Evening star., 1946-01-29

OF $40 month-JuSt half as much
as WPA workers were to be paid
later. He worked in New York for
associations which sought to i'm
prove the condition of the poor and
with the Board of Child Welfare in
New York City. Later, he man
aged the southern division of the
Red Cross from New Orleans. He
returned to New York to act as
director of the New York Tubercu-
losis Association.
When Mr.. Roosevelt was Cover
nor of New York he hired Mr.. Hop
kins at $4,000 year to take charge
of State relief and on May %, 1888,
Mr.. Hopkins was ordered to Wash
ington on one days notice. He took
a $4,000 a year cut when he took
charge of the original Civil Works
Administration program. Congress
gave him S500,000,000 for that first
program, first of the millions that
Mr.. Hopkins was to spend to relieve
suffering of the unemployed. =.
Put 100000 to Work.
Between November IS and De-
cember Is, 1888, he moved like a
whirlwind and put 100000 persons
to work. The program was sub
jected to much criticism, and soon
Mr.. Hopkins found himself fighting
war on number of fronts. He
became embroiled with Huey Long,
Gov. Gene Talmadge of Georgia
with assorted Republicans and at
length found himself at loggerheads
with Secretary of Interior Ickes.
Mr.. Ickes insisted that his public
works program, long-range plan,
was more effective than the relief
program.
Under the original CWA program
Mr.. Hopkins spent s802 ,046, 1888. When
President Roosevelt showed that he
agreed with Mr.. Hopkins, rather
than Mr.. Ickes, in 1884, the relief
agency started spending s2,856, ,640,-
045., In 1885 Mr.. Hopkins guided his
Organization into the Works Prog
ress Administration phase, during
which the emphasis was on giving
out jobs, rather than dole. BY 1887
he had supervised the expenditure
of $4,000, 100000 on the unemployed.
Aided Transients.
In addition, he directed programs
for sheltering transients, for aiding
drought-stricken areas and for rush
ing aid to flood victims. The Hobos
of America recognized his service to
transients by making him a "Su-
preme Sir Knight"
He took an active part in the 1886
campaign, although the professional
politicians considered him a polit-
ilcal liability. When the President
launched his fight to reform the
Supreme Court in the following year
Mr.. Hopkins joined the battle.
Again, he took the lead when the
President sought to defeat in the
1888 congressional elections certain
Senators and Representatives who
had shown lack of sympathy with
the New Deal. Mr. Hopkins de-
clared against Senator Gillette of
Iowa, his native State, and cam
paigned with the President else
where.
Became Ill in 1887.
In 1887, Mr.. Hopkins first showed
signs of the physical breakdown
which was to come. In that year,
he went to the Mayo Clinic, at
Rochester, Mimi, and underwent an
operation for removal of a stomach
ulcer. He emerged from this ordeal,
pale and drawn, but was back at
work as soon as his strength re-
turned. He never got his health
back and doctors, knowing the pace
he kept, wondered that he lived
Mr.. Hopkins had a habit of speak
ing his mind in public and this some.
times led him into difficulties. His
finland statement to reporters thai
some people were too damn dumb
to understand what the relief pro.
lgram was seeking to accomplish be.
came burning political issue.
In 1888 he found that an ALLEGED
statement of his was being used IL
another political battle. Severa
newspapermen had printed a story
saying that Mr.. Hopkins had told {
businessman at Saratoga that tht
New Deal would:
Spend and spend and spend ane
tax and tax and tax and elect ane
elect and elect"
He denied having made such {
statement, but it received wide cir
culation, nevertheless. The con
servatives were always after Mr.
Hopkins scalp.
Moved Into Cabinet
, It seemed probable at one tint
that Mr. Roosevelt would have ia
vored Mr.. Hopkins as his successor
but the President was politician
. enough to see the difficulties in tn
|, way of his friends election to of
.. flee. But late in 1888 Mr.. Roose
= welt moved Secretary of Conmerc
1 Roper out of the cabinet and re
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