Milford chronicle., 1935-08-16
ROOSEVELT VERSUS ROOSEVELT
lin Regard to the Great Deception OGIca a5 Work Hee

livery of the Presidents message Ga
he positively said il Eadl, 80 day
# should have sufficed to enable it (
i formulate one. II did not.
y Four more months have passed.
: is August. There still is no program
: What money is being spent is not TO
/ the useful work defined by the Pres
e i6ent in his message, as above quot
f ed. The "buck" is being passed; it il
e claimed states and cities are no
e ready with their pTOgrams--w which
= incidentally, is no excuse for tn
= Administration not having tbs pro
D gram it said it had.
The money is being driDbled ava!
on exactly the same sort Of tret
trimming, leaf raking and trasl
, cleaning that made a scandal of thu
. C. w. A.
In state after state MILLIONS are
being thrown to local Democratic
political machines for tree trim
ming; landscaping river banks; IN
Vincennes, Ind, $58,476 is allotted t.
landscape the city cemetery; max
ing city maps for city engineers al
ready paid to do it; doing clerical
work in county court houses anu
city halls; building municipal goll
courses, and grandstands in base.
ball parks.
In dozens of places the money is
being allocated for wrecking public
buildings. An island is being built
for the monkeys in the Cleveland,
Ohio, zoo. ALLEGATIONS are made for
building literally hundreds Of log
dams across lonesome creeks in
more than a dozen states.
Columns could be filled with ci-
tatiOns of the squandering of this
$4,000, 100000 work relief fund, the
ALLEGATION of which the President de-
manded be left entirely to him, and
which he pledged would be used
only for permanent and useful work.
The prize goes TO New York City.
where, under the direction of Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, "Chief BOOndOg-
gler," over $75,OOOOOQ is being ex-
pended on piffling projects such as:
Finding out what kind of air is
over New York City, and how much
rock is under New York City; bring
ing the records of the Staten Island
700 up to date; investigation Of
home work in the feather industry;
making a survey of idle New YORK
ers who might be employed. and an
other survey to. bring to the atten
tion of New York employers the.
thousands of unemployed available
for work. What a commentary on
the United States Employment Ser
wee, for which millions have al
ready been allocatedD
Subsistence homestead owners are
icing taught how to raise their veg
etables; housewives are being taught
how to prepare apDetizing food. a
survey is being made of back viola /
tiOns of sanitary codes. mo atten- I
tiOn is being paid to current viola
tiOns because it might interfere with
Tammany gTaft) A survey is being
made of the emotional development .
of the child. Three-quarters of a
million dollars is allotted for a sur
vey to set up a system to keep ac-
count of nll material in New York
City stOrehOuses-a sort of junk
inventory.
President Roosevelt himself, at a
press conference August 2. admitted
the whole program had fallen to the
ground; that the job which he had
promised to create out of the work
relief fund will not materiaIize. The
Eudget Bureau has been asked to
prepare estimates to submit TO Con-
gress next January, calling for an
other relief appropriation amounting
10 at least $3.OOO,OOO,OOO
Gen. Hugh S. johnson was right
when, on July 3, he said;
II hate this thing. It isn't helping
anybody, anywhere. When the source
If money is cut off we will be right
pack where we started. II is dis
to sit here knowing that
when the funds are gone the jobs
will be gone
This is a repetition o: ihe decep-
ion practiced by the Administration
n 1933-1934. In his special message
o Congress. May II, 1888, asking for
3,3OO, 100000 to start a program of
iirect employment, the President
aid:
"A careful survey cOmvinces me
hat approximately S3,300.O0O.O00
an be invested in useful and nee
ssary public construction"
On June IA, the same year, he
tated:
"There is no intention of USING the
ublic works funds simply to build
lot of useless projects disguised as
elief."
When he signed the bill, June 16,
933, the President stated studies
hOwed they could add a million men
D the payrOlls by October /, and
,uch greater number later BY DC
lber l there had been less than
90 900 given employment by reason
( this enormous fund. On NOvem-
er IS, notwithstanding ne had stat
4 twice careful survey" show ed
ne whole amount could be spent in
useful and necessary public con-
tructIon," the President made
ublic admission that it had been
,und Exceedingly difficult, honest
:, to allOt the sum of $4,000, ,0OO, 600
, worthwhile projects"
With this admission of the COM
Iete failure of the $4,000, ,O00.0OO
rogram to relieve unemployment,
le President hastily threw tOgeth-
:. as a face-saver. the c. W. A.,
hich has become in political his
,ry of this country synonymous
ith official incOmpetency and po-
Lical graft.