FLIGHT FROM THE CITY 



have been solved. The drain upon the community 

 for their support would have been ended, the self- 

 respect of the unemployed restored. 



We have raised hundreds of millions already for un- 

 employment relief. Since we have used it merely to 

 support the unemployed, we now find ourselves face 

 to face with the necessity of doing the same thing over 

 and over again. Instead of spending more and more 

 millions to support the unemployed while the depres- 

 sion is dragging its weary way over the years, why 

 shouldn't we use the public's "will-to-give" to enable 

 the unemployed to support themselves? Why 

 shouldn't we furnish them land, tools, lumber, seed, 

 livestock, wool, leather, raw materials of all kinds to 

 enable them to establish themselves once again in the 

 homesteads which they should never have abandoned 

 as many of them did perhaps generations back? Above 

 all, while doing so, let us use our universities and our 

 social agencies for the purpose of guiding and in- 

 structing those of them who may have forgotten, or 

 never learned, how to wrest the necessities of life 

 directly from their own land and their own efforts. 



We should not only relieve them temporarily. 



If we did it on a sufficiently large scale, we would 

 end the problem of unemployment for the whole 

 country, and end it permanently. 



For a hundred years America has been developing 

 its factory system. 



Year after year we have been building up our cities; 



