The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-07


 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
 Heading the list of men under consideration is O. Max Gardner, former governor of North Caro- lima and member of the Demo- cratic National Committee.
 Stock Exchange members are looking for 8 man who has the confidence not only of the White House but of the country. Their present plan for reorganization is the most important thing that has happened in the financial world in years. It is what the &c., curities and Exchange Commission has been urging for long time namely, a self-policing of the stock exchange.
 In other words, the exchange itself would seek to cut out rocking of customers and estab- fish confidence in it's own deal- ings. The plan would make the New York Exchange much more of national institution.
 So far, Max Gardner comes closest to filling the qualifications for Czar of Wall Street. He had a liberal record as governor of North Carolina, is one of the now dwindling Before Chicago" boost CTS for Roosevelt who still is called into the White House. At the same time he understands the problems of the Stock Exchange.
 Other embryo czarS being con- sidered are Robert HutchinS, President of the University of Chicago, who is favored by his old associates at Yale, SEChairman Douglas; also General Robert E. Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck; General Frank Hines, head of the Veterans Bureau; and last but not least General Hugh Qron- pants) Johnson.
 THE JOB WILL PAY BE- TWEEN $75,000 AND $100,000. Mae West Spanking
 Mae West and her naughty broadcast still hovers over the Federal Communications Commis- sion. The commissioners said nothing about it publicly, but one reason for their refusal to give National Broadcasting Company South American radio channel was to penalize it for the Mae West broadcast.
 Two channels were given General Electric, which is new two also were given World Wide Broadcasting of Boston, a rela- lively small concern, and one channel remained in the hands of Columbia.
 But after the application of NEG was written in capital let ters: THEREBY DENIED"
 NOTE - Award of the South American channels is to help com- bat the Nazi-Fascist influence spreading through Latin American countries by daily German and Italian broadcasts.
 Little Men, What Now?
 At least fifty of the little busi- ness men who flocked to Wash ington last week took credit for giving Roosevelt the idea for calling the conference. They had written to him, they said, and the President obviously had followed their advice.
 Whoever actually was respon- sible for the conference, how ever, pulled boner. The meeting was the most futile futile and disorderly stampede Washington has seen since the ill-fated Bonus Army besieged Hoover in 1882. Before the first day was over many delegates were wondering why they had spent good cash to participate in g mad-house.
 The whole thing was @ sad commentary upon CD the lack of coordination between the Depart ment of Commerce and business; @ the lack of coordination be- tween business men themselves. Several times the Department of Agriculture has brought sev- eral thousand farmers to Wash ington. They have been well or dered, carefully organized and extremely effective-due entirely to the close contact between Henry Wallace's Agriculture De- partnent and the farm organiza- tions.
 In contrast, Dan ROper's Lit tie Men Conference was chiefly a platform for a few ballyhoo artists to grab all the ime-light. The plausible gents from the business mems associations were right on the job to show they were earning their salaries, and a group representing the more prosperous owners of larger companies were very busy re- fiecting the same attitude as Big Business.
 The whole show illustrated the difficulty of getting business to-