where they were married.
iekard
Some for Every State
N°¢ SOONER had President
Roosevelt signed the pump
priming measure than the flood of
federal money was released. The
Public Works ad-
ministration of
which Secretary
Ickes is the head,
made public two
lists of grants and
loans covering 590
projects in every
state in the union
with a total estimat-
ed cost of $148,795,-
895.
Four more lists
Secretarylckes ora ready, and
these, PWA officials said, would
complete the “first push’ toward a
$2,000,000,000 construction program
to provide work and stimulate in-
dustry. Officials further estimated
that these initial groups of projects
may run as high as 1,500 or 2,000
with a cost of $600,000,000.
Federal grants under the PWA
procedure cover 45 per cent of the
cost and, when a PWA loan is
made, 55 per cent. The difference
between the estimated over-all cost
of the projects and the sum of loans
and grants made by PWA
plied by the various applicants.
The 291 projects in the first
to cost $92,520,374 will be financed
while the second list of 299 projects
to cost $56,275,521 will receive fed-
eral grants of $5,260,413 and loans
of $1.900.500. hus the amount of
government assistance to 590 proj-
ects estimated to cost $148
will amount to $75,814,623.
The President, when he signed
the act, told the press that business
conditions were not as bad as pop-
ularly believed, and said he looked
or a definite pickup in
future.
Roper Is Optimistic
HAT there will be
turn, certainly by
7 earli er,
Sec retary of
“Natural
said in a
autumn and
is the prediction of
Commerce Roper.
economic factors,”
prepared statement,
structive legi
to an early favorable trend
preparation.”
The railroad situation, Roper
said, is the most disturbing factor
in the present economic picture,
and it may make necessary a spe-
cial session of congress. He de-
clared the condition of the roads
is getting progressively worse and
is very serious. He saw hope, how-
ever, in prospect of bumper crops
in the Midwest which would in-
crease the demand for transporta-
tion,
wna ssn
Group for Labor Survey
NINE men and women were ap-
pointed by the President as
members of a special commission
that will study the workings of the
British labor disputes law and Swed-
ish labor relations. Most of them
already are in Europe ready to be-
gin their work.
The group is composed of Lloyd
K. Garrison, dean of the University
of Wisconsin law school: Robert
Watt, American Federation of La-
bor representative; Gerard Swope,
president of the General Electric
company; Henry I. Harriman, for-
mer president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States;
William H. Davis, chairman of the
New York labor mediation board;
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, regional
director of social security for New
York; Charles R. Hook, president
of the American Rolling "Mills coms
pany; Miss Marion Dickerman,
principal of Todhunter school, New
York, nd William Ellison Ch al-
mers, I sistant American labor
commissioner in Geneva.
sens Yes
Louis K.O.'s Schmeling
""
Bomber,
heavyweight
amazing victory over
kee stadium at New York gave him
that status. In less than one round
the challenger was hammered to the
floor three times by the crashing
blows of Louis, and his seconds
threw the towel into the ring, for
quite helpless.
The referee declared Louis the win-
ner by a technical knockout.
The loser said his deafeat was
caused by a blow over the kidney.
X-ray examination of the German
after the battle showed a projection
from a vertebra was broken. The
blow was not a foul for it was not
struck in a clinch.
Eighty thousand
nessed thi
est heavyweight champions
in history.
the gate and 20
Schmeling.
persons rite
ip bout
per cent went to
FIVE « of the officials who will have
most to do with
President's spending-lending
the air in a natic
broadcast and urged
that business
operate with the ad-
ministration in re-
storing permanent
recovery.
speakers were Sec-
retary of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wal-
lace, WPA Adminis-
trator Harry L. Hop-
kins, acting
Administrator How-
ard A. Gray, United
States Housing Administrator Na-
than Straus and Brig. Gen. John J.
Kingman, acting chief of United
army engineers.
Outlining his plans for use of fed-
eral funds allocated his agency,
a —_
Harry Hopkins
will give indirect,
jobs to 250,000 workers, in addition
to relief jobs for the unemployed.
“And so the WPA money flows,
giving life and strength to the eco-
nomic system all the way from its
Secretary Wallace said that under
the new agricultural legislation the
farmer is in good shape to do his
part in the recovery drive.
Gray, who has been administering
PWA affairs in the absence of In-
terior Secretary Ickes, said that the
spending of money set aside for
public works under the recovery
program should result in industry's
receiving $1,000,000,000 in orders in
the next two years.
Straus outlined his agency's pro-
gram of slum-clearance and low-
cost housing and said that it will
result in increased employment and
the “‘creation of that finest and most
needed of all commodities—better
homes for Americans.”
afin
German Spies Indicted
AFTER five months of investiga.
tion by government agents, 18
persons were indicted as spies by a
federal grand jury in New York.
Moreover, no secret was made of
the fact that they are charged with
being spies for the German govern-
ment, engaged in obtaining informa-
tion concerning our national de-
fense.
Four of the defendants are in this
country and will be tried here. The
others, including three German offi-
cers, are abroad.
Japanese Bomb Swatow
JAPANESE planes made three de-
structive raids on Swatow, a
treaty port 220 miles northeast of
Canton. Their bombs ruined the
power plant and railroad station.
The United States gunboat Asheville
stood by to protect the 69 Ameri-
cans in the consular district. It
was believed this was the start of a
great offensive designed to cut ofl
Canton from the central battlefront.
Referring to Hankow reports of
possible mediation by a third power,
a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai
said: ‘Japan will continue to fight
until Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek is overthrown. If Chiang would
only jump in the Yangtze river or
otherwise dispose of himself, Japan
would be highly satisfied.”
I
Goebbels Assails Jews
HOUGH the attacks on Jews in
Berlin and other German cities
were officially deplored by the Nazi
government, Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda, further
stirred the anti-semitic sentiment in
a speech before a huge gathering in
Berlin, demanding that all Jews be
eliminated from business.
“The foreign press laments that
Jewish stores are marked,” Goeb-
bels said, referring to the smearing
of store fronts with the word “Jew”
in red paint. “I do not approve of
this either, but it is a good thing
to know which are Jewish shops.
We will take legal measures to cur-
tail their businesses. They will soon
disappear. The Jews incite us by
their very presenc e.
'Keep Out of Politics’
SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD
of Texas and the senate cam-
paign expenditures investigating
committee of which he is chairman
has directed all gov-
ernment agencies to
take no part in pri-
nary and election
campaigns. And fit
has issued warning
that persons sus-
pected of improper
political conduct will
be exposed and
cited for criminal
prosecution.
The committee at
its first meeting
adopted a resolution
pledging that its investigations will
be conducted with “vigor and vigil
ance’ without fear or favor and
without partisanship. The warning
against use of improper tactics was
directed first to all candidates for
senatorial offices, their friends and
aids. It was then extended to all
government agencies.
sami
Wage Law Effects
TRAIN of the new wage and hour
law on industry, say labor ex-
perts in Washington, will be eased
by the existing unsettled economic
5. They size up the situ-
Senator
Sheppard
ustry's
than
present pace not
200,000 wage earners in
more pay.
1 garment fac-
small number of
ilizer industry
t ern sawmills.
Even when business is as good as
unofficial es-
that only about
workers would be
the 25 cent wage mini-
the law, and somewhat
1,000,000 workers would
find their hours a 44
hour weekly limit, next
October,
At the outset the law's effect will
be to improve ‘the worst condi-
tions” in certain industries engaged
in interstate commerce, the econ-
believe,
Child labor provisions will
last
indicate
26 000 factory
affected by
mum of
more than
shortened by
effective
affect
1g at
odd jobs in various mills and fac-
tories.
milan
Senator Copeland Dead
« SHAUSTED by his labors and
the heat in Washington, United
States Senator Royal S. Copeland
of New York died just before the
adjournment of congress. He was
in the sixteenth year of his service in
the senate and had been an indefati-
gable worker. He was a consistent
opponent of many of the adminis-
tration's policies and was one of
the leaders in the fight against the
court packing and government re-
organization measures.
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman an-
nounced that he was willing to be a
candidate for Copeland's seat if the
Democratic party wished to nomi-
nate him.
Terrible Train Wreck
LYMPIAN, crack passenger
train of the Milwaukee road
bound from Chicago to Tacoma,
Wash., crashed through a flood-
weakened trestle over Custer creek,
near Saugus, Mont., and at least 4(
persons perished, most of them be
ing drowned in a submerged tou:
ist sleeper. About 685 others wer:
injured.
This was the worst railroad wreck
in America in recent years, and it
sadly marred the safety record of
the Milwaukee road which had not
lost a paying passenger in accidents
in the previous 20 years.
The eleven-car train ran into a
cloudburst near Saugus but the
crew had no warning of the trestle’s
condition until the engine plunged
through the span, dragging sev-
eral cars after it,
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WASHINGTON. — The record of
fully written and a
No Congress backward look of
a few weeks gives
Like It
one the impression
that probably there never was a
like it. Certainly, I can
seen nothing like it in the 20 years
that I have served as a Washington
observer.
The Seventy-fifth has been almost
constantly in session since January,
1937. There were two regular ses-
sions—long ones—and there was
of last November 15 which succeed-
ed completely in one task only,
matter of the traveling expenses
which are voted the members
they come ington. They got
that money in a hurry even though
the 20 days of actual meetings
proved insufficient for any other leg-
islative act.
But for a serious
Seventy-fifth, let
facts: it spent more
any other congress in peacetime his-
tory. That is, it voted more
propriations. It spent more
talking than nearly any other con-
gress that I recall and there
fewer laws passed, I believe,
the record of any other congress
shows. (For the latter condition, I
suppose we might be thankful for
there is now and always has been
too many laws on our statute
books.)
There has never been a con gress,
peacetime or otherwi 1
dulged in so n political acro-
batic stunts. The start of the first
session was completely under Presi-
dent Roosevelt's domination. There
came the fight over enlargement of
the Supre court and the senate
went into full cry against the Presi-
dent. There was another stage when
the house and senate both were us-
ing the rawhide on the executive
branch. the other day be-
fore adjournment they voted a gi-
gantic pot of gold for presidential
spending and followed that by over-
riding a veto.
Consider this action if you want to
find something that really repre-
sents perfection in backward somer-
saults: late last year, congress re-
jected the wage and hour bill and
fought off the so-called anti-lynch-
ing bill with a fervor that was good
to see. It rejected the President's
plan for reorganization of
ernm d did it quite vige
Jut it d a spring
and jumped off into passage ¢
wage and hour bill for the nation
which the President wanted
nuch as a sop to labor. It hag in
the meantime passed
contrary to the Pres
and so objectionable to his
of taxation that he
it. True, it became a law,
was the first time Mr. Roose:
had allowed an act of
gO ACToss his desk without
his re or his vets
to Wash
review
ap-
any
me
Then,
ent an
found new
refused
congress to
SIEN:
to have represented a vast amount
of independence except that, as the
time approached for adjournment,
the members took Mr.
proposal for appropriat
er $5,000,000,000 for ding and
spending and gave him a free hand
in spending it. They had been do-
ing that before, but the significant
thing was that the members, faced
with a wide open opportunity, re-
fused to free themselves from pres-
idential domination. It will be re-
membered how four amendments
were offered to the spending-lend-
ing bill, each designed to prevent
use of the relief funds in politics—
and those amendments were defeat.
ed in the senate. They took those
votes in the very midst of tirades
about mixing relief and politics and
attempts of the administration to
lick unfriendly Democratic senators
and representatives in the party pri-
maries. Indeed, it seems to me
that they actually voted the Presi-
dent powers with which to force
New Deal opponents into line on his
programs.
. » »
As a result of all of the flow of
money authorized in the Seventy-
fifth congress, it
seems a fair guess
Deficit to say that the na-
tional debt by the
end of June, next year, will ap-
proximate $47,000,000,000. That will
represent an increase in the nation-
al debt of 27 billions in six years.
It is an increase in the debt that
exceeds the World war debt itself.
The deficit for the year which has
just ended was disastrously large
for a year in which there had been
earlier announcements by Mr.
Roosevelt and others that the budget
would be balanced. In view of the
appropriations made in the last ses-
sion, I think that a $5,000,000,000
deficit in the fiscal year that ends
June 30, 1939, is a fair prediction.
Nor is the end in sight. Have
you noted how little talk there was
in the waning days of the last ses-
sion of congress about any plan to
balance the budget? Folks,
never gave it a thought! It was
intent upon getting money voted be-
cause business conditions were bad
and there were too many votes that
Enormous
could be had for a little relief job
or a little relief check. That's some-
thing which congress can’t very well
deny, even though the members
hide behind the President's ample
frame by saying that Mr. Roosevelt
asked for the money.
With respect to the nation’s finan-
cial condition, it seems to me it is
Congress
and the administration ought to be
worried until there are deep creases
in their collective brow. And, there
are some who are worried, men
like Sen, Carter Glass, the Virginia
who knows something
about finances since he was once
of the I Senator
treasury. Sen: I
Glass appears to fear a collapse is
of how far
has
indication
the
Jobs and tion
Pensions rect
ninor
stances which taken singly mean lit.
tle but which taken collectively bulk
large The Seventy-fifth congress
added something like 5,300 new
names to the per rolls. While
these names were Derg
through passage of pension bill
a steady stream, new bureaus and
the consequent bundle of new jobs
were being created by congress at
the request of the President, or
sometimes just becase a senator
or a representative had the idea.
Those jobs, of course, carry salary
checks. They are jobs scattered
throughout the country in many in-
stances—fleld they are des-
ignated. It goes without saying that
each office had to be fully staffed,
and so there were clerks hired here
and there. Most of the new jobs
were not placed under civil service
by the laws which congress enacted,
and so they constituted political
plums to be picked when most need-
ed in a campaign year.
And no review of the Seventy-
fifth congress ought to omit an item
that seldom has been noted in the
history of earlier congresses. The
representatives and senators met so
many times and talked so much
when in session that a month go
they had to increase the appropri
tion for publishing the hp!
Record, the official “‘newspaper” of
proceedings in congress. The ap-
propriation—a mere drop of water
in the vast sea of expenditures, be-
ing only $400 ,000—was necessa
printing office
the last session
congress used
nore pages than
at ed as needed for the
One really is not being fa-
umorous at all in saying
000 really has “gone with
As an
depths nation
added
8 In
offices,
enty fifth
about 10,000 1
been estim
session
cetious or h
th at £44 00
So, we have seen
which the Presid
achieved a st
ity, look to ti
a congress,
in his 1936 el
WT us major-
t Pre ssident for guid.
bserv oh fashion.
ent
a
most su ry
watched it seek his inner-
most thoughts and strive to execute
None thought, I believe
We have
Yet, it did revolt. It
and won on a number
only to turn again to
the final hours when an
is in the offing and “where
of members believed that
fought back
would carry them through.
Unique is hardly fhe word to de-
scribe the Seventy-fifth. Personally,
I think the Sevtaty: fifth probably
passed out of existence with a rec-
ord that is not equalled for slime,
cowardice and petty politics.
And, thus, the members go into
their biennial dance to attract votes.
They have started their circuses al-
ready in many contested areas:
some primary battles already are
behind us, and others lie only a few
short weeks ahead. Political fences
are awaiting new posts and new
promises have to be made. It will
be a funny story if and when it ever
can be pieced together, which, of
course, it never will,
We, here in Washington, have lis-
tened to the demagoguery almost
two solid years. You folks out there
can have them for awhile. I hope
the office-seekers tell the truth about
their jobs in Washington. I some-
times think it would be a vote-get-
ting program for a candidate for
the house or the senate to go out and
tell exactly what has been done—
how little worthwhile, I mean. And
then to follow that with a declara-
tion that he was going to go back, if
re-elected, and see to it that a real
service for the nation is performed.
Wouldn't that be refreshing?
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