Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-23
WORK IS GIVEN
TO THOUSANDS
Federal Civil Works Pro-
gram Makes Immediate
Stir Over Nation.
Men Taken From Relief
Rolls; $4,000 to be Bene-
flied in Minnesota.

thousands or men are TO be taken
off the relief rolls of each of the 4S
states and given public employment
by Dec. 1st under President Roose-
velt's civil works administration plan.
approximately $40O,O0O,OOO will be
spent by the federal government
under this plan in the course of a
few weeks or months. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 men largely from the re-
lief rolls and other needy will Sc
cure work in the state of Minnesota
1t is hurry up plan, quickly de-
vised by the federal government to
alleviate suffering and to provide for
much needed work Thousands are
already at work and more are being
added to the pay rolls each day.
A meeting of mayors from villages
and cities of over 1000 people and
other public officials, was held in the
state capitol Monday and was adj
dressed by Governor Olson when the
general plan of putting people to work
was discussed. The federal employ
ment committees set up in each
county and with whom folks have
registered for work will provide the
list of those who are to receive work.
Roads will likely provide the most
work in Minnesota. The Forestry
Department will also give work and
parks in the cities will be an outlet
for many workers.
Over 100000 for Minnesota.
Minnesota will be allotted between
S7,0OO,000 and SSOOO,OOO for use in
taking heads of families off public
relief rolls and to supply work for
ex-service men and others out of
employment. An effort will be made
to place 10000 men and women to
work by the end of this week, with
a total of $4,000 expected to be gain
fully employed by December 1, Gov
ernor Olson said.
The conservation program calls for
use of 1910 men in ST. Louis coun-
ty alone, with other counties receiv-
ing smaller allotments. The pro-
gram also will be extended to the
following counties: Pine, Beltrami,
Crow Wing, Hubbard, Clearwater,
Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Beck
er, Cass, Lake, Aitkin, Cook, Itasca,.
Koochiching, Morrison, and Roseau-
Lauds the Program.
In an editorial headed, Roosevelt
Aids Relief" The Progressive of Mad
ison, Wis, proclaims the civil works,
relief program as constructive and a,
forward step, and one of the most
worthwhile departments of the presi-
dents recovery program. The edi--
torial follows:
1.-THE creation of the new federal
civil service works administration, an
agency to provide work for hundreds
of thousands of able bodied men now
on the relief rolls, is one of the most
worthwhile departments of President:
Roosevelt's recovery program. Pres
ent plans call for the appropriation
of S400,000,000 of federal money in a
fund separate and Independent of the
big federal public works fund to be
given outright to municipalities that
the money may give work to unem-
ployed whose circumstances have
forced them to accept relief.
Charity, public or private, may
ennoble the giver, but it often under
mines the self-respect and morale of
the receiver. 1t is the rare excep-
tion where the head of family, able,
to work but long deprived of the OPP
pOrtunity of gainful occupation by
the depression, would not much rather
perform useful work for wage that
will enable his family and himself
to live than accept food and other
necessities of life as outright charity.
"The Progressive has long con-
tended that it would be vastly better
from a social and civic standpoint IT,
the money spent each month for re-
lief were paid in the form of wages
on civic projects. We believe that
those concerned, the men whose fam
lilies are on relief, would rather have
a job than accept public support
gratis.
president Roosevelt in advancing
this program on national scale has
taken a constructive, forward step in
dealing with one of the toughest and
most serious problems of the depres-
'ion,-the matter of public relief.
The fund of 400 millions is a COM
nendable effort toward solving that
PRESSING problem"