Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1935, Page 6

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CHICAGO, November 11 (N.AN.A). —Difficulties now being encountered by States in their effort to rush 3,500, | | 000 men from relief rolls to pay rolls | before the end of November can be | summed up in the old axiom: | “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” | The desire of President Roosevelt, | when he formulated the organization to administer his $4,000,000,000 job | fund, to keep everybody happy within his own rather turbulent New Deal | family has balled up the works out | in the fleld. | An attempt to detour around pro- | | spective political pitfalls was chiefly | responsible for the slow start in the" program. | Harry L. Hopkins' Works Progress | Administration, mainspring of the job | drive and currently main target for | the failure to create 3.500,000 jobs | by November 1, was not given com- plete authority to carry out the task. | Of President to Soothe Aides Is Reason States Are Hampered in Cutting Relief Rolls. Five Agencies Involved. | Not one—but five—governmental | agencies must churn their wheels every time a man is put to work on W. P. A. The devastating effect of this maze of red tape on a mechanism theoreti- | cally geared for speed can be fully | appreciated only by talking with the | officials charged with the actual task of administration in the States. | Before the W. P. A. can function THE EVENING Laid to Desire Spoil the Broth,” privately) that Mr. Roosevelt was under no compulsion to shove the cork in the bottle by ordering that all projects be submitted to McCarl in advance. They point out that when, under C. W. A, two years ago, Hopkins was given a free hand, without going through McCarl, Hopkins put, 4,000,- 000 men to work in three weeks. ‘They -point out also that Hopkins disbursed, from the $4,880,000,000 ap- propriation, $316,000,00C in direct re- lief before July 1 and more than $800,- 000,000 since the first of the fiscal year—all without a jot or tittle of ap- proval from McCarl. Now this money was handed out from exactly the same jackpot that the “projects” are coming from. How, they want to know, can Hopkins give away money as he pleases with one hand, but lack the power to give it away—for the creation of jobs—with | the other, when it’s all one act of Con- gress? Here's the Apparent Answer, ‘The answer seems to be this: The rising issue of “overspending,” | a political threat in some parts of the country, apparently warned President Roosevelt that he had better be care- ful how that $4,000,000,000 was dis- | bursed. There was widespread criti- | cism of leaf-raking and waste under | C. W. A, some of it justified. To avoid that, plans were prepared for | good projects long in advance of W. P. A But as a final clincher to answer critics, some one trotted out the idea | of getting McCarl’s John Hancock on | the dotted line in advance. If the hard-boiled little Republican STAR, WASHINGTON, patting the President on-the back with one hand while he socked him with the other fist. Beating Around the Bush. To keep peace in the family, there- fore, Mr. Roosevelt beat deftly around the bush. Instead of centralizing au- thority, he created a many-headed organization, which made everybody happy, but cost like the devil and drained much of the $4,000,000,000 away before any of it reached the outfit that is “carrying the load.” Another early presidential concern, apparently, was for possible scandals that might develop in the expenditure of 50 large a sum of money. It would take no more than a good, juicy scan- dal or two to smear an entire pro- gram that was 99.6 per cent pure. The purchase of materials seemed a likely place for local officials, who | could not be completely controlled by the President, to do a little conniv- ing. Therefore, Admiral Christian J. Peoples, Treasury procurement | chief, was placed in charge of all purchases. State W. P. A. officials are now com- plaining privately of the ponderous pace at which the Treasury is dbing | its buying. They declare that long- | established agencies do not lend them- | selves to flexibility or emergency ac- tion, Job Service Also Involved. ‘The United States Employment | Service is another cook with a long | and vigorous spoon in the job broth. | Its function is to “clear” employable relief clients, “certified” by local re- lief offices, and forward them to the W. P. A, administrators. In several important cities this roundabout route has served to diminish the speed of transferring men from relief to jobs, W. P. A. administrators declare. In New York, former Administrator Johnson tossed U. S. E. S. out the window and set up his own job-intake system. Elsewhere, U, S. E. S. found that no matter how slow it was, it still kept ahead of McCarl. An almost unbelievable volume of = LIKE D. C, blanks and forms that must be filled out every time a harassed State offi- cial turns around also has served to spread sand in the gears. Even the recent attempt to “slash red tape” by giving State administrators suthority to transfer money from one project to another is accompanied by bales of paper, all of which must be laboriously “filled in.” ‘The remarkable part of it is that any one entering “the auditorium,” a vast and mysterious barn-like building in Washington, which houses myriads of “projects on paper,” must observe how difficult it would be to find any of the “forms” after they have been shipped to headquarters. If the files ever can bz straightened out, they will provide a bulwark against any future investigation by fly-specking Senators. Meanwhile, they serve merely to increase the divi- dends of the pulp paper corporations. (Copyright. 1935.) MISSING SHIPS FOUND GIMLI, Manitoba, November 11 (#). —Two missing fishing steamers, the Lub-Berc and Luana, have hgen found frozen in Lake Winnipeg and the crews have left the vessels to return to civilization, it was reported last night. Trapped in a sudden freeze-up of the lake about 100 miles north of here, the boats had been missing for three weeks. MONDAY, It's Like a Brisk Morning Walkl ORANGE JUICE with o Recipet Free Write Angostura ® 250 Park Ave., N.Y.C. NOVEMBER 11, in any State, it must obtain the con- | who cannot be fired or reappointed, current and synchronized co-operation | and who has been a virulent opponent of the general auditing office in Wash- | of other New Deal undertakings, spe- ington, headed by Controller General | cifically declared all projects to be RICARD S McCarl; the United States Employ- ment Service, or an off-shoot of it, | the National Re-Employment Servic the procurement division of the Treas- | ury, the local State relief offices and | the Treasury disbursement office. Any one who thought Mr. ankin:} a speedy and efficient, if somewhat free-handed, jobmaker under the old | C. W. A.. could scarcely help but won- cor what happened to him under W. P. A, Failed to See Pitfalls. It is not like Hopkins, off-hand | though many of his public statements | * | are, to put himself on the spot by | . | making the now seemingly absurd |of cooks in his $4,000,000,000 kitchen. | prediction that 3,500,000 men would | be drawing checks from Government | 2 jobs by November 1—a goal missed by | ; & little matter of some 2,000,000 men. Ready for Winter? (-\'W‘,' ¥ It Needs THERMO ROYAL The 10,000-Mile ANTI-FREEZE $1 40 Gal. free from poisonous not to turn contains _no rubber, Non-rusting: fumes: guaranteed gummv or rancid: harmful salts to attack gaskets or motor metals. . Butler-Flynn ;‘ 609 C St. N.W. Met. 0151 ADVERTISEMENT. " For Skin-ltching, | Millions Praise Zemo | Zemo relieves the itching of Rashes #nd Ringworm—soothes the irrita- | tion of Eczema, Pimples and similar | skin ailments. 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But they also say (this, of course, | within the purview of Congress’ in- tention, then the Republican howl against the program could be measur- ably muffled. ‘Wire Came Too Late.. So just when W. P. A. was about to get under way in earnest, late in the | Summer, came an unexpected order to “clear” everything first through | McCarl. And all remained morbid | fro..1 then on until Mr. Roosevelt sent McCarl a wire from the U. S. S. Hous- | ton in mid-Octobe., when it was too late for the November 1 drive. | Even before that Mr. Roosevelt had | shown a fondnezs for a multiplicity | It became evident on the day “clear- | ing the relief rolls” was announced as | the prime object of the program that Hopkins could be the central figure of the program. He is the only man in close enough touch with the relief | picture to engineer the shift. | But it was equally evident that some | other sensitive gentlemen, notably Mr. Ickes, would be irked beyond measure if they were shunted to one side. 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