Evening star., 1935-04-28
Permanent Support to
100000 Declared
Chief Aim Now.
HELP TO NEEDY PUT
AHEAD OF BUSINESS
10,500,0O0 Off Rolls by July,
1886, Is Goal-Roosevelt Goes
on Radio Tonight.
BY THEODORE C. WALLEN.

The administration, in its efforts to
put $500, 900 jobleSs to work in the
next year on public funds, has shifted
the emphasis of its spending CAM
paign from pump printing" to relief.
This fact was made clear yesterday
as the key men of the New Deal per-
fected the organization to handle the
$4,000, 100000 worksrelief fund.
Leading New Dealers have con-
cluded, it was said, that the United
States must prepare to support 5,000.-
600 to 100000 unemployed per-
manently where it used to carry
100000 to 100000
In the expenditure of the original
So, 800, 100000 public works fund. the
motivating influence was to prime the
pump of private expenditure by get
ting the public money into quick cir
culation through huge public projects.
The Government was deemed justified
in risking large losses in doubtful
projects so long as the money was
put out into circulation with mini
mum of delay. The problem of un-
employment was expected to show
gradual improvement as the public
works progressed. Meantime, the
Federal Government helped the States >
carry the relief burden.
Little Planned Expenditure.
The view was held that any build
ing project that put idle to work and
consumed materials added to the
total stimulating industry. There was
little attempt at planned eXpendi-
ture. The short-lived c. w. A. was an
exception to this rule in the sense
that the administration, through this
agency, sought for a few months tc
reach the jobless directly.
officials feel that, while the $780,
000,0 900 may have helped to pump new
energy into the general economic
system, it failed to relieve the un-
employment problem substantially
archaeological advance in industry was
held responsible in degree for this
situation. The N. r. A., in special
investigation Of conditions in the auto
mobile industry, reported amazing dis
placement of manpower by new labor
saving machinery. The Roosevelt
left wingers, sponsors of the original
pump printing thesis. laid the failure
chiefly to dissension in the high COM
mand. They charged that the pur-
pose Of the plan was defeated when
the aim to concentrate expenditures
in a limited period was frustrated
by the haggling over the merit OF
projects.
Pump Printing Secondary.
The scheme now, in any event. re-
verses the emphasis to relief and con-
servation. The plan to relegate pump.
printing to a secondary position is
already taking form. it was pointed
out yesterday, in several initial steps
for the expenditure of the new S4,-
300. .000,0 fund. To begin with, there
| is to be a census of the unemployed
so that the Administration may tell
at glance where the need is greatest,
| Further in support of that thesis,
the country Is being divided into ad.
miniStrative districts so funds may be
allocated on the basis of need. In
marked contrast with the administra-
ton of the first fund, money is to be
rationed to sections. AS a result,
| funds will be withheld from Detroit,
| IL COIlOlllOIS TcUldlIl pILoh LIIcIC, "
leave more for the stricken New Eng
land textile. regions, where more mill
cloSings are bringing increased unem-
ployment
So far as consistent with the Presi-
dents opening message to this Con-
greSS, the present plan is to give re-
lief in the form of work. This is the
explanation of the small works" pro-
gram which is part of the new or
ganization. BY some it is considered
a successor to the c. w. A.
White House Explanation.
The White House explanation of
this phase of the program is as fol-
lows:
IF in the process of making and
carrying out allotmentS sufficient en-
ployment in a given area is actually
not provided, the existing machinery Of
the F. E. R. A. will be continued in
order to take up the slack through
creation of local work on very small
projects which, because of their size,
could not be cleared through the
works allotment board"
| It is pointed out that the PreSi-
dents successful flight to keep his
subsistence wage" provision in the
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