those who lary economy will 1 shudder at that figure but they will hear this answerl answer it if business big I 1 IV and little wants help similar to that which agriculture demands and gets geta q ait it will cost something the depart ment of agriculture cost approximately ni million fIllon dollars to run lost last year and the formers farmers I 1 want lt to do less I 1 there will also b be another explanation I 1 of tile the figures which will attempt to show that part of the expansion of the reorganized depart merit la Is really contraction and that brings us to the second integer of I 1 th thi three ln in one composition ot of mr I 1 wallaces plan the plan to Is more than a blueprint for changes in A single governmental institution it i is definite definitely lya a part of president tru i mans reorganization plan which it p I 1 is fair to assume would bring brine back I 1 I 1 under the commerce rooftree roof r the horde of agencies and commissions which have to do with industry and I 1 business I 1 B and now we come to part three of the tri trl function of the wallace program it Is by his ow own implication it a part of his recipe for full employment included in his book clity sixty million jobs and mention meni I 1 of that brings me to an examination I 1 J arni nation of mr wallace himself 1 I 1 said that uhe like the program of reorganization I 1 for his ahli department mr wallace seemed tripartite nt to me 1 I 1 I I 1 when I 1 called upon him ho he came I 1 down the great cavernous room which herbert hoover beaver planned for or 11 his successor sov and we sat in chairs 14 about a little table that made fl a hos I 1 pliable oasis in the midst 0 of f the desert vastness of high walls walli and lofty ceiling A presidential ghost emerges I 1 had really come to see gea henry wallace the author of sixty million jobs which had lust just been bean reported a best seller in two new york stores we discoursed at some I 1 length 0 on that opus and gradually I 1 found myself also talking to henry wallace secretary of commerce for as I 1 suggested earlier many a strand from sixty million jobs may be discovered in the warp and woof w bof of the department reorganization plan As the conversation moved from book to report and back to book again never getting far from the theme of full fall employment I 1 thought I 1 could make out an ectoplasm lo form arising from what had been up until then my two part author be secretary host the third being although not yet completely materialized zed little by little became translucently visible to the naked eye this party of the third part I 1 thought I 1 recognized as henry wallace presidential candi candidate fite 1048 or at least 1052 perhaps I 1 would not have believed my eyes it if it had not been tor 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 po political lotical platform the democratic party can run ran on in the next election 11 in one place author wallace says there are a few of course who think that any government servant who uses the phrase full employment Is engaged in some deep dark plot put they ore are the exceptions that prove the peoples sanity and soundness os as a whole 1 I 1 senator mcclellan might be con leered one of the exceptions from his remarks in the debate on the full employment bill ile he said that tho the measure says a great dek deal and actually means nothing except I 1 to 0 o create an n 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 wallaces 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 mors more than any recent work on economics or politics it can serve as a moral testament and intellectual guide in the eventful difficult days ahead the work appeared first in a busl 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 edi edition when mr wallace sold said that I 1 thought I 1 caught his triplet nodding emphatic approval while ghostly lips formed the words words for every voters pocket much water will pass beneath the now and 1048 or 1952 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 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 wallaces full employment program requires much more legislation than the full employment bill that Is only the first fast step the expansion and re orientation of bf his and other departments department will be required then there will be special taxation there will be at least the blueprinting blue printing of public works there will have to b be a settled policy providing for foreign loans the bretton woods program program and other stimulants of world trade and tourist if a too conservative congress did not grant the minimum legislative implementation the sixty million jobs plan iian could not be carried out that however mr wallaces supporters insist will simply make 00 60 million people who want jobs plus their families vote for the tha man who believes they can be produced |