Smyrna times., 1933-03-01
FIVE YEAR PLAN
TO, END SLUMP
Work" Is Slogan To End De-
preston Says DIR. A. n.
Ward, Western Md College
CHARITY IS EXHAUSTED

employment. Ten million persons
unemployed present a serious ma
tional problem. Work is the only
practical permanent solution O.
this problem. Charity soon ex
hausts itself. Fear has become {
national obsession. Capital j:
afraid to seek its natural outlets il
providing employment through safe
investments. This fear must be
overcome as a national defense act
of major Importance. Capital
must come out of its hiding an0
take legitimate chances. Unused
capital is a real menace to a secure
economic order. If work does not
start up and this depression should
continue, twenty-five million prop
erty holders will have to give in
charity an average of at least three
hundred dollars a year until the de-
preston ends to feed and house the
millions out of employment. To
give employment is better econo-
mics than to give in charity. Char
ity should be reserved for the
afflicted and the otherwise unfor-
tIlnate. There are twenty-five mil
lion home-owners in the United
States. These twenty-five million
home-owners can make a vital con
tribution to the solution of the un-
employment problem. BY mobiliz-
ing their forces in movement to
encourage wise spending the home
owners Of this country can set an
example in judicious spending
which, if followed by all the indus
tries, will provide work for our
people and in this way end the de-
preston. Twenty-Five million home
owners, each spending three hun
dred dollars for five years would
put into circulation seven billion
five hundred million dollars a year
in the creation Of permanent val
ues in beautifying and making
more comfortable the homes in
which the American people live.
This in addition to normal expen-
ditures along all other lines, would
stimulate all industries and find
employment for all. To keep homes
in proper repair and to build new
homes for a growing population is
a prime economic necessity in stab
ilizing values and Id bringing lost
values back. Money spent On bet
ter homes and on values tending
towards permanency is good bust
ness sense and in line with the eco
nomic laws dealing with continu-
ing or permanent values With
the tax-rate kept down within rea-
son in order to encourage invest
ments in permanent values. the fu-
ture of our country would be bright
indeed. The Better Homes Move
ment" offers leadership for all
the industries to follow. When We
all go to work most of our troubles
will come to an end Work in the
direction of providing better homes
Tor our people is a step in the right
direction. If every family owned
its own home many social and eco
nomic problems which loom 50
large and threatening would lose
their threat and would disappear.
a roof over our heads and paid for.
IS a mighty fortress in a time Of
economic confusion. The wind and
the rain of adverse economic con
ditions may beat in van upon that
kind Of security. Of course. every
home or property owner could not
at first put three hundred dollars
a year into such an undertaking;
but If one-half Of the owners Of /.
these twenty-five million homes
could or would do II, such :ncreas- \
ed activity would be felt in all lines
Of business as would carry along
the other half. People cannot think
clearly on empty stomachs. Leg s.
lation forced by unusual economic
distress is apt to be unwise Iegis-
lation. First of all give the people
work; and then let legislators and
economists, statesmen in church
and state, with the people at work,
take up that study of economic and
spiritual relationships that these
times are calling for, and by means
Of a program Of education along
these lines find way to provide
permanent employment for all who
are able to work Let a Movement
be started at once to gather into
great national enterprise, the twen-
ty-hve million home-owners of this
country in an endeavor to induce
The spending of at least three hun
dred dollars a year for five years
on each of these twenty-five million
homes; let this movement be or
ganized in every state in the union.
In every county in every state, in
every community in every county.
with the passion and fervor that
evangelists and ministers and the
priests exercise as they seek to
bring men and women into the
Kingdom of God; let the psych-