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White House Needs Business Basis
— — - a — -
President of the U. S. Has
Biggest Job in the World
By BAUKHAGE
Nmn Analvnt and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street.N.W.,
Washington. D. C
WASHINGTON, D. C —Once more
I events bring up the so far unan
swered problem,
how can the
White House be
put on a business
basis?
The White
House executive
offices are the
headquarters of
the biggest or
ganization in the
world. The Presi
dent of the Unit
ed States is the
head of this tre
mendous admin
istrative set-up. Baukhage
Few people real
ize the extent of his functions, most
of which aren’t even suggested in
the constitution, and few laws de
fine them. They have grown like
, Topsy.
We are reminded of the scope of
the presidential duties by Willard
Kiplinger In his "Washington Is Like
That” He points out that the Pres
ident as leader of his party runs
the party policies through the na
tional committee. Some times the
party line isn’t working. You re
call the stew over meat? A meet
ing of Democratic party leaders, at
the moment when thi^resident was
preparing to announce at a news
conference that he opposed remov
ing the controls on meat prices,
passed a resolution asking Chair
man Hannegan to confer with ad
ministrative officials concerning the
removal of such controls.
The President, as the top execu
tive. heads the executive set-up and
he appoints the men who run the
executive machinery He can’t talk
to each one every day. When there
is friction a hot-box often develops.
There are plenty of examples in
history from Ickes and Wallace,
back to Lincoln and Seward, and
before.
Chief Executive'$
Task Never Endt
The President issues "executive
orders”—which someone has to
write tor mm but which have Un
force of law — and the President
must see that they are properly in
terpreted. Again there is trouble if
these decrees tread on congression
al prerogatives.
He has to get bills which he fa
vors passed. Frequently he writes
the first drafts of such bills with the
help of his legal advisors. He ts
expected, if necessary, to "put the
heat on" to get them through con
gress This means a lot of work
in conference with congressional
leaders on the phone and through
his personal agents. A tactless
agent can easily upset the apple
cart. Remember how Tommy Cor
coran used to get under the skin of
congress? Many others, well tnten
tioned and otherwise, who came and
went, might be named.
The President has to make up the
budget, with the help of the budget
director. If the director makes mis
takes or asks for too much or too
little, it is the White House that takes
the rap This Involves billions
He appoints the Justices of the Su
preme court and federal judges A
bad choice may be fatal, and yet
one person can’t know the personal
history of every likely candidate In
this sense the President forms the
legal thinking of his era.
He is not only his own and nis
party's but also the nation's chief
publicity man A slip of the tongue
not only can lose an election, but
also could start a war. If war
comes, he has to run It, for the
strategy in the Held is based on
broad objectives decided at home
It was by no means merely mili
tary opinion which decided when
and where the invasion of Europe
took place
These are only a few of the things
a President has to think about. We
have omitted mention of many mi
nor but time-consuming matters
such as whether the architectural
beauty oi tne wnne nouse snail oe
altered with a new wing, or where
some visiting potentate shall sit at
the table All full of dynamite
It was the death of Woodrow Wil
son which brought the presidential
workload to public attention^ He
*died as much from overwork as
from his disappointment over repu
diation of the League of Nations.
Seriuus study of the problem ol fur
nishing a means to lighten the presi
dential burden began shortly there
after. but it was not until 1939 that
a specific plan was drawn up and
submitted to congress. Among oth
er suggestions for various depart
mental reorganizations, the plan
created a presidential staff of "ex
| ecutive assistants.'.'
About all the public knows about
this corps of assistants is that they
are supposed to possess a "passion
for anonymity " The other thing
about them, which isn't usually ad
mitted is that they have never func
tioned properly. That, at least, is
the private opinion of one insider
who has watched them come and go
I
from the beginning. The reason Is
simple: People who expect a deci
sion on an important matter won’t
take it from anyone but the Presi
dent himself.
Must Keep Close
Check on Aides
A pitiful example of the break
down of the White House machinery
was the recent Wallace ruckus.
The President never need have been
placed in the position he was.
It is not a President's job to read
over every document submitted to
him. No head of a business as big
as the government would dream of
trying to do that. But somebody
should have read both the Wallace
memorandum on foreign policy and
the Wallace speech and apprised the
President of what they contained
and implied Whether it is the Pres
ident’s fault that he didn’t have
properly experienced hired help, is
another matter. That his hired
help didn’t function, caused the
damage.
An explanation, if not an excuse,
has been offered in this case The
job of reading over public state
ments of administration mem
bers to see that they didn’t conflict
was handled by the OWI dur ng the
war Before that the v».iite louse
machinery had always taken care
of such matters. That machin
ery had not been again set in mo
tion when OWI ceased to function
The fault was not that the Presi
dent didn’t prevent the Wallace
Byrnes clash, but that he was not
prevent^ from preventing it.
1 can think of only one similar bad
mistake made by President Roose
velt which parallels the Wallace
mix-up and it was due to a similar
but not the same cause. It involved
the highly technical question of the
public debt. An "assistant,” sup
posed to be an expert, furnished the
figures on which the President based
an important public statement. The
eagle-eyed financial writers caught
it. The ’’expert” was called to ac
count; he furnished new figures,
was wrong again and caught again.
The President was forced to make
a second public correction.
The duties ol a President are sim
ply too great for any one man. So
Presidents have always had person
al advisors, some times they were
given an office, some times they
had no official title—like Colonel
House in the Wilson regime. To
day we hear little about presidential
"administrative assistants” but we
hear a great deal about a group of
"advisors” who have failed to func
tion properly in spite o* the fact that
unlike the executive assistants they
lack authority. These advisors are
too "close’’ to the President And
they have been criticized by other
members of the administration for
standing between department heads,
the congressional and party leaders.
They are all old. close, personal
friends of the President. They are
inexperienced in government
Whether President Truman’s little
circle of "cronies" has helped or
hindered nim is beside the question
No one can dispute the fact that
they were chosen because of then
loyalty rather than because of then
experience The question is wheth
er presidential duties, as they exis
today, can be delegated even to a
well-trained, highly capable stafl
They can, is the answer, IF such *
staff is not blocked by higher au
thonties who, from motives of love
hate, politics, religion, tempera
ment, taste or previous condition ol
servitude, use such authority, olh
er than in the public good.
• • •
Telephone calls at the rate of foui
a minute asking answers to radio
quiz questions were reported de
stroying the morale of a Brooklyn
library. From now on the line is
quizzy.
• • •
The President has a new "Sacred
Cow.” The winged ruminanl as it
browses in the Washington airport
puts the other big transport planes
in the calf-class.
OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK
Peak Income Predictea m 194*
WASHINGTON —Our national in
come will climb to a peak of 175
billion dollars in 1947 but will start
tapering off toward the end of that
year, according to a prediction of
, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
! nomics.
The predicted Income would rep
resent an Increase of six per cent
over this year’s estimated 165 bil
lion dollars, which is highest on rec
ord to date.
The bureau’s 1947 estimates were
contained in a report prepared for
the agriculture department's outlook
conference of farm officials. The
bureau said a high level of domestic
industrial activity md relatively full
employment in most of 1947 will con
tribute substantially to higher con
sumer incomes.
9
It said industrial production, as
measured by the Federal Reserve
board index, may average as much
as 10 per cent higher than this year
and close to 85 per cent above the
1935-39 average. This prediction was
hedged with the provision that pro
duction is not retarded by major
labor-management disputes.
The bureau looks, however, for
somewhat of a decline in industrial
production in the latter part of the
year, as a backlog of consumer de
mand for industrial products be
comes more nearly satisfied. Such
a downturn in production would be
reflected in lower incomes of work
ers in affected industries.
Farm Income Drops.
While forecasting the rise in na
tional income, the bureau said the
net Income of agriculture may be
reduced as much as 10 to 15 per cent
from 1946.
The farm income forecast Is based
on: (1) the .premise that consum
ers will devote a larger part of their
buying power to industrial goods
which have been in short supply and
less to food; (2) higher farm pro
duction costs.
Income of non-agricultural labor,
on the other hand, is expected to
increase 10 per cent next year, the
bureau said, reflecting higher em
ployment in the major part of the
year and higher wages. The bureau
said unemployment is expected to
be somewhat heavier in 1547 than
at present
VERSION OF NEW GERMANY . . . Baseball, favorite pastime of
* American youth, now Is being played by the younger generation of Ger
mans. American troops direct youngsters in a game of ball In the very
shadows of Nuernberg Jail, where top Nasi criminals were tried.
NEWS REVIEW
Parley Approves Italian
Peace over Red Protest
PARIS:
Italian Pact
Following a pitched warning from
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
against the division ni
the world into eastern
and western blocs, the
Paris peace conference
approved the proposed
treaty for Italy.
Because it consid
ered the treaty opposed
to the interests ol its
Yugoslav ally, Russia
Molotov led the b,tter ,n*M
against adoption of the
pact. Championing Yugoslavia's
cause, Molotov shouted that Russia
would not permit the western pow
ers to dictate to the “new Slavic
democracies.” and reiterated Len
in’s axiom that “a people which
takes its destiny into its own hands
is invincible.”
The Russian bloc’s objections to
the treaty oentered against estab
lishment of a strong, neutral gov
ernor for the key port of Trieste, and
creation of a new Italo-Yugoslav
border.
A strong governor would deprive
the mixed Italian-Yugoslav popula
tion of its self-rule. Molotov declared
in calling for a powerful constitu
ent assembly. An alliance of Italian
Yugoslav Communists would have
given the Reds control of the stra
tegic city.
MEAT:
Predict Plenty
In pressing the administration to
decontrol livestock, the beef indus
try advisory committee declared
that there were sufficient cattle in
the country to meet the require
ments of the next 12 months but
WAR ORPHAN . . . Striking a
pose of an American child movie
actor. 2-year-old Valdemar Gauko
is one of 21 German war orphans
arriving in United states to be
placed in foster homes.
they were being kept from market
because of price inequities.
Citing department of agriculture
statistics, the committee said there
were 80 million head of cattle
and calves on farms Jan. 1, of which
40 million were available for meat
Despite heavy marketings this sum
mer, 52 million head of cattle were
available for meat by Sept 24-30.
Estimating that supplies will be
fully 15 per cent above require
ments, the committee concluded
that there would be 72.5 pounds of
beef and veal per person from Oct.
1, 1946, to Oct. 1, 1947. This com
pares with 60.6 pounds per capita
in the 15 year prewar base perir
GREECE:
Inflation-Ridden
With goods and "hard" mone.
scarce, inflation is riding high in
Greece. A full meal without wine
now costs more than $4 and second
hand clothing sells at $150 to $200
and shoes at $30
As in all inflation-ridden countries,
the dollar commands a premium in
national exchange. While the offi
cial rate is 5C0 drachmas to the dol
lar, speculators offer as much as
6.500 drachmas for a dollar. By sell
ing dollars, then reconverting their
drachmas to U. S. currency again,
Americans can make a pretty profit.
Indicative of the Greek govern
ment's desire for “hard” money,
employees of the American embas
sy who are paid in gold flown from
the U. S. receive 17.000 drachmas
per dollar. This is three times the
ordinary official rate.
Because there is no food rationing
or price control over staple items,
Greek white collar workers , id on
Axed salaries are especially hit. To
procure essentials, they must deal
in the black market, make connec
tions with government or business
officials, or sell personal belongings
to obtain sufficient money for pur
chases.
WAGES:
Production Bonus
In addressing the American Man
agement association in Boston, F.
D. Newbury, vice president of West*
inghouse Electric corporation, ad
vanced a new formula for keeping
postwar wages and prices within
bounds.
Newbury's plan calls for main
taining basic wage and salary rates
at their present level and payment
to employees of additional income
in proportion to increased volume
of production, ability to pay and ef
ficiency of the individual organiza
tion.
Stating that the proposal could not
be called a profit-sharing plan, he
said that the bonus payments would
be considered as part of operating
costs, with employees entitled to the
maximum a company could afford
to pay. Terming the plan mghly
flexible. Newbury said that an en
terprise could easily readjust its
wages if business declined
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