The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-06-11

COMMUNICATED. whereas the present
world price OF silver Ia around As tc
II cents. with every prospect that Il
will not rise materially above that.
China Protests
There were other repercusslons
China protested bitterly against the
unsettffng physical scheme and the
dIsorganlzatlon OF her international
trade resulting from 1t. Eventually
she was driven of the silver standard
by 1t. 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 secretlve about the amounts
OF Chinese silver that 1t intends to
purchase under this agreement as II
has been about the use OF the two-bil.
lon-doliar sterilization fund.
The reason there Is not going to be
any change In the silver policy-cer.
tainly until after elections 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 1t helps to keep
them employed The other group Ii
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 halt
loaf Is better than no bread.
These two groups fesl 80 violently
on this Issue that q 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 Costa
Full information ON how much 1t
costs DR.. Rexford Tugwells Resettle-
ment administration to do its 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 $40, $50 4 fam
lily, reached In q prairie paradise for
Is families At Sioux Falls, s. D. The
final bill was $4,000.
This project was described by Doctor
Tugwall as financially unsuccessful"
The outside per family cost for I
successful project appears to be $11.-
$40, since that much Is to be allowed
In a project which the Tugwell organ
ization Ia contemplating at Osage
Farms, Mo.
Among the other projects being
planned. just being started, or under
construction" 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 1870
family to $500. Tugwell said the
average cost per family was only
5000.
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 spells system would
cost him million votes.
At the same time, a 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
chInery, advocates OF civil service re-
form have redoubled their demands
that the jobs be filled on the merit
system.
While the majority of present occu-
pants of the Jobs automatically will be
retained under the new regulations, fu-
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 1t.
They are charging that the proposed
blanketing 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
November.
WNU 9arvica.