Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-11-07
RELIEF CONTINUES
FUNDS FOR YOUTH
PACIFIC AIR MAIL
MORGENTHAU OPTIMISTIC
FUNDS APPROPRIATED
HUGE BALANCE ON HAND

Undoubtedly direct relief will have
to be continued for some weeks long
er with the result that the amount OF
money to be spent on contraction OF
projects will he reduced The w P A
has not succeeded in putting to worn
the $4,000 unemployables that II
expected to have on jobs by Novem'
Der LIST and the probability is that
more than a million potential work
ers will be getting relief for some
weeks longer. The fact is thai all
projects have to be in line with the
defination of work relief as laid down
by Congress and ComptrOller-Genera
McCarl who has been kept busy
reviewing the projects submitted,
many OF which have been scrapped
and others held up.
The National Youth Administra-
ton is expected to provide employ
ment for $4,000 young people at a va
| riety of tasks, with wages ranging
from IS a month for high school stu
dents to SIS a month for those in col
! losc. 1llOSS W OC SlNCA WIN oAoO III
| clude some that r not attending
school. The word has gone through
the country and school officials have
been asked to select students need
| ing assistance. They must be be
tween the ages of sixteen and TWEEN
ty-four and able to do such work as
checking municipal records, making
censuses OF traffic and serving as
community playground assistants.
will be used for recreatiOnal activi-
ties in the cities, and 10000 in rural
sections. Some is 900 will assist To-
cal governments in their activities
and 1000 make studies of public re
cords.
The Postoffice Department has re-
ceived a bid for the carrying of air
mail across the Pacific to China,
which makes real the dream Of ages
and definitely brings the two contin
ents closer than ever before. The un-
derstanding Is that trans-Pacific air
mail service will include two cross
iAL6c Cd(u lIlOAlu ChCu way Uuly NC
tails of the schedule are not avail
able.
Mail service across the Atlantic is
being studied with negotiations be-
ing carried on with foreign interests
in order to secure adequate bases.
Apparently, there is some difficulty
in securing the necessary terminals
/ and emergency landing fields. Mean
while the report is that DR.. Hugo
Eckner proposes to use Zeppelins in
a mail service across the Atlantic.
This government will not cooperate
in the establishment Of such a route
although it will make an extra charge
for mail handled by the Zepplins and
pay the German Government the ex-
ira charge.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary
OF the Treasury, got back last week
from a five weeks vacation in Eu-
rope. He is optimistic as to the
strength of our financial position
which. he says, is appreciated much
more in Europe than at home. The
| flight Of gold to this country does
not worry him much because he re-
CARDS it as a measure of the progress
OF recovery here.
Declaring that the Treasury De-
partments works in the t~wentyfour
hour basis In the face of a world up
set financially, he says it is ready to
meet the conditions as they arise.
He states that the United States cur
rency Is more stabilized than that of
any country in Europe and that il
any nation in the world wants to
start something, we are ready for
them.
1t is practically impossible for the
average citizen to keep up with the
spending under the New Deal. The
I many appropriations that are made
and the vast expenditures authorized
do not necessarily mean that the bill
lions allotted have been spent. To
check up, it might be pointed out
that since the New Deal began, there
has been appropriated for recovery
and relief" s1S,157, ASS, 1852. This IN
cludes the MIRA, AAA, FILA, CCC,
PWA, FERA and the $685. 93 ,053
for the RFC. The figures do not in.
chlde some 218 million dollars In the
1886 budget for non-emergency pub
lie works, including the IVA.
According to an analysis made by
the Treasury, 1887, 695, 1888 Of these
emergency funds had not been spent
or lent to non-Federal agencies prior
to July 1st and since that time 81,
$50, 976, 087 has been disposed Of. This
brings the total expenditures to $40,
1878 1911, 871 and leaves in the New
Deals recovery and relief" fund 81,
17~S,7S3,291 Of unspent appropria
tons.
The survey by the Treasury De.
partment discloses that any of the
81, $3.50, 900 900 appropriation only
1854, Joe, 629 had been spent up to
October l6 with fifty-nine percent oil
the expenditures gone for relief ra,
ther than works projects. The reader
should understand that the huge
work relief fund became available on
July LIST but that actually there were
balances remaining in various funds
at that time SO that, according to the
Treasury figures, s4,113 ,313, O56 re-
manned available for emergency re-