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Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-17 | Page 4 | Merry-Go-Round

Type issue
Date 1935-09-17
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Merry-Go-Round
Type article
Date 1935-09-17
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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OCR Text Merry Merry- Round Merry Go Round Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy Marks s By DREW fE PEARSON and nd ROBERT ALLEN LlEN i io W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON WASHINGTON The The Harold Ickes Harry Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins de death th battle which you have read so much about in the papers is not a a personal death battle at all In the first place these two warriors are good friendS friendS in in fact about he only two men in the New Deal who have not let personal convictions spoil a happy happ personal relationship Furthermore the issue they are fighting over is not confined to them but extends right through the cabinet Hopkins and Ickes are are the duelists pi picked ced for public exhibition But what th public c doesn't know is that other Mother New Dealers secretly feel just as keenly ab abut about ut it J The battle started back background around Thanksgiving last Year ear when Roosevelt was at Warm Springs At that time Ickes and nd Tugwell spent all of one afternoon arguing with him What they both contended contended contended con con- tended was Spend large amounts of money through a big building program but spend it through private in in- in This starts heavy industry moving whereas where where- as as raking leaf-raking C W A projects ts send no orders er to the steel mills milk But the president was adamant He claimed P W A that A-that that is heavy construction was construction was too slow He wanted a a lot of money spent immediately wanted people taken off relief rolls felt that the government gov directly sh should uld supervise the spending Cabinet Battle Later the same argument was brought back to Washington At At that ti time it was a difference of opinion not between Ickes and Hopkins but between between between be be- tween the president nt and his chief advisers Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins took no sides M Marriner Eccles governor of the Federal Reserve Reserve Reserve Re Re- serve board was was hitting hardest-hitting supporter of Ickes He wanted to spend ten billions instead of four four but but through private industry Most of the inner circle favored the Ickes plan plan except except one one man mall He was He Henry ry secretary of the treasur treasury If Im I'm going to raise the money insisted I COI want to have something to say about spending it I He threw his weight with the president Thus the job of reviving CW A cl cloaked aked under the high high- sounding title of works-relief works began Hard on Harry All this was not d definitely finitely decided until the time congress appropriated d the money Criticism fo for this delay was heaped undeservedly on Hopki Hopkins Hopkins' Hopkins Hopkins' Hop Hop- ki kins' kins s' s head and he smarting under the shower of vitriol leaped at the job I Harry made his plans through the simple process process process proc proc- ess of long division He had unemployed to put to work and nd he had to spend So he divided t the e first firs i into to the seco second d and nd got 1140 which he f figured g red was as th the approximate amount of money He c. c could uld pay ea each h man p per r year But then the president chipped oft off a large chunk of money for rural resettlement and an another another another an- an other fo for rural electrification which brought Hokins Hop Ho kins' kins annual wage man man down to about Later more thore came came off for the youth administration by which time poor Harry was wondering how he was going to g get t his men back to work at all Frenzi Frenzied d' d Activity Hopkins' Hopkins men began each state looking for projects bidding against Ickes' Ickes P W A. A And finally he began going in even for heavy projects definitely of the P WA type where material is ismore ismore is' is ismore more expensive than labor Atlanta has an enviable fiscal record being third soundest in the United St States tes Washington whose expenses are met met- metin in part by the federal government gov gay also is in s sound und fiscal shape Ickes of offered offered offered of- of these two cities sewage systems under the thc usual P P. P W A erms by which the city pays 55 per cent Then The Hopkins stepped in and offered At Atla Atlanta Atlanta At- At la lanta ta a sewage system with only 21 per percent cent t to be paid back to the government To the District Distri t of Columbia he was willing to give absolutely gratis Naturally both Doth cities iti s were pleased But thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of others whose P WA projects got the Harry Hopkins Hopkins' Hopkins yeto yeto veto were not Ick Ickes' Ickes s' s men had gone to gr great at pains to let the country know j just st who had killed them Result Newspapers throughout the country blazed with headlines reading feadin Hopkins Throws Out Veterans Veterans' Hospital Hopkins Turns Thumbs Down on on Municipal Power Pow Pow- cr er Plant Hopkins Ve Vetoes oes County Courthouse That is why Hustling Harry when he started for Hype Park rk the other day was looking a little mournful u and W was was- 5 only too glad slad to have his row with Honest Harold settled 1935 by United 1 Venture at re Syndicate Inc Ino 1 1
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