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CWA FORESEEN AS PERMANENT U. S, FEATURE Noncompetitive Work Not to Check System of Profits. fCoDTrieht. 1933. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 Launched as a stop-gap emergency effort to put 4.000,000 men to work, the civil works administration is regarded by some in the administration as a possible permanent substitute lor unemployment insurance and old age pensions. Among those holding this view is Harry M. Hopkins, director of CWA. I Officially the experiment runs until February 15. Actually the administration refuses to think of turning 4.000.000 men back on charity in mid-winter. It expects to ask congress for money to carry on for an extended time. More than this, Hopkins told the United Press today he believed that CWA had possibilities of becoming a permanent institution. Dole Not Favored “It might easily lead to a scheme of using civil works as a device for ■permanently providing work on important public projects for the unemployed,” he said. “The country is not going to be kindly disposed to unemployment insurance in terms of men going up to a window to get a dole.” These possibilities have caused many here to regard the CWA as one of the most significant of the recovery agencies. “Men could be put to work on things not naturally in the competitive scheme,” Hopkins said. “For instance work like the CCC is doing. I am convinced that agency is here to stay. It is doing work in the forests that never would be done by private enterprise. There are many other things of similar nature that I can't conceive of being done within the profits system—such as drainage of swamps, public health projects, development of public recreation centers. Proves Industry Safe “Even in the best times we have 2,000.000 or more men out of work and a portion of these could be thus absorbed and saved from charity. Then there is a percentage of old people, unable to work. They have no purchasing power for they are dependent upon charity. Unemployed who are able to work could be utilized to produce goods for those who can not work. Such goods would go to people ■who can not buy anyway and private industry would lose nothing.” Hopkins, hard driven to put over one of the most rapid employment programs In history, is not entirely satisfied with some of the kinds of work men are being used for on CWA. But in the necessity for speed, he is not inclined to be so exacting as he would be later on. In one month he is trying to put to work as many people as live in Chicago and upward of half a million more. “In the long run we must do work that will be generally approved by the public as useful,” Hopkins said. “One of our biggest fields is in recreation. “We will soon have to prepare for increased leisure. The shorter work week is here to stay.” One of the advantages of a flexible setup like CWA. Hopkins believes. is that if heavy industries were lagging CWA work could stimulate them, or emphasis could be shifted on a geographical basis to help one section which was depressed. Housing development. Hopkins believes, may prove one of the most useful avenues of emergency work programs.

YOUNG PEOPLES CLUB PLANS DANCE DEC.I2 Arthur Feltman, Miss Roberta R?ed Head Committee In Charge. Arthur Feltman and Miss Roberta Reed will serve as chairman and assistant chairman, respectively, of

the committee of the Young Peoples Social Club which will give a dance at Assumption Hall, 1105 Blaine avenue. on the night of Dec. 12. Others on the committee are the Misses Marcella Lawn. Rose Cleary. Agnes King, Jane O’Neill and James A. Cecil, Charles Johnson. John Murphy,

Vincent Fox, Edward Johnson, Francis Otto, James Wilkinson, Fred Woolridge, Robert Johnson and Charles Kramer.

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Good Whisky at $1.50 a Quart and 15 Cent ‘Shots’ Is Goal of Congress

Federal Tax Law Enough to Permit Liquor Sales at Moderate Prices Is Urged by Members of Ways and Means Board. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A federal liquor tax low enough to the public might buy good whisky at $1.50 a quart or 15 cents a “shot,” was urged today by several members of the house ways and means committee as a means of driving the bootlegger out of business.

Proposals for a hard liquor tax well below $2 a gallon came as the committee studied recommendations of President Roosevelt's interdepartmental alcohol control committee. It was reported that the administration gioup suggested the rate be $2 or more a gallon and less than $3. “I’m for a tax of from sl.lO to $1.50,” said Representative John W. McCormack (Dem., Mass.). “The first big job is to get rid of the bootlegger and a low tax would do that.” The figure of $1.50 a quart for whisky appeared to be that which various members of the committee hoped could prevail under the liquor levies which congress will establish early next session. Representative Harold Knutson • Rep., Minn.) favored a $1.60 tax, and chairman Robert L. Doughton (Dem., N. C.) said it should “be as low as possible.” “The drys are doing their best to have the tax way up,” said Representative John W. Boehne (Dem., Ind.). “It ought to be well below $2.20 and I’d almost be for continuance of the present excise levy of $1.10.” Mr. McCormick believed that a tax of $1.50 a gallon would Insure whisky at that price a quart.” “Let’s have it low now, so we can

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Music. A second play, “The Gift,” also will be given by the music school students on the same bill. Members of the cast of “The Enchanted Isle” will be Helen Lloyd, Fanchon Fattig, Mary Margaret Myers, Billie Lemon and Miss Nicholes. Those who will take part in “The Gift” include Carroll

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drive thp bootlegger out,” Mr. McCormick said. “With the bootlegger out of the way we can raise the tax for temperance purposes if necessary.” The committee will grapple formally with the liquor revenue problem Monday, when joint hearings with the senate finance committee open. Chairman Doughton said the liquor tax legislation, which will be

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separate from the new general revenue bill, will be acted on early in the r-ssion. He asserted that the “confidential” report sent to him by the President’s committee did not carry a recommendation for a specific rate. Several house members predicted that the liquor bill would bring in revenues of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. Earlier estimates had run as high as $700,000,000. Representative Frank Crowther (Rep., N. Y.), member of the ways and means committee, estimated that the new repeal taxes, combined with present beer revenues would yield not more than $450,000,000. Representative Thomas C. Cochran (Dem., Mo.), chairman of the committee on expenditures said that with whisky costing between 38 and 40 cents a gallon to make “it ought to be possible to get the ‘real 'McCoy’ for $1.50 a quart even if state and federal taxes combined amount to $3.30 a gallon.” The same prediction came from Dr. James M. Doran, chairman of the distillers code authority, who used moderate taxes and license fees so “good whisky” could sell for from $1.50 to $2.

DRIVE AGAINST CAR LOOTING IS OPENED Motor Club Chief Suggests Protective Measures. Appealing for co-operation in the drive against theft from unguarded automobiles, Frank Hatfield, president of the Hcosier Motor Club, has issued the following list of protective measures: "Where baggage or packages are left in the automobile, see that all windows are closed and that the doors are locked. Be sure that the windshield also is fastened. “Where it is not possible to lock the car. remove the baggage and parcels and have them checked at some convenient place while the car is parked. “When placing the car in a public garage, although articles usually are safe in those of recognized standing, be sure that pocketbooks, jewels, vanity cases, etc., are no left lying on the seats. “Always see that the spare tires and other accessories are of the type that are either locked or permanently attached to the car.” A Baltimore man, Edwin H. Perkins, is engaged in raising mosquitoes in two barrels of stagnant water and hatching the eggs in jars of sterile water in his living room; he intends to make a complete photographic story of mosquito life.

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APPROVE PLANS FOR EMPLOYING 900 MORE MEN Civil Works Administration Passes On Three Projects. New civil works projects providing employment for more than nine hundred Marion county men were approved today by the civil works administration. The new projects are construction of a lake and flood levies at the Riverside nursery, employing 703 men; Fall Creek boulevard improvement, nineteen men, and Ellenberger Park boulevard construction, 218 men. These were part of a group of projects submitted to the administration by the city park board, which would provide employment for a total of 3,600 men. The other projects will be acted on later. The largest project proposed, would provide 2,300 jobs in the extension of Kessler boulevard from Keystone avenue east to Millersville, a distance of two and one-half miles. A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, estimated the work would cost $250,000. Under the plan, a dirt roadway would be constructed now, and this would be oiled and surfaced in the spring. Fifteen projects which will emplay 640 men in Marion county with total wages of $80,293, were ! approved by the civil works • administration yesterday. Largest projects in the group are washing and cleaning buildings, 143 men, and additional White river levee work, 100 men. Grading projects approved include Baltimore and Sangster avenues, from Forty-second to Forty-sixth street, seventy-six men each; Tacoma avenue, Temple avenue and Rural street, each from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-eighth street, total of seventy-seven men. Among other projects approved were playground repairs, ten men; East Ohio street drain from Pogues Run to Highland avenue, thirty men; cleaning national guard armory interior, five men; development of I. U. medical center campus, thirty-seven men; Arlington avenue storm sewer from Pleasant Run to Lowell avenue, forty-two men; Sixteenth street drainage system at Mount street and Warman and Tibbs avenue, thirty-six men. BANDITS FRUSTRATED Thugs Blow Hinges Off Safe in Bank at Switz City. E.y Science Service SWITZ CITY, Ind„ Dec. 9. Burglary of the Switz City bank was frustrated yesterday when thieves who had seriously damaged the institution’s safe were frightened by a passing motorist. The burglars had pried open the front door of the bank and had blown outer doors of the safe from hinges. GMC SALES ARE UP General Motors Reports Large Increase for Month. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Sales of General Motors cars and trucks to consumers in the United States during November totaled 35,417 units, against 12,789 in November, 1932, the corporation reports.

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Capital Capers He’s Caged Eagle / Jack Green way, 8, Son of Arizona Congressman, Does Not Like Washington; Too Crowded. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Little, blond-headed Jack Kreenway, 8-year-old son of the fascinating Isabella Greenway, Arizona's new congresswoman, is a true son of the “wild and woolly west.” A friend of his mother’s questioned him about his new surroundings in the capital and received disconcerting replies. “How do you like Washington?” she inquired.

“I don’t,” the little boy frankly admitted. “Why not?” pursued the friend. “Because —I feel caged here.” “Caged?” said the startled woman. “You mean caged like a canary?” “No,” said Jack. “Caged like an eagle.” n PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT* incidentally, has given Jack a dog—a Dalmatian wolfhound. He has an enormous dog house for the animal. It’s so big it resembles a small garage. “The theory' explains Mrs. Greenway, “is that the dog must grow up to the dog house.” Mrs. Greenway and her son are still living out of suitcases ani their own house is somewhat topsy-turvy. When the Arizona congress woman-elect came here she intended to stay a couple of weeks. That was more than a month ago. Curtains still are unhung and many of the pictures. One of the latter, which has been placed, is a likeness of Mrs. Greenway’s daughter, dressed in a yellow gingham dress. A small model of the Mt. Rushmore National memorial (so small you can take it up in one hand) is among the bric-a-brac in evidence.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum himself presented It to his hostess. tt - a a GEORGE CREEL, publicity dynamo of the Democratic party, whizzed here from San Francisco by plane, conferred with NRA officials, danced seven foxtrots at the Troika and whizzed away again—presumably to New York. Bouncing Mr. Creel was so preoccupied by business that he wasn’t disturbed when his plane made a forced landing on a western desert. When the immaculate George arrived in town he looked as if he had stepped put of a bandbox instead of a plane. When the members of the Russian orchestra at the Troika saw Mr. Creel enter they struck up a lively tune. “Nozzing like a funeral for zhat zhentleman,” remarked a musician. George fancies pep. A lease for 20,881 years held on a farm in the old parish of Kirkhill, Scotland, is without parallel; it was drawn up two hundred years ago and when the government attempted to confiscate the land after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the highest Scottish court declared the lease to be valid.

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HEAD OF FARM CREDIT SYSTEM HAS HUGE TASK Author of Relief Bill Now Busy Putting It Into Effect. BY S. H. BURROWS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, -Dec. 9. Last spring, a youngish professor from Cornell worked long and hard with a congressional committee in an effort to write farm debt relief legislation that would actually ease the great burden of agricultural debt. Today the same young man finds himself faced with the job of making his act function. He is Dr. William I. Myers, new Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, who succeeded Henry Morgenthau Jr., when the latter moved over to the treasury department. Operates Chicken Farm Like so many persons, the new Governor has tried chicken farming; but unlike so many, he has made it work and pay. His eighty-four-acre farm near Ithaca is equipped with buildings that have a capacity of 70,000 chicks, and a flock of 5.000 hens. It’s no show place that this 41-year-old Cornell professor in farm finance and economics is operating. It is run along wholly scientific lines. The most Important convictions that Dr. Myers brought to Washington when he came here with Henry Morgenthau were that the various farm credit agencies of the government must be co-ordinated, and that anew policy of granting farm loans should be instituted. These things have been done. November Total Is $55,000,000 Asa result, Dr. Myers has working under him about 6,000 persons, 4,500 of which are appraisers surveying farm lands, preparatory to making loans. Thus far there have been filed about half a million applications for loans, involving a billion and a half dollars. By late November, loans totaling more than $100,000,000 had been made by FCA. The total for November alone will, when final figures are in, be around $55,000,000. In the first four days of the month, 2,409 applications were acted upon, involving almost six and one-half million dollars. COAL MINER CRUSHED Clay Bank Slide Catches Two Near Brazil. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 9.—John Rubeck, 50, was killed instantly and Frank McKroy, 20, was injured severely yesterday under a clay bank slide at the Dickson Coal Company strip mine south of here. Rubeck was crushed under the main part of the loose dirt, but McKroy was caught by only a small part of the slide.

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