Show forgotten man to get chance four billions to go for projects that will employ greatest number by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON there Is deep significance in Roosevel ts decision as to tactics in the war on unemployment employment on he makes human values the goal and not material wealth ile he finds more value in a restored and invigorated morale than in a great number ot of new bridges roads buildings and dams ne ile will therefore approve only of public work that will furnish assured jobs tor for the largest number of unemployed contractors seeking profit and politicians seeking political oli pie in this oils war on unemployment might as well stay at home roosevelt wont even talk to them his dictum Is based on the fact that there is 13 nothing more discouraging than unemployment it takes the heart and I 1 soul out of men and women for years now there has been this vast army of unemployed it Is now about to go to work men will get back their pep their spirit their morale it will lift the country there will be a fight on Roosevel ts decision for several months people of importance have been coming here wl with th great projects to be built with this fund they wanted dams hood flood control roads bridges buildings their requests total and there are only to spend but prominent people the country over will be sore now that roosevelt has decided on a program of rather light construction but which insures the widest and longest employment a job for every employable these large projects of which I 1 speak cost from 2000 to per man for every everything dg wages materials and supervision per vision while the plain fact Is that there are unemployed and that means 1143 per unemployed man the projects must not cost more than that figure and furthermore it if the men on these government jobs can find work in private industry at better wages then roosevelt would be just as well satisfied to leave the government job standing halt half finished many people will not understand this view but it Is a true example of placing human and social values above all else it breaks away from the material side of the problem and enters the spiritual probably it Is one of the most momentous decisions on the higher side ever made by a great leader in addition to the economic result it satisfies the craving tor for work that thirst for self expression by earning ones own living at a job in which he Is skilled and which carries with it the happiness of fellow craftsmanship roosevelt knows that a continuation of the dole would permanently reduce the morale of a large section of the country so he takes the bull by the horns turns down the prominent politician oll who wants the money spent in a political way and turns the whole sum over to the forgotten man then too there are hundreds ot of millions of public work money out of the first fund still to be spent on works which have been planned and engineered but not dot yet started all that money will be rolling out into pay rolls trade and industry this coming year As employment picks up dp the relief rolls will dwindle and disappear also the social security act which is about to start functioning will start in motion molion a national policy of savings insurance against unemployment and against the rigors of old age there will be a cushion against hard bard luck it looks as it if we were viere climbing upward CLEANING UP CITY SLUMS living conditions in the cities aides must be tough indeed it if the united states government officially declares they are so BO bad that there Is nothing big enough to clear up the conditions except the government itself that Is the essence of a report printed pages long made by the public works administration which has had bad to date to clean up op city slum conditions and finds that huge sum but a drop in the bucket it Is now DOW planning to spend more giving work to thousands and furnishing sanitary homes for tens of thousands now living in crime breeding and disease spreading squalor As a part of the ad administrations rations plan to make america a better place to live in the public works administration has haa paid strict attention to the puzzling puzz ling business of the city slums which aich appear to be a sort of disease which cant be cured by pink pills and occasional attention but evidently must be cut out by a surgeon for fifty years forward looking groups have been trying to do something about city slums I 1 but the slums remain there are more than half a million tenements of the dungeon variety piled atop one another in the fetid maelstrom of new yorks overcrowded area and this particular half million Is more than filly fifty years year old new york Is big blat but other cities have situations just as bad it Is recognized that these city slums breed crime and criminals disease immorality and uru are likely to breed un americanism there Is a close connection between housing and health safety morals and family welfare but ut it Is apparent that slum clear ance cannot be handled by private funds the startling figures of 0 the public works administration show that more than a third of american families are in substandard sub bob standard homes and that the whole thing constitutes a national emergency to be met by the federal government with the operation cooperation co ot of states and cities where they will the government therefore through the public works administration sa Is expanding its housing bowing efforts with col horatio B hackett a former army engineer at the head the housing program up to now has been as slow as molasses in january due largely to intricate legal puzzles and in many instances to the greed and nd trickiness of city real estate operators who have been able to hold up government purchases by insisting on inordinate prices in more than one instance the government has quietly surveyed a wide slum area in a city in preparation tion of a general purchase of the land only to find that some operator has I 1 bought up enough options on aneed needed land to hold up the government unless a stiff price was forthcoming real estates est aters who try that trick on colonel hackett hacked have found it pay ile he has stopped all negotiations when real estate men tried to hold up uncle sam but these things have slowed up progress HULL A HORSE TRADER cordell hull the lanky tennessee democrat who Is secretary of state Is a good old horse trader all right while the rest of washington Is indulging in the noise and ballyhoo of a congressional session hull has been working out one of his pet schemes which he be says will increase the whole worlds trade and make us all neighbors and neighborly with the rest of the world hull believes that if we quit spending money for arms and armaments and at the same time tear down the high tariff walls surrounding most nations we will have gone almost the whole way toward lasting universal peace and theres a good deal to what he be says the world today Is not dot much larger than one of our big states was a hundred bundred years ago for practical purposes of commerce we can cross the ocean in a week attend to our affairs and be back again by the end of the next week crossing the boundaries af of various countries is not much more of a stunt now than crossing county or state lines so it seems to hull that the business of spending billions of dollars on armies navies forts and armed air forces and at the same time piling up bulwarks bulwa against trade Is just plain imbecility it certainly appears to be ba economic suicide and the end of it all will be either a world devastating war worse than the last one or a general worldwide world wide bankruptcy so hull as secretary of state has been plugging for a type of trade agreement between the united states and foreign nations by which we let in their products which we need and they let in the stuff we make and which they need most nations have been tooling fooling with high tariff walls tor for a long time the idea being that when we put a high tariff on lumber for instance we will make foreign lumber too high for americans to buy and in this way we will sell a lot of american lumber without foreign competition but we went too far with this idea says secretary of state hull we have come to the point where we really need to sell abroad and we find our friends in other countries have placed tariff barriers against us in retaliation at the same time many of those countries need our trade and cant get it so hull the old horse trader has been quietly taking down some of 0 these barriers and letting in foreign goods that dont interfere with our manufacturers or farmers and in return they have taken down some fence ralls rails over in belgium and down in hayti and cuba they are getting ready to do the same thing I 1 in n brazil which will boost our export business a lot also in sweden fur furthermore thedmore ther more I 1 we are about to start talking things over anith france tor for the same purpose before we get through hull hopes to have the important countries of 0 the world doing business on a friendly horse borse trading basis a and nd getting acquainted with one abnot another her in a way that will do more to help world peace than all the big high brow resolutions ever drawn 0 0 0 SEEK FEDERAL CONTROL the old blue eagle such a bad bird after all ali scarcely has the noise of the supreme court decision against died down and here are two big industries squirming and twisting and trying their best to get an for themselves one of these Is tho the important basic bituminous coal industry the other Is the liquor business which for the first time appears to welcome a strong federal control the soft coal industry miners and mine owners alike found that they all prospered and were happy under the blue eagle the mine owners were protected against unfair trade practices price cutting and inter business cheating while the miners were assured good wages and fair hours when the court downed the miners were ready to strike and they may strike yet unless some substitute for NNA NISA Is found which stands up in court that substitute may be pennsylvania senator joe GulT Guf feYs cys bill which I 1 sets gets up a little niia in the coal business i it Is written with the hope of dawg passing the test of constitutionality I 1 ind and it if ever it Is turned down you will ind find about halt half a million miners quite ready eady to vote for a change li in the constitution 6 western newspaper union |