Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart national press building washington 1 D C washington in the last two weeks the tha national capital has been under the tent of a three three ring ring circus it if ever ailt i circus one oae existed at the capitol building there has been utter confusion as democrats ought fought among themselves and republicans and independents sat on tho the sidelines and said sic em cm at the other end of pennsylvania avenue business activity has been amazing the president was beginning to start to commence to spend me five billion dollars in between has been the largest hangover of easter visitors the capital city has known in recent years mr roosevelt having complete control of the largest sum of money ever turned over to one man has been running his bis brain at lightning speed to make good on his promise that actual spending will begin in two months month he has announced that some sixty agents of the government will participate in tho the spending function but ro on top of the parlous various spending groups are to be three newly created boards each responsible to his direction and each eD enjoined JOIned to bear down in order that the public works and relief relict funds in ids his charge may flow freely I 1 hear general commendation of the president for selecting frank C walker of montana and new york to head up dp the spending operations mr air walker a lawyer Is experienced in fit a big business way ant and Is 13 accepted everywhere as a man with capacity to do the job the ly fly that Is floating around and threatens to get into the ointment however la Is the existence of two schools of thought in the administration this condition may undo the good work which mr walker Is regarded as capable of doing the alve billion dollar spending mathine will be guided first by the president second by mr Pres president dent walker and third by will guide the various agencies now in existence they are supposed to present plans and mr walker will be expected to analyze and determine their values prof rexford guy Tug tugwell ivell undersecretary of agriculture will have something like nine hundred million dollars to spend in remaking the rural districts of the nation in a job variously described as rural resettlement 1 and other similar short titles this program contemplates expansion and intensification cation of work now being done by the agricultural adjustment administration and the federal emergency relief administration including at attacks tricks on the problem ot of dust storms and other types of soil erosion although professor tugwell has no plans complete he be Is working in the direction of 0 transplanting many farmers from poor land where living Is hard bar to more fertile fields under his jurisdiction also will be reforestation and a general examination of land uses A second agency that Is s new in the current setup set up provides for development of rural electrification the abi third rd new spending movement Is directed at dangerous railroad grade crossings funds that will be set aside for these latter two however will total only about one fourth as much as professor tugwell will spend in his orgy other scheduled programs for expenditure pend iture include assistance to clerical und and professional dional workers the white dollar bollar folks loans and grants to stites states cities find end counties development of new dew housing construction st Bt in cities and rural districts and general reconditioning and remodeling eling of homes already existing extension Esten slon and expansion of tile the civilian conservation corps to a maximum of six hundred thousand workers further public building construction but in a less extensive manner than previously was attempted 0 0 although the president assured congress that he himself would administer the alve billalon dollar ickes a fund and succeeded target in quieting criticism to some extent by the statement Olli cial announcement or of the allotment board shows tile the name of secretary ickes ackes as chairman many caustic darts were fired at sir air ickes months while the public works bill was held up tip in congress because members lid did not like the ickes policy as public works administrator of course as the setup set up now stands stand mr walker will determine de tile the character of spending and sir ickes and his allotment board will determine how much money each may have that would seem to eliminate the causes of trouble experienced heretofore by tile the members of co congress agress and tile the ickes organization nevertheless critics of the secretary hare begun to in suspect something mr roosevelt has said in white house press conferences several times lately that he would permit no delay in getting the spending machinery in notion motion lie he assured the country in ills hla radio speech the other night laight that his polley policy was to be speed and as aDee where the motley money will do the t lie most good the president certainly aly has mails made clear that lie ho la 13 anxious to get things going correspondents reporting a capital news had a good laug hug it the other day at the amuses it tempt of the D the press cratic nation national con r gressional Bress lonal colu mitte to satisfy all sections of the ca con in an announcement made antry by the thee ait oit respecting its Organ izat ion T f can conceive of 0 no better I 1 way ray to ti the story than to quote opening m graphs from four statements is pan simultaneously by the committee I 1 the subject ment mentioned toned the parasram para cram 04 4 which follow are taken from agni ments which were delivered to my BIT or df S gee flee in one envelope I 1 I 1 alie west will play an im tant part in the direction of the he can laign of the democratic national cm gress gressional lonal committee now ow being m by chairman 1 11 II drewry drewn or of I 1 virginia representative abe of deaver beaver utah has been 4 selected teil ej u a vice chairman of this committee aci in under plans proposed will have gen cral supervision over the cam campaign paini I 1 in a the west 2 in the organization on for or abi la coming campaign of the democratic na dional congressional committee ati it south will play a very important part pirt not only Is congressman P I 1 n 11 aret B ry of virginia chairman of this committee but lie he has selected other southern congressmen to aid him depre tentative senta tive virgil chapman of 0 thesillia th the eSilia kentucky district has hag been chosen as chairman of the very important ereau tive live committee ills his Is what la 18 basto ricilly known as the henry clay qa als brict and has hag been a political battle ground of the nation for considerably more than one hundred years 3 unless all signs fallt all the middle west will be an important battle ground in tile the congressional elect election ioRI of next sear representative P IL drewry of virginia has recognized thle when as chairman of the democratic national congressional committee ta he tilde in the selection of Congress Cong reana maji eugene K B crowe of the ninth indians indian district as first vice chairman of tit the democratic national congressional committee representative crowe will have general supervision over demo deino cratic campaign activities of conga S dional I 1 0 nal candidates throughout the part of the country his jurisdiction will extend from the ohio to tin the great lakes practically every madoll nl a election for the last one halt half cen cea tury or more has been won or lost la in the states comprising this distri district ev 4 in the reorganization of the tt democratic national congressional committee chairman 11 H drewry of 0 virginia has sought to give additional prominence to members from the east representative william J granfield of 0 massachusetts lias has been selected as one OBI of the vice chairmen and will have ban general supervision over campaign tt it tIvI tIes throughout the north sad and east associated with him will be alel william N rogers of neff hampshire who has been named a member of the executive committee congressman rogers represents tin tile district which boasts of daniel ivea afe ster the great orator of one hundred years ago of course it was intended that til statements should be distributed to t correspondents from the various sec eions of tho the country so that lesterl newspapers would have been told bow h important their section was and eastern newspapers would have had bad joint matlon to the effect that the easters eastern section was all important it was ml an unusual procedure but it happens that the statements were distributed I 1 together and aad that afforded the butt of the joke senator baila bankhead od dem ala AIR 01 cotton production control fame k another idea for ie t Bank heads isolation islat lon this tin time idea the senator Is sed se ing to make it V pot sible he says for eiery tenant carolee t to become a land owner ile he has leg it t isolation Islat lon pending in congress to COO can k out ills program and it appears appear that it may go through it Is proposed to create another ga 01 eminent owned corporation which woold I 1 have power to issue one and it a hall in billion dollars worth of government guaranteed bonds these bonds could 1 I be sold by the corporation find and ib k proceeds used to buy land for preheat t landless farmers they would bet 4 owners lii in name and would have tin it millstone of 0 that debt around of it necks for twenty years if they aliey silt it in earning elou enough il income to pay off the lie debt to in that time it true the rue measure asure would open the ak for land ownership and would w malt hk the terms of ownership about is as egg eab ak as Is possible when one tie borrows I 1 ul others motley money those facts bowelet kit do not remove the conditions k good many observers hold are bail bad ki for instance it Is difficult to sef ei k how the tenant can make a living rod sufficient profit to r pay aty off the debt deb t t W the government if he has been u to accomplish that same purpose aril it w 0 money borrowed commercially being beine said treely freely tb that at such legIS leg 1 will serve only the purpose of relief reu ing in present owners of land vw willel I 1 are N they do not want by its broo through the government to others ff I 1 in op 1 nifty may not be able to pay for it er words it Is another r bill to v more people in debt a 0 western val avaiu i |