Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1935, Page 30

B—10 « THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D , MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1835, Philadelphia’s Economy Mayor Tied W.P. A. Programin Knots Jobs in City Going Forward Slowly Now Under New Regime—Politicians Side Racket. FILIPING DEFENSE ACTISSUPPORTED “Leaders Indicate Approval * of Quezon’s Plea for War-Time Draft. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, P. I, November 25—Na- #tonal Assembly leaders joined in sup- today of & sweeping defense act which it was indicated would be the first legislative measure approved by the new Philippine commonwealth. Compulsory military training of all en, to prepare the islanders to de- fend with arms the freedom they so recently won peaceably, was urged by President Manuel Queion in his first message to the Assembly. . A canvass of leading members dis- losed they favored the proposed na- tional defense act, which would regi- ment all industry in case of war and require every man, woman and child in the islands to take up arms. Immediate Action Delayed. But the legislators took no imme- @iate action on the bill. Instead they adjourned until tomorrow after hear- ing Quezon and debating a resolution ‘attempting to restore powers to their Bpeaker which they had agreed to irestrict before they were ever called Anto session. Gil Montilla was named JBpeaker. Quezon demanded that the 10-day- Jold Commonwealth create a standing | farmy of 19,000 and train all its men | .in warfare to serve notice that “these islands are not to be subjugated.” “Our objective,” he said, “is a single one—peace—permanent peace.” The army would be trained under the direction of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, former chief of staff of the ‘United States Army, and now military adviser to Quezon, who was under- stood to have preparsd the defense program. Last Vice Governor Sails. ‘While Quezon was speaking before the Assembly, J. Ralston Hayden, the last American Vice Governor General to the islands, sailed for home with the comment: “I have confidence in the determi- nation and ability of the Filipino and American people to make the Com- monwealth succeed and eventually cre- ate a sound, prosperous, independent nation.” With him was Gen. Frank McIntyre, former chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. Hayden is returning to the University of Michigan to resume his | political science professorship. » Other American notables who wit- ']Aused the inauguration of the Com- monwealth are salling tonight for # home via Europe on the round-the- ¢ world liner President Adams. ¢ Mrs. Wheeler Recovers. They are Clark Howell, Atlanta pub- lisher; Emil Hurja of the National ‘ Democratic Committee, Senator Bur- | ton K. Wheeler of Montana, his wife | snd daughter, and Senator Robert| R. Reynolds of North Carolina lnd‘ his daughter. Mrs. Wheeler is fully | recovered from an illness which kept her confined to a hospital for several | days. | In his first address to the Assembly, Quezon invoked as a first national principle that “no man has the right : to enjoy the privileges and opportuni- ties * * * of free institutions unless he simultaneously acknowledges his ‘ duty to defend with his property and with his life the government through which he acquires these opportunities. “I propose its specific application to our peace-time task of preparation by requiring every citizen of suitable age and physique to undergo military training as an obligation to the state.” For the present, he said, there will be no Philippine navy, for reasons of ;konomy. Proposed Plan Not Complex. ¢ In organization the proposed de- fense plan is simple. The chief of staff would be selected by and directly re- sponsible to the President, with the Trank of cabinet secretary. Reserve ‘Wnits would be scattered through the {8lands in proportion to population. The national territory would be di- ‘vided into military districts and sub- districts. 1’ Training periods normally would ex- ‘ténd over five-and-a-half months, icept for the regular army. Thereafter for 10 years each trainee would be re- quired to undergo annually sufficient ‘$raining to preserve efficiency. Mt. Pleasant W. C. T. U. to Meet. A meeting of the Mount Pleasant W. O. T. U. will be held tomorrow 8t 2 pm. at Friends’ Church, Thir- teenth and Irvirg streets. A\WR Fiis Yofir Hearing Needs Western Electric - HEARING AID Demonstration of All New Modeis ot Kioman Instrument Co. 911 19th St. N.W. Nat. 7200, Ex. 211 ADVERTISEMENT. bilious look in your face—dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inactive bowels.. 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Comparative failure of the program in Philadelphia, however, cannot be charged principally to laxity within the W. P. A. itself. Rather, it is traceable to the failure of its city ad- ministration to warm to the task of matching New Deal money at about $1 to $10. For while cities, counties and ham- lets from Keokuk to Kittyhawk have been flooding their State administra- tions and Washington with eager pleas for more and more money, Philadel- phia has stood aloof. The city is And its outgoing mayor, J. Hampton Moore, does not like the program anyhow. Economy Maintained. In Philadelphia some people do not : accuse Moore, a Republican, of at- tempting to undermine the program for political purposes. They say it is just against the nature of the man to spend freely. They point to his economy record as mayor. It was his inherent anti-New Deal attitude, sub- consciously or otherwise, that led to a private order at the City Hall, in which the mayor threatened to fire any department head who signed a ‘W. P. A. project. Until the city, or “sponsor,” did sign & project application there was noth- ing W. P. A, could do. It does not initiate projects and it cannot approve an application which does not exist. The sticking point was a Pennsyle vania rule in W. F. A, which re- quires sponsors to furnish all mate- rials and equipment, with Federal funds going for labor. For months Mayor Moore refused to put up a dime. H. Rankin, & ranking architect, was forced to create projects on State roads outside the city and cart the workers to and fro by train and truck. It is an exceedingly expensive process, costing around 50 cents per worker per day, and it irks the counties as well, If relief jobs are to be created FalseTeeth Don’t allow your false veeth to drop or slip when you eat, talk or laugh. 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A. parade. Even now, projects enough to put the entire quota to work have not been submitted by the city hall, Mayor Moore soured on work-re lief early. It seems he was driving through Fairmount Park one day when he saw & number of men being paid for what looked suspiciously like pick- ing up sticks, They were clearing a bridle path. The mayor immediately declared that he did not intend to spoil his Government'’s economy record to cre= ate “stick-picking projects.” He at- tacked other boondogglish ideas and issued the “sign and be fired” order. Rankin’s district includes four neigh- boring counties and in these counties there is plenty of road work to be done, So every morning 12,000 Philadel- phians board early trains, get off at a station nearest their project, transfer to trucks and work their allotted time. Because there were not enough trucks to transport the men properly, it was not fair to “dock” them for time, 50 W. P. A, had to pay them while they stood around waiting to be transported. By comparison, at a recent date, only 5,600 men were working in Phila- delphia and many of these were on white-collar projects. A large road They're made the qaulity way. Pumpkin Pies Made with the finest pumpkin. care- fully spiced and thoroughly baked— 30c¢ and 55¢ % "BOND-ED SANITONE' DRY CLEANING POTOIMAC 0040 ROUTES program has not found its way through the W. P. A. machinery and a big batch of projects lay on Mayor Moore's desk for weeks. He sald he would not sign them until “those already sent to ‘Washington have been approved.” Any one who recalls the bottle- deMly in the office of Controller Gen- eral McCarl, which was not broken until the week in October, can easily imagine from this why Phila- delphia is so far behind. ‘There is no politics in transferring relief men to jobs and only & mod- erate amount in administrative ap- pointments. But the resourceful po- litical machines of this boss-ridden city have found a way to advance a quiet little vote-making racket. Put in a Word. Every political conscious person knows by this time that all employ- able rellef clients are eventually to get W. P. A. jobs. But sometimes re- lief clients themselves are not politi- cally conscious. Therefore, it has been easy for ward committeemen to go to a relief man and say: “I understand you are unemployed. I am going to do my best to get you a job with W. POA» If he does not get the job, no harm is done. If he does, the thanks go to the ward worker who “engineered” it —without ever going near any one. ‘The laugh of it is that in this par- ticular sport the Republican ward workers are more active than the Democrats. They are making capital out of the money thoughtfully pro- Radiator Covers PREVENT SMUDGE, PROVIDE PROP. ER HUMIDITY, BEAUTIFY HOME, Reasonable Prices. Convenient Terms. F. B. 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Philadelphia’s “four billion Jinx" persists even in projects submitted by other “sponsors” than the city. . The Board of Education, for example, is a k separate taxing body, independent of Mayor Moore. So it submitted to P. W. A. an elaborate program of school repair and expansion to cost $11,- 810,000, At the time the estimates were pre- pared, everythinig was in & dither in ‘Washington to make one of the inany “deadlines” t never meant any- thing. Also, the pressure was on to submit & low “man-year-cost” esti- mate so that money-hungry P. W. A. would have a better chance of getting projects past the eye of Administra- tor Hopkins. Costs Played Down. To “get projects through,” estimates of cost were not exaggerated, to say the least. But now comes the day of reckoning. An addition to one high school was to cost $550,000, but the lowest contractors’ bid received was $1,121,300. A new elementary school was put in at $475,000, but the lowest bid was $623,000. Now the Board of Education is trying to get Uncle Sam to put up the balance, It is typical of Boards of Education that that body should be the only Philadelphia group trying to wheedle more goodies out of Kris Kringle's pack. But elsewhere, and particularly at the city hall, you have the strange sight of that popular gentleman’s per- sonal representatives virtually forced to go around with tears in their eyes begging the boys to accept gifts so & ‘way can be found to put the city’s un- employed to work. But if W. P. A. fails, the joke will be on the other side of the fence. It will then be up to the cities vo provide funds to care for those who do not go to work. Mayor Moore’s admirers, however, declare that the only way to provide material money would have been to “fake” the city budget. “Imagine yourself,” one Moore man suggested, “knowing that Santa Claus would give you almost anything you asked for, provided only you would write him a letter. 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