Evening star., 1934-01-26

Such experiences as Detroit is now
undergoing indicate graphically why
communities all over the country
banker to have c. w. A. and p. w. A.
dollars keep on rolling. Up to few
days ago the city had collected about
$11, SOC, 900 in back taxes. BY April Is
it expects to have raked in about $15.-
O00, 900 Of $61, ,000, 900 Of delinquent tax
money. Municipal o1dcials believe that
Roosevelt emergency funds are the
chief source Of the revenue pouring into
the local exchequer. As . result. the
motor metropolis, which was harder
hit by the depression than any other
big city in the country. now hopes to
pay city employees in real money again,
instead Of scrip, as well as to resume
reduction Of bonded Indebtedness. De-
troit's experience with Federal cash Is
reproduced throughout Michigan coun-
ties, and in innumerable other regions
throughout the country, where money
is today in circulation on q scale un-
known since pre-depression days. Re-
publican politicians admit with q sigh
that it's going to be terrible handicap
to overcome in this years congressional
campaign.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. in
opening his attack on the gold bill in
the Senate, mentioned that while he
does not put his age In the Congress
sional Directory autobiography any
more, he's old enough to remember the
times right after the Civil War" when
34-cent dollars were known as shin
plasters" Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois. native Virginian. also
refrains from chronological details in
the Congressional Directory. Glass con-
fesses in Who's Who in America" that
he was rs on the fourth Of this month
Senator Lewis Who's Who" sketch
does not reveal his secret. Only three
of the seven women in Congress fess
up in the Congressional Directory. Rep
resentative Rogers Of Massachusetts
admits to So, Representative Mccarthy
of Kansas to 40 and Representative
Greenway of Arizona to 48. Repre-
sentatives Kahn of California, Norton
of New Jersey and Jenckes OF Indiana
and Senator Caraway Of Arkansas do
not narrate when they first saw the
light.
Appointment of Charles B. Hender-
son Of California, former Democratic
United States Senator from Nevada, to
the board of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation this week emphasizes the
nearly all-Western makeup of Uncle
Sans great money leading agency.
Frederic H. Taber Of Massachusetts, is
the lone Eastern member. The others
are Chairman Jesse H. Jones Of Texas
Harvey c. Couch Of Arkansas, G. b
Merriam Of Kansas and John J. Blaine
| of Wisconsin.
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Much attention Is attracted in all
new deal quarters at Washington by Q
book entitled 1.-The New Pioneers" just
of the press. It is the first attempt
to probe the mind and heart of the
American people at close range as to
the actual effects of "the abundant
life" under the Roosevelt emergency
and recovery program. The author is
a newspaper man, James Remington
Mccarthy, who visited every nook and
Granny of the land in search Of first
hand impressions to learn just what
things nowadays look like in hamlet,
the farm, In the factory, the mine
Carthy claims there isn't q syllable OF
propaganda In his 300-odd pages OF
| chapter evidence and that
he's reproduced Just "the voice Of the
people, face to face with vital realities. u
As one of his books virtues, he boasts
1t Is utterly devoid of statistics.
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Revelations that members of Congress
| cost the taxpayers more than 81 900, 600
a year in franked mail recall to old
timers on Capitol Hill the ancient story,
said to be we'll authenticated. Of q men,
ber from the Middle West who at
tempted to frank a COW through the
mails. Once upon time it used to be
q recognized congressional practice to
ship family laundry acros sthe country
the free mailing privilege.
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J Frank Murphy Of Michigan, former
mayor Of Detroit, now Governor General