Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1940 — Page 24

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0. S. SPEEDING WPA'S PART IN DEFENSE PLAN

Program May Employ Half Million Men by Fall, Harrington Says.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U.P.) — Works Projects Commissioner F. C. Harrington predicts that WPA workers will build as many WPAsponsored defense projects during the 1941 fiscal year as were constructed by WPA labor during the last five years. “One hundred thousand men were employed on projects of a national defense measure in June,” Col. Harrington said. “We plan to have five or six times that many at work on preparedness projects by fall. “The barracks, airports, armories, garages, utilities and other defense facilities provided this country by men who otherwise would have been idle now emerges as an important foundation for the intense period of training and material preparation ahead. In this work of preparedness the WPA is now multiplying its already substantial efforts.” During the past five years, he said, the WPA has constructed or improved 12,000 military and naval buildings and 500 landing fields. These and other national defense undertakings represent an investment of $346,689,000 in Federal, state and local funds from the inception of the WPA in July, 1935, to June 1, 1940. Approximately 85 per cent of all airport construction during the period was done by WPA labor. As Col. Harrington pointed to the WPA's role in the preparedness | program, he summarized all WPA | defense activities during the past] five vears. He listed items in two major classifications—projects sponsored by the War and Navy Departments and the Coast Guard and operated by the WPA at the reservations or stations of these | agencies; and airport, airway and | National Guard projects sponsored | by state and local government | agencies and operated by the WPA. He said that many of the 500,000 miles of roads and streets built or repaired by the WPA would be “of | great importance in a time of na- | tional emergency.

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This is the fourth of a series of articles on the return of political decency to Louisiana.

By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 23.—One of the strangest things about the whole strange story of the downfall of the Long machine here is the fact that Governor Sam Jones would not have won if he had not had the warm support of a man who was once one of Huey Long's closest friends and

staunchest supporters. That man is State Senator Jimmy Noe, a rollicking, jovial, hardworking and hard-playing politician who makes a bizarre but effective

(teammate for the idealistic Gover-

nor. For a long time it has been Senator Noe's dearest ambition to be

| Governor of Loyjsiana. He actually

was Governor, as & matter of fact,

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building program has been the briefly, stepping up from the Lieu- | construction of 222 new armories, | tentant-Governorship during one of and reconstruction or improvement | the reshuffies of the old Long high of 356, in most instances under the | command; but what he craved was | a sponsorship of the National Guard.!a full elective term.

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Baton Rouge for numerous patronage conferences with the Governor. Both men emerge from these conferences smiling; after the last one, Mr. Noe came out happy and insisted there was going to be no trouble in keeping the agreement. But what happened to him immediately.after that conference is the tip-off on the kind of pressure both men are under, '

Room Full of Job-Seekers

Mr. Noe went back to his suite in a Baton Rouge hotel, and was im[that moment be Governor-elect, mediately buried under a mass of

| Mr. Foster admitted all this was Officeseekers. Eight ‘or 10 men 'so and that Mr. Noe had a right to |SWwarmed into his inner room, wait= |feel grieved. Then he explained|ing their turns to present their |things frankly: Mr. Noe had made Claims personally. A second room la lot of money in oil, and Mr. Noe Was jammed to the boiling point [had been a higher-up under Huey | With hungry folks trying to get past Long. Plenty of men of whom the|the inner door. And the. corridor |same things could be said had re- [leading to the suite was so full you ‘cently been indictect by a Federal had to use your elbows to get

(to take it.” Noe Laughed, Joined Up

They called on Mr. Noe that eve(ning, and Foster's prophecy was proved correct, Mr. Noe was sore, and he did cuss them out with |gestures, poiffting out that he had {been working to beat the Earl Long |crowd for nearly two years, that he (had put a great deal of his own | money into it, and that if they—Fos(ter & Co.—had supported him in{stead of picking a “political ama-

| teur” out of the hat, he would at

{Grand Jury. The business group which persuaded Mr. Jones to run| 'had considered indorsing Mr. Noe— |and had decided, finally, it just was| téo risky. Mr. Noe stared at him for a| minute; then he burst out with a big laugh, slapped his thigh and] Isaid, “Well—maybe you were right, |

through. . Mr. Noe saw all of them, eventually, “but it kept him busy. In the midst of the swirl, which would have driven an ordinary man frantic, he turned to me, grinned, and cried, “How'd you like to be a pol-

itician?” Later, he remarked: “I've il,

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wording of the bill is not the com=pulsory part of the R. O. T, C. training, but is the elective part which is taken at some expense to (the student. The number permitted [tc take this advanced training is strictly limited by the War Department, because of limitations in funds. At the University of Maryland, for example, only 75 applicants were accepted for the advanced training this year out of 200 who wanted the training. A way out would seem to be to offer military training for college boys on the campys and during vacation periods so that it would not break up this college work unless war should require their services at the front. At present no encouragement for such a plan is being offered by the War Department.

but the Lord knows when I'll get up to look after it.” So heavy has the crush grown that when he is home callers insist on getting in to see him late at night—once, recently, on a night when his small son was seriously the most earnest pleadings of his staff could not keep the jobseekers out. . : All of which is worth recounting, because this job-hunger is something neither Mr. Noe nor Mr. Jones can get away from. Mr. Noe can take it; he is used to it, he enjoys people, and he is the physically tough, buoyant kind who can stand anything. But Mr. Jones isn’t used to it, and his health isn't too sound. And if the whole business seems out of place in a reform administration, it can only be said it is one of the things a reform Governor has got to learn how to handle. Generally, they don’t learn, and their careers end in failure; the next couple of months will tell whether Jones can satisfy the placeseekers and the political henchmen’ and still go through with the big job of re-establishing clean, efficient government in Louisiana. One of Mr. Noe's biggest services to Mr. Jones was rendered after the election was over and Mr. Jones had won. Like many other states, Louisiana has a law which permits the Attorney General to supersede a local district attorney with a special prosecutor, if he has reason to think the local official isn't going to bear down on every pitch. Before the new administration took office Governor Earl Long called a special session of the Legislature to repeal this law. He'd probably have made {it if it hadn’t been for Jimmy Noe, Mr. Noe was on deck in Baton Rouge immediately. He circulated among the incoming legislators—red-faced, grinning, persuasive. Result: Most of them simply stayed in the hptel instead of going up to the Capitol, and the special session had to be called off for lack of a quorum,

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They returned to resume for AE vaL Se Te vear., He succeeded Newman R. their studies at the University of . ) un e body to “eall Thurston, California, Only Advanced R. 0. T. C. ss=——=— a mum E ERI, ae Educators Split. By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Copyright, 1940, By Science Service. y WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—In.commenting privately on the Burke- . Wadsworth bill as now before Con- } gress, educators seem to be torn between two urgencies, First is their desire to see America served ade- | quately for ‘military defense. But d _| there is a desire, equally strong, to prevent disruption of scientific research and education so essential to the preservation of democracy. Although the change in minimum Accepted As Down Payment age limit from 18 to 21 was opposed ; > 4 by some college officials, it is wel- 74 comed by many who did not want to see youngsters below the voting age ” taken away from their high school ° or college studies or from their vo- | y training for military duty, Sam Houston Jones (left) and Jimmy Noe . . . potent combination in Louisiana, go Bing are still widely ® . affected by the measure as revised. | It has been estimated that between | Close Friend of Huey Long Is Stalwart vam dents are above the present mini- [ St Tf ! B I f A Sn : mum age limit of 21. The poe] IS PRICELESS n qa e S usy e orm minis ra on boy enters college at 19 and would |Z be in his sophomore or junior year : Rogers succuss has been i ; hen he becomes of age. Huey denied it to him, first, de- at that.” And the deal was made. built on confidence. Cus claring brutally that he was never| (Mr. Noe, it should be added, came Few Above Top Limit going to let another man who was through the whole Federal quiz| Only a few college students would | § tomers who return year after not a lawyer become Governor -— unscathed.) be beyond the age of 31. This means | largely on the ground that only a Job Split Puzzled Both that, except for the very bright § your rely on their confidence man familiar with the law could N younger boys, practically all the|'S in Rogers quality ant Voir keep stepping the way a Huey Long| The Jones advisers were not, on|upper class students and all grad-|g i Governor had to step without get-|the whole, politically experienced. uate students would be subject to i prices. ting his foot in it. Mr. Noe is onto all the tricks;|call for military service under the 7 "Mr. Jones was the second man |furthermore, he had built up a good |Burke-Wadsworth bill as how : who denied it to him, nosing him /!political organization. And because|worded. Officials in Washington do |” : Confidence is a priceless out in the first primary of the he swung into line and played ball not know just how many juniors % fhin Your d od gubernatorial race this year, after|right down to the finish line, Mr.|and seniors there are in American 4 g. good will is Mr. Noe had started the big expose [Jones made a deal with him regard-|colleges. There were 55,864 male # Rogers greafest asset, which started the Long machine on|ing patronage under the new ad-|graduate students when the last|’ # R bel in telling th the skids. But Mr. Noe swung ministration; half the jobs would count was made. i ogers believes in telling the around and gave Jones precisely|g0 to the Jones people and half to| It is estimated that the colleges i truth and in fair and square the canny, hard-hitting aid he|the Noe people. may expect to lose one out of every dosh needed. This agreement is proving & head-|10 of their boys who are over 21. g. . acke for both men now, and in-|This would mean a money loss in Foster Did the Trick ability to iron out some of the kinks |tuition to some institutions of as Mr. Noe came around at least|is responsible for the administra-|much as $700,000, in addition to the You may be sure that Rogers artly because a young businessman [tion's delay ih filling the jobs at [loss to the colleges and the nation |§’ a y ‘Wr. Jofes’ a had the its disposal. of potential chemists, physicists, | kave no wish ih selling you a d : : . ‘| Noe followers have been com-|psychologists, or economists who ¥ thing, unless in doing 50 jgood judgment to go in and talk|plaining that in the 50-50 job split might be needed in solving present ; Roders can serv well turkey to him’ at a time when Mr.|the good jobs are going to Jones|and post-war problems. 0g can serve you so |Noe was extremely sore at, the whole people and the poor ones to the| The bill now exempts cadets in that you will want to come Jones crowd. This was just after the Noe crowd. Another complaint is|the advanced course, senior devi- nek iaginond : irst primary, when the bitterness of that in some parishes the Jones|sion, Reserve Officers’ Training |g" g and again. | defeat still rankled. leaders have simply ignored the|Corps from registration, but this #8 The businessman was W. Prescott |ggreement. will affect relatively few of the |p “.. Foster, wealthy sugar planter who students. V Nr om Ml siren eee evire Few in Senior R. 0. T. C. ay ! r. : ster an Anoth , i f a S others of the Jones strategists were nother complication comes in| fThis provision is objected to by : A y ; > because of the special arrangement |gome educators because it might atconsidering the situation; obviously,|that had to be made in New O > : [they had to get Mr. Noe to declare : : oh W Or-ftract enrolling students to those frase : ’ °C1aI€ [leans. There the city organization |eglleges that have the R. O. T. C. |for Mr. Jones, and work for him, if “ " | colleges . | ? —the “old regulars” so-called—has | : d away from the many | IMr. Jones was to have any chance |made its with ‘the vi [SEAMING SO Vi in the run-off primary. ek. Deno Ht 4 tops: oc [other institutions that do not pro-| “Let's go over and see Noe,” said yt « y Spite Vs Tope Worle vide it. a a thik (Foster, at last. “He’ll be sore and . e advanced course which prothe’ll cuss us out, but we'll just have Mr. Noe has had to run up t0/yjdes exemption under the present