The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-11

OeSbl SthS11lS q pOAAI1G11 COIi lnent of rhetoric by Admin coincidence. It is a carefully strategy.
 The New Dealers have taken leaf from the book of modern military methods and have opened fire on their opponents without bothering to proclaim a. formal state of war.
 Here is the record of opera tions:
 Major speech bg the President in Atlanta, Ga. Another in Chi- Cago. Both campaign addresses.
 SIashing attack on Adminis- tratiOn foes by Secretary Ickes in Detroit, Mich. r.
 Aggressive defense of AAA by Secretary Wallace in New York. .<.
 Speaking tour by Work Re- lief Administrator Harry Hop kins, featuring warm defense of New Deal relief expenditures and policies.
 Several speeches by Under secretary Rex Tugwell, pro- claiming the Administrations determination to adhere to lib- eral tenets.
 Prediction of Big Jim Farley that Roosevelt will be reelected in 1886, carrying as many states as he did four years ago.
 The Administration has set It. self stiff job, if it intends to keep up this pace. all year. Maxi Diplomat
 Herr Herbert Scholz is first secretary of the German Err1- bassy, in charge of Nazi cultural activities. The other day, while attending a diplomatic function, he got into 8 conversation with the Counselor of the Swedish Legation, Baron Johan Beck-Friis.
 Maron Beck-Friis is a sort of milk-and-crackers-l looking person, but actually he's just the opposite.
 T understand" said Herr Scholx, 'you do not like Ger many"
 'T am fond of the German people," replied Baron Beck FriiS.
 "In other words, you don't like Germany since l9SS." (The year the Hitler government came into power.)
 sExactly,S replied Beck-Friis.
 'WelI, you don't have to wor- ry," shot back Shoiz. "In two years France, and in 20 years Sweden will be a part of the Maxi empire-and you will like it."
 Wanderlust
 Henry Wallace has spent more of the taxpayers money on travel than any other member of the cabinet-ard is proud of 1t.
 "A secretary of. agriculture" he says, cannot afford to lose touch with farmers"
 And he has developed a unique method of doing it. All along the way he stages conferences. takes hikes into the country, asks questions of almost everyone he meets.
 On his last western trip. there were long stretches of travel by car, during which Wallace was escorted by several of his county agents. A dozen times day, he would shift from one car to an- other in order to pump each agent on local conditions.
 NOTE-Wallace does not accept fees for his speaking engagements, as do some other members of the New Deal. Only other mem Der of the cabinet to out-travel Wallace is Jim Farley, whose ex- penses are paid by the democratic National Committee.
 Significant Fact
 The barrage of suits against the holding company act has ob- scured a significant fact.
 THE ATTACK has been concentrated entirely on one phase of the Iaw--Title !, which regulates utility holding conn., panies, through the Securities & Exchange Commission.
 But there has been no attack on Title 2 of the same act. This section is no less far-reaching and important than its mate. It . authorizes the Federal Power Commission to regulate the rates and transmission of power that goes across state lines.
 THE PROVISION has been operative since last August. There are approximately 1,6O0 operating utilities in the coun- try. Yet not one has peeped against it.
 More than that, of 14 com- panies which have filed applica- tions with the Power Commission to simplify their corporate struc- lures under Title 2, eleven are members of holding corporations which have filed suits against the SEC on Title l.
 The WhytOre
 Government attorneys explain this variance of attitude toward the two sections on several grounds.
 FIRST, Title places the hand of the government on the fi- nancial nerve center of the utility industry, the holding company. OFF THE RECORD