The Washington times., 1936-07-29
Picture Record Of Rooets False Promises and Futile Performances
administration Keeping
Millions on Charity
Record Shows Little Progress in
Creating Work Since 1888,
Declares Governor

No people can make headway where great
numbers are supported in idIeness.
There is no future on the relief rolls
The law Of this world is that man shall eat
bread by the sweat Of his brow.
The whole American people want to work at
full time and at full pay.
They want homes and chance for their
children, reasonable security. and the right to live
according to American standards.
They want to share in steady progress.
We bind ourselves with pledge we shall not
ignore thrust aside or forget to devote our whole
energy to bringing these things about.
The welfare Of our people is not recorded on
the financial pages Of the newspapers.
II cannot be measured in stock market prices
The real test is to be found in the ability Of
the average American to engage in business, to
obtain Job, to be sef-suppOrting and . seIf-re-
spectinq member Of his community.
Judged by the things that make US nation
Of happy families, the New Deal has fallen far
short Of success.
The proof Of this is in the record.
The record shows that in 1888 the primary
need was jobs for the unemployed.
The record shows that in 1896 the primary
need still is Jobs FOR the unemployed.
From Governor Alfred NJ. LandOn's speech
accepting the Republican Presidential nomination,
Topeka July %, 1886.
Governor Landon shows far deeper insight into
the American character than the "regimenters" OF
the present Administration when he says that the
American people want to work for themselves, earn
a decent living stand on their own feet preserve
their self-respect.
THAT CANNOT BE DONE ON RELIEF.
It can be done only by CREATING JOBS AND
OPPORTUNITIES in private industry.
However relief may be disguised and dressed up,
it remains CHARITY, and those who feel that most
keenly are the great majority of relief recipients
themselves.
Yet the policy of the Administration, if JUDGED
BY DEEDS, NOT WORDS, has been to keep people
ON relief rather than to get them OFF relief.
The story of this nationwide tragedy is best told
in the two pictures at the top of this pagetod
graphically than by volumes of campaign invective.
In July, 1888, General Hugh Johnson speaking
presumably for his Chief Mr. Roosevelt promised to
have six million unemployed back at work by Labor
Day of that year.
By Labor Day, however, ten million were still
out of work, and two years after General Johnsons
glowing promise was made, nine million, eight hun
dred and fifyfive thousand in the plight.
The facts may have been even worse than these
figures indicate, if the American Federation of La
boris statistics are accepted.
THEY put unemployment for that period at
MORE THAN TWELVE MILLION.
Not much chance for seIf-respeetins Ameri-
cans on relief to Stand on their own feet" in such
circumstances.
Not much prospect Of their working full time
at full pay" or living according to American
standards" when the Administrations experiment.
ing blocks real recovery.
AS for the bill which has been run up by the
Tugwells, the Hopkinses and the Farleys for this
colossal fiasco the pictures in the lower half of the
page give you the bad news.
In place of the balanced budgets so plainly prom
ised the nation the government has spent in THREE
years almost as much as it had previously spent in