The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-24
By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Writer

New York-If there Is anything about Technocracy that is more puzzling than it's methods, more baffling than It's theory of energy determInants, or more fabulous than its Utopian dreams, It Is Technocrncy's own high priest Howard Scott.
 The question as to just who is Technocrat Howard Scott is being asked throughout the country. This reporter has been trying to Ind out Scott. himself. will not talk Hc will not even pose for n photo- graph, Dillgent searching of rec cords, and inquiry among persons who know Scott, therefore, afford the only sources of information to date.
 Records reveal that between 1918 and 1924 he was dismissed from three different jobs. Later he was for time q manufacturer of floor wax.
 Persons who knew him best knew him only as one of the many loquacious habltues of the candle- lit gathering places of New York's Bohemla-Greenwich Village.
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 To this day his closest associates have no idea where he came from or how much he knows, or great deal of what he did before his lanky figure loomed on the techno- cratic horizon. Although his name Is now known round the world and technocracy is being discussed in every town, village md hamlet or this country, no community has yet risen to claim Scott as It's own.
 For twelve years Howard Scott was n familiar figure in tho village and talked, to everybody who would listen, of tho day when en- glncers would lend the nation to n new scientific social order. Green- which Villagers thought of him either as a fanatic with m obses- sion or genius with n vision.
 Possibly he dreamed, back in those days when people who were not interested in impending cata- clysms summed hIs table in cheap restaurants, that some day he would be the speaker and the guest of honor at dinners on Park avenue as he now has been, and that friends who occasionally listened with skeptical tolerance to his tales of past great deeds, some tlme would consider him great scien- tlst.
 Scott now says that technocrocy Is bigger than himself. or any in- divIdual and that he must not dis- tract public attention from the main issue. This reticence is markedly at variance with his earlier flair for what might be termed exhibition Ism. For in his Greenwich Village days Scott built up legends about himself, md allowed them to carry over, unchecked, into the present year.
 There was remarkable consist. cnt pattern to tho legends. Of tho scores of Villagers who knew Howard Scott and his expansive discourses about himself and his plans, most of them came to be- lieve that.
 He was born in Virginia and educated abroad. Ills father wnS chief engineer in charge of con of tho Bagdad railroad. Howard went to various technical schools; had Jesuit priest as private tutor; graduated from n German university, and at m carly age hold q responsible position in tho German dye industry, Later was in charge of Q chemical plant in Russia; went to Canada Just be- foro tho outbreak of tho war, and there built two munitions plants, and served as 0 chemical engineer In the manufacture of explosives.
 Available engineering books deal ing with the Bagdad railroad men ton numerous engineers, but do not mention anyone by the namo of Scott. As to tho German uni- vorsity, Scott has admitted he has no degroes. AS to tho intuition plants, Canadian authorities de- clare they never heard of him.
 The first authentic record of Scott ip this country is contained in tho report of q government in-