The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JULY 1934
and the masses are only now beginning to wake up to the unrighteousness of it all; that it was never so intended by a wise and loving God; and that unless it is soon righted humanity will again become mere chattels of these overlords who will take from the people their hard-earned freedom acquired during the last hundred years.
Many plans are being suggested and considered, especially in this country where almost alone is there a chance of putting any plan into effect that will equalize the rights of all men. Our own President Franklin D. Roosevelt has recently come forth outlining proposed policies with three great objectives—insuring (1) the security of the home; (2) the security of livelihood; and (3) the security of social welfare and contentment. All have read his message and we are assured that he is seeking the best means to reach and provide these objectives to the people of this country.
In a little book of 134 pages entitled Prohibiting Poverty, a very definite plan is suggested that deserves the thoughtful consideration of all people, and that our readers may know of it we will quote in full the Plan, called,
THE NATIONAL LIVELIHOOD PLAN
ALL of the Nation’s young people of both sexes, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, as a continuation of their public school education, shall be industrially organised to produce, under scientific direction, a sufficiency of the necessary goods and services to constitute a decent livelihood and to distribute these goods and services without buying or selling them, to the entire population.
(This Plan sounds simple enough but the social consequences flowing from it are tremendous.)
At the end of eight years the Young People, having served their term, would pass out of the organization, and would be succeeded by fresh relays of young recruits coming up in turn from the schools and taking their places in
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