The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-04

He assured congress his program would "be within the sound credit of the government"
 He said "the federal government must and shall quit this buniness of relief"
 The burden of caring for the un. employed gradually is to revert to the political subdivisions of the na- fion.
 Three Point Program
 The message proposed a three- point security program to be ac- complished by long range national planning. as follows:
 1. The security of livelihood through better use of national resources.
 2. The security against ma 1or hazards and vicissitudes of life.
 3. The security of decent homes.
 'T am now ready to submit to the congress a broad program de- signed ultimately to establish all three of these factors of security "a program which because of many lost years will take many future years to fulfill" he said.
 It was made evident that the security program will dovetail ul- timately into the emergency meas ures that now are being carried forward in an effort to bring about recovery. Close administration friends looked upon the security program as the outstanding poin'. in the message of nearly 1000 words.
 Work Relief Not Dole
 At the same time, the president gave notice the administration ad- heres to work, relief rather than a dole for the jobless.
 Speaking of unemployment and measures of relief, he said:
 "A large proportion of these un- employed and their dependents have been forced on the relief rolls. The burden on the federal govern 1nent has grown with great rapid ity. We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When hu- mane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that contin- ued dependence upon relief in- duces a spiritual and moral disin- tegration fundamentally destruc- tive to the national fiber.
 ITO dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It Is in violation of the tra- ditions of America: Work must he found for able-bodied but destitute workers"
 Opposes Sash Relief
 an1 the cash relief idea, the doling out of market baskets of food, small sums or a few hours of work on what he believes are needless projects. He pointed out that 100000 of the unemployed in the past were dependent on local welfare efforts. x Such people, he said, were cared for by local agencies then and 1t Is his thought that in the future they must be cared for as they were be- fore.
 For the additional $500. 900 s'employables" on relief, however, hc insisted that the problem was different and that the federal gov ernment would not shrink from US task of providing employment and relief for them.
 Must Employ Them All
 'Tt is a duty dictated by every intelligent consideration of nation al policy to ask you to make 1t pos sible for the United States to give employment to all of these three and one-half million employable . people now on relief. pending their absorption in rising tide of pri- vate employment" he said.
 ls- kkxA hot h hn exception of certain of the normal public buildings operations of the government, all emergency public works shall be united in single new and greatly enlarged plan.
 with the establishment of this new system we can supersede the federal emergency releif adminis- tration with coordinatcd author ity which will be charged with the orderly liquidation of our present relief activities and the substitution of national chart for the giving of work"
 Emergency Employment
 The president then outlined in detail the new program of emerg- ency employment. adding that if should be governed by number of practical principles.
 He asked that all work under taken should be useful, compensa- ton should be in the form of secur- ity payments, larger than the amount now received as a relief dole but at the same time not so large as to encourage rejection of private employment.
 He also asked that projects be undertaken calling for large per centage of direct labor. Preference would be given self-liquidatinR projects and care taken to prevent overlapping with private enter prise.
 MT Roosevelt finally appealed for the location of projects where they will serve the greatest unem- pIoyment needs as shown by pres ent relief rolls. "Ever since the adjournment of the 73rd congress" he said, "the administration has been studying from every angle the possibility and the practica bility of new forms of employment. As result Of these studies I hae arrived at cer- tain very definite convictions as fo the amount of money that will be necessary for the sort of public projects that I have described. l shall submit these figures in my budget message. I assure you now they will be within the sound credit of the government
 Outlines Projects
 The president said the new crn- ployment would cover q wide field including slum clearance, rural housing, rural identification. re- forestation, improvement of roads, elimination of grade crossings, ex'