The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
SALVE, NOT A CURE

With the Administrators plan Of procedure "
break the strangla-hoit which unemployment has
u1ou this country. no fault IS TO be found If the
.sn1oorariness of this method IS the sale basis %
2e examined f. on the other hand the popular
mind takes hold OF this innovation in such way
As 20 create the impression that this method will
permanently solve this problem the deIusion should
be driven cut.
The Administration proposes to- expeud $500
600 600 in creating Jobs for the vast army Of the
nations unworking legious. Of this total amount
only s2E 900 900 is 20 be a1ocated TO the end Of
returning surplus population around industrial
centers to the sparseIy settled farms.
Expanding this vast fortune in public works will
require an enormous phaIanx Of Ia6orers. That IS
manifest And spreading this program out over the
coming years, two OF three, perhaps more Of them,
will to that extent proIong the good to be accom-
pIshed IN the way of breaking the unemployment
Jam. This fact fingers on the surface Of the eqpa-
ton
But, after all, there must be an end to the VIZ
tue involved in the program. It has tine-Ilmtt
upon it. While the money is available, it will
achieve this end in view but when it has been ex-
pended unless other notable uptUrns develop, the
problem itself will have returned.
Therefore, the application of this plan against
the unemployment issue is salve and not a cure.
Il relieves, but it does not permanently take away
the cause Of the illness It's shot in the arm
The s25, 900. 900 to be utilized in drawing people
back to the farms-that is vastly and vitality more
euturabIe in it's benefits and comes much nearer
striking at the central nerve of this problem.
America needs an exodus to the fields whence have
come such vast proportion of the population that
is in distress today population that the industries
never have absorbed and which, when the evil day
came, they were compelled to turn into the streets
and into the distress the destitution which dleness
creates.
Now if by the expenditures Of this $4,000, 900
and the pity Of it is that the ALLEGATION of the
total amount to this farm drive was not much more
than this-eveutuates in establishing tens Of thou
sands of these families upon the farms, the dura-
bility Of the reform will have been efectuated.
It is when a people are located in the country
side, making their living. unworried to
where their meat and bread for the next day IS
coming from, creating their own creature comforts
exchanging the sweat Of their own brow for the
everyday necessities Of life, living quietly. humby
but honestly and honoraby engaged, the social
evils disappear and industrial disorders are eni-
mated
And until America succeeds in bringing about a
more Intelligent and orderly balance between It's
city and its farm life, the problem of unemploy-
ment will never be completely or finally solved
The disproporton at present is the most puzzIng
factor in this whole equation IF no depression had
happened along, this fact alone would have pro-
jected itself into the form of visions national
enigma
! And not only good economics but happy social
] state is interlinked with this question The con-
tentment OF country rests ultimately upon a ply
steal basis. Hungry people have always been be-
mind the worlds political upheavals. Material dis
tresses have contributed their full quota to revou.
lions fostered through the past. America will save
itself the threats Of social disorder in proportion
as succeeds in getting the people in their RICH;
places and bringing about a proper and healthy
haiahee between the population of the concested
esa'erS and the fruitful ruralsde.-The Charlotte
I Observer