...national policy. It will conserve our precious natural resources. It will pay dividends to the present and future generations. It will make improvements...important, however, than the material gains will be moral and spiritual value of such work. The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans, who are...

...the plan was to put men to work promptly. The President's message to Congress said in part : * * * more important, however, than the material gains will...spiritual value of such work. The overwhelming majority of men who are walking the streets and receiving private or public relief, would infinitely prefer to...

...confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spirtual value of such work .... We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings....

...Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 he said, More important than material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings. We can eliminate, at least...

...young men who were groping for survival. On March 21. 1933. he presented the CCC measure to Congress. "More important, however, than the material gains...will be the moral and spiritual value of such work." Roosevelt told Congress. "The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans . . . would infinitely...

...Roosevelt himself adroitly emphasized the non-material gain of the CCC camps: 'more important . . . than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work . . . We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings.'56 Frank Persons...

...the nation's natural resources. Roosevelt wrote, "This enterprise will pay dividends to the present and future generations. It will make improvements...will be the moral and spiritual value of such work." By the end of the CCC's eight years of operation, almost three million people had been put to work,...

...prevention of great present financial loss, but also as a means of creating future national wealth — More important, however, than the material gains will...The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans . . . would prefer to work. We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings....

...instead blamed human negligence, arguing that the floods had occurred because "national and state domains have been largely forgotten in the past few years of industrial development." To make up for such neglect, the federal government had to take action to "conserve our precious natural...