Furthermore. it is the only major relief plan suggested that will not require the appropriating of the necessary funds as a gift. for my bill calls for the immediate discharge of an obligation. that must in any event be met in the not fardistant future. The practicability of my plan has actually been demonstrated with the greatest success both in this country and in Canada. In Canada the Department of Immigration and Colonization started in the fall of 1930 to make farming opportunities available to the unemployed. Since that time 45.000 needy city dwellers have been changed to selfsustaining farmers. Over a year ago the United States Department of Labor and the Red Cross. working together. took a number of destitute families from city bread lines. and at a cost of but $120 a family put them on small farms and supplied them with the meager necessities of life until they could raise food for their own consumption.
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