The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-03

Washington, July -- Rooso. velt's departure south at this particular moment caused n lot of sub rosa concern In various high places.
 Basis for the concern, briefly, was this;
 Tho 73rd congress heaped on the head of ono man more pow. CT than ever before given to a president of the United States. Upon tho exercise of that power will depond tho immediate future of tho country.
 With dozens of major bills Just passed, with several import ant missions about to fune- ton, some of Roosevelts best friends felt he had chosen tho wrong time for 50 distant hol. iday.
 SOME REASONS
 Whether or not they are right, it remains fact that the next month ia going to be a crucial ono in Washington. Here aro some reasons why;
 LAEOR--Strikes and threats of strikes have been popping in every part of the Country. Tho still unsettled steel strike, tho Pacific coast longshoremens dif- heulties, the Milwaukee street railways walkout, have kept q constant stream of labor disputes knocking at Roosevoit's door. The Wagner labor disputes bill, passed to settle those, has barely begun to function. It will miss the guiding hand of tho man in tho White House.
 NRA-The nest Of tho Dlue Eagle, as Roosevelt departed south, was messier than ever be- fore in It's hectic and frequently messy llfc. General Johnson, his trigger finger always nervous, is more explosive than ever, Dos- pite Johnsons explosives, Clnr- enee Darrow's reports on Big Business and Little Business ean- not Do laughed, off. Prico-hxing remains a sore spot. A hundred
  Ing in on man already dis. eouraged and weary.
 HOUSlNG--The big drive to take up the mid-summor slack, to help roduco federal relief rolls through the gigantic slum -clear. ance, housing program Is just being launched. Upon it depends construction prosperity next year, f...
 LOANS TO INDUSTRY-The k. F. C. has just received from congress the right to put the government further into business by lending money to industry. This new start on the old, hand out game has just begun.
 TARIFF -- The president has just received unprecedented pow CTS to negotiate trade treaties changing tariff rates without ratification by congress. A score of nations and several hundred lobbyists have been bounding the state department to begin.
 STOCK MARKET - For the first time in history the govern ment will attempt to make Wall street. walk the straight and narrow. The commission faced with this task Is still in embryo.
 COMMUNICATIONS-Another commission to control telephones, telegraphs and radio also for, the first time in history, has not even rented spitoons and coat hangers.
 What accentuates Roosevelt's absence is the fact that his is the most centralized administra- ton in years. Some of his cab. met officers will scarcely hire an office boy without trotting over to ask the man in the White House.
 So the summer may be hot, hectic and at times dclirs0us. The component parts of the offi- cial family will step on each others toes. Fireworks should Dc brilliant, fuetiage bitter.
 VIRGIN ISLANDS
 Who called them Virgin Is- lands? Possibly not even the president, as he hears their shores, knows the origin of the name.
 It was given by another great mariner-Columbu
 He was on his second voyage, i493. and he was impressed by tho great number of islands in that part Of the Caribbean. as if nature. with a prodigai hand, had scattered them there for the beauty of their coral sand and bending palms.
 Columbus was reminded of the Christian legend Of St Ursula. prioress of . convent, wiio went