Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15
Our Relief Program
And Citizenship

administration in Ohio, was til
speaker before the regular weekl
meeting Of the Malta -McC Connels
vile Rotary club, held at the Malt
hotel on last Friday evening. MI
Hughes was introduced by Rufus X
Brown, jr., one of the members o
the program committee for the loca
club. Mr.. Hughes congratulate
the people Of the Muskingum vale.
for the splendid efforts which the.
put forth to secure an appropria
tiOn from the Federal government
to assist in the establishing of thu
flood control project in this section
the establishing Of large number
of lakes in this section of the state
and with the waters of the Musk
ingum river under proper food con
troll, that this district would be-
come one of the play grounds in
this section of the country. Mr.
Hughes spoke on the subject "Oul
relief program and citizenship. >
Among the statements he made
during the course of his discussion
were the following.
I'VE think of relief as food, shell.
ter. clothing and medical attention !;
1t becomes more than this when we
take into consideration that one
eighth Of the people of the
United States have been fed
through public relief agencies. Our
foreign population has been one of
the greatest problems in our relief
work. It is very necessary for the
proper development of our growing
boys and girls that they receive the
food they need. Our banking in
stitutions, agriculture, industry and
business have all asked for govern
ment help and assistance during
this depression. period. Why
should not the workman who is
without resources of any kind, be
granted emergency under govern
ment control? There are many
folks who do not want relief but
are forced to ask for it. At one
tirle it was possible for boy or
young man to get a job or secure
most any place, but to-
day he can not do it,
Mr.. Hughes stated that he had
assisted in the enlistment of re-
cruits in the Civilian Conservation
Corps in the Mahoning valley, dur
ing the spring of 1893. Only about
20 percent of the applicants for the
corps could pass the necessary ply
sical examination to get in; 1000
were taken in the Youngstown dis
trict, out of about 10000 ap-
pIicants. The spirit Of these boys
was anything to get an honest
job" Teeth was one of the biggest
problems with CCC applicants.
Most of this trouble was caused by
poor diet and not lack of care. This
IS serious problem.
There are 100000 families in the
state of Ohio who are on public re-
ief, at the present time We are
1ow spending money at the rate of
s46, 100000 year to take care of
hese families, which represent
lbout 100000 of our population.
f America fails these people, think |
What one-eighth of our popu-
alton can do. The hungry and idle |
nen are the ones who are subjects |
# propaganda and red literature.
The melting pot of our citizenship !
loes not always work, demands for
oreign labor are not always active.
This creates one of the major prob
ems of relief work in our concen-
rated centers of population. Amer
ca is not Russia. She is taking
are of her people. 60 percent of
he relief money being expended in
)hio is for the benefit of food to
eed hungry people. The cheapest
yay to have good health for our
hildren is to have plenty of good
milk for them to drink.
resent regulations of the relief
administration provide that each
eedy child shall have one and one
alf pints Of milk per day and the
ndernourished child one quart of
lilk per day. Between s8,000,000
nd $1O,0OO,00O will be spent by
he relief administration in Ohio
or milk for needy and UNDER
ourished children, during the cur
ent year America believes in
quail opportunity for all We must
old America for Americans We
o not need new principles but what
70 do need is cooperation among
ur people to help work out the old
rinciples. believe we expect the
ountry to help us, then we must
elp the country. AS far as the
onducting of the CWA work is
oncerned, politics does not enter
ito it. 1t makes no difference
neither a man is Democrat or
Republican, the question is
hether or not he needs food and
elp. The CWA work in Ohio is
ell balanced on account of our
olitical situation, with about as
lany Republicans in office as
Ohio is at the head of
le list in the efficient conducting
the CWA work, in hisregion. The
hio program has recently been
ritten up as pattern for other
ates to follow 1t Is the aim Of
le relief administration to have
eople feel that they are among
lends and that the government is
ying to help build citizenship
nong the folks who need help"
Mr.. Hughes closed his splendid
idress by stating 1--WE do not need
dictator in America, because we