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Domestic News
October 20, 1949
Twin City Observer
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Minnesota
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Governor Luther W. Youngdahl's report praises private enterprise's role in Minnesota's growth, shares personal family success story, highlights social welfare progress like increased aid and handicapped employment programs, and notes veterans' savings bond benefits.
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TWIN CITY OBSERVER
REPORT TO
THE PEOPLE
By
Governor
Luther
W.
Youngdahl
A word needs to be said for private enterprise. In these days when there are so many distractions, we lose sight sometimes of its importance, and designing men make progress in their effort to tear down this heritage, which has contributed so much to the greatness of our country.
The private enterprise system and the opportunity for individual initiative it offers have been a major factor in the growth of our state and nation. It rewards the farmer for his work, reaches out a helping hand to the business man and brings to all of us more of the good things of life than any other plan ever devised.
I think we must make every effort to make the average man or woman appreciate how important it is to preserve an atmosphere that allows the utmost of freedom for private enterprise, consistent with the restraints needed to prevent abuses. It is essential, I think, that we make it apparent to the average man that he is making progress in this country to a large degree because a vast number of innumerable businesses, many of them small businesses, is pushing ahead and growing, because farmers and workers are increasing their resources, supplying new products, creating new markets for goods and services.
All groups must be made to see how dependent all of us are on keeping open these channels of opportunity.
Opportunities I Want To Preserve-
I have very personal reasons for wanting to preserve the opportunities offered under our private enterprise system. My own father came to this country from Sweden as a boy and started out as a manual laborer. He borrowed $200 and started a little grocery store in South Minneapolis. He and mother worked hard and were thrifty and, with the help which we children could give, built up the family resources and sent nine of us through college or University. I want to preserve a system like this which has given me the opportunities I have enjoyed. I want to protect it so my children will have the opportunities I had. All over Minnesota, I run into people who tell me:
"My father landed here without a red cent, but he worked hard and with the opportunities here in this new country he was able to acquire a good farm, raise a family and earn security for his old age." All over Minnesota, are businesses which grew because someone got an idea and found a healthy atmosphere in which it could expand and develop.
Let's keep the doorways open.
To Meet Needs of People-
Minnesota has not neglected the needs of its people while making its material progress. Money paid out in state aid to local schools, for instance, has tripled in the past 11 years. Allowances for old age assistance and aid to dependent children have been raised more than 130 per cent in this period. Far-reaching programs to improve health have been initiated. But main reliance, if we are to have any real social welfare, must be on maintenance of economic and social system which will encourage production.
Jobs For The Handicapped-
Just recently we had Employ the Handicapped Week, set aside to emphasize the need for jobs for handicapped workers and opportunities open to employers in hiring them. Minnesota has 90,000 persons in its labor force who have been handicapped through accident, disease or war injuries, and approximately 78,000 are employed. Most of these persons prove most useful employees when fitted into the right tasks. In the past year alone, the State Employment Service placed 5,200 handicapped workers on jobs, and the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the State Division of Social Welfare trained and placed in employment nearly 1,000 others who needed special training to get work. In the past six years, 3,300 handicapped men and women have become self supporting through training by these agencies and have earned $5,593,000 in wages to add to the purchasing power of the people. It pays in dollars and cents as well as in rich human resources to take men and women out of the dependent class and put them in the pay line.
Minnesota veterans of World War II who are sharing in state vets bonus payments can get $4 for every $3 invested in United States Savings Bonds when held to maturity
REPORT TO
THE PEOPLE
By
Governor
Luther
W.
Youngdahl
A word needs to be said for private enterprise. In these days when there are so many distractions, we lose sight sometimes of its importance, and designing men make progress in their effort to tear down this heritage, which has contributed so much to the greatness of our country.
The private enterprise system and the opportunity for individual initiative it offers have been a major factor in the growth of our state and nation. It rewards the farmer for his work, reaches out a helping hand to the business man and brings to all of us more of the good things of life than any other plan ever devised.
I think we must make every effort to make the average man or woman appreciate how important it is to preserve an atmosphere that allows the utmost of freedom for private enterprise, consistent with the restraints needed to prevent abuses. It is essential, I think, that we make it apparent to the average man that he is making progress in this country to a large degree because a vast number of innumerable businesses, many of them small businesses, is pushing ahead and growing, because farmers and workers are increasing their resources, supplying new products, creating new markets for goods and services.
All groups must be made to see how dependent all of us are on keeping open these channels of opportunity.
Opportunities I Want To Preserve-
I have very personal reasons for wanting to preserve the opportunities offered under our private enterprise system. My own father came to this country from Sweden as a boy and started out as a manual laborer. He borrowed $200 and started a little grocery store in South Minneapolis. He and mother worked hard and were thrifty and, with the help which we children could give, built up the family resources and sent nine of us through college or University. I want to preserve a system like this which has given me the opportunities I have enjoyed. I want to protect it so my children will have the opportunities I had. All over Minnesota, I run into people who tell me:
"My father landed here without a red cent, but he worked hard and with the opportunities here in this new country he was able to acquire a good farm, raise a family and earn security for his old age." All over Minnesota, are businesses which grew because someone got an idea and found a healthy atmosphere in which it could expand and develop.
Let's keep the doorways open.
To Meet Needs of People-
Minnesota has not neglected the needs of its people while making its material progress. Money paid out in state aid to local schools, for instance, has tripled in the past 11 years. Allowances for old age assistance and aid to dependent children have been raised more than 130 per cent in this period. Far-reaching programs to improve health have been initiated. But main reliance, if we are to have any real social welfare, must be on maintenance of economic and social system which will encourage production.
Jobs For The Handicapped-
Just recently we had Employ the Handicapped Week, set aside to emphasize the need for jobs for handicapped workers and opportunities open to employers in hiring them. Minnesota has 90,000 persons in its labor force who have been handicapped through accident, disease or war injuries, and approximately 78,000 are employed. Most of these persons prove most useful employees when fitted into the right tasks. In the past year alone, the State Employment Service placed 5,200 handicapped workers on jobs, and the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the State Division of Social Welfare trained and placed in employment nearly 1,000 others who needed special training to get work. In the past six years, 3,300 handicapped men and women have become self supporting through training by these agencies and have earned $5,593,000 in wages to add to the purchasing power of the people. It pays in dollars and cents as well as in rich human resources to take men and women out of the dependent class and put them in the pay line.
Minnesota veterans of World War II who are sharing in state vets bonus payments can get $4 for every $3 invested in United States Savings Bonds when held to maturity
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Economic
Charity Or Relief
What keywords are associated?
Private Enterprise
Governor Youngdahl
Minnesota Economy
Handicapped Employment
Veterans Bonus
Social Welfare
What entities or persons were involved?
Luther W. Youngdahl
Where did it happen?
Minnesota
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Minnesota
Key Persons
Luther W. Youngdahl
Outcome
state aid to schools tripled in past 11 years; old age and dependent children aid raised over 130%; 5,200 handicapped placed in jobs last year; 3,300 became self-supporting in six years, earning $5,593,000; veterans get $4 for every $3 in savings bonds.
Event Details
Governor Youngdahl's address emphasizes preserving private enterprise for economic growth, shares personal immigrant success story, notes social welfare advancements including education aid, health programs, and employment for handicapped workers.