Show National Topics Interpreted by bv William Bruckart L- L As Washington As the federal relief re re- ro- ro 11 lief t administration looks forward to tho the win winter t e r Relief Cost months when tho the Mounts relief relict burden obviously ob ob- ob Is heaviest Jest iest Harry L. L Hopkins federal relIe relief re re- re- re lIe for lief administrator makes public figures fig fig- ures tires showing that the average cost of ot maintaining a n family of ot four on public relief now Is 2300 UY a n month He ne sn Rays s this figure varies materially I from section to section that It Is materially higher In the Ule Industrial centers centers' of or the tile South where relief rolls are largest est and that probably the the co country may expect a n average av av- av- av crago cost cost during tho the forthcoming winter The statement by Mr Hopkins bec becomes be be- c comes nes mes c. c exceedingly cee ly sl significant In the opinion of observers here especially with reference to the likelihood od that there will be an Increase In cost this winter It reflects two things s. s First the administrations administration's drive to brin bring about InC increased eased prices through h crop limitation or crop destruction or any of ot the tile several methods employed em em- not only Is adding to the burden burden bur bur- den of those with limited buying power power power pow pow- er but It Is compelling Uncle Sam and the states stites and counties and charitable organizations everywhere to pay nn an added price to keep people people peo peo- pie from starving Secondly the Hopkins s statement gives more than nn of ot how hov many additions additions addi addi- to th the re relief ler roI rolls s there maybe may maybe maybe be as ns a result of ot refusal of ot some people to accept any kind of Jobs It has hns b been en known many months I that relief relIct rolls carry a n certain percentage per per- of individuals who amount to the same thing as parasites but the thc mounting cost both In the average aver n n age c and In the thc total figures are beIng be- be Ing examined by many e experts crts with Jh the thought In mind that consider consider- able e waste Is In prospect r rc The he relief relIct administration has hns i teen been n nt attempting to make surveys of or orrelle relief relle rolls roUs In many Jurisdictions The results In some of the cases have b been quite disturbing to those In the government go who are wholly d desirous rous of ot lending help wherever help Is necessary but who obviously obvious obvious- ly y are unwilling to see government funds f ds drained off to care for fot Individuals Indi who are refusing to help themselves How flow far this condition Is going none can foretell nor can enn anyone at nt this time sa say accurately bow how extensive has become the list of those who regard relief rolls as ns their rightful meal ticket Some of ot the political l leaders aders have e become alarmed because havIng hay hav- av- av Ing knowledge of ot the dole s system stem In England and In some of the other European countries they know how hard It Is to separate Individuals from relief after those Individuals have bave lo lost t the pride and morale which causes people to support them- them se selves ves Hearings before con res committees last winter disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed In numerous cities clUes how some people h had d declined to do 10 the odd Jobs created under the make work campaigns for the tIe unemployed and had bad preferred to make their semiweekly semiweekly semi semi- weekly 1 trips to the relief relIct stores i I l have heard several se members of or congress express the opinion that this phase of the I Difficult relief relIct pro problem lem Is Problem really realy the most ot the whole structure They want to eee ee the government spend all aU the money that Is necessary to keep people from starving but they are beginning to demand that some way bo be found by which the sheep may maybe maybe maybe be separated from the goats and properly fed Here 1 1 In Washington ton a n taste of 1 th the thiC condition mentioned above e has been n exposed as ns the result of or complaints com corn plaints plants by a a taxpayers taxpayers' ers or 1 lh The taxpayers taxpayers' ers group d declared lare 1 th that f Its Investigators had found many unemployed ed appearing at relief re re- re hot lief headquarters driving their own automobiles ll S the they thought it was paradoxical that a ma man 1 could afford to maintain his automobile I 1 and could not maintain his family authorities in the local offices offices offices of of- denied these charges The re- re ilef experts said some of or the destitute destitute des des- were ere being transported to relief ro- ro lief headquarters In the cars of friends but despite the tho denials r ler seemed seemed to have been some fire tire In In n all of f the smoke e Whatever r the facts In the Na Na- U i nl Capital sIt situation atlon may have ha J. teen been the condition n Itself nevertheless less lessIs is Is attracting attention for the thc rea reason on that some of th the softhearted soft heart ed individuals who usually do more talking tl than an anything else ha have ve risen to th the thiC defense of those who ho called I Ifor for their doles in their motor cars r The upshot of this this' and of the veiled charges of waste waste and and some sonic times thries graft graft In In other cities clUes Is that thai this government Is approaching a n I point polut where It must become more mor or less In Its relief nd ad o D ministration n It If it If does does' not nearly P nIl all of of the observers ers agree th the Unit od States will e have I a relief roll ol ot 1 s 0 r or Elx Eix or eight ml million lIon which will wil I continue to serve ser at as a drain upon I the treasuries both national antI and lot lof lo lo- t f- f cal for a ri goo good 1 many years to come Some of or the authorities are growing grow ing fearful too of what may hap bap pen sho should ld the parasitic element be bo separated from its meal ticket With winter coming on radicals can make male a n lino line case out of or a n refusal by relief managers to feed teed this or that starving family I have even en heard suggestions that the coming winter may maj see some SOUle riots of a character character character char char- acter more severe se than anything we have yet known But if they do come cOllie It seems to be agreed they will not be due entirely to lack hack of food but to agitation on the part of oC so sonic some le of or those who have o desires only to wreck our present structure of government S S With the return of the winter session session session ses ses- ses- ses sion of the Supreme Court of oC the United S States tat e a New Deal n Up New Dealers Deniers a ato ato at to High Court well as old dealers may have haye some ground for belief that questions respecting re respecting re- re their acts in the last year soon will be answered In tub this country countr country coun coun- tr try we have always looked to the courts as ns the last Int resort to tell us when our le legislative bodies as well as executive e officers of our governments governments govern govern- ments meats state or national have gone beyond bounds All through the summer there has been the mounting mount mount- lug ing demand for Judicial construction construction construe construe- tion lion of or New Deal acts It appears we are about to get them In numbers numbers num num- bers bern from the highest court In the land There are sufficient petitions before the Supreme court to provide provide provide pro pro- vide a rather accurate delimitation of the New Deal scope scope in Its constitutional constitutional constitutional aspects Expert legal opinion here seems to lean lenn toward substantiation of or most of the New Deal activities by bythe bythe bythe the high court But at the same me time some of ot the best le legal al minds In the country are maintaining that funt while part of ot the New Deal props look good they are outside of ot what has hitherto been regarded as constitutional constitutional con con- acts on the part of or government government gov gov- ov- ov and so the consensus Is that there will be many to four decisions forthcoming from the Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme court before it lays aside its robes this spring As the Supreme court now Is constituted constituted constituted con con- I 1 think it Is generally regarded regarded regarded re re- re- re as ns leaning to the conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive Uve side While the court Is not supposed to be Influenced by economic economic eco ceo phases the economy of ot the New Deal Is so entwined with law that many astute observers ers tell me there can be no segregation of ot those two elements clements wh when n It comes come to rulIng ruling rul nil ing lag on constitutional phases of or the New Deal The best available figures show that the government has Instituted nb about ut 1010 cases charging violation of ot codes coles It has hns won about 37 31 of these and has lost about 1 15 of ot those coming to a decision Private litigants have brought action n against the NnA In 3 39 cases and the government gov gov- eminent has won 20 O of these Similarly there have been something something some some- something thing like 20 cases In the courts ol ln Involving Agricultural Adjustment administration rules and regula regula- Of or those that have gone through to a n decision the govern government ment meat has hns won seven se and lost three S S S SA A situation somewhat unique In American politics Is developing In Wisconsin where I Wisconsin the La LaFolette Fo let t e Politics brothers are undertaking undertaking un nn un- un to co continue continue con con- the family dynasty by marching march march- ing lag under the banner anner of or a n new organization organization organization or or- the Pro Progressive e party It Is all nil being done very but the facts seep through h the national political headquarters here In Wash Wash- In ington ton The regular Republican organization tion sees an opportunity to knock oil oil off the by throwing their support to John M. M Callahan the Democratic candidate for th the seriate Apparently the they have little tittle or no hope of electing their own senatorIal senatorial sen zen atonal candidate the Wisconsin publisher John B. B who ended the political career of former former for for- mer mci Senator John J J. J Blame in the primaries of 1032 1932 If It Sir Mr Callahan does docs poll a sizeable sizeable size size- able Republican vote ote the question Is whether this will offset the defections defections Lions in the Democratic party lie ne was one of ot the feadIn leading supporters of Alfred Alfrod E. E Smith at nt the tue 1032 1932 convention convention con con- and neither the President nor his lieutenants have forgotten that It was the present Democratic senatorial candidate ato In Wisconsin who gave publicity to charges that Mr Roosevelt's early campaign In Inthe Inthe inthe the South for Presidential nomination nomina tion was in part financed and supported supported sup sup- ported by hy the officers of the Ku Eu Klux Klan In Georgia All of which leads to the observation observation ob ob- ob uLlon sel that p political leaders sometimes do very strange things s. s They have ha been en known to throw their own candidates overboard o when the occasion required If It they were to hold their own control of the party machinery state stale or na na- na Consequently It Is not par par- stran strange e that the Republicans leans will support a Democrat for forthe forthe forthe the senate If it It would mean the removal re re- removal re- re moval mo of ot the thc thorn in their sides which the family has I proven pro for several decades CL e. 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