Less on military, more on workers.

• Position: THE 1930S FLASHBACK - Comparison between the government's military spending and the budget for farms and workers - Brief article

December 31, 1932

What manner of administration is this, it will be asked, that seeks to spend this huge sum for militarism when conditions threaten the American farm and the American home? Why shouldn't a large portion of this huge sum be used to lighten the burdens of agriculture and to increase the purchasing power of the workers that they might again be able to buy the products of the farm? The answer is...