The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-01-04

Washington, ID. C.
Sufficient time has elapsed since
President Truman went into the
White House to warrant a year-end
inventory of his reconstructed fed
eral setup, and the result adds UP
to many changes In personalities,
but little switch of fundamental poll
cies.
In its numerical aspect, the
changes wrought by the President
suggest more of a shakeup than
actually has taken place, for there
still are many intimates of FDR
in high positions, some Of them pro-
NOTED by Mr.. Truman.
James F. Byrnes, secretary Of
state and top man In the Truman
cabinet, was lifted out of the rela-
tive obscurity of career senator"
from the southland by Mr.. Roose-
welt. He came within reach of his
present eminence under the guild
ance Of the late President, who APP
pointed him to the United States
Supreme court, made him war mo-
bilizer and economic stabilizer, and
took him to International confer
ences which built him to the point
where he was natural for the
state portfolio when Edward r. Stet-
tinius Jr. was moved out by polit-
ical party considerations. Byrnes
was schooled in the Roosevelt ways
and he continues along those paths.
Henry Morgenthau probably would
have remained as secretary Of
treasury had the President w,io ap-
pointed him lived on. But while he
was more personal friend, he
was less political associate of Mr..
Roosevelt than was Fred Vinson,
the present secretary. And again,
it was FDR who brought Vinson to
the forefront-made him a federal
judge, then took him into the White
House to share Byrnes' multiple
functions and burdens. He had little
more than passing acquaintance
with Truman and his present post
was promotion for a Roosevelt
man."
Robert E. Hannegan, postmaster
general, was slated for that Office
before Mr.. Roosevelt passed away.
It is political custom to award that
plum to the winning party's national
committee chairman, whether the
Democrats or the Republicans win.
Robert Patterson, secretary Of
war, came in during the Roosevelt
administration as assistant to Henry
L. Stimson, creating team of Re-
publicans in the top spots of the de-
partment. He was advanced by
President Truman when Mr.. Slim
son retired, although there were
strong representations made to the
White House on behalf of other can
didates, practically all of them
Democrats.
Original Roosevelt cabinet men,
bers retained by Mr.. Truman are
James v. Forrestal in navy, Henry
A. Wallace in commerce, and Har-
old l.. Ickes in interior.
Anderson Took
of Heat on Food
Clinton P. Anderson, the secre-
tary of agriculture, won White
House entree during Roosevelt days
by taking the heat off the admins
tration with a food investigation. La
Dor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellen-
bach has been described as ''more
New Deal than Roosevelt"
Continuing, it was President
Roosevelt who brought Tom C.
Clark, the present attorney general,
into government service, placing
him In line for the advancement
which Mr.. Truman gave him. Paul
v. McNutt, who left recently to be-
come high commissioner in the Phil
ippine islands, was originally a
Roosevelt appointee.
Even in the intimate surroundings
of the. White House will be found
several hold-overs," notably schol-
arly William D. Hassett, presiden-
tial secretary whose typewriter has
turned out many of the lyrical
speeches delivered by the late Pres
ident, and whose skill can be detect
ed by Washington newsmen in Mr..
Truman's more formal addresses.
J. A. Krug remained at the head
Of the War Production board until
1t went out Of existence, although
the new President was often critical
of WPB when he was presiding
over the senate committee which
bore his name.
Almost every move made by Mr..
Truman in organizing his official
family had underlying it record
of Roosevelt association. There has
been only one notable discernible