Evening star., 1937-03-14
Ry the Assoriatsd prsss

SA6hhIlC pIiu8e spans LHe COlden Gate
Of San Francisco.
Government money went into these
projects at each end OF the Nation
and in between, survey showed yes
terday, some ten and a half billion
dollars has left Uncle Sans pocket
book in the name of recovery and
relief.
With the aid Of three new Federal
documents, Representatives for the
first time can take peek into future
public spending-in the light Of what
has gone on in the last four years.
A national resources committee
vision OF $5,000,0 ,000,000 worth Of new
public works is the. last volume Of 4
three-deck saga Of the depression.
Volume I OF the trilogy is the
Presidents budget outlining the cost
Of recovery and relief; Volume II is
his report advising Congress what is
happening to the money.
A little more than half the total
went for relief that will not yield to
tape measures and calipers. 1t went
for the things Harry L. Hopkins called
"a business where our raw materials
is misery and our finished product
nothing more than amelioration."
Schools Head List.
The lesser half of the $l0,500, 900 900
built for the taxpayers, however, s.
more or less visible monument to the
tight against depression. This in
cludes everything from battleships to
outhouses, Libraries to rodeo grounds.
and airports to subways.
In an accounting Of its stewardship
the Public Works Administration,
headed by Harold L. 1ckes, put school
building at the top Of the list. 1t
financed 6,344 schools in the last three
years, providing seats for 100000
children.
This building of schools, the P. w.
A. said, constituted IS per cent OF ali
school construction in the last three
Years and ranged from one-room
structures to tremendous high school
plants larger than most colleges.
The P. w. A. claimed creation OF
seven billion man-hours OF labor Is
spending more than S3,500,000,000 In
the As months ending February %
1t did not attempt to enumerate all
the Nations acquired assets but
proudly referred to ones labeled
typical.
There are public buildings (some
5000 600 900 worth) all over the land
scape as the result of P. w. A. SPEND
ing. Among them are the new 10000
square foot Interior Department
Building in Washington, the Kansas
City Municipal Auditorium, city halls,
county jails, State office buildings,
asylums and hospitals.
Annex to Louisiana Capitol.
Included In recent P. w. A. allot-
ments was one for an annex to the
Louisiana State Capitol, built by the
late Senator Huey Long, bitter
critic of Government spending meth
DDS while he lived
The giant Triborough Bridge IN
New York ranks as the outstanding
P. w. A. bridge. The Reconstruction
Finance Corp. put money into the
authority building the Golden Gate
Bridge at the other end OF the
Nation.
At Chicago now stands the largest
sewage disposal plant in the world,
costing s45,o00,ooo.
Williamsburg in New York and Jane
! thu forOocf
projects for slum clearance and low
cost housing. There are 81 Of these
projects, providing homes for thou
sands of low-income families who
have lived, for the most part, in un-
sanitary slums.
The Government even had a prof.
ect for washing the Washington
Monument.
In the field OF water power and
food control come Boulder Dam,
Grand Coulee, Bonneville and the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Federal
grants paid for more than s25o,000,-
900 worth of electric utilities. water
and sewage systems, food control
and power dams exclusive OF Boulder
Dam and the T. v. A.
Boulder Dam is listed as self-liqui-
dating. The T. v. A. is not self
liquidating, but ranks as permanent
national planning experiment. To
date it has used up s75,000,000.
200 Post Office Buildings.
The New Deal can point to new
post ofices in close to 200 cities, CIV
ing a considerable boost to the custo-
mary post Office building program.
IN fact, there is no Congressman
whose district has not come under
the inclusive sweep of Government
spending for the two R's-recovery
and relief.
Out of the 3,07l counties in the
United States, Government records
disclose but three with no public works
projects. TWO OF these are in Georgia,
one in Missouri.
The Government put trains in New
York subways. It started ferry boats
plying across the New York and Seattle
harbors. 1t financed the building Of
IA high-speed streamlined, articulated
trains. Its money helped electrify the
Pennsylvania Railroad from Phila-
delphia to Washington. Other Federal
money built five bridges completing the
coastal highway connecting San Fran
cisco and Portland, Oreg.
Around $3.50, 900 900 went into naval
vessels, airplanes, bridges, viaducts.
wharves, airports, subways and other
transportation facilities. aside from the
$500, 100000 that went to the Army
and Navy for national defense.
$3.50, 100000 for Conservation.
Conservation came in for $3.50 .000,-
900, with reforestation in the van.
The Government listed its reclamation
project as the greatest in American