Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-07-06

last has broken. With congress out o.
the way. the admins
AT the tration has begun ID
Pie Counter serve the pie in a biz
way. But Washington
observers have noted something new
In the pie-dispensing system now be
Ing employed. The breaking OF the
dam that held up appointments while
congress was made Il do the bidding
of the President. and that created such
a terrible traffic jam around the pie
counter, has shown that being a Demo
Graf in the government service means
little ftare-tffaff being q Republican
insofar as priority for reanpoinrmenf
is concerned. The flood that came
after the dam broke has washed out
about as many Democrats as Renub
LEANS. II Is always 10 be expected
that the winning political party Will
put its MI men In. | have heard no
complaint about that course because
1t has happened so many times In our
history that it is taken for granted
From what | have been able TO e
and to hear. President Roosevelt can
not be blamed for the ruthless char
acter of the dismlSSals except Indirect
". He has gone SO far even as to
say that some three or four thousand
postmasterss now serving under COM
missions by President Hoover, will be
allowed TO remain on their jobs until
their commissions expire. This has
caused a howl among the clique that
appears TO be bent on grinding its OWN
axes because they want those jobs.
and unless the President stands firm
they are going TO get Them
The Treasury seems to be affected
less than other departments Secre-
tary Woodin has picked most of his
people, according TO well Informed
individuals, but he has had TO accept
n Or two men to whom senators
were indebted.
The treasury secretary has run into
some difficulties. | am told, because be
insists or having investigations made
OF men whose appointments are recon-
mended to him. He was reported 10
have made a Democratic senator very
angry because he would not name the
senator's candidate as an internal rev
enue collector In one state without the
prerequisite OF an investigation. But
the investigation was made Just the
same.
The President and his advisers have
played a brilliant hand In the new
deal In their maneuyers at creating
new jobs out of old ones Take the
farm legislation. puf into the hands
OF Secretary Wallace of the Depart
ment of Agriculture 1t is made to
appear that the handling of the So
called price parity law which Is the
old domestic allotment plan in a new
suit. and the other new farm aid Laws
will require something like G0.0fU stan |
workers throughout the country. The
farm loan and the home loan ma
chinery, two separate organizations,
will provide jobs running into the thou
sands. The legislation that il sun
posed TO prevent blue-sky securities .
being sold to an unsuspecting
public likewise will enable the appoint
ment of many more, and last but not
least the public construction admins
frafion and the industrial recovery adj
mlnIsfrafion are two more agencies |
offering berths by the score to de-
serving supporters of the Roosevelt
III Is fair to say that many of the
underlings, the clerks and supporting
cast In the several new agencies are
being named from lists of those who
lost their Jobs In the face OF
economy which Lewis Douglas, direc-
tor OF the budget, Is taking SO serious
~ But as far as I have been able
learn, there Is no dearth of Jobs
that be and are being filled purely
on = political basis The hardest hob
politicians have. 1t appears. Is In
out the right applicants to
among those thousands
have been receiving while Mr..
Roosevelt kept the pie closet locked.
Without wasting any time. the ad-
mlnistration has opened the spigot
on h tank of mil
oPee1in8 lions to speed indus
Recovery trial recovery
through use of pub
lie money in construction. The last
congress voted a total of s 1900. 0O0,O
sor public construction, it will be re-
and now the machinery to use
.hese funds has been set in motion
It takes time to get government ma
,hinery ready even to spend money.
the haste with which the opera
ions have been started is looked upon
as commendable although only
public highway building and the fixing
lp OF army posts and national GENE
cries are involved In the first moves.
Out of the gigantic fund, $500, 10000
been set aside and allocated to the
Ise of the various states In the build
ng OF roads and $135, 600 900 has been
for use In reconditioning army
,osts and national cemeteries. Elk
,enditure Of those funds, of course.
will make Jobs. which lis the prime