Show INSIDE STUFF w O By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON Jan 12 12 One One of 01 President Roosevelt's best has shushed privately the impression that the presidents president's big JIg idea now isto is isto isto to taper of off the new deal This phantom but unquestionable authority has passed the advice around that anyone who interprets the presidents president's message as the beginning beginning begin begin- beginning ning of the end of ot the spending era will soon find wrong What Mr Roose- Roose End of or Spending Spending- velt really has in inEra inEra Era of or New Deal mind is security Not tot In Sight not riot retrenchment What he intends to todo todo todo do Is to drive for fr secure national resources re reo re- re sources lives homes and incomes incomes- The limitation of expenditures is secondary secondary sec see a sort of ot when and purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose which may mayor or may not get gel mislaid mislaid mislaid mis mis- laid for a while rhIle in the reshuffle This interpretation Is something of ofa a snowball down the back of oC the neck for those who rose up to cheer the presidents president's assertion that the federal fed eral government must and shall quit this business of relief However you OU got confirmation of it in the new budget You saw that the government go is reorganizing relief relief re reo lief on a sounder basis but that curtailment curtailment cur is hardly the word for it You can curtail an idea with words but you ou cannot curtail a hungry stomach with an anything except food Until they start giving food awa away it will still cost money federal or private S S There are good reasons for believing believing belle ing mg that Mr Roosevelt now has in mind a very specific and virtually completed plan Interior Secretary Ickes and ond Re Re- liefer Hopkins have in their pockets right now a Ickes Hopkins nite nile list of projects Have Possible which might be Relief Projects undertaken This 1 list i is s t is specific enough to dispel the doubts of the congressional but they will not get a chance to see it for or a aIon along along Ion long while yet It involves less mone money and fewer projects than the published report of the natural resources board But the report of the board has been the guide in selections tentatively made and is worth reading The plan actually has advanced so far Car in Mr Roosevelt's Roosevell's mind that he has been angling for a man to take the thc job The man is Frank Walker who formerly was coordinator Whether Walker can spare the time from his private business has not yet et been determined but there would be little surprise among the InsIders Insiders Insiders In In- siders if his appointment was announced announced an an- say about February 1 w The hidden purpose of Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's vagueness is now the same as when he delivered his original mes mes- sage He has laid down a broad program program pro pro- gram and is 15 sitting back to see the reaction He can later shift 50 degrees de de' grees grecs to the right or left within the boundary of his broad program depending depending de de- de pending on the necessities of ot the relief re reo re- re lief situation the amount of money available the public reaction or any other considerations I is is political opponents are be bo They cannot attack something something some some- thing they cannot now see Later when the they begin cin to see Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt move they will probably find tind it difficult to hit a target which can shift shiH 50 degrees degree in either direction Practical politicians and statesmen are already marveling among themselves them them- selves silves at the cleverness of it The They wonder that no one thought of it before You will vill not find it among the published published pub pub- figures of the natural resources board but the Board Prepares board has a Definite Outline nite nile breakdown on Of Its Program its year 10 program program pro pro- gram expenditures as follows follos Federal public works work 35 billions state public works 97 billions bil Ml- lions city public works 76 billions county public works millions land and 10 low cost housing millions It makes billion dollars in all Of course coure the federal government would have to lend most not iC-not all of the money because the states stales counties and cities are in extremely bad financial condition gener generally |