Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1935, Page 27

. DRIVE OF LILAGS ~SCURLEY'S CHILD Droll Examples of W. P. A. ., Found in Conservative Massachusetts. This is another of a series of articles analyzing the economics and political efects, the probable developments and early snags of president Roosevelt’s $4,000,000,000 job program. BOSTON, November 26 (N.AN.A). =Some of the drollest “horrible ex- amples” of W. P. A, and some of its most progressive executive ideas have emerged, strangely enough, from the | heart of conservative New England, where the political swing against Roosevelt, started earliest and, to all putward appearances, has gone farthest. It is typical of the singular mixture | of tradition and buncombe that go| to make up Massachusetts politics that | Gov. Curley, leading Democratic orator | of the Northeast, could seriously pro- | pose a 40-mile “lilac drive” between | Boston and Providence as a W. P. A. | project without being laughed out of | the State House. Yet he did, and no one so much as | eracked a smile. To his fanatical fol- lowers, Gov. Curley can do no wrong. | To Curley-haters—and nearly every politically conscious person in the | State feels one way or the other about | him strongly—it came as no surprise. | They merely heaved another sigh and | put down another black mark in their ‘books opposite the name—"Roosevelt.” Boondoggling Idea Thrives. There were plenty of black marks | there already. For probably nowhere | TITE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Maryland Curbs Holly Waste By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 26.—The State Forestry Department is helping Maryland farmers who own holly trees to have a merrier Christmas them- selves by giving the Santa Claus busi- ness a boost. The plan is to put extra holiday dol- lars in the farmers’ pockets by teach- ing them how to handle their Christ- mas tree trade scientifically. It was explained today by F. W. Besley, the State forester. vandals who killed the trees. They would cut down a whole tree and then “In the past,” he said, “much valu- | able Maryland holly has been cut by | By Systematizing Markets trim off the branches. Our plan will keep the tree alive and give the owner of the woodlot a regular Christmas income.” So far as Besley kriows, it is the first time just such an undertaking | has been launched by any State For- estry Department. To carry it to completion the Mary- land department has set up a mer- chandising agency. Orders are taken | for holly and referred to owners who | have agreed to cut the greenery scien- tifically. Only careful owners get orders. In harvesting, pieces not more than LISTEN TO JEAN ABBEY Woman’s Home Companion Shopper haAs the erroneous impression that W. P. A is somewhere between 50 and 90 per cent boondoggling gnined‘ wider credence than in Massachusetts, | and this despite universal respect for Arthur G. Rotch, an old-school Bos- tonian, who is administering W. P. A. Roth has been beffind most other States in getting his “quotas™ to work under W. P. A, but this did not con- cern him particularly, because the men were working—115,000 of them—on emergency relief projects and merely had to be transferred. In many cases projects under E. R. A. simply are| now continuing under W. P. A. Now | that the log jam is broken in Wash- | ington, the transition is speeding up. | Massachusetts has been the most | progresive (or conservative, if you will) | State in taking care of its own direct relief cases. The idea that Uncle Sam . should pay for those who can work and local communities for those who can't was in effect here long before any one in Washington had thought | of it as a national policy. For months the State has received nothing from the Federal Treasury for direct relief and has made localities live strictly up to the Massachusetts law that each shall take care of its own poor. 45.9 Per Cent From City. | Boston's relief costs for the first | quarter of 1935 were $6,852,617. The city provided 45.9 per cent of this sum, the State contributed nothing and the Federal Government gave 54.1 per | cent. | Boston is used to paying out in taxes # far greater share of the Federal bill i than it proportionately receives. But 4t does love to roll around on its tongue anything indicating that the $4,000,000,000 program is not all that | it should be. Frequently cited is a $4,000,000 | project approved by W. P. A. to build | sidewalks along State highways in | rural Massachusetts. This is a project that originated in the State House. The story is that certain prominent | contractors, who will profit by the | program, have political connections reaching straight into that gold- tlomed edifice on historic Beacon Hill. ‘The theory of the project is that eountry sidewalks remove a traffic | hazard. Officials point with alarm to the absolute refusal of John W. Pedes- trian to walk on the left side of the ryoad at night—"he simply won't do it"—and declare that obviously the | only thing to do is give him a side- walk to walk on. Miles of Sidewalks. 8o W. P. A. is building hundreds of Mmiles of these sidewalks, some along stretches of road where there is not a | house for miles. W. P. A, it is pointed | out, builds the sidewalks—but the Btate lets private contracts for the curbing. It is noised about that the same influential contractors have sub- | stantial interests in granite quarries. | All in all—so “informed Boston” be- | lieves—it's a grand idea for every body. But the 1ssue in Gov. 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Thus the tree will yield an- other crop in a few years. The holly, all of it bearing berries, is sold in standard boxes at a fixed price. To deter those who would cut other persons’ holly, Maryland has a strict law which requires written permission from the owner to gather the green- ery. Frequent fines—minimum $25— have been levied for violations of the act. Besley said berry-bearing holly is plentiful on the Eastern Shore this year. The Western Shore crop is fall- ing below last year's mark because frost killed many of the holly blos- soms last Spring. Traffic Supervised. Provinces of India have just been given the right to supervise automobile 2 feet long are cut from the tips of | traffic. CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL TO BE GUEST IN D. C. December 13 Fixed for Gathering Under Auspices of the Wash- ington Club. Special Dispatch to The Btar. 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