DOLE SYSTEM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 January 1935, Page 3

DOLE SYSTEM

“THIS BUSINESS OF RELIEF” GOVERNMENT MUST QUIT AMERICAN OPINION (Uuited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, 4th January. The almost universal Congressional acclaim that followed President Roosevelt’s message says: “The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief,” was obviously a true reflection of public opinion. The effect ot the dole system established under the relief administration is rapidly becoming a pernicious influence on American, life as well as a drain on the nation s finances. Several Opposition Senators, however, withheld comment pending the Budget message in which details of tlie financing of work-creating projects will be presented, and some Liberals made a charge that tlie transition to a new system would result in great hardships, particularly among the working crass known as “unemployables,” the cure oi which was turned over to States and local governments. One Administration opponent declared that he would support public works expenditure it the expense did not make the public debt exceed thirty-one billion dollars by midsummer as predicted by President Roosevelt in his last Budget message. As the debt is now in excess of twentyeight billion it appears that it would leave a relatively small margin to employ the 3,500,000 envisaged by the President.

In a press interview following the address, President Roosevelt pointed out that the eighteen to twenty millions receiving relief represented only about five million heads of families, and an at tempt would be. made to absorb these in government works or private industry.