Evening star., 1933-07-12

10 panlSn the cOuntryS growing rear
that emergency and recovery agencies
are in danger of tripping over one an
other at Washington-and to let the
right hand know exactly what the left
is doing, all the time-is the underly-
ing purpose of President Roosevelt S
Super-Recovery Co-ordinating Council,
which on Tuesdays henceforward is to
replace the cabinet meeting, or. rather,
to absorb it. In effect. if not de facto.
there is thus revived the wartime
United States Council of National De-
fense. If the new White House set-up
had a constitution and bylaws. their
preamble could we'll be taken from the
act of August 20, 1916. in which the
Defense Councils duties, among other
things, were defined as coordination
of industries and resources for the ma
tiohal security and welfare" and 'the
creation of relations which will render
possible in time of need the immediate
concentration and utilization of the re-
sources of the Nation"
If depression is war. as President
Roosevelt and, before him, President
between the need of Council of Ma
tional Defense in 1917-18 and in 1888
is complete Beyond a doubt, F. D. r.
has had no happier inspiration for the
emergency than the Super-Recovery
Council. The creation of such body
was frequently urged upon Herbert
Hoover. Howard E. Coffin of Georgia,
member of the advisory board OF the
wartime council, and persistently ad-
vocated its Reconstruction as an anti
depression and business-rehabilita
recourse. The naming of an executive
secretary, Frank C. Walker, as a CO.
ordinator of cabinet and recovery -agen-
cies' activities is considered a partlcu-
larly wise device. Walker is crony OF
Postmaster General Jim Farley and was
one OF his closest campaign lieutenants
in 1882. He had charge OF the Demo-
cratic war chest.
Washington politicians are keenly in
terested in the approaching conferences
which Herbert Hoover is planning to
hold in California with Eastern Repub-
lican leaders and former administration
associates. That the immediate future
of the G. o. P. is the object of the i'm
pending confabS is an open secret. In
addition to Senator David A. Reed OF
PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Hoover will be visited
by former Postmaster General Walter
F. Brown, the late administrations po-
litical generaliSsimo, and Lawrence
Richey, the Presidents personal and
confidential representative in Washing
ton at present. Other Republican
Hooverites are expected to be seeing the
Chief" either at the famous "Jlnks'
of the San Francisco Olympic Club,
where he will be their host this month,
or later in the year. 1t is even possible
that National Chairman Everett San
ders, now conducting regional confer
ences" in the West, may eventually
reach California for heart-to-neart
Capitalization with the titular leader OF
the Republican party. Some there are
who think Mr.. Hoover harbors an am,
bition to emulate Grover Cleveland ana
try. for the Presidency again. after de-
feat for reelection, in 1936-partlcu-
larly If the New Deal should turn OUT
to be a misdeal. Meantime, the average
Republican thinks mainly in terms OF
Wadsworth. Mills. Reed, Smell. McNary.
Vandenberg, Hurley, MacNider or
some other white hope for the contest
three years hence.
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Another Woodrow Wilson man prances
into the Roosevelt picture in the person
of Frederic c. Howe, just appointed
Consumers Counsel in the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration, with
the special job of fighting profiteering
in food. While Mr. Wilson was presi-
dent of Princeton he sought to induce
Howe to become a professor there, but
the latter persuaded Wilson to name
his Cleveland law partner, Harry A.
Garfield, now president of Williams Col
lege, in his stead. Howe practiced law
in q firm which included both Harry
A., and James r. Garfield. After Will
son became President Of the United
states he appointed Howe commissioner
of Immigration at New York. II
gave rise to the impression that Howe
was q radical, which he has never been
though an advanced liberal and progress