Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1935, Page 20

Text of Roosevelt Address President Thanks Country for Response to Appeal for Care of Needy in Years of Deep Depres- sion—Increased By the Assoctated Press. The text of President Roosevelt's radio address in behalf of the 1935 mobilization for human needs: It is a high privilege once more to appeal to the men, women and chil- dren of America for support of another year's mobilization for human needs. I can properly con- gratulate and thank the country for their splendid response to the appeal for the care of the needy in the years of deep depression from wh_ich we are happily and rapidly emerging. Since I spoke to you at this time last year in behalf of this great na- tional undertaking, much good has been accomplished, both through Roosevelt (Continued From First Page) | private charity nor Government relief wants to continue to help people who can work but who won't work. There is only one legitimate excuse for un- willingness to work, and that is bad | health or advanced age.” Gerard Swope, chairman of the| mobilization, spoke from Detroit on the same program, saying the “good neighbor” policy was the motto for the drive. With the Government turning the task of direct relief over to States and | communities, Swope said, “the service needed from private agencies will in- evitably be increased during this period of transition.” Meanwhile, both public and private employment are swinging upward with Government spending and better busi- ness conditions. However, experts contend these gains do not necessar- ily spell corresponding reductions in the total of the unemployed, for the number of “employables” is increasing all the time as young people grow up. Secretary of Labor Perkins' report | that 350,000 workers had found jobs in manufacturing and non-manufac- turing industries in September, brings the factory employment index up to 83.6 per cent of the 1923-1925 level, or the highest it had reached in five years. i * Survey Covers Half Field. Her estimate of 350,000 new work- ers in private industry covered about half the field of possible employment. It did not include agricultural, trans- portation, domestic or permanent Ppublic workers. A similar increase in jobs among these other workers would have doubled the 350,000 figure, but Fed- Jobs Are Cited. private charity of all kinds end through generous assistance by Fed- eral, State and local government authorities. During the past year the Congress and the administration have been making provisions for the employment of approximately 3'2 million unem- ployed persons in bona fide jobs, and the coming month will see the great majority of these people at work in thesseveral States. Security Act in Force. The Congress has also enacted, and \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 1935. had $12,000,000 more each week to spend for the necessities of life. Furthermore, these latest and con- tinued gains mean that nearly 5,000,000 men and women have found employment in the reporting private industries since the low point of the depression, in March, 1933, and dur- ing this same period there has been an increase of over $104,000,000 per week in the pay rolls of these industries. The September gain is the largest for any single month in the last year and a half. It brings back employ- ment in these industries to the level of November, 1930, and it brings the pay rolls back to the level of May, 1931, Taking Up Slack. Recently I expressed the hope that private industry would strain every nerve to increase their pay rolls, in- crease the number of those whom they employed, and thus take from the Federal Government and their I have signed, the great social security act, which establishes for the local governments a great share of the burden of relief. The figures record. The small retail businesses and the farms of the Natlon are not included in the totals of employment and of weekly wages which I have cited, but in their case also it is common knowledge that many thou- sands of additional men and women have been provided with work. In direct proportion as the Nation as_a whole more greatly receives so is the Nation in a position more greatly to give. Reasons for More Giving. Why, you may ask, if the distress and the unemployment are less, should the giving be greater? The answer is twofold: First of all it is, I know, your hope and mine that the necessi- ties of government relief furnished by funds received by taxation should de- crease as rapidly as human needs will allow. But the other reason is of deeper significance, greater importance. There are, as you and I know, hundreds of thousands of men, women and chil- dren who require the kind of assist- ance which private charity and not Government should give. There still remains, and will long remain, a sadly distressed segment of our population, destitute and unprovided for, in the communities of the United States. These are the ones whose plight you, as & good neighbor, go out this week to call to the attention of their more fortunate fellows. It is with them that our private, social ‘agencies are primarily concerned. We know that medical care still needs to be extended to thousands who have not the means to pay for it. We know suffer from malnutrition. We know that families separated by economic circumstance must be reunited and given opportunities to move forward. We know that the hospitals, clinics and day nurseries need and deserve our help; that homes for the aged, for the blind, for the incurable, must carry on their splendid work; that the agencies that build and help the youth of our community must and should expand thefr splendid work, Want to Emphasize “Work.” But we do want to emphasize that word “work.” Neither private charity ror Government relief wants to con- but who won't work. There is only one legitimate excuse for unwilling- that great numbers of children still | tinue to help people who can work | ness to work and that is bad health or advanced age. It is the duty of private charity and ob State and local Government agen= cies to take care of those who for these sound reasons are unable to work, and, as I have so often said, it is only the duty of the Federal Gov- ernment to assist in this type of re- lief when private and local means come to the end of their tether. The slogan of the 1935 mobilization —— HANAN v for human needs is be a good neigh- | bor, and the practical way of being a | good neighbor in this year of grace is for each and every one of us to sup- port the splendid private agencies whose work has been so successful in the past. If each and every one of us answer—by practical giving—the sound appeal made for the continu- ance and growth of local welfare, we shall become the best possible neigh- bors in our own neighborhoods. SHOES Their Quality, Like Character, Endures $‘| 0.50 | WHAT o difference when o man wears a pair of Hanan Shoes! He knows—and his feet know—that Hanon Shoes are built to wear splen- didly—to fit perfectly. All the experience of master craftsmen contribute to the fashioning of these superb shoes. It is these things that have made life-long customers of those who choose Hanan Shoes. Other Hanan Shoes to $12.50 RALEIGH HABERDASHER WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE-1310 F STREET SHIRTS THE self-evident quality of the new Fall 1935 Manhattan Shirts will make you keen to buy them and proud to wear them! They are finely tailored to exacting Raleigh standards of high- type fabrics that withstand hard wear. Raleigh, of course, has the newer styles, patterns and colors—in your size. $2 10 $5 RALEIGH HABERDASHER WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORL—1310 F STREEY PRESIDENT future the framework for unemploy- ment insurance, for old age assistance and for aid to dependent children. The full force and effect of the social | security law cannot, of course, become operative until several years* have elapsed, nor will this law in any sense replace the proper and legitimate | fields now covered by private con- tributions to private charities. T can, however, bring you good news this evening. The results of the Sep- tember employment survey have just wral officials did not attempt to esti- mate whether there had been such a development. To administration officials, one of the most encouraging details of the Perkins report was a 25 per cent gain in pay rolls over September, 1934, in manufacturing industries, though em- ployment increased only 10.1 per cent. | Miss Perkins reported that of the 850,000 new jobs in September over August, about 150,000 were found in the manufacturing industries and an equal number in retail trade. Administration officials, who origi- nally aimed to complete by November 1 the task of transferring 3,500,000 persons from the “dole” to work relief, now say they will end the dole by December 1. Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, declined to estimate how many would be at work by No- vember 1, the original deadline, but he emphatically asserted that “we’ll be able to abolish all relief to the States during November.” The last W. P. A. report showed that of 1,310,733 at work, 594,427 were on works progress projects proper, 133,658 were on other Federal proj- ects and 582,648 were in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Workers Are Concentrated. Geographically, outside the C. C. C. camps, the great bulk of the workers were concentrated in the East and South. The Northeastern States down to Pennsylvania and Maryland had 310,000 at work, while the South, East of the Mississippi had 127,000 on work relief jobs. The North Central States stretching from Ohio and Michigan west to Ne- braska and Kansas had a total of 165,000 works progress jobs; the Northwest from the Dakotas to the coast, 25,000; the Central Southwest, from Arkansas and Louisiana to Cali- fornia, 70,000. In discussing the relief outlook, Hopkins reported there were 6.8 per cent fewer families on relief in Sep- tember than in August. He said the drop was from 3,500,573 to 3,263,199, and added that Federal and local ex- penditures declined 18.1 per cent from $148,963,094 to $121,956,299. Hopkins said his Works Progress Administration would spend its entire quota of the $4,000,000,000 works fund | come to me from the Secretary of | Labor. During the month of Septem- | ber 350,000 men and women were re- | turned to private employmeht in the reporting industries of the Nation, and the money in the weekly pay | envelopes of these industries was | $12,000,000 greater than their weekly pay envelopes in the previous month | of August. 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