Show Tugwell's Third Economy N HIS speech at Rochester Rexford Guy I IN Tugwell proposed a third economy for America America Before accepting the idea which lies somewhere between socialism and individualism individual individual- ism it will stand some rather close analysis He suggested that the unemployed constitute constitute constitute tute themselves a great national resource This is 15 on his assumption that even after recovery we vc shall have a vast number of individuals individual for whom there will be no jobs These men the third hird economy would be put to work by the government on projects which would not be undertaken by private enterprise He le would include tasks that now go to the C C C gigantic slum clearance programs war on soil suil erosion provision of sanitary and recreational facilities reclamation projects and nd possibly some l large rge scale cale resettlement for the underprivileged It is being argued by those who have ac accepted accepted accepted ac- ac these notions that the country is enormous enormous enormous enor enor- more richly blessed by nature than any similar place on earth ready to be turned into a veritable garden spot where human life can be richer and freer than anything we have yet dreamed of full of po possibilities ready for ex exploitation exploitation ex- ex and that there is work enough in America to keep for generations Therefore Therefore Therefore There There- fore this is an ideal soil on which to grow this third economy It is needed here they point out because until every American family occupies a modem modern modern mod mod- em ern up-to-date up home until every region is served by broad smooth highways until every river has been harnessed and controlled and every farming region has been freed from froni threat of flood and wind until our marvelous productive productive productive tive plant has given an abundance of necessities necessities necessities ties to every cit citizen until zen until that d day y comes it is silly for us to say that there is no work for or the jobless It is rather a good thing that they call all aU these things to mind They remind us of the potentialities lying all about in the United States Because of all these things it is a de defeatist defeatist defeatist de- de attitude to contemplate a permanent army of unemployed We Ve shall always have the infirm and aged to care for but we will be utterly stupid to accept the burden of caring for the lazy as well Tramps hoboes and aud others in our do well leisure class will have to shift for themselves There is no sound r reason ason why we should worry about them They arc are voluntary social outcasts They are not victims of anyone or anything but themselves Instead of agree agreeing ng with Tugwell Tugwell Tugwell Tug- Tug well on this matter of a third economy we should hould plan a r return turn to the American scheme of things and lose no time about it Federal projects can be carried out in the future as they have been in the past State and local projects can be undertaken by states and communities Slum clearance and other enterprises which should be left to private endeavor can be undertaken undertaken undertaken un un- un- un as private ventures In all of these there will be opportunity for American labor working for American wages When we get these things going there will cease to be an army of the underprivileged to be taken care of in labor regiments What decent American would want to be enrolled in Tugwell's third economy outfit The reasons advanced by him are the reasons why we should want nothing of the sort and why we will vill not need it |