The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-03

G~SV" Co WorK WlCn con- gress instead of against 1t.
 Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown gave the tipoff on this when he announced there would be no more rationing programs unless they were first approved by Congress. Since that time, OPA has reorganiz- ed with Q new general manager in the person of Chester BowleS, and the more obnoxious of the profess sors who were at the heads of OPA departments have been replaced by business men.
 Judge Marvin Jones, named War Food Administrator at the end of June after Congress had cracked down on subsidies, has been play ing his cards pretty close to his vest since that time. His department, however, is known to have been whipping the fly all over the pond, casting for a formula on food pro- gram that would be satisfactory to Congress. Up to Seept. 1, Jones still had announced no clear-cut pro- gram for getting increased pro- duction without having to increase prices, and he may be waiting for congressional guidance.
 DEW MUST ASK FAVORS
 Presidential reorganization of the Office of Economic Warfare, com- bining the old Board of Economic Warfare with the foreign operations of Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion subsidiaries means that the new OEW must come to Congress with it's cap in its hands, out stretched and asking for money.
 The war manpower situation is in such condition that some form of congressional steering may be neces- sary to clear up the moot questions of draft of fathers, supply of farm labor for the fall harvest, supply of labor to essential war industries and possibly some form of com- pulsory service such as the proposed Austin Wadsworth bill.
 Having kicked the National Re- sources Planning Board in the head, 1t is now incumbent on Con- gress to set up substitute post war planning program of it's own devising. Sen. Walter P. Georges postwar planning committee will get that one.
 There are indications that Con- gress will be given the chance to pass on the proposal for an inter- national relief and rehabilitation program in countries liberated from the Axis. Originally, 1t was intimat- ed that this set-up would be man. aged by executive agreement, by passing Congress.
 The extent to which the United States will participate in interna- tional collaboration at the wars end will also come up for settlement by Congress. Ordinarily, this might be a matter of foreign policy deter imitation left to the State Depart ment and the President, but the Ball Burton Hatch-Hill proposal which these four senators have been beating the bushes for during the recess, and a half-dozen or more similar resolution indicate the for nation by Congress of some kind of United Nations machinery to deal with political and, economic prob- lems.
 CONGRESS GETS ITS CHANCE Now all such situations point up the fact that this coming session gives Congress the biggest oppor- tunity it has ever had to be of some constructive use.
 The first session of the 78th Con- gresS was pretty largely destructive and negative in its performance. It dilly-dallied with every war issue and gained the reputation among many top officials in the adminis- trative agencies of being the worst Congress the country ever had. Con- gross gave nearly every one of the executive administrative agencies of the government unshirted con- demnation. wiped the slate clean and then went home to see what the folks thought about things.
 The second session of the 78th Congress therefore provides a test. It isn't just test of whether the country gets a good administration of it's war activities. There's a bigger test than that. It's whether the representative form of govern ment with officers chosen by the voters can rise in an emergency to govern wisely and well. The ques- ton is whether the present Congress will meet this challenge or nun