The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20

ready have started a flow of
 One comes from the works prog ~ress administration, which has Q tremendous reservoir of $1,425,- 100000 to draw upon.
 The second runs from Rex Tug wells rural resettlement agency, which has $3,390,000 to spend and expects to be allotted $1,000,000 more.
 The third taps the department of agriculture drouth commission, which has $5,0O0,00O as a starter and will probably jump out about $3O,000,000 more.
 Pump No. 1
 Harry Hopkins WPA has been assigned human relief. He started out by hiring 75,O00 farmers and townsmen in North and South Dakota at $52 a month to dig wells, build dams, construct lakes, etc., will continue hiring in the west and south.
 All red tape has been cut. Ordi- rarily state engineers make sur- veys and recommendations for projects, but during the emer- gency no o. K. from Washington will be necessary. Men are being given jobs on projects which may not be officially authorized for months to come. WPA is paying labor, the states furnishing mate rialS.
 Pump No. 2
 Tugwell's resettlement admins tration is taking care of direct grants-the dole, averaging SIS to $20 8 month per family, and per- sonal loans. He also has $2,000, 900 to lend farmers to feed foundation herds through the winter, his agency interlocking with Pump No. 3 here. He figures on $25 8 head until next spring and will need fifteen to thirty million doll- ars more, depending on rainfall, to carry out his plan.
 Tugwell, like Hopkins, has a field organization built up--about 15,000 people, not counting volun- teers who, incidentally, are an important part of his organiza- ton. If a farmer needs 8 loan, he applies to an RA county super visor. His case is investigated by Q volunteer board consisting of one farmer, the county agent, Iner- chant, @ banker, and a woman interested in welfare. This board has the final word. If 1t says yes, Q treasury check is mailed from Washington in from two to six weeks. The same procedure and time is needed to get on the dole.
 Extremely significant is the fact that the American farmer, during the year ending June 30, borrowed $1OO,OOO,OOO while beg ging only S15,OOO,O O,OOO. But drOuth with change that proportion this year.
 Tugwell's right-hand drouth man is Judge Joseph L. Daley, a six-foot-tWo Harvard law gradu. ate who went to New Mexico for his health. There he met Tugwell, who persuaded him to resign from the bench and take charge of rural rehabilitation.
 Pump No. 3
 The drouth commission, headed by quiet, 'hard-working Jesse w. Tapp, is saving livestock. His group of five, named by Secretary Wallace June 27, has been watch ing the drouth since 1t first whirled into Texas last May. They saw the dry-rot creeping into the southeast and northwest and got their plans under way.
 They sent requests to every meat packer and canner in the beef country for, bids on buying, slaughtering, processing, end stor- ing cattle. By July IS the bids were back and contracts being awarded. In 1884 government buy CTS went from farm to farm buy ing starving cattle. This year farmers must bring their stock to the nearest market, where buyers from the packing houses will take them at the market price, super vised by a government agent. The government will then buy from the packer. This years plan means @ big saving in personnel. No Benefit Checks
 There will be no benefit checks for the farmer this year as in 1884 - the supreme court killed that when 1t killed the A. A. A. He will receive only what his steer is worth on the hoof, direct from the slaughterhouse, in cash. (At present, this is higher than cash and benefit checks combined per animal in l93a.)
 No feed-buying is contemplated. Tapp says that for the govern ment to buy feed woud raise prices and would have to be con- tinued indefinitely. His idea is to move surplus stock to green pas- lures or the slaughterhouse, leav- ing only enough behind for foun- dation herds.
 Slaughtered beef will be canned, turned over to the federal surplus commodities commission, and then distributed free to state relief agencies. No unfit beef will be bought, but will be shot and bur- -V-l- .A.a AA se,k