The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-24
ACCOMPLISHMENTS VS. GENERALITIES

Governor Landon, the Republican nominee, speak ing in the town of his birth West Middesex Pa, Sat urday uttered this platitude:
 American remedy for unemployment is real wor at good wages"
 Similar statements have been made thousan times or more during the last three or four years But the Governor like many others fails to go int details.
 Tn view of lack of information on how the Re publican nominee proposes to bring about real wor at good wages" it is interesting to read the remark of Representative William B Bankhead of Ala bama on what actually has been accomplished towar that end by the present Administration. The Con greSsman said
 The spectacle of 15,O0o0OO or more ployable people in this country without funds without work, and without chance to a livelihood of the grave problems to confront this country a'few years ago It was no time to preach musty dogmas about the responsibility of local taxing units and private charity to care for these unfortunate people The only agency in the country big enough to meet the emergency and do the job the Federal government and we proceed ed to the task without shirking
 Under this administration Congress has enacted whole series of measures to help the destitute and the unemployed but, of course the outstanding measure the $48o0,OoOOo0 relief bill The purpose of that great measure was to end the dole, to end the practice. of handing grocery slips to men and women who wanted work and to make tain that in return for funds expended the country got construction program of needed public works. The policy embraced in the Work Relief Act is the subject of spirited controversy and it is not my purpose to ex- pore at this time the which impelled us to adopt the policy which we did.
 But there two outstanding things for us to remember about the Work Relief Act The first is that it provided employment for millions of and women in the great cities and centers of population where they needed work. I think it is to the lasting credit of the President and Congress that got through the greatest depression in the Ma tions history with a minimum of civil dis orders and industrial disturbances The spirit of the country a high plane because men and women were given something to do There were no idle mobs of men and congregating in city squares and street corners to brood over their fate and to give the needed spark for those unfortunate street riots and disorders which have happened all too frequently in the past
 The work-relief program also has helped hundreds of municipalities and towns from going into bankruptcy It yhas helped them carry on needed improvements and necessary civic work at a time when the cities were unable to perform such work for themselves No one who knows the record need be ashamed of what the works program has accomplished and in this connection it is well. to remember that it was unanimously approved by the United States conference of mayors
 Another great factor in promoting re- covery has been the fine program of pub lie works authorized by Congress for the country as whole AS go about the country we are impressed by the fact