Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24

A National Economic Council is
now in incubation at the White
House, according to seemingly vera
cious reports. 1t is proposed to put
this new board of strategy in supreme
command Ito maintain balanced con-
troll of all the new deal divisions and
agencies in a fresh attempt to CO.
ordinate them and synchronize their
efforts to restore the Nation to
economic health. The Executive
Council-the so-called "super-cabi-
net"-comprising members of the
cabinet plus the titular heads OF the
principal independent bureaus, was
announced last Summer. Later on
the National Emergency Council, of
similar but not identical makeup,
appeared on the scene. The latter
maintains branch Offices in most of
the States, but except for its sub
sidiary, the U. S. I. S. UNITED States
Information Service, the Emergency
Council has never cut any large fig
ure in the administration picture.
Presumably, the National Economic
Council will represent the final evolu
ton of the Executive Council and the
Emergency Council. To find some eff
fective means to overcome the con-
coded lack of coherency in the opera
ton of the myriad executive boards,
bureaus and committees which now
dot the Washington landscape is
quite obviously one of the Presidents
most perplexing problems of the
present hour.
John Jacob Thomas, Federal Re
serve Board member, now vice COVER
nor of the board and its acting head
pending the filling of the existing va
cancy there, halls from Nebraska. He
is IS years old and was appointed to
the Federal Reserve Board by Presi-
dent Roosevelt last year. A lawyer by
profession and one-time president of
the Nebraska State Bar Association,
he is of esthetic appearance and a
devotee of painting, music and flowers.
He is not to be confused with John
Charles Thomas, world-famous Ameri-
can baritone, nor with John Thomas
of Kansas, who was in the United
States Senate briefly two years ago.
Nor is he to be confused with the
Thomases now in the Senate, Ebert
D. of Utah and Elmer of Oklahoma.
The Federal Reserve Board Thomas
has announced that he sees eye to
eye with the President and with Sec
rotary Morgenthau with respect to
monetary and fiscal policies.
The Irish Free State continues to
await the arrival of new envoy
from the United States to fill our
diplomatic post now vacant at Dub
lin, Mrs. j. Borden Hartman and
Mrs. Mary Hartman Rumsey, Demo-
cratic socialites whose names have
been conspicuously mentioned as pos
sible recipients of this diplomatic
honor, continue to attend to their
own knitting. Both Of these charm
ing ladies are ever active in public
affairs. Mr.. Roosevelt is taking his
own time, and plenty of time, in
making an appointment to the Irish
Free State. The only other foreign
post of consequence in the United
States diplomatic service now vacant
is Minister to Uruguay.
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The T. v. AS model town at Nor
ris, Tenn, is nearing completion, and
last week this new community ac-
quired a distinguished citizen in the
person of DR.. Arthur E. Morgan, T.
v. AS board chairman, who has
taken up his permanent residence
there. A fast official T. v. A. air.
plane transports DR.. Morgan up and
down the Tennessee Valley and back
and forth to Washington. as circum-
stances require. Demand for the
model homes and community gardens
at Norris from the army Of workers