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Agriculture. Claude Wickard, deposed as Food Czar, posed before the White House, smiling bravely at his successor, Chester Davis; then went off to carry on his routine...
...home front, long neglected, another kind of crisis clamored for attention. Food shortages were a national bellyache. Meat and butter rationing had begun. Farmers begged and pleaded for help (see p. 12). Franklin Roosevelt had "solved" the food problem just three months ago, by transforming Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard into a Food Czar. Now he gave Wickard's power to hardheaded Chester C. Davis...
...Wickard, who has also been Food Administrator since last December, the nation's food distribution had veered from confusion to possible disaster-a fact highlighted by last week's nationwide meat shortage. The farmers had wrought a miracle of production last year, hoped to create another this year. But from Washington they had gotten everything but help...
Grey Future. There was no criticism of Chester Davis but plenty of the manner of his appointment. For one thing, there now seemed to be two food czars (the other: Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard). The President moved to clear this up, with an executive order that emasculated Claude Wickard's wartime powers, left him only routine prewar activities of the Agriculture Department. But Davis would have to get along with Wickard, with all kinds of political jockeying possible, as well as with all the nine other czars* in Washington...
...crippling decentralization goes even further. Another agency under Prentiss Brown rules farm prices. The only insurance that Davis will be just another electron flying around the nucleus of the OPA is the possibility of his referring disputes to stabilization director Byrnes. Function stands apart from power, for Wickard is a member of the Economic Stabilization Board while Davis is not. Wickard continues to represent the United States on the Combined Food Board although Davis needs information on lend-lease food aid to manage production and distribution. Overburdening executives is one thing; halving authority is another. If active organization and comprehensive...