The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-10

$l00, 900, ,0o0 more than WPA was spending last October, and gra- phically illustrates what has hap- pened in the country since busi- ness went into the autumnal nose- dive.
 Every month since then, as the recession has deepened, demands for WPA aid have mounted. Here are the figures:
 WPA WPA
 Expendi- Relief
 lures Rolls November 8 97,3O0,OO0 1,52O,O0O December S114,500.O0O 1,629,000 January $118,9OO,0OO 1,9OO,0OO February s135,Oo0,0o0 2,Oo9,o00 Emergency Grant
 The big step-up to $170,0o0, ,000 in March was made possible by the recent emergency grant" of $250,000,000. This was an emer- gency grant in every sence of the word. Without it, relief rolls would have been held down to around $80,000,00O month-or about one-half what they are in March.
 Two factors to be kept in mind regarding relief during the next few months are:
 1. The decline in employment has leveled off, but at the same time, few men already unemployed are finding new jobs. So with savings depleetd, more are being added to the relief rolls.
 2. In addition to WPA relief, which is supplied by the federal government, states, cities and counties are being a heavy bur- den, namely about 100000 men at cost of $5o,O0O,000 monthly. To tighten this load, WPA has absorbed 500,00O of these local jobless during the last two months. But demand for aid is so great that this 50O,O0O hole in the local rolls now has been filled by a rush of 100000 more job- less.
 Foreign Wives
 With jobs as scarce as hens teeth, American bachelor dip- )omats are not letting their hearts run away with their heads when it comes to obeying Secre- tary Hulls ban against foreign wives.
 Representative Bob Bacon of New York, father of three daugh- ters, showed considerable inter- est in the. Hull ruling during dis cussions of the State Department Appropriation bill.
 "Why don't you permit these young men to come home occa- sionally so they would have chance to meet nice American girls?" he asked Assistant Secre- tary of State MesGerslnith.
 Messersmith promised to give the idea consideration.
 Since the order has been in effect" Bacon inquired, have you had to ask for any rcsigna- tions. or has it stopped such marriages?"
 T would say" replied Messer- smith meaningly, "that the De- partment's instructions have had the effect of making the men think about the matter"
 Fowl and Politics .>
 When you see Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina going to town fer the Pres.dant's re- organization bill, you don't have to rub your eyes to realize that politics still is 8 very wondrous thing.
 Time Was-only so recently when the senator from South Carolina, once considered Roose- velt's messenger boy. was dead against him on many things. Among these was. the Reorganiza- tion Bill. in consideratio of which Jimmy is committee chair man. But now, 10 and behold, he has come back into the fold!
 Reascn for this undoubtedly will be denied by all hands con- cerned. but take a look at PWA allOtments. Some of the folks in South Carolina claim that there is no politics in PWA, but the fact is that when Senator Byrnes was the Presidents friend he got a fat and juicy PWA allotment of S42,000,000 for power project on the San- tee and Cooper rivers.
 He got this despite the fact that it destroyed one of the greatest game preserves in the southeast and contributed large ly to the resignation of the fa- nous cartoonist, J. N. "Ding" Darling, as head of the Biologi- cal Survey. At that time Roose-