Evening star., 1934-02-28
ROOSEVELT STARTS
NEW RELIEF PLAN
REPLACING c. ". A.
President Offers Program
for Rural and City Work.
ers and "Stranded."
$50 MILLION BELIEVED
SUFFICIENT FINANCING
Scheme Envisages Giving Needy
in Three Groups Opportunity
to Earn Living.
By the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt today announced
q reorganized national relief program
to be substituted for the civil works
lineup now being demobilized.
Federal efforts of the future will be
classified as
For distressed families in rural
areas.
For stranded populations in COM
munitieS where industries have died
For unemployed in large cities.
Mr. Roosevelt showed confidence
that the recent S950,o 100000 relief ap-
preparation will be sufficient to carry
out the new program until Spring,
1885 He has stipulated that Federal
funds be confined almost 100 per cent
to wages and to absolutely needy
cases.
This program" he said expresses
q conviction that industrial workers
who are unemployed 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 the
financing of this enterprise"
Will Aid Professionals.
Mr.. Roosevelts program provides
also for continuing working oppor-
tunities for the professional groups
in need, including teachers, engineers.
architects, artists, nurses, and others.
The following is the te1 Of the
new unemployment program made
public at the White House:
The experience of the past nine
months has shown that the unem-
ployment problem must be faced on
more than one front
"Coincident with the plans for the
rehabilitation of civil works has
been the development of a program
to meet the peculiar needs of three
separate and distinct groups, in need
through no fault of their own.
at has been found that these
three groups fall into the following
claSsiflcations:
81. Distressed families in rural
areas.
20 Those comprising stranded
populations l. e.. living in single
industry communities in which there
is no hope of future unemployment,
such as miners in worked-out fields
"(3) The unemployed in large cities.
Will Follow Groupings.
1.-THE administration will be guided
$950,00o,000 recently appropriated by
Congress.
THE care of needy persons in rural
ic Iiefi OF ~
apart from that of the industrial un-
employed. Their security must be
identified with agriculture They
must be placed in positions Of self
support. In many parts of the coun-
try this calls for change from COM
mercial farming and dependents upon
a single cash CROP to the raising of
the various commodities needed to
maintain the families.
Relief funds, therefore, will be ex-
pended on behalf of rural families in
manner and to an extent that will
enable them to achieve Self-Support
Work for wages from relief funds is
not an essential part of this phase of
the program and will be provided
only in so far as it is necessary to
accomplish the primary objectives.
No encouragement of an extension
of competitive farming is contem-
plated but rather the placing of thou
sands of persons, who have made
their living from agriculture, into a
relationship with the soil that will
provide them a security they do not
now enjoy.
Homes TO Be Rebuilt.
"Some of the methods to be en-
ployed include building or rebuilding,
to provide adequate farm homes; the
provision of seed and of stocks for
other than commercial purposes, and
opportunities to these workers to earn
modest cash incomes through part
time or seasonal employment in small
industrial enterprises. There should
also be a planned distribution Of the
regular jobs on highways: in the ma
tional and State parks and forest, and
other public work prosecuted in agrl-
cultural communities.
"The plans call for complete CO.
operation with the Department OF
Agriculture and with the State and
counties agricultural departments
throughout the country. 1t substi-
tuteS for direct relief an opportunity
to obtain and maintain self-Support
In an accustomed environment. and
completely divorces relief activities in
rural areas from those in the cities.
"Only a careful survey can deter
mine the number of families included
in standard populations but there
are sufficient data already collected
to indicate a situation of substantial
proportions The solution of the prob
lem of these families involves their
physical transplanting, in large ma
jority Of cases, since the areas in
which they concentrated offer neither
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