Nogales international., 1934-11-03
ARIZONANS To VOTE TUESDAY
ADMINISTRATION
WORRIED OVER
UPTON SINCLAIR
California Gubernat0rial
Race Watched By
Washington

I
casteD-It is no secret that Upton
Sinclair's candidacy for Governor
of California is giving the Adm MIS-
ltration more ground for worry than
| any other one sign on the political
| horizon.
Whether M. Sinclair is elected or
not on November 9Th. the ideas
VIII CHI he has put in motion have
impregnated many minds with So
cialistic theories and to that extent
make any effort on the part of tn"
Admin stration to preserve it's mid
die e-of-the-road course more diff
cult.
A great deal of the rather con-
scrvative reassuring talk emanating
from Wash 'ngton, from the Presi-
dent down, in the past few weeks.
has been intended to offset the idea
that the radical influence upon the
Administration is still dominant.
Very definitely, Washington does
not want Upton Sinclair to be
elected Governor of California, even
though he is running on the Demo-
cratic ticket His victory would give
strength to the radical, free-spend-
ing element which seems likely tc
be enlarged, rather than diminish
ed, in the new Congress.
Our Credit Still Good
That is not to intimate that there
is any likelihood of important cur
tailment of Government borrowing
and spending. but the Administra
ton wants to do the planning and
the spending and not have its hand
forced by wild schemes which could
only be carried out by inflationary
measures far greater than any that
have so far been undertaken or
that are contemplated. The credit
of the United States is still good
and Mr.. Roosevelt wants to keep it
good. And there are several things
to be done which will call for all
the credit the Government has.
Most important of these, next tC
maintaining its relief disbursements
is the project for gigantic Gov
ernmental building program, under
the general heading of "slum clear
ance." While nearly $50 million dol
lars has been allocated from th'
PWA funds for the purpose of tear
ing down buildings unfit for human
hab:tation and replacing them with
modern housing, few of these pro-
jects have been started.
Spring Building Plans
There has been a fair response
from private capital to the appsa'
of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton to make loans for nodernizine
dwellings, but the movement has
notb been fast enough to put largo
enough proportion of unemployed
carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers
plumbers and the like, back to work
So a huge program which will take
in every sort of housing activity
from subsistence homesteads t.
great apartment projects in the big
cities, is being worked out with the
idea that in this way the Govern
ment can, by next Spring. perhaps
put four Or five million men at wor'
in the building trades.
Meantime, according to officia
figures. the number of individual'
ION relief" is steadily increasing. ]
jumped in one year, from August
1888, to August, 1884, from IS mil
lions to 18 millions. Due to the
drought and other causes, the in
crease since last April has beer
above a million more who are de-
pendent upon public or charitable
funds for their subsistence.
Ona result of the huge disburse-
ments for relief has of course been
to stimulate retail trade in con-
sumer goods; but no great appre-'
citation in the volume Of purchase
of automobiles. electric refrigerators
and such items can be expected to
result from this source.
Congress And Relief
! What the Administration is most
afraid of is that the new Congress