Evening star., 1935-09-12
Conference Called to Speed
ALLEGATION of Remainder of
$4,000, 900, 900 Fund.
lCKES-HOPKINS RIFT
WILL BE IR0NED OUT
Presidents Jobs Statement Indi.
Gates He Will Side With Works
Progress Administrator.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
Staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.


HYDE PARK, N. Y, September 12.-
Surrounded by a group Of lieutenants,
all holding major positions in the ad-
ministration of the New Deals work
relief program. President Roosevelt to-
day is reshaping this gigantic program.
At the same time the President is
acting as a conciliator in an attempt
to iron out the differences of opinion
between some of these lieutenants and
to completely eliminate what at pres
ent appears to be personal feuds and
bitterness.
In this group. sitting about a table
in the library of the Roosevelt home
here. with Mr.. Roosevelt occupying an
easy chair at its head. are Harold l..
IckeS. Secretary of the Interior and
who is also public works administrator,
and Harry L. Hopkins, works progress
administrator. whose opposing views,
as to allocations of monies for public
works have been bristling for some
time; Frank c. Walker, director of the
emergency council and head of the
division Of applications and informa-
ton: Charles O. West, formerly liaSon
officer between the White House and
Capitol HILL who is now Undersecre-
tary of Interior; Corrington Gill,
assistant works project administrator:
Col. Horatio Hackett. assistant public
works administrator in charge of houS-
ing; Dr. Rexford Tugwell. Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture, rural settlement
administrator, and Daniel w. Bell,
director of the budget
Job Making Necessary.
Just in advance of this important
conference with his recovery chief
tainS the President stated that the
problem now, is the absolute neces-
Sity to make jobs as quickly as pos
Sible, by getting the $4,000, 900 900
work-relief fund at his disposal allo-
Gated without delay and at the same
time to have constantly in mind the
turning over of workers TO private in
dutry, as business continues to i'm
prove throughout the country
Announcement of this Getermina-
ton on the Presidents part would in
dicate at first glance that he is more
apt to side with Administrator Hop
kins in the latter's quarrel with Sec
retary Ickes Mr.. Ickes is champion
of permanent public works, in this
tremendous spending program to spur
on recovery, and he left Washington
incensed over Hopkins opposition. es-
peclally the latter's turning down of
about 1000 applications for public
works projects.
Administrator Hopkins, recognized
as the champion Of quick spending,
insists that the money should be spent
so as to give the greatest amount of
employment at once and has con-
tended that many Of the public works
projects favored by Ickes would cost
too much per man in the matter of
employment and take too long to
complete.
Indicates Problem Is Simple.
However, the President. at his press
conference yesterday afternoon, in an
obvious attempt to minimize the diff
culties in which he now finds himself,
also inferred that the task confronting
him at the conference now in session
is comparatively simple one. He
asserted that the major purpose of
the conference is to provide a re-
check of activities to date so that
final plans governing the conduct of
work-relief during the next few months
could be made before he starts on his
trip to the Pacific Coast within the
next two weeks
Mr.. Roosevelt explained the pur-
poses of this conference further by
saying that they would endeavor to
ascertain how much Of the $4,000
600, 900 fund yet remained unallocat-
ed. His personal opinion was that
he still had about 81 ,250, 600 600 yet to
be allocated.
The next order of business, accord
ing to the Presidents advance explana-
ton. will be the Determination of the
broad lump-sum ALLEGATIONS already
made and to decide just how much Of
this could not be spent advantage
ously for the purposes of which they
have been reserved. 1t is his
opinion that this portion could be
drawn back into what he described
as kitty to be reallocated elsewhere.
Anxious to make this point palmer,
the President pointed out that it is
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