U.S. TROUBLES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 19 June 1934, Page 6

U.S. TROUBLES

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

MUST BE PLANNED NEW YORK, June 6. The Mayor of New York (Mr La Guardia) to-day explained New York’s financial problems to a mass meeting of leading citizens called by him.

“Unemployment relief is no longer an emergency matter. It is an established condition,” he said.

“Let us not deceive ourselves that it will be ended in a few months. New York has borrowed 70,000,000 dollars (about £14,000,000) from the National Government. That will be

gone by August. “We must plan sensibly for unemployment that is going to last.” Nobody had any quick solution. Babson’s Statistical Organisation, which is the No. 1 agency of its kind in the United States, announces that a survey, based on interviews with hundreds of key men in the 48 States, reveals that President Roosevelt’s personal popularity is still strong, but the “New Deal” has slipped badly in public estimation during the last six months.

It is an outstanding fact that the public is becoming increasingly sceptical over the bewildering complexity of the “New Deal” machinery, and everywhere voters are beginning to think of the eventual cost and inevit-< able taxes. , The farm communities are ail dis-

contented with the failures of tlie Agricultural Adjustment Administration.