| Show 7 national topics interpreted by william bruckart sundina sun dint Wax hington D C washington in the last fast two weeks the national capital has been under tho the tent three ring of a three ring clr cir circus ci acim cus lr if ever one existed at the capitol building there has been utter confusion as democrats fought among themselves and republicans and independents sat on the sl sidelines de I 1 and said sic em cm at the other end of pennsylvania avenue av denue business activity has been amazing the president was beginning to start to commence to spend live five bi billion I 1 dollars in between has been the largest hangover of easter visitors the capital city has known in recent years mr roosevelt having complete control of the largest sum of money ever turned over to one man has been running his brain at lightning speed to make mahe good on his promise that actual spending will be bein begin in in two months he has ann announced oil need that some sixty agents of the government will participate in tile the I 1 spending function but ro on to top P 0 of f the var various lotis spending groups a are r e t to 0 be three e e n newly ly c created r e at e d ible boards each responsible s p ons to h his 1 s direction ll 11 and each enjoined to bear down in order that the public works and relief funds in his charge may flow freely I 1 hear general commendation of the president tor for selecting frank C walker of montana and new york to head up the spending operations mr walker a lawyer Is experienced in a big business way and Is accepted everywhere as a 0 man with capacity to do the job the lly fly that Is floating around rind and thren threatens tens to get into the ointment however Is tile the existence of two schools of thought in the administration tills this condition may undo the good work which mr walker Is regarded as capable of doing 0 0 0 the five billion dollar spending machine will be guided first by the resident president second Pres president dent by mr walker and will guide third by tile the varl agencies now in existence they are supposed to present plans and mr walker will be expected to analyze and determine their values prof rexford guy tugwell un der s secretary ec of agriculture will have something ilk like e nine hundred million dollars to spend in remaking tile the rural districts of the nation in a job variously described as rural resettlement and other similar short titles tills this program contemplates expansion tind and intensification of work now being done by the agricultural adjustment administration and the federal emergency relief administration tra tion including attacks on the problem of dust storms a and nil other types of soil erosion Altho although pro fessor augell Tu gell his has no plans corn com he Is working in the direction of transplanting miny many fit farmers f rom poor floor land where living Is hard to more fertile fields under his juris diction also will be reforestation an and a general of land uses A second agency that Is new in u the current setup set up pro provides vidos for development of rural electrification the third new mover movement nent Is directed at dangerous railroad grade crossings the funds that will be set aside for these latter two howe cr will total only about one fourth as much as professor Tu tugwell gell will spend in his orgy other scheduled programs for or expenditure pend iture include Assi assistance assistant stane to clerical and pr 0 res workers the white collar folks loans and grants to states cities and counties development of new housing con eOll st ruction in cities and rura rural I 1 districts and general reconditioning and remodeling of homes already existing extension and expansion of the civilian conservation corps to a maximum of nt six hundred thousand workers further public building construction tio n but in a less extensive manner than previously was attempted although the president assured congress that flint lie be himself would ad minister the ive five ickes a billion dollar fund target ani and succeeded in quieting criticism to some extent by the statement official announcement of the allot ment board shows tile the name of secretary ickes as chairman many lally caustic darts were fired at mr ickes during tile the two months while the public works bill 1111 was held field up nil in congress because members ill did d not like the ickes policy its as public works administrator of course HS as the file setup set up now stands mr air walker will N III determine the character of spending arld and mr jr ickes and his al a board will determine liow how i much money euch each aly have that would seem to eliminate tile the causes of trouble experienced need he heretofore t 0 fore by tile the members of congress find and the ickes nevertheless critics of tile hie secre secretary tur y have begun to suspect something mr roosevelt has bald in white press conferences several times lately that he would permit no delay in getting the spending machinery to in motion he assured the country in his radio speech the other night that his policy was to be speed and assistance where the money will do the most good the president certainly his has made clear that he Is anxious to get things golner going 1 4 newspaper correspondents reporting capital capit if news had a good laugh the other day at amuses tile the attempt of the the press democratic enlon nl al congressional committee to satisfy all sections of 0 the country in an announcement made by the committee respecting its organization I 1 can conceive of no better way to tell the story than to quote opening paragraphs from four our statements issued simultaneously by the committee on the subject mentioned the paragraphs which follow are taken from statements which were delivered to my office lo in one envelope envelop eV I 1 the fhe west will play an im p 0 arta n t p part in the direction re c 0 n 0 f walgn tile dad tf the t h e campaign c a crip of the he democratic e m c rat ac national congressional committee now being organized by chairman P H drewry of Vir virginia gloia representative senta tive ahe abe murdock AI of beaver utah has been selected as a vice ch chairman nIrman of vils this committee and under tinder plans proposed will have general supervision over the campaign in the west 2 lu the organization on for the coining campaign of the democratic national congressional committee the south will play a very important part not only Is congressman P tl 11 drewry of virginia chair min man of tills this committee but he has selected other southern congressmen to ird aid him 3 unless all signs ran fall the middle west will he be tin nn important battle ground in tile congressional elections of next neit year representative 11 11 drewry of virginia hns his recognized tills when illen as chairman of the democratic national congressional committee he aided in the election of congressman R E B 13 crowe ninth indiana district as first vice chairman of the democratic national congressional committee rep kep crowe will have general supervision over democratic campaign activities of congressional candidates throughout throng hout the central part of the country 4 in tile lie reorganization of the democratic national congressional committee chairman 11 if 1 drewry of virginia lias fits sought to give additional to members from the east representative william J of nf Massachi massachusetts isetts has been as one of the vice chairmen and will have general supervision over campaign activities throughout throng hout the north and east associated socia ted with him film will he be representative senta tive william N rogers of new hampshire who has been named a meni fier of nf flip executive committee congressman rogers represents the district which boasts of daniel welister webster the gr great pat orator of I 1 one hundred years ngo ago of course it was intended that the statements he be distributed to correspondents from the various sections of the country so that western ern arte rte newspapers ws papers would have been told how important their section was and eastern newspapers would have had information to the effect that the eastern section was all important por tant it was not tin nn unusual procedure hut but it happened ened that the statements were ere distributed together and that afforded alTor ded the butt of the joke ban senator dam aln ain of cotton production control fame has another idea Banh bankhead heads for legisla t 11 I 1 0 n idea tills this time the senator Is seeking to make ll it I he says gays for every tenant farmer to become a land owner he tins has legislation pending in concuss con guss giess to carry out ont his pro gram grain arid and it appears now that it wily may go through it Is 18 proposed to create anther another 0 govern government anent owned corporation which would have power to issue one and a half billion dollars worth of government guaranteed bonds these bonds could be sold hy by tile tha corporal cor corporation lon and the proceeds used to buy land find for present landless farmers they would woid become owners in name arid and would have the millstone of that debt around thir necks for twenty years if they succeeded to in earning enoil enough gil income to pay oft off the dolit delit in ID that time it t iq II true the lie measure oper open the 1 w way ay for land ownership and would make tile the terms of ownership about us enay as Is possible when one borrows ri another nother s amney those fuels facts however do not ni remove the co conditions aich which n good many observers hold fire are had bad for instance it Is MI to see how tile the tenant ran can make a living and lent prom to p the he debt to tile the government it if he lins baa been unable to that thail same PIl purpose lose with money commercially 0 w western lillos |
