The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-13
HUGE JA|[S
MUST Be
BUILT
Other Projects Make Task
Hard for. Coolidge to Re-
duce Expenditures
By WILLIAM HARD

II IS thought here that Presi-
dent Coolidge, with perhaps few
problems of revolutionary legisla-
tive Importance on his hands dur
ing the next four years, will be
able to devote himself actively to
the problem of Federal economy,
which is his favorite problem but
which, as shown in a previous
article, is by no means yet solved.
In that article attention was
called to recent new expansions
of our Federal Subsidies" to our
States, even during this Coolidge
Administration.
It is now to be noted that even
during this Coolidge Administer
ton the Federal Government it.
self, in its peace-time activities,
keeps on getting really bigger
and bigger.
Crimes Made Federal.
The late Congress passed various
laws on the subject of crimes
against the Federal Government. 1t,
for instance, put new teeth into the
Federal law which makes it a Fed
eral crime to commit the local crime
of robbery if you commit it upon a
freight car moving in interstate
commerce.
It is now a Federal crime If you
even break the seals on an inter-
state commerce freight car.
All such new laws mean new Fed
sral offenders and the need Of new
places in which to keep them.
BY act of the late Congress VIC
are now going to have a new spe.
cial Federal prison for young male
offenders and new special Federal
prison for women offenders.
We shall have to pay for building
those prisons and we shall have to
pay for maintaining them.
We also similarly all the time
now need new Federal judges to en-
ferce our new Federal laws. This
last session OF the late Congress
gave US half dozen new Federal
judges. who along with the minor
officials of their new courts VIII
have to be maintained out of the
Federal Treasury
More National Parks.
Also we are now going to have,
through action set on foot by this
late Congress, three new National
Parks in the East. To date We
have had only one National Park"
In the East. 1t is Lafayette Park
In Maine. NoW we are going to
have a National Park in the
Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky,
and one in the Blue Ridge region OF
Virginia, and one in the Smoky
Mountains regions of Tennessee 1t
viii probably costous about 81 ,00O,-
900 to get them and then there Will
be new annual appropriations Ior
locking after them.
Nobody can say that National
Parks do harm. Everybody admits
that they do good. And there you
are.
Further, though for the next
fiscal year we have appropriated
some $50.000,000 for Federal works
of Improvement on some 200 har-
bors and 300 rivers and fifty canals
and waterways, we in the next
succeeding fiscal year will spend
on some forty additional harbors
and rivers and canals and water
ways an additional and supplement
tai sum of some $4,000. 900 under
the recent Dempsey rivers and har.
bors law
Further. in the next Congress,
there is absolutely every likelihood
that the Elliott $4,000, 900 public
buildings bill will go through.
Forests and Swamps.
Further, in the next Congress we
shall reap the results of the 500, 900
which we appropriated this year for
an inquiry into the feasibility Of
Federal aid in the retaining Of
swamp lands.
Large appropriations out of the
Federal Treasury to change swamp
lands into arabic farm lands will
begin for the first time to be
pressed upon Congress next winter.
Additionally next winter there will
be unprecedented pressure upon the
Federal Government to take great
strides toward the Federal pur-
chase of vast tracts of forest land
fnow in private ownership in order
to create great new forest reserves.
Also, our new magnificent Lincoln
Memorial Bridge. costing $4,000. 900,
across the waters of the Potomac,
will be going up.
Also there will be more radio
stations to regulate. In 1919 radio
regulation cost the Federal Govern
rnent $4,000. In the fiscal year
1926 it will cost the Federal Gov
eminent 1920, 900.
Conservation of Oil.
Also our new ''Oil Conservation
Board will be making its report
next winter on how che Federal
Government can help conserve oil.
Our recent Agricultural Commits
sion,' in reporting on how the
Federal Government could help
agriculture, was prevented only by
a violent outbreak in Congress from
giving US a big new federal regu-
lating agency costing much new
money.
The "oiI Conservation Board
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