Evening star., 1935-09-13
Four Months Campaign Is
Planned to Spend Most
Relief Cash Through w. P.
A. on Temporary Jobs.
P. w. A. TO TAKE OVER
BURDEN NEXT SPRING
Agreement Reached After Long
Farley Between President and
Lieutenants-Requiremen ments
Placed on Interior Secretary
May Make Task Difficult One.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,

HYDE PARK, N. Y. September 13.
Determined to put as many persons
to work as soon as possible under his
relief program, President Roosevelt
today announced orders for the Works
Progress Administration, under Harry
L. Hopkins, to take over the works
relief drive until the permanent public
works program Of Secretary Ickes
reaches a greater volume of employ
ment.
In an explanation at today's press
conference of his order, Mr.. Roosevelt
said he plans a four-month drive.
beginning in December. to expend the
bulk of relief money through the W.
P. A. on temporary jobs that may put
men to work quickly.
BY the end of next March the
projects of more permanent or en-
during nature will, the President be-
lieves, have advanced so as to produce
sufficient employment to permit a
slowing down in the temporary en-
ployment under Hopkins.
Result Of Long Farley.
This new plan represented the DOM
mating feature of the agreement
reached after the President conferred
many hours at his home here with
his chief lieutenants engaged in ad-
miniStering the various agencies under
this program.
The Presidents mood while ex-
planning the outcome of his important
work-relief parley to newspaper cor
respondents was such as to indicate
that complete harmony prevailed
when the long conference came to
an end and decisions we're agreed
upon
According to the Presidents ex.
PLANTATION, Secretary Ickes, who. az
public works administrator, has been
fighting for ALLEGATIONS for public
works Of substantial nature, seems
to have Jared fairly well in the final
decision. The Presidents plan makes
it possible for sufficient public works
projects to get going in a big way by
next June, and then to take over a
larger part Of the employment Mean
while, relief work will be pressed un-
der Hopkins. The President has
placed some requirements upon the
Public Works Administration which
will make Mr.. Ickes' task a difficult
one. at least at the start
Mr.. Roosevelt has requested that
the P. W. A. furnish him within the
next week list Of projects it approves
that can meet four conditions laid
down by the President, namely:
/. These projects must be let by
contract before the December Is
deadline.
2. They must be completed inside
of a year from December IS
8. They must be located in areas
where there is sufficient people on
the unemployment rolls to furnish
the necessary labor
4. They must live up to the re-
quirement Of an average cost of $3.50
per man.
As Per Cent Grant Represented.
The President said his reshaped
program provides for an ALLEGATION
OF SzUU,UUU,UUu Ior pubic WORKS prof.
ects and an additional 100000, 900
later on to be reallocated from Fed
eral housing, which now comes under
the P. w. A. These generous amounts.
the President explained, represent a
As per cent grant, which means that
the municipalities must put up the
rest, which, at SIS per cent basis.
would provide actually s225, 5,00o,0 900
for this class of projects. The same
ratio would hold good when the extra
$l00, ,000,000 is turned over to P. w. A.
In his explanation the President,
reading from some scribbled notes,
said that in the final analysis P. w.
A. will have been given s425, ,000, 900.
In addition. according to the Presi-
dents plan, the Public Works projects