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accompany a regimented economy. However, when new pro- 

 grams are to be inaugurated, new agencies must be created. 

 The personnel must be sold on the program. Old-line de- 

 partments have difficulty in mothering a new idea; they have 

 other activities and, furthermore, they may not believe in 

 the new program. 



The revolutionary agricultural programs of the early 

 phases of the present administration were not left to the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. A new organiza- 

 tion called the Agricultural Adjustment Administration 

 (AAA) was formed by people who believed that restriction 

 of production would raise farm income. The Office of Price 

 Administration was rightly a new and separate agency; it 

 should not have been in the Department of Agriculture, the 

 Department of Labor, or the Department of Commerce. The 

 War Food Administration should not be a part of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture nor of the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration. 



The administration generally operated on the correct prin- 

 ciple when it made new agencies for the new programs. It 

 was not operating on the correct principle when it gave re- 

 sponsibility for a food expansion program to those who for- 

 merly sponsored the restriction programs. 



Conflict among Buream and Policies 



Some contend that the newly created agencies have not 

 always been given sufficient authority. Others contend the 

 difficulty is due to a division of authority, between an old- 

 line agency that is not sold on the new program and a new 

 agency that is. 



OPA was set up to keep down prices today in the interests 

 of the consumer. It gradually dawned on some folks that the 

 consumer's interest today may conflict with his interest to- 

 morrow. One solution might have been to change the OPA 



