STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics Mete Out Justice Horse and Buggy Phoney Economies [By ALDRIC REVELL AS a meter-outer of justice to the boys and gills. Gov. Heil has no rival in the stale. Quicker than you can say...
...OFFICE WAS MOV1D Less than 24 hours later the official announcement was made that the Eau Claire office would be discontinued...
...One might perhaps be inclined to agree with the governor's philosophy were it not for the fact that when he was campaigning for his first term he promised relief to the hungry and pensions to the old...
...P. D. Planner, • XWPA administrator announced wei<k...
...Julius declared...
...will super-the jM^rt...
...He then complained of the amount of money the state had to pay for pensions and other aids...
...In fact even August Frey, director of the snoopers bureau, had to discharge Mrs...
...Nobody wants to work anymore today, but they want relief and pensions...
...lie said he statf^kpsnnviit ^f public in-ictiOD and^Uie university wj^l cooperate with WPA in the project...
...That was good business...
...The delegation hardly had time to get back home before discovering their journey was in vain...
...Last week about 40 s<~od citlnens of Eau Claire and neighboring counties crowded the executive office to ask the governor not to move the highway division office from Eau Claire...
...If that is good business we'll cat a Heil oil-burner without salt...
...It just doesn't make sense to take money out of one pocket and put it in the other and then talk about economies...
...Heil has recently been proclaiming to the heavens that he has made economies of more than $3,500,000 in the state budget...
...State Project On Visual Aid O.K.'dby WPA Federal WPA officials have approved a tatc-widc project for the planning and constructing of visual aids for public educational lnstltu-rSsns in Wisconsin...
...This talk of making millions in economy means little since these economies still leave the budget the highest In history...
...Mrs...
...80 A MONTH EMPLOYES Approximately 850 employes have been bounced off the payroll at a saving of $68,000 a month...
...Burton because there was nothing for her to do...
...Heil put a stop to that and purchased at 6 cents a pound which he claimed was still the best coffee you could buy...
...Maybe he will this campaign, but we doubt It...
...Pearl Bowen...
...The Heil administration is just getting by with the practice of staving off a financial crisis by paying aids months later than they are due...
...The Heil company recently got a $1,000,000 contract from the federal government...
...Julius told the congregation that his heart bled for them...
...What they did to earn this money has not as yet come to light...
...The governor listened to their pleas, and started out on speech No...
...He promised to save $15,000,000 a year and instead the legislature left with a $78,000,000 budget, highest in history...
...They have had to pay more in taxes than ever before...
...This budget is still higher than La Follette's...
...Also remember that Hell is paying less for general relief than did La Follette...
...To hear Julius tell it, he is taking great strides in making state government more efficient by firing employes and cutting down on state agencies...
...and he prides himself on being a good business man...
...We must go back to 50 years ago," he said...
...Quicker than you can say -The sivfc--- into sun slowly," with your mouth full of Wisconsin cheese, justice is meted out...
...HORSE AND Bl'GGY DAYS He never told them then they should go back to the horse and buggy days and work for their living instead of accepting relief and pensions...
...Augusta, both members of the Republican state central committee, were given $200 a month jobs in the research department just to keep them in trim...
...In other words, Heil is making economies in his own high budget...
...He said he was interested in dispensing justice to the boys and girls, that his mir.d was flexible and that he would ask the highway commission to re-survey the situation to see whether the office couldn't be left at Eau Claire...
...Certainly the governor can hardly point to his practice as good business...
...By slashing old age pensions $2,500,-000 and by using up La Follette relief money, Heil managed to cut this budget down to about $72,000,000, including a sizable amount of highway diversion...
...This means the average salary per month of these employes was about $80...
...Joseph Rohr Jr...
...This installment payment plan will catch up with Heil some day...
...Lila Burton, Eagle, and Mrs...
...17, to be given when confronted with Iraie citizens who feel that their community Is being picked upon...
...During the talk with the delegation...
...The federal government is the cause of the trouble...
...Heil told of the economies he had made in state government...
...The new project, will act jointly h the state-wldo museum project providing compete visual aid serv-for public educational jnJlitu...
...About 50 years ago on the farm we never saw a nickel from spring to fall and when we wanted anything at the store we used to take along some eggs, he said...
...What he fails to emphasize that despite these phoney economies his biennium budget is still higher by $1,000,000 than Phil La Follette's...
...Frank Powell, of the state department of public instruction, will be advisor to the state supervisor of the project...
...But how about the taxpayers of the state...
...Before his time, he said, the prisoners or as he called them "the bad boys and girls at Waupun...
...used to drink from SO to 30 cents a pound coffee...
...J. E. Hansen, chief of the university bureau of visual instruction, will be consultant on technical features of project operation...
...On the other hand, Heil is paying his executive aids the highest rate of pay in the state's history and the research bureau is going through $66,000 * year including salaries...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
