Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-23 | Page 3 | Roosevelt Criticizes Georgia for Failure to Cooperate with U.S. on Public Works

Roosevelt Criticizes Georgia Georgi for F Failure all re reT T To Cooperate With US U.S. on Works By D. D HAROLD OLIVER OLIVE WARM SPRINGS Ga Nov 23 UP P President Roosevelt's arraignment arraignment arraignment ar ar- of Georgia for seeking federal aid for public works without without without with with- out setting up legal enabling machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery caused somewhat of a astir astir astir stir in state official and political circles today Coming from the chi chief f executives executive's executives executive's executives tives tive's own other home in Georgia Georgia Georgia Geor Geor- gia at a press conference late yesterday it overshadowed Interest interest interest inter inter- est here in an announcement that Hugh R. R Wilson Vilson ambassador to Berlin w would uld arrive Sunday or Monday to report on German violence violence violence vio vio- lence against Jews Some observers attempted to read politics in the presidential statement that Georgia was the only state in the Union which had failed to cooperate with the federal federal federal fed fed- eral government on public works and would not receive another red cent until it had set up enabling acts There was not the slightest hint of this in official circles however Moreover there were reports that Senator Walter F. F George conservative conservative conservative con con- Democrat whom Mr Roosevelt sought unsuccessfully to defeat may come here for a chat during the presidents president's two weeks' weeks stay Such a report went the rounds after the president told reporters yesterday he had made no appointments appointments appointments ap ap- for conferences here except that for Ambassador Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son who is coming down from Washington after reporting at atthe atthe atthe the state department He said he may also seek Speaker Speak Speak- er Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn of the house While here but no definite appointments had been made First reaction to the presidents president's Georgia attack came from State Senator Paul Lindsay of Atlanta a leader in the group that obtained obtained obtained ob ob- fed federal ral aid for a state prison pris pris- on in Tattnall county and a state insane hospital at Milledgeville through indirect loans to circum circum- state constitutional constitution l ban against borrowing Lindsay expressed belief enabling enabling enabling en en- abling legislation could be accomplished accomplished accomplished without a constitutional amendment and that a bill would b be introduced in in- inthe the legislature convening January 9 to permit the state to issue revenue certificates certificates certificates cates against anticipated revenues fr from m self-liquidating self projects a practice he said already was authorized authorized authorized au au- au- au for counties and cities The president said the federal government had become softhearted softhearted softhearted soft soft- hearted in making the indirect loans f for r the prison and asylum because it wanted to see the state state get its share of P W A money He said it would never happen happen happen hap hap- pen again though because some legislature might come along and refuse to authorize repayments in view of th the constitutional prohibition prohibition prohibition against borrowing