Evening star., 1935-10-09

the influential party men have been
looking into his record and like him.
You will be surprised when you
hear some of their names.
The Campaign Issue.
Republican constitutionalists are
not as strong for a constitutional type
offs campaign as their published senti-
ments indicate. They are for the
Constitution. all right, and they be-
lieve such a current campaign was
patriotically necessary to hold legal
reins on the New Deal. But they have
no idea that it is the type Of cam
paign to use in a popular appeal for
votes next year. The '36 campaign
will be an appeal for business ad-
ministration. for curtailed spending.
not for abolition Of the New Deal en-
tirely and not especially constitutional.
You can bet on that.
The major problem of the New Deal
can be reduced to simple division out
here, where two from two still leaves
two.
The Government has spent
$4,000, 900 here to straighten the
tOindino Rio Grande for food con-
troll. About $4,000, 900 has been
gtuen for needed construction at
Fort Bliss, an important border
post. A neD Federal building is be-
ing constructed at cost OF
100000.
Thus, about $4,000, 1000 has been
900 are Americans and $4,000 Mex
spent in this community Of approx
mately 100000 persons. Of whom 40.-
leans.
A Relief Hyperdermic.
This means the Government has
spent about $50 per person for works
in this community. 1t has been a
hyperdermic to the community. It
has enabled business here to operate
at level Of about 10 per cent above
last year, even with existing cotton
uncertainty.
But there were still 1885 cases on
relief the other day. Figuring four
persons to case, this would be about
$4,000 persons. A year ago there
were about $4,000 persons (the earlier
peak was much higher. These are
nearly all unskilled laborers, mostly
Mexfcans.
Thus the NeU Deal works spend
ing program has exhausted s333.33
per relief person, but has not cured
the relief problem or made sub
stdntidl dent in 1t.
Note The Government probably
will spend $4,ooo,ooO more on flood
control and 100000 to finish the
rehousing work at the fort. Both are
tustifiable expenditures, the fort re-
housing being especially needed. This
would bring the total outlay here to
about 1900, 900, or s110 per person.
There Is no reason to believe 1t will
influence the relief situation any more
than in the past.
Rumbling From the Border.
A rumblng undertone is heard from
the Mexican border. Those who are
near to the cactus roots believe the
Cardenas government is shaky. The
well-informed would not be surprised
to hear that 1t was uprooted one way
or another one Of these days.
+ The reason is that the President
has aroused the antdoontsm OF large
groups OF people. He Is a retorrner,
but one OF the strangest OF the
species, q sincere one. He does not
drink and he does not gamble and
he does not see why any one else
should.
His anti-gambling edict has ruined
the border towns. Juarez Is now only
dive for tourists, somewhat like
Chinatown in New York. The palatial
gambling hall at Aqua Calientes Is
closed tight, q high board fence has
been erected around this and other
SIC, ,000, 900 gambling investments south
Of San Diego. The Aqua Caliente
hackers are now planning to reopen
it as a tourist resort, but without
much hope.