YOUTHS MUST WORK
ELDERS CAN PLAY. Conscription of Classes in New Scheme. A WOMAN'S PROPOSAL. iCnited P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright*
(Received 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 3.. A plan by which youth Will supply the necessities of life while older persons play or work for luxuries, has elicited the interest of Mrs. Roosevelt, and the Secretary of Labour, Miss Frances Perkins. Mrs. Prestonia Martin, 71 years old, wife of a college professor, has sponsored the plan under which all ablebodied youth of both sexes, from the ages of 18 to 2li, will be conscripted into a class of "commons," who will grow and process food, and run the nation's transportation and basic industries. After reaching 20 years a "commoner" will become a member of the "capital class."
The necessaries of life will then be provided them, but they must work for luxuries, like automobiles, furs, caviar, etc.
Mrs. Roosevelt said the idea was "really interesting and a new suggestion," and Miss Perkins said: "The theories are interesting but highly debatable."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 9
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