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A Tough Old Bird
Fir* Billions More?
News of Hogs
Submarines Wanted
Amos R. E. Pinchot, who has lei-
core and .thinks, otters profound truth
writing to one of
the “professors."
“Capitalism Is a
tough old bird, that
Will live a good
deal longer than
any of us will.”
Capitalism, which
means government
by organized dol
lars and Industry,
Instead of organ
ized soldiers, will
last longer than the
present generation,
longer than this
century. Capitalism
Is the new financial
feudalism that replaced military feu
dalism. There is no reason why It
should not last as long as military
feudalism lasted, many centuries.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President’s Way of Ending Virgin Islands Row Arouses
Criticism—-Senator Black Probes for Truth
About Utilities Cigar Box,
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By EDWARD W. PfCKARD
v C Wotern Newspaper Union.
Arthur Brisbane
Senator Borah, one of the senate’*
able men, predicts that congress will
sit until November 1, and that five
thousand one hundred and twenty mil
lions more will be appropriated for
Immediate spending. That would make
about an even ten billions In extra ap
propriation for this year.
Two thousand one hundred and
twenty millions of the money would
pay the soldiers’ bonus In “green-
liacks," and three thousand millions
.would be used to take up mortgages
on farms.
“Hogs sell up to $10.10, best price
alnce September, 1930.” That comes
from Kansas City—ten dollars and ten
cents for a hog weighing one hundred
pounds. That may not mean much to
you; It means much to the farmers
that raise hogs. It also has meaning
for housekeepers that buy sausages.
For some mysterious reason, when
pork prices go up 10 per cent sausage
prices go up 100 per cent
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr.,
commanding Brooklyn navy yard, says
America needs long-range submarine*
to protect our Interests In the Pacific.
Since 1918, when, sweet peace re
turned, wise Japan, according to Ad-
fcilral Stirling, has built 64 submarines,
Including 27 of long range, each car
rying six torpedo tubes, powerful guns,
able to cross the Pacific and return
without refueling. Japan has also a
*peclal fleet of eight submarine* for
placing destructive ocean mines, four
of them able to operate 5,000 miles
from their base. Each could place 45
bombs In the path of enemy shipping.
Newell P. Sherman, choir singer,.
Boy Scout mnstea, fell In love with
a girl sixteen, admits that to make
his way clear he npset a canoe, throw
ing the mother of his two children
Into the water, kept pushing her away
from the boat until she sank and
drowned. This young gentleman Is 0
feet 4 inches tall, but. the electric
chair can doubtless be arranged to lit
him.
You will hope that no tender hearted
parole board will say, “He onght to
have another chance." One chance to
drown the mother of your two children
seems enough.
Rome reports Fascist excitement be-
faose “Japan assumes the role of
Abyssinian champion.”
Mussolini’s press says Japan sets
herself up as leader of Asiatic and
African peoples, "against the civiliza
tion and entire oMhl white race."
A Fascist newspaper calls Japan
“the enemy of Europe aad^merica,
dreaming of world conquest.” That
seems to be a keg of powder with only
* spark lacking.
Scientists experimenting with guinea
pigs take one or ten or a hundred
guinea pigs, never all the guinea pigs
•t once.
College professors, ynlon labor lead
ers convinced of their ability to invent
a better government, gentlemen who
believe In no government at all, and
other experimenters, should select ■
definite number of American guinea
pigs for experiment, not practice on
the 130,000,000 all at once.
Miss Margaret McDermott, spinster
lady of Chicago, left $25,000 for ap
old spitz dog. Many write to the-«-
ecutors saying they simply “adore anl-
tnals," especially spitz dogs, and would
like to take care of “Pet” in return for
the Income on $25,000.
That Interests men that leave large
fortunes to daughters or sons. For
tune hunters from abroad are always
ready to spend money left to daugh
ters, and scheming ladies, foreign or
natfrot ore ready to help a young gen
tleman spend hi* Inherited money, as
recently illustrated in a certain Ryan
case.
Moscow dispatches say the Soviet*!
north polar flight from Moscow to San
Francisco may start any day. If three
Russian airmen make that 6,000-mlle
flight, nonstop, from Moscow to San
Francisco successfully, San Francisco
will be Interested, and Washington,
D. G, outfit to be Interested.
The government might even Interest
Itself In' building some long-distance
planet. r
• Idas rMtum SypdUau. las,
WNU Sw-ylN.
T HAT row over the administration
of the Virgin islands was so un
pleasant that President Roosevelt felt
impelled to settle It himself. So he
removed from office
the two chief battlers,
7Gov. Paul M. Pearson
Jand Judge T. Webber
Wilson, had other jobs
found for them, and
nominated aa Pear
son’s successor Law
rence W. Cramer, who
was serving as lieu
tenant governor of St
Island. Conflr-
Croix
l w matl on of this appolnt-
L. W.^Cramer ment wa8 not lmme .
dlate. The senate committee Investi
gating the Islands affairs was slow In
making up Us mind about Cramer, and
from St Thomas came the news that
the foes of the Pearson administration
there, together with a delegation from
St Croix, were protesting vigorously
against the President’s selection of a
new governor.
The Emancipator, opposition paper,
said editorially:
“The Islanders would about as soon
have Pearson, for under Cramer no
change of policy can be expected. Poor
and unknown as the humble people of
the Virgin islands may be, they are en
titled to an example of honor and cour
age from the President of the Amer
ican Republic."
The disposal of Pearson and Wilson
also aroused criticism In Washington.
The former had been attacked stead
ily by Pat Harrison £>f Mississippi and
other Democratic senators, but Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes had defended
him warmly, so he was given a Job un
der Ickes, being made assistant direc
tor of housing In the PWA at $8,000 a
year, a place not previously filled.
In order to provide a Job for Judge
Wilson, a former congressman from
Mississippi and a protege of Senator
Harrison, a woman was forced off the
federal parole board. Attorney Genera]
Cummings requested and obtained the
resignation of Dr. Amy A. Stannard,
a psychiatrist who has been In the gov
ernment service 12 years with a civil
service status and had been a member
of the parole board since 1930. Wilson
was sworn In as her successor. Since
Wilson’s qualifications for the place ap
peared to be chiefly political, observ
ers in Washington noted sadly that the
parole board was getting back into po
litical hands.
ton Circuit Courts of Appeals held the
AAA unconstitutional, will not be
thrown out and the highest tribunal
will have a chance to pass upon It .
Amid so much adverse celticism, the
action of the Midwest farm leaders
gathered In Chicago must have been
soothing to Mr. Wallace. Resolutions
were passed praising the secretary
and congressional leaders for their ef
fhrts in behalf of “agricultural equal
ity.”
The farm leaders urged senate ap
proval for the commodity exchange
bill, passed by the bouse, .and asked
re-establishment of the Pacific North
west Wheat Export corporation under
the AAA to prevent wheat surpluses
In that area from competing with Mid
west wheat 1 and other grains.
The meeting voiced opposition to
the plans for transportation co-ordi
nation, suggesting farmers would profit
more by competition among carriers.
C HESTER G DAVIS, AAA adminis
trator. and hla fellow officials were
greviously shocked when they were
shown this classified real estate advert
tlsement In the Globe of Joplin, Mo.:
, “Dandy way to make money: Buy
tola 13 acres for bog raising. Sign up
with the government to not raise, say,
500 hogs It will pay you $1,000. That
will pay for the acres and have tome
left”_J—
“It’s preposterous!" exploded Mr.
Davis. “ItT at least preliminary to
fraud. It’s deliberate misrepresenta
tion and not in any way possible. I
shall begin an investigation at once.”
Franz
Guertner
Senator Black
W HAT was In the cigar. box
wrapped In -a newspaper? That
Is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman
of the senate lobby committee, want
ed to know. Before
the committee for
questioning was John
W. Carpenter bf Dall
as, president of the
Texas ’Power and
Light company. He ad
mitted freely that he
and other utility men
had hotel conferences,
dinners and a trip
down' Chesapeake hay
with congressmen dur-
the fight „ over the
Wheeler-Ray burn bill, and that he
himself had centered his efforts on
Texas congressmen. But of the mys
terious box he could or would tell
nothing. Black probed and probed, and
finally asked:
“Do you still say that In the morn
ing (of the day before the vote on the
utilities bill ‘death sentence’) you,
didn’t give a congressman a box
wrapped up In a newspaper?”
Carpenter replied quietly: “1 don’t
think I did, unless It was a few cl-
g&rs." — -■ ' * ■
h'jr.ute and house conferees met to
consider the utility control bill, but
there were small signs that they could
get together, and one session ended
abruptly in a real row. Two admin
istration lobbyists; Benjamin Cohen
and Dozier A, De Vane, were brought
into the executive session by Senators
Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep
resentative George Huddleston pro
tested, their continued presence was
Insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery
Alabama congressman--and his fellows
from the house walked out and broke
up the meeting. Cohen is generally
given credit for writing the measure.
After leaving the committee room,
Huddleston said fiatly that the house
conferees woud pot recede from the
position that the “death sentence
must be eliminated.
PERMANENT federal control of the
liquor business is provided for In a
bill which was passed by the house and
sent to the senate with prospects of
early adoption by that body. The meas
ure, which creates within the treasury
a new agency to be known as the fed
eral alcohol administration, was asked
by the President to replace tlie FACA
killed by the Supreme court’s NRA de
cision. Mr, Roosevelt wanted the new
agency to be an independent office, but
the house decided otherwise.
Emperor Haile
Selassie
IMMEDIATE, convocation of the
* League of Nations council to deal
with the Italo-Ethiopiau question was
demanded by Haile Selassie, emperor
of Ethiopia. On - his
behalf the demand
was telegraphed to
the league secretariat
at Geneva by Tacla
Hawariat, Ethiopian
minister to France
and delegate to the
league. lie Insisted
that the council pro
ceed to the examina
tion of the situation
under article XV of
the league covenant,
Ethiopia invoking this
article because -of the “threat to her
independence from Italy,”
British dispatches said Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin and leading mem
bers of his cabinet were believed, to
favor full league action, If other na
tions agreed, aa a last resOrt to avert
the threatened conflict Diplomatic
quarters In London beard that the
British government probably would al
ter 'its policy and permit the export
of arms to Ethiopia^ The emperor’s
new minister there, W. C. Martin, had
a conference at the foreign office, and
came out smiling .happily but saying
uothing.'
- Previously Mr. Martin had admitted
that Ethiopia was short not only of
arms but also of money.
“At the moment we have very little
money," he said. ‘T am doing all Chat
Is possible to raise loans in London,
but thus.firFT'1*aYe not met with a
great measure of si
r\ ETERMINATION of the Nazis to
^ put an end to “political Catholi
cism” In Germany and their consequent
drive against Catholic youth organiza
tions may bring on
results more serious
even" than bps the
N a z 1 ^ antl-semltlsm.
- General Goerlng, head
of the secret police,
gave out a warning to
Catholic priests to be
careful la their com
ments from the pulpit,
and Franz Guertner,
minister of Justice, Is
sued a decree threat
ening prosecution for
any priest violating
Goering’s Injunction. Throughout the
country generally the Catholic clergy
was cautious, but In Freiburg, Baden,
where the Goering'order had 'lot been
published before Sunday, tl s priests
read in their pulpits a letter from the
episcopate calling the Nazi action a
violation of the concordat with the
Vatican. To this charge the Nazis re
ply that the Catholics were the first
to violate the concordat by making at
tacks on the Hitler youth movement
In their parish papers.
This hew “purge” by the Nazis In
cludes a renewed crusade against the
Jew’s and dissolution of the Steel Hel
mets, veterans’ organization. In vari
ous provinces. The Jews are helpless
and, If Julius Streicher has his way,
will be all driven out of Berlin or se
gregated In ghettos. But the Steel Hel
mets, whose chief Is Minister of Labor
Franz Seldte, are likely to cause the
Hitler government a lot of trouble.
The organization’s weekly paper is us
ing language that Is not often heard
In Germany these days, and Seldte Is
demanding the reason for suppression
of the local divisions.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
know* and those close to him realize
that sometimes some-
A Laugh thlpg i?ore than a
Not Enough ,aB S h ‘s required to
Not tnougn killoffa rumor. That
Is one of the reasons why the Presi
dent Is planning If and when congress
rdjouhis to make an extended tour of
this country. He knows of rumors
going hbout the land that his health
Is not up to par and he Is taking this
method of disclosing to the American
F people by action rather than word the
answer that he Is physically fit.
Whoever occupies the White House
Is continually subjected to whispered
rumors as well as* open assertions of
one kind or another. Some, as In this
Instance, reflect on the health of the
chief executive. Others, as happened
within the last quarter of a century,
reflected on the personal habits and
practices of the President. Still others
have related in times past to personal
fortunes and financial dealings t>f the
man In the White House. Usually these
“whispering campaigns” are of a de
rogatory character. No-one ever knows
exactly how they start nor Is It ever
possible for observers to put a finger
on the rumors as they float by. It is
a condition that seems to be bred by
prominence of the Individual about
whom the rumor mongers can operate
because people are always Interested
in what a President of the United
States is;doing.
In the current Instance the “whis
pering campaign” was largely unknow^A^s the unemployables. Tlrese are peo-
success.
D ARTIAL Investigation • of the milk
* industry by the federal trade com
mission was said to have revealed de
plorable couditions and the adminis
tration asked for $200,000 to continue
the inquiry. The senate committee In
eonsidering the deficiency appropria
tion bill cut out that Item altogether,
senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an
amendment adding the sum asked. Aft
er a hot debate this was ^approved by a
vote of 51 to 18 and the bill was then
passed. The numerous senate amend
ments had added a total of more than
$80,000,000 to the house measure, so
the $306,000,000 bill was sent to con
ference.
\/l AYOR LA GUARDIA of New York
has created an International in
cident all by himself. He backed up
License Commissioner Paul Moss in his
refusal to license one “Mr. K” to work
In the metropolis as a massage oper
ator because he is a German. The
German diplomatic officials were pre
paring to complain to the State de
partment that the city was violating
the German-American commercial
treaty of 1925. But Mr. La Guardia
declared the treaty Is null and void
“because Germany has discriminated
against American citizens of Jewish
origin.”
^He'Ifidicated thaf not even the State
department can force him to back
down. 4^
“This order shall be carried out un
til such time as we are directed to do
otherwise by the courts,” he said.
The German question also threatened
to come up in the senate, for Senator
King of Utah said he would ask an in
vestigation to determine whether’ the
United States would be warranted In
“severing diplomatic relations” with
Germany.
r
O PPONENTS of the AAA amend
ments designed to strengthen the
powers of Secretary of Agriculture.
Wallace decided to-let the basic acL
go up to the Supreme court, so the ad
ministration bill was passed by the
senate with only 15 adverse votes.
Both Republican and conservative
Democratic foes of the AAA are con
fident that the Supreme eourt will hold
ths basic act unconstltutlqoal and jan
early test is assured "by a senate
amendment permitting suits to recover
processing taxes that have not been
passed on to producers or consumers.
One of the major purposes of the
amendments was to close the courts,
bat the senate rejected this scheme by
F ARMERS In the Middle West, ready
to harvest their crops, found they
couldn’t get hands to do the work.
The Idle men ordinarily counted on
for this were on the relief rolls and
declined offers of farm labor for two
reasons: The wages paid by the farm
ers were less than the sums received
frotn, the relief organization or for
government works, and If the men once
went off the dole they feared they
would have trouble getting back there
when the harvest was over. The sit
uation was descerate and emergency
relief commissions were urged to take
action. This they did 1^ the states af
fected and It was announced the “re
volt” was under control
The Illinois commission stopped all
relief works in the rural areas until
wfter harvest ln -Kansas persona re-
'"That’ wholly nn-American proce-
* dure, the general strike, was fried
out by organized labor in Indiana and
the 67,000 taha-bitants of Terre Haute
were deprived of all food supplies.
The local authorities of Vigo county
called on the governor for help and
Mr. McNutt promptly ordered 14 com
panies of the National Guard to the
scene. Brig. Gea Wray De Prez, In
command, promised the merchants who
had been bullied Into shutting their
shops would be.given protection, and
said his first endeavor would be to
restore the milk and ice service. This
had been cut off even from hospitals.
* The general strike was called by 48
unions without warning, because labor
leaders had been unable to reach an
agreement with the Columbian. En
ameling and Stamping company. Some
600 of that concern’s employees went
on strike in March and the plant was
closed down, but'the union leaders
thought It was about to be reopened
by strikebreakers.
Conciliators from the Department of
Labor arrived and within 48 hours the
general strike collapsed aod was called
off by the union officials In charge. The
strike at the stamping company, how
ever, continued In effect and several
times the troops were forced to use
tear gas bombs to disperse riotous
mobs.
Terre Haute merchauta estimated
that the two days^strike cost, them at mnr» than two weeks
least half a million dollars. The state
spent probably $50,000 In maintaining
order by use of the troops. The state
federation of labor asserted the sym
pathy walkout was unauthorized.
fusing any temporary employment were
removed from the relief rolls,. In Ne
braska 26 counties were cut off from
federal relief allotments and In 15 oth
ers the allotments were cut In half.
In nearly a score of Iowa counties
officials denied relief and able-bodied
men on relief rolls were admonished
to accept employment in the harvest
fields.
In North Dakota all hot specialized
projects were halted and the state ad
ministrator announced that aa soon aa
the harvest was over the new works
D
ROMPING all their rebellious in-
a veto of 41 to 23. As • result, the progress administration wool!
Hoosack Mills,case, in which the Bee- cars'of unemployablca.
dlgnatlon, the Democrats of the
house did everything the administra
tion' wished In considering the social
security bill as altered by the senate.
The _ conferees bad settled all dlf-
ferenceT after two weeks of hard work,
but one of the amendments they ac
cepted was that permitting private
pension systems to function under the
measure. The majority members of
the house *ere Informed that Presi
dent Roosevelt was opposed to this, so
they refused to accept It The senate
would not permit the elimination of
Jto amendment, so back to conference
went the bill
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to Washington until summer resort
residents began returning to the city.
They brought back-all sorts of stories
that were being circulated In distant
places concerning Mr. Roosevelt’s
health. The gossip, for that is what
It appears to be, spread like wild-fire
In Washington and became of so much
concern that It crept into one of the
White House press conferences.
“Mr. President,” one of the 200 corre
spondents present asked,- “are you In
a little bad health?”
The chief executive’s answer was the
laugh which has endeared him to many
people. He was just back from a short
cruise aboard a yacht In Chesapeake
bay. His face was sun tanned. He
leaned back In his chair and demanded
to know what the- correspondents
thought about It I think that the
news dispatches from Washington that
night Indicated rather clearly what the
correspondents thought about the state
of the Presidents health, for surely
non»>of these, dispatches Indicated any
particular alarm
Nevertheless, the rumors continued
to go and a good many thousand peo
ple apparently he-
Let People See neved that Mr.
for rAentse/oe* K° 08evelt had br °-
ken under the strain
of his New Deal presidency, So, Be
fore the summer 1$ over millions of
Americans probably will have an op
portunity to see for themselveS Just as
the correspondents saw at the press
his smile; thaL his hair is no more
gray than when he took office in 1933,
and that his countenance showa.no ear
marks of the strain which every Presi
dent of the United States finds an in
herent part of that job.
Ono trip -upon which Mr. Roosevelt
has set his heart Is a tour to the Pa-'
eifle coast and return. It will provide
an opportunity for several millions of
Americans to see him and a lesser
number to hear him speak. It will
carry him through territory which con
tains probably about half of the na
tion’s population.
It la well recognized In Washington
that no amount of denials by informed
persons or any amount of second-hand
testimony la sufficient to squelch ma
licious stories of the kind that have
been circulated about the President.
The eye witness Is the only one who
Is prepared to discredit such stories
and, unless present plans are revised,
the eye witnesses will be many this
summer. The President probably will
make other trips during the late fall
and early winter as well Plans-fdr
these are still In the making and their
length and number depends somewhat
upon the date of congressional adjourn
ment.
The program fits well Into the Roose-
to periodical visits to his home at
Hyde Park, N. Y„ and, apparently, all
that he needs to add to his mileage
this summer Is a period of compara- •
tive calmness In Washington.
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If superficial appearances count for
anything, the administration Is actu
ally making moves
To Reduce designed to reduce
Deficit the federal trea- /
• - sury’s deficit It ,1s/
yet too early to tell definitely what the
plans are and administration spokes
men are strangely quiet about them
but there ar^ certain signs and por
tents which may be examined In the.
effort to determine which way the gov
ernment la headed in respect of the
gigantic expenditures for public works,
relief, and general government costa.
While congressional committees con
tinue to examine tax questions with a
view to enactment of legislation that
will Increase federal revenue, the Pres
ident and his advisers have taken steps
to cut down the drain on the treasury.
The first and probably the most Im
portant of these moves is the an
nouncement that on November 1 fed
eral aid to those people unable to work
will cease definitely. Relief Adminis
trator Hopkins announced after a con®
ference with the President that the
relief policy will be changed on No
vember 1 and that the various states,
counties, and municipalities will be
expected after that date to look after
that segment of the population known
pie who for one reason or another
cannot earn their own living by work.
Previously .Mr. Roosevelt had direct
ed hla fiscal advisers to make a thor
ough study of relief requirement's for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1936.
While this is almost 11 months away,
the President told newspaper corre
spondents that he desired to know as
early as possible what the burden of
relief would be In the future. His an
nouncement was interpreted as having
a connection with budget requirements
and prospective revenue under the pro
posed new tax legislation.
Earlier, Public .Works Administrator
Ickes had made knowffi that the pro
gram of public works expenditures for
Improvement o.f the Mississippi valley
and Its rivers had been abandoned. It
will be recalled tliat the National Re
sources board had recommended ex
tensive Improvements to be carried out
from public works funds In the hands
of the public works administrator.
These Involve vast sums. Now, It la
made to appear that th£ PWA and the
administration have in thind some
restraint on expenditures of that char
acter and that hereafter gigantic allot
ments of a public works or Improve
ment character may be expected to be
fewer In number.
The result of this will be, of course,
to hold In- the treasury some of the
total of the $.7,000,000,000 public works
appropriation.
Reduction of the outgo for direct re
lief necessarily will be reflected In the
remainder of fhe public^ works-relief
fund and It Is reported that other plans
are In the making which will have as
their prospective end a restoration to
private employment of greater number*
of Idle workers than heretofore have
been contemplated. '•
Then, as another Indication of ad
ministration intention to restore funds
to the treasury and thus reduce the
difference between income and ex
penses was an announcement by Jesse
H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc
tion Finance corporation. Mr. jone*
made known that hereafter the RFC
will not make loaps to banks. He de
clared that the banking structure was
In an excellent condition and that
further aid was not required.
The fact which Mr. Jones did not
mention In his announcement Is, how
ever, that . the banks are exhibiting no
particular desire to borrow from the
federal government The RFC already
holds preferred stock. In almost half
of the banks In the country and these
banks, according to RFC records, are
liquidating their obligations as rapidly
as (hey can do so. This Is significant
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I have reported to you previously
how slowly the administration plans
07 t » i» * for 8 P endln K the $5,-
Workt-Rehef 000,000,000 works re-
»ek methods. In the 28 mooth. of h*-. p /an< D lief fond were pro-
tpnnrp thp Prpsiflpnt had rlstviA n ^ . * _
tenure the President has done a con
siderable amount of travel. He has
made three cruises on the yacht owned
by Vincent Astor, two of which lasted
eled to the east coast of Canada In
Juffc, 1933, aboard the craft Amber-
jack, and returned two weeks later
aboard a navy ship. Last year, it will
be remembered, he visited Haiti, Puer
to Rico, the Virgin islands, Colombia,
the Panama canal, Cllpperton Island,
and Hawaii On hla. return from that
cruise he crossed the Northwest mak
ing several speeches before reaching
Washington.
-In-iSaa end In 1934 he visited Warm'
Springs, Georgia, the colony where
victims of Infantile paralysis are
nursed back to health and with which,
the President because of his own af
fliction, has bad much personal con
nection. In returning from the 1934
visit to Warm Springs, Mr. Roosevelt
stopped at Muscle Shoals, Norris dam,
and Birmingham for personal vtslts to
points and things Which Interested him.
All of these tripe have been In addition
greasing. In connec
tion with the Hopkins’ announcement
on relief and the President’s relief sur
vey order, It was disclosed that only
approximately fifteen thousand persons
have been given Jobs since the money
was made available. This figure does
not Include the additional list of re
cruits for the Civilian Conservation
corps whose numbers have grown from
300,000 to 403,000. It will be recalled
that- Dtovislou was made in the $5^00,-,
Mi
rr
000,000 appropriation resolution for an/
Increase of the CCO from 300,000 to
600,000. Thus, In two months, the
CCC has had only about one-third of
the total increase .which was expected.
Frankly, CCC enlistments have been so
disappointing that the responsible au
thorities have changed the age limit in
order ta permit the maximum of en
tries Into that'service. Those In a po
sition to know and who will speak
candidly about conditions entertain
aome fear, that the total ever will ap
proach the 000,000 to which enlistaaenta
are restricted. %
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