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necessary for him to spend the whole
$4,8s0, ,000.0 900 fund.
The Presidents engagement list to-
day was arranged with a view to
carrying on series of conferences
with administration associates regard
ing various phases of the work-relief
program. In this list of callers were
number of the members of the cabinet.
Some of the States already have
established planning boards for con-
tinuing public works projects SO they
may be carried out along long range
lines with a dove failing of State and
Federal activities, the Associated Press
reported today.
Plans Made by Engineers.
In Government departments engi-
neers are working over plans for:
Reforestation, soil erosion preven-
ton, flood control. rural rehabilita-
tion and reclamation.
Dams which will help In food con-
troll. water conservation and rural
electrification.
Clearing river channels and i'm
proving harbors.
Elimination of grade crossings.
Housing to replace old tenements.
Tugwell touched on the relief pro-
gram in a speech In Rochester, N. Y.
last night.
He explored the geography of what
would be called the third economy-the
sphere which belongs neither to pri-
vate profit nor to State Socialism as 1t
it generally understood by those who
advocate or fear the naturalization of
utilities, key industries, basic natural
resources banks and other institutions
Of similar social Importance.
Relief Needed for Profits.
I'VE have convinced all the doubt
ers," he said, that State without
citizens is a monstrosity and that
hence all measures for personal relief,
for public and private health and for
individual recreation and culture are
indispensable for the preservation even
of those private profits which cause so
much concern in certain quarters.
We also know, by experience, that
there are certain categories of public
works which, being designed to pre-
serve and develop broadly generalized
economic values. cannot return a
direct profit to the State or to the
individual. Now we propose to bring
these two together in the establish
ment of the third economy which be-
longs neither In the profit system nor
in the system of State socialism"
Declaring that because of increased
efficiency the Nation could produce
the goods and services consumed In
the banner year 1929 with perhaps IS
or 20 per cent fewer workers, Tugwell
said the displaced workers must be
taken care of.
In planning such a program" he
said, I'VE need to select for public
work those fields which are appro-
pirate to what have called the third
First, work which would
not be done by private enterprise be-
cause it would take too long or would
not return q direct monetary profit,
and, second, work which will provide
for high proportion OF
direct, unskilled labor. Such, for ex-
ample, is the character of much of the
forestry and soil erosion work."
Must Utilize Idle Manpower.
Idle manpower, he said, must be
diverted into the third economy IF
we are to avoid another war or a de-
structive upheaval of social resent
ment at home" If the unemployed
had been utilized during the depres-
sion, he said, I'VE could have given
every family in the country q brand
new IS, 600 house"
Other developments in the relief
picture today included:
Representative Kennedy, Democrat,
,f New York, said he had reason to
believe president Roosevelt will draft
Postmaster General Farley from the
cabinet to take over a big job In the
vork-relief set-up."
A conference of representatives of
l2 Government departments was
planned for tomorrow with DR.. Isador
Lubin, chairman Of the Committee on
Unemployment Surveys Of the Central
Statistical Board, to formulate a plan
o have the unemployment and pop
llation survey announced yesterday
oy Secretary of Commerce Roper |
made work-relief project.