Evening star., 1932-06-17
Sound and Adequate Relief
Is Urged Upon Both Parties

each case saved old Jobs and thereby
forestalled the further reduction in buy
ing power which would have been felt
everywhere. If the Reconstruc-
ton Corporation had done nothing but
save jobs in peril it would have been q
boon to America, but 1t has now cleared
the way for the creation Of new jobs,
and We have right to expect that very
soon, directly because of the efforts Of
the corporation. the new employment
will come into existence"
The Garner bill" says the Charles
ton IS. c. Evening Post (Democratic),
has been denounced by President Hoo
yer as gigantic pork barrel. and the
characterization is not fantastic. 1t
would be a wicked squandering of
money without bringing relief to unem-
ployment or stimulation to business.
The Wagner bill is not without flavor
of pork, but it is hardly more than a
favor 1t calls for a bond issue of
$500 600. 900, to be expended in public
works of a self-liquidating character.
In all but the half billion-d dollar bond
issue for public works, it is very much
like the relief measure advocated by
the President. It is compromise upon
which it should be possible for all who
arc lllUNlllS lOI ItlItl HledSUItS IIOIll lIle
National Government to be able to
agree, il there must be-as apparently
there must-some such legislation to
satisfy the general feeling that some
thing must be done That none Of
these schemes is economically sound
nor will accomplish the relief nor the
recovery toward which they are aimed
Is almost certainly true. But it is in
evitable that there will be some sort Of
so-called relief legislation by Congress"
That the country must pay heavily
for large sums spent on public works is
the warning from the Hartford Daily
Times independent Democratic), the
Lexington Leader Republican, the
Detroit News independently, the Osh-
kOsh Daily Northwestern Republican,.
the Oakland Tribune (Republican), the
Spokane Spokesman-Review (Repub-
lican) and the DeS Moines Tribune Tin
dependent Republican,. Difficulties in
distribution of the funds are seen to
offer serious problem, in the opinion
of the Baltimore Sun independent
Democratic) and the Rock Island Argus
independently, while the Chicago Daily
News independently suggests that re-
lief should be distributed lin proportion
not to population. but to actual need"
AVAIL 4AOONCi, lIlc opIlllR.
field Mass Republican independently.
sees clearly that loans to private in
dustry for resuscitation purposes would
do far more toward business revival
than billions of dollars spent on new
public works. With the administration
taking this position toward private COM
petitive industry in the present emer-
gency, 1t has no ground for opposing
direct loans to the States for unem-
ployment relief" The Scranton Times
(Democratic) observes that while the
Garner bill has been vigorously assaiIed
by Mr.. Hoover and Secretary Mills. vet
in its last analysis the Presidents pro-
posal of sl,500,000,000 expansion of
capital for the Finance Corporation has
lioentically the same objective" The
Portland Oregon Journal independently
argues that while 1T may we'll prove
that money used to put up public build
ings, and so forth. will not be returned
by the buildings" yet right now we
don't know how the Government is
going to recover its dole to big busi-
ness"