The midland journal., 1945-03-30
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FEDERAL AGENCIES SHIFTS
FAIL TO SUPPLY NEW BLOOD
By PAUL k1ALLoN =


WASHINGTON. = Mr.. Roosevelt's
reorganization for the coming fourth
(?) new deal has developed into
mere shift of name plates on office
doors.
Not a single fresh figure has been
brought in. Only one of the long
familiar faces has disappeared =
the mobile countenance Of the
Banker Jesse Jones (now reported
in the market for a Washington or
other newspaper in which to express
his ideals and wounded feelings.)
The unannounced part of the
shakeup has definitely brought the
Tammany-schooled ward boss Ed
ward Joseph Flynn to the Presi-
dents right hand in place of Harry
Hopkins. After the Malta Yalta-
Livadia confab, Hopkins went back
to the hospital and Flynn went to
Moscow for more detailed negoti-
ations with the Russians in the name
of the President.
Flynn was only an assembly,
man, sheriff and city chamber
lain around New York before
Mr.. Roosevelt, while governor,
appointed him state secretary Of
state, and eventually raised him
to chairman of the Democratic
national committee for the third
term election.
Now apparently he is to handle
both international diplomatic and
domestic matters, taking the load
which rested too heavily on the
ailing Hopkins. He will bear it with
more of a political and less of
social lift. The change represents
the substitution of consummate
politician for a social worker.
The announced part of the shifts
bear less significant meanings, aside
from the striking disclosure that
Mr.. Roosevelt has not wanted any
fresh blood or new ideas in his
fourth administration. Otherwise the
changes suggest only that labor and
the leftwing have improved their
position at the inner council table.
Fred Vinson, in the place of Jesse
Jones, is a man who knows Wash
ington ropes, and he will pull tfem
adeptly. The $4O,000,0 100000 mort
gage empire built by Jones will be
quietly administered.
Economic stabilization will be
i'm the hands of patent attorney
who has made a career of CO.
ordination and labor c0ncili-
alton, william Fl. Davis.
The union chiefs were glad to get
rid of Vinson. In RFC he cannot
block their wage increase plans.
They think Davis will follow the
same conciliatory labor course as
stabilizer he followed in the War
Labor board.
Will Always Follow FDR.
AS matter of fact, he will do
whatever Mr.. Roosevelt wants. He
will up, down or hold as orders come
from the White house, for he is es-
sentially a Roosevelt man.
He has lately acquired some poll
tical finesse, is regarded in the
inner circle as brilliant" and is
ambitious. His name will become
better known.
In his old place at the head of the
War Labor board, DR.. George w.
Taylor, a young college professor,
(labor, economics, etc. will follow
the established Davis s-Roosevelt line.
He generally voted with Davis, who
invariably followed the Presidents
purposes.
All these moves were recon-
mended to the President by the gen.
eralissimo of domestic affairs,
James F. Byrnes. He got Speaker
Rayburn, Vice President Truman
and the other inner circumlocution-
lists together on them, which means
his prestige and wishes will be
higher from these appointments.
Byrnes As Domestic Chief.
Indeed, it has not been announced,
but Byrnes has received carte
blanche on domestic affairs from
the President.
From these changes I would
expect more politics and labor in
coming decisions, and nothing much
new. Definitely think it means no
job will be done on reconversion to
peace comparable to the initial war
production job in which new busi-
ness leadership was brought in
wholesale.
Everything is to be in the hands
of the old-timers, the tried Roose-
welt friends who will no doubt fol-
low the line they have been favor
ing. 81
What the coming of Wallace to
the stripped commerce department
win mean, few will guess until they
can see what he does with it. He is
supposed to be angling to get con-
troll of the federal trade commission
(now conducting investigations Of
bigness in business).
In his first move he appointed peo-
pie who really knew something
about small business to investigate
that subject, but so many COM
missions have been started by the
government on small business with
out results, little enthusiasm attends
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