Evening star., 1953-04-05
Myriad of Details Faces FSA
In Ch0ngeoyer to Department

health assistance, aid for the
blind.
This is the conglomeration
which will be streamlined start
ing Saturday. The immediate
effects will be obvious. The long
range effects will be more subtle,
developing as time passes and
the administration becomes more
deeply entrenched in a depart
ment in which Mrs. Hobby has
remarked that she was virtual
stranger surrounded by hold
over Democrats.
Condition To Change.
This latter condition. in par
ticular. will change.
For the present, the shift will
be noted by the public in such
items as the following:
The new name-plate on the
door at Third and Independence,
the new municipalities on the
doors Of some 800 regional Offices
throughout the United States
and its possessions.
The new department seal and
department flag.
The fact that 215 Food and
Drug Administration field in
spectors will have to be issued
new badges and credentials.
The way Mrs. Hobby will be
addressed (she leans toward the
Madame Secretary" favored by
her Cabinet predecessor, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Secretary Of
Labor Frances Perkins.)
The fact that the general
counsel's Office will have to
change the names of the parties
in legal actions in which the
agency is presently engaged,
changing Federal Security
Agency" to Department Of
Health, Education and Welfare. :"
and changing "the Administra-
tor" to 1.-The Secretary" wherever
necessary
The fact that all stationery,
letterheads and administrative
forms will have to be over
printed or hand-stamped to SUBJ
stitute the name of the depart
ment for the agency.
The painting Of new labels
on the sides of all official de-
partment cars.
Doors To be Relettered.
The relettering of Office doors,
directional signs and placards.
The reordering of publications
(only, officials emphasize, after
all present stocks have been
exhaustedD so that they will
bear the departments name.
The reprinting of all certifi-
Gates of accomplishment and
granting of licenses in biologics.
which are issued by the Public
Health Service.
The creation of a new under
secretary and two assistant sec
retaries, followed by what sources
close to Mrs. Hobby describe
as "the rewriting of all present
delegations Of authority"
It is this last which has the
greatest real significance, not
only for the flock Of bureaus and
agencies concentrated at Third
and independence but for the
Eisenhower administration and
the country as a whole.
Mrs. HObby's Power Expanded.
Mrs. Hobby. who complained
at first that she could not re-
move a single one of her major
subordinates, will now find her
self in a position to fire and re-
place them as she pleases. In
legal terms, the new department
starts from scratch. Functions
may be co-ordinated, reassigned,
wiped out altogether. Admini-
strative officials who have served
for 20 years may find themselves
unemployed.
Only one, DR.. Leonard A.
Scheele. the Surgeon General,
has legal job-security under the
new setup: he is serving on a
term appointment which runs
to May, 1856. Others, such as
Commissioner Charles w. Craw-
ford of the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration and DR.. Earl j. Nc
Grath, commissioner of the Of
flee of Education, face possible
dismissal.
On April II a new philosophy
of government will have free rein
to make its wishes felt-a phi
losophy perhaps best symbolized
in the reasons why the admin