Show J Other Points of View j 1 TilE GOVERNMENT AT Ar FAULT UIl Mayor Ia or Rolph of ot San Francisco told he ho lic conference of governors and ma mayors majors ors which the federal government Ero has summoned to Washington to discuss reconstruction needs and policies a a. few plain truths Thc They were uttered on the theer er very da day the tho Congress was adjourning without having inc enacted urgent reconstruction legislation while whilo it was quitting its work worl after alter having expended so much time in tr trying to write partisan advantages ad Into the revenue bill tho the census bill and other measures that It was ivan unable to discharge It Its obvious ob a t to the country The states and cities clUes are arc all right said Mayor Rolph Whatever trouble c exists centers right here Why did a a. filibuster defeat the great appropriation measures Why h should not Congress be reconvened to take tako up the tho problems problems problems lems fa faced ed b bj by all the states Why h are arc government officials dais resigning These arc are some of or tho the questions I want to asIc ask but there is s nobody hero here to answer them Quite to tho the point Perhaps Mr 11 Rolph was moved to special emphasis by a a. realization that the tho federal government govern sovern- ment had summoned the governors and mayors to a conference largely to er erect ct a buffer between public censure and th the governments government's own shortcomings The conference would provide a a. place for Cor letting off oct steam and an ex excuse excuse ex- ex cuse for Cor further delay while whilo the tho recommendations of or the state state- officials were wore being considered It is refreshing therefore to observe that the tile conferees were not deceived or becalmed b by the honor thrust upon them Not being able to perform tho the work ork of or the federal government thc they do not propose to shoulder the blame blamo chargeable to the tho national administration What the tho states and municipalities need more than anything else is the withdrawal of or federal interference from local constructive projects In the East ba bay district there thero are the examples of or the proposed ed new lift br bridge e over the Ala Oakland estuary and the thc removal remo of or the tho Southern Pacific Long Wharf hart and the completion of improvements im hn- improvements im- im pro on the western waterfront Congress Congressional tonal legislation does cloes not stand in the thea way a of or the tile projects they are blocked b by federal bureau chiefs who icid to the tho political intrigue of or the railway administration Hundreds of or other communities throughout hout the countr country are arc suffering from similar disabling Interference or neglect on the part of or the government but none non perhaps more seriously or more inexcusably Trul Truly tho 1130 states and cities are all right The Tile fault lies at Washington and Jt it is such a seated deep and vicious fault that it Is ia Jo o be bo doubted whether the governors' governors and mayors mayors' 8 conference can go ver very far toward correcting it Oakland Tribune |