The Washington times., 1935-03-27
ADVISING BOARD.
WILL LINEUP
PROJECTS
Present Set-Ups, With Present
Leaders to Be Kept, With
White House in Change ID

President Roosevelt himself will
be the Big Boss on the huge
4,8O0 million dollar work relief
program initiated by him as the
final lone punch" plan to end
direct relief and start the wheels
Of prosperity.
This was made clear and def
mite today by an official member
of the Presidents staff with the
evident intention of putting an
end to stories and rumorS that
someone else would be in high
command of this appropriation,
the largest ever made by any
government in history, it is said.
Specific denial is made by Of
ficisls today that either Rex
gwell, Undersecretary of
Agriculture, or Harry Hopkins,
Federal Relief Administrator,
would be put in charge of the Ad-
ministration' work relief program,
with its unprecedented amounts
Of money.
In Full Control
The Presidents official title as
boss OF the job will be Chairman
Of the Allotment Committee" He
will be in full control, and fol-
lowing the terms of the bill which
has passed both houses and is
now in conference over details,
the entire responsibility will be
his.
The committee will be COM
posed of Harry Hopkins, Secre-
tary OF the Interior Ickes, Under
secretary Tugwell, Admiral C. j.
Peoples, head of the procurement
division of the TreaDlry, and pos
Sibly several others.
There is possibility that Gen.
Robert E. Wood, president of
SearS-Roebuck Company, will be
q member; he has already been
named as a possible business ad.
wiser to the President in relation
to the public works to be under.
taken.
President Roosevelt has never
discussed publicly his plans for
the Administration Of his huge
work-relief fund, but has seen to
1t that denialS have been made
following the publication of Sev.
eral circumstantial stories pur-
porting to give the 'inside" story
Of his plans.
Will Keep SetUps
The President has never con.
CfHnr0l SNN1ffiYNr rs EAie
aides in charge of the job, but
he has made it known more than
once that the money would be
spent as far as possible through
existing organizations without
any additional set-up.
Public work money for build.
ings and projects, such as are
now under Secretary Ickes' juris-
diction still will be spent by Mr..
Ickes, with the Presidents ap-
proval: certain other projects
will be administered by Harry
Hopkins: agricultural projects will
be handled by Prof. Tugwell, and
80 on. Much of the road work
will be handled as Of old through
the Bureau of Good Roads, with
the States sharing it.
incidentally. it is said that the
hotels are filling up with delega-
tions which are here to "get
their share" of the road money.
President to Be Arbiter
There will be technical ad-
visers, legal advisers, engineers,
ETC.. connected with the allot-
ment committee. They will plan,
work out details and advise. The
members of the committee will
be responsible for work in their
particular areas, but it is prom
ised that the final arbiter for
policies and spending will be in
the hands of President Roosevelt
himself.
Administration officials are in
clined to resent the published
stories announcing as final the
selection of various chieftains for
this big work project. They say
that the publication of such
names arouses the opposition of
men in Congress and elsewhere
who may have objections to these
individuals.
For that reason the Administra.
ton again let's it be known that
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