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3,000,000 PUT TO WORK UNDER WPA PROGRAM Nation-Wide Survey Shows Useful Works Result of Planning. (Continued From'Page Three) due for months, are being paid. Landlords no longer must take theii rents in .services. Even doctors, dentists and hospitals report an increase in “cash customers.” Public works could be accomplished at less expense by private contract than under WPA. Few deny that the speed of the average WPA worker is geared at about half his capacity. Yet, with hundreds of miles of streets, sidewalks and roads taking form and thousands of schools being repaired or built, most taxpayers feel that for the first time since relief spending began they are “getting something for their money." “White Collars” Irked Shortcomings of WPA are due largely to red tape, although the severe weather since Christmas has slowed down operations in the North. Late pay checks, lack of projects ready for construction, and inaccurate estimates of the numbers of relief clients eligible for WPA .jobs have caused the bulk of the complaints. The most serious criticism comes from the white-collar classes. It is here also, that opponents of the whole work relief plan have dug in their claws with violent attacks on various surveys, musical ana theatrical organizations, writers’ projects and mural paintings. The trouble with white-collar clients can best be understood by quoting this report from New York City: “Everybody was anxious to spare their feeling when they had to take the dole. They were humiliated and anxious to get jobs. This did not last. So many persons told them that they were innocent victims of a catastrophe similar to the World War that they stopped feeling sorry and ashamed and began to be belligerent about their rights. Today WPA white-collars in New York City probably are the most radical in the country.” Wage Scales Differ On a nation-wide basis, the average cost per man per month on WPA is $65, of which the Federal government is putting up ssl and the states or local communities sl4. Os the total SSO goes to wages, sl3 to materials and $2 to administrative costs. Wage scales differ as to communities. The following list of average wages in a dozen scattered areas shows the range: Vrw S'nrk Cltv JVJ.3I Pittsburgh Jflß.no Houston 84.00 Indianapolis.... .WOO rnlrdo 00.00 fi| Paso 40.00 San Franrisco 04.00 Evansville ..... 54.00 Cleveland .... 05.00 Buffalo OK.OO Memphis . . ... .33.00 Sail Diego ... 05.00 What do these areas and others think about WPA. ard what kind of job is it doing? WPA Workeu Satisfied In Birmingham, Ala., 5000 of the 16.723 WPA employes are building roads. The North-South wages differential which brings an average pay check of $34.50, has embittered organized labor, but the WPA worker himself is satisfied. The outstanding project is an industrial water supply system w’hich city officials and civic leaders have sought for years. The Federal outlay will reach $5,587,166 by July 1, to which local contributions will add $365,137. Dismissal of 1200 workers for loafing has increased efficiency. WPA's program in Evansville. Ind.. will be completed on time, or will be in such condition by June 30 that the value ol the work done by that date will not be lost, even if projects are unfinished. Workers, except those with large families, favor WPA continuance. Half of the business men interviewed feel the same way. Retail trade has improved. Seventy-three per cent of the relief load in Fort Worth and Tarrant

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County. Texas, is at, work on WPA; 70 per rent of the work is on roads and the entire plan is proceeding on schedule. Workers are satisfied, but wonder ’"what happens after July 1.” $81,000,000 in Ohio In Ohio the WPA program is divided as follows: Roads and streets. 56 per cent; schools and public buildings, 9 per cent; parks and playgrounds, 10; water supply and sewers. 9; flood control. 4.7; airports, .7; housing, .1, and the balance in various non-manual projects. No job has been started unless completion can be accomplished by July l. The Federal outlay in the state will reach $81,000,000, plus more than $16,000,000 in local contributions. Akron. Toledo, Youngstown and Columbus have had little difficulty in putting men io work. Cold weather has retarded progress but the workers in the four cities favor the WPA plan. In Cincinnati a shortage of skilled labor has limited the variety of construction projects. Cleveland has been a sore spot for WPA. Although 55,000 “unemployables” were certified for WPA jobs only 41.000 have obtained work. No projects have been prepared for the 14.000 others. After minor disturbances had occurred, and radical groups had shown signs of growing. WPA Washington officials conducted an investigation, increased the wage scale 10 per cent and placed a Federal man in charge of administration. Not “Permanent Solution” Chamber of Commerce officials estimate WPA has increased retail trade by 20 per cent in El Paso County. Texas. In Washington, D. C„ local officials hold WPA more valuable than CWA or FERA. but warn that it is not a permanent solution to the relief problem. New’ York City is a “forty-ninth state” in the administration of WPA. It has the first organization established, although Gen. Hugh Johnson no longer is in control. The administration of WPA has been carried on by the painful trial and error system. Employment of certified relief clients has been hantiicaped by a lack of trained personnel. Pay rolls have been late, and much red tap,* exists. However, manual workers have never been so well off except in boom times. In New York State, outside of New York City, 131,763 are working on WPA at an average wage of $55.70, against $72.31 in the city. In Buffalo the wage is S6B. Here tlie WPA program is having trouble because of four weeks of sub-zero temperatures. Snow shoveling has been the principal job this winter. Western Projects Useful In California the average scale is between SSB and S6O. The loudest complaints were caused when families transferred from direct relief to WPA saw many days pass before the first WPA pay checks were received. California projects are generally considered useful. They vary from huge construction jobs to clerical aid projects employing as few as six persons. * Most WPA foremen in Pennsylvania will tell you that their crews are willing to work. But some of the men “soldier” on the job and all of them apparently husband their strength, partly because they know they won't be fired and partly because they are old, ill or have been unemployed so long that their muscles are flabby. The average wage is S6B. The million WPA workers in the state believe they are engaged in useful work. Roads are being built, sewers laid, sturdy buildings erected and abandoned mines sealed. Unskilled workers are most numerous. The WPA has done its job in Pennsylvania, but the job has grown since it was mapped out. In Shelby County and Memphis. Tenn.. WPA pay rolls total $250,000 a month. The entire program will be finished by July 1. A trouble spot is the employment of the No-

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CITIES CRY FOR PORK. DEMAND TAX REDUCTION _____ Stokes Finds Paradoxical Situation as He Swings Around Nation. BY THOMAS L. STOKES LOS ANGELES. Feb. 26.—You ; can travel thousands of miles from j Washington but still the magic white city is just ovqr the horizon, a Promising Land with a Treasury of ; billions and a spigot that any poli- j tician is expected to twist at will. Which is to say that the consciousness of Washington begins to amaze you as you travel about, also to alarm any one who has a suspicion of its potentialities. It seems to portend a wilting of local moral fiber, a supine helplessness, the sort of yielding and looking elsewhere out of which Fascist states grow—though this country yet lacks anything approaching a Fascist leader. It’s Cause of Fears

It is this fear which is at the back of the complaints of spending by serious-minded people who are not of the strict budget-balancing school and who grant the necessity of the Federal government feeding and clothing its citizens. The politician is charged by many I have talked to here and there with the original sin because, in good times, he thought up new ways to tap the Federal Treasury for local benefits and thus to get himself elected and re-elected. Some found themselves out of office when they quit promising, and their SIO,OOO-a-year berths taken by the clever fellow who could think up a new scheme. So the mania has grown, the Frankenstein monster inflated into a towering giant who shouts: “Gimme.” The depression struck. Local governments found themselves bankrupt, in many cases. The Federal government had to take over the job of feeding and clothing the unemployed. Along with it, the Federal government began to pass out money for local public works projects to employ the unemployed. Asa result an interesting rivalry gro. Knoxville, Tenn., and the surrounding county of Knox, have an average WPA wage of from $33 to $74 Workers grumble but favor this over direct relief. In Colorado, workers almost without exception favor WPA over direct relief. Taxpayers believe the program superior to any tried previously but question the value of any scheme that leaves the workers contented while on relief. In Harris County, and Houston, Tex., projects are largely confined to water lines, road construction, drainage systems and public building construction. Most workers consider the average WPA wage of $34 too low but prefer it to direct relief. Local taxpayers are more pleased with WPA than any work plan tried to date. Retail trade is up 22 to 25 per cent. • In six months WPA has poured $26,000,000 into Indiana cash registers. That’s more than was spent in 17 months prior to November, 1934. Tomorrow —What is happening to relief persons not on WPA?

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has sprung up among cities to get some of this money for themselves. It has become a matter of civic pride. They demand it now as a right. When they don’t get it they're mad. The mayor, local officials, local civic organizations go into action, send delegations to Washington, put the heat on their congressmen. St. Louis, for instance, can see why it is absolutely imperative to have those millions to improve its Mississippi waterfront and remove that eyesore, but doesn't think so much of something Kansas City or Des Moines wants. Each city sees the thing right there before its eyes and knows that it's necessary. So the leading business men get together in their organizations and demand. Then these same business men, gathering as Republicans perchance, or in their Chamber of Commerce, make speeches and pass hot resolutions demanding an end to all this government spending, demand that the budget be balanced, that taxes be reduced. It’s one of the strangest paradoxes of these strange times. Father of 11 Is Suicide Hu United I’rrss LEBANON, Ind.. Feb. 26.—Charles E. Walker, 51, father of 11 children, committed suicide yesterday. Despondent because he soon would have to move his family from a farm on which he had been a tenant two years.

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HEATER FUMES KILL MAN, WIFE Mr., Mrs. Carl C. Bose Jr. Found Dead in Their Home Here. Funeral arrangements are to be made today for Carl C. Br e Jr. and his wife, Mrs. Edna Mae Bose, both 17. who were found dead in their home, 1017 E. Morris-st, yesterday afternoon, asphyxiation victims. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, said death was caused by monoxide fumes escaping from a gas heater in the basement. The couple, childhood sweethears, had been married four months. Carl C. Bose Sr., 726 W. 42d-st., and I. M. Cole, Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. executives, smashed their way into the home yesterday and found the couple dead in bed. House Filled With Fumes The gas heater was in operation and the water storage tank on the verge of bursting under the excess load of steam. The house was filled with fumes, Mr. Bose and Mr. Cole said. Mr. Base said that his son and daughter-in-law had been his guests Sunday and that they returned home about 9 that evening. They had not been seen since. The father became alarmed when Informed that his son did not report for work at the telephone company, where he was employed in the office. His absence Monday was not given any significance because it was his day off. Dr. Wilson believes the couple was overcome late Sunday night or early Monday. Monday's newspapers were found on the porch. Young Bose would have been 18

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