The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-02-06

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Aside from helping the food bud
get, a garden provides one OF the
way.
Congress wants money spent
faster and also wants it spent by
somebody who will "listen to
reason" when it comes to distribut-
ing it where it will do the senators
and representatives the most good
at the next election.
Capitol Hill Ideas
The boys on Capitol Hill would
have enjoyed making an old
fashioned pork barrel out Of this
huge treasure -chest, with the big
gest chunks of pork going into dis
tricts where party morale needs
strengthening. But Mr.. Roosevelt
wouldn't have it that way; SO the
members of congress have had to
content themselves with the hope
that Jim will find a way" as one
of them put it, referring to POST
master General Farley's chairman
ship of the Democratic national
committee.
It would have been pleasing to
most congressman, too, if they had
not been asked to include a restric-
ton on the wages that may be paid
on projects under this appropria-
ton. However, from the point OF
view Of recovery, the $50 month
average wage which, Is authorized
for public works, is regarded as
high enough to keep the average
workers family well provided for,
but not high enough to keep him
from taking a job in private en-
ployment il one comes his way.
Action After July /
4 The new funds thus provided will
not be available until after July /.
How speedily they can be put to
work thereafter depends upon how
fast the plans of the various pro-
jects can be perfected. A good many
are said to be practically complete
now. Under the provision in the
appropriation bill authorizing the
president to exercise the right Of
eminent do1nain-that it to say, to
take land by condemnation IT
necessary the way is opened for
great projects OF "slum clearance"
in cities, tearing down old, crowded
tenements and building airy modern
-loW-rent apartments in parked
grounds, as Mussolini has done in
Italy.
Another nationwide program
which is well thought of in admin
istration circles, is the abolition OF
every railroad crossing of a highway
"at grade" in the United States.
A high percentage Of fatal auto
mobile accidents occur at grade
crossings, and nearly all OF the
fatalities connected with railway
travel. Removal of grade crossings
will speed up not only trains but
motor travel.
The president will have to bor-
row the money, of course. There is
only about $4,000, 600, 900 borrowing
power left under the Second Liberty
Loan Act of 1918, which is the
authority under which the treasury
has been borrowing for public pur-
poses; so a bill has been rushed
through the house and will have
passed the senate by the time this
is printed, to raise the limit OF
treasury bond sales to a total pub
lie debt of $45, OO0, 100000. Figures
like that have ceased to brighten
Washington. The talk now is that
the United States could carry a
debt load of a hundred billion dol
lars.
Cost OF Pensions
It will cost from $500, 100000 to
billion a year to carry out the
old age insurance and unemplOy-
ment compensation plans, even in
Guiding the payroll and earnings
taxes, as the bill is now drawn,
mathematical sharks compute. Be
fore congress gets through the old
age pension will be. raised from $50
a month to $40 or above. Townsend
plan advocates are clamoring for at
least 500 a month. 1t won't be that
high, but may be $50.
Shortly congress will be asked to
authorize Joe Eastman's plan to re-
organize the interstate commerce
commission to give that body full
control over all forms of Interstate
transportation, railroad, bus, track,
air and water.
The Reconstruction Finance cor
poration is to be granted broader
powers, to make loans to industry
and to railroads.
New schemes for inducing small
savers to take their money out of
savings banks and lend it to the;
government are under way. Baby"
bonds in $1cO denominations or less,
running twenty years, to be sold to
the public at a discount, to bear no
interest but to- be redeemed for a
third more than was paid for them,
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