The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-07

They will be increased 100000 over last months peak of 3,066, 900. Most of the additional jobs will be allocated to mid-western indus trial centers, which were the hard est hit by the recession and are showing the slowest pace in recov- ering.
 The new high-water mark will be the maximum load WPA can carry under Its appropriation. Its funds must be allocated to last until next April 1.
 WPA chiefs explain the new addition to their already top- heavy rolls as part of the presi- dents drive to step up the recoy- cry tempo. Giving work-relief jobs to 100000 idle will increase the government outlay for the month by $30,000, ,000-practically all of which will go directly into the channels of trade.
 Mrs. Wallace
 Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the secretary of agriculture, is still an unsophisticated Iowa girl ct heart. When she started east at the end of her summer holiday in Colorado, and wanted to tell her husband of the progress of her auto trip, she did what any hum- ble wife would do. She wrote him q postcard.
 Passing through the mails for any clerk to read was the simple message beginning Dear Henry" and ending Lovingly, 1lo". It told the cabinet officer that his wife and son Henry B. and daughter Jean B., had left "the springs" and were getting along nicely, with Jean doing most of the driv- ing,
 Mrs. Wallace, in her haste Co get the card off, absent. .mlnd- edly addressed it to "Mr. Henry B. Wallace, Wardman Park Ho- tel, Washington. This Is not the name of her husband, who is Henry A., but of her son, who was with her at the time. New ertheless, the card was delivered to Henry A.
 N0TE-The Wallaces' second son, Robert B., Is now returning from b summer In Mexico, and thinking of writing e book about the Mexicans. He Is 90 years old. Tough Nut
 When the rail executives and bfotherhoods deadlocked on the 1b per cent wage-cut issue, they confronted the president with one of the toughest labor problems of his regime.
 A strike would tic up the en. tire railroad system of the coun- try and smash the budding bus- mess recovery. But Co head lt off, Roosevelt must solve 6 prac. tlcally insoluble conundrum. Both sides of the dispute have unanswerablc economic argu. ments.
 Rail labor has been cut to tho bone, with tens of thousands forced into apparently hopeless idleness. Although recently there has been some slight Improvement, the to. tai number of railroad workers employed in May sank to 0oo,000 the lowest since 1897. Tn June of this year there weer 270,000 fewer men on railroad payrolls than in June, i037.
 To cut wages on top of this declmation of their ranks, the br0therhoOds grimly assert, would mean annlhilation. So if they are going to be wiped out they intend Co go down fighting.
 The executives don't deny that rail labor has been taking 1t re- peatedly on the chin. But their answer Is that you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. To prove this they present the following startling statistics.
 The irreducible fixed charges
 tinterest, rentals, etc.) of the Glass 1 railroads of the coun-
 try amount to s670,000,000 6 year.
 The net operating income of these roads for the first half of this year was e70,000, ,000-a de. crease of s28b, 10000 from earn- ings the first half of 1887.
 Tn other words, during tho first six months of 1888, the carriers went s000,000,000 in the red on their fixed charges alone.
 Nearly half the Glass 1 roads did not even make operating ex- penses. Among them were such
 major lines as the New York Central, Southern Pacific, Atch- ison, Great Northern.
 What this chronioally bankrupt condition has meant to the rail- roads is shown by these facts:
 For the first time in many years their accident rate has in- creased.