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Show ! C. W. A. AGENT EFFUSES 1 i i j Heaver City, Utah, Jan. 27, 19:14. "T!io Milford New-, Milford, Utah. cj Dear Sir: I I read your article "Backbiting Do-J Do-J served" which is apparently an editorial edi-torial on the front page of your j paper because you have included the idea that tin' News has written it. 1 ri am sure that you have printud this article without knowledge of any of i the facts in the case. Certainly thi- ' job which 1 recently .-cut to you. .lis not any thanks for the printing I Nevertheless, if you print '.he truth thac is what this office desire-, how- i ever, there is not "o '"'a of truth I in the article which you submitted to the public. I First this "Backbiting" article ! which you implied emanated from this office was not written or authorized by me nor any member of the committee. I, pei.-onally wrote an article for the Heaver Press entitled en-titled "The Civil Works Adminis'.ra-I Adminis'.ra-I tion makes a Statement," however, ! the article was published to acquaint i the people of tin- county with tin-J tin-J facts. You referred io nice "-wive!" j chair job.-. 1 want you to know that I hir e never worked h:m!cr in my life. I put TO hours a week in on j this job. Last year at this time 1 was making twice the -alary that I : draw at the present time, and that ; same job was offered to me this year. I am making less money per i week than I have drawn for the last i ten years. 1 am not working on th's job because 1 could not get another. I havt. a college education and have attained two degrees at out -landing colleges in the United States. Fur-i Fur-i thermore, I did not solicit this job. 1 j was a-ked to take it. I am not work-! work-! ing entirely for the money. I still have enough Americanism left U' give some service to the people of . the United States without expecting remuneration. No matter what hap- pens 1 am going to help the Presi-j Presi-j dent of this United States carry I through his program, and I care not I for all the unjust criticism that the ; people of Beaver county or any other j county can give. I merely want them I to know the facts. And I am going to give the facts to them in a mass meeting in that town. You should know that Milford was For the above letter from Mr. Bohn The News is doubly grateful since if shows that he is now fully aware that there is a newspaper published in western Beaver county and also ! for the splendid opportunity he af-i af-i fords for an enlargement on matters i but briefly discussed in our "front-' "front-' page editorial" of last week for it was just that in very fact. But if that gentleman thinks that we un- dertook to launch into this matter ! of unfair treatment of the west part of the county without at least a few figures to back up a legitimate complaint, then he is not as shrewd as he would have some of the people fancy him to be. We purposely refrained from giving any figures last week for we wanted to see just how broad would be the denial of the "big chiefs" of the C. W. A. and the re-employment ser-j ser-j vice. Both officers swallowed hooK, i bait and sinker and some strenuous I explaining will be in order with the ! completion of facts and figures that are being compiled. As a sort of ap-J petizer, however, we might ask how it came about that Milford was given J but 54 men on C. W. A. projects at; the time that the county allotment was 212 men? Where were the othen 158 men? How did it come about! that Beaver had at least 7 of the 19 women workers alloted to Beaver j county? Where is the justice in1 Milford getting but 4 and Beaver getting 8 of the 15 C. C. C. workers recently alloted to this county? ' Mr. Bohn brings up the subject of an order for job printing and in doing do-ing so does us another favor. The News, late last week, was given an order for printing a quantity of forms which were to be charged to the county but just what connection connec-tion this supposed-to-be federal official of-ficial has with county affairs is still something of a mystery to us. Be that as it may, however, the fact remains re-mains that w'e are properly appreci-: ative of this work, and why shouldn't we be? It is the first order of job, printing from the county (the school district excepted) that has come our way in all the eleven months The News has been under its present j ownership. Another bit of fairness ; in reverse! And we are not flatter-! ing ourselves that this job came to, uts because of Mr. Bohn's love for us I or western Beaver county. Rather, he j saw a good chance to get in a bit of chiseling and couldn't very well get alloted J1SO0 for relief purposes during dur-ing the month of Decembrr of which sum only J. 1000 was sjH-nt, leaving ?(() not spent to go back into state funds because. Milford could not use il, and therefore our county was cut down that amount. I culled J. C. Smith's attention to this fact and he told me that Milford could not Use! S1N00 for relief. Therefore, does ill seem reasonable that cases of star- vation should exist in your commuri- ity when your own townsman knows; that people do not need money for food and clothing. j Again, the western end of the' county is getting half of the men who are at the present time working; on C. W. A., C. C. C. Half of the! money disbursed on the payrolls go! to that end of the county. Do you! realize that your own town govern-1 ment placed all the men who went! on the C. W. A. works before D"-j comber 1st; and that of those men; practically half were farmers, and of the . ic-t many were .-ingle men,' batchelor-, without dependents. That' after December 1 your industrial woiKcr- went on ticca use men weie reotii-it ioned through the local em-plojment em-plojment office: however, that end of the iiuestion is for the reemployment reemploy-ment office to an -we'-. I want you to know that I do not find good about this article which you have written and published. If it had !x-en merely a submitted article arti-cle it would not have been so bad, but to have been written in an editorial edi-torial form, it states the attitude of the paper toward our committee, our community, and the plan of our wonderful President Franklin Roosevelt. It ,-eems that you should hnvp procured more facts before you wrote such a biting editorial. I n not see how you can expect any cooperation co-operation from this office toward you if we have to contend with the attitude which you have displayed in that art:clr. The manager of the local reemployment re-employment office and myself andj committee intend to have a mas: meeting at Milford and have an air-1 ing of everything connected with the work of the C. W. A. j Very respectfully, : THEODORE BOHN, Assistant Disbursing Officer I out of t'iving us the work. j ( Had The News known just how great and degreed Mr. Bohn was, we might have tacked two or three I I "honorables" onto his name and title j and then, perhaps, he would have felt; more kindly toward us after reading our article of last week. But if such a whiz, then why make his office( such a flagrantly apparent family; i affair? . j The wilfully malicious personal ref-; ref-; erence to our townsman, 'J. C. Smith, is probably no more than might be expected of anyone so anxious to "pass the buck." Mr. Smith is a man j of the highest integrity and IF he did take the attitude attributed to j him, it was done with a view to con-; con-; serving funds that, eventually, we J shall all be called on to pay back in one form or another. Would that the same attitude might have been taken by some others! With so many nice-salaried positions po-sitions in the national and state capitals, capi-tals, the winter C. C. C. camps and other activities going to Beaver townspeople to the utter exclusion of Milford people, now topped off with the monopoly of the C. W. A. and reemployment re-employment offices, it is a matter of surprise to us that there are ANY unemployed people in Beaver, much less the imposing number of registration regis-tration cards on file in their behalf. As to the proposed mass-meeting promised for Milford (please note that we say "promised") it is sure a bit of good news! And if we wait long enough the bunch up there may wake up to the fact that the original; setup plan called for a rotation of; meetings in Beaver, Minersville and! Milford, if we are correctly informed.; The News has a lengthy epistle' from Joseph A. Manzione, manager j of the Beaver county re-employment1 service, and we expect to give it space next issue, but we forewarn! our readers to be prepared for a con- glomeration of figures and supposed-to-be explanations that will have; some of the best of them groping for their meaning. And if either Man-1 zione or Bohn should be tempted toi effuse in the future, it is suggested1 that they turn these jobs over to, their stenographers. At least twoj of these stenographers write corking good letters and, with them attend-l ing to these explanatory matters al-' so, there might be a possibility of a' bit of a halo left around the person-! alitiea of their superiors ( ?) ! |
