Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1935, Page 16

A-16 ¥ HOPKINS UPBRAIDS RELIEF PLAN FOES Predicts New, Work Pro- gram Will Give Jobs to 3,500,000. (Continued From Page Fourteen.) addresses of these people are on the records of the relief offices of the towns, cities and counties all over the country. It is based on careful fact-gathering and study. We know how many people are on relief, who they are, what kind of work they can do, as well as how many can't do any kind of work. 80 Per Cent Can Work. We know that 80 per cent of the families on relief have at least one member who is able to earn a living for that family. We know that 13 per cent of all these warkers on relief in the cities used to be employed in the building and construction industries: 20 per . cent of them used to be employed in personal and domestic service, and 80 on. All this information is in our hands. We know, not only what in- dustry or business they used to be in, but the kind of a job they had, whether they kept books or operated machines or cleaned up the place at night. When we talk about taking three and & half million people off the relief rolls, we are talking about the peak of this program. The number of people on relief has varied from month to month and season to season. More have been on relief in the Winter and fewer in the Summer. But it averages out so that when we | have three and a half million people at work under the new program, the | Federal Government will, in fact. be out of the relief business, because virtually every family with an em- ployable person will be supported by their earnings. 5 | What about the other 20 per cent of the families, those who have no em- | ployable member? It is clear that| they are not unemployment cases. | In some of these families all the members are too old to work. In others, all the adults are so physically | handicapped by injuries or disease | that work is out of the question. In| many families the only potential work- ers are women with children that need them at home. | The various methods under the program of social security that is| rapidly taking shape will care for| them. The States and communities are now putting up a great deal of public | money to cover these needs, and as the Federal Works Relief Program | takes the workers off the relief rolls, it | will, at the same time shift its spend- | ing to work and away from relief | for the unemployable. | Kinds of Projects. Now, I want to say something about the nature of the projects. We have three and a half million people ca- pable of doing nearly every kind of | work there is. They are not evenly distributed all over the country. Ob- viously, the kinds of projects that will be done in a given locality will be the kinds that match the work capacities | of the local people. | We have found out that there is plenty of public work that can bmd> should be done, and we are setting out, | not only to provide work for the needy | unemployed, but to do good., sub- stantial, useful projects. They will add | to the useful structures and facilities | of the Nation everywhere. They will | stand as lasting monuments to the | earnest labor of the workers. | Their utility and their quality will | be high, and these stipulations neces- sarily govern the merit of the projects. The allotment of projects will be an operation of planhing, co-ordin- ating and balancing them, each with into the industries that provide ma- terials and equipment. - As these two channeis branch and rebranch, the money will go from hand to hand, incre buying and increasing employmént in many fields of business, industry and commerce. It will have direct effect, not only on the needy unemployed, but on work- ers, foremen and owners of the industries that provide the goods they use. Every Citizen Has Stake. The work-relief program calls for the highest effort of every citizen of the country. Under President Roosevelt we are going forward in an assault against unemployment. Every citizen has a stake in this program. Every phase of our national eco- nomic and social life is tied up in it. and the appeal of all of us is to 20 solidly together as a 'Nation to do this job. I have been working for the Gov- ernment of the United States for nearly two years. I have worked with the public officials all over the country who have spent approximate- ly three billion dollars. You don't need to worry about them stealing this money. For a time there was a great to-do about graft in the C. W. A. program. Well, now that we have the facts in terms of serious charges and convic- tions, what does it really amount to? There were nearly $1,000,000,000 spent. under that program, and throughout | the country its millions of transac- | tions were administered by more than 70,000 persons. The facts put the activities of those 70,000 public serve ants on the records of this country as an outstanding job. You can stack the records of those people everywhere in America up against the experience of private business and in- dustry and know that in public serv- ice you get just as high & degree of honesty, just as great a devotion to duty, just as much integrity of service for every dollar spent. want to look back on these times and make a comparison. | We know that nationally there is substantial and measurable recovery. We have lett the dead level behind. Business is improving and making profits. Farmers’ incomes are higher. More people are at work and fewer on relief. For two months we have seen decline in the relief rolls. If we want to sum up the national trend in one word, that word is— improvement. We are going to put our might and main into this job that will bring & fairer deal for those on whom the real brunt of economic disruption has fallen—men and women, competent to earn their living and support their families, to whom the bread of char- ity is bitter, and who today are de- nied the God-given right of earning their bread by the sweat of their brows. ‘We are going into this program, all of us, to serve this country of ours. ESSAY WINS PRIZE , — Miss Falecha Keely to Get Award ‘Tomorrow. Miss Falecha Keely, 2111 Fourth street northeast, Notre Dame Academy senior, was announced yesterday as winner of the essay contest conducted recently in the local Catholic high schools on the subject, “Why I Wish to Go to College.” Miss Keely will receive her prize tomorrow afternoon at exercises in the Music Building of Catholic Uni- versity. The contest was sponsored by the International Federation of Catholic Alumni. e France Holds Reich Flyer. STRASBURG, France, May 10 (®). —A German pilot who landed on French territory near Wissenbourg in a Swastika-marked monoplane was held yesterday by police. The plane With the work-relief program ahead of us we can very logically take stock now of our national con- ditions. Some months hence we shall was seized pending a decision by the | authorities. The pilot said he was a | student at & German air school and | had lost his way in the mist. Special for Saturday Only Steel Utility 5-Shelf Cabinet Specially Priced 33.85 This fine all-steel utility cab- inet is 65 inches high by 16 Steel Wardrobe With Hat Shelf —Full Height Specially Priced $5.95 Just the thing for the man's room, 70 inches high by 16 EDUCATORS TO MAP. SECURITY PROGRAM Phases of Pendil;g Legislation to Be Discussed Today at Conference. Educational phases of the pending social security legislation will be dis- cussed by a group of State superin- tendents of education thered in ‘Washington today for a conference with John W. Studebaker, commis- sioner of education. Calling of th confrnc grw out of passage of a resolution by the Inter- national Soclety for Crippled Chil- dren, in convention here this week, that the pending bill contain specific provision for education of handicapped children. Commissioner Studebaker, appearing twice before the convention, urged its support on behalf of co-or- dination of educational activities. On making their attitude known to Presi- dent Roosevelt, he suggested that Commissioner Studebaker submit some | definite proposals along those lines. | ‘Those who have been called for the | conference include Vierling Kersey, superintendent of public Instructio in California and president of the Na- | tional Assoclation of State Superin- | tendents of Education; James F. 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