Show BY MOBLEY washington TON BURM BUREAU special to the park record washington 1 D 0 march 11 more than one thousand million dolla dollars 1 will olic be spent by 45 states for highways highway 8 state buildings and other public works this year the president emergency committee for employment announces that means the actual spending ot of the money oney during 1931 many of the pro projects jhc thc e ts on 1 which these expenditures will be made were authorized last year but it I hs taken ti klien several mouth months of time to rt pans n ars properly pio plo perly drawn and arrangements arrange mers made with contractors and others this billion dollar expend expenditure the greater part of which will go out as wages to workers Is apart from any and all work which the federal government awill will do during the year enthusiastic vets who thought tl te t I 1 was a chance that the supreme court couff of the united states would declare the eighteenth amendment unconstitutional suffered a severe disappointment the other day A moderal district judie judge named dark clark in new jersey had ruled I 1 that because the prohibition amendment to the constitution was ratified by state legislatures instead of by conventions in the diffrient states it had never been property ratified he based that decision on the rather fine spun argument that prohibition was an infringement upon the rights of the state and that legislatures were incompetent to surrender those rights unless specially elected for that purpose the SiLi supreme preme court listened to the arguments on both sides eldes and decided that congress had as complete a right to specify the method of ratifying the amendment in this case as in any other this is just another straw indicating which way the wind Is blowing people who usually guess pretty closely as to what the issues in politics are going to be are saying right now that it looks as if the big issue in 1933 1932 would be wet vs dry with the democratic party lined e d up on the wet side and the republican P publican party on the dry side it is pointed out by president hoovers friends that he has refused to agree to any compromise in the matter of prohibition but remains firm in his determination not only to enforce the law as it stands to the best of his ability but to stand out against any effort to sanction the sale of hard liquor northern democratic leaders are beginning to line up their organization decisively on the wet side there may come out of all this an entirely new political lineup line up there Is a large element of southern democrats who will never stay put under a wet banner while there are large groups of northern republicans who are wet and would revolt against any effort to compel them to support a dry ticket the red cross national headquarters reports report that in arkansas where the drought situation Is the worst an everage average of pounds of food la is being dis tributes trl tri buted every thirty days to each farn family ily of lour four persons two hundred and eighty tons of tood food a day is being given out by I 1 red bed cross chapters in that state the ration t ln includes c ludes flour cornmeal canned t tomatoes 0 M to es and soap amon among other supplies besides these supplies hot meals are being served in the public schools in many districts also by the red hed cross in dickens county texas out ol of 1208 farms the owners of of them and their families are receiving red cross aid this county has had three successive seasons of drought in 1928 1926 its farmers ginned bales of cotton at 20 cents a pound last season only bales at 8 cents surgeon general hugh S cumming of the U S public health service has called d a meeting of public health officers from the 21 states affected by the drought at memphis tennessee congress reent recently ly voted a fund of tor for public health work in those states although president hoover disapproved the bill authorizing loans against soldiers bonus certificates as soon as it was passed by congress over ills his veto he gave instructions that everything possible should be done to enable the bene beneficiaries lie aar under the new law to obtain their loans speedily passage of this and other relief relict measures have compelled the treasury to go into the money market for the heaviest borrowing on behalf of the G government wv at a any ny one time sin since e the war one effect financiers say will I 1 be e to slow down the rate of payment on the nations war debt that is regarded ns as of less consequence than the diversion of investment funds from reviving industry |