The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-08-28
Explodes Theory New Deal Has Been
Fair to Negroes In Giving Jobs -
Thousands Of Whites Given Places
To Every One For Negroes

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Negro patronage gained under the
Roosevelt "New Deal'' administration
was effectively exploded this week
all impartial political observers dug
into the records in an attempt to get
comparative data on Republican and
Democratic treatment of the race on
q national scale.
One of the chief arguments of New
Dealers for Negro support is the rec
ignition given colored citizens in al
phabetical agencies Mt Washington.
Democrats point to the positionl held
by Ambrose Caiver, Lawrence Oxley,
and others as evidence that the Negro
is named to head departments and
administer work effecting the race.
While this may sound good On the
Surface an analylis Of background
facts removes the gild from the lily.
While numerically there seem to be
many new Negro jobs under the Roo
sevelt administration, proportionately
and that Is what counts-the New
Deal IL far behind the Hoover, Coo
lidEe and Harding Administrations.
The reason is simple and the logic
iDdisHutable. Under recent Republi-
can administration, on the basis of n
hundred thousands jobs, or pieces of
patronage - the Negro received the
arbitrary allotment OF 20 Of import
ance. Under the present Democrtic
administration, there are more feder-
nj jobs than ever before in the his
tory Of this nation. On the basis Of
COO, 900 political plums, the colored
ment Of 80. While this means in cold
figures that the Negro today gets 4
times as many jobs rs before, he is
actually given less for merely to keep
even with the Republican propOrtionI
the race should have 120-Or SO per
cent more. This means, In other word
that Negro patronage has actually
been reducted in effect, for whites
have the 40 posts that logically be-
long to and should go to Negroes.
In additin, these hundreds OF
thousand OF added federal job hold
ers-which the Negro does not share
in prOportionately are supported
by taxes from both black and white.
1t Is a known fact that government
expenditures must he paid for by the
citizenry and that the Negro pays
more than his share Of taxel directly
and indirectly because of exOrbitant
rents and higher prices often paid in
cOlOred communities for some com
modities. AS n matter of fact, taxes
on such a common product as cigar
cites are now SO high that the man
or woman who smokes a pack a day
OF the ordinary brands pays to the
government $21 yearly in taxes alone
1t IL naturally cheaper to pay taxes
to support 100000 job holders, sim
liar to what existed under Republi-
can administrations, tlFan to have
taxes skyrOcketed to support 600, 900
feeding at the government trough,
which is prOportionately what has
happened since Roosevelt went into Of
flee. BY n stretch Of the Imagination
of any sane economist do the few adj
ded Negro jobs, which are proportion
ately not for what the Negro has to
pay into federal Golfers to support
several hundred thousand more Of
whites.
This, however, is only one of th'
many ways in which the myth Of .ad
ded Negro patronage mnder the NeN
Deal has been exploded by observer!
who have sought only the facts.
A survey Of Republican sdministr
fioua aho,wa that NeRrOea have serve