Evening star., 1936-01-10
HOPE FOR RELIEF
HERE BR|GHTENS
a~fs-
Hopkins Gives Assurance
/. and Indicates Relaxing
: of Restrictions.

: District officials. harried by lack
of funds to care adequately for the
Thousands on the dole, took heart
to-day from the pledge OF Harry L.
. Hopkins that "the relief problem will
be met better this Winter than ever
before"
: These words were thought to pres
:. age a relaxing of the w. P. A. re-
striction banning from works progress
= Jobs men and women enrolled on
the relief lists after November l.
: Hopkins, W. P. A. chief, made his
: pledge at press conference yester-
Z day after President Roosevelt reported
p to Congress that by December 28 the
i $4,000, ,0OO, 900 work-relief appropria-
-tion had furnished 3,5o8,813 jobs.
THE financial summary in the re-
= port, mass of figures spread in
small print over 217 pages, disclosed
= that up to December 81, 244,804,O49
!: had been allotted, of which Sl.672.-
Z 394306 actually had been paid out,
, While S55,195,951 remained available
$ for ALLEGATION.
1874 Jobs Provided Here.
The huge appropriation was revealed
as having provided 11,374 jobs in the
: District divided among 6,9l5 workers
: on w. P. A. projects, 1850 III Civilian
Conservation Camps and 1880 in
!. "other agencies"
On the basis of these statistics, the
President is expected soon to present
Z to Congress his estimates for relief
needs for the coming year, generally
believed at this time to hover around
!. the Sl,5OO,0OO,OOO mark
At the same time Commissioner
> Allen is expected to make his plea for
at least 100000 to finance District
s.difect relief needs until July l. Change
Of w. P. A. policy might reduce the
number of relief clients to 5000 from
the present $500, but the local ap-
preparation will be necessary in view
OF Hopkins reiteration of his demand
that States and communities care for
unemployable
Few Refuse Jobs.
In defense of the attitude of re-
lief recipients, Hopkins declared today
''very few workers have deliberately
refused to accept w. P A. jobs" and
added:
Men who fail to report to works
projects because they have already
secured private jobs, or because they
are i'll or disabled. or because they fail
to receive the notice. can scarcely be
regarded as shirkers. About three
fourths of all w. P. A. job assign
ments result in successful placements
on works projects"
Hopkins yesterday foresaw a light
ening of the relief load if the bonus
were paid, Eligibility of veterans for
work-relief jobs would Immediately"
be questioned, he said.
He indicated that stoppage of A.
A. A. benefits by the Supreme Court
decision would have some effect on
the relief roll. and said he doubted
very much" whether work-relief funds
could be used for such payment with
out congressional approval.
- Senator George, Democrat, of
Georgia has pending an amendment
to the works act which would provide
such payment.
Hopkins declined to reveal whether
funds for additional direct relief would
be included in the Presidents request
for further work relief monies.
81 Jobs Furnished.
= The United States breakdown of
The w. P. A. report reveals that the
W. P. A. has provided total Of
e2f55,639 jobs. Others benefiting from
1.-THE. tremendous appropriation last
April are 509,850 c. C.. c. workers
.~and 243,324 men and women in vari-
Gus other agencies.
Between May 10, when the division
of applications and information opened
for business, and September IL, when
the President forbade further applica-
ton, 16,305 requests poured into Wash
ington for total of $7,O42, ,342. .121.
The President has approved ALLEGATION
Of $4,300,0O0,00O.
The section of the report applying
to the District discloses that pay
ments to w. P. A. employees to date
total S21 ,823, 1855. For the whole
countr. the same item comes to
S1,672, ,3e4,3O618.
The w. P. A. projects and expen-
: dftpres are divided in the report into
the II classifcations of roads, streets
: and highways; public buildings. hous-
ling projects, public recreational facili-
ties, conservation work, water and
sewerage systems, ETC.; transportation
facilities, educational facilities, relief
grants. rural resettlement projects,
miscellaneous, administrative ex-
penses.
Group Expenditures.
: United States and District of
Columbia expenditures in the various
. grcIps are as follows:
Roads, streets and highways, U. S.,
E,&148,755,5 ,540.01; D. c., s486, ,82146.
Public buildings, U. S., $33,143,-
b62.02; D. c., SPAS, ,945.50.
Housing projects U. S., $12,553,-
e47.97; d. c., $143,90470.
Public recreational facilities. United
States. $108, 8,135, ,612.94; District of Co.
lumbia, $256, ,233.31.
Conservation work, United States,
S298,983 ,86890; District of Columbia,
$443.38665.
Water and sewerage systems, United
States, $24,717,18759; District of Co.
lumbia, $33,81397.
Transportation facilities, United
States, $29,694, ,72036; District of Co.
lumbia, SAT, 1896.
Educational facilities, United States,
H5A41 ,543.3l: District of Columbia,
$3.50, ,49412.
-. Relief grants, United States, $84,-
s.bs5, 443.19; District of Columbia,
sS$5, ,6o8, 1855.
- Rural resettlement projects, United
.Etates, S12,334,36230 District of Co.
asitnbia, $152, 2,880.72.
ss@Miscellaneous. United States, $685.
.e8l8,213.19; District of Columbia,
isx71Gls4Ol.
Administrative expenses, United
States, $50. 1929. .30440; District of CO.
lumbia, S13,402,488.40.