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VOLUME 1, NO. 23

OCTOBER 26

 

ROOSEVELT-RECOVERY—REFORM

FDR SAVED GOP BANK RUIN

PROMISING IIMES

11,457 BANKS
TOPPLED IN 12
SHORT YEARS

Roosevelt Administration Protected
Savings of All Under $5,000
With Deposit Insurance

During the administration
of three Republican Presi-
dents —- Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover -— 11,457 banks
in the United States closed
their doors.

During the four years of
the Hoover Administration
alone 6,534 banks with de-
posits of $4, 201, 992, 717 sus-
pended operations. «—

Wow and stockhold-

ers in the banks closed under
the Hoover Administration
are still looking for two bil-
lion dollars of that amount.
Still loking with no hope of
getting it.

Under two Democratic Ad-
ministrations — Wilson and
Roosevelt — only 795 banks
closed.

Only 295 banks have sus-
pended since March 16, 1933,
with deposits totalling only
$176,487,752 and because of
Federal Deposit Insurance,
which the Roosevelt adminis-
tration put into efi'ect many
depositors have been paid in
full.

Not a single national bank
has closed its doors in more
than a year.

HAT is the record as it stands
on banking. In the last quarter
of a century Republican adminis-
trations have meant poor banking
and the loss of millions of dollars to
depositors Democratic Administra-
tions have meant sound banking
and safety to depositors.
Which do you prefer?
In the state of Illinois, for in-
s,tance during the twelve years that
the Republicans were in power 787
banks suspended. Almost as many
in one state as suspended through-
out the entire country in twelve
years of Democratic control
Look at the record of the Hoover
years:
1929 ........ 666 banks closed
1930 ...... 1,279 banks closed
1931 ...... 2,242 banks closed
1932 ...... 1,502 banks closed
1933 (Hoover period)
818 banks closed
Look at the record of the Roose-
velt years:
1933 (Roosevelt period)
173 banks closed
57 banks closed
1935 ........ 34 banks closed
1936 ........ 31 banks closed
The record of national bank clos-
(Continued on page 6)

1934 ........

 

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ENRIGH‘T’

GOVERNMENT FINANCE GAINS
STRENGTH UNDER ROOSEVELT

 

National Wealth and Federal Rev-
enue Both Increasing Rapidly
In Three Years

HERE are two viewpoints from

which the financial condition
of the United States may be con-
sidered:

1. From the viewpoint of the
government——

The financial affairs of the Unit—
ed States admittedly were in bad
condition upon the advent of the
Roosevelt Administration.

 

Government revenues had dropped
from an average of about 4 billion
dollars a year to a little more than
2 billions.

The national income —~— the reser-
voir from which government rev—
enues must be drawn — had also
dropped sharply.

The public debt had increased
from a low point of $16 billion to
almost $21 billion at the end of the
Hoover Administration.

The interest charge on the debt
amounted to one-third of federal
revenues.

The national wealth, which in the
final analysis stands as the basic

 

Family Share 0t Taxes More Than
Ottset By Advance In Income
Under Roosevelt

security for the public debt, was
declining.

In contrast, after three and one-
half years of the Roosevelt Admin-
istration —-

Government Revenues Doubled
Government revenues have been
approximately doubled.
(Continued on page 6)

 

FDR HAS GIVEN
ENTIRE NATION
LIFE AND HOPE

Pledge of National Restoration
Made to Country Fulfilled by
Democratic Leader

RANKLIN DELANO ROOSE-

VELT came into office on a
pledge of national recovery.

That pledge has been fulfilled.

Every state, every county, every
town and every individual in the
United States has shared to some
degree in what the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration has done to lift the
nation out of the depression, into
which twelve years of Republican
inaction and mismanagement had
brought it in 1933.

The worker, the farmer, the m— ..

chant, the manufacturer, the pro-
fessional man, the investor, the
capitalist-stricken three and a half
years ago by economic paralysis-—
have been g1ven a rebirth of confi-
dence and opportum’ty by the posi-
tive and affirmative actions of the
Roosevelt Administration.
Recovery and Reform

A recital of the Roosevelt Admin-
istration's accomplishments, in all
of its details, would involve the lives
of 125,000,000 people since 1933;
their ascent from despair to con-
fidence; from panic to courage;
from suffering to comfort; from
stagnation to recovery; for the rec-
ord of what has been done is writ-
ten in the hearts and souls of the
American people.

In its broad outlines the Roosevelt
Administration has had two objec—
tives: RECOVERY and REFORM.

Under the head of Recovery come
such things as the repair and re-
habilitation of the banking system;
the relief of agriculture; increase in
price levels through devaluation;
restoration of purchasing power;
tariff adjustments through recipro-
cal agreements; the rescue of home-
owners; public works construction;
food, clothes and shelter for the
needy; work for the unemployed;
release of funds in closed banks
through government loans and use;
ful conservation work for the
youths of the country.

Included in the program of re-
form are: bank deposit insurance;

'social security through old age and

unemployment insurance; protec-
tion of investors from fraudulent
stock operators; distribution of
taxes according to ability to pay;
control of holding companies; neu-
trality legislation and reduction of
interest rates.

What Has Been Done

That—only in its highlights—45
the record of the Rdosevelt Admin-
istration.

, That is what it has done.

Contrast it with what the enemies
of the Roosevelt Administration
have offered.

Consider the men who stand in
the shadows behind the Republican
candidates —— the Liberty Leaguers,
Herbert Hoover and William Ran-
dolph Hearst.

Roosevelt gave the country RE—
COVERY and REFORM. He asks
your vote on November 3 to keep
the nation going forward so that
you too may go forward.

“Today for the first time in seven years the banker, the store keeper, the small
factory owner, the industrialist * * * * are in the black. That is where we want
them to be.’ ’ —President Roosevelt, October 14, 1936.

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ROOSEVELT RECORD

Published weekly by the
Record Publishing 00., Inc.
103 Park Avenue
New York, N. Y.

Entered as second class matter at the Post Office
in New York under the Act of March 3. 1879.

October, 1936
BEWARE 0P IMITATIONS

 

 

 

It has never been sound business
practice to trade something for
nothing. Yet that is just what the
Republicans are asking the voters
of the country to do,.this year.

Against the Roosevelt record of
accomplishments the Republican
party, despite all of its flood of ora-
tory and propaganda, has set forth
nothing but ambiguity and vague-
ness.

Col. Frank Knox says that “Every-
thing that the administration has
done toward recovery has been
wrong.”

Governor Alf Landon has ap-
proved in the past many of the
Roosevelt policies and still does, as
is shown by the fact that he has
adopted them as his own.

001. Frank Knox says that the
depression was really over in .1932
but that the election of President
Roosevelt halted the upswing.

John Hamilton, chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
says that business improvement be-
gan with the nomination of Landon.

The same sort of confusion and
contradiction characterizes the en-
tire Republican campaign.

The minority party presents no
clear cut issues on the basis of
which the American voters may
make a. choice.

Its leaders are not concerned with
”principles .TlieLagje influenced by
two motives only. Them

(1) The desire to regain the pow-
er which they abused so shamefully
during the twelve years between
1920 and 1932.

(2) The determination to turn
the affairs of government back once
more into the channels selected by
the special interests who are pro—
viding the Republicans with the
largest campaign fund in the his-
tory of American politics.

If the Republican campaign has
any other purposes or inspirations
it ought to be possible for the Re-
publican leaders to say what they
are. So far they have not done so.

The problem before the voters is, .

therefore, fundamental.

The Roosevelt Administration
took office when the country was at
the very depths of its worst econOm-
ic collapse. It has brought about
not sectional nor class restoration
but national restoration. People
everywhere in every walk of life
have benefited through the policies
of the Roosevelt Administration.

This is what the people of the
United States have and what they
will continue to receive by main-
taining the Roosevelt Administra-
tion in office; the fulfillment of the
most embrasive humanitarian pro-
gram that this or any other land
has ever known.

Until the Republican party sets
forth its program as clearly as you

can read the record of the Roose-

velt Administration, Stop, Look and
Listen before taking nothing as a
substitute for something, vague
promises as asubstitute for action,
accomplishments as a substitute for
conflicting statements.

This is no time to entrust the af-
fairs of the United States to a lead-
er without experience and a party
without a program.

Accepting the shadowy claims of
Republican orators as true state-
ments can only lead to the conclu-
sion that they offer you an imita-
tion New Deal to replace the genu-
ine article.

Don’t accept a substitute or an
imitation.

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THE ROOSEVELT RECORD ‘

GOING, BACKWARD

 

mm m WE on FOR our norm

 

 

 

Federal Government

Expendltu res
for the three last Fiscal Years
ending June 30, 1936

Total expenditure
$23,360,673,508.13
For general and
ordinary purposes
10,737,325,665.29
This leaves 12, 623 $47,842.84

,For bonus payments
to war veterans~~ ~ .

1,,673 492, 531. 72

Amount spent for
recovery and relief

$10, 949., 855, 311. 12

 

 

 

HAT did we get for our money?

W Well —— we got just what we

bargained for, -— relief and re-
covery.

The adequacy bf relief is ap-
parent to all.

So is recovery;— the best mea-
surement, since most folks like
yardsticks— is the national income.
In 1932, this was 39.5 billions, in
1936 it will be at least 60, 000, 000, 000.

There has been recovery, too, real,
substantial recovery, in the values
of things we own, such as homes,
real estate, securities, and other
things.

Just the other day, Aubrey Wil-
liams, at the Herald-Tribune forum,
itemized some of the more impor-

tant tangibles that the Works Pro-.

gram had provided, in co-o operation

with states, counties, and munici-

palities. Did you know that under
the Works Program

83,000 schools were constructed
and repaired.

400,000 miles of road were con-
structed, repaired, and im-
proved.

23,000 bridges, water systems, and
sewer systems were con—
structed, repaired, and
enlarged.

25,000 playgrounds were built.

271,000 acres of eroded land were
terraced.

1,500,000 children were given daily

lunches.

1,000,000 children were immunized

against typhoid and diph-
theria. ,

All of the above was accomplished
through the WPA at an administra-
tion cost of about 494%.

Through other agencies

1,800,000 boysh received training

he C .C C. camps.

2,200,000 dams were built to check

erosion.

650,,000000 trees were planted to
conserve our resource,
equivalent to 5 trees for
every man, Woman, and

child in the United
States.

2.800 sewer and water sys-
tems were constructed.

370 modern hospitals and

8d;

The Triborough bridge, the New
York Mid—town Hudson tunnel, the
Chicago sanitary engineering proj-
ect, were made possible.
tically every county of the United
States, either a bridge, a hospital,
a utility system, or some other
needed and durable benefit has
been constructed.

T.V.A. and Boulder Canyon.

7,500 miles of rural electric lines
and 27,000 new rural customers
have been added.

for 295 local power projects have
been provided.

30 million acres shifted from soil-
depleting to soil-building crops.

100,000 contractors and sub-con-
tractors have acquired new busi—
ness.

$1,800,000,000 worth of materials
orders have been placed on con-
struction projects financed by fed-
eral funds. Such projects required
37. 9% of all the brick and 56. 9% of
all the cement sold in 1935.

Out of the monies spent for re-
covery and relief, the government
invested in the capital stock of sev-
eral government corporations and
credit agencies, and guaranteed the
liabilities of others, such as H. 0.
L. C. and the Federal Farm Mort-
gage Corporation.

 

institutions were erect-

In prac-'

19 new power dams, and funds ‘

IMPRQVEMEIT BY
PRO0IIGTS

(Exports in Millions)

Gains-
1932 1935 %
11 32 191%

Agric. Ma-

, chinery

Elec. Ma-
chinery

Iron and
Steel Mfrs.

Tobacco

Orange and
Grapefruit 10 16

Canned Fruits 18 24- ,

All Finished
Products 624- 994

43 76 77%

28 88
66 134

214%
103%

60%

59%

ANSAS GIVES

33%” ‘

 

 

 

 

Through the loans and activities
of these corporations and credit
agencies, many tangible results
were possible, some of which are
listed below. ,

1,000,000 city homes were saved
from foreclosure.

500,000 farms were saved from

foreclosure.

2,100,000 drought, feed and other
loans were made to farm-
ers.

1 ,,100 000 home modernization loans
were insured.

198,000 mortgages for home build-

ing were insured.

7,466 loans to banks and trust,

companies were made.

 

 

REMEMBER MARCH 15, I933?

 

 

THE American housewife is
being asked to feel sorry for
herself because food prices are high-
er now than they were in 1933.

The date which the Republicans
are using for the purposes of com-
parison is March 15,1933.

Do you remember March 15,
1933?

If yours was the average Ameri-
can family, it wasn’t the cost of
food that was worrying you that
day half as much as what you were
going to use for money.

On that day the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration had not completed the
task of repairing the wreck made
of the banking system by the
Hoover Administration

The banks were still closed and
if you started out the bank holiday
with some cash on hand you didn’t
have much left on March 15,1933.

The food prices of March 15,1933,
were panic prices, because nothing
is cheap when you haven’t the
money to buy it with.

You couldn’t sell diamonds at any
price if no one had the wherewithal
to pay you.

 

 

What the Republicans want to
make you believe now is that you
would like to have the panic prices
of March 15, 1933 back.

Are you willing to take what went
with them?

With the prices of that day you
had closed banks, food riots, farm
mobs, vanishing jobs, lost purchas-
ing power and stark fear.

Prices today are higher -— not as
high as they were under Hoover
prosperity in 1929 or Coolidge tran-
quility in 1926 — but they have not
gone up as fast as wages. Today the
banks are open and your deposits
are insured, people in cities and on
farms are making enough to be
able to buy food, purchasing power
has been restored and courage re-
newed.

March 15, 1933, is a splendid date
for the Republicans to cite — from
the Democratic point of view. It
makes the average housewife shud-
der to think of the anguish she
suffered at that time -—- through
Republican misrule.

0N NOVEMBER 3, 1936, RE-
MEMBER MARCH 15,1933.

To
noosevsw
PotitiES’

‘- comm-r

ITS TEACHERS
LOW SALARIES

State Indifferent to Public Edu-
cation Oiiers Its Governor
For Presidency

PPOSING President Roosevelt
in this campaign is a man
whose home State has been almost
wholly indifferent to public educa- ,
tion.

In
during the past year:

444 schools were not operating.
—__Tim"r" : - - : e.
ceived an average pay 0 H u .
year -— somewhat less than $9 a"
week on an annual basis. ,

Some salaries were as low as $25
a month.

Many teachers are owed large ‘
fractions of their back pay.

The Topeka Daily Capitol, said, ‘ i if
in an editorial on February 17th, " ”

1935 — “The unfortunate truth is
that our salaries (of teachers) cem-

800"“. SEGIIRI'I'Y’S
REPEAL __P_ROP0$Eli,'

“What Mr. Landon proposes
is the demolition of the entire
structure of social security. He.
would repeal unemployment in-
surance, he would repeal old age
insurance; he would take ,us
back—hack to the hreadlines of
Herbert Hoover, hack to the era
of the poor house, back to the
sufierings, deprivations and
agonies of the depression. 'He
would order a shameful retreat
along the entire front of social
progress.”

--Senator Robert F. Wagner

 

 

 

 

pare unfavorably with those of all
our neighbors. "

The State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction in Governor Lan-
don’s Kansas has said in a letter
dated February 27th, .1936: “Legis-
lation 1n Kansas has not been favor-
able to the school program for a
number of years. However, it seems
almost impossrble to. interest those
in authority in the needs of edu-‘ _
cational opportunities. " ~ . ,

William Allen White of Emporia,
Kansas, one of Governor Landon’s ,
chief sponsors, in a letter to the
New York Times, admitted quite

frankly that teachers’ salaries are f '

too low in Kansas. He admitted also
that it had been the traditional pol-

icy of Kansas to give no State aid 3 '

to local schools.

If you were to vote for Landon
you wduld be voting for a man
whose home State has not cared

 

whether school keeps or not.

“There cannot be revival of foreign exports without a revival of foretgn imports—unless V

a: a: a: we do as we dld between 1920 and 1930 —- lend our money to forelgn nat1ons to g

enable them to buy our own products.’ ’—Pre31clent Roosevelt, Oct. 9, 1936.

 

Governor Landon’s Kansas

. .9 6 schools re-

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LAST MINUTE ADVICE
T0 COMMITTEE OF ONE

 

 

 

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FARM IMPORT
MYTHS AIMED
AT MMM___E_SOTA

BUSINESS GOES
AHEAD lN IOWA
ETEUirgS_SM0w

Falsity of Claims Made By
Roosevelt Opponents Easily
Demonstrated

INNESOTA farmers and Min-

nesota business men have re-
cently been told many things which,
if true, vitally affect their condi-
tion. And even if these things are
not true they are still important,
because they affect the opinions of
some who do not know—and public
opinion affects the condition of
everyone.

For instance, Minnesota farmers
have been told that the Nation is
being flooded with imports of farm
products.

The truth is that in 1935 the value
of our total imports of competitive
farm products was lower than in
any year during the twenties.

In 1920 the value of farm imports
was more than 3 times as large, in
1929 II2 times as large, as in 1935.
Impo of hogs and pork products

"GOLDEN APPLE" PlllllillAM

“The Governor of my own
State of Kansas, now promi-
nently mentioned for the Re-
publican presidential nomina-
tion, recently told me that the
farm vote could not be gained
save by tossing to the farmer" a
golden apple program on a
‘platform of platitudes’, a policy
which he frankly advocated.”

——Dan D. Casement, Pres-
ident, Farmers’ Inde-
pendence Council, in
Review of Reviews, for
November, 1935.

 

 

 

 

during the four years 1925-28 aver—
aged nearly three times as large,
each year, as in 1935. .mesrtsmr’ live

,Jfifik—wefeiarger in 1927, 1928, and

1929 than in 1935. Imports of canned
beef were 31/2 million pounds larger
in 1929 than in 1935.

Cash Income Way Up '

Cash income from farm produc-
tion in Minnesota rose from 170
million dollars in 1932 to 283 million
dollars in 1935, an increase of 66
percent. And the gain continues in
1936, with the cash income for the
first 7 months 28 percent larger
than for the same period last year.

The cash income from Minneso-
ta's 1935 corn crop was 206 percent
greater than that of 1932, in spite
of the fact that the crop was a little
smaller. The 1935 cash income from
wheat was 150 percent more than
that of 1932, or a gain of» 812 million
dollars. The net hog pr uction in
Minnesota decreased in 1935 under
1932, but the cash income of hog
producers increased 57 percent, or
more than 18%, million dollars.

The dairy industry in Minnesota
has been represented by unscrupu-
lous people as being handicapped
under the New Deal. The 1935 net
milk production was about 381 mil-
lion pounds less than that of 1932,
but it returned over 20% million
dollars more income than in 1932.

Minnesota producers of cattle and
calves received in 1935 a 59 percent
larger income thanin 1932, although
the actual production was less.
Poultrymen in Minnesota received
about 15 million dollars income in
1932 and about 25 million dollars
income in 1935. ,

Land Values Up

Farm real estate values rose as
well. In Minnesota a decline in farm
real estate values which began in
1921 halted for the first time in the
year ended March 1933 when it
stood at a low of 79 percent, taking
the average values from 1912 to
1914 as the base. From this low the
value rose to 85 percent for the year
ending March 1936.

Taxes? In Minnesota taxes on
farm real estate reached in 1931
what was probably their all-time
peak in relation to value, when
they stood at $1.65 per $100 of value.
By 1934 they had fallen 16 percent
to $1.38 per $100. Figures for 1935
are not yet available.

 

 

 

Vote early yourself; take your relatives and as
many friends with you as you can. Then the
rest of the day is free to round up others that
‘you know are favorable to the re-election of
President Roosevelt. Make a list; check ofi the
voters from time to time as they vote; tele-
phone and call for those who fail to appear.
Get in touch with your precinct committee-
man and county chairman. It’s united efiort
and the will to win; that is the surest road to

victory on November third.

BENNETT CHAMP CLARK
Chairman, Executive Committee

COMMITTEE OF ONE

 

 

 

 

 

WPA SPONSORED 3,200
PROJECTS FOR ILLINOIS

 

Administrative Costs Held Below
4 Percent And Workers Got
80 Percent of Money

0 read Candidate Knox's Chi-

cago Daily News, not to mention
the anti-everything Tribune and
the Hearst duet, one would get the
idea that WPA had accomplished
somewhat less than nothing in the
sovereign state of Illinois —— that all
was waste and administrative ex-
pense, and that neither the com-
munities nor the workers benefited
by the Works Program.

HERE ARE THE FACTS!

Approximately $95,180,313.00 has
been spent in Illinois on some 3,200
projects (through July ‘1, 1936).
Only 3.5 per cent of the total has
gone for administrative expenses!
About 17% was spent on materials
and equipment, thereby increasmg
employment in private industry.
Nearly 80% went dzrect to relief
workers.

For these millions spent, the peo-
ple of Illinois have in return, first
of all, innumerable public works
whose permanent value to the com-
munities is obvious, and all of
which were requested by the com-
munities themselves -- not “wished
upon them (by an autocratic Federal
Governmen .” WPA regulations
permit the operation only of those
projects which are requested and
approved by community sponsors
and by state work relief officials.

New Construction Greatest

These include both construction
works and public services, the con-
struction projects amounting to
85% of the total. Two-thirds of all
construction projects operating in
Illinois are new constructions; one-
third involve improvements or re-
pain.

Specifically, WPA workers have
given Illinois over 150 new or im-
proved educational buildings, in-
cluding schools, colleges, libraries,
laboratories, etc. (Remember, three
short years ago, the schools Illinois
had were closing and hundreds of
teachers were payless); they have
provided 30 new or improved hos-
pitals, infirmaries and children’s
homes.

They have built or repaired 5,400
blocks of sidewalks in the cities and
towns, with 8,100 more in process of
construction, in addition to 38

 

 

‘ WPA IN llllNfllS

3,200 public improvements

202,000 given needed employ-
ment

150 new or improved educa-
tional buildings

12,000 miles of secondary roads
in 101 counties

30 new or improved hospitals

13,500 blocks of sidewalks

38 bridges or viaducts

10 airports

50 community buildings

220 parks and playgrounds

136 sewer systems

62 water systems

100 conservation projects

7,000 trachoma cases treated

Rural library service for thou-
sands

A myriad of other community
services

 

 

 

bridges and viaducts to provide safer
motor travel, and 10 airports (con-
structed or improved) to add to the
safety of air travel. WPA workers
have given approximately 50 com-
munities in Illinois better facilities
for indoor social and recreational
activities in the form of community
halls, gymnasiums or club houses,
and improved outdoor recreational
facilities in 220 communities.

WPA labor has provided 136 Illi-
nois communities with improved
sewerage systems; 62 communities
With better facilities for water puri-‘
fication and distribution, and ap-
proximately 100 communities with
water, game and fish conservation
facilities.

In addition, thousands of farm-
ers have been lifted out of the mud
from one end of the state to the
other, by the construction and re-
surfacing of over 12,000 miles of
secondary roads in 101 counties.

The farm-to-market road proj-
ects are among the outstanding
public works performed by WPA in
this state. Their improvement is,
of course, of value to the urban as
well as the rural dweller.

For this money spent, the people
of Illinois have also that which
WPA was created primarily to in-
sure — the preserved health, skills
and morale of 202,435 needy work-
ers (lightening by that number, in—
cidentally, the local relief load).

 

Trade and Industry Improving
Under Policies ol Roosevelt
Administration

VERY State has shared in the

benefits that have come with
the New Deal. Let’s see, for example
what changes have taken place in
the economic status of Iowa. Con-
sider building for a moment. Eight
cities of the state reported to the
U. S. Department of Labor build-
ing permits valued at $2,785,144 is-
sued during 1933. In 1935 permits in
these same cities increased to $5,-

358,383. During the first six months
of 1936 this upward trend continued
and we can get an even better pic-
ture of building conditions through-
out the state by comparing with
the corresponding 1933 period be-
cause comparative reports from 16
cities are available. During the first
half of 1933, $1,651,292 worth of
building permits were issued but
during the first six months of 1936
the volume totaled $3,667,944, a gain
of 122.1%. >

Construction Contracts

Another reliable index to building
conditions is construction contracts
awarded in the state of Iowa. These
include all types of construction and
in 1935 were valued at $39,542,000
against $25,352,000 in 1932, a gain
of 56%. By the end of August 1936,
the volume of construction con-
tracts awarded was $31,158,000, a
gain of 65.3% over the similar 1932
period.

New passenger car registrations
furnish a key to the improved eco—
nomic position of the people of
Iowa. In 1932 these totaled 19,525.
By the end of 1935, 68,955 new auto—
mobiles had been registered in the
state, while at the end of the first
eight months’ period of 1936, regis-
trations totaled 51,340, a gain of
238.5% over the similar 1932 period.

Power Production

Electric power production in Iowa
likewise has shown substantial bet-
terment, showing greater use of
electricity in homes and on the
farms. In 1932, 1,527,000,000 kilowatt
hours were produced. 337 1935 pro-
duction had risen to_ 1,788,000,000.

What has been the effect of the
New Deal. on factory employment
and payrolls in Iowa? With 1933
accepted as the base year equal. to
100, factory employment during
1932 was 96.3 while payrolls were
100.6. By 1935 good gains had been
made in both with the indices
standing at 113.8 and 130.8 respec-
tively. And 1936, the fourth year of
the New Deal has witnessed a fur-
ther advance during the eight
months ended August, the factory
employment index being 124.9 and
the payrolls index 155.8, represent-
ing gains of 29.4% and 51.3% over
the same period of 1932.

According to the recent census
of Manufacturers made by the Bu-
reau of the Census, manufacturing
activity in the State of Iowa in
1935 recorded a substantial increase
over 1933. The value of products
was $561,334,379, compared with
$381,668,158 in 1933, a gain4in manu-
facturing output of 47.1%. The com-
bined number of full-time and part—
time wage earners employed (aver-
age for the year) of 59,354, exceed-
ed the corresponding 1933 figure by
13.8%. Wages paid by the reporting
manufacturers in 1935 totaled $59,-
173,455, an increase of 30.8% oVer
the amount reported for 1933.

All of these improved economic
conditions now enjoyed under the
Roosevelt Administration form the
backbone of retail trade. So let us
briefly consider conditions in the
merchandising circles. According to
the recently compiled census of re-
tail trade for the state, taken by
the U. S. Census Bureau, retail es-
tablishments in 1933 numbered 34,-
643. By the end of 1935 they had
increased to 38,952. The average
number of employees increased
from 66,144 to 72,708, while most
important of all,‘ the volume of
sales advanced from $457,695,000 to

 

$646,211,000, a gain of 35%. .

“I repudiate the support of any alien ‘ism’ whichwould by fair

change our American democracy. That is my position. It has alway
position and it always will be my position.”-—President Roosevelt, Sept. 29,

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Workers Much Better Off Today
Than When Depression
Paralyzed All Trades

NDIANA white collar workers and ‘ "

those who toil with calloused
hands represent a cross-section of
American labor as typical as any
characters out of the great American
novel. They represent the skilled
artisan and unskilled laborer of
the great steel mills and automobile
factories of the northern and cen-‘*
tral parts of the Hoosier State.
They represent the office worker
from the small and large enterprise
of the state; the farm hand from
Indiana’s thriving agriculture and
the miner from the coal fields of
Southern Indiana.

The long years between late 1929
and early 1933 saw most of Indiana‘s
industries prostrate. Whole towns
and communities built up around
industries were bankrupt. Steel
workers in Gary and automobile
workers in South Bend suffered
with their co-workers throughout
the state as one 'by one factories
and furnaces closed down for want
of orders.

Even the very early PRA or Pres-
ident’s Re-employment/ Agreements

worked wonders in the state’s em- .,

ployment. In the short space of time
from June 1933 to October of that
year, employment in 18,208 firms
in Indiana jumped from 258,083 in.
June to 310,991

in October, a gain .
of over 20 per cent. In this 5,; ‘ ,4“ ,
periOd these—39,37 repo ‘ ‘

payr’o'lT—increases of almost $1,500;-
000 a week in October over the pre-
vious June —-— totals amounting to
almost a 24 per cent gain in about'
3 months. '

Under the Public Works Admin-
istration the state was allotted $7,-
599,035 making an entire grand total
of $159,918,395 allotted by the Fed-
eral Government to a distressed
state. This is exclusive of loans to
home owners under the HOLC and
various loans and payments to
farmers of the state and does not
include any apportionments under
the Social Security Act for old age
and unemployment insurance.

The effect of the Federal Housing
Act, the Resettlement Administra-
tion, The United States Employ-
ment Service and other New Deal
agencies has been most noticeable
in Indiana.

Factory employment has jumped
by leaps and bounds — a. telltale
sign of returning prosperity for
Indiana’s industrial workers. From
March 1933 to July 1936, the num-
ber of workers has increased by
115,400 -— a 77.1 per cent increase.