Show 0 v interpreted od j national topics Interpret bruckart by william iceton ii eton D C national Natio nl press it is s slightly y more hnton president since tills three mor finont ban the kot signed nel cli on congressional resola 10 t lo 10 11 appropriating app works relief alve dollars for fi ye billion administration alln in public the use by to late ile works and pub public ic I 1 clief half ic S 4 thin n the records cording to for located all dollars has been A billion projects n lad of expenditure on agreed three hu ildred tills sum ampro million dollars iwas turned over to tile corps cons a D civilian conservation institution tile slow w notion motion of the adman tion in setting getting its public works relief relief tM underway derway Is alln shins birth to program if I 1 immense amount of criticism an undercurrent under curren tot of one ne is to belle believe ve the discussion lit in washington ton it Is giving more concern to the officials responsible for spending tills this vast sum of money in the recovery re reform form effort of the new kew deal so mal many ny projects ha have ve been advanced advance and rejected in turn so many new ideas have been brought forward and ball bloed booed and so S 0 many false motions have been indulged in n that washington observers are rapidly reaching the conell conclusion 1013 that flint congress was correct when in debate it w was said the administration had no du concrete plan for utilization of tills this vast fund to review the developments since april 8 when the president sign signed ed the appropriating resolution Is to say that conditions have been one continual round of conall contusion sion first it will be recalled the president sought to meet the wishes of congress as ex expressed presse d in debate by relieving secretary ickes public works administrator ot of much of the responsibility and authority he held this was accomplished by the new setup that was mas reported to you heretofore now kow it seems the new setup has failed to function and the bulk of the management of expenditures has settled down dovin into the lap of harry the relief administrator mr air ickes still has some authority it apparently Is enough to irk mr air hopkins these two men differ widely in their views mr hopkins II long has been looked upon as a reliever relle vcr by profession mr air ickes has attempted insofar as he has been able to employ practical methods in administration of his share of the funds laying aside the personal equation which Is best exemplified by the ickes hopkins II differences it must be said frankly that next to nothing has been accomplished president roosevelt hns has stated and reiterated that the expenditure program Is getting underway satisfactorily but the discussion among observers seems to show an alarming lack of ordination coordination co and of indecision 0 0 0 one of the newest projects advanced and it has just passed tile the stage of an executive the youth order setting up a program new ew agency Is the so called national youth administration this new alphabetical unit the NYA has received fifty million dollars to spend in helping boys and girls between the ages of sixteen and twenty five it Is supposed to be a means of preventing idleness among the young people who are of the age during which unless th they ey are occupied irresponsible tendencies develop in announcing the new program t the e president departed from his pravio previously s y announced intention of assisting only D persons now on relief whether ti this S departure moans means that lie he has tossed aside definitely the rule laid down last winter that the dole must go or whether tills Is to be an isolated exception to that rule Is not immediately determinable it remains as a fact that the governments assistance under the NYA will nill be available to needy needa 3 oung joung men who are not on the dole as well as to those who are on reller relief secretary perkins ns of the labor department part ment said the plan had been w worked out by her and her associates in the childrens bureau she figured that would be eligible for assistance si al under the plan those to be helped will be selected by local volu volunteer committees thus establishing in each community another agency subject to federal domination and federal guidance succinctly the scope of 0 the NYA as outlined by mr air roosevelt includes finding employment in private industry for unemployed koutlis out lis training youths for indest industrial rial technical and professional employment providing for continued attendance of needy youths in high schools and colleges providing work relief on projects to meet the needs of youth miss josephine itoch e an assistant secretary of the treasury and aubre aubrey y W williams assistant to administrator II have been given sole responsibility for mala management gement of the latest alphabetical agency the helel 8 tion on of miss noche was sald said by the Il president resident to have hae been in recognition of her long ions service in the social social field on and her thorough understanding ot of problems of the growing genera generations rions notwithstanding the sincerity sincere y and ana the desires of the president dent to initiate a program that will vill be 0 helpful bears much doubt one on expressed that cess will be attained sue in the minds of ganv students ot governmental lif fairs there are thoughts flitting back at forth inquiring whether it Is nomiki possible for a central group like the f federal gon alent to arrange Katla factor methods or occupations for a dennl tion so far flung filing as our own it i is further doubted doubled that sufficient elext alp i ability can be worked into any to permit of any genuine good colli coming from the expenditure of if even lav go vast a sum slim as fifty million dollars beyond that I 1 have heard it ask asam d nov how the administration expects to find employment tor for unemployed youths a industry when late figures sho chow larger list of unemployed adults than obtained at tills this time a year ago high schools and colleges COll egLa 0 of c course conr are available to provide the educational requirements forming one idea in the tt general program those youths iho hi desire to continue their education are deserving of help and the h NYA offers a means to that end it Is too early to forecast chit the requirements quire ments will be or what sort of 01 rules will be laid down respecting a in cants for educational assistance asals tail rut but even the administrations most BOB vigorous critics cr atles have omitted throwing any barbs fit at this feature of the NYA NY almost simultaneously with the th presidents announcement ot of the th KYI he made known thata that nonfederal non federal the way was cleal projects IM for construction on what he said was the first group of nonfederal non federal projects un der the public works section a of 0 the five WHO billion a dollar fund lie gave hla his approval to 63 projects the total cost ot of which was figured at approximately twenty one million dollars each of the loans made in this allocation of funds was based on a grant of 45 per cent of the cost of the particular project by the community when the work Is to be done the federal government loans the other 55 per cent in tills this way the cost to the goy in most instances Is expected to be held within the limitation Hini tation ol of 1143 per man per year some w boks ago the president figured out that the cost of no project in which the federal government put money should exceed an amount greater than 1143 for every ma man a cm am boyed aloyed this was designed to spread employment put but the rule thus far has been inoperative because not a single man has been put to work under any of these projects in the meantime numerous and sundry ot other her proposals for expending parts of the federal money have either been icon thrown overboard or have been held in abeyance pending further consideration sider atlon this Is true of a gigantic lousing housing program worked out by secretary ickes it was planned there t to spend and when it wait wai announced a press statement vw vai forthcoming from the public works administration that hundreds of men would be offered jobs within a month so far had the plans advanced also since april 8 nothing whatsoever what 10 has been done toward elimination of dangerous railroad grade crossing cro I 1 was told at the interstate commerce commission and again at abe he bureau of public roads that their plans UN ere all leady to proceed with reduction loll ot of obese jhc thc se highway big traffic ic hazards wi and eliminate potential death traps where highways cross railroads something has bs blocked the effort in tills this direction however and as far as present information goes actual work mork on oil grait grade crossing elimination will wil I 1 not be started tor for tile the next several months while i lille the administration is to develop new projects to aid 11 II and adl relieve pet scheme desti destitution tilt ion one oils pet schemes appears app runs amuck amuck to be am 0 W W I 1 refer to the effort to transplant middle western farm families in the tills matakuska Ma valley of alaska led 00 n carried colonization project was carr with federal relief money and nl m ee fa ruffles families which were uprooted taken to alaska to find the end or oe nd t abou arou aronen rainbow according to activity the federal relief adminis administration itrato here it Is made to appear tha that t the end enam af the rainbow was as usual some dig S tance further on certainly certain y it was not ni in tile N lla Ia valley bec because ause number of the families already be determined to quit and return to their gnei home communities lo in the states bre are OL a members of boug congress ress who tell quainter quain ted with alaskan conditions co lime I 1 that the Ma Ala valley Is brou prou ably the most fertile spot in coll to bold boiu i cental united states they 1 ka the conviction that almost any of of food can be grown gi rown in the sou soil and ww that valley but these men are no illusions they know tile the OT were who that confront those settlers being planted there by the federal 90 e rAzIng cOlO in the hope 0 of alouse hw that area few of them the there t live members assure me can cad willing very long iong unless uncle san sam Is least to spend millions in providing at i of some of the modern convenient fa this day and age and ind j means of transportation word that coates co communication the the to direct from matakuska Ma colony loy 1 relief administration shows ti conceive opinion that the project was IVAS ca dal and executed without any thong thought lit V ing been given to the practical lews lema to be met rT rth 1 A V mortn |