Arkansas State press., 1945-10-12
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wand(e's Job Program
Packs Political TINT
Reorganization Of Commerce Department
First Step Forward in Formulation
OF Full Employment Policy.
BY BAUKHAGE
News Anaiyst and Commentator.

BY BAL
New, Anaiysi a
HNu Service. 1915 Eye Street. NV.
Washington. d. G.
Ths recent operating and e.
vanization program for the depart
neat sf commerce created very lit
10 excitement in Washington or else.
whsrs when II was released. I think
made page IS Of the New York
Times. The Times gave much more
prominence recently to another doc.
lment from the pen Of Henry Agard
Wallace-his new book. Sixty Mil
ION Jobs" Of which ! shall speak
inter-.
Congress may slumber on the re-
organization report for yet . little.
but when Washington wakes to the
real significance Of this 10-page.
nimeographed document II will And
between the lines much upon which
10 ponder. Maybe that 10 why It
was double-spaced)
To me. this Is . three-in-one in
strument-just az its author. Henry
wallace, revealed himself a. 4
Mreesin-one personality when I
rallied on him just before the pub
hcatisn Of his program, his flrst ap-
preach TO the governmental lime
Night since the change In admins
6atisn.
The report on what MIR. Wallace
IN his capacity as secretary Of COM
nerce hopes will mean the revitaliz-
hg and expanding Of his depart
nent emissions the metamorphosis
q that somewhat turgid and impo-
tent institution into a vigorous and
human organization which will reach
cut and touch millions Of individuals
lust q the governments most virile
department, agriculture, does. Sec
rotary Wallace said frankly at his
press conference and also in more
detail privately to me, that he
thought that the department Of COM
snerce should do for the business
man, big and little. what the de-
pertinent Of agriculture does for the
farmer, big and little. And 1t will II
be has his way,
tlcfiUs Department
ec5stary's Goal
Wipe Out Of your mind. II you will,
that one-timc problem child Of the
New Deal. the agricultural adjust
ment administration. Now weigh
the testimony Of observers. includ-
ing anti-Wallaceites, and I think you
win learn that as secretary Of agri-
culture. the author Of Sixty Mil
lion Jobs" did good Job in re-
vitalizins his department.
How much II will cost to do as
much for commerce, we couldn't get
him to estimate, but he finally told
Us that 1t would be less than one
sixth Of the cost of one days war
ut We Day. By q series Of calcula-
Mons we arrived at the figure Of 40
million dollars. Since the commerce
department spent about l2l million
dol1ars last year, Mr., Wallaces
changes would make total cost for
his revitalized department Of 16l
million dollars.
Those who cry economy will
shudder at that figure but they will
hear this answer: II business, big
and little. wants help similar to that
which agriculture demands and gets
It will cost something. The depart
ment of agriculture cost approx
nately 1859 million dollars to run last
year, and the farmers wouldn't
want It to do less.
There will also be another explain
atisn Of the figures which will at
tempt to show that part Of the ex-
pansion Of the reorganized depart
ment Is really contrac tion. and that
brings us to the second integer OF
the three-in-cne composition of Mr..
Wallace's plan. The plan Is more
than a blueprint for changes In a
single governmental institution. 1t
is definitely part OF President Tru-
mans reorganization plan which 1t
Is fair to assume would bring back
under the commerce rooftree the
horde of agencies and commissions
which have to do with industry and
business.
And now we come to part three Of
the tri-partible function Of the Wal
lace program. 1t is by his own
implication, a part Of his recipe for
full employment included in his
book, Sixty Million Jobs" and men,
ton Of that brings me to an ex-
animation Of Mr.. Wallace himself.
I said that like the program Of re-
organization for his department Mr..
Wallace seemed tripartitent to me.
When ! called upon him. he came
down the great cavernous room
which Herbert Hoover planned for
his successor and we sat IN chairs
about little table that made hos