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Show President Maintains New Deal Policies Year-End Check Shows Some Change of Faces but Not of Any Principles; Fun Intimates Remain in High Posts. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WSV Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Sufficient time has elapsed since President Truman went Into the White House to warrant a year-end Inventory of his reconstituted federal fed-eral setup, and the result adds up to many changes in personalities, but little switch of fundamental policies. poli-cies. In its numerical aspect, the changes wrought by the President suggest more of a shakeup than actually has taken place, for there still are many Intimates of FDR in high positions, some of them promoted pro-moted by Mr. Truman. James F. Byrnes, secretary of Btate and top man In the Truman cabinet, was lifted out of the rela- live UUSCUl Ui Mi..- from the southland by Mr. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. He came within reach of his present eminence under the guidance guid-ance of the late President, who appointed ap-pointed him to the United States Supreme court, made him war mo-bilizer mo-bilizer and economic stabilizer, and $ook him to international conferences confer-ences which built him to the point where he was a "natural" for the state portfolio when Edward R. Stet-tinius Stet-tinius Jr. was moved out by political polit-ical party considerations. Byrnes was schooled in the Roosevelt ways and he continues along those paths. Henry Morgenthau probably would have remained as secretary of treasury had the President who ap- 1 pointed him lived on. But while he was more a personal friend, he was less a political associate of Mr. j Roosevelt than was Fred Vinson, j the present secretary. And again, it was FDR who brought Vinson to the forefront made him a federal judge, then took him into the White House to share Byrnes' multiple functions and burdens. He had little more than passing acquaintance with Truman, and his present post was a promotion for a "Roosevelt man." Robert E. Hannegan, postmaster general, was slated for that office before Mr. Roosevelt passed away. It is political custom to award that plum to the winning party's national committee chairman, whether the Democrats or the Republicans win. Robert Patterson, secretary of war, came in during the Roosevelt administration as assistant to Henry . L. Stimson, creating a team of Republicans Re-publicans In the top spots of the department. de-partment. He was advanced by President Truman when Mr. Stimson Stim-son retired, although there were str'ong representations made to the White House on behalf of other candidates, can-didates, practicaDy all of them Democrats. I Original Roosevelt cabinet members mem-bers retained by Mr. Truman are James V. Forrestal In navy, Henry I A. Wallace in commerce, and Harold Har-old L. Ickes in interior. Anderson Took Off 'Heaf on Food Clinton P. Anderson, the secre-1 secre-1 tary of agriculture, won White House entree during Roosevelt days by taking the heat off the administration adminis-tration with a food investigation. Labor La-bor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellen-bach Schwellen-bach has been described as "more New Deal than Roosevelt." Continuing, it was President Roosevelt who brought Tom C. Clark, the present attorney general' into government service k1.. him in line for the advancement which Mr. Truman gave him. Paul V. McNutt, who left recently to become be-come high commissioner in the Philippine Phil-ippine islands, was originally a Roosevelt appointee. Even in the intimate surroundings of the White House will be found several "hold-overs," notably scholarly schol-arly William D. Hassett, a presidential presiden-tial secretary whose typewriter has turned out many of the lyrical speeches delivered by the late President, Pres-ident, and whose skill can be detected detect-ed by Washington newsmen in Mr. Truman's more formal addresses. : J. A. Krug remained at the head of the War Production board until it went out of existence, although the new President was often critical of WPB when he was presiding jC-ver the senate committee which bore his name. j Almost every move made by Mr i Truman in organizing his official family had underlying it a record of Roosevelt association. There has been ordy ne notable discernible ' , L - r departure mm, - john W. Snyder as chief oi the i; fice of war mobilization and recon v rsion. Snyder was a friend and military buddy of the President ftr a ouarter of a century. But Wasfi ington hears that the OWMR director direc-tor Is being sidetracked, that the President is taking counsel with. Secretary Vinson on subjects that rightly fall into Snyder's bailiwick and that a resignation has been offered. of-fered. There is nothing In the Truman appointments to indicate whether the President is turning to the right or the left of center using FDR as "center." Mr. Truman is franker than most Dublic figures and com mentators - he says he frankly doesn't know what "center" is, imagines he's about the same as his late chief. Opinion Is growing In the capital that the government is "reconverting" "reconvert-ing" too rapidly and that the force of speed without direction will have harmful results. Except for a few generalized thrusts, the White House has shown no disposition "to come to grips with the wage-price dilemma, hasn't attempted at-tempted to develop a comprehensive program to eliminate the element of chance, and, in the opinion of critical crit-ical congressmen, is simply trusting that things somehow will work out all right in the end if left to their own devices. There is a striking example of the haphazard system which has been followed, and that is the retention of OPA while permitting the National Na-tional War Labor board to go virtually vir-tually out of existence. WLB exercised exer-cised a fair degree of control over wage and salary levels, and with wages the largest single item of production costs, there is today no agency effectively operating in that field. Both management and labor agree the President's radioed speech on the subject clarified almost al-most nothing. The result has been to cut the ground from beneath OPA in its efforts to maintain price ceilings. Another example is the War Production Pro-duction board, which was permitted to go out of existence on Novem ber 3. Odds and ends fell to the newly created Civilian Production administration, but there is today no raw materials allocation plan and efforts are being made to create out of export licensing a means by which domestic industry might have its needs fulfilled. The theory is that refusal of export licenses for needed civilian materials will back those commodities onto the market here. But its effort upon restoration restora-tion of foreign trade is making congress con-gress unhappy. There still are agencies in Washington Wash-ington "winding up" the business of World War I, and it seems entirely possible that history will repeat after aft-er World War II is officially over That day will be fixed by President Truman unless he tarries too long and congress steps in to do the job Dissolution of the Office of War In formation may supply an insight into what happens when bureaus which came into existence since Pearl Harbor cease to exist. Ex! cept for changes In the top position. ana aiscarding of the domestic nartCohfhhiCh alWay' W" nor part of the operation, OWI seems to be a very live corpse. Blanketed into the state depart mentmay be upwards of 5.M0O& payrollers. They will continue and expand, a worldwide plan of in? mation dedicated to the purpose cation of the United E. PUM'" ment manual. Closing mestic branch actu.il, d-er d-er than 200 jobs in Washing W' Larger, actually, Zl rS eign branch will be the W 3 fr-al fr-al office of the state ri informaon-it informaon-it will include also ,vfParent' for tions secOon of me PUbUc ordinator of Inter Am " of c" which beams n rmee"Ciat 8ffairs' south of the Rio GrVnrt P0ints heretofore functioned toV Which of OWI. ed ependently |