Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Gov. Nice's Promise
OF Jobs Is Called
Hoax by 0'Conor
Candidate Denounces
Highway PIon os
Pooling Needy
BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 5.-Gov. Nicei
prediction of employment for 7,0Ot
men in the construction of a self.
liquidating traffic bypass aroune
Baltimore Is a Cruel hoax" upor
the unfortunate and needy, Herber'
r. O'Conor, the Democratic nominee
for Governor in Tuesdays election
declared tonight.
Continuing his drive for votes al
group of rallies tonight, Mr.
O'Conor said:
1T ought not to be necessary
again to remind the people of this
State that the promises of Gov
Nice cannot be accepted with con.
f1dence.
His promise of 81 tags, hi,
promise not to appoint police magis.
trates merely as a reward for politi.
cal efforts, his promise to expend
the motor vehicle and gasoline tax
revenues for road Improvements, hi.
promise that he would not be a
candidate to succeed himself as
Governor of Maryland, his promise
Of an improved boulevard for the
Eastern Shore, his promise to ap-
point to the Public Service Com
mission of Maryland men who would
be and remain free from all political
activities, as we'll as many other
promises made by him four years
ago have all faded into thin air.
No Cut in Relief Burden.
His latest promise Of 1000 Jobs
for the unemployed on a bypass
across the Baltimore harbor, and
his assurance that this project Will
not cost the taxpayers l cent, is
another case in point"
Mr.. OConor said such a bridge,
like any other construction lob,
would provide employment, but con-
tended it would not reduce the
States relief burden, because nearly
all Of the State welfare program
goes for unemployables.
Moreover" the Democratic can
dldate added. Gov. Nice does not
say and cannot say that private
capital has been committed to this
project. Nor does he take into ac-
count the fact that if financed in
this manner the cost would be
born by the taxpayers of Mary
land through the imposition of tolls.
which is just
Mr.. OConor called attention to
approval by the Democratic admin
istration, at Washington. of the
Havre de Grace and Potomac River
bridges as P. w. A. projects.
Called Cruel Hoax.
Whether the bypass bridge
project is desirable or undesirable. "
the attorney general continued, rs
beside the point. That question
should be decided on its merits, with
due regard for the needs OF other
road Improvements, and without the
slightest regard for political con-
siderations. What condemn in most
unmeasured terms is the holding up
of single project, still in the blue
print stage, as a solution to the
relief and unemployment problem
This is cruel hoax upon the great
number of our unfortunate and
needy citizens. whose interests Gov.
Nice has shamelessly neglected
during his entire administration.
rs this the only solution that
Gov. Nice has to offer for the prob
lem of relief, a problem secondary
only in Importance to the fiscal
problem confronting the State Of
Maryland?"
Mr.. O'Conor said the heavy bur-
den now imposed on Baltimore city
and certain counties is due to the
inadequacy of State aid to the I'M
employable OF partially employable.
"a field the Federal Government has
left wholly to the States"