Evening star. [volume], April 15, 1936, Page A-19, Image 19

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SPENDING CHIEFS
' OFFER PROBLEMS
Ickes-Hopkins-Tugwell Hav
ing Variety Types of
Troubles.
. BY CARLISLE BARGERON.
President Roosevelt has once again
found it necessary to take stock of
his three spenders, Harry Hopkins,
Prof. Tugwell and Public Works Ad
ministrator Ickes. No criticism at
taches to Hopkins’ ability to spend,
but a storm has arisen around the way
in which he has been spending. Ickes
Is again pressing to the fore with
the claim that he knows how to
apend $700,000,000 and he is get
» ting considerable congressional sup
port for his plan.
But is develops that Prof. Tugwell
has about $35,000,000 on hand for
the purchase of submarginal lands
that he is having an awful time
getting rid of. He has had some in
formal discussions with Congress
men looking to the passage of a law
• which would relieve what he considers
to be the red tape around the mat
ter of clear titles to the submarginal
lands he wants to purchase. R de
velops that because of the insistence
of the Department of Justice and
Controller General McCarl on clear
titles Tugwell's submarginal land
purchase program is moving slowly,
if it is not almost at a standstill
14.50 per Acre Average.
Of the $41,000,000 originally set
aside for purchase of submarginal
lands, only $6,000,000 has actually
reached the farmers' hands. He has
options on enough land, virtually, to
absorb the remaining $35,000,000 if
the matter of clear titles could be
straightened out. He is paying on an
average of $4.50 an acre for these
submarginal lands. The options cost
nothing, because it is land with which
the farmers are doing nothing and
they are glad to even get a promise
or a likelihood that the submarginal
land department of the Government
will buy it.
Being the sort of land it is, how
ever, makes the business of proving
title all the more difflcult. In some
Instances, it Is-pointed out. the farm
er, deep down in his heart, doesn’t
know whether he owns the land or not.
It seems that Prof. Tugwell’s pur
chasers go around the country and
whenever they see a submarginal strip
that strike their fancy they make
inquiries as to ownership. Just a
submarginal atrip in itself is not suf
flcient for Prof. Tugwell’s purchasers.
It must be adjacent to other submar
ginal strips, so that together they all
form sort of a submarginal plan, out
of which they can work a park or a
national preserve.
In many instances the owner is not
easy to be found at first, because the
farmer is wondering whether the
Government man is a tax collector.
Then when his real mission is learned
the trouble is to get the right one of
the several owners who may appear.
This is one of the reasons why the
Department of Justice and the con
troller general are so determined In
the matter of Tugwell's getting clear
titles.
Solution Elusive.
Their determination in this re
spect, though, has almost brought the
submarginal land phase of his ac
tivities to a standstill. In his dis
cussion with Congressmen he has
wondered if a law couldn’t be passed
making him the judge of what con
stitutes a clear title. So far no Con
gressman has been able to see just
how this could be worked out.
Tugwell was, for soma time, in
quite a dilemma as to how he could
spend the money allotted to him for
rural resettlement. He got around
this, however, by dropping the “rural”
and going in for low-coet housing
projects under the "resettlement” au
thorization. He is not having much
difficulty, either, in getting rid of the
money In the farmer rehabilitation
phase of his activities. Approximate
ly 3.000,000 persons are receiving re
habilitation assistance in one form
or another.
A story has Just come up from the
South of his having given a horse
to a family that had been taking
turns at pulling a plow. Now the
horse will pull it.
Ickes’ friends have always felt that
he was mistreated when the Presi
dent made Hopkins chief spender.
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