Today and Tomorrow I BY WALTER LIPPMANN e" Henderson has been 'ir' ‘ very poor time with the 'iV pss which is now winding up ^"jfsiness. Yet, if there is any its bu,aM in the war economy »ne p erj good relations are ^ere, between the two branches ( .I government, it is between ,f “Lce which regulates the liv S 0a, the people and the elected W ° entatives of the people who fbeing regulated. '* in Mr. Henderson, who is vcelleut public servant, in hot 35 !’r with Congress? If we could f the'answer to that important ctica5 question, we should know ?!,c,od deal more about how to 1 ngthen the home front where *4 needs strengthening. The trouble with Mr. Henderson . j venture to suggest, that he is lS', J to do a most difficult task !rvr conditions which are well \ impossible. He has to devise \ to administer a system of “L-fixing and of rationing in a Limtry which is ent;rely unused e siicii regimentation. Now, just ecause he has to do such radi ]jv novel things, does it not fol low'that in order to succeed he needs the continual support, guid ce'and protection of the old fa miliar institutions—of the Congress jjd the well established depart ments of government? yet as a matter of fact, Mr. Henderson is an orphan in a storm. Tje position in which he has been Iced is outside the normal re lationships of the government, and he will never get on with his job until he is adopted into the gov ernment family. In Canada, from which we have much to learn in these matters, Ur. Henderson s opposite number is not the head of an independent How Yon Can Gel Quick Relief From Counfis Due to Colds or Bronchial Irritations Eases Hacking Instantly v.'hy hack, hack, hack yourself to pieces? One dose of Bron-c-hu-line Em.sinn gives you unmistakable ■kief—a few doses may relieve it entirely. Contains no chloroform ••.svMtii .- and no sweet sugar •cun. Not habit-rorming. But if you want something real for a rede bad cough get a 65 cent bot tle ■: Bron-chu-line Emulsion from Brooklyn Pharmacy. Lane's Market it. Pharmacy or any good drug •'.! or our guarantee of unmis :• side satisfaction or money back. agency. In fact, there are no in dependent agencies in the Canadi an War Administration. The Nel sons, tlie Hendersons, the McNutts, the Milo Perkinses of Canada are one and all of them under some cabinet minister who is in charge of an established government de partment. Mr. Donald Gordon, for exam ple, who has done so brilliantly well what Mr. Henderson does, is under the Ministry of Finance, which corresponds roughtly to the Treasury Department. Thus be tween Mi. Gordon and the Par liament, there stands a cabinet minister who is himself a mem ber of Parliament. The minister is accountable to the Parliament for Mr. Gordon’s acts and Mr. Gordon is accountable to the min ister. Under this arrangement, Mr. Gordon’s new agency is both protected and guided by a min ister who is in direct and con tinual contact with Parliament; grievances are dealt with as they arise, complaints are answered when they are made, and Mr. Gordon does not have to harangue the Parliament or get himself in vestigatea every ten days. Mr. Gordon has, I was told, made four speeches since he took on his job. How many has Mr Henderson made? So many that he cannot remember them all. So many that writing them, traveling to and fro to deliver them, and then holding press conferences and issuing statements to correct them, can hardly have failed to inter fere with his thinking out how to make his ceilings and his ration ing work better. It is interesting also. I think, to kncrw how Mr. Gordon’s superior, the Minister of Finance, usually spends his day. I cannot vouch for exact details but essentially it is about like this: in the morning Mr. Ilsley is at his office in the Ministry of Finance working with his staff. About noon he goes to the Parliament building and for an hour or two before lunch there is a cabinet meeting at which the government’s policy and position are decided upon. Then from the early afternoon the cabinet is in Parliament answering questions and explaining and debating their policies. If the questions at issue are not in Mr. Ilsley's domain, he does not have to sit in the house; he has another office right in the Parliament building where he can work, but where he can also talk with members of Parlia ment, or go quickly to fhe floor if a question arises which con cerns him. Is it not plain that this is a system designed to make repre sentative government work? Here you have three things which are largely lacking in Washington. You have a common policy for the whole administration. You have close daily personal contact be tween the executive and the leg islature. You have the Hender sons, Nelsons, and McNutts, who have complicated technical jobs to do, in a position where they can be guided and protected, are ac countable and yet do not. have to fight their own battles with the Congress and with public opinion. Obviously, under our different form -of government, the Canadian system cannot be copied slavishly and would not work well if such a thing were attempted. But there are principles involved which ap ply'to any efective system of rep resentative government, and inso far as we ignore them, we shall be in trouble. Thus, there is no reason why we cannot have a cabinet to settle administration policy. The present system under which the head of each department or agency tries to settle his big questions directly with the President is one of the reasons why there are so many unsettled questions and so many feuds. The spectacle of these pub lie quarrels between Mr. Nelson and the War Department, Mr. Hull or Mr. Jones and the Board of Economic Warfare, Mr. Hender son and Mr. Ickes or Mr. Wickard is little short of scandalous. In deed it is scandalous to have to read that two members of the same administration waging the greatest war in history have had a fight in which one of them thinks he has won a “victory” and the other has suffered a “defeat.” For t£ie inevitable differences of ipin ion cMght never to become fights. They would not if it were the reg ular practice to discuss them and settle them in a cabinet meeting. Nor is there any reason why the mushroom agencies should not be placed under regular depart ments of government—no reason, that is to say, except that in some cases the regular departments are in charge of men who cannot be removed though they are not equal to the responsibility. If only this stubborn bottleneck could be broken, then there would be no reason why the regular cab inet members could not make it theif regular and important busi ness to keep in direct and inti mate contact with Congress—in forming Congress and becoming informed by Congress, and thus closing the dangerous gap which threatens to become wider between the two ends of Pennsylvania Ave nue. For this separation produces an ignorant and, therefore, an an gry Congress, and an isolated and, therefore, a frightened and con fused Administration. A wise man, F. S. Oliver, once wrote that “the spirit of the nation is a great force, but it is one which cannot always be on the alert, and, while it sleeps, the part of noble institutions is to keep watch,” I venture to think that Mr. Roosevelt’s advisers, those who draw up his many successive plans of “reorganization,” are weakest in their appreciation of the part which well designed and well es tablished and familiar institutions play in the conduct of affairs, and how important it is, therefore, to try wherever possbile to graft new agencies upon the stock of deeply rooted institutions. Almost always they are dispMed to improvise some new agency, which looks so easy on paper, rather thjn to renovate and re juvenate an old department and to seek ways to make our estab lished institutions work. They are not wise in this and they are for ever jeopardizing the success of the new by failing to realize the virtues of what is old. TT Five Miners Rescued After Big Slate Fall SHINNSTON, W. V., Dec. 17.— (JP)—Five miners trapped in the Consolidation Coal Company’s Num ber 32 mine at nearby Owings were rescued tonight approximately 12 hours after they were caught be hind a huge slate fall. F. E. Bedale, safety director for the company, said that Louis Maz za, a timberman, was the only one in the group requiring hospitaliza tion. Mazza was taken to St. Mary’s hospital at Clarksburg suffering from shock. The other four men, entombed behind a 90-foot wall of debris since 7:30 a. m. today, crawled to the surface through an opening cut by bulldozers and rescue workers. RAILROAD AGE PARLEY STOPPED 3 Day Conference On Sal ary Increases Breaks Up With No Agreement NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—