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Show v INDIANS REFUSE OFFER OF $30,000 FOR ROAD "The public works administration has been all but swept off its feet. An offer of $30,000 from its work relief fund was turned down. Through a good part of a long, sweltering hot day, officials of the administration had been besieged with hordes of mayors and citv engineers, congressmen and state officials. Each wanted want-ed a cut from the $3,300,000,000 fund. Each was interested in a project he thought would conform to all the rules and regulations. Then in the midst of the explaining, discussing and advising, walked two delegates from the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin. Wis-consin. "We don't want the $30,000 for new roads," they said. "We'll build them with our own money." They added, however, that they hoped the money would be used for relief of Indians who were hungry and destitute. "Good for the Menominees," said Secretary Ickes, the public work administrator, and supervisor of Indian affairs. "With thousands of people using every artifice to seek allotments from the public work fund many with utterly unqualified projects the Menominees show the way with true public spirit." Ralph Fredenberg and Al Dodge, representing the tribe, said the Menominees had decided to turn down the road building fund at a recent triibal council. |
