Evening star., 1933-07-30
By COLEMAN B. JONES.


he has set up to put into effect the
vast powers conferred upon him by
Congress.
These powers extend to an unmeas-
Ired degree over industry, agriculture,
transportation, finance and the gov
ernment ITSELF About the only major
grant of power among the many he
holds which the President has not be-
gun to eXercise-unless abandonment
of the gold standard Is put into this
category-is that for imitation of the
currency. He will need no special
agency to WELD that power if he de-
cides to use it. The Treasury, the
banking systems, the mint and the
printing presses are already at his dis
posal If he wishes to employ them for
that purpose.
To strive for the objectives he seeks
through exercise of the other powers
he possesses-the restoration of en-
ployment, the lifting of mass purchas-
ing power, the raising of price levels
to relieve the debt burden and the more
even distribution of the proceeds of
industry-he has created 10 agencies,
and q Super-agency to coordinate their
activities and minimize their conflicts.
List Of Agencies.
These agencies are:
The National Industrial Recovery
Administration.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration.
The Emergency Public Works Ad-
ministration.
The office Of Federal Co-ordinator
of Transportation.
The Federal Farm Credit Admin
istration.
The Home Owners Loan Corpora
tion, under the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board.
The Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration.
The Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Tennessee Valley Authority.
The reorgapized Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation.
Over all of these he has set up the
National Industrial Recovery EXecu-
tive Council, comprising the 10 men,
bers of his cabinet, the director of the
budget and the heads of each of the
recovery agencies, with Frank C.
Walker, treasurer of the Democratic
tive secretary, and by reason of that
position chief co-ordinator under the
President.
Fer the next five weeks at least, be-
cause of the campaign launched last
week to induce every employer in the
country to sign the Presidents re-
employment agreement" to raise wages
and spread employment by reducing
hours of work the Industrial Recovery
Administration will be the most con-
spicuous and powerful of all of the re-
; covery agencies, even in the less
1ndustrialized, more sparsely populated
y%ofa oil
3 nation of its structure, the most con-
spicuous example of the experimental
nature of the administration whole
program.
Still in Formative Stage. =
Extremely active since the first day
1t became legal actuality in carry
ing out its mission to increase employ
ment and mass purchasing power
through codes of fair competition for
each industry, and already embarked
on its most revolutionary effort to
bring all employers under temporary
arrangement for establishing minimum
wages and maximum hours of work,
it is still in process of being organized.
The main outlines of the OrganlZa-
ton of this tremendously powerful
agency have, of course, become fairly
we'll defined, although they were not
very clear until some time after it had
gone vigorously into action. As they
stand today, these outlines, subject as
always in the emergency recovery ad-
ministration to Imheralded revision,
are focused in a Special Industrial Re-
covery Board and Gen. Hugh S. john
son (retired, wartime draft organizer,
as administrator.
The board is headed by Daniel C.
tnrx nf
includes the heads of the Departments
of Justice, Agriculture and Labor with
the assistant secretaries of those de-
partments, Lewis W. Douglas, director
Of the budget, who virtually has cabinet
rank in this administration: the head
of the Federal Trade Commission, with
powers greatly enhanced by the last
session of Congress; Gen. johnson and
his personal assistant, Robert K. Straus.
Boards Status in Doubt.
Doubt persists as to whether the
board is over Gen. Johnson or merely
advisory to him. The administrator
derives his power direct from the
of the board. One day the indications
point one way; the next day they point
the other. With standards of value
based on long standing rules of prece-
dence governing its traditional attitude
despite the fact that traditional at
titudes have been shuffled out Of the
deck in the new deal'-Washingto
is inclined, but none too confidently, to
put the board, with its cabinet lead
ership, on top.
Below that nebulous area at the top.
however, the lines Of organization IN
the Industrial Recovery Administration
,Ian4
Gen. johnson is flanked by two per-
sonal assistants and three advisory
boards representing the viewpoints OF
labor, industry and the consumer. Di-
rectly under him to distribute his load
are a publicity division, its Importance
greatly increased by its paramount re-
sporsibility for the campaign to bring
all employers under the terms of the
presidents Unemployment Agree
ment'' until they come under codes OF
fair competition: a legal division, an
administrative division, research dlVl-
sion and a still indefinite number OF
deputy administrators chosen because
of special qualifications to act for the
administrator in dealing with certain
industries or groups of industries. Each
of the deputies, in turn, IS fanked py
three advisers representing LABOR, IN
dustry and the consumer.
Organization of the Agricultural Ad-
+ justment Administration, which. has
s been in existence longer, naturally has
B become more definitely advanced than
that of the Industrial Recovery Admin
istration. The latter takes precedence
in importance and the scope OF Its
power over the ways of life OF every
man, woman and child only because the
United States has become q FREEDOM
inantly industrial instead Of an agri-
cultural Nation.
In this administration much Of the
power is lodged directly by law IN
Henry A. Wallace as Secretary of Agri-
culture. The fact that the flow Of this
power was so directed. instead Of being
1 routed through the Office of President
is variously explained. one line Ct gossip