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BEHIND
THE SCENES
IN
ASH1NGT0N
Pitifully Sown Staff With No
Money Launches Social Se
curity Program . . . Pleas
for Joba and Pensions Are
Pouring in ... Big Chunk
•f Federal Employes’ Pay
Is Mailed Back Home.
Willis Thornton, NEA Ser
staff corespondent. Is
pinch-hlttlnp for Rodney
Botcher, NEA and Democrat
Was hlngton
while Batcher is on
tfon.
~ By WILLIS THORNTON
•t • Washington Corres
2 Washington, sept. 10—It's rather
«. pitiful little acorn right now,
The organisation from which the
great oak of the social security
progam la expected to grow.
About twenty-five borrowed em
ployes in borrowed quarters—
that is all that can be seen
to-day of an organization
that ia expected eventually to
employ 10,000 peoplo in adminis
tering benefits that will touch
more than 16,000,000 Americans.
, Because the bill which was to
have provided funds was filibus
tered to death as Congress closed
<*ta last session, nobody can be reg
ularly hired by the Social Securi
ties Board. A dozen or so em
ployes have been borowed from
3jra, and another dozen from Kd
wln Witte’s committee on social
i^curity which helped frame the
•plan.
Ilo Funds
% Unless the board’s appeal to the
^director of the budget for funds
Snider the emergency relief act,
«anal to a month’s administrative
riense, is granted, It’s doubtful
even the salaries of Commls
*Moners Winant, Altmyer, amd
tni.« can be paid until Congress
meets neat winter and appropri
ates some money,
wt of course, they’re going ahead
liny way.
The mall already Is flooding In,
reks of It. Most of it boils down
two questions: "How about a
-Job?" and "When do I get my
tensions?"
The borowed staff is hardly
large enough yet even to return
the simple answer that must go
to all such Inquiries: to the first
class, “We haven’t anything to
use for money yet,” and to the
second, "Nothing doing for at
least two years."
Pleas Pour In >
Plenty of the applications for
jobs come sponsored by con
gressmen who were there the
night the appropriation was fili
bustered to death, and who should
know better.
A woman trudges In with an
Invalid sister and an ailing hus
band. She wants a pension tor
one or both.
The telephone rings. It’s a
"social psychiatrist,” whatever
that Is, and he wants a job.
The mailman dumps a big stack
of mails on a bare table. It goes
into the file that is beginning to
spring up„ forerunner of a system
that alms In 1987 to begin to be
a complete personal account of
every employe In the United
States—no less—establishing his
age and keeping his wage and
contribution record for old-age in
surance benefits after 1942.
The Social Securities Board,
which has only Just held Its first
meeting. Is being given almost a
whole floor of the new Labor De
partment building formerly occu
pied by the old National Labor
Board.
It will probably have around
500 employes the fihst year, an
will build up from that to the
-10,000 it eventually will take to
administer the gigantic program.
• • •
Folks Back Home Profit
« The money the government
! * pends on payroll# here circu
late# all over the country to a
surprising extent. Go down to the
'local postoffice on a government
pay day and look at the money
order line. It’# three times as
long as It used to be a few years
ago.
Government employe# are send
„lng money back home to relatives
•who need It worse than they do,
!«r to the families they have hesi
tated to bring to Washington be
- cause of the high cost of living
here, or because their Jobs look
too temporary.
'Tour correspondent ran Into
one clerk who draws $90 a month
and sends $40 back to the folks
• every month. How this employe
gets three squares and a roof on
^$$50 a month In Washington Is
Just one of those mysteries.
, A local merchant of many years’
experience says he believes 10
jjier cent less government payroll
■money Is spent here today than
’was spent when there were 30,000
fewer government employes.
1 The local prosperity of Wash
ington comes from visitors, out
of-towners having business with
the government, not from the
payrolls. And from the huge sums
tthe government Is spending for
■went at 71 a square toot for old
'buildings that haven’t been occu
pied for years.
f (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service
Inc.) *
r A Book a Day
<He Stays at Home
'and Traps Killers
h Rex Stout Is rapidly emerging
as one of our cleverest spinners of
'detective yarns; and his newest
"book, "The League of Frightened
Allien" (Farrar and Rinehart: $2),
"te his best one to date.
* Mt. Stout belongs to the school,
•■which holds that a fictional detec
tive must be bizarre and freakish
•to the very limit of human Imagin
ing, and his pet sleuth is a fat,
• pompous old party who solves mys
teries without stirring outside of
t his own house. In this tale he has
' to look Into a cose In which a man
ttvho was crippled for life by a col
lege hazing accident some 20 years
^previously has seemingly set out
to murder all the old schoolmates
who had a hand in the affair.
•w.m. It need not be added. I trust.
•"‘"•"•Charles O. Givens (Bobbs-Merrlll:
should nave been called to
i pour attention sooner. It Is a news
tbat he gets to thebottom of things
with due dispatch. If you like your
sananlslfl WAIt’ll 11 If A thlu
“The Rose Pet^l Murders," by
'es eccentric, you'll like this.
variety, with a tough managing ed
itor being murdered In bta own of
flce and bta whole staff coining
under suspicion, Ifs good H yen
like your meat very rare.
Lastly, we have "Death Wears a
Mask," by Therese Benson (Har
pers: This tale, one of the
season's lesser items, tails bow a
New York poUce commissioner
finds an eld sweetheart stabbed to
death In his apartment. Having
even leas sense than the average
New York police commissioner, he
sncceeds In muddling things so
that a fine mystery develops. . . .
It might fill In an hour or two for
you acceptably.
HORSE VACATION DAYS.
Omaha, Neb. (UP)—Old Doddln
Is loklng forward to the summer
vacation as longingly as the chil
dren, for it means clover for him
for three months. Dobbin, plus a
partner, pulls the only horse-drawn
bus in town, taking 35 children
from suburban homes to an Omaha
school.
JAPAN TO UNK
NEARBY CITIES
Undersea Tunnel Lous
Discussed to Be Started
in 1936
Tokyo (UP).—Construction of
the Ion* discussed undersea tun
nel connecting the cities of Shi
monoiekl and Mojl may begin next
year.
Surveys are now being made
and the Ministry of Railways has
let It be known hut It favors be
ginning work at once.
Money has not been appropri
ated for the project, but the pres
ent Minister of Railways. Shinya
Uchlda, has announced his deter
mination to go ahead. The rail
ways can finance the project, he
Insists. Construction will require
kboat four years.
The problem of Japan's twta
dues of tbs West la mweb like the
problem of Man rraaolsoo Be/.
They are on opposite aides of
Kwammon Etralt and are oon
necte.t by ferry service. -
To the west la the opaa aea sad
to he east Is the botle-tteek en
trance to hte Inland Bea.
Train eerrlce from Tokyo la In
terrupted at SblmonOseki. Passen
gers and freight mast be rans
ferred by fenp to other train at
Moji. The tunnel .will permit
through service to the Island of
Kyushu and southward to Kago
shima on the southern tip of the
Island.
The strait at the narrowest
point is less than a mile wide, but
the tunnel when built, will not
cross at thl-j point, but at a olnt
where the underwater part of the
tube will be about two miles Is
length. The total length of the
tunnel with approaches will be
about six miles.
Construction of the tunnel has
FRANCE EXTOLS
1934VWTAGES
Official Qroay Says Both
r 1933-1934 Wines Win
He flood
Paris (UP).—French wines of
IMS and 1SS4 have been labeled
seed by the Sommeliers (cellar
men) Association of Paris. Al
ways cautious in their opinion,
these wine experts usually wait
several years before passing Judg
ment on vintages.
Xu Bordeaux wlqes, ISM is de
be u under consideration for 20
yean.
Moji and Shlmonoeehl aft im
portant manufacturing and ship
ping centers. The population of
Shlmonosekl Is about 95,000 and
that of Moji about 116,000.
may later abow tba qualities of a
mat year, aa did tba Mil vin
tages which at tba beginning re
aambled the 1*99. Tba judgment
on 1934 vintages hi unofllclal aa
yet because of tba abort time
which baa elapsed since grapes
were harvested, bat the somme
liers' official paper glvse promi
nence to the verdict of the ex
pert, Raymond Brunet, who de
clares that 19S4 is a great year in
all regions with few exceptions.
Many of the 19S4 vintages al
ready are good to drink and at
the same time have every Indica
tion of long life and Improvement
in quality, a feature considered
remarkable in such a yeung wine.
In the history of French wine,
1914 was a record year for quan
tity and ordinarily when the quan
tity la great, the quality la poor.
The excellence of 1914 wines la
therefore considered unusual, s
The 1999 Bordeaux red wines,
aay the sommeliers, will be sup
ple but not rich or heavy, while
more body will be found In the
8t. Kmlllons, Pornerols, Faulllac
INSPECTOR WALK
WITNESS JN CODRT
Testimony on Cesspool
Leads to Prompt Orders
of Elimination
Plumbing Inspector James
Walker revealed In city court to
day that investigation of com
plaints made by residents and
business men on South Main street
hahd led to the discovery of axees
pool in the cellar of a custard shop
operated by Lorenzo Simone, 41,
of 419 South Main street. Mr.
and St. Eatephe. The 1111 Bor
deaux white wines showed little
promise at the beginning but
h. e improved greatly, particul
larly in the Barsao and Sauternes
regions as well as the Saint Croix
du-Mont and the Grande Cote.
after having failed to heed two
warning a froth the plumbing In
spector to remedy conditions nt the
store. Inspector Welker sold bo
notified Simone Sept. S end 11,
warning him both times that be
would be arrested unless the cess
pool was removed. When. a. po
liceman went to the place yester
day, however, the cesspool was
still there, and Simone was ar
rested.
Simone advanced aa Ms de
defense his Inability to get a
plumber who would do the work
at a price be thought reasonable
Yesterday, he said, bo disconnect
ed all the piping leading from bla
shop to the cesspool. His business
season, he said, has ended with
the coming of cooler weather.
Judge Maseolo gave Simone till
5 o’clock this afternon t have the
cesspol cleaned out andn filled in.
Without Question.. The Out standmq Miracle Event of the Year!
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b the now nautical etyle
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anchor. Haatray .
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, . . please be
early!
Regular $6.95
Marvelously con
structed, nicely
tailored in glazed
eblntz. A bargain
at the regular price
ot 16.95.
_ Regular $18.50
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spacious £A
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Cheat. Dresser or Vanltr # #§
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All 4 Pieces a
Save Exactly $49.35
A genuine 4-piece Venetian aulte. Only our
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two-tone finish . . . and a parade of other fea
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Easy Terms—18 Months to Pay '
Solid Maple Bedroom
At a Saving of $35.34
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struction, are Just two of the features
that make this suite a real authentic
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