In Dayton

CWA officials at Dayton, Tenn. last week added up their jobless: 2,000. Then they added up the jobs they had to distribute: 299. While they were wondering what to do, the jobless started a riot.

At the little courthouse where eight years ago William Jennings Bryan expended his last mortal breath denying that man could ever have been a monkey, 1,000 broke loose from a citizens' meeting called to protest CWA relief methods. They seized a county superintendent, carried him to the edge of town, ordered him to leave the county. A noisy deputation called upon his wife, CWA administrator for the county, and escorted her over the mountains to Pikeville. Then the mob paraded up & down the streets of Dayton until a judge summoned them to another meeting next day. He offered for their approval a florid resolution regretting the riot, begging the Federal Government not to withdraw relief funds. In the middle of it a hillbilly drawled out: "Will that readin' undo what we did yesterday?" When the judge replied that it would, the meeting broke into catcalls, dispersed in tumult. Next day all Federal relief appropriations were withdrawn from the county until peace could be restored.

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