The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14

tive departments of the government.
 1. The Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, OFRRO, under Governor Herbert Lehman of New York is set up in the Department of State.
 9 The office of the Petroleum Administrator for War, PAW, is set up under Secretary Harold Ickes in the Department of the Interior. 3. Control over food production and distribution, instead of being set up as a separate food administra- tion, is given to Secretary of Agri- culture Claude R. Wickard
 4. Problems of military ad- ministration of foreign lands occu- pied by U. s. troops are given to a new Office of Foreign Territories, OFT, likewise set up within the De- partment of State, under Paul Ap- pleby, former under-secretary of ag- riculture. ALL THIS, AND MONEY, TOO A fifth indication of this trend toward stronger cabinet control might be listed in the current Sen- ate move to place funds expended by the Board of Economic Warfare under more strict control of Secre- tary of Commerce Jesse Jones.
 The exception is, of course, the new order on manpower, trans ferring control over Selective Service to the War Manpower Commission under Paul V. Mo Mutt. WING is left within the or ganization framework of the office of Emergency Management, the big overall war agency hold ing company. But the original plan was to put manpower control in the Department of Labor. All this shuffling around Of government agencies may look like nothing more than a lot of reframing of old familiar faces. But if it has any significance at all. 1t is that a lot of these war jobs which were originally con- sidered temporary are now being sized up as jobs that will have to be carried over into the post-war period, and therefore they are being assigned to the established executive agencies of the govern mert
 SMILED AND FRoWNED ON
 This idea of centering more war powers in the cabinet is being talk ed of in Washington now as suc- cessor or as g. development of the theory that there should be one supreme boss of all the war pro- gram, and that all the war agencies should be transferred to this direc- | tor. In Congress, this idea has jelled in the form of the proposed War Mobilizat' on bill, sponsored originally by Congressman John To- Ian of California and taken up by Senators Truman. Pepper kllgore and others. Hearings on this legis- lation are now being held before Senator Claude Peppers sub-com- mittee on Education and Labor.
 The idea of having supreme di. rector of war mobilization stems from the old Barney Baruch pro posals based on experience in the last war. Thus far, the reaction to the Congressional Office of War Mo- bilization plan has been all favor- able. But 1t is known that the idea is drowned on by top men in the present War Production Board, who feel that any general reshuffling of war agencies might be too much of mid stream horse swapping at this time. The War Department is also known to oppose the Tolan War Mo- bilization plan, and has had in prep aration for some days a formal statement giving its arguments against the legislation.
 The idea of building up strong CT war cabinet is therefore being looked on as something of substi- ute for the Tolan plan.