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CURRENT EVENTS
PUSS IN REVIEW
PRESIDENT PLANS TO AID YOUTH
—TAX-RICH BILL HELD
OVER.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Q Western Newspaper Union.
yoUTIl between sixteen and twenty-
* live will be served $50,000,000 for a
nation-wide Job hunt and further train¬
ing of young men and women to hold
Jobs after they get
them, through Presi¬
dent Roosevelt’s new
“National Youth ad¬
ministration," Itself
administered under
the works relief pro¬
gram by Miss Jose¬
phine Roche, assistant
secretary of the trea¬
sury, and Aubrey Wil¬
liams, assistant t o
Aubrey Harry L. Hopkins,
works-progress admin¬
William* istrator.
The new organization will endeavor to:
1. Find employment In private In¬
dustry for unemployed youth.
2. Train and retrain for industrial,
technical and professional employment
opportunities.
3. Provide for a continuing attend¬
ance at high school and college.
4. Provide works-relief projects de¬
signed to meet the needs of youth.
The average payment for youths on
relief work will be $15 a month; those
going to high school would be given $0
a month; college, $15 a month.
The problem of what to do with the
youth who finishes school, supposedly
equipped to make his real start In
life, and finds what few Jobs there
are nre given to older and married men
and women, as well as the youth who
Is unable to finish school because of
poor circumstances, has been one of
the most discouraging aspects of the
entire depression. The NY A will at¬
tempt to remedy It by divisions set
up to work with private industry and
schools in each state, co-ordinated by
national headquarters in Washington.
T EGISLATfVE administration lead-
ers, for a while in a frenzy of anxi¬
ety to hitch the President’s tax-the-
rich program to the resolution extend¬
ing the so-called “nuisance” excise
tuxes, thereby speeding it through the
Washington legislative factory In four
days, suddenly disclaimed any intention
of such procedure, and let the $500,000,-
000 tax extension ride along unappend¬
ed. Congress will consider the new tax¬
ation program during early July.
This program Is expected to produce
some $340,000,000 In new revenue, prin¬
cipally from Inheritance and gift taxes,
Increased taxes on the highest Income
brackets, and corporation taxes grad¬
uated from 10 per cent to 17% percent.
The program has been held up ns a
sweetmeat to placate the sugar palate
of Louisiana's Kingfish. Actually, a
wealth of $340,000,000 shared among
120,000,000 Americans would amount to
about $2.83 a head—all of which would
be applied to a public debt of $29,-
000,000,000 and a budget of $8,500,-
000,000, anyway.
The net taxable worth of the 133
estates which paid taxes based on a
valuation of $1,000,000 each In 1933 was
$284,(XXI,000. If the government had
taxed these estates 100 per cent, seiz¬
ing them entirely, they would have
been worth only $2.37 a head to the
American population. If the govern¬
ment confiscated all Income of more
than $1,000,000 in 1933, It would have
tnken an army of trucks loaded with
small change to distribute It, for each
American would get only 45 cents. And
the general opinion of administration
leaders in the senate was that the taxes
obtained from the rich might possibly
eliminate the necessity of the “nui¬
sance” taxes after another year.
rpHE 1 federal government with began a
new fiscal year intentions of
spending more money than in any pre¬
vious year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt an¬
nounced that he would spend $8,520,-
000,000, of which $4,582,000,000 will go
for “recovery and relief.” He expects
the treasury to collect $3,901,(XX),000.
No, it doesn’t add up. The deficit for
the new fiscal year will he $4,52S,000,-
000, It Is estimated.
The fiscal year just passed came to
an end with the public debt at a new
peace-time peak of $28,005,(X)0,000, still
some shy of the $31,(XX).000,000 the
President estimated a year ago. To
finance the new budget, he had count¬
ed In part upon the $500,000,000 ex¬
tension of “nuisance” taxes just
passed by congress, but not upon the
tax-the-rich program which the New
Dealers hope to Jockey through some
time in August. Estimates have it
that this will net another $340,000,000.
The expenditure for the past year is
only $7,258,000,000 instead of $8,571,-
000,000 forecast at the start of the
year. The deficit was $3,472,347,000
instead of the proposed $4.865),000.000.
If the expenditures outlined in the
15)36 budget reach the estimated total,
the public debt on July 1 next year
would stand at $34,239,(XX),000.
During the next year the President
expects to spend $4,880,000,000 for re¬
lief and for the employment of 3,500,-
•00 Idle workers. A general upswing
n business would Improve the revenue
expected by the treasury. The I’resl-
lent counted on $3,711,000,000 coming
n during the 1935 fiscal year. Ite-
eipts proved to be S3.7S5.000,000.
a FTER one of the bitterest legisla-
*• a tive fights of recent years the
muse voted 216 to 146 against the
death clause” of the utilities bill, a
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
War Possible, Four Kinds
10.000 Million Questions
Our Large Gold Pile
Knows Too Much at Four
Russian newspapers, speaking offi-
aAaliy, accuse Japan of stirring up I
trouble along the
Russian border, to
"bring on grave
complications.”
A protest carries
Stalin’s warning to
Japan that a con¬
tinuation of these
Incidents “may have
serious conse¬
quences In the re¬
lations of Russia
and Japan, and
peace In the Far
East.”
If Russia and Ja¬
pan should have a
Arthur Brisbane serious disagree¬
ment, Russia's equipment In the way
of submarines and airplanes, all with¬
in 400 miles of Tokyo, would probably
enable other countries to stop worry¬
ing about Japan’s military plans.
England does not approve of Mus¬
solini's plans In Abyssinia, and the
question arises, Would England close,
the Suez canal, the short cut for Ital¬
ian troops and supplies to Abyssinia? I
Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to
fly over the Suez canal area?
The answer as to closing the Suez
canal by Britain would probably tie
no. England would not voluntarily
provoke hostilities witii Italy. She
really wants peace. But, how easily
war could come—French against Ber¬
man or English against Italian or Jap¬
anese against Russian I
Germany undertakes to establish a
“family free” for each of its 66,000,-
000 inhabitants, which means asking,
answering, writing down ten thousand
million questions.
The sensible answer would be, “I
descend from Adam, with heaven
knows how many mixtures in my blood
on the way up," but Hitler would not
accept that. Young couples getting
marriage licenses are questioned: j
“What were your eight great-grand-
parents like? Did they have any Ne¬
groid or Jewish blood?
“Were they fond of telling the
truth? Did they have imagination,
driving power?”
Ten thousand million foolish ques¬
tions would seem to set a new record.
—--«
F The “greatest" country in tlie world,
supposed to lie the most intelligent,
owns some tons of gold, called
“worth” nine thousand million dollars.
We do not use the gold, or even In¬
vest part of it In adequate national
defense, that would protect it. We
nre afraid some one may come, wilh
better airplanes and submarines than
ours, and steal it; so the government
will dig a deep hole, far from the
coast, put in it a huge safe, and hide
away the gold lump, that Is used only
to impress the financial imagination
of the world and keep foreigners from
knocking down our currency.
Dolores Anne Diamond, only four, i
surprised teachers In a Schenectady 1
kindergarten. She said the games for
little children bored her, and she could
recite the alphabet backward.
Dolores was moved to the first
grade, and could have gone child higher.^ of
She has the intelligence of a
fourteen.
Usually It Is better for a child to de¬
velop slowly and normally. . The in¬
fant prodigy Is usually dull later. Per¬
haps little Dolores will be an excep¬
tion, like Mozart, and, at eighteen, ns
wise as Hypatia, with a happier end¬
ing.
r -
Lloyd George, in spite of his seven¬
ty-two years, returns to active politics.
He hates the “arid atmosphere of po¬
litical controversy” and returns to ac¬
tive politics only because he believes
that world conditions are growing
worse, and “from the point of view
of peace are worse than before 1914.’
Miss Koutnnova, Russian, twenty
one years old, jumped 25.420 feet from
an airplane without oxygen apparatus
and landed In a cabbage field afte
turning over four times before he
parachute opened. She claims the f<
male record.
Russia Is teaching millions of youn
people to use parachutes, the first stei
In curing nervousness in flying. Here
we have only a small handful of excel
lent pilots, but the Masses of our popu
latlon know as little about aviation as
they do about “geometry in space.”
Mr. Werner Kahn, district leader of
“Hitler Youth,” says Nazi doctrines
have become Germany’s real religion,
and “the time must come when entry
Into the Hitler Youth organization will
take the place now occupied by Cath
olic or Protestant confirmation.* Fur¬
thermore, the young gentleman says.
“I declare to all enemies of Hitler
Youth that the fuehrer Is our faith
and national socialism Is our religion.”
Millions of us go through life getting
little sunshine, rarely If ever looking
at the stars, our interests not unlike
that of the entomologically Interest¬
ing tumblebug, that spends its life in
the field, rolling little balls of manure
into a burrow. He doesn’t even realize
that there is a sun, or stars, and many
men are like hire, although they may
“own fine country places.”
©, Kina Features Syndicate, Inc,
WNU Service.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY. JULY 11. 1935
provision put upon the measurs when
the senate passed it by one vote, to
abolish in seven years all public utility
holding companies which the securi¬
ties commission deemed "unnecessary.”
The interstate commerce committee
of the house voted to give the commis¬
sion immediate discretionary author¬
ity. After the final passage of the
utilities hill it will go to a confer¬
ence committee to have the differences
between tly; two houses Ironed ouL
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT asked
U congress to prevent holders of fed¬
eral gold bonds from suing the gov¬
ernment for damages they may have
suffered because the New Ileal went
back on the gold payment pledge.
The Chief Executive asked that an
appropriation be made for Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau to pay off
$8,(XX),(XX),(XX) in cash to bond holders
who demanded immediate cash pay¬
ment. Bond holders who plan to con¬
vert their bonds into cash and buy for¬
eign gold will be given 100 paper dol¬
lars for a $100 gold bond. They con¬
tend that because it takes $1.69 to buy
what was $1 worth of gold before the
New Deal, they should be paid $169 In
cash.
The President's stand was that the
privilege of suing was an “act of
grace” bestowed by the government.
He asked that the privilege be with¬
drawn from the holders of gold bonds
to prevent the use of the courts “in aid
of efforts to sabotage the operations
of the government or In aid of private
speculation.’’
plON. HUGH S. JOHNSON, once
v_J ambitious to direct the $3,000,000,-
(XX) public works program, was named
to direct a comparatively small part
of the President's now
$4,000,(XX),(XX) works-
relief schedule. As di¬
rector of works-relief
jj 4: in New York city, he
will co-ordinate the
program In that area.
I ,/$■ ' A* With the famed fight¬
ing jaw determinedly
mM set, he revealed the
four conditions under
which he accepted the
«§» y v job:
new
Gen. Johnson He will get no pay,
only $7.8<K) for a year’s expenses. (He
got $6,(XX) a year for this purpose dur¬
ing most of his time as keeper of the
Blue Eagle.) His job will end October
1, unless he and the administration
agree that it shall continue. He will
devote a minimum of four days a
week to his official duties. And he
will consult with Mayor Fiorello H.
La Guardla as far as possible, but will
be responsible to Harry L. Hopkins.
VTKW YORK’S Harlem and Its kin-
iN <i r ed negro populations through¬
out the land resounded In jubilation,
with chicken an’ ham in every fryln’
pan and juniper juice flowing freely,
as Joe Louis, the first great brown
hope of pugilism since Jack Johnson,
established himself as a real threat
to the world’s heavyweight boxing
championship.
The D-atroiter cut Prim© Camera,
Italian human skyscraper, to ribbons
for five rounds, knocked him down
three times in the sixth, and was de¬
clared the winner by technical knock¬
out in a bout at the Yankee stadium.
T IKE most Utopias, the new one In
L-j Alaska’s Matanuska valley has
been reported a nest of discontent;
the disillusionment apparently was
manifest even quicker than usual In
this case. Minnesota, Michigan and
Wisconsin farm families who made up
a large share of the recent expedition
to begin life anew in the North Pa¬
cific territory drafted a list of griev¬
ances for the FERA trouble shooter,
Eugene Carr.
Many of them said the project was
misrepresented, that the land is poor
and that housing is not what they
were led to believe it would be. Neith¬
er are medical service, school facilities,
seeds disbursed for planting, the cli¬
mate and prices for groceries meas¬
uring up to advance word-pictures.
There Is considerable jealousy existent
over the distribution of farm land. And
to top It all off. the Utopians want
government pay for their work.
'T'HE week’s peak in crime was
reached when Detroit police found
Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent
New York attorney and nephew of
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
lying dead in a ditch beside a lonely
Rouge park road with a bullet through
his head and another through his chest.
Dickinson, a law associate of
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had been
in Detroit on business of the $40,000.-
000 estate of the late William H.
Yawkey. Apparently, he had driven
to Rouge park while on a drinking
party after business hours. His com¬
panions on the ride, who were William
Schweitzer, Detroit underworld char¬
acter, and three burlesque-show girls,
all of whom he had picked up at his
hotel In the motor city, fled the scene
and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind.,
where they were arrested.
After several days of grilling by po¬
lice, the four confessed they had plot¬
ted the murder to rob Dickinson.
Sweitzer admitted firing the shots.
Their loot was $134.
U r'N ETERMINED that what goes up
must stay up, Fred and A1 Key.
endurance fliers, broke the worlds
time record for keeping a piane aloft,
landing after 653% hours In the air
at Meridan, Miss. They passed the
unofficial endurance record of 647
hours. 2S minutes and 30 seconds set
in 1930 by Dale Jackson and Forest
O’Brien at St. Louis. Days before
they had soared over the official mark
of 553 hours. 51 minutes and 30 sec¬
onds set at Chicago by John and Ken
neth Hunter.
O EPUBLICAN senators were ad-
FN vised that former President Her¬
bert Hoover will not be a candidate for
the Republican nomination in the Pres¬
idential race of 1936.
They were advised
that Mr. Hoover would
make the formal an¬
nouncement some time
this summer. He is
staying out, It was
said, because he in¬
tends to remain in pri¬
vate life and has
planned his future ca¬
reer along that line.
For his active criti¬
Herbert cisms of administra¬
Hoover tion policies the rea¬
son was given that, although he does
not “choose to run,” he thought the
party needed some sort of direction;
now that his candidacy is shelved, It
is expected that his political utterances
will be clothed In considerably less au¬
thority.
The informers, however, assured the
senators that Mr. Hoover would get
behind the party’s candidate and enter
the campaign for him, and that he
thinks, with unification growing, the
Republican prospects are looking
brighter day by day.
pAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, England’s
Kj journeyman trouble shooter, elec¬
trified the British Isles by announcing
j that Great Selassie, Britain had offered of Abyssinia, to give
Ilaile emperor
a generous strip of British Somaliland
j to replace territory acquired by Italy,
i if the Italian government would prom¬
ise not to wage war against the domain
of Africa’s “Conquering Lion of
Judah.”
Nothing doing, said Premier Musso¬
lini, who has turned a deaf ear to
all Britain’s proposals of an Italo-Ethi-
j opian compromise. He was ahead reported with
as Intending to go right
his plan of a four-years’ war to effect
the complete pacification of the Afri¬
can empire. He insists that there
must be more room In Africa for over-
populated Italy to expand.
Mussolini has threatened to “remem¬
ber” the nations which have offered to
furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they
have withdrawn or modified their of¬
fers. The African emperor pleaded:
“If we are in the right and if civl-
Mlzed nations are unable to prevent
I this war, at least do not deny us the
means of defending ourselves.”
Captain Eden met with no more suc¬
cess In his efforts to explain to the
Fascist dictator England’s bilateral
| arms agreement with Germany. Mus¬
solini sided with France in objecting
to the pact.
SECRETARY of the Navy Swanson
^ asked bids from private yards on
13 vessels and was prepared to nego¬
tiate for 11 more, launching the navy’s
1935-36 construction program within 20
hours after receiving the required
funds from congress. Included in the
program are: Two new cruisers of
10,000 tons each, equipped with six-
inch guns and at least four airplanes
apiece; one aircraft carrier, three
heavy destroyers, twelve light destroy¬
ers and six submarines.
/CITIZENS everywhere were urged
by Attorney General Cummings to
assist the federal government In
“cracking down” on bucket shops
which are swindling
the public out of mil¬
lions of dollars. He
declared that a na¬
tion-wide chain is
operating. Most of
their victims are doc¬
tors, lawyers, profes¬
sors and business men,
he said.
“W e know the
names of the ringlead¬
Atty. Gen. ers,” said Mr. Cum¬
Cummings mings, “but it will
take co-operation of
I both the public and legitimate brokers
to put them where they belong—behind
| the bars.”
Most of the victims believe that they
have lost their money legitimately, he
said, and are afraid of complaining to
federal officers because they are In
debt after they have been “cleaned.”
OOVIET Russia, through its ambas-
vJ sador in Tokyo, warned the Jap¬
anese government that Japanese Man-
| ebukuan boats must keep out of
Soviet waters in the Far East, or the
consequences will fall on the shoul¬
ders of the Japanese Manchukuan au¬
thorities. The ambassador listed a
series of alleged violations of Soviet
territory, adding that “these viola¬
tions may bring serious consequences
in the relations between the U. S. S. R.
| and Japan in the cause of peace in the
Far East.”
He spoke of attacks on the Soviet
guard which were maneuvered to ap
pear as if they had taken place on
Manchukuan territory. It was alleged
that four Soviet guards had been at¬
tacked and killed, that Japanese guns
had played on Soviet settlements from
| the Manchukuan side of the Amur.
“The Soviet government expects the
Japanese government to adopt urgent
energetic measures to prevent further
provocative action by local Japanese
Manchukuan military authorities,” said
the ambassador.
Washington.—It is slightly more
than three months since President
Roosevelt signed the
Slow on congressional resolu-
Works Relief N 0 n appropriating
five billion dollars for
use by the administration in public
works and public relief. To date, ac¬
cording to the records, less than half
a billion dollars has been allocated for
expenditure on agreed projects and of
this sum approximately three hundred
million dollars was turned over to the
Civilian Conservation corps, a going
institution.
The slow motion of the administra¬
tion in getting its public works relief
program underway is giving birth to
an immense amount of criticism. If
one is to believe the undercurrent of
discussion in Washington, it is giving
more concern to the officials responsi¬
ble for spending this vast sum of money
in the recovery-reform effort of the
New Deal. So many projects have been
advanced and rejected in turn, so
many new ideas have been brought
forward and ballyhooed and so many
false motions have been indulged In
that Washington observers are rapidly
reaching the conclusion that congress
was correct when In debate, it was
said the administration had no con¬
crete plan for utilization of this vast
fund.
To review the developments since
April 8, when the President signed
the appropriating resolution, is to say
that conditions have been one continual
round of confusion. First, it will be
recalled the President sought to meet
the wishes of congress as expressed in
debate by relieving Secretary Ickes,
public works administrator, of much
of the responsibility and authority he
held. This was accomplished by the
new setup that was reported to you
heretofore. Now, it seems, the new
setup has failed to function and the
bulk of the management of expendi¬
tures has settled down Into the lap of
Harry Hopkins, the relief adminis¬
trator.
Mr. Ickes still has some authority.
It apparently is enough to Irk Mr.
Hopkins. These two men differ widely
in their views. Mr. Hopkins long has
been looked upon as a reliever by pro¬
fession ; Mr. Ickes has attempted, inso¬
far 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 differences It must be said
frankly that next to nothing has been
accomplished. President Roosevelt has
stated and reiterated that the expendi¬
ture program is getting underway sat¬
isfactorily, but tlie discussion among
observers seems to show an alarming
lack of co-ordination and of indecision.
• *
One of the newest projects ad¬
vanced, and it has just passed the
stage of an executive
The Youth order setting up a
Program new a S enc y’ ls the
so-called National
Youth administration. This new alpha¬
betical unit—the NYA—has received
fifty million dollars to spend in helping
boys and girls between the ages of six¬
teen 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 they are
occupied, irresponsible tendencies de¬
velop.
In announcing the new program, the
President departed from his previously
announced intention of assisting only
persons now on relief. Whether this
departure means that he has tossed
aside definitely the rule laid down last
winter that the dole must go or
whether this is to be an isolated ex¬
ception to that rule, is not immediately
determinable. It remains as a fact
that the government’s assistance un¬
der the NYA will be available to needy
young men who are not on the dole
as well as to those who are on relief.
Secretary Perkins, of the Labor de-
partin \it, said the plan had been
worked out by her and her associates
in the children’s bureau. She figured
that 2.500.000 would he eligible for as¬
sistance under the plan. Those to be
helped will be selected by local volun¬
teer committees, thus establishing in
each community another agency sub¬
ject to federal domination and federal
guidance.
Succinctly, the scope of the NYA as
outlined by Mr. Roosevelt Includes:
Finding employment in private in¬
dustry for unemployed youths.
Training youths for industrial, tech¬
nical 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 Roche, an assistant
secretary of the treasury, and Aubrey
W. Williams, assistant to Adminis¬
trator Hopkins, have been given sole
responsibility for management of the
latest alphabetical agency. The selec¬
tion of Miss Roche was said by the
President to have been in recognition
of her long service in the social field
and her thorough understanding of
problems of the growing generations.
Notwithstanding the sincerity and
the desires of the President to initiate
a program that will be helpful, one
hears much doubt expressed that suc¬
cess will be attained. In the minds of
many students of governmental affairs
T T ANK O'DAY. veteran National
! FI league baseball umpire, who has
been calling ’em as he saw ’em as long
as any player in the game today can re
member and before that, died of pneu
i rnonia in Chicago. He had been play
er, manager and umpire in his long am
memorable career. He will doubtles.-
be remembered in sport until the em
of time for calling the famous “bone
head” play in which Fred Merkle, in i
world series game failed to touch firs
base, a play known to every fan it
the country.
there are thoughts flitting hack and
forth inquiring whether it is possibw
for a central group like the federal
government to arrange satisfactory
methods tion far or occupations flung for a po pu j/
so as our own. j t
bility further doubted be worked that into sufficient flex*
can any program
to permit of any genuine good coming
from the expenditure of even so vast
a sum as fifty million dollars.
Beyond that, I have heard it asked
how the administration expects to fi D ,j
employment for unemployed youths m
industry when late figures show a
larger list of unemployed adults than
obtained at this time a year ago.
High schools and colleges, of course
are available to forming provide the educational
requirements one idea la me
general program. Those youths who
desire to continue their education cer¬
tainly are deserving of help and th«
NYA offers a means to that end. jj
is too early to forecast what the re-
quirements will be or what sort ot
rules will be laid down respecting ap¬
plicants for educational assistance.
But even the administration's most
vigorous critics have omitted throwing
any barbs at this feature of the Nil
• * *
Almost simultaneously with the
President’s announcement of the NYA
he made known that
Non-Federal the way was clear
Projects for construction on
what he said was the
first group of non-federal projects un¬
der the public works section of the five
billion dollar fund. He gave his ap¬
proval to 63 projects, the total cost ot
which was figured at approximately
twenty-one million dollars.
Each of the loans made in this allo¬
cation of funds was based on a grant
of 45 per cent of the cost of the par¬
ticular project by the community where
the work is to he done. The federal
government loans the otimr 55 per
cent. In this way the cost to the gov¬
ernment in most instances is expected
to be held within the limitation of
$1,143 per man per year.
Some weeks ago the President fig¬
ured out that the cost of no project in
which the federal government put
money should exceed an amount
greater than $1,143 for every man <*t
ployed. This was designed to spread
employment. But the rule thus far
has been inoperative because not a
single man has been put to work un¬
der any of these projects.
In the meantime, numerous and
sundry other proposals for expending
parts of the federal money have either
been thrown overboard or have been
held in abeyance pending further con¬
sideration. This is true of a gigantic
housing program worked out. by Secre¬
tary Ickes. It was planned there t»
spend $250,000,000 and when it was
announced a press statement was
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 whatso¬
ever has been done toward elimination
of dangerous railroad grade crossings.
I was told at the Interstate Commerce
commission and again at the bureau
of public roads that their plans were
all ready to proceed with reduction o.
these highway traffic hazards an 1
eliminate potential death traps \\h*re
highways cross railroads. Something
has blocked the effort in this direction,
however, and as far as present infor¬
mation goes actual work on graie
crossing elimination will not be star,e
for the next several months.
* * *
V'hile the administration is seeking
develop new projects to aid lin,,!!1
plo.vment and relieve
•et Scheme destitution, one of it*
efer to the effort to transplant - (
idle Western farm families to
tanuska valley of Alaska,
mization project was earned
h federal relief money ant t
nilies which were uprooted ot^
en to Alaska to find the en
nbow. According to activity <
Federal Relief administration
is made to appear that the en
rainbow was, as usual, snim
ce further on. Certainly it
valley been > _ t
the Matanuska already
families •
nber of the
ermined to quit and return m |
ne communities in the state>. a J
dembers of congress conditions " ||0 . te n j
linted with Alaskan
that the Matanuska valley u t
the most fertile spot m
y They h *
ital United States.
conviction that almost an ^
1
rood can be grown in the - JJ|
But~these men “ re ” n
valley. the har
llusions. They know
confront tiiose settlers " “ iii*j
g aent planted in the there hope by ^ of ,e J," onix h0lise
area. Few of them. ■ * there
ibers assure me. can !i ' »|
Sam ,| in
long unless Uncle -
pend millions in providing m o(
e of the modern convenances
day and age and suppl) 1 - ^
in means of The transport®^” word u ■>
munication. tht
ct from Matanuska co . ^
ef administration sho* j v jd
ion, that the project hat-
executed without any ■ ,
been given to the P rai