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Show Scenes and Persons in the Current News ADVENTURF; liic feres CLUB Washington. One swallow does not make a summer nor does one statement, even though from a high othcial, make a conditloi absolute. But one state- . Reltef ment from a high official under the Problem present New Deal relief setup comes rather close to disclosing the transcendent Importance of the nations relief problem In American economy at this time. I refer to the recent testimony by Barry A. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator and professional reliever, before the house committee on appropriations. He told that group a few days ago that 3,833,000 heads of families or unattached persons were receiving a livelihood for themselves and their families from the federal government on March first of this year. If this be true, and it can hardly be disproved, there are nearly fifteen million persons dependent entirely upon Federal assistance. And the condition appears even worse when It Is shown that about ten million others are receiving assistance from state, county and city relief or charitable organizations. In short, the Hokpins testimony reveals that about 20 per cent of all of our people are living on relief money. These figures are astounding. They are made the more amazing when one considers that the condition exists even after the New Deal has expended approximately twenty-on- e billions In Its three years of government management, the bulk of the outgo being directly chargeable to what Mr. Roosevelt has consistently maintained was an emergency. I have reported to you Intermittently heretofore the various stages through which Reliever Hopkins has gone In search for means to solve the relief problem. I have been among those observers here who have felt that even though Mr. Hopkins lacks practical experience In commercial life and even though he casts aside every consideration except those Inherent in the mind of a man who has devoted his life professionally to relief work, that he should be given time to solve the problem, it seems to me, however, that he has had ample time to find the answer if he Is going to provide a solution. Neither he nor President Roosevelt has given any Indication yet that they know the answer or even have a clew to It. The net result of their efforts to date has been the expenditure of money in unprecedented amounts and the piling up of a debt, the like of which this country never has known. Mr. Hopkins has gone about his Job smugly and with that apparent complacency that characterizes the official who Is convinced that he alone Is equipped to do a particular job. By his attitude, he has crented in congress a feeling that he thinks he Is a superior being, and If anything makes a congressman hot under the collar, It Is to see a member of the executive branch exhibit a pose that the congressmen are dumbbells. Some of them are, of course, but that Is not true of all and it Is fast doing Mr. Hopkins no good at all to show arrogance toward the men who go out and campaign directly for the votes of the people. I said that the relief problem was of transcendent Importance In governmental af- Visionary fairs at this time. This Is true bPolicy ecause I believe the conviction Is growing that the whole New Deal policy on relief Is Impractical and Visionary; that It is founded upon a wrong psychology; that It Is creating In this nation the greatest mass of panhandlers and the world owes me a living type or class of Individuals that has ever existed anywhere and that. In addition the men who are doing the Job for the federal government lack the ability to understand Its whole significance. As proof of the observations I have just stated, let me point out how the demands for vast expenditures of money and wholesale methods of relief for the destitute have subsided in congress. Time was when a half dozen welfare workers, college professors or organization leaders could get a hearing by the simple crook of a finger before a congressional committee. Such men as Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, and Senator Costigan of Colorado, and the late Senator Cutting of New Mexico, to mention only a' few, would weep salty tears In senate speeches; they would call for ten billions for this and five billions for that and other billions for other tilings and shout that people were starving in the midst of plenty. And they were sinning in the midst of plenty, but the shouting and the tumult raised by these political saviors did not provide a solution for the problem. I have a hunch that the silence of such men ns these through the last year can mean only that they were off on the wrong foot. They cannot help but realize that their theories were all wet, because Mr. Hopkins certainly has disproved the value of their plans. Another Indication of how congress feels is the movement to divide the billion and a half relief fund, which President Roosevelt asked, between Mr. Hopkins and Public Works Administrator Ickes. The President demanded that congress give the whole fund to Mr. Hopkins. It probably will work out that way eventually but the feeling against Mr. Hopkins cannot be denied. It is violent and only a small part of it has come to the surface. The congressmen could not afford to see the flow of money cut off in an election year so they maneuvered to spank Mr. Hopkins by seeking to give a portion of the money to Mr. Ickes. Now, It Is currently rumored that Mr. Ickes, who never has liked Mr. Hopkins, has done some lobbying in the fine underground manner of which he Is capable. He sincerely believes that the use of funds in the construction of permanent things like buildings, roads and bridges gives the government and taxpayers at least something for their money. But, be that as it may, the ground swell against Mr. Hopkins Is very powerful and If Mr. Hopkins possessed any understanding of the science of the times he would see It. Thus far he has given no indication that he understands what It means. Where will It all end? The answer to this relief problem Is not now Whatt near enough to the Answer? hazard a guess. Let us go back for a brief review. When President Roosevelt took hold of the relief problem early In his administration, he advanced two theories. They were to solve our problems and solve them quickly. He urged the NRA and the PWA, which with the AAA, formed the first battalion of the alphabetical army. The NRA was designed to regiment business and Indirectly force by the shortening of hours and the spread of work. The PWA was to provide a lot of construction Jobs Immediately, giving work to those not absorbed in private commerce and industry and thus take up the slack until buying power of Individuals had been restored. By November, 1033, it became quite evident to unbiased observers that NRA and PWA were falling short of the mark. , So, out of the Presidential hat came the CWA. Congress promptly provided funds so the Civil Works administration and here is where professional reliever, Mr. Hopkins, came on the scene could hire such unemployed as had not been absorbed by PWA or had not been restored to Jobs in commerce and Industry by NRA. It was not long until CWA was as much in disrepute us the original schemes for providing employment. I believe It was in even greater disrepute because ordinary citizens .could see the utter waste and the reckless expenditures of money occurring under CWA for Its relief raking and stone gathering and other nonsensical results. CWA went the way of any unsound proposition. Forward then came FERA. It was a proposition of emergency relief. Washington writers were deluged with speeches and statements that none should be allowed to starve. The spigots of the treasury were opened wide and $ l.SSO.OOO.OOO gushed forth. In every section of the country, federal money was distributed and distributors In Washington were none too careful of how they passed It out. In parallel lines with FERA, the politicians formed to the right. They saw the money and from precinct to pinnacle of politics, they were on the job and they have been on the job ever since, Bill ;ie 5 1 lovely L foun ii'-Sht- e k she 1 ti By FLOYD GIBBONS itVVi7HATEVERThe pKse; of R The Turn of a Wheel They ant Famous Headline Hunter, as : you might say about gamhlin it tt best of the professional card shai to do it. who can keep a poker face and never bat an eye betting their last nickel. Yes, it takes plenty of nerve with your money but it takes a doggone sight gamble with your life. Ive got a yarn here from Adventurer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and unless Im no good at all auj tween the lines of a story, Bill Brinkley Is one of those ip, 'i mo-t- 1 President Roosevelt laying the cornerstone of the new $12,000,000 Interior department building In Washington. 2 View of the Dardanelles, which Turkey has remilitarized in violation of the treaty of Lausanne. 3 Asfao Wosan, crown prince of Ethiopia, who may be set up by Italy as puppet emperor of the country to succeed his father, Haile Selassie, now facing complete defeat. Queen Elected by French Soldiers New York Man May Succeed Controller McCarl It in Washington that Tremaine, New York state controller, will be appointed by Is expected Morris ft t VffMt,' W.V.W.W jrFVTmVOT. keep a cool head and figure out the odds even at moments r Is In the greatest of peril If Bill hadnt had that faculty he wouldnt be here ten and Joining the Adventurers club today. For back fate tested out those iron nerves of his and it was one' most rigorous tests fate ever dished out to a guy, at that Iron never or no Iron nerve, Bill admits he was pretty s happened. Maybe "pretty scared Isnt quite the expression it was all over Bills nerves felt more like putty than - Bill Had a Prosaic Job Checking Freight Cars It was down In the town of Atlanta, Ga., where he ni i an Interchange clerk for the Central of Georgia railroad. El a young lad then, and his job consisted of checking up on can to be switched from one line to another. It was during the j season and there was a lot of traffic on the line. The railroj'' full of box cars and it kept both Bill and his partner, Wllhe the Jump most of the time. The first job In Bills routine was to get the seal cars as soon as a train entered the yard. Bill would on one side while his partner, Willie, got them on the They were supposed to wait for those trains at the but sometimes they would walk out to meet them ar In on the first car. Thats what they were doing when Adventure swooped down and got Bill In her clutches. They had walked out to meet the Special and the late that night, so, without realizing It, they walked a little fi they had intended. They met It quite a ways out of the yard going at a pretty fast clip. Willie caught the first car, but Bi or four go by before he could make up his mind to jump for It the fifth car, and since he was supposed to check the others train, he started to climb bver the top. ' ge tares S t s w from many contestants Mile. Luclenne Fromentin ns their Queen of Beauty and bestowed on her the title, Madelon, 1930. She is seen here being congratulated on the honor. ante, Or certa William see s and diron President Roosevelt to succeed John R. McCarl as controller general of the United States. Mr. term expires In June. s He Threw His Body Over the Rail Just Gen. n Worlds Largest Insect Arrives Brig. Gen. Gilmore Is Executive of San Francisco Fair This is Brig. bator f But Falling Under a Train Isnt So Prosaic1 But Old Lady Adventure didnt ever intend that Bill sb the other side of that train. As he reached for the top Frances soldiers selected shod i Old E. in Time. loes 10US right hand the one he was holding with of the car. His body swung out from to fall. . He caught As Bill fell he clutched at the top his weight broke the hold. His body twisted swung aror tween the cars. Then, as he dropped, his left leg hit the head. He swung head downward and fell under the train. I lay flat on my back, says Bill, and watched the bolt cars whiz by only a few Inches from my face. The wheels only a few Inches from my body on either side. I lay fr terly unable to move. Then my mind began to race. his left broke away fa the side of the car Gilmore, U. S. A., retired, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay exposition which is now under construction to open in 1939. The exposition, which will commemorate .nee ter mal grab-iron- ' hot is Underslung Hopper-Botto- Cars Meant m Nell l.tla I .on 'tine I1 Certain a if, gr torn In a flash I had figured everything out. I had beenlndl land between the tracks not on them. As long as I did Choi a perfectly safe unless and there was the horrible possibility ot AO was a coal car In that train. The hoppers ir I are only a few Inches from the ties. If one of them bit me tier track. of mangled mashed to a pulp spread along a half mile by And there was a darned good possibility that not one fa all h train. eral of these cars were in the trains like the one Bill was under It was the custom to put ", 8 do empty coal cars between the refrigerator cars to cut mse on side sway. Bill knew that His mind was clicking nor' moment of peril taking In every consideration. rn There was Just one way out a perilous way but someth r r so It was a better risk than waiting for one of those murderous toms. He began watching the wheels as they clicked byS8, nay speed and their distance. tie wrcp Where two cars were coupled together the wheels i;o, four feet apart but between two wheels on the same car there r, of forty feet If he could throw his body over the rail as the ' he s be passed, and get across before the rear wheel hit blm-- hed hilr There was no time to lose, but Bill gauged those f every wheels carefully. He nerved himself and tensed t tryii Then, as a front wheel flashed by, he started to roll. er He hit the rail and started to go over. Would he get ban! dldn t know because his eyes were shut He didn't dare ' thing he was doing. Then, all at once, he felt himself go ore' j hm (hi He the rail. lie opened his eyes and saw clear sky overhead. j j era Then," says Bill, came the reaction. I began trem N. mere '8 over and got sick as a dog. And to this day the chiiu 'In hopper-bottocoal car can give me a bad case of hopper-bottome- d hopper-bottome- d all'-hi- i the completion of the vast new bridge across the bay, will be the second in San Franciscos history. The first, "held In 1915, was regarded as one of the most successful expositions ever held in the United States. The worlds largest Insect, a walking stick" from New Guinea, arrived recently at the general science department of the New fork University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Miss Vivian a Walsh, sophomore at New York university, is measuring the giant h Last year the President became that there was too much waste; that FERA Too Much was building up a clientele of milWaste lions who were saying, both publicly and privately, that it was no use to work when the government would feed them and he ordered a quick change In course. With this change in course came ' lx ! a locking of horns between Messrs. ft w ' s Mr. Ickes was Hopkins and Ickes. & V2 A..A licked by the simple expedient of a new federal agency. Bounding forth, liSWVv came Mr. Hopkins own brain child, WPA. While It stands for Works Progress administration, a different name, the initials, to those who have studied the situation, spell FERA and CWA combined. The President announced to the country that this business of relief must end. Those who could not be employed must be taken care of by the states and local governments nnd those who were emEdmund T. Allen, test pilot, is shown nt the controls of the Model YSIPU 1 ployable would be taken off relief seout bomber ami new consulting mystery plane, ns it was put through test paees. Tlle pianeJls conMnicteThv but they must do work for the Clin nee Vought Aircraft for the United States navy nnd was slapped to the naval air station at funds which the federal go eminent for competitive tests. It Is single wing, has a retractable landing gear nnd the streamlined tr.in-po- rtAmieostP, t, " cabin l'"P passed out to them. pleteiy encloses two cockpits. The tests will be watched by aviation experts with great interest Newspaper Union. convinced I New Scout Bomber Tried Out by the Navy "o . AA ;;A X XVV WNU Servic in Anglo-Saxo- n out in 900 Translations of the Scriptures Into Anglo-Saxowere made as early as the Eighth century, though no complete Anglo-SaxoBible existed, according to an article In the Detroit Press Press. 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