Evening star., 1935-09-29
Industry Must Care
for the Unemployed
By Queen L. Sc0ft.

| priming or through third economy"
| is unable to take the place of private in
| dustry as an employer.
The New Deal attempt to create
3,500.000 Jobs with $4,000, 900 900 is turn
| ing out to be nightmare. -Four billion
| dollars, the President finds, simply do
not 90 far enough. They are drop
in the bucket compared with the forty
billions that the depression shaved an
nually from the national income.
AS a result, spenders fight among
themselves for the chance to spend the
available billions; the country is to get
less than it expected for its money:
millions Of jobless will be disappointed
over not getting jobs; others will be dis
satisfied with the jobs they get; COM
munitieS will be upset by inability to
obtain money for projects that they
planned and were assured that they
could have.
The President is concerned enough
over the situation to ask the clergy Of
the country what they think Of the
work-relief program. Also he is to do
some assessing of his own while
| travelling.
| Experience forces on governing off,
| cials the following conclusions:
Industry, not Government. must take
up the country's unemployed. DR.. Rex
ford Guy Tugwell's plan for third
economy" in which the Federal Gov
ernment would give jobs to all who are
not employed in private industry, is
found In practice to cost more than the
Treasury can bear.
The present effort to shift from pump
| priming to third economy" through
| the v,,adi,,r, ofe A mn mn mn in, croydivo
money turned out to be Jump In the
dark. The reason: Primarily because
$4,000, ,000,0 are not enough dollars to
create $500, 900 worthwhile jobs for
one year.
At least three more billions will be
needed to carry the present plan through
second year, with no promise that the
spending will end even then. Talk has
started of another big appropriation
before the spending Of the first has
hardly begun. Either that or a return
| to the dole.
Employment of relief labor on a ma
tional plan for developing the country's
natural resources has gone into the dis
card as too expensive. The same is true
of other important development pro-
grams. There is significance in the fact
that old C. w. A. jobs, objected to by
the public as leaf raking" cost 5000 per
| worker per year. New w. p A. jobs,
dividing available funds with the prom
ised jobs. can cost no more than $728
year, of which 5000 is to be in the form
of wages.
The struggle for the privilege of
| spending the billions has involved lead
4 ir,n 1f tha
Regulations are staked on the outcome.
The character of the battle has been
such as to require Mr. Roosevelt's per-
sonal Intervention and adds to the rea-
sons why the whole plan has become
nightmare
Harold Ickes. Secretary of the Interior
and P. w. A. administrator stood out for
pump printing He lost The President
shaved his spending to $500, 900 out
of the $4,000 100000 Still Mr.. Ickes
fights on.
His idea is that if money is to be
spent by the Federal Government. it
should be spent on large-scale projects
like dams, flood control, grade-crossing
elimination, housing and other programs
that leave something tangible and worth
while when the spending is ended.
But the President has promised $780,
600 jobs from the expenditure of the
81 900. 100000. He is told that each job
created on housing project costs 81, 1888
per year, and that even when the Gov
ernment contributes only As per cent of
the cost Of large-scale projects. the cost
is 81 1926 per year. Further, spending on
public works takes time, and Mr.. Roose-
welt wants jobs by November.
| X
| The determination to create jobs in
hurry and on a large scale leaves Mr..
Ickes pretty well out of the present pic
ture His friends think he will be back
! after years trial with the type OF
| work-relief that lies ahead.
| AS Mr.. Ickes goes out, in comes DR..
| Tugwell and another fight. DR.. Tugwell
has several ideas for spending money.
One is to buy up poor farm land and
| move the farmers to better land. An
other is to help destitute farmers to get
new start in life with Government
loans. But the idea in which he is
most interested concerns what he calls
| suburban cities or satellite" cities.
These are housing projects. They in.
volve the creation of new-fangled towns.
DR.. Tugwell wants to go into the coun-
try outside 20 big cities buy up land,
build up a community with houses gar.
| dens, Fairgrounds, schools and COM
| munity centers, and then sell the houses
| to people who work in the cities.
The Government would contribute IS
| per cent of the cost. would provide su-
pervision and financing on a low-inter-
est-rate basis, and would sell at price
to provide rental at not over $6 per room
per month.
Mr. Tugwell wants $225, 100000 for one
year of resettlement administration ac-
tivity. That is more than Mr.. Ickes
gets. Yet one official who Is helping
run the show said privately:
You can't tell what Tugwell will get.
He has a way of coming out of the
White House with what he wants"
Actually. both Mr. Ickes and DR.. Tug
we'll are to run side shows. The main
event is to be run by Harry Hopkins.
as works progress administrator. backer
of the idea of creating $500 900 jobs and
victor in the struggle that went on for
control the work-relief billions. Mr..
Hopkins is stalking his reputation on
success of the program.
He has to turn out results that will
convince the public that the Govern
ment is getting its moneys worth out of
the jobs. He. too. has to show that the
Federal Government actually can get