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The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Exams Will Open
For Two i. S. Jobs

Civil service examinations will
be given soon for an elevator
operator and a telephone op-
orator, who will reveive $1,000
and $1,260, respectively Both
will be employed in Government
buildings.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
LORWIN CHAIRMAN

DR.. Lewis L. Lorwin, of the
Brookings Institute, will be chair
man Of the luncheon meeting Of
the Peoples Lobby at the Cosmos
Club Saturday. Speakers will be
DR.. w. Jett Lauck and Prof. Henry
Pratt Fairchild.
Evening star., 1935-11-11

blanks and forms that must be filled
out every time a harassed State OFF,
cial turns around also has served to
spread sand in the gears. Even the
recent attempt to slash red tape" by
giving State administrators authority
to transfer money from one project
to another Is accompanied by bales Of
paper, all Of which must be laboriously
filled in"
The remarkable part of It is that
any one entering "the auditorium"
vast and mysterious barn-hk
building in Washington, which houses
myriads of projects on paper" must
observe how difficult 1t would be to
find any Of the forms" after they
have been shipped to headquarters.
If the files ever can be Strengthened
out, they will provide a bulwark
against any future investigation by
f1y-specking Senators. Meanwhile,
they serve merely to increase the divi-
dends Of the pulp paper corporations.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1935-11-11

patting the President on the back
with one hand while he socked him
with the other fist.
Beating Around the Bush.
To keep peace in the family, there
fore, Mr.. Roosevelt beat deftly around
the bush. Instead of centralizing au-
thority, he created a many-headed
organization, which made everybody
happy, but cost like the devil and
drained much of the $4,000, 900 900
away before any of it reached the
outfit that is carrying the load"
Another early presidential concern,
apparently, was for possible scandals
that might develop In the expenditure
of so large sum Of money. 1t would
take no more than a good, juicy scan
dal or two to smear an entire pro-
gram that was 996 per cent pure.
The purchase of materials seemed
likely place for local officials, who
could not be completely controlled by
the President, to do a little conniv-
ing. Therefore, Admiral Christian
j. Peoples, Treasury procurement
chief, was placed in charge Of all
purchases.
State w. P. A. officials are now COM
planning privately of the ponderous
pace at which the Treasury is doing
its buying They declare that long
established agencies do not lend them
selves to flexibility or emergency ac-
tiOn.
Job Service Also Involved.
The United States Employment
Service is another cook with a long
and vigorous spoon in the job broth.
Its function is to clear" employable
relief clients, certified" by local re-
lief offices, and forward them to the
w. P. A. administrators. In several
important cities this roundabout route
has served to diminish the speed of
transferring men from relief to jobs,
w. P. A. administrators declare. In
New York, former Administrator
johnson tossed U. S. E. s. out the
window and set up his own job intake
system. Elsewhere, U. S. E. S. found
that no matter how slow it was, it
still kept ahead of McCarl
An almost unbelievable volume of
Evening star., 1935-11-11
BY BLAIR MOODY.


CHICAGO, November II (N.A.N.A0.
Difficulties now being encountered
by States in their effort to rush $780,
900 men from relief rolls to pay rolls
before the end of November can be
summed up in the old axiom:
TOO many cooks spoil the BROTH"
The desire of President Roosevelt,
when he formulated the organization
to administer his $4,000, 900, 900 job
fund, to keep everybody happy within
his own rather turbulent New Deal
family has balled up the works out
in the field.
An attempt to detour around pro-
spective political pitfalls was chiefly
responsible for the slow start in the
program.
Harry L. Hopkins Works Progress
Administration, handspring of the job
drive and currently main target for
the failure to create 3,500.0O0 jobs
by November |, was not given COM
plete authority to carry out the task
Five Agencies Involved.
Not one-but five-governmental
agencies must churn their wheels every
time a man is put to work on w. P. A.
The devastating effect of this maze
of red tape on a mechanism theoreti-
cally geared for speed can be fully
appreciated only by talking with the
officials charged with the actual task
of administration in the States.
Before the W. P A. can function
in any State. it must obtain the con-
current and synchronized cooperation
of the general auditing Office in Wash
ington, headed by Controller General
McCarl; the United States Employ
ment Service, or an off-ShoOt OF it,
the National Re-Employment Service;
the procurement division of the Treas
ury, the local State relief Offices and
the Treasury disbursement office.
Any one who thought Mr.. Hopkins
a speedy and efficient, if somewhat
free-handed, jobmaker under the old
c. w. A. could scarcely help but Won
Ger what happened to him under
w. P. A.
Failed to See Pitfalls.
1t is not like Hopkins, off-hand
though many of his public statements
are. to put himself on the spot by
making the now seemingly absurd
prediction that 100000 men would
be drawing checks from Government
jobs by November Ia goal missed by
a little matter of some 100000 men.
Yet Hopkins made this statement
repeatedly and in the face of sharp
and Skeptical questioning by Washing
ton news men. The fair inference is
that he did not then foresee the cork
that was to be showed in the bottle
neck-Mr. McCarl.
The great procrastination falls di-
rectly on the doorstep of McCarl, but
there are many informed officials
both in Washington and in the field
who refuse to blame him. =.
They concede that McCarls Office
is groo- ID and bureaucratic-as might
be expected in any organization head
ed by 15-year appointee who can
not be renamed-and that was utterly
unequipped for any such flood OF
projects to be approved" as descended
upon it.
But they also say this, of course,
Evening star., 1935-11-11

privately that Mr.. Roosevelt was
under no compulsion to shove the
cork in the bottle by ordering that
all projects be submitted to McCarl
In advance.
They point out that when, under
c. w. A., two years ago, Hopkins was
given q free hand, without going
through McCarl, Hopkins put. 4,000,-
900 men to work in three weeks.
They point out also that Hopkins
| disbursed, from the $3.50 900, 600 ap-
preparation, $316, 100000 in direct re-
lief before July and more than $780,
100000 since the first of the fiscal
year-all without a jot or little Of ap-
proval from McCarl.
Now this money was handed out
from exactly the same jackpot that
the projects" are coming from. How,
they want to know, can Hopkins give
away money as he pleases with one
hand, but lack the power to give it
away-for the creation Of jobs-with
the other, when it's all one act Of Con-
gress?
Here's the Apparent Answer.
The answer seems to be this:
The rising issue of corresponding,
a political threat in some parts of the
country, apparently warned President
Roosevelt that he had better be care
full how that $4,000, 100000 was dis
bursed. There was widespread criti-
cism Of leaf-raking and waste under
c. w. A., some of it justified. To
avoid that, plans were prepared for
good projects long in advance Of
w. P. A.
But as a final clincher to answer
| critics, some one trotted out the idea
of getting McCarl's John Hancock on
the dotted line in advance.
If the hard-boiled little Republican
who cannot be fired or reappointed,
and who has been virulent opponent
of other New Deal undertakings, Spe-
cifically declared all projects to be
within the purview of Congress in
tention, then the Republican howl
against the program could be measur-
ably muffled.
Wire Came Too Late.
So just when w. P. A. was about to
get under way in earnest, late in the
Summer, came an unexpected order
to clear" everything first through
McCarl. And all remained morbid
fro.l then on until Mr.. Roosevelt sent
McCarl wire from the U. S. S. Hous-
ton in -Octobe., when 1t was too
late for the November drive.
Even before that Mr. Roosevelt had
shown a fondnecs for a multiplicity
of cooks in his $4,000, ,000, 900 kitchen.
1t became evident on the day "clear-
ing the relief rolls" was announced as
the prime object of the program that
Hopkins could be the central figure
of the program. He is the only man
in close enough touch with the relief
picture to engineer the shift.
But it was equally evident that some
other sensitive gentlemen, notably
MIR. Ickes, would be irked beyond
measure if they were shunted to one
side. Hard-boiled Harold might even
''go Hugh Johnson" quit the cabinet
and wander up and down the land
Evening star., 1935-11-11
MISSING SHIPS FOUND

GIMLI, Manitoba, November II (P)
Two missing fishing steamers. the
Lub-Berc and Luana, have been found
to civilization, 1t was reported last
night.
Trapped In a sudden freeze-up OF
the lake about 100 miles north OF
here, the boats had been missing for
three weeks.
Evening star., 1935-11-11
". P. 4. Delay Laid to Desire
Of President to S00the aides
"Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth
Is Reason States Are Hampered
in Cutting Relief Rolls.

This is the second OF series
OF articles analyzing the economic
and political effects. the probable
Developments and early snags OF
President Roosepelts $4,000, ,000, 900
lob proorant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
THE OTHER SIDE

ME picture of prison life is drab one at
- best. We hear much of the idea that
term in prison only embitters and makes anti
social the imprisoned man.
1t is too often true. But not always Ohio
has just released two men, brothers, who were
sentenced to life Imprisonment in 1925.
One, Daniel Webster Boggs, had built up
mail order advertising business in his prison
cell, paid off the mortgage on his mothers
home, financed the education of two sisters,
and saved money besides
The other John Joseph Boggs, has COM
pleted courses in law, aeronautical engineering,
and radio engineering by correspondence.
Two men, at least, bid fair to step out from
behind prison walls with every chance of sue
cessful and productive lives ahead of them
Thus the real aim of penology is attained
1t doesn't happen as often as it should, but
it does happen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
THURSDAY. JANUARY II. 1885.
THE ELEPHANT NEVER
"a scRIPPs-HOwARD NEWSPAPER

IT used to be said that the elephant never
forgot. 1t begins to appear that the ele-
phant-at least. the Republican elephant
never remembers.
The voters of Indiana last fall rose in their
might and, after being misrepresented in the
United States Senate for many years by Arthur
r. Robinson, rejected Mr.. Robinson by no mean
margin.
The voters Of Indiana rejected Mr.. Robin
son because he was a reactionary; because, on
the floor Of one of the most august parliaments
in the world he had resorted to bitter, per-
sonal abuse in attacking President Roosevelt;
because he stood for. at least publicly. the
antithesis of everything that is the New Deal.
The voters of Indiana remembered, too,
that Senator Robinson never had dared TO
answer openly the questions, asked so often
by The Indianapolis Times: Were you mem
Der of the Ku-Klux Khan? Did you receive
Khan support in obtaining and retaining your
Senate seat?"
This happened only last fall. The Republic
can party must have known why Senator
Robinson was defeated and how he helped to
carry other Republican candidates to defeat
with him.
Now, Just about two months later, the Ir-
vington Republican Club, the membership of
which is composed of some our silk-stockinged
Republican friends, has elected Arthur r.
Robinson as a member of its advisory COM
mittee.
Advice from Arthur R. Robnson-on the
question of how to rehabilitate the G. o. p
should be advice indeedl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
THE HONOR ROLL

THREE cities deserve to have their names
written high on a roll of honor for 1884.
They are San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and
Milwaukee
The first two because they were the only
ones of the dozen largest cities which were
able to cut down the number of persons killed
by automobiles in 1884 as compared with 1888
And the last because, although it showed a
slight increase, 1t remains at the bottom of
the list of II.
Preliminary estimates of the National Safe
ty Council show that Los Angeles was the
most dangerous city regarding auto deaths,
with 474 in 1884 compared with Ais in 1888,
or 1927 for every thousand people, the highest
in the country.
New York, naturally, led in fatalities, with
1905, yet was second lowest in percentage per
thousand, 1877. Chicago had almost as many
fatalities. $685. for rate of 275 per thousand,
second highest.
Thirty-fve thousand lives were sacrificed
in 1884 to the automobile, and about a million
were injured in 100000 accidents.
Reduction of this horrible slaughter is fast
becoming a national problem that must be
tackled more energetically than we have yet
tackled it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
MIR. MINTON SERVES

MO small part of Sherman D. Minton's sue
y cess in last falls election was due to the
fact that Indiana voters remembered, most
gratefully, his services as public counselor be-
fore the Public Service Commission.
In this role. Senator Minton fought valiant
~ and successfully to free the citizens Of this
state from the grip of overwhelming and i'm
perious public utilities which, for too long,
had been having their own way in Indiana.
Now, from Washington. comes word that
Senator Minton has been appointed mem
Der of the all-important Interstate Commerce
Committee of the Upper House. This appoint
ment. incidentally, was a compliment of the
highest order from the Administration for In
diana's junior Senator.
The whole nation is to be complimented
upon the appointment is to be complimented
quite as much as is Senator Minton. For, in
this post Senator Minton will be able to use
his knowledge and his undeniable powers as.
a public champion in behalf of the public
all of the people of this country-in battling
over-greedy utilities interests.
Good luck. Senatorl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
PALESTINE DAY

INDIANA zionists will celebrat Sunday the
- first annual nationwide Palestine Day.
The day has been recognized officially lere by
Governor Paul v. McNutt and set aside in
gubernatorial proclamation.
Non-Jews throughout the state may we'll
devote some of Sunday to bordering the
achievements of the sons of Israel who, in
the land that once belonged to their fore
fathers, before Western civilization had come
into being, have built themselves again a
homeland.
To the successful Zionists, credit and con-
CALCULATIONS are due.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
THE CORNER STONE

TNHE most essential institution in job in
surance is the employment service" La
Dor Secretary Frances Perkins writes in the
current American Magazine IF that is in
efficient and corrupt the whole plan breaks
down. No system can possibly work unless
there is an efficient nationwide employment
service"
Strange that this fact largely has been over
looked by states now preparing to march with
the Federal Government toward economic
security. Yet it is obvious.
Unemployment insurance is designed tenn
porarily to compensate for the lack of avail
able work. There is no accurate way of tell
ing whether a worker has valid claim to job
insurance payments unless there are WELL
recognized clearing houses for men and jobs.
In other words there should be nationwide.
standardized, free and non-political system of
employment services.
In the United States Employment Service
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17

this country has the nucleus for just such
system. Under the Wagner-Peyser act this
service has been setting up Federal-state pub
liz employment offices standardizing them I'M
der the merit system and financing them on
dollar-for- dollar basis. The Federal service is
welding the % state services that existed be-
fore the act was passed into a unified system
1t hopes for a complete Set-up of 48 Federal
state services soon. AS an emergency measure
the National Unemployment Service has been
organized, with more than 600 branches Even
this immature and under financed system last
year registered and classified more than 12,-
100000 persons and placed nearly 100000 in
private or Government jobs, temporary or
otherwise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
So They Say

The right to equality of defense is
principle which no nation can
deny to another-Capt Tamon
Yamaguchi, Japanese naval at
tache in U. S.
The American New Deal has
shown how essential it is to recon-
struct completely to defeat depres-
sion in every phase of economic life.
David Lloyd George.
There1l be a regular passenger
service by flying boats over the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans in two
yeaTs.-E. Hamilton Lee, veteran
pilot for United Air Lines.
We will practically remake man
in the next so years.-Charles F.
Kettering, famous automotive en-
gineer.
People should be allowed to make
money during a war, but they
shouldn't be allowed to keep it,
Bernard M. Baruch.
My recipe for being a comedian Is
this: never have much money.-W
G. Fields.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
ENOUGH DEBATE

THE President might have written a mes
l. sage as long as a book on the reasons why
the Senate should pass the resolution for
American adherence to the World Court. But
that was not needed A subject which has
been debated from so many sides and for so
many years is pretty well talked out. 1t is
about time to take vote. So in keeping with
the proper brevity of the occasion. the Presi-
dent limited himself to half page-a brevtty
which should be followed in the forthcoming
Senate debate.
But the Presidents message was long
enough to make clear that he wants action
and in such form as not to defeat or delay
the objective of adherence"
1t is unthinkable that the United States,
a leader in world peace, should stay out Of
the established institution and system of in
ternational justice.
Under the pending protocol the interests
Of the United States are doubly protected
Favorable action has been recommended
by the four Presidents in Office since the ques-
ton arose. Both the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties have pledged adherence in their
platforms. Public opinion-as expressed at
the polls through the press. and by petitions
lis Overwhelmingly in favor. And most Of
the Senators already have indicated their
approval.
There really is no excuse for further de-
lay. Let the Senate get on with this business
so 1t then can turn TO the longer and harder
, Job Of relief and recovery legislation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17
The Purchasing Department
BY TALCOTT POWELL

Democratic regimes in the past when the state
treasury was consistently looted by Office hold
ers wishing to favor friends and line their own
pockets.
Months were consumed by this newspaper
in running down literally hundreds of individ-
ual orders, but when the jig-saw puzzle was
finally put together there was no evidence Of
official graft.
There were, to be sure, plenty of sour
rumors, each one Of which had to be checked.
But rumor is not news.
There was a certain city editor in New York
few years ago. Those were the high, wide
and handsome days of Jimmy Walker. when
nothing but a red-hot stove, bolted to the floor
and guarded by United States Marines, was safe
from the sticky fingers of Tammany. Rumors
were about as thick as unemployed actors on
Broadway.
Enthusiastic reporters used to drag these
rumors to that city editor--tell him how this
one or that one had been taking brides.
That's all right" he would reply, but have
you the Cancelled checks?"
VX7HEN The indianapolis Times turned its
w final report on the Purchasing Depart
ment over to the Governor a few days ago
there we're no Cancelled checks. We found
none.
But we did Finland had the evidence to
prove-that there were certain slovenly prac-
tees in the purchase of state supplies which
needed prompt attention.
There were many tawdry devices to which
Governor could have resorted when he was
confronted with such damning report. Gov.
McNutt usec none of them. Instead he ACTED.
Perfecting an efficient system of state pur-
chasing is important. But of far greater con-
sequence is the fact that the Governor of In
diana was able to forget the possible risks to
his personal political career and strike decs-
lively for good government.
Yes, it takes MAN to do that!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-17

tended that way; the mother looks
down upon her baby boy or girl and
asks God to bless that little life,
and is it reasonable to think that
this good mother would want that
same child at the age of IS or 10
years thrown into the discard? No.
Arthur Brisbane, in the Indian
apolis Star, Jan. II, says that DR..
F. E. Townsend, a good-hearted old
man, is proposing pension of $500
a month, to be spent within 80 days.
Now we recognize Mr.. Brisbane as
one of our greatest thinkers, and l
pause to quote such a man as Ar
thur Brisbane saying that DR..
Townsend and the 100000 Ameri-
can citizens that have signed his
petition. as senSeless.
If I am not mistaken Mr.. Bris-
bane showed through his writing one
time the great amount of gold our
Government had and recommended
imitation. Then for a man like
him to come out and say that it
would take $4,000, 100000 to pass
the Townsend plan, shows kat he
is ignorant of the plan or he wants
to continue to sit in the golden
spoon of all bankers.
He does not know anything about
being hungry; he does not know the
conditions or he is simply dumb.
The only possible way for immediate
relief is to put everybody to work
at high wages and kill this damna-
BILE depression by the passage of the
Townsend plan--that Arthur Bris-
bane, the golden spoon writer, says
is senseless.