Evening star., 1935-07-10
WORKS TO DEPEND
ON CITIES FUNDS
Roosevelt Says Those Fur.
nishing So Per Cent to
Be Favored.
~ the Associated Press.

Delays in getting p. w. A. projects
approved by the Federal Government
apparently are In store for cities and
States which do not shell out IS per
cent of the cost.
In asking State P. w. A. directors
TO help induce local governments share
the cost of the jobs campaign. Presi-
dent Roosevelt said yesterday:
Local public bodies willing to
out up their share of IS per cent
Of the total cost of the project must,
Of course, be given first consid-
Grafton"
p. w. A. terms recently were lib
erali1ed by increasing the Federal
donation from 80 per cent to IS per
cent.
Loan Machinery Provided.
Cities unable to put up 55 per cent
may be supplied loans from P. w. A.
revolving fund, which is made up
through sales of securities the Public
Works Administration has accepted
on loans, or in some cases they may
turn to Harry L. Hopkins Works
Progress Administration for donations
Mr.. Roosevelt praised the State
p. W. A. officials and the old
s3,700, 900 900 works program they
carried out Reminding them they
we're now IAN important part OF an
even greater effort" the President
called for speed, because "this money
<the s4,8s0 100000 fund.- was given
to us by the Congress to spend during
the fiscal year" ending next June 80.
Text of Statement.
The full text of the Presidents In
formal statement to State P. w. A.
directors, as recorded by q White
House secretary, follows:
Il have seen a number of the other
State representatives, but not P. w. A.
directors, up to this time and I am
awfully glad you came here for this
conference. You know, OF course,
that we have spent great deal OF
money during the past two years, but
we find now not only that there are
additional funds at our disposal, but
also that the need of permanent work
all over the United States Is not yet
ended. We find that the deeper we go
into 1t, the more opportunities we nave
to do constructive work in almost every
community in the country.
81 told Secretary Ickes by all means
10 bring you here so that might have
the personal pleasure of extending my
greetings to you and at the same time
to extend to you my thanks and COM
pl,ments for the very splendid work
you have been doing.
Pioneers in Field.
"You have been pioneers in what
Is really a new field 1t is not merely
construction; it is also the co-ordina-
tion of construction to the needs OF
various parts of the country. know
the obstacles you have had to face. the
irving situations you have had to con-
tend with.
"As we view that public works pro-
sram think we can take pardon
able pride in what we have done. We
have given to the country useful
projects Of an enduring value. There
is no question about that. You know
the type of these projects better than
ANYBODY else and hope personally
YOU will make every effort within your
own States to show the people the USE
fuiness and the enduring qualities OF
the work done.
I'VE are faced by a kind of false
information In regard to the expend1-
ture of money. The actual listing of
the projects we have worked on and
completed or are at work on today
the mere telling to the people what
we have accomplished-wil dispel the
false information that has been given
out IN many cases. We are going to
repay the money we have spent many
times over. We have increased the
capital assets Of the Nation.
Expenditures Efficient"
"The way in which you good people
carried on this work is source of
great satisfaction. One thing we know.
It is that we have kept the public
works projects free from partisan poll
tics. We have lived up to that obliga-
ton, undertaken two years ago, and
we believe the money has been wisely,
efficiently and honestly expended. In
other words, the P. w. A. has set up
. standard and an example for integ-
rity in administration and disinterest-
ed public service.
"You are now an important part of
IN even greater effort-one to be made
during the next year-which will pro-
vide quick employment so that we can
attain if possible the goal we have set
within this year 1885. Before the year
Is ended, we will end the dole we have
been paying to employable persons
during the last two years. In other
words, we must give useful work to
three and one-half million people and
] believe we are going to do it.
I'm order to do it, of course, we are
faced by a problem of arithmetic
which is comparatively simple. We
have four billion dollars and three
and one-ha1f million people to put to
work with it. That means we have to
average things up. It means that we
have on the average about lao per
cost of the material, so that the four
billion dollars includes not only the
amount we pay the men, but also the
cost Of the material. It is a perfectly
simple arithmetical problem-we have
to work out an average that will come
within the sum of money divided by
the number of people we have to put
TO work.
LAS you know. the p. w. A. grant