Show topics interpreted by william bruckart washington As the federal relief administration looks forward to uie tire winter relief co cost st months when the mounts relief burden ob b Is heaviest harry L kopkins nop kins federal relief administrator ator makes public figures showing that the average cost of maintaining a family of four on public relief now Is a month he says this figure varies materially from section to section that it Is materially higher in the industrial centers of the south where relief rolls are largest and that probably tile the country may expect a bl higher iier average cost during the forthcoming winter the statement by air hopkins becomes exceedingly significant in inthe the opinion of observers alere here especially with reference to the likelihood vint 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 hurden burden of those with limited buying power but it Is compelling uncle sam and the states and counties and charitable organizations everywhere to pay no an added price to keep people from starving secondly the hopkins statement gives more than an intimation of how many additions to the relief relict rolls there may be RS 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 tiling thing as parasites but the mounting cost both in the average and in the total figures fl ures are being examined by many experts with the thought in mind that considerable waste Is in prospect the relief administration has bag been attempting to make surveys of relief rolls in many jurisdictions the results in some 0 of the cases have been quite disturbing to those in the government who nho are wholly desirous of lending help wherever help Is necessary but who obviously are unwilling to see government funds drained off to c care are for I 1 individuals who are refusing to help themselves now how far this condition Is going none can foretell nor can anyone at this time say accurately 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 knowledge of the dole system in england and in some of the other european countries they know how hard 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 disclosed in numerous cities how some people had declined to do the odd jobs created under the Ima make kework work campaigns for the unemployed and had preferred to make their semiweekly trips to tile the relief stores I 1 have heard several members of congress express the opinion that this phase of the diff difficult relief problem Is Pro problem biern really the most difficult dilli cult of the whole structure they want to see the government spend all the money that Is necessary to keep people from starving but they are beginning to demand that son some way be found by which the sheep may be separated from the goats and properly fed here in washington a taste of the afie condition mentioned above has been exposed as the result of complaints by a taxpayers organization the taxpayers group declared that its investigators had found many unemployed appearing at relief headquarters driving their own automobiles they thought it was paradoxical that a man could afford to maintain his automobile and could not maintain his family authorities in the local offices denied these charges the relief experts said some of the destitute were being transported to relief relict headquarters in tile cars of friends but despite the denials there seemed to have been some fire in all of the smoke whatever the facts in the national capital situation may have been tile the condition itself nevertheless Is attracting attention for the reason that some 0 of the soft heart ed individuals who ho usually do more talking than anything else have riser risen to tile the defense of those who called for their doles in their motor cars the upshot of this find and of the veiled charges of waste and sometimes graft in other cities Is that tills government govern Is approaching a point where here it must become more or less hard in its relief administration if it does not nearly all of the ober observers vers agree the unit ed states all hap hae a rell relief ef roll or of six els or eight million which will continue to serve sene ill ii a drain upon tile the treasuries hoth both national and local for a good many years to come some of tile the authorities arp are growing tearful fearful too of what lay nap hall pen 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 that the coming winter may see some riots of a character more severe than anything we have yet known but it if they do come it seems seeing to be agreed they will not bo be due entirely to lack of 0 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 of the winter session of the supreme court of the united S batea new deal up new dealers as to high court well as old dealers may have some ground for belief that questions respecting spec ting their acts in the last year soon will be answered in this country we have always looked to the courts courts ns as the last resort to tell us when our legislative bodies as well as executive officers olli cers of our governments state or national have gone beyond bounds all through the summer there has been the mounting demand for judicial construction of new deal acts it appears we are about to get them in numbers 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 aspects expert legal opinion here seems to lean toward substantiation of most of the new deal activities by the high court but nt 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 ov and so the consensus Is that there will be many ma n y five div e to tour f our decisions forthcoming from the supreme court before it lays aside its robes this 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 nith law that many astute observers tell me there can be no segregation of those two elements when it comes to ruling on constitutional phases of the new deal the best available figures show that eliat the government goern ment has instituted about cases charging violation of codes it has won about 37 of these and has lost about 15 of those coming to a decision private litigants have brought action against the in 39 cases and the govern meat 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 vion n on seven and lost three A situation somewhat unique in A merican american politics Is developing in wisconsin where wisconsin the L a fo 1 c 11 e politics brothers are undertaking der taking to continue the family dynasty by marching in under tinder the banner of a new organization an tire the progressive party it is all being done very cry quealy but the facts seep through the national political headquarters here anwash in washington tire the regular republican publican lie organization sees an opportunity to knock olt off the LaFollett es by throwing their support to john it callahan the democratic candidate for the senate apparently they have little or no hope or of electing their own senatorial candidate the Wis wisconsin consla publisher john B chapelle Uh apelle who ended the political career of former senator john J blaine in the primaries of 1932 if mr callahan does docs poll a sizeable republican vote the question Is vh whether ethor this will offset the defections in the democratic party ile he was one of the leading supporters of alfred E smith at the 1932 convention ven tion and neither the president nor his lieutenants have forgotten that it was mas the present Democrat lo i senatorial candidate in wisconsin who gave publicity to charges that mr ir Roosevel ts early campaign in the south for presidential nomination was in part financed and supported by the olli cers of the ku klux klui klan in georgia all of rich leads to the observation ser vallon that political leaders sometimes do cry strange things they liae hane been known to throw their own candidates candid atea overboard hen the occasion required if they were to hold bold their own control of f tile hie party machinery state or national it is not par ticul arly strange that tire the republicans will port a for the senate if it would mean the removal ot of the thorn in their sides the family has proven for several decades CL DuDor |