THIE MICHIGAN DAILY
Puerto Rican
Aid Program
ToBe Revised
Less Costly Plan Raises
Hopes For Salvage Of
'Forgotten Isle'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. - (P) -
A plan, to salvage Puerto Rico, "for-
gotten isle" of the Caribbean, is be-
ing revived, but on a simpler and less
costly scale.
It called originally for spending
more than $30,000,000 to give Puerto
Rico a new deal. It aimed to tackle
such problems as overcrbwding, hur-
ricane distress, unemployment, ab-
sentee ownership and the people's
dependency on one crop - sugar.
When the drought on the American
mainland grew to a disaster, the
Puerto Rican program bogged down
and virtually was forgotten. Officials
[ found their hands full with other
things.
But with the return of President
Roosevelt the plan came to life again.
Rexford Guy Tugwell, undersecretary
of agriculture, and other officials have
been laboring overtime to draft a sim-
plified program that might meet the
President's approval.
The original plans involved many
things from birth control to slum
clearance and redivision of lands.
When the President visited the is-
lands in July, he indorsed them only
in principle. He heard many na-
tive objections to the scope of the tx-
periment. It was understood that the
intention was to take more time to
work out much of the social experi-
mentation suggested.
Conditions on the island are de-
scribed as very serious, partly because
of inability to apply restrictive pro-
visions of the Jones-Costigan sugar
act.
A. J. S. Weaver, agriculture expert
who spent most of June in Puerto
Rico, is understood to favor going
ahead on the sugar program, dove-
tailing in parts of the general plan
later as -money comes to hand.
Scattered Showers Are
Cause Of Crop Recovery
EAST LANSING, Aug. 15. - ( P) -
Scattered showers the latter part of
last week were sufficiently heavy in
some sections to help 'crops consid-
erably, according to the weekly crop<
condition report issued today by the1
local U. S. weather bureau. Corn, ,
beans, and potatoes, the report said,
have greatly improved over one half
of the state. In other sections where
no rain occurred crops continue to
suffer severely and some appear to bek
past the recovery stage.
Examination
Hour of Recitation 8
Time of Examination-Thursday 1
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Former N RA Employ
John L. Donovan (right), hea
ting up a fight against his disch
which he claims was due to his un
ferring with Margaret Stabler, uni
his case heard by the labor relatior
Donovan was "fired" for inefficie
'America 's Brio
followsH
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 15. -
0P) - Wilbur B. Huston, the Seattle
boy who won the Thomas A. Edison
nationwide scholarship in 1929 and
with it the unofficial title of "Amer-
ica's brightest boy," is an unassum-
ing young working man today.
A little over a year ago he finished
his scholarship course at Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology; since
that time he has been working under
the direction of Theodore Edison, son
of the late inventor, as a research as-
sistant in the Edison plant here.
"I haven't invented anything yet
and I don't know as I shall," he says
to dispel notions that he is trying to
follow in the footsteps of the electrical
wizard. He admits, however, that
he has hopes of inventing something
sometime.
Builds Models
His work has consisted-chiefly, of
constructing mechanical models of
other persons' inventions, some to
be used for sales demonstration,
others destined for the New York Mu-
seum of Science and Industry.
"We are working on designs for im-
proving the Edison phonograph so;
that it will be harder to distinguish
between canned and real music," he,
said. "I am given a fairly free hand
Schedule_
9 10 11
Friday . ThursdayI Friday
8-10 2-4 2-4
2 All Other
2 3 Hours.
hursday Friday Friday
10-12 10-12 4-6
ee Fights His Discharge German ens
xy ~
Campaign For
Economic Help
Nation Is Seeking To Wipe
Out Its Adverse Balance
Of Trade
BERLIN, Aug. 15. - ( ) - The
German nation embarked today on a
100-day campaign to pull itself out
of a morass of economic ills.
The purpose of the campaign is the
reduction in the amount of imports
needed. and in its success or failure
lies largely the success or failure of
Germany's pressing trade and foreign
exchange problems. Trade figures for
the first six months of 1934 show that
imports increased 10 per cent over
the same period last year while ex-
ports have dropped 12 per cent.
Lift Tariffs
:: With the start of the campaign
there became effective also a decree
lifting prohibitive tariffs on grain
I imports, following a costly drought.
ssociated Press Photo Germans are asked as a patriotic
d of an NRA employees union, is put- duty to save all they can - to watch
iarge from the Blue Eagle's payroll lest they use unwisely pieces of rub-
ion activities. Donovan is shown con- ber, paper, grain, foodstuffs and met-
ion secretary, while awaiting to have als; to conserve such things as bristles
ns board. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson said and to seek subsittutes -for articles not
ncy. produced in Germany.
--- These little articles, the people are
reminded, when put together form
itest Boybig problems standing in the way of
Germany's becoming a self-sufficing
ie Ceetl nation. This is a Nazi ideal born of
dwindling financial reserves.
Next Days. Important
in this and hope to accomplish some- The next 100. days is expected to
thing." mean much in working out Germany's
n Acoustics have been claiming a big economic salvation and that, neutral
share of his interest, and he hopes observers declare, is all of Germany's
to return to college for an advanced immediate future.
degree in physics, specializing in the As an aid in the fight to wipe out
elimination of industrial vibrations the adverse trade balance, Dr. Hjal-
and city noises. mar Schacht, acting head of the min-
"Lucky To Have A Job" istry of economics, announced he
In his studies he has given "tech- would give firms manufacturing for
nological unemployment" some at- export preferential treatment in fill-
tention but reports he could reach no ing their needs for raw materials. Dis-
satisfactory decision for himself. He tribution of such materials is in con-
says he has been impressed by the trol of the state because of the foreign
contentions of several authorities who exchange situation.
dispute the argument that there is-_
such a type of unemployment.
"I'm just a working man," Huston
explains, "lucky enough to' have a L
job. My work is absorbing, and weU B
get all sorts . of difficult problems to AL L SIZES
dig into and work out."
He's pretty sure he's lived down
that "America's brightest-boy" repu-
tation. He smiled when he was asked
how that reputation had worked out
with his associates. "Oh, that's all for-
gotten by now. It's no particular D g Store
Handicap."
A 40-Hour Week STATE STREET
Huston, who was hailed as the boy__ __
showing the most promise of becom-
ing, a future Thomas A. Edison when
he won the scholarship, lives quietly
in a local boarding house.
OLDEST METHODIST COLLEGE to, ,
ASHLAND, Va., Aug. 15. -- ('P) -
Randolph-Macon college, said to be
the oldest educational institution of x
the Methodist church in the United''
states, this year observed the 104th
anniversary of its founding. It claims
to have been the first college in the' *
soutl to make physical education a
part of its curriculum.',,
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