Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart Bruc katt washington As the federal relief relic administration looks forward to the winter months when relief cost the relief burden ob mounts Is heaviest harry L federal relief administrator make public figures showing that the average cost of maintaining a family of tour four on public relief now Is 2300 a month lie ile says this figure varies magerl materially ally from section to section that it Is materially teri ter ally lally lil lingher ber in the industrial cent centers ers of the south where relief rolls are largest and that probably the con country nt r y may expect a higher average cost during the forthcoming winter tiie the statement by mr hopkins becomes exceedingly significant in the opinion of observers here especially with reference to the likelihood that there will be an increase in cost this winter it reflects two things first the administrations drive to bring about increased prices through crop limitation or crop destruction or any of the several methods employed not only Is adding to the burden of those with limited buying power but it Is compelling uncle sam and the states find and counties and charitable organizations everywhere to pay to keep people from starving secondly the hopkins statement gives more than an intimation of how many additions to the relief rolls there may be as a result of refusal of some people to accept any kind of jobs it has been known many months that relief rolls carry a certain percentage of individuals who amount to the same thing as is parasites but the mounting cost both in the average and in the total figures are being examined by many experts with the thought in mind that considerable erable waste Is in prospect the relief administration has been attempting to make surveys of relief rolls in many jurisdictions the results in some of the cases have been quite disturbing to those in the government who are wholly desirous of lending help wherever help Is necessary but who obviously are unwilling to see government funds drained off to care tor for individuals who are refusing to help themselves how biow far th this s condition condI Uon la Is going none can foretell nor can anyone at this time say accurately cura tely how extensive has become the list of those who regard relief rolls as their rightful meal ticket some of the political leaders have become alarmed because having baring knowledge of the dole system in england and in some of the other european Cur countries they know how hard bard it Is to separate individuals from relief after those individuals have lost the pride and morale which causes people to support themselves hearings before congressional committees last winter dis closed in numerous cities how some people had declined to do the odd jobs created under the make work campaigns tor for the unemployed and had preferred to make their semiweekly semi weekly trips to the relief stores at that time there were relief advocates of the sob sister type who insisted that the number of such unemployed was very small and that it would not increase relief administration figures however seem to show that the contrary Is true and that wherever they may be there Is a certain number of the unemployed who will remain attached to the government relief roll until that roll Is absolutely liquidated I 1 have heard several members of congress express the opinion that this phase of the relief difficult problem Is really the problem most difficult of the whole structure they want to see the government spend all of the money that Is necessary to keep people from starving but they are beginning to demand that some way he be found by which the sheep may be separated from the goats and properly fed nere here in washington a taste of the condition mentioned above has been exposed as the result of complaints by a taxpayers organization the taxpayers group declared that its investigators ti had found many unemployed appearing at relief headquarters driving their own automobiles they thought it was paradoxical that it a man could afford to maintain bli bis automobile and could not maintain his family relief nellet authorities in the local offices denied these charges the relief experts said some of the destitute were being transported to relief headquarters in the cars of friends but despite the denials there seemed to have been some come fire in all of the smoke whatever the facts in the national capital situation may have been the condition itself Is attracting attention for the reason that some soine of the softhearted soft hearted individuals who usually do more ore talking than anything I 1 else have risen to the defense of those who called for their doles in their motor cars the upshot of this and of the veiled charges of waste and sometimes graft in other cities Is that this government Is approaching a point where it must become more or less bard in its relief administration it if it does not nol nearly all of the observers agree the united states will have a relief roll of six or eight millions which will continue to serve as a drain upon the treasuries both national and local tor for a good many years to come some e rf the are growing tearful fearful too of what may happen should the parasitic element be separated from its meal ticket with winter coming on radicals can make a fine case out of a refusal by relief managers to feed this or that starving family I 1 have even heard suggestions suggestion Is that th the e co coming in winter may see some riots of a character more severe than anything we have yet known but it if they do come it seems to be agreed they will not be due entirely to lack of food but to agitation on the part of some of those who have desires only to wreck our present structure of government with the return for the winter session of the supreme court of the united states new new deal up dealers as well as to high court old dealers may have some ground tor for belief that questions respecting their acts in the last year soon will be answered in this country we have always looked to the courts as the last resort to tell us when our legislative bodies as well as executive officers of our governments state or national have gone be yond bounds all through the summer there has been the mounting demand for construction of new kew deal acts it appears we are about to get them in numbers cumbers from the highest court in the land there are sufficient petitions before the supreme court to provide a rather accurate delimitation of the new deal scope in its constitutional tut ional aspects expert legal opinion here seems to lean toward substantiation of most ol of the new deal activities by the high court but at the same time some of the best legal minds in the country are maintaining that while part of the new deal props look good they are outside of what has hitherto been regarded as constitutional acts on the part of government and so the consensus Is that there will be many five to four decisions forthcoming from the supreme court before it lays aside its robes next spring As the supreme court now Is constituted I 1 think it Is generally regarded as leaning to the conservative side while the court Is not supposed to be influenced by economic phases the economy of the new deal Is so entwined with law that many astute observers tell me there can be ba no segregation of those two elements when it comes to ruling on constitutional phases of the new deal the best available figures show that the government has instituted about 1 10 cases charging violation of nita codes it has won about ST 37 of these and has lost about 15 of those coming to a decision private litigants haie brought action against the NHA in 39 30 cases and the government has won 20 of these similarly there have been something like 20 cases in the courts involving agricultural adjustment administration rules and regulations of those that have gone through to a decision the government has won even and lost three while it must be remembered that only a small percentage of these cases represent clear cut issues the box score certainly indicates the new deal to be the winner thus far but as said above the lower jonner court decisions mean next to nothing on questions of such import as these none of the litigants will stop short of a final decision by the supreme court of the united states 0 0 A situation somewhat unique in american kmer ican politics Is developing in wisconsin where the la wisconsin follette brothers are politics undertaking to continue the family dynasty by marching under the banner of a new organization the progressive party it Is all being done very quietly but the facts seep through the national political headquarters here in washington the regular republican organization sees an opportunity to knock off the LaFollett cs es by throwing their support to john M callahan the democratic candidate for the senate apparently they have little or no hope of electing their own senatorial candidate ibs th wisconsin publisher john B chappelle chappelie who ended the political career of former senator john J blaine in the primaries of 1932 if mr callahan does poll a sizeable republican vote the question Is whether hether this will offset the defections in the democratic party ile he was one of the leading supporters of alfred 11 smith at file 1032 convention and neither the president nor his lieutenants hire h ive tor for gotten that it was the present democratic senatorial candidate la in wisconsin who gave publicity to chaigen chaises that sir mr Roosevel ts early campaign in the south for presidential nomination was in part financed and supported support edby by the officers of the klu klux klan la in georgia all AH of which leads to the observation that political leaders sometimes do very stran strange gethIngs ti lings they have been known to throw their own candidates overboard when the occasion required it if they were to hold their control of tho the party machinery state or national consequently it Is not particularly strange that the republicans will support a democrat for the senate if it would mean the removal of t the he thorn in their sides which the La lafollette family has proven for several decades 06 western nali Ns Nw lI union |