The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

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ore than one front, it was
/ With this in mind, the new
program has been divided to
meet the following situations:
l. Distressed families in rural
rural areas.
2. Stranded populations living in
single industry communities IN
which there is no hope of future re-
employment. such as miners in
worked out fields
3. The unemployed in the urban
areas
President Roosevelt plans to divert
for this relief the $950000,000 re-
Gently appropriated by congress. He
believes that sum will be sufficient
to carry the program through.
In announcing the new program,
the White House made it clear that
additional responsibilities would be
placed on communities to make GER
tain those participating in work re-
lief are actually persons in need.
On the question of the care of
needy in the rural areas, White
House statement said
Must Be SeIf-SuppOrting
Their security must be identified
with agriculture. They must be
placed in positions of Self-Support.
In many places of the country this
calls for a change from commercial
farming and dependence upon al
single cash crop, to the raising OF
the various commodities needed to
maintain the family"
Relief funds, therefore, will be
expended on behalf of rural families
in a manner and to an extent that
will enable them to achieve self
support. Work for wages from re-
lief funds is not an essential part
Of this phase of the program and
will be provided only insofar as it
is necessary to accomplish the pri-
mary objective"
The statement explained that
some of the methods to be employed
include building, or rebuilding, to
provide adequate farm homes; the
provision of seed, and of stock for
other commercial purposes, and OPP
portunitieS to these workers to earn
modest cash incomes through part
time employment.
Stranded Families Get Aid
In addition. the administration is
for a planned distribution of the
regular JOBS on highways and other
public work carried on in farm
areas.
In dealing with the problems OF
stranded populations the White
House explained that "the solution
of the problem of these families in
wolves their physical transplanting.
in a large majority Of cases, since
the areas in which they are con-
centrated offer neither future en-
ployment at wages nor opportunities
for self support through agricul-
ture."
The federal relief officials esti-
mate that the number of families
in this category is in excess of
10000. To afford them relief, it
is planned to mass all resources Of
the subsistence homes division of
the department of the interior to
this end.
For the needy unemployed in
cities and towns, the White House
said.
Direct relief as such, whether in
the form of cash or relief in kind,
is not all adequate way of meeting
the nceos of able-bodied workers.
They very properly insist upon an
opportunity to give to the COM
munity their services in the form
of labor in return for unemploy-
ment benefits.
Professionals Receive Help
Therefore, work programs which
normally would not be undertaken
by public bodies, but which are at
the same time outside of the field
Of private industry, will be projected
and prosecuted in and near indus
trial communities
Work will be given to an indi-
vidual for a period not to exceed
six months. This is in order that il
may not be considered. or utilized,
as a permanent method Of support,
1t will be administered by and under
the direction of those responsible
for the unemployment relief activ-
tiles in industrial communities.
Every effort will be made to con-
tinue opportunities for work for
the professional groups in need
teachers, engineers, architects, art
lists, nurses and others.
This program expresses a con-
viction that industrial workers who
are employed and in need of relief
should be given an opportunity for
livelihood by the prosecution OF a
flexible program of public works.
The several states will be aided, as
the federal relief law provides. in