Evening star., 1933-07-30
TEN US. AGENCIES CREATED
TO CARRY OUT ~NEW DEAL''
Recovery Administration Presents Most
Conspicuous Example Of Expert
mental Nature of Program.

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it expedient to center this power where
it is.
The effect of that action has been,
from an organization standpoint. to
clarity the lines at the top of this ad-
ministration. Secretary Wallace is d.
rectly its head, though responsible as q
cabinet member to the President. Un-
der him are George N. Peek, admin
istrator, and Charles j. Brand, coad-
ministrator of the agricultural adjust
ment act.
Through them the power flows out
to group of divisions, headed by d.
rectors of production, processing and
marketing, finance. trade agreements,
economics and statistics, information
and publicity, and including also a
legal division and a controllers office.
The duties of the directors are dis
tributed through chiefs of sections set
up, thus far, to deal with dairy, wheat,
cotton, hogs and corn. special crops and
tobacco problems in the different cate
gories. These sections are still in
process of expansion.
The Emergency Public Works Ad-
ministration, charged with the distri-
button Of $4,000, 100000 of Federal
funds to create jobs as a means of re-
lieving unemployment and lifting pur-
chasing power through the financing
OF Federal, State. county, municipal
and semi-public self-hquidating prof.
ects, is less clearly outlined in the
lower branches of its organization than
either of the other two major recovery
agencies. At the top, however, the
problem has been simplified by max
ing Harold L. Ickes. Secretary Of the
| Interior, not only chairman of the
Emergency Public Works Board, SINH
lar in organization to the Special In
dustrial Recovery Board. but also
emergency public works administrator.
Waite Has Important Post.
Lieut. Col Henry M. Waite, retired,
as deputy administrator, is in command
directly under Secretary Administrator
Ickes. A legal division, engineering
division. housing division and a long
range planning board have been estab-
lished and finance division is contem-
plated Under the divisions, according
to plans still in the formative stage, will
be a group of regional administrators,
and under them a system of State ad-
ministrations.
The organization through which
Joseph B. Eastman, Federal co-ordina-
| tor of transportation, will undertake
his huge task of trying to simplify. re-
adjust and reduce the costs of the Ma
tion's transportation systems, and par
| ticularly to rehabilitate the railroads
and cut their expenses without arbi-
trarily reducing the number or earnings
of their employees, has begun to take
| clear-cut form only within the last
three weeks. The railroad activities
have been charted
They will center in three regional CO.
ordinating committees, composed OF
executives of the carriers in the East
West and South. fanking the co-ordi-
nator Urder him will be sections on
| freight service, passenger service, pur-
| chaseS and car pooling although the
| freight and passenger service responsi-
bilities may be combined. They will
operate through Eastern, Western and
| Southern regional directors, each with a
traffic assistant Executive, legal and
research divisions also have begun to
take form.
Agricultural Credit Agencies.
The Agricultural Credit Administra-
| ton, under which all that remain of the
| farm credit agencies have been grouped
together with responsibility for the
| S2,000,000 farm mortgage reflnancing
program and the $200,000,000 emer-
gency farm mortgage relief plan, IS also
in an early formative stage Of organiZa.
ton. Under Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
governor, are three deputy governors, a
general counsel, administrative and pub
licity officers. Under this tier of au-
thority, the power is spread out among
cooperative loan commissioner, a
| land bank commissioner, with an agent
as assistant in charge of the emergency
mortgage relief activities; an interme-
diate credit commissioner a production
credit commissioner and an emergency
credit commissioner. A regional set-up
along the lines of the land bank dis
tricts is planned.
The chief function of the emergency
recovery program lodged in the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, which also has
jurisdiction over the IL district home
loan banks created during the Hoover
administration, lies in the Home
Owners Loan Corporation, which is to
administer the $4,000, 900 900 fund au-
thorized by Congress for the reflnancing
of distressed mortgages on non-farm
residences valued at $4,000 or less.
Former Representative William F. Ste
venson of South Carolina, as chairman
of the board, is the head Of this cor
poration, which is just beginning to
take form.
Under him are a general manager,
treasurer and two assistant general
managers. It is planned to spread the
responsibilities out among district man
ayers flanked with advisory boards.
thence through State managers with
advisory boards, and on to county
agents, each to be aided by an appraiser
and an attorney. The organization is
expected eventually to employ 5000 to
10000 persons. not counting the ad-
visory groups.
The Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration, with 00,000,0 900 at its
disposal, half for grants and half for
loans to States for unemployment re-
lief, Is q relatively simple unit in the
general scheme. Headed by Harry L.
Hopkins, as administrator, the respon-
| sibility flows down through Langdon
Post, associate director, and six field
agents. The ultimate administration
of the funds is being reorganized through
the creation Of official relief administra-
tlons in each State, which will be
formally responsible to the Federal ad-
miniStration.
Now that the 00,0oo direct bene-
ficiaries of the Civilian Conservation
placed in forest camps, that organiza-
tion likewise has been considerably
simplifed. Robert Fechner, the di-
rector, has an executive and an ad-
ministrative assistant. Since the opera
ton of the agency,s plan to mobilize
unemployed youth In forest conserva-
tion work Is carried out through
agencies of the War. Labor, Agricul-
tural and Interior Departments, Mr.
Fechner Is assisted by an advisory coun-
Gil made up Of representative of the
ice
The Tennessee Valley Authority. which