Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1935, Page 14

HOPKINS UPBRAIDS RELIEF PLAN FOES Predicts New Work Pro- gram Will Give Jobs to 3,500,000. 1 Denouncing the “noisy few”:.who oppose the program the end of gov- ernmental relief rolls was forecast last night by Harry Hopkins, F. E. R. A. head, through operation of the $4,000,- 000,000 works program. In a National Radio Forum address last night, he declared the huge ap- propriation will provide jobs for 3,- 500,000 persons, all to be taken off the relief lists. His speech, arranged by The Star and broadcast on a coast-to-coast net- work of the National Broadcasting Co., termed the work-relief plan “a united attack on the direct problem of mod- ern civilization,” and added “it calls for complete co-operation between in- dustry and Government.” | Hopkins, one of the “big three” in | the work-relief organization, voiced his conviction the plan “is what the people want.” | “The great issues in America today center around the unemployment prob- | lem,” he said. “They are the heart of | economic and social and political thinking and action.” Dole Will Be Ended. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 193 Outlines Relief Plans HARRY HOPKINS. toss them a basket of groceries mce‘; & month? | I don’t believe the people of this values right and left. America must stop it The President's work-relief program and his economic security Solution of this problem “involves|country will tolerate that sort of | program are fmportant factors in ac- every major aspect of our national lift, not only the needy and the un- employed, but every person in the Nation,” said Hopkins. thing. I believe their minds are pretty clear on what they want done. I be- lieve President Roosevelt has the | e hailed development of the works plan as making possible realization of | the President’s charge to Congress last January: “We must end this business of the dole.” “We have been destroying human values right and left,” Hopkins com- mented. “America must stop it The President’s work-relief program and | his economic security program are im- portant factors in accomplishing this objective.” \ The social security program, pend- ing in Congres, will care for the 20 per cent now on relief rolls who will remain unemployable, according to Hopkins. | Text of Address. ‘The text of Hopkins’ address fol- fows: I am very glad to accept The Wash- ington Star’s invitation to speak in this forum What I am going to say concerns President Roosevelt’s work-relief pro- gram, what it’s for, and the mean- | ing it has for every citizen of the country. Let’s look at a few news headlines | of the last few days. Here's the way some of them read: Chamber of Commerce Raps Presi- dent’s Social Security Plan. | Illinois Needy on Verge of Famine; | Funds Cut Off. ‘Work-Relief Program Ready to Go. Federal Government Takes Over Georgia Relief. U. S. To Quit Relief. States Pass Old-Age Pension Laws. States to Pay Unemployment Cost. Works Relief to Give Three and a H-1f Million Jobs to Needy These terse, turbulent lines embrace one of the greatest problems ever faced by our country. These mean hope for millions and they threaten as many heartaches They show where the lines of battle are to be drawn in the political arenas. They point up and jab home the fact that the solution of the unemployment answer to these questions. I believe | the people of this country are squarely behind President Roosevelt. He put the answers very concisely in his program of social security, of which his work-relief program is a vital part. | The great issues in America today center around the problem of unem- ployment. They are the heart of | economic and social and political thinking and action. | When they come forth in the guise of arguments between individuals, | they may sound like conflicts between | personalities, but they are not. { They are the clashing of principles. | We are ready now to see who in this | democracy speaks for the people and social justice. We are ready to see who is objecting when their selfish | interests are whittled down to their true proportions. Pocketbook Thinking. ‘We have in this country a group whose thinking about national well- | being begins and ends where their pocketbooks are. They are no more aware of the needs, the hopes, and the aspiration ! | of this Nation full of fellow beings than ; the average man is of the microbes | in the air. | They are few. But they are noisy They have all the known machines for making noise. They sit in pom- | pous conclaves now and then and ! bring forth such ideas as giving the | needy unemployed a ham sandwich | and letting it go at that. | They say all this in ponderous | phrases, but it boils down to this: “Do as little as you can for the | unemployed. Cut the costs, don't | make us pay.” | I believe the days of letting people | live in misery, of being rock-bottom destitute, of children being hungry, of moralizing about. rugged individual- | ism in the light of modern facts—I | believe those days are over in America. | They have gone, and we are going | ! nomic system does mot have to force complishing this objective. President Handles Job. President Roosevelt the other day | set up the Works Relief Administra- tion, lald out its policies, appointed his | executive helpers, and told us to get to work. The President himself is handling this job. In his message to Congress the President said that the Federal Gov- ernment must get out of this relief | business. Here is the device for get- ting out of it—this new works relief program. We had in America, before 1929, Sears Fe - At Outstanding Savings for Everyone Here’s just the fencing you need for farm, garden, poultry yard or orchard. Stretches easily, stays firm and erect. Line wires closely spaced. steel wire. VICTOR 141/5-A Heavy FENCE 45 a system of private welfare agencies that looked after what is generally known as charitable work. They looked after such things as private hospitals, child health, character building, settlement houses, homes for the aged and crippled and infirm and These were financed by com- munity chests and other devices for recelving the contributions of private citizens. We also had, in some parts of the country, agencies supported by public funds through appropriations by city councils, county commissions, and State legislatures. ‘These methods, the private and the Ppublic, were geared to normal require- ments of community welfare and the usual needs for public welfare, Then, almost overnight in 1929, millions of America's workers became America’s unemployed. The employers in business and industry put pink slips in the last pay envelopes of mil- lions of their workers, reading: “We'll be glad to take you back on the pay roll, when and if.” Nobody knew when that would be. Traditionally, in America nearly everybody thought there was some- thing wrong personally with a man who couldn’t support himself and his family. If he couldn't, it was gener- ally believed he was lazy, a drunkard, physically or mentally incapacitated, or some kind of an abnormal person best covered by the label of pauper. Those Left Out. ‘But what about these people who had earned their living all their lives? ‘They had character. They had skill. ‘They had experience. You can remember when perfectly fine, well-meaning - citizens and mu- | nicipal officials thought they had the answer when they let the unemployed sell apples on the streets, when they set up wood yards and organized odd- job campaigns and buy-now cam- paigns. And all the time the number of unemployed was getting greater. The private agencies were over- |loaded and overworked and under- financed. Finally, cities and counties got over the first shock and started to make extra appropriations for their regular public welfare units. It took a long time for the people of this country and the officials of this country to realize that the problem of | unemployment was real, that it was Nation-wide, that it une'er-do-wells, not paupers, not bums, hut fine people, the workers, a cross- section of America’s pay roils—the people who laid the bricks, sawed the boards, cured the sick, kept the books, clerked in the stores, typed the letters, preached the sermons, painted the pic- tures, rolled the steel and hoed the corn—did all the normal things in avery walk of life before curtailments in business and industry changed them from America’s workers to America’s unemployed. Since the time President Roosevelt created the Federal Emergency Re- lief Administration, we have seen two important things happen. The amount of money for relief put up by the States and their localities has in- creased. The States and iocalities have improved their relief admiaistra- tions so that they are doing a good job in nearly every instance. There is no difference of opinion among the people in the various States with regard to taking care of their needy citizens. I think we shall soon see this attitude and desire of the people translated into concrete action in every last State in America. States Must Bear Part. 1 think that any individual who tries to run head on against that attitude is riding for a fall. No one can make me believe that the people of one State feel any different about this than the great majority whose wise leaders have already seen, understood and acted upon this concept of govern- mental responsibility. Now I am talking to you as a public official, one of the hired men of the people of the United States, and I am | perfectly convinced that the new | works relief program is what the people want. ‘To me, it is certain that the citizens of this country have done some real thinking and are ready to see the problem of the needy unemployed "handled on a realistic basis. ‘When President Roosevelt took office in March, 1933, there were more people on relief than there ever have been involved not ' relief. Made of copper bearing, galvanized since and the relief was in many | places equivalent to half starvation. We have seen relief increased so | | that it is now more reasonably ade- | quate. We have seen the principle {of work relief, instead of direct re- | lief, applied all over the country so | that two and a half million heads | {of families are this month earning | their relief allowance by work. That | is more than half of the families on We have seen cash relief :upplnnly | grocery-order relief in thousands of | VICTOR Hinge-Join* FENCE places. In other words, there has been & gradual swing away from the system and the idea of treating un- employed workers as paupers. It took months and months (o bring about these changes. It hasn't been very long since the job of handling the Federal Government’s .share of this problem had us under so much pressure that we could keep only = little ahead of it. Greatest Advance in History. We can proceed now in this work- relief program where we couldn’t have some months ago. We are going for- rd in the greatest advance in social Armour’s STAR HAMS Whole or Half b progress that has ever marked the history of our country. The ' work-rellef program is a united attack on the direct problem of modern civilization, and it calls for the completest co-operation between industry and government—Ilocal, State and Pederal. It is President Roosevelt's declara- tion that in the sum total of our national weaith there is a fair share for every family with an employable person to earn it. It is America’s declaration of war on poverty in the midst of plenty. 1 Delieve I have, in the last few | minutes, voiced America’s 1935 phi- losophy that mo nation can endure with so large a proportion of its peo- ple eating the bread of idleness and segregated unwillingly from the rest by unemployment and need. Now, let’s take a look at the schedule of action the President has 1aid out. Three and a half million will be. taken directly off the relief rolls and put to work on works projects, $4,000,000,000 will be spent on the projects, most of it for wages. the vest for materials and equipment. ‘This figure of three-and-a-half million is not an arbitrary figure pulled out of the air. The names and (Continued on Page Sixteen.) U MORGAN’S -) -~ DUCKLINGS for Your Sunday Dinner ood, doesn’t it? Well, w and a welcome change. 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