The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-17
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Get Data for tary Ickes, have
Relief job just completed a
cross-country tour
and are now in possession of Informal
ton on which 10 base the future
course for management of the relief
job this winter. What their plans are,
beyond the use of the funds appro-
priated last winter, remain confiden-
tial but without doubt the country
can expect to see some very definite
changes in the practices that have
been followed.
The New Deal was swept into the
governmental control upon the twin
arches of recovery and relief. The re-
coyery arch seems TO be holding up.
The relief arch, believe, can be said
TO be teetering. At least that is the
conclusion that must be drawn on a
set Of circumstances in which billions
have been spent to tide destitute per-
sons over their distress only TO leave
millions of them still looking for gov
eminent handouts.
It is quite apparent that Mr.. RoOse-
welt took his two relief advisers on his
Western trip chiefly for the purpose,
like the weIl-knOwn bear, of going
over the mountain TO see what he
could see. The word that has come
back 10 Washington is that he saw
some things that were not altogether
encouraging He found that his previ-
Gus relief methods were not in high
favor in the Middle West and on the
Pacific coast. Hence there are some
changes in prospect
New Deal opposition has character
tied the Presidents vacation trip
westward as being, in part, politics.
Whether this be fact or not, anyone
can recall that there is an election in
November, 1886, and that shrewd poll
ticians begin many months in advance
to oil the campaign machinery and
see that the gears mesh. 1t is not at
all unlikely, then, that while Mr..
Roosevelt was sincerely examining the
relief situation and attempting to as
certain for himself what should be
done TO make the going easier for
those in distress, he probably had in
those same people would react when
they go TO the polls a year hence and
find his name as the Democratic Pres
idential nominee.
Some months ago Mr.. Roosevelt an
uounced with emphasis that the job
of taking care Of the
Counting destitute must be
Trouble turned back to the
states and private
charity. 1t was, he said, no longer a
federal proposition. A good many OBJ
servers here felt at the time he made
that announcement that he was court
ing trouble Those who took that
view have found their conclusions am
ply supported by the facts since de-
velOped The President. indeed. has
cOurted trouble and & is a species of
trouble that is going TO remain with
him throughout a long, hard winter
just ahead. Probably he will be able
TO find a way out if, indeed, way out
was not discovered while he and
Messrs. Hopkins and Ickes were on
their transcontinental tour. To the
average person, however, the solution
is not so apparent OF course the av-
erage person is not advised as to the
details in the Presidential mind, but
Mr.. Average Man obviously can see
the same factors and influences that
have TO be met as are visible to Mr..
Roosevelt, and they look rather des-
perate.
That brings US TO a phase of feder-
al administration, a new circumstance
and problem, confronting the nation.
describe il as a new problem which
in fact it is when considered in the
light of developments since the New
Deal took control Actually, it is one
of the oldest problems with which
government has had to deal. l refer
10 the psychology of the dole.
It seems to me that it ought to be
said the Roosevelt administration
failed TO profit by a knowledge of
what has happened heretofore in the
use of the dole. Just across the At
lantic has been available a splendid
demonstration Of what the dole can
and will do 70 a population. The Brit
ish government listened to the appeals
of the professional BELIEVERS and hui
manirarians and adopted a dole 1t
has taken that nation four years TO
whittle away even a part of the stu
alton it built up for itself.
Here is the crux of the problem:
At any time a governmental agency
begins TO feed people, TO clOthe them
and TO provide them with the other
neeessaries of life free, by that act it
inculcates in those people-not all of
them of cours-a feeling that the
world. and particularly their govern
ment owes them a living certain
percentage of them Immediately be-
come convinced that while the dole
may be smaller than their weekly pay
check earned in industry, il comes
without work In fact. it breeds lazi-
ness.
So, in this country now we have a
certain percentage of the population
who are wholly I'M
They Don't willing TO work be-
Want Jobs cause tn e 7 have
found that the gov
eminent viii take care of them in
times Of stress. In consequence, this
segment Of the population is making
no effort TO obtain jobs and is quite
vocal in its lambasting of a govern
paent that will not feed its people.
IN addition, information that l get
from industrial leaders, men who
I.hor