The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-21

QOWu CneSe OperAUOTS nave Administration.
 In view of this, it is most ex- traordinary that the administra- tion has gone about enforcing the commodities exchange control act with an apparently studied indifference.
 This measure was put on the statute books last June after years of agitation and battling. Its enactment was acclaimed great New Deal triumph in the interest of the farmer. The law was to be to the farmer what the securities and exchange acts are to the in- vestor in stocks and bonds. Lost in Shuttle
 Yet today, twelve months later, so little has been done under this vaUnted scourge that even in Washington few remember it exists. This is the administrative record under the act:
 NOT a single meeting held by the three-man cabinet board Secretaries Wallace, Roper and Attorney General Cummings - which was given authority to curb speculation on the com modity exchange.
 Not one regulatory rule or order issued.
 NOT a move made to check wash sales, prohibit bucketing or certain brokers practice of using customers funds for their own operations. Traders have been warned that the law pro- hibits this, but beyond that nothing has been done.
 High-POwered Act
 And judging from the timidity and uncertainty displayed by J. w. T. Duvel, chief of the com- notifies exchange administration created to enforce the law, noth- ing is likely to be done about it. A career man of many years service in the agriculture depart ment, Duvel gives every impress sion of having little stomach for the high-powered act placed in his hands.
 Publicly he planes lack of funds for the inactivity. Last year congress gave the CEA $30O,00O which was used chiefly to assemble 8 staff of 70, of which 18 are located in Wash- ingt0n. This year $59O,OOO is being sought for the agency.
 Whatever has been the reason, the law has been very thoroughly squelched. Henry Wallace, whose department of agriculture has Jurisdiction over the CEA, talks as indignantly as ever about food gamblers and spectators, but he has yet to do anything to curb them with the extensive powers placed in his control. AStrOlOgy and Senators
 Mrs. Frances Parkinson Reyes, wife of the ex-senator from New Hampshire, gets great kick out of astrology and numerololgy. The other day she got in touch with well-known astrologist in Washington through third party. specifying that there must be no names mentioned.
 Arriving at the seance, Mrs. Reyes said: "Now after it's all over, my dear, I'm going to tell you exactly who I am."
 All during the seance which followed, Mrs. Reyes took careful notes on what the astrologist said and compared them with previous readings. She pronounced 1t very accurate reading.
 However, the astrol0gist con- fessed privately afterward that she thought she was reading Mrs. Oscar Underwood. wife of the late senator from Alabama. Irish Politics
 The Irish grapevine indicates that Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, widow of Nicholas F. Brady the utilities magnate, still Is rlaneuvering to have her new husband, William J. Babington ANAaOu0iuJ, iiib0C LulilOJCI Ol LfiE Irish Free State in Washington.
 At present her husband is Irish minister to the Vatican, d very comfortable post, but without the glamour and im- pOrtance of the Washington assignments. If she gets" this coveted appointment for her husband, the new Mrs. Macau- lay is reported to be ready to step out on 8 scale that will make the Soviet embassy a piker.
 However, Mrs. Macaulay is en- countering opposition, and strangely enough 1t comes chiefly from riSh-Americans who knew her when she was plain Genevievc qarvan, daughter of a Hartford, Conn.,, paper maker.
 Now a Papal Duchess, Mrs. Macaulay recently donated her Long Island estate, "Inlsfada," to the Jesuit Fathers. But 1t will take more than that to over-