| Show P 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington D C Nat national lonal press building wasill washington agton it Is slightly more than three months since president roosevelt signed the slow on congressional resola works relief t I 1 0 n appropriating fire billion dollars for use by the administration in public works and public relief to due date according to the records less than half a billion dollars lias has been allocated for expenditure ou on agree d projects ano and of this thia sum approximately three bundled million dollars dallai s wai wag turned over to the civilian con conservation corps corp s a going institution the slow motion of the administration in getting its public works relief program underway Is giving birth to an immense amount of criticism if one Is to believe the under undercurrent cur rent of discussion in washington it Is giving more concern to the ouicla ls res responsible for spending tills this vast sum of money in the recovery reform effort of bf the new deal so many pi ill ejects hae ha e been advanced and rejected in turn so many new ideas have been brought ferard and ball bloed booed and so many false motions have been indulged in that washington observers ers are rapidly reaching the conclusion that congress was correct when in debate it was said the administration had no concrete plan tor for utilization of this vast fund to review the developments since april 8 when the president signed the appropriating resol resolution titon Is to say that conditions have been one continual round of confusion r first arst it will be recalled the president sought to meet the wishes Is lles of congress as expressed in debate by rell cing secretary ickes public works administrator of much of tile the responsibility and authority he held this was accomplished by the new setup that was reported to you heretofore now it seems the new setup has failed to function and the bulk of the management of expenditures has settled down into the lap of harry the relief administrator sir mr ickes still has some authority it apparently la Is enough to irk mr hopkins these two men differ widely in their views mr hopkins long has been looked upon as a reliever by profession fes sion slon mr ickes has attempted insofar as lie he has been able to employ practical methods in administration of his share of the funds laying aside the personal equation which Is s best exemplified by the ickes hopkins differences it must be said frankly that next to nothing has been accomplished president roosevelt has stated and reiterated that tile the expenditure program Is getting underway s satisfactorily it but tile the discussion amo among n g observers seems to show tin an alarming lack of ordination coordination co and of in indecision beels on 0 0 one of the newest projects advanced and it has just passed the stage of an executive the youth order setting up a program new ew agency ency is I 1 the so called national youth administration tills this new alphabetical berical unit the NYA lias has received fifty million dollars to spend in helping boys and girls between the ages of sixteen and twenty five live it Is supposed to be a means of preventing idleness among the young people who are of t the ie age during which unless they are occupied irresponsible tendencies develop in announcing the new pro program ram t the e president departed from his predict previously U y announced intention of assisting on only persons now on relief whether tl this s departure means that he has tossed aside definitely the rule rille laid dov down alast last winter binter that tile the dole must go or whether Il lether tills this Is to be an isolated e exception to that rule Is not immediately ely determinable it remains as a fact that the governments assistance under the NYA will bo be available to needy young wen men who are not on the dole as well as to those who are on relief secretary re ikins of the labor department part ment said the plan had been worked out by her all and her associates in tile the childrens bureau she figured that oo would be ell eligible gible for us as Bl 61 stance under the plan those to be help helped vill ill be selected clec ted by local volunteer committees thus establishing in each community another age agency subject to federal domination and federal guidance succinctly the scope of tile the NYA as outlined by sir mr roosevelt includes finding employment in industry for unemployed employed uil youths training youths for industrial technical and professional employment ment providing for continued at attendance ot 0 needy youths in higi high sell schools and colleges providing work relief on projects to meet the needs of youth miss josephine roche koche an assistant assist ant secretary of the treasury and aubrey IV williams assistant to to adminis hopkins have been becu given sole responsibility for management of the latest alphabetical agency the 11 le S selection cie C of miss it vi nag as said by tile president to have been lu in recognition of her long bernice in tile the socia I 1 field fiel and her thorough n of problems or of tho gr srol ug the sincerity Anc erity and allot ole lie desires of if ih alir to initiate it pro pi rinn thail ill dt ill lie helpful 11 ii heas much doubt that n i ce boss hlll lie be in ill alio llio i amy of ovel arall i it 1 n there are thoughts flitting baat forth inquiring lt whether it I 1 is for a central group like a the f IN 16 government to arrange aa e emi methods or oc acim 01 occupations CUPat ions for or a lion so far nun ns S our own ovil 1 evv poli till further doubted double it ill I 1 t that hat an cie n MIRY can call bo be u worked or c into an all ati ata e to permit of a any ny genuine god I 1 from the expenditure exilla iture of even lal a sum as r fifty fly million dollars ty ralf beyond that I 1 have be heard ard it how tile the administration or N y expects expect to CM employment for unemployed un 10 1 ha industry when 11 late figures show larger list of oc unemployed adulis 1 obtained at this time a year a ao iilah 1 I m schools and colleges ot c lire are aral available lable to provide the rk I 1 forming one tie in all IN general t program those you ll 11 10 lo desire to continue their education educato tri lilly are deserving of help holn and NYA offers a means to 5 that e Is too early to forecast batth bat ejier quire ments will be or what bat sort sr rules will be laid don dolin heanen cants for educational ed as cut E ut even tile the vi vigorous lorous critics hn have C omitted any barbs of at this feature or of the nya almost simultaneously ill n presidents announcement of 0 the them byj made ade kno alwa that hit nonfederal non federal the way wai cie clea projects tw for construe construction lk oa v N hat he said WU abi first group of nonfederal non federal project on der the public works section of the div billion dollar fund lie ile gave his hb m li to 63 projects the total cat at which was figured at twenty one million dollars kach each of the loans made in this ill cation of funds was based on a trial pint of 45 per cent of the cost of tit the W project by the community rial the work Is to be done the federe government loans the other 55 PR pi cent in this way the cost to the go pr eminent in most instances Is to be held within the limitation as 0 1143 per man per year some weeks ago the president hi fi ared out that the cost of 0 no project to li which the federal government pot pel money should exceed an abonal anio greater than 1143 for every nun man a B aloyed this was designed to espred employment but the rule thus far 11 has been inoperative because not 1 single man has been put to work a der any of these projects in tile the meantime numerous sol sundry other proposals for expend ini 1 parts of the federal money have been thrown overboard or have ba held in abeyance pending further aai sider atlon tills Is true of a sie gilg aade t housing pro program ram worked out by san I 1 I 1 t tary ary ickes it was planned there to 0 li rc spend and when it will la h announced a press statement rd i forthcoming fr from om the public fort ta administration that hundreds of rm as i would be offered jobs althin vilt liln abras a iopa g so far had bad the plans advanced ad also since april 8 nothing OIL ever lias has been done toward 1 1 I Z of dangerous railroad grade brosi t I 1 was told at the interstate coninis commission find and again at the of public roads that their plans plan W all ready to proceed with reductio lle these highway lils liway traffic hazards anza bl I 1 eliminate potential death traps BIB t highways cross railroads seattle 1 has blocked the effort in this diorec il however and as far as present in te matlon mation goes actual work on gw t crossing ellmina elimination tion will not be stew for the next nest several months mont lis fc I 1 ti while the administration la Is staw ic old lit i 6 tt to to projects to develop new and r pet et scheme destitution one anso of ar n amuck A i p pet net ashemos ap app runs to be runal 90 pl I 1 refer to the effort to tr to to k middle western farm fadul families 1 I 1 0 8 N of alas Ala sl valley Ma of carried was kt colonization project 0 money bud a lt federal relief with 61 W uprooted uproot 11 14 families which were ivere p d 01 taken to alaska to find the ell 04 kl activity 6 BI rainbow according to the federal relief di ilk ID the i it Is made to appear that sollie s w usual sual the ra rainbow fallow was vas as U tance further on certainly it 01 ol matakuska valley NOD re ith in the Ma already ew number of the families its return to i all determined to quit t and horne home communities in i of congress ilk members lucil condid lw ons 4 onule onu alaskan k bilth ith me that the M Mata nusha valleys rae N V mosta spot 1 alk ably the most fertile bold P 4 they cental united states any ro f 1 8 the conviction that imort a of food can le ile grown in V the s S that valley kut but these lre ba no illusions they know knonz the rho 10 that confront tho those e settlers sett c t feder tile 4 being planted there by all 00 ernect the hope HOP of livo er eminent nent in the 1 that area few of theal tl live th ll 11 can call members assure me IS tl I 1 k very verv long unless uncle sam tio t to upend spend millions in provi 10 dingli ajl i isk sonic some of the modern y 1119 Is I 1 tills day and age find stipp 1 cioll 0 k ditmon means of transports tran t word vord communication conni catlon the 10 direct from froin natan colony ca to ik 9 N 1 elief CO lall il vid ln nion ion that the pro project eject as tho bt alli biti eI tI dall alho utne lit any practical i 4 l 41 tile thep 1 ing 1 been beell chell to aels to in lie ile itil ant t w r |
