The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-02
FEDERAL RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
The Morganton News-Herald says;


"The Federal Relief Administration pohey mas
always been that public expenditures shoulu n''
be regarded as a substitute for the welfare WORK
of private contributions. Federal Rehet Aon'''is-
traitor Hopkins is quoted as saying: Let me ISSUE
the warning as solemnly as l can that the danger
Of attaching public relief to our American political
system is very real
".Public support for millions of unemployed
should not be continued day longer than Is neees-
sarv,, declares Mr. Hopkins. 1T not only constl-
tutes a waste of public funds, but it represents
tragic waste of human values, and is totally I'M
American way of meeting a problem
There is no doubt about the present operation
of relief as a demOralzing system. 1t uproots the
courage of independent manhood, and encourages
ideness. The right way to meet our present PROB
lem is TO create employment in private industry
maintained and operated for profit
No doubt most hearty approval of the
foregoing will be voiced by our Hender-
on-Polk-Transylvania relief director, Noah
Hollowell. Mr. Hollowell has been heard
tojspeak along the same lines as Admins
traitor Hopkins and the Morganton News
Herald As a matter of fact, the national
administration has come to the same con-
clusion, and as known to the public, IS
taking definite steps to rid the country OF
the relief burden.
However, attention is not being directed
to the matter by The Times-News for the
purpose of pointing out the defects and
dangers of the relief system, but for the
purpose of saying that the condition which
the relief work was supposed to correct
will remain with us in this section after
the federal governments connection has
entirely ceased. Of course, it is we'll known
that the government has plans designed to
take the place of relief; but any govern
ment plan is an experiment and may not
attain a larger measure of success than
the relief plan.
The Times-News believes today, as it
has from the Inauguration of the federal
relief system, that the so-called relief
problem is about ninety-nine per cent To-
cal and that the people of our own relief
district are going to be compelled to find
the solution. This is certainly true if any
thing approaching lasting settlement Of
the problem is to be hoped for or found.
All the federal government can possibly
do with this problem is experiment and
provide temporary relief. Any permanent
relief must come as community or county
wide effort and through the efforts of the
people themselves.
This newspaper is convinced that the
relief problem as it relates to this district
could be solved, probably for all time, by
the people of the district, with some CO.
operation and assistance from the govern
ment. This could be done in practical
and business-like way at comparatively
small cost to the government. The details
are too numerous for discussion at present
in these columns; but it is certain that the
so-called relief load could be disposed of
by the adoption of plans which are CON-
prised in what is known as the develop
ment plan proposed for Henderson and
Pennsylvania counties.
In the meantime, there is nothing to
prevent any good citizen from manifesting
an interest in the big job Relief Director
Noah Hollowell is handling at the corner
of Third avenue and Church street. If you
as a citizen have keen and intelligent in
terest in your county and its future and
in one of the largest and most important
jobs that has ever confronted the people