It Carries On

The U.S. had lost sight of the once-august body that sits at the top of its Government. But the Cabinet was still there, carrying on as ever, a little group of aging men and a woman, busying themselves with routine little duties, junkets, paper-shuffling, the general hobbling of bureaucracy.

All the real work was now done by Czars, of which the U.S. has ten. Cabinet members were left to shift for themselves, and to find whatever glory they could in their titles. Their actions last week: State. Cordell Hull, 71, talked with the press. He saw some envoys. One night he dined departing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.

Treasury. Henry Morgenthau Jr. waited for Congress to give him a tax bill.

Labor. Frances Perkins met earnestly with :

> The Committee on Older and Handicapped Persons in the War Effort.

> The Committee on Utilization of Children in the Farm Program.

> The Committee on Occupational Diseases in War Industry.

Postmaster General. Of Frank Walker an assistant reported: "He is wrestling mightily with postal problems." Attorney General. Francis Biddle wrote the preface for an OWI pamphlet to be dropped over Norway, composed a speech.

Commerce. Jesse Jones, relieved of the rubber program, bypassed on war plant financing, took refuge in routine.

Navy. Frank Knox made a speech in Manhattan, inspected a testing basin at Carderock, Md., visited Rhode Island's Camp Endicott.

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 job.

War. Henry L. Stimson, 75, studied the generals' reports at his desk.

Interior. Harold Ickes had a real job.

He was Petroleum Czar.

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