The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-10

up Ethiopia has nothing on the WPA boss has to do unemployed before Novemt
 In the next three weeks he
 must find jobs fcr-2,37S, ,760. This will require placements at the weekly rate of - 559.- $40.
 Or, every day he must find work for approximately - S5,- 900.
 So far, WPA estimates that l,- 126,234 idle have been given em- ployment under the $4,OO0, ,000, 900 program. Of these, 550,640 are CCC~ recruits, 113,85 have been placed by other agencies and 452,739 owe their jobs to the WPA.
 This is the net result of an entire summer of effort. The fig- ures paint 8 graphica picture of just what Hopkins is up against if he is to fulfill his oft-repeated assurance. In the next three weeks he must put more men to work per week than he hasiput to work during the entire last three months.
 Privately, WPA executives admit the impossibility of mak- ing good Hopkins's cocky goal They say he will be lucky if 3,5OO,00 are at work by Janu- ary 1.-two months later.
 Soldier Statesman
 The president had his. eye on the darkenirlg international situ- ation when he appointed General Malin D. Craig chief of staff. In making the appointmnet, Roosevelt passed over the recom- rnendation of retiring General Douglas Macarthur, who favored General George A. Simonds, now deputy chief of staff.
 Because of age, Simonds could have served only two and one- half years. This corresponds with the time MacArthur expects to serve in the Philippines, and would have left an opening for him to gratify his cherished ann bition of serving two terms as chief of staff.
 = The man whom Roosevelt picked instead is not only . brilliant strategist and execu- tive, but he is a scholar with Q wide grasp of world affairs. In intellectual stature Craig ranks with General Tasker H. Bliss, U. s. representative on the su- preme war council and member of President Wilson's peace delegation.
 General Craig is tall, trim, has the carriage of an athlete. As g West Point cadet he was a spec tacular football and baseball star: as 8 cavalry officer he was an ace polo player. His face is lean, studious, lighted by clear, friend- ly blue eyes.
 Leader of Men a.
 There is nothing of the marti- net about Craig. He is leader of men, not driver. He has a particular genius for developing high morale.
 As Commander of Ft. Riley, the cavalrys world-famous ser- vice school, he abolished the tra- ditional ride 'em or = kill -'em" system of training and substituted a modern curriculum.
 General Craig is army born and bred. His grandfather and father were army officers, the former 8 general in the Civil War. His brother and only son are officers. His wife is the daughter of Gen. eral Charles A. Woodruff.
 N0te-Neither General Simonds nor General Craig, the two men who were in line for Chief of Staff, belongs to the MacArthur clique in the War Department. Krupp's
 A quiet study by the Commerce Department has unearthed the fact that American manufactur- CTS of, office machinery have linked up with Krupps, Ger Germany's giant munitions firm.
 The National Cash Register Company and Remington Rand have made deals with Krupp to manufacture their products i'm Germany, using the Ameri- can patents.
 The Commerce Department is anything but enthusiastic about this, because it reduces factory production in this country, there by increases U. s. unemployment. Also. office machinery has long been one of the few specialized lines which the United States could sell abroad.
 However, Commerce Depart ment officials are chuckling to themselves over the fact that the American companies are having great difficulty getting their mon- ey out Of Germany.
 Hjalmar Schacht, economic dic- tation of the Reich, will not per- init sizeable monetary shipments across the border. Little Problem
 Sanford Bates, director of the Bureau of Prisons, once was a colleague of Calvin Coolidge in the Massachusetts, State Senate: later was State Commissioner of
 By Ed Ree'