Evening star., 1935-10-29
1885 RELIEF COSTS
EXCEED "a DESPITE
DRIVE TO END DOLE
S214,903,835 More Spent
for First Ten Months
This Year.
GENERAL TAPERING OFF
SHOWN DURING OCTOBER
Hopkins Reports 1,421 ,470 Per-
sons Now Are Employed Under
New Works Program.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
An official summation showed TO-
day that the Government, despite its
program to end the dole. has spent
more for relief so far this year than
it did during the same period of 1884.
This years relief grants were placed
at 81 .227973,573 compared to sl,013,-
os9,738 in the corresponding 10
months of last year.
Meanwhile administration chiefs
checked up on their work relief pro-
gram to0ay-and found they would
have to put around 100000 mora
to work within a month to reach
their $500 900 goal.
Hopkins Sees President.
President Roosevelt invited Harry
L. Hopkins. W. P A. chief. to lunch
! and arranged a later meeting with
! Secretary IckeS, P. W. A. boss. 1t
was understood that the President
was hopeful the task of transferring
/ employables from relief to jobs would
be speeded.
As they met, 1t was disclosed that
| Controller General J. r. McCarl had
! imposed a temporary and possibly per-
manent ban against many P. w. A.
highway projects.
There are three ways under the
work relief act by which highways
may be built: l. w. P A. may
| finance m-to-market roads. 2. P.
w. A. may make loans and grants.
j 3. The Government may give money
/ to State highway departments to build
/ Federal highways.
Since the last method Of financing
is included in the law. McCarl is said
to contend that P. w. A. loans and
grants may not be used to finance
Federal systems.
Streets and highways are to get
nearly Sl6000.000 out of P. W. AS
new s330.00O 000 In each instance.
| however, McCarl is reported to have
| held up cash advances until the Bu-
reau of Public Roads says the project
is not on Federal route.
Street and Highway Program.
P. w. AS street and highway pro-
gram calls for As per cent Federal
donations on these projects: Roads
and highways. 1913 projects. S10,o57.-
421 streets. 96 projects, S5,276 40;
sidewalks and curbs. three projects.
S68,694; grade crossing elimination,
one project, S177956; drainage struc-
lures, four projects, S152,374; lights,
signals and markers, one project.
S24.294; miscellaneous, five projects.
S232534.
AS the work-relief program entered
the l5-day period which Harry L.
Hopkins, W. P. A. administrator. said
would show the biggest bulge" Of ems
ployment, threats Of reduced allot-
ments hung over slower moving agen-
cies. Hopkins was said to be ready
to transfer some of the money to
his quicker moving W. P. A.
Latest figures, however, listed the
program as still 2,088,500 jobs short
of its 100000 goal. The new dead
line for liquidating the relief admin
istration is December /.
The summation of relief figures
showed that the amount granted for
relief since october l has been only a
fraction of what it was in October
year ago, and officials are predicting
that increased employment from the
works program will bring an end to
all Federal outlays for relief during
November.
Beset With Delays.
Early this year, as the works pro-
gram moved at a snail's pace through
Congress and then encountered initial
administrative delays, the number Of
persons on relief stood far above tho
levels which had been reached at tha
same period in 1884. 1t was during
this time that relief expenditures
jumped upward sharply.
, The tapering process which
Harry L. Hopkins has said he hopes
will bring liquidation of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration soma
time next month-later than originally
scheduled-waS reflected in the relief
grants for September and October
; this year. They were 6,039,l4 and
s31, ,382,514 respectively, compared
with $106,841 ,985 and S160,090,072 in
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