The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

GI11OI Ol NCW AOA 'kAOo1SI Id H. Jackson.
 Actually Roosevelt gave him this assignment last October after returning from the transconti- mental trip, and Jackson has been working on 1t since. The material he uses in his radio blasts is the result of these researches.
 The Governments own experi- ence with price fixing has been the best laboratory. Here are some of the facts uncovered by Jackson:
 Fifty-nine bids received by the Navy for steel pipe were iden- tical to the last penny-each $16,0G1.SS.
 Forty bids from cement com panies didn't deviate a fraction leach was precisely $17 ,14S.6O.
 In Denver IA out of F bids for reinforcement bars were exactly the same.
 In Los Angeles Il out of 12 bids were identical.
 Articles on which the Govern ment repeatedly has received sim liar bids are: tires, various steel products, paper products, brass and bronze products, greases, ex- plosives, machinery, office sup- plies, photograph equipment, labo- ratory and medical supplies, plumbing materials, fire extin- gushing apparatus, lumber.
 Tn framing a legislative pro- gram, Jackson is aiming at two objectives: (D' strengthening the antitrust laws; (2) strengthening the enforcement powers and ma chinery of the Government. Insufficient
 Privately, neither the President nor Jackson consider the Borah- OMahoney bill, for federal licens- ing of corporations engaged in in- terstate commerce, strong enough to accomplish either of these ends. They have no objection to the legislation as far as it goes, but they don't think it goes far enough.
 At a recent Cabinet meeting, when the measure was brought up by Vice President Garner, Roosevelt observed, 'the bill is an advance insofar as it does away with certain abuses under the present system of incorpO- ration, but it fails completely to strike at the root of the m0nop- oly problem-concentration of wealth and economic control. That is what we must go after if anything is to be done about monopoly. This bill does not meet that need"
 Garner, too, was skeptcal about the measure. He is reported to have been commissioned by Roosevelt to talk to Borah and O'Mahoney about their bill. That is not so. The President has not asked him to do any contracting.
 Garner is an old anti-monop- olist, is eager for new legislation, and has talked to the two Senators about their proposal, but solely to inform himself. They are anx- ious to get him on their side, but so far he has kept them at arms length.
 NOTE-The Borah-OMahoney bill is a composite of two meas ures originally sponsored sepa- rately by the two authors. Pri- vately, Borah is not overly enthu. siastic about certain features or O'Mahoney's bill.
 Miss Perkins Pictures
 It may be because she is lady, but after nearly five years as a Cabinet member, Madame Perkins still is camera shy. She no long CT runs away from the camera, but she is as sensitive to the proper pose as a primadonna.
 She has two standing rules for cameramen. One is, no pro- file shots. She is convinced that her features are not most favorable when seen in profile. So all current photos of Madame Secretary show her looking full into the camera.
 Second rule is, no action shots. At the recent conference Of may ors in Washington, she submitted to the flashlights before beginning a speech, but when one camera man fingered to get her in action. she refused to speak until he had been busted.
 Once when she was submitting to the cameras while seated at a desk, a tall photographer stopped low and aimed his camera on level with her face. He wanted to avoid a high spot, which would have focused the top of her head.
 But Madame Perkins thought there was a trick in 1t. You mustn't do that" she adm0n- 0EE THE DEC0Dn