The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-19

have his headquarters there.
 That is the tip off to his real job as chief of the new Federal Security Agency.
 The platinum blond Indianian will give little time to the So- cial Security Board, eco, Nation al Youth Administration, Public Health Service or the Office of Education. Each is well manned and operates under specific sta tutory powers. There is room for a certain amount of correlation of their activities, but that will be a secondary concern of McNutt.
 His interest will be centered on the New Deals social med icine program.
 Senator Bob Wagner, father of the Social Security Act, intro- duced bill at the opening of this session for an $800,000, ,000 public health plan, ranging from free medical service for the needy to the construction of hospitals and establishments of government dis ability insurance. The Senate Labor Committee has held num- Der of hearings on the measure and plans to make 8 report be- fore adjournment. But beyond that there is no chance of any action this year.
 That Is exactly where McNutt enters the picture.
 He will drive to prepare the ground for the enactment of legislation next year.
 What form this legislation will take is something McNutt will work out with medical leaders and experts. The Wagner bill will be the starting point. It is the result of a years study by a special committee appointed by the president and headed by Miss Josephine Roche, former assistant secretary of the treasury.
 TWO REASONS
 There are two reasons behind this undercover strategy:
 FIRST is the 1940 Presidential campaign. The administration wants broad-gauged public health program to its credit on the law books as 1940 approaches. In the spring of 1886, 1t enacted the Social Security Act and made big capital of 1t among voters.
 SECOND is that the New Deal- CTS have learned that Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republi- can Program Committee, is secret ly formulating a public health plan for use as COP ballot lure.
 Exact nature and extent of Franks Republican program is not known, but inside information in the hands of the White House group indicates that he aims to have the COP offer the plan as concrete illustration of the con- structive things 1t will accomplish if elected, as compared with Dem ocratic lack of accomplishment.
 Administration masterminds are out to beat the Republicans to the punch and it will be Me- Nuts goal to steal their thun- der by putting over Demo- cratic health program.
 NOTE-Among the telegrams received by McNutt congratulate ing him on his FSA appointment was one from Dr. Morris Fish bein, editor of the official maga- zine of the American Medical As- sociation and a violent foe of so- cial medicine.
 STATE DEPARTMENT
 HINDSIGHT
 Those few in the State Depart ment who admit that it is pos- sible to make mistakes now look back on their Spanish embargo stand of a year ago as the most tragic mistake they could have made in their whole neutrality fight.
 One year ago, a majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, which has now voted down any change in neutrality. was ready to amend the neutrality act by permitting arms to go to both sides in Spain. Senators felt that the arms embargo was merely penalizing the Loyalists.
 But Hull, in 6 crushing letter to the committee, demanded that no action be taken, said that the whole question Of neutrality should be considered at the next session of Congres.
 Some ef his advisers now see that if they had changed one