The Forestry News Digest1928 |
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Page 5 - ... to make loans to private limited dividend corporations to aid in financing projects for the protection and development of forests and other renewable natural resources, which are regulated by a State or political subdivision of a State and are...
Page 4 - States who are unemployed, in the construction, maintenance, and carrying on of works of a public nature in connection with the forestation of lands belonging to the United States or to the several States which are suitable for timber production, the prevention of forest fires, floods and soil erosion, plant pest and disease control, the construction, maintenance or repair of paths, trails and fire lanes in the national parks and national forests...
Page 5 - I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects. I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical value, not only through the prevention of great present financial loss, but also as a means of creating future national wealth.
Page 5 - An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes ", approved March 31, 1933, as amended, is hereby continued to and including March 31, 1937.
Page 5 - An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government...
Page 5 - Government," (Public No. 2, 73d Congress), approved March 20, 1933. (2) The Secretary of War, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Labor each sha:l appoint a representative, and said representatives shall constitute an Advisory Council to the Director of Emergency Conservation Work. (3) There is hereby established in the Treasury a fund of $10,000,000 by the transfer of an equal amount from the unobligated balances of the appropriation for emergency construction...
Page 4 - President is further authorized, by regulation, to provide for housing the persons so employed and for furnishing them with such subsistence, clothing, medical attendance and hospitalization, and cash allowance, as may be necessary, during the period they are so employed, and, in his discretion, to provide for the transportation of such persons to and from the places of employment.
Page 5 - We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings. We can eliminate to some extent at least the threat that enforced idleness brings to spiritual and moral stability.
Page 4 - More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.
Page 7 - February 1, 1905, the forest reserves were transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and have since been known as the National Forests, administered by the Forest Service.