Daily News from New York, New York • 69

DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1936 35 HAROLD TEEN REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN MAN YSS Now I'm CiOino to CUT TMIS I SSSWn CMRIS'MUS. POP' (Si JTZZT. 0i r' 7 MAOe OLST FOfl lOO.POP' A full page of Harold Teen in colors appears in the romic section of the SUNDAY NEWS TODAY'S CROSSWORD ANSWER 0tiituarp JFeeaii TThety (Ceana 9i Metivavm Keeps Many With WTPA mm OV1A r. UL It A INI I Thi i the fifth of eerie of article on relief jobt at the tax- payer' expense a problem brought eharply into foci by President Roosevelt' move to cut the corf. By CARL WARREN.

Sam Johnson used to work for the WPA. lie made HIE EMAQjl Lft tilQN SV 6ffLA PIE" A a IBKnw i Cfjfci o. mSl io I A Mrs. LIONEL BARRYMORE Former Irene Fenwiek of Stag Hollywood, Dec. 24 (U.R).

Mrs. Lionel Barrymore, wife of the film star, died today. She was stricken recently with influenza. Before her marriage, she was known on the stage as Irene Fenwick. The marriage of the actress and Lionel, brother of John and Ethel Barrymore, had been known for years as one of the film colony's ideal romances.

Mrs. Barrymore $23.86 a week. But Sam was ambitious, so he found a tem porary job in private industry. For a month, he was off the public payroll. He saved the taxpayers $103.40.

(I'urzle on pane 23) Then, the private work ended? and he asked for his old relief job back again. The WPA slammed to all those entitled to them. Then, and not until then, can we solve the problem of all the Johnsons." The same arguments were advanced by other WPA executives. Each of theni pointed to the reservoir of jobless outside the WPA constantly bringing pressure at the receiving end. Plugging up the outgoing end, they argued, would mean a disastrous overflow.

That is the Washington side of the picture. The administrators are hard at work on the problem. They hope some better leave-of-absence plan can be worked out. Rut all that doesn't help Johnson. He is being penalized because he had too much ambition.

(The tixth of thi eerie will appear in an early ittue of The Neva.) temporary jobs unless they can be given assurance that the WPA work w'ill be open to them upon completion of the job." To put this policy into effect, the WPA worked out a system of preference cards. Each worker leaving the rolls receives one of COPS LEAVE TOWN TO HOLIDAY SPIRIT Carvin, France, Dec. 24 (llava.v). The local police force went strike here tonight, apparently te lieving the Christmas fpirit tit "peace on earth good to men would protect the town utminM any crime wave until their dcniwixls for higher pay were met. these cards giving him preference, There's Joker In the Deck.

The joker is that "preference" and "guarantee" are two entirely different matters. In practice, the Beautiful Ensem ble cards. often do not work at all Take the case of Johnson: He took his preference card to WPA headquarters, which sent him to the project office, which t8? sent him to another office where the door in his face. Today he is jobless. That is the short and gTim story of Sam Johnson Johnson is not his real name, but Theews confirmed all the facts about his case and thereby hangs one of the pertinent answers to the question: Why don't the relief rolls go down? Listen to Johnson: "I was nuts to take a chance," he said bitterly.

"I had $23.86 a week sure. Now I'm out in the cold. If I ever get back on WPA, I'll stay till hell freezes over." There are thousands of reliefers, on the dole or holding WPA jobs, who have figured it out exactly like Johnson and do not propose to sacrifice the security of relief for the insecurity of private jobs. They are sticking like sandburrs and mean to keep on sticking, if they can. Why, then, as a matter of common sen se, does not the WPA administration adopt a leave-of-absence plan assuring a reliefer immediate re-entry if a temporary job blows up? Knotty Problem To Relief Heads.

The News put this query squarely up to Thad Holt, Assistant National Administrator in charge of Labor Relations. "You have put your finger on a sore spot, all right," Holt replied. "Ypu'll never know how much lime and effort we have put in trying to do exactly what you suggest. But it isn't as simple as all that. In fact, it is one of the knottiest problems we have." To prove that the WPA is not asleep at the switch, Holt cited a finally he was told: "These are no good now with the cuts going on.

Maybe we cando something later." "How soon?" Johnson wanted to know. He was told "maybe in three weeks or so." Meanwhile, he is jobless. Holt frankly admitted that the cards do not positively guarantee IT. Ns a man a return to his old job Creat Valuo I 1 Pried Low rt I promptly and that considerable red tape is involved. "There are several aspects to this thing," he said.

"In the first place, a WPA project may end before a particular worker returns and his old place is abolished. It takes time to relocate him. "Secondly, it must be remembered that the WPA takes care of only about half the jobless people. We cannot consider Johnson only. Think of Jones on home relief.

He has been waiting for months for a WPA job. Why does Johnson have a vested right in a position forever? Shouldn't Jones have a The late Mrs. Lionel Barrymore left the stage after their marriage in 1923 and they lived quietly in a modest home near the studios. They have no children. Barrymore was Miss Fenwick's third husband.

Her first, Felix Isman, she married in 1906 and divorced in 1908. Her second, John Jay O'Brien, she divorced, in 1923. Barrymore had been married ence before, to Doris Rankin, who divorced him in 1922. Shortly after she married Lionel, Mrs. Barrymore faced long litigation over a $3,641,452 debt, incurred when she signed a mortgage for her first husband.

SIMEON D. FESS Lett Rite Arranged Yellow Springs, Dec. 24 OI.R). Funeral services for former United States Senator Simeon D. Fess will be held at 2 P.

M. Saturday at the Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Vernon Van Buren, the pastor, will officiate. The body, which arrived today from Washington, D. will lie in state from 12:30 P.

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No carrying charge if paid in ninety general order sent Jan. 11 by Administrator Harry L. Hopkins to all WPA offices. It stated that WPA workers are expected to accept private jobs, whether permanent or temporary, provided: (1) That the temporary or permanent work shall be a full-time job. (2) That such work shall be at a standard or going rate of wages.

(3) That such work shall not be in conflict with established union relationships. (4) That workers shall be offered an opportunity to return to the WPA upon completion of tem crack at it? So, if Jones is moved np to Johnson's place, should Jones be kicked out if Johnson wants it back? All Have the Same Answer. "The whole thing boils down to a question of money. We simply do not have the money to hold four million jobs open and guarantee everybody who leaves that his job is safe if he returns. "What we need, of course, is a long-time, over-all budget sufficient to provide insurance of jobs On Sale at All 10 Stores Tomorrow II mil prepmplly tiled om owe remlmr teif ireJH let mi.

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