Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 29

Charity Is Replaced by. Work, - Hopkins Says on Anniversary Extolls “American Sys- tem” After 4 Years on Relief Job. By the Associated Press. Harry L. Hopkins completed four strenuous years in charge of Federal relief today, convinced that Govern- ment work for the jobless permanently has replaced private charity as ‘“‘“ie American system.” The lean, Towa-bred administr..or has supervised the greatest relief fund in history—amounting to almost $7,- 000,0000,000 for work relief alone. “My years here have taught me that Americans like to work for what they get,” he said, “and that the Nation has use for their labor in public im- provements when they can't find a Job in private industry. “The new American system is to give its employable people work that will maintain their skills and morale, «rather than to let them deteriorate into idleness. “I am confident that we will never g0 back to the dole or the vicious idea that poverty should be punished.” It was Hopkins who, late in 1933, began the transition from State aid to Federal work. The Civil Works Administration, which put 4,080,000 on the Treasury pay roll within a month, resulted. Intermittent Problem. Unemployment had been an inter- mittent problem for more than “0 vears before Roosevelt took office, but Federal aid was not granted until late in the Hoover administration in the form of loans to States. “The American system,” Hopkins recalled, “was to take care of the Jobless through private agencies. It worked well until the load became too States and cities had to get Congress first authorized the Re- construction Finance Corp., in July, 1932, to lend $300,000,000 to the States. Spurred by estimates that 18,000.- 000 persons depended on public funds and that needs were growing, the first Roosevelt Congress voted $500,000,- 000 for State grants. Supervision eame partly a Federal responsibility. After signing that bill the President “elephoned his friend Hopkins in New York—where he headed State relief activities—to catch the next train here. 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