Evening star., 1933-10-05
DIXIE SUN TO LURE
FUNDS FOR WORKS
Dollars to Start Moving to
deep. South" When
Winter Sets In.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Dixie sunshine soon will lure more
and more emergency public works dol
lars into the deep South" where the
builders pick and shovel strike yields
ing earth the year around.
As freezing weather sweeps toward
the frost-line, Northern jobs created by
ready accounting for about 81 $50 ,000.-
900 of the 81, 800 100000 public works
fund, will be temporarily suspended
and Administrator Ickes Is eager tt
put money where there are no physical
barriers to employment.
Southern commitments have not been
delayed. but which weather conditions
in mind public works officials have
given priority to areas first to be af-
fected by cold temperatures.
There Is no estimate of the idle
men put to work by the program. but
there Is talk of jobs for billions of
dollars and millions of men" by the
time the fund is expended on jar
uary /. While officials refer to the
number Of projects financed thus far
as several thousand" a source close
to headquarters says it probably runs
between $500 and 5000.
Itemized List Din1cult.
An example of the difficulty IN
enumerating projects is found in ear
marking Of $400, 900, 600 for highway
one project, but, actually, every road
built or repaired under it in the United
States constitutes an individual project.
The same Is true Of the $238 000, ,OU0
for naval construction, $50,000.0 600 for
the Tennessee Valley Authority, s40,-
600 900 for the Civilian Conservation
Corps. s44460, 900 for reclamation.
$25 600. 900 for subsistence homesteads,
and the $4,000 900 for rivers and har-
bors development, which embraces al
most 80 projects alone.
1t is estimated the latter will pro-
vide 10000 man-years of work. the
equivalent of one-year jobs for 10000
men Because of inconsistencies In
construction periods, project types and
the time required on them. 1t is I'M
possible to say whether 10000 or AGO.
900 men will have been enrolled at one
time or another.
: On the other side Of the ledger are
the hundreds of such relatively small
items as the 81, AGO 900 loan for a low
cost housing project in indianapolis
one OF those "self-liquidating' enter
prises. With an additional 100000
raised by that city as its equity, the
money will be used to replace two
closely -ad joining slum districts with
buildings in which three-room and
four-room units will average from S25
to $50 q month in rent.
Federal Projects Come First.
For the most part, funds allocated to
date have been chiefly for Federal
projects. such as the $1,000, 600 Grand
Coulee Dam in the Columbia River Ba-
sin. because they provided work at once
for large numbers of men.
Other such enterprises include s36.-
986,956 the War Department will spend
for food control work on the lower
Mississippi River at Memphis, Vicks-
burg and New Orleans; $4,000, 900 for
construction Of locks and dams on
upper Mississippi. and Sl5,4l5,000 for
IA irrigation projects in Arizona, idaho,
Montana. Nevada, New Mexico. Texas,
Oregon and Utah. Approximately So
900 man-years of labor were estimated
to have been created by the expendi-
lures.
The $37. 100000 loan to the Port of
New York Authority for a midtown
vehicular tunnel under the Hudson
River is cited as an example of the
way corporate groups aid re-employ-
ment. The project will give four years
of work to 5000 men or one years
employment to $4,000. and it is esti-
mated that 80 per cent of the s10.0O0.-
600 spent the first year will go to
wage earners.