Evening star., 1934-10-26
?. v. A. WILL SEEK
MILLIONS FOR Jobs.
Federal Agencies Asked to
List Projects to Be
Started at Once.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The P. w. A. quietly is paving the
way for another huge appropriation
for projects designed to create jobs
in every corner of the Nation.
The administration is certain, we'll
informed persons said to ask for mil
lions, perhaps billions. How much
Congress will provide is a question
that can be answered only with
guess.
The exact amount to be asked has
not been decided. The question of
how much will be spent is linked, ap-
parently, with future trends in private
business activity. President Roosevelt,
though not mentioning P. w. A. spe-
Cifcally, has said Government spend
ing and lending will taper off as soon
as private initiative takes over the job.
Meanwhile, the sum of 100000 has
been allotted to develop three sub
sistence homesteads for colored in
Alabama, Interior Department officials
announced. They are forerunners OF
a series of communities which Will
be built for colored homesteaders at a
cost of $1,5OO,000.
Richberg Sees Issue.
The Presidents industrial recovery
chief, Donald Richberg, said in New
York yesterday that clearly emerg-
ing" issue is whether private enter
prise shall re-employ -four or hve
million willing workers" or whether
the Government must try to do it.
He said he preferred to have private
resources do it.
The P. w. A. is preparing to lay be-
fore Congress a list OF operations
which might be launched quickly II
its Golfers, once brimming with So, 7OO,-
100000, are replenished.
A number of Government agencies,
accordingly, have been asked to speed
up public works projects for which
they have received funds already and
to determine what future develop
ments might stimulate employment.
P. w. A. State engineers, an au-
thoritative source said, also have been
asked to turn in lists of new non-Fed-
eral projects which would qualify for
public works loans and grants.
Road Work Seen.
One example of how the P. W. A.
Is irving to get line on new projects
has come to light in the Bureau Of
Public Roads of the Department of
Agriculture.
The bureau is reported to have sent
a letter to some State Road and High
way Commissions asking what bridge
and road projects could be started
within 80, go or 90 days. From its
original appropriation the P. W. A.
gave the bureau $400,000,000 for road
work
1t was pointed out that within 90
days it would be possible for Congress
to drop another big check into the
P. w. AS pocketbook.
With Harry L. Hopkins, relief ad-
ministrator, shying away definitely
from outright relief, there are strong
indications that the liaison between
the P. w. A. and the Relief Admins
tration will be strengthened during
the cold months.
Some observers expect work relief
projects, financed perhaps by the P.
w. A., to occupy prominent place
in the administration plans for the
Winter.
Communities for COlored.
In connection with the announce
ment of the subsistence homesteads
for colored, it was said that rs faml-
lies will get an opportunity to buy
modern homes and farm tracts In
the three Alabama communities.
1,iIIn y1ri11 ho within
8 miles of Tuskegee Institute, famous
school for colored, where agricultural
experts will teach modern methods to
the homestead farmers. The purpose
of this community is to demonstrate
that rural living may be as salts
factory as that in the CITY," officials
said. Cotton farming will be supple
mented by production OF small fruits
and some dairy products.
1t was estimated each homestead in
this development would average 60
acres and would cost the occupant
S2,968
Another unit to be built in a rural
section of Alabama is designed to per-
nit families to own farms of their
own instead of continuing as laborerS
and. tenants. An effort to interest
them in dairy farming is planned in
this community.
The third development, within the
limits of one of Alabama's industrial
centers. will offer homes and subsis-
tence garden tracts at an estimated
cost of S2,161. Negotiations for land
for the second and third units are still
being conducted. .
Problem Intensified.
Charles E. Pynchon, general man
ager of the Subsistence HomeSteads
Corp, said large numbers of colored
had been thrown on relief rolls in re-
cent years.
The problem of the Negro has been
intensified in the North, due to the
great migration of Negroes to North
ern cities during the past 20 years" he
reported. In the South, too, the pop
ulation movement has been cityward
To meet this situation, small home
steads Of the garden type are being
planned for areas both in the North
and South, near industrial centers
where the homesteaders may draw an
income from working in the cities fac
tories and at the same time obtain q
major portion of their foodstufts from
the land {"