Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1934 — Page 14

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' FARMER FACES UPHILL FIGHT. HOPKINS WARNS Outlines Plan to Provide for Rural Winter Relief at Parley Here. Problem of hundreds of thousands of farm families, said to be facing another winter of dependence on relief rolls, was considered today by Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator at a Rural Rehabilitation conference at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. * “A Better Life for the Farmer.” * the subject of Mr. Hopkins discourse as he spoke of the vicissi- * tildes of the vast horde of agricul- < tural people who have drifted into . the cities since the start of the deV- press ion. ”1 don’t beieve that the 600.000 *. farm families on our relief rolls . are going to acquire an independent * economy merely by work on the land.” Mr. Hopkins said. "I believe % that along with that there has to i. bp an opportunity to earn a cash % Income. “We are coming to a point where * every job on the state highways in * America is going to be deliberately planned for and given to particular people on the basis of their own ’ particular needs. Wr are going to : stop this politicalization of jobs in the highway department of the nation.” 2.500,00 ft on Relief *• Mr. Hopkins said about 2.500.000 people identified with agriculture are on the relief rolls. ‘‘l don’t see any chance of those farm families that have moved to the cities getting any jobs.” he commented. They are sitting around in competition with tens of thousands of unemployed who have lived in the cities and towns all their lives. “My premise in regard to a rural program is that, these 600.000 fam--I,'ilies are going to gain a decent life only while they are intimately: identified with the land. “Our problem at the moment is Industrial unemployment in very high proportions. We will go into the winter with probably seven or eight million who must receive some sort of benefit in order that they may live,” Mr. Hopkins said. Relief Work Inadequate. “Neither work relief per se. CWA. or home relief, answers the problem.” he continued. “I can see nothing in a work policy exceDt a permanent policy Oi giving relief benefits by work. “This business of saying if you offer a fellow work, he won’t want relief, has been completely exploded,” he asserted. "If you want to get your relief rolls up. one way is to offer work; everybody will work for relief. The thing they don’t like is to take direct relief. “These rural rehabilitation committees of ours are getting large sections of land in their hands which they in turn will parcel out on an appropriate basis to these families,” j Mr. Hopkins told his listeners. Subsistence Homesteads. “J think in some of our rural | areas, perhaps in lowa, this rural program isn’t worth anything. Those ' farmers and laborers may get on a j self-supporting basis as soon as j agriculture gets on a decent basis. But we certainly have got plenty of evidence that in large sections of the country there is nothing in I the picture at the moment to in- j dicate that these families are going j to get back on self-support,” he said. Mr. Hopkins advocated what he I called the badly-named and mis- i understood “subsistence homesteads,” where a farmer with outside relief work could make a com- ■

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Virginia Rowiinson Selection of Virginia Rowiinson as the May queen of School 8, at 520 Virginia avenue, was announced today by school officials. sortable living from farm and outside work. “I am not going to talk about the possibility of small rural industries," he said, but, I am convinced that has got to come; I am convinced it will come. “The real purposes of life are to live a decent life, to have a better life; and I am convinced it will be identified with the land, not with the factories. ‘lnstead of think in terms of earning $2,100. or $1,500 a year, we think of having a decent home to live in. enough food to eat. an opportunity for a decent education; in other words, an opportunity to lead a more abundant life. “That is what we are here for; it is a great opportunity, and I think this group in co-operation with the agricultural folk throughout the land can accomplish it.” State relief and extension directors from sixteen states attended the conference. CLASS DAY OFFICERS NAMED AT SHORTRIDGE Secret Voting by Seniors Decides Honors for June 5. Recently elected class day officers at Shortridge high school are Don Morrison, giftorian; Richard Savidge. historian; Bonnie Jean McKrchnie. prophet; and William Koehne. willmaker. Only seniors participated in the voting which was by secret ballot. Class day will be held June 5.

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