The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-01

wield swift broom and house. clean the dusty, sleepy Commerce agency.
 Several weeks have passed and the impression has got around that Wallace has done little to revi- talize the department. Instead of indulging in wholesale firings however, Wallace proceeded on the premise that there might be a lot of good, suppressed talent in- side the agency. He began careful manhunt to see what phy- Sical resources he inherited from Jesse JoneSe.
 What Wallace found was amaz- ing. He discovered that beneath the top crust of weary, over-aged personnel was a group of cour- ageous, energetic. younger men, who had never had chance to show their stuff during Jones ad- ministration. Wallace promoted them, and is now beginning to surround himself with some first class people.
 One sample is the Civil Aero nautics Administration, which Wallace 1las completely re- vamped and turned into live wire public service outfit, geared for expanding postwar aviation.
 Wallace is doing the same thing throughout the department. A dozen experts nave been at work for more than two months on a complete reorganization of the agency which he will submit to congress after the recess. Wallace knows he is in for tough sledding with the Truman administration and with Congress, but he Is plugging ahead.
 Inside fact is that if Wallace doesn't get the support he has been promised by Truman, he will join the ranks of the ex- Roosevelt cabinet members by becoming an ex-Truman cabi- net member in hurry.
 SAN FRANCISCO: DREAM CITY
 o lot of people crowding the hotels of San Francisco during the United Nations conference wondered why Roosevelt, Church ill, and Stalin picked that city for the barley. So did a lot of people in San Francisco. Here is the reason why. It was the result of superstition plus dream.
 In the late summer of 1943, Ed Stettinius happened to be in San Francisco when Cordell Hull phoned to say that he had been picked to take Summer Welles's place as Undersecretary of State. So San Francisco, to Stettinius, has always been lucky.
 Then one night during the Yalta Conference, Stettinius had a dream about the San Francisco phone call from Hull. Before going to bed Churchill. Roosevelt. and Stalin had been talking about the meeting place for the United Nations Confer ence. When Stettinius woke up next morning, he thought again of San Francisco.
 At breakfast, he suggested the idea to Roosevelt, who agreed that San Francisco was a nat ural. Later Churchill agreed. so did Stain. And that was why the people of San Fran cisco had to be subjected to having several thousand extra persons jammed into their al- ready crowded city.
 NOTE Rival Los Angelans claimed: Nobody ever heard of Yalta either. until they held . conference there.r
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 A lot of Senators are now talk ing about the importance of scientific research for war pre- paredneG, but it took Wiscon- sins farslghted Senator Alexan- der wiley to emphasize this back even before Pearl HaFbor. Speak. ing in Milwaukee on June c, io4i. Wiley said: we need . great defense laboratory involving the Navy, the War Department. and ihe State Department. nt isn'l enough lor ahiB Administration to write onr e9Iense rieas In the aAIIIlaR 1as8a e{ 4n&r le.Naz ex- ze i&1tE4 #z <MENM |&EszE .I