The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-14
RoPER's DREAM

l ROPER'S DREAM
 Commerce Secretary Dan Rop. CT is about to realize q. long cherished dream--the establish fment of a quasi official institute for the training of public leaders.
 A grandiose announcement to this effect will be forthcoming shortly.
 Roper's gO-gettIng assistant, Chester II. Mccall, who really originated the idea, has succeeded tn persuadiDg one of the cOun-. try's wealthy educational fOun. dlat1Ons to put up the money. Mccall is reticent about details, but inside word Is that the Car negic Foundation has come across and tO tIIe tune of SfOO,- 900 for. tllc first year. .,t One thing Mccall is not secre- tive about is the fact that he hopes to be the institutes first president.
 The school Is to be non-partl- san and non-political. About 100 young men will be brought to Washington for a three months nrst hand study of the govern- ment. Students are to be selected along lines similar to those for Rhodes scholarships. The enter- prise will be known as the na- tional institution of public affairs. SHAKE-UP
 A big shake-up impends in the f MIA national compliance board.
 This Is the agency created by General Hugh Johnson several months ago to handle enforce ment problems of the Blue Eagle. It's director is William H. Davis, mop-haired. heavy featured Maine-born patent lawyer, who came to the MIRA originally as a deputy administrator.
 In the latter job he made good. As compliance director he hasn't. Blunders have been fire. quent. His latest was the barring of striking employees of the defi- ant E. c. Budd Auto Body com pany of Philadelphia from par ticipating in workers poll. This was the last straw.
 NEW PRECEDENT
 Under the famous Section "a. Roosevelt, Johnson and Senator Bob Wagner, repeatedly have held that striking workers had a right to vote in plant elections. Davis, over-ruling even the White House, proposed a new precedent
 Organized labor hit the ceiling. The cmbatted Budd workers threatened another strike, plus court action. Johnson promptly ordered the election called on, pending an investigation.
 Whether Davis departs the Blue Eagle roost entirely remains uncertain. But as national com- pliance director he Is finished. In fact. the compliance board as a separate division will soon dis appear. It's work will return to the supervision of Johnson's right bower. Donald R. Richberg.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND \ As the fight over the stock market bill becomes more in- tense, some of it's friends are considering asking Father Cough lin to come to Washington to broadcast daily attacks against Wall street. Freddy Ster- ling, former American minister to Dublin, has been exiled to the the American legation in Bull garia. Member of bon ton Lon- don clubs, son n-in-law of Mrs John T. (Ma) Williams. Sterling is suffering at his Balkan post. Unless he can return to contin- ental society. he may resign. -. Enrique Bordenave. Para guay's fortnight minister in Washington, is half brother to the president of Paraguay. has considerable influence with his government. .. Stuart Fuller. opium expert of the state depart ment, was responsible for block. ing inadvertent recognition of Manchukuo recently. The league of nations was about to permit issuance of opium certificates to the Japanese-puppet state. This meant recognition of the boy cotted government and at the same time meant exposing the world to Manchukuo's drug ex- port menace. Fuller stopped 1t.
 (COpyrlght, 1884, by United