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    "ocrText": "(2)\nFrom the citizens of these comminities,I heard universalm paraise for the disciplin-\ned and orderly lives these young men live under the tutelage of the men put over\nthem.\n\" I do not believe that any one who has seen this saving of humen material, which will\nconstitute the core of society in the next generation,will regret a single dollar\nspent in this great regenerativo effort. As a matter of fact, the work done by the\ncorps both materially and in permanent value, would have cost a great deal more un-\nder ordinary conditions than was spent on the corps. In soil erosion and forest work\nalone, this nation is receiving millions of dollars in values through vorce lebor of\nthe corps.\n\" The second crisis in the average life is the working period. Through the New Deal,\nmore than 3 million men and women have been restored to work and with the visible\nsigns of economic improvement this number will be added to within a few months.\n\" One piece of legislation which will face the next Congress will be the matter\nof employment insurance,advocated by President Roosevelt. It will be the @ffort of\nthe Democratic party to put every worker possible in employment and keep him there\nor compensate him for enforced idleness.\n\"\nThe United State has very properly been intent upon building up the nation's\nwealth. But in doing so,it allowed one of the most vital, the most important and\nthe most valuable element--human beings--to drift aimlessly and without thought\nof their futures. This situation must be and will be corrected.\nThe third crisis is when men and women have passed the flush of life and have\nfound thei r worl-life over or nearly so. They no longer can get jobs or they are\nforced to chink in at itinerant tasks. These good citizens should have old a ge\npensions. They should not be stigmatized in law and public opinion as paupers and\ndeprived of their votes becuase they are public charges.\nThey should not be confined in public institutions. They should be allowed to\nlive as other people live. to keep their few household goods and live in decency\nand self-respect.\n\"I believe I know as much about the problems of old age as any other person in\nPreservation Copy"
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