Show 0 p Y national topics interpreted by william bruckart national press building washington D C washington in the last two weeks the national capital has been under the tent of a three three ring ring circus it if ever tt t circus one existed at the iu 0 capitol a p t t 0 I 1 building there has been utter confusion as dem acrata fought among themselves and republicans and independents sat on the sidelines and said sic em at the other end of pennsylvania avenue business activity has been amazing the president was beginning to start to commence to spend five billion dol lars in between has been the largest hangover of easter visitors the cap capt tal city has known in recent years mr roosevelt having complete con arol of the largest sum surn of money ever turned over to one man has been run ning ming his brain at lightning speed to make good on his prom se that act actual ial spending will nill begin in two months lie ile has announced that some sixty agents of the government will participate in the spending function b f ro sting n top of the vario is sa s1 sen en I 1 11 i g tr r ups are to be three ne bevly vly create I 1 I 1 iris i r Is each ble to his n nd eich enjoined to bear d in r ier tl ti it at the public worl s an I 1 rel ef f n Is Is in his bis charge may flow cieply I 1 hear general n f the I 1 resident for selecting brinl C nill er tr of montana and ne v york to he id up the spend ng ons mr air walk valk er a lawn law er Is exper encee in a t tig ig business way and Is accepted every where as a man with capacity capi city to do the job the fly that Is floating around and threatens to get into tl e t however Is the existence of two schools of thought in the adminis tra tion this cond lion may undo the good work which mr air walker Is regarded as capable of doing the the billion dollar spending ma chine will be guided first by the prest 4 dent second by mr air P president resident walker and third by will guide the various agencies no v in existence they are suppose osei to plans and mr walker will be expected to analyze and determine their values prof rexford guy tu well i secretary of arI agriculture culture will have something like nine hundred million dollars to spend in dennl ing the auril run districts of the nation in a job vari varl bously describe I 1 as rural resettlement and other similar short t ties this program contemplates expansion don and intensification of work no v be n done by the agricultural adjustment admin and the federal emerence Eme rency relief adminis administrate trat on including attacks on the problem of dust storms and other types of soil erosion although professor tug ell has no plans complete he Is working in tl ti e diorec lion of transplanting many farmers from poor land where living Is hard to more fertile fields under his juris jurls diction also will ill be reforestation and a general exam nation of land uses A second agency that Is new in the current set up provides for develop ment of rural electrification the third new spending movement Is directed at dangerous railroad grade crossings the funds that will be set aside tor for these latter two however will total only about one fourth as much as pro fessor tugwell will spend in his orgy other scheduled programs for ex pend iture include assistance to clerical and probes tonal workers the white collar folks loans and grants to states cities and counties development of new housing con st ruction in cities and rural districts and general reconditioning and ling of homes already existing extension and expansion of the civilian conservation corps to a max icum of six hundred thousand work ers further public building construction but in a less extensive manner than previously was attempted although the president assured con gress that he himself would administer the five billion dollar ickes a fund and succeeded target in quieting criticism to some extent by the statement official announcement of the allotment board shows the name of secretary ickes as chairman many ca caustic darts were fired at mr ickes during the two months while the pub lie ile works bill was held up in congress because members did not like the ickes policy as public works administrator of course coarse as the set setup up now stands mr walker will determine the ch char ar acter acer of spending and mr air ickes and his allotment kil board will determine how much money each may have that would seem to eliminate the causes of trouble experienced heretofore by the members of congress and the ickes organization nevertheless critics of the secretary have begun to suspect something mr roosevelt Koo sevelt has said in white house press conferences several beveral times ti wes lately that he would permit no delay in getting the spending machinery in motion he ile assured the country in his h Is radio speech the other night that his policy was to be speed and assistance where the money will do the most good the president certainly has made clear that he Is anxious to get things going newspaper correspondents re reporting capital news had a good laugh ugh the other day at the at amuses tempt of the demo the press cratic national con gressional committee to satisfy all sections of the country in an announcement made by the corn om cittee respecting its organization I 1 can conceive of no better way nay to tell the story than to quote opening para graphs from four statements issued simultaneously by the committee on the subject mentioned the paragraphs which follow are taken from state menta ments which were delivered to my of flee fice in one envelope I 1 the anest est will play an imbor tant part in the direction of the cam palan of the democratic national con gress onal committee no v being or bv chairman 13 11 II drewry of Virgi nii t representative abe murdoch murdock of beaner utah has been selected as a vice dice cha chalemin irmin of this committee and anler i n ler i lans proposed will lave 1 ave gen eril en supervision over tie campaign in ta tie e NA est 2 in tl tie e organization on for the con ng cin pain of the democrat c na dional con congress greason omi il committee the south will nill i 1 liy lay a very wry important part not only Is congressman P H drew ry of virgina chairman of th s corn com n atee h t I 1 e has selected other south ern congressmen to aid I 1 in I 1 depre gentit ve I V argil chapm chapin n of tl e sixth I 1 kentucky li strict has been cl osen as th irn ira an f the very important execl th the e con cozy cittee 11 Us s is what is histo known as the henry clay dis triet and t las as been a cal battle of ti tie e nation for considerably more than one hundred years 3 unless all signs tall fall the middle west will be an important battle ground in the congressional elections of next year representative P H drewry of virginia has recognized this when as chairman of the democratic national congressional committee he aided in the selection of congressman lu luene ene B crowe of the ninth indiana district as first vice chairman of the democratic national congressional committee representative crowe will have hae general supervision over demo cratic campaign activities of congles candidates throughout the cen aral part of the country his ills jurls dic tion will extend from the ohio to the great lakes practically every nation al election for tie tt e last one half cen tury or more has been won or lost in the states comprising this district 4 in the reorganization of the democratic national congressional committee cl airman P H drewry of virginia has sought to give additional prominence to members from the east representative william J granfield of massachusetts has been selected as one of the vice chairmen and will have general supervision over campaign ac tivit les throughout the north and east associated with him will be rep william N rogers of new hampshire who has been named a member of the executive committee congressman rogers represents the district which boasts of daniel web ster the great orator of one hundred years year sago ago of course it was intended that the statements should be distributed to correspondents from the various sec see lions of the country so that western newspapers would have been told how important their section was and east ern newspapers would have had indor matlon to the effect that the eastern section was all important it was not an unusual procedure but it happened that the statements were distributed together and that afforded the butt of the joke is senator bankhead dem ala of 0 cotton production control fame haa has another idea for leg isolation islat lon this time idea the senator Is seek ing to make it pos sible he says for every tenant farmer to become a land owner he has leg isolation pending in congress to carry out his program and it appears now that it may go through it Is proposed to create another gov eminent owned corporation which would have power to issue one and a half billion dollars worth of government guaranteed bonds these bonds could be sold old by the corporation and the proceeds used to buy land for present landless farmers they would become owners in name and would have the millstone of that debt around their necks for twenty years if they sue ceedee in earning enough income to pay off the debt in that time it Is true the measure would open the way for land ownership and would make the terms of ownership about as easy as Is possible when one borrows an others money those facts however do not remove the conditions which a good many observers hold are bad for instance it Is difficult to sea see how the tenant can make a living and sufficient profit to pay off the debt to ta the government if he has been unable to accomplish that same purpose with money borrowed commercially it la 13 being said freely that such legislation will serve only the purpose of ing present owners of land which they do not want by its transfer through the government to others who may not be able to pay for it in oth er words it Is another bill to pul more people in debt 0 western newspaper univ |