Evening star., 1935-10-23

schools and colleges, for several hun
dred thousand young persons who are
no longer in regular attendance at
school or regularly employed.
The portion of the Work-relief pro-
gram to be carried on through regular
Federal agencies with allotmentS out
of the $4,000, 100000 appropriation will
include irrigation. reclamation, flood
control, the eradication of insects and
diseases that attack plant life and
variety of other undertakings. Among
the larger allotments up to a recent
date to Federal departments are:
s7s,55O,OO0 for Reclamation.
Bureau of Reclamation. s79 1850, 900;
Engineer Corps of the War Depart
ment, s144,7l6l69; Soil Conservation
Service, 100000; Bureau of Ento-
mology and Plant Quarantine. s16,-
559,8l7; Forest Service, S13,827 500;
Census Bureau. s9,881 ,948; Bureau OF
Animal Industry. s1,682, 900; Bureau
of Yards and Docks, Navy, ST.
370,470; Treasury Department, for the
Coast Guard, Procurement Division,
Public Health Service and Secretarys
Office, approximately $l5,00000o;
Labor Department, for the employ
ment service. immigration and natu-
ralization, s1,O79,995. and a number
Of smaller allotments to other agencies.
AS passed by Congress last April
the work-relief act actually made avail
able s4,880, 100000, but the $3.50. .000,-
600 was a reappropriation of balances
from prior emergency laws, and was
to keep direct relief going until the
works program got under way. Ap-
proximately S8O0O0,000 has been al
located to F. E. R. A. for direct relief.
The present goal of the administration
is to end direct relief by creating work
projects for the employables and let
the States take up the task of caring
for the unemployables. When the So
cial security program is set in mo-
ton, with appropriations by Congress
in January, many of the unemploy-
ables would be eligible for joint State
Federal old-age assistance. An F. E.
R. A. statement this month showed
approximately 3,500,000 families on
general relief in August.
Concentration on w. p. A.
In its effort to change direct relief
to work-relief at an early date, the
administration Is concentrating. for
the immediate future, on w. P. A.
Works Progress Administrator al
lotments, as shown in column B Of
the accompanying table. because they
are of nature permitting quick en-
ployment Of labor, as distinguished
from the more permanent P. w. A.
public Works Administrator i'm.
provements.
OF the $4,000, 900 new appropria-
tien, the amount earmarked for loans
or grants for projects of States and
municipalities, through either P. w. A.
or w. P. A., was $1,000 900. As
the program now stands P. w. A. has
been allocated s341, $50 900, leaving a
potential balance for w. P. A. of ST.
358,150,O0o.
In the accompanying table column
A shows how 1881, $3.50, 900 Of the new
P. w. A. money has been allocated in
grants, amounting to IS per cent of
the cost of 1885 projects throughout
the country.
Prior to this year p. w. A., in its
original program, operated on a 80 per
cent grant, 10 per cent loan basis, but
the ratio has been liberalized under
the new program. On more than 1000
OF the new projects, shown in
column A, P. w. A. is furnishing the
grant only, with the local communities
borrowing or raising the IS per cent
from some other source. On the re-
naming 1,790 jobs P. w. A. loans have
been applied for to accompany the
grants. These loans, however, will be
made out of the old appropriation and
the operation Of the P. w. A. revolv-
ing fund. The loans, therefore, shown
in the last column of the table, do
not figure in the present work-relief
appropriation total.
Approved w. p. A. Grants.
Column B shows grants for w. P. A.
projects, amounting to $909,077, ,211,
that had been approved as of Octo-
Der 9. Since the administration is
concentrating on w. P. A. as the
spearhead of the work drive for the
immediate future, however, the total
of w. P. A. ALLEGATION approvals is
changing from day to day. Accord
ingly. since the October Q announce
ment of ALLEGATIONS by States the
total of approved projects has been
increased to S1,157,1S 400. Still