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...long left undone, Food Czar Claude Wickard last week put the Department of Agriculture on a wartime basis and picked two energetic lieutenants to help him. The job: to end doodling over a food situation that is rapidly getting out of hand. The men: big, shaggy, 38-year-old Roy Frederick Hendrickson, who became Director of Food Distribution; tall, sober, 47-year-old Herbert William ("Parse") Parisius, the new Director of Food Production...
Parse Parisius was reared on a Wisconsin farm, taught in Northwestern (Wis.) College, was a Lutheran pastor in Rice Lake, Wis., directed Farm Security work in Wisconsin, before becoming assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He got to be associate director of Agricultural War Relations last June, when Claude Wickard set up the ineffectual Food Requirements Committee...
...best hope for Claude Wickard, in these still hazy areas of divided authority, was that the general tightening-up process now under way in Washington would clear the air. Citizens will be able to tell, six months hence, by looking in their market baskets...
...over two of the farmer's greatest needs for increased production Claude Wickard's power still must be wangled through and around other Washington agencies. For farm labor he must go to Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt. For farm machinery he must go to WPBoss Donald Nelson...
Armed with his new Presidential order, patient, stubborn Claude Wickard can now offer them more help than he could promise last week. Food controls which have been scattered through eleven Washington agencies are now mostly in his hands. He has full supervision of setting food requirements for Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians. He takes charge of food marketing, distribution, priorities, allocations and decisions to ration. His cumbersome Agriculture Department, with all the bureaus that have grown up over the years, is simplified into a production division and a distribution division-a framework that will permit Wickard to reshape...