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 Hour of Recitation 1- ine of ExaminationjThursday JT me xm ator 4-6 1 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.',, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (. k( r/ When you-TSNA GIL Ann Arbor, ins cude in you The smartest Hat memoirs the deEr lightfu lcan o trips on thEa Huron. If yout haven't enjoyec napDe4 up completely from back this pleasure, do**ro m of the crown creased with ne , maniptulated so before depart- effects. ,There is diversity in tui style. for every one is slightl, different from the' rest: ^ You'll see them on the ultra-smart and fashionable .women for they've been adopted at all the smartest I resorts. In all fai shades. Felts and"F*rics. 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