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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1935
Page
2
President Roosevelt addresses Congress with a broadened work relief proposal aimed at eliminating dole payments. He calls for public works including slum clearance and grade crossing removal to employ about 3.5 million people, while hinting at future social security measures and warning against speculative profits and radical opposition.
Liberal Republican Senator Genator Vandenberg announces a plan to remove politics from the Post Office by placing all postmasters and officials under civil service with promotions from within as the norm. The proposal would bar the Postmaster General from political office and align postal staffing with a career service while preserving current postmasters' commissions.
The Illinois report details multiple tragedies including the bodies of Charles Moore found in a ditch near Mattoon and the suicide of Frank Schneider in Lincoln. It notes births, deaths, a 102nd birthday for Thomas Shaw, and a wide range of political and relief efforts amid 1930s strain.
The article argues President Roosevelt will avoid open clashes with a radical Congress, delaying key NRA and AAA reforms. It highlights Section 7(a) of the recovery act, its union influence, and pressures to rewrite it, with figures like Donald Richberg and Chester Davis noted as central to Washington debates.
The piece portrays Tolley as director of planning for the Agricultural Adjustment administration and a power broker rivaling Tugwell. It notes Tolley’s influence on strengthening the act, hints at his California influence on crop control, and signals possible congressional backlash from Democrats, with broader tensions in banking policy involving Governor Eccles and Senator Glass.
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