Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
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Communicated. Whereas the present
world price of silver is around 46 to
AZ cents, with every prospect that it
will not rise materially above that.
China Protests
There were other repercussions
China protested bitterly against the
unsettling physical scheme and the
disorganization of her international
trade resulting from it. Eventually
she was driven off the silver standard
by it. The recent agreement on the
part of the United States to buy large
amounts of Chinese silver is one Of
the after effects. incidentally the treas.
ury is as secretive about the amounts
of Chinese silver that it intends to
purchase under this agreement as it
has been about the use Of the two-bil-
lion-dollar sterilization fund.
The reason there is not going to be
any change in the silver policy-cer-
tainly until after election-is that two
small minority groups in this country
are enormously in favor of it. One
of these is the silver mining group
which now benefits from the subsidy.
The mine owners of course divide this
bonus among themselves. The mine
workers think that it helps to keep
them employed. The other group is
for the silver policy because it be-
lieves in imitation. Failing to get
printing-press money through the
Frazier-Lemke bill or any other de-
vice, those holding this view like the
silver policy on the theory that half
loaf is better than no bread.
These two groups feel so violently
on this issue that a change on this
one thing would probably make them
vote against Roosevelt. The majority,
who think the policy crazy, will vote
for or against Roosevelt for other rea-
sons.
Resettlement Costs
Full information on how much it
costs DR.. Rexford Tugwells Resettle-
ment administration to do it's reset
Ting became available for the first
time recently, imbedded in the hear
ings of the senate appropriations COM
mittee on the deficiency bill.
Resettlement's top is $2O,25O a fam
lily, reached in a prairie paradise for
13 families at Sioux Falls, S. D. The
final bill was $276,00O.
This project was described by Doctor
Tugwell as financially unsuccessful"
The outside per family cost for
successful project appears to be SILL
$40, since that much is to be allowed
in a project which the Tugwell organ
ization is contemplating at Usage
Farms, Mo.
Among the other projects being
planned, just being started, or under
there were listed three
more whose per family cost was above
$4,000, and five for which the treas
ury will pay out anywhere from $7,270
a family to $4,000. Tugwell said the
average cost per family was only
$4,000.
Civil Service for Bureaus
The civil service commission and
Senator George w. Norris, Republican,
Of Nebraska, recently urged the Presi
dent to bring the emergency bureaus
under civil service regulations. Norris
even warned the President that his
failure to halt the spoils system would
cost him a million votes.
At the same time, last minute
drive is under way to secure enact
ment by congress of the bill placing
first, second and third class postmas-
ters under civil service.
More than $4,000 positions may be
affected by executive orders affecting
jobs created during the emergency
period.
Since some of these new government
activities have come to be regarded as
permanent adjuncts of the federal ma
advocates2of civil service re-
form have redoubled their demands
that the jobs be filed on the merit
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system.
While the majority of present occu-
pants of the jobs automatically will be
retained under the new regulations, flu
ture vacancies will be filled only on
the basis Of competitive examinations.
Besides fitting into his announced
views on the subject of public employ
ment, the shifting of the new bureaus
to civil service is counted on by the
administration to offset criticism on
that score.
Republican critics, on the other
hand, do see campaign issue in it.
They are charging that the proposed
of present emergency en-
ployees into the civil service by execu-
tive order just few months before
the election is political move to keep
Roosevelt administration partisans in
their present jobs and continue them
on the payroll in the next administra-
ton should Roosevelt be defeated in
WNU Service.