Show UT OT IN FUNDS PROPOSED FOR FORt t PUBLIC WORKS v ily Iy Certain Phases of Tugwell's Work to Continue WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V May 15 AP Al' Al P President Roosevelt ld id today that the public tt and resettlement ad- ad would be coni con- con i on a somewhat smaller ale cale under the pending 1 work-relief work nation Responding to questions at his iress conference the president said tan municipal projects which lye ve been carried out by Secretary kes' kes P W A in tho the past would under the e new relief bill biB rry arry L. L Hopkins' Hopkins W P A would 45 per cent of the funds to toay ay y the labor he said while whilo the 55 er Cr cent loan would come out of oC jw W As A's revo revolving fund t Revolving Fund The president said Ickes' Ickes agency still UIl had quite a large revolving f fund nd available for Cor loans through I R Reconstruction construction corporation sale of municipal securities the proceeds of f which are turned over to P W VI A. A The relief fund is in the 2364 deficiency appropriation bill now before the senate appropriations appropriations committee Ickes was scheduled scheduled sched sched- Wed to testify today but the committee committee com corn session was postponed postponE u until tj this this' afternoon The committee ommIttee ha has ha bc before re it de- de ands that funds go both to Ickes' Ickes public works organization and Rex- Rex lord tord ord G. G Tugwell's resettlement ad- ad ministration The president emphasized that such uch municipal projects as he be mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- must conform U to the requirement requirement require require- ment that workers be taken from fromi I i relief rolls He said P PV W V A would I certify rUfy how many men were needed for oz r a particular job and W V P P. A would investigate to s see sec e if such Workers were available in the local local- ity Ily If so so W V P A would approve the project and pay the weekly p payrolls ft Cash Promised IThe The president said funds would be allocated from the relief appropriation appropriation to the resettlement adminIstration administration admin admin- to carry carryon on three or four phases of ot that agency's work fAs As the house ouse wrote the deficiency bill bill it carried for rural rehabilitation and relief to farmers under tinder Hopkins Hopkins' direction Mr Roosevelt said there had been I L great deal of confusion of thought about R A. A For example he said that agency was handling about relief families and keeping Jiem em off the Work relief rolls by grants and loans in an effort to 0 o rehabilitate them on their own farms anns work is going on the president dent den said adding that this as well u u. u other phases of R RA A work was wa cheaper than work Another phase he said would be continued was the moving of pers persons per per- s sons ni from unprofitable farms to better lands Still another was the li helping of ot families on their own farms or new farms with advice b because cuse in a great many cases case per- per Ions lons have not had the experience or to make good In the long run the president I laid d all these angles of ot resettlement Mid nd rehabilitation were cheaper than work Teaching pJ Phase Phases s Another phase he mentioned was teaching men how to cultivate land wd terrace it in erosion places and te teaching farm women how to can and nd otherwise run their part of a a farms farm's activities t The IThe president said bald figures showed this Is work had been effective and that between and persons ons had b ben en taught in the last ast two wo years how to trun run their own The president added that rural Md settlements already tatted were bound to be carried t through ro gh to completion but he ex ex- ex- ex pressed doubt whether any new on ones would be started FH tHe He added that not much more money oney would be spent for purchase of lands b because cause so many options on lands had already been teen obtained b |