Evening star., 1935-10-23

program as q whole, large part Of
1t consists Of street and road improve.
ments.
New York First In Relief Numbers.
New York, which heads the list in
total Of grants from the three sources !
listed. also occupies first place In pop
ulation and second place in the num- |
Der Of families on relief. Pennsyl- |
vania, second State In population un-
der the 1880 census, had q slightly
larger number Of families no relief
than New York, and stood fourth in
total of the grants shown in the table.
California, second in total Of grants.
stood fifth in the number Of families
on relief and sixth in population. The
positions Of the other leading States
In population and families on relief
occupied close to the same relative
position In grants.
The $118,500 shown for the District
of Columbia in column A consists OF
s8s 500, representing grant OF As per
cent of the cost CT sewer construction.
and $4,000, representing a 80 per
cent grant accompanied by a 10 per
cent loan for repairs to Childrens
Hospital. The District government
cannot borrow except by authority Of
Congress, and the 30-70 grant-loan
ratio applied to the latter project be-
cause 1t was the ratio laid down by
Congress in the local P. w. A. loan
law, when it authorized the District
to apply for the hospital improvement
allotment. The sewer allotment, con-
sisting of a grant only, was made on
the As per cent basis. the same ratio
now being used on P. w. A. projects
generally.
As previously pointed out, the coun-
try as q whole will share in the nu-
merous expenditures from the work.
relief fund. not shown in the table, for
work to be carried on directly by Fed
eral agencies.
Pay Roll Expenditures Here.
In the District of Columbia the
chief benefit from these departmental
allotments is taking the form of pay
roll expenditures for the additional
personnel required in the Government
service for the clerical and admins
trative work of directing the emer-
gency bureaus. Some of the work-re-
lief allotments, however, will add to
the Governments personnel in other
cities also. For example, one of the
allotments TO the Treasury Depart
ment was 81 100000 to enable the In
ol
analysis Of income tax returns to an
extent not possible under its normal
budget Baltimore was selected as the
administrative headquarters for this
survey, with so other cities sharing In
the expenditure. OF this total the ex-
penditure In the District Is placed at
$39,54O. Another similar project was
s550,000 to the Labor Department for
survey Of data in United States en-
ployment offices. About $3.50 900 of
this Is scheduled to be spent here
and the rest throughout the States.
The Treasury Department was given
another allotment Of s1,086,94l to
provide work for unemployed book
keepers and accountants in checking
enforcement of the liquor tax laws.
OF this amount s12.338 vas allocated
to the District and the balance in
81 States.
OF the funds allotted to the Com
merce Department, s7,7s4, 900 was for
the Census Bureau to prepare a GEN.
sus Of business enterprises. Philadel-
phia was selected as administrative
headquarters for this survey. and
about 100000 was assigned for the
administrative headquarters. The re-
mainder will be spent in all the
States. the District ALLEGATION being
sl5,554.
Health Survey Cost S3,450, 900.
Similar clerical projects are being
undertaken in other agencies, such
as a s3,45o,0o0 survey by the Public
Health Service in l9 Of the larger
States.
The Housing Division Of the Public
Works Administration has a sl33,-
O96,000 program for slum-clearance
and low-rent housing developments in
various parts Of the country and
recently called for foundation bids on
81 Of these projects, including one in
the District. Earlier in the year it
was intended to devote a much larger
share of the work-relief appropriation
to housing, but in revising the allot-
mentS for various phases Of the work
program, housing was one Of the
divisions cut down. Under the origi-
nal program P. w. A was considering
three housing projects in the District
at an estimated cost of sS,1O0O00. In
the scaling down of the general pro-
gram the plans for Washington were
changed to one complete project to
cost s1,600,000, with 100000 reserved
for purchase Of land for future de-
velopment.
A group of Western States, includ-
ing Arizona, California, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah and
Washington, are slated to share in
a comprehensive program of the Bu-