RELIEF: Easy Money

The obfuscated profundities of the tax bill (see p. 13) furnished some small excuse for the way Representatives shirked their duty to study and debate that revolutionary document last fortnight (TIME, May 11). But when the session's second major measure—the $2,364,229,712.53 First Deficiency Bill—was reported out by the House Appropriations Committee last week, even the simplest-minded Congressman knew what it meant. It meant that WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins was going to get $1,425,000,000 to spend on relief in fiscal 1937 in just the way he will have spent about $1,600,000,000 this fiscal year. When the bill was brought to the floor,...