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...President, Franklin Roosevelt tossed philosophy overboard, faced facts. His choice lay between direct Federal relief and mass starvation accompanied by almost inevitable rebellion. Promptly- through CWA, PWA, CCC, FERA-he began pouring public millions into private pockets. As the Government rushed in to support and finally almost supplant private charity, solvent citizens took notice. Since they were paying the Federal relief bill through taxation, they began to doubt the practical necessity of any longer subscribing to private charities. In 1932, 120 cities contributed $57,800,000 to private charities. Last year the same cities contributed...
...dispute last week by the Department of Labor. Since the Federal employment service was opened in July 1933, announced Madam Secretary Perkins, 12,634,974 applications have been received. In the past year, 6,951,523 jobs have been parcelled out. But at least 4,123,000 men (CWA workers) later lost those jobs. So the 7,000,000 "open file" applications mean little...
While Governor William Langer of North Dakota was on trial in Federal Court on a charge of forcing CWA workers to contribute to his political support, Lydia Cady Langer went out on the stump and campaigned to win her husband renomination (TIME, June 25). A frail woman with four children and little political experience, Mrs. Langer is the daughter of the late James Cleveland Cady, Manhattan architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House. After her marriage 16 years ago in a Riverside Drive apartment, she went West with "Bill" Langer and left her New York ways and words forever behind...
Other delegates last week were eagerly awaiting the results of a current nation-wide survey by the U. S. Office of Education to locate all unemployed deaf persons, find jobs for them in CWA and PWA, check up on the success of deaf persons in various occupations...
...Barnum of Cleveland Quarries. Sister Nell became a buyer for Cleveland's Halle Bros, department store, continued to live in Berea with Mother Moley. Brother Jim, amiable and easygoing, was proprietor of the Moley Tire Shop in Berea until business grew bad. Then Brother Ray got him a CWA job in Washington. But Brother Jim disliked the bustle of the capital, pined to get back to Berea and a good job. Early this month Brother Ray fixed things up for him and last week Brother Jim was Berea's postmaster at $2,800 per year...