'The time is coming when, like Dick' Swiveller, who foresaw himself comings to Bognor Regis is already not far from being one long town. Now the same fate is descending on ¢he! est coast.
By permission of the Ministry of Health, Margate is to be allowed to absorb' Westgate and Birchington, Ramsgate swallows Manston and the foreshore west-ward to the Stour; Deal engulis Walmer and two villages. T see that Westgate and. Birchington have protested violently but vainly. Westgate is very conscious of the superior class of visitor it attracts, Bixchington prides itself on its stil! rural approach to the sen. [At the back of both is a considerable {In January of this year he estimated het there would' be a $4000,000000 dollar deficit in 1996, and confessed newspaper correspondents at White House Press Conference that 2 completely balanced budget was matter for the future; all he could Hope for the present was "a cons tinually decreasing. defitt 'Those two slatements of the Pres:- ent sum up ina nutshell what has fbappened during' the past. "A year ago. the Preside and his associates were confident. that the New "Deal policies Just inaugurated would be 50. successful "that the. need. for emergency expenditures would Feduced and that the increased yictd from taxes on a reviving, indeatry Would more than cover both regular {and emergency needs of the gov~ ernment without recourse to borrows ing. This year the fact has had to bbe faced that the New Deal policies have not lived up to expectations, the number of people in need. of relief is as great as ever, private dustry has for Tecovered suicients Jy to absorb any of the unemployed, fact the Federation of Labour sists that there are more unemploy-area of yet "undeveloped" land. ed now than there were a year ago, can well imagine that they do not want It "developed" as it most certainly will be now.
Tt is not easy 40° understand the resent passion of officialdom for coagulating happy little boroughs into vast amalgamations, at Toast. from the standpoint of the publ Theoreily public services, by having the administration centralized for a large are made more efficient and economical, But experience dace not! foreign trade has improved bul slightly while the farmer: though ne has benemtted more from the New Dear than anyone else is sti diss contented and clamouring Yor" {urs ther ald "The President, in these cir cumstances, as feshullled his caroa and dealt again. "The most Imports
quote a current newspaper phrase, card in the' "New Deal repeat 1s the Security Programme. A yeat support theory. On oe PW.A. Now all the. emphasis was on URA, the contrary. AAA, and P.W.A. Né when two or 'Yohnado, the father' of the Nova, declares' that it is. as. dead as ihe Dodo which is not "only dead. but in munber'and with tem ie nose! extinct" The objective "of the ber" of trlende for what Jobs musi Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration, higher farm beices has been "and in the smaller borough, verfchlevéd, But it is & moot point how vice lo more, umanioeds Tape much was due to the drought. and with practical experience of such how much was due to the effort Sorough he one" live in). which that body. "The Public Works "Ad come mires saved. mell ralnistration foes been slow: moving ras ago from being swallowed trid is to be reorganized, B"blase one" Our public services really very food ae know ost Aamiring Bach Other councilors trid the offeals "as oman curious 10 read about the {o'man. it'ispomible by. friendly American New Deal in British news-Fepresentation to got things done a Papers and the British Recovery hich i al mors importa American. Both countries admire Things not done, in his restless age {he results which have been achieved of ching for ut" that is! 10 the other and tend to ignore the other things the nation decided rate additional purchasing power fby raising wages ata time when unemployment was a serious probe Gen, Johnson's Apologia Tt_was not so much the nation which decided to do this, of course, as General Johnson and the URA.
The General has something to say fon the matter in his apologia now pearing in serial form in, the turday "Evening Pos." "The most obvious immediate way erase the effect of the depression on wages and hours was the N.RA. project to decrease hours to speed Work and to increase wages to main~ lain purchasing power", General Johnson writes. He was a lite worried as he penned this by the arguments of the opposition that increased wages Increased the cost the general public, whose "tonnage" of consumption was, therefore, cut down so that manufacture slackened and employment grew less, Nevertheless he Insists that his policy of spreading the work was. the correct one, on the theory that 1,000 men with' ten dollars each was 'a belter "market than one man with 10,000 and 999 with nothing. Moreover, writes Gen~ eral Johnson, "We relied on P.W.A. to activate the heavy industries at once, and thus Increase the total number of available purchasers, We felled on A.A.A. to increase Farm purchasing power immediately, and thus still further add to the number of purchasers, These added to URA. additions would so far me crease the volume that, we thought—and 1 still think—the Increased Inbour cost would be absorbed with= out much increase in price."
Some Agencies Criticized General Johnson evidently feels that if the other Recovery agencies had pulled their weight the Pr dent would not have had to try a redeal at the beginning of 1935, This sume idea is present when he states, "Whatever may be properly criti-zed about URA. it created 2,785,- 000 jobs at a desperate time' and added about $3,000,000 to the annual purchasing power of the working people, Tt did more to create em= ployment than all the other emer ency agencies put together and it did so by creating normal Jobs everywhere and without drafts' on the greatest boon of benelts which their respective the Federal Treasury. All oth
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