The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-03

OC4A0QOAOA4O41 4O OAA NNHSAANS' a steady tightening of Roc Japanese.
 Several straws in the wind point clearly to this. Surface straws are the fact that both Secretary off State Hull and Under Secretary Welles have dropped all routine work, are handling only Far East tern problems. Very few other international questions are brought to their attention.
 Behind this is the conviction, borne out by every dispatch from China, that Japanese are determined to push the white man completely out of Eastern Asia and the islands of the Pacific, and that the white na- tions must stick together.
 Some of the questions now be- ing discussed by the State De- partment with France and Great Britain are Q) increasing the size of the Panama and Suez canals in order to permit the pas sage of giant battleships; @ how large these future battleshipS will be; and (3) possible strategy to be used by U. S., British, French naval forces in Far Eastern wa ters in case of emergency.
 However, these are mere details in a broader and much more im- portant plan for cooperation which is still in process of formation. With this pan Roosevelt may make one last and prodigious ef- fort to unsnarl some of the worlds troubles before admitting the inevitability of war.
 A Law a Week
 Representative Bruce Barton's loudly footed crusade to repeal a law week" doesn't seem to be doing so we'll. The gentleman from New York, who made for tune in advertising, has offered only two repeal measures, which were promptly buried in commit tee.
 However, Barton says he plans to speed up his drive. "In a week or SO" he expains, 'I'l have a lot more repeal bills."
 BOrah Hint
 During Senator Borah's luncheon with Roosevelt the other day, he dropped pointed hints about At torney General Cummings and Donald R. Richberg which were not flattering to either.
 Borah mentioned no names, but even Senator Holt of West Vir- ginia would have understood what he was driving at.
 'T think it is a very ques- tionable proceeding, MT. Presi- dent, Borah said, when the gov ernment is pressing anti-mon- Op0ly charges against group of big manufacturers, for high officer of the government and another gentleman who once Oc- cupied a high official position to undertake to settle the matetr between them out of court"
 Borah was referring to the con- sent decree negotiations which Richberg and William Stanley, ex- assistant attorney general, con- ducted with Cummings on behalf of the Big Three motor companies while Milwaukee grand jury was considering indicting the firms.)
 Either the charges are valid or they are not valid," con- tinued BOrah. 'Tf they are not, then no action shoud have been started in the first place. If they are, then the matetr should have been left to the judgment of the grand jury.
 "Unquestionably the existing anti-mOnopoly laws need strengthening. But it seems to me there is no use doing that if what laws we have are going to be negated by deals between officials. whose duty it is to en- force them, and those who are accused of vioating them."
 Roosevelt listened attentively, but made no comment.
 A Case in Point
 After several months in which business leaders have pleaded with government authorities to meet them half way for a con- ciliatory solution of their prob lems, the firm of J. P. Morgan, which has never established any great record for conciliation, de- cided to try its own particular brand.
 So George Whitney, Morgan partner, sent a letter to Chairman Douglas of the Securiteis and Ex- change Commission proposing a plan by which the United Cor poratoin, giant Morgan-con- trolled utility holding company, could escape registration under 0EE THE RFC0RD