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Narrator. — Another recruit for the army of a million boys and young men aimlessly wandering from town to town, from city to city, looking for jobs.
Voice. — But now the government steps in, and these transients disappear, first into the 250 temporary government camps and then into the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps, where they are fed, clothed, housed, and paid $30 a month.
Second Narrator. — Half a million young men in 15 hundred camps. ... A volunteer army planting trees, building erosion dams, salvaging the soil that generations of Americans had allowed to run to ruin. An army of half a million young men ... no longer standing idle at street corners or tramping the nation’s highways; an army fit and strong, helping with their wages their families on relief at home.
Music. — Pastoral.
Voice. — What about unemployment insurance. . . . What about the sick, the disabled ?
Second Voice. — The Social Security Act was passed in May, 1935, establishing what other countries have had for years . . . unemployment insurance, old age benefits, pensions. But that is another story. It is the story of the acceptance by the American people of principles which they had long opposed. Unemployment insurance and benefits for the aged are now within the accepted pattern of American life.
Narrator. — Then in July, 1935, President Roosevelt defined the limits of Federal and local aid.
Roosevelt. — Work must be found for able-bodied but imemployed workers. The Federal government must and shall quit this business of giving relief without work.
Second Narrator. — Now the way was open for the program of the WPA, the Works Progress Administration, the gigantic plan to put Americans back to work.
Voice. — Why should the government worry about the unemployed ?
Second Voice. — Because where there are millions of unemployed, it becomes a national and not a local problem. Because it is doubtful, in a highly industrialized country like America, even when industry returns to normal produc
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