Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-24 | Page 2 | Relief Policy is Reaffirmed

RELIEF BELIEF poLln IS REAFFIRMED v WASHINGTON Dee Dec 24 J pj f jp Roosevelt administration today loday S tt Its It ta face against any change In ln th lb policy polley under which the cares for tor tad turns urns responsibility for other d de dead tute ute to local agencies Expressing t the e belief bellet that 3 was an accurate estimate estina sUm te of af bodied able persons in need p Prell t- t I dent Roosevelt said late that the work was designed to take care of th rn and no more 7 S To care for more he in would m mean an that the fund wo wow not be bo large enough to go around aroun I A recent statement by Harry L L Hopkins works progress admin that winter conditions an and the exhaustion of oC the private resources reo re n- n sources of oC many jobless had a adversely u ad affected the relief tIon in cities had aroused conj conje ture as to whether the federal roV gey V. V eminent would shoulder more of U I burden The pre presidents president's remark yesterday apparently precluded am any such move When reporters said that estimates placed the total of ot unemployed at the president held it was often difficult to M aa whether a person peron should be classe claSe as unemployed He cited th the ta ca cas of people who have resources resources' bu desire time part-time employment fo to supplemental income He also said in discussing un em further that per pei persons persons sons had found employment lint line the spring of at 1933 in which report such statistics H II said there was no doubt the tot figure was greater than The president also discussed t Ii nances seeking to show that tl Ureal Ui U real public debt is much less th tha the sum the government owes When the treasury recently bo rowed to finance expenditures published account told of the debt jumping 9 The president argued that I t accounts were deceptive He au sut u that if It a man borrowed U to meet a payment coming d dl di months hence and kept the monin morn mon mornin in the bank it would not be fair I Isay say he had gone Into debt Debt should be considered as u unet net figure he argued argued obligations minus cash in han ban Figured this way the public deis del de delis delis is less than the IC figure given in statements