250,000 “NAILS”

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 4

250,000 “NAILS”

The far-reaching importance and value of a nail, sale, or job to a man and nation Avas appreciated by Franklin, given name Benjamin in 1773. as it is by Franklin, surname Roosevelt in 1933. Tills conclusion, says the “Christian Science Monitor,” is supported by reflection upon the possible extent of good results from the President’s plan to establish a civilian conservation corps in the United States giving Avork to 250,000 men. And it brings to thought the discernment in the homely bit of verse credited to the author of Poor Richard’s Almanac. That famous snatch of Philosophy about the nail, the shop, the horse, the rider, the nation, might be paraphrased thus:

For the want of a sale (he job was

lost. For the want of a job the trade was

lost For the want of a trade the worker

was lost, For the want of a worker the family

was lost, For the Avant of a family the nation

was lost — And all for the Avant of one little, job,

In Jiis enactment of measures to provide jobs, President Roosevelt has not simply given Avork to 250.000 idle men. He has started at the beginning of the cycle by providing sales. He has set' up 250.000 unemployed in the business of -furnishing their families \vitb necessities, Avbich will have its effect upon thousands of others, acting through the closely knit system of modern society upon those Avho make and sell the necessities, the tools tbeymust Avork with, and the machinery they employ. The President is providing the nails Avbicli are to ensure the security of the shoes. Equipped Avith sound shoes, the horse can carry its rider- fonvard to- cast his Aveig'ht against the enemy depression. This lesson should not he lost upon the (lovernment of Ncav Zealand.