The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-16
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National Topics Interpreted q TYFFT1REh
by William Bruckart MIrTT3HT
by William Bruckart


general effect that If the army had
been equipped to do the mail carrying
| job, as some of It's general staff mem
bers publicly announced, and If there
had been no such deplorable loss Of
life among the youthful army pilots
as occurred, Mr.. Roosevelt In all like
lihood would have had few repercus-
sions to the dramatic cancellation Of
contracts. But the army planes were
not fitted for the job, and there was
deplorable loss of life among the
youthful army pilots. And on top of
that, there was open criticism of the
cancellation order among good many
of the Presidents own party in con-
gress.
If the criticism Of the air mail con-
tracts had come alone, Mr.. Roosevelt,
in the opinion of many competent OBJ
servers, would have weathered the
storm. Probably he would have been
the gamer, because few people are
willing to condone crookedness.
/ mentioned confusion as one Of the
main topics Of conversation In Washs
ington. That is q
Much correct state
ro.e,,.:o. ment At no time in
long acquaintance
with official affairs have seen cir
eumstances in the nations capital in
which the moves have been so swift
that even trained observers have their
difficulties in keeping up. Actually, by
the time one gets thorough knowl-
edge of changes resulting from one
move, another, or several, has taken
place. They have come, accurately
speaking, from all over town." for the
numerous agencies, administrators.
bureaus, departments and SO forth are
scattered that widely.
Here Is an illustration of how things
change: from the various sources of
information which the administration
has set up, the correspondents were
led to believe that the Civil Works
administration plan of relief was GO
ing along all hunky dory. Then, rath-
er suddenly, there came the happening
which I predicted some months ago,
namely, lot Of petty graft. Next,
Mr.. Hopkins, the administrator, made
a rather clean breast of the thing, say
ing, in effect, that the CWA had
Topped.
But few of the correspondents were
Fl, fbn
from the President that a substitute
plan had been evolved. The President
had been planning to eliminate CWA
relief with the return of warmer
weather. Something had happened,
however, with which the correspond
ents were not made acquainted. This
was development of conclusion that
industry, despite the MIRA and other
New Deal plans, was not absorbing
workers as rapidly as had been ex-
pected. Hence, the President decided
to continue the CWA program, but in
a different form.
1t ought to be said here that indus
try has not been entirely to blame.
Industry is recovering. OF that, there
can be no doubt. But the progress has
been just as slow as progress that
takes place when human being re-
covers from long Illness. Some of
the economists In the government have
been frank enough to tell me that they
had been too optimistic; they were
justified in their belief that recovery
was under way, and it is happening,
but their guess had been wrong as to
speed.
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Mr.. Roosevelt outlined In his an
nouncement a program of relief for:
first, distressed fam
Relief lilies in rural areas;