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Month ago Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. dazed the House Ways & Means Committee by recommending that non-defense expenditures be cut; that $1,000,000,000 could be saved by cutting down farm, NYA and CCC appropriations. Stunned by the sound of a New Dealer recommending economy, Congressmen feebly toyed with this brandnew idea...
...struggle was on. Mr. Morgenthau had further the bad taste to recommend definitely and pointedly something the President had always delicately skirted-the actual slashing of numerous non-defense expenditures. Mr. Morgenthau pointed a finger directly at the cost of CCC and NYA, mentioning incidentally that both projects seek youths of 21 who are possible recruits for Army enlistment; also at public works, relief, the farm-parity payments in the bill now in conference between the chambers, to which the Senate has added $450,000,000. This week the White House passed word to House leaders to reject the Senate...
...Commended CCC, in a message on its eighth anniversary, as "builder of the kind of men this nation needs...
...Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...
Total non-defense costs: $7,078,000,000 this fiscal year, $6,674,000,000 next. The cost of Social Security, National Youth Administration, debt interest to be increased; public works, relief, CCC, farm aid, to be decreased. Relief was slated to decrease only about $400,000,000 each year from its present...