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April 4, 1935     Golden Valley News
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THE BEACH REVIEW 2 IROGE]RS Job tional R ec o v e r y ls wholly government owned. From all administration. Mr. l~ielI~erg will be chairman of tile Na- tional Industrial Recovery board which now been enlarged to the number @f seven, and It Is proposed that this ~p, divided between labor and cap- Itil r~presentatlon, will guide the poll- and program~ as well as the en- tre'cement of NRA. It may be that Mr. Rlchberg's ap- ~ntment should be given only pass- tag notice. Polltlcal appointments In Washington are many and the addition of one more normally would not at- tTaet ettention. It appears, however, flint in this particular Instance eonsld- emble significance should be attached to the appointment. It will have repercussions In more ways than one. This brings us to the question of th8 future NRA. As we all know NRA le~$1atlen in tile house and senate ts ~lcolmterlng rough saillng. There are many different ideas being put for- ward about the prlnclple of NItA that thus far It has been exceedingly diet- trill to reconcile them. Since tile pres- ent national industrial recovery act expires hy limitation of law oa June 26, congress faces the necessity of en- actment of new legislation or allowing 1[he present law to die and the codes lmder It to fall apart. Selection of Mr. Rlchberg on tile basis of these facts then would seem to In- dicate that Mr. Roosevelt had picked Ills bes~ sohller to fi~llt the battle: that Mr. Rlchberg, beln~ eyes and ears for ]l~lr. Boosevelt, would be the Indlvhiual guide the President Io choice of ~lley and that hls nlost trusted ad- Viser would be tile man to put for- Ward details of the pl'opo.~ed NRA ex- tension legislation. The undercurI:ent of gossip around Washington, iiowever, Indlcatea something else. In the first instance. Mr, Riehher~ |S in bad wltl~ organized labor, and ~he has shown no disposition lately re make peace despite the fact that he woe for years the repre~ntatlve of railway, labor unions. Mr. Rlehberg it was who clashed with General John• ~n end who Is regarded, therefore, ~ts Indirectly responsible for General Johnson's resignation as national re- covery administrator. The new chair- man thus goes into his Job with threat- ~ntng clouds on several sides. R will not be forgotten, either, that sue.b valiant campaigners as Senator Carter Glass and Senator Borah. not ~to mention the alleged progressive, ~ator Nye, are waiting for the NRA ]~ltSlafl.on in the senate. Mr. Rich. 4~'g's hide will look to them the same as any other hide. It is Just possll)le, therefore, as some observers have sug- lge$'te¢l, that Mr. Rlcht~erg may have been put out as the lamb on the sac- rlfldal altar. Indeed, color is lent to this suppo- ldtion by the fact that Mr. Roosevelt hmJ taken little direct interest In pro- moting legislation extending the life of lgRA. Thus far he has sahl that he desired to have the extension grant- ed. but he has not turned on the steam fls he is equipped to do, and as he has done for bills that were personal hob- bles with him. It Is made to appear, therefore, that perhaps there will be disintegration of NRA as stlch anti lhat the functions desired by the ad- ~lnlstratlon to be retained will be Imrceled out, some to tile federal trade commission, some to the Labor depart- ment, and others of lesser consequence scattered elsewhere. WhlIe we are dtSCUSSln~ legislath)n, It may be well to consider what I~ he- Ins done about tile t Credit ~or program of extend- ~tOfl~e Owners lag credit to home owners In cities and tOWh~ through the machinery of the home loan board. The honse has passed a bill which will Increase by two billion, eight btlndred million dr)l- tars the amount of ftlIM~ avatlab',o for Iollna of titls type I)y tko ltonte own- er~' L4~RII curporaliOll. "l'his ~qll~/i wag approxlmatelY s I)iltlon dolhtrs nt{,re than the home loan hom'd thong:hi was t]ecessary, but tlle sl~ht or ltm~rzht of so much money Stalqed the members Of the how~e on sonlcllllng like q riot, $0 they ntad(, ample fun¢ls available. From reports filtering tlu'm~;:h to Washlngtun, I thiuk there can be no questlou bill whllt the heine loan .,,ys- tern lifts heen nf help ill lhotls}tlldS Of @aseS. Undoubtedly av~lihlbilily of ~av, ernlnent money tn this matter has ~aved nnnumhered home nwllol'S from 10SS of their prol~erty where sh,)rt- ~ghted mortgage holders have Insist- ed npon undue enrtaiinlent or ahs.lltte repayment of the horrowed m.aey. Extension of the symem lwobabty ba~ resulted also lu reduction of general Interest rates by privme lenders of cap- ital. If the), wantt, tl their mnuey to work at all. they had to meet the government COml~etition- Whether tile principle of goverllu/ent ]oltns ls sound In normal times Is another llorso. Time alone can tell. The activity of cnngrcss, especially tn the house, lndicaWs that there Is a demand of some kind or other for these In'ms in preference to private capital and that necessarily must be considered as an lnIluentlal foe{or. A~I the legislation Increasing the lend- I can learn It ~tands out as the finest Illustration of what politicians can do In the way of building polit- Ical machines that I have seen In e score of years In the National Capital. It will be remembered that upon cre- ation of tile board former Representa- tive "Seaboard Bill" Stepllenson of South Carolina was named chairman. Mr. Stepheason, being more honest about politics thall many others, an- nounced unequivocally that appoint- meats were going to be made on a po- litical basis. He created quite a furore and finally found himself sidetracked. For a time we here in Washington have heard little about politics In the home loan system. It has developed, however, that politics was not dead, but sleeping. The loan corporation In carrying out the Idea or policy of decentralization did some very pe- Peculiar culler things, accord- Doings? lng tO well authen- ticated reports. Ac. tually, I am told, some young men with- out previous practical experience or training were supplied with copies of the home loan act. given a ticket and ordered to the hinterland to ()pen des- Ignated regional oflice~. Shortly there- after out of the thousamts of em- plo.veos in the home office of tile loan corporation Individuals were called Into tile office of the directing heads and were ordered to go to one or the other of the newly opened establish- meats. They were told at the same time that their salaries would be re- duced. In addition, I am reliably in- formed, hundreds of them have suf- fered further salary redactions since they have been on their new Jobs. While all of thls has been going on, tile corporation set up a board of four members in the headquarters before which remaining employees in the Washington office have been called for examination. This board was an- nounced a.s for the purpose of deter- mining which of the employees should be retained. They wanted to be fair about it nnd wanted to keep on the payroll such of the employees as were unable to get along wlthon~ the Jobs they were holding. It seems, however, that that board has become an In- quisitorial body absolutely without precedent in the character of examine. tlon to which It subjects tile employees. The result Is that few, if any, of the employees of the loan corporation en- tertain any belief that they can stay on their Jobs with any feeling of safety. For example, one man's experience is quoted. He was asked whether he had money in the bank, and he had none. He was asked wllether any of his people were on tile relief rolls. and they were not. Numerous other que~lons, such as the rate he paid for Ills board aml room and the cost of his laundry were put to him. He then was asked If he carried life In- surance, and his answer that he did apparently was wrong. Although he was not told directly, the inference of questions put to him was that he could llve two months if lie cashed in his life Insurance policy. At any rate he was dlsml~sed. But th'~s is not all. Included in the bill which increases the amount of funds that may be loaned by the cor- poration is a line of legislation that will have tile e~rect of expanding poli- tics In the organization. Written into that bill are instructions that tile cor- poration shall recall to Washington all of those enlployees who were dis- patched to new J~hs in the regional, state or district olltee~. ()f coarse. n,t one can say yet authoritatively that when these wm'kers are recalled they will be diSnlissed here. That, however, obviously Is the result. $ $ $ Senti[or Core of Okt:lhorna placed In tile L'on~re:~sional I:e(.ord recently a telegram he had Co~r(zge received and his re- Needed ply to It that lllns- lrates bettor than any recent lncidellt ]lr)W nl'l~h cotlr- age Is reqtlired by It national legisla- tor to withstand tile i)l'eSstlre from honle. The o(.ca~ion w,is con.~tdol'atbln hi the sen'He of tile put)lie works l,fill. The telegram received by the senator was siane(l by .lee A. Brown, tile may.r of Iiartshnrne. okla., and e. tL Lindsa.v, mayor of Ihflh,yvllle. Okla. it follows : ".