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[[strikethrough]] thousands of men [[strikethrough]] employed, of [[/strikethrough]] and women [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] put to work in producing these materials. A survey of the completed town will cover schools, parks, gardens, homes - a planned community which will furnish a rich life to a thousand families of modest income. [[\strikethrough]]

The object of the film, however, is not to show the Greenbelt town [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] or Resettlement as an answer to the evils enumerated above, but rather by contrast to emphasize these basic ills; to make clear the need for Government action to better housing conditions [[strikethrough]] ; [[/strikethrough]], to make the people secure against unemployment. The specific problems which we wish to attack in this film are: unemployment, slums, child labor, congested areas which endanger the lives of children, and the dispossessed farmer.

Our excursion into the Greenbelt town has served to emphasize the [[strikethrough]] reality [[/strikethrough]] sordidness of life in city slums. From the Greenbelt town we return to the dismal [[strikethrough]] houses [[/strikethrough]] of reality the houses of low wage earners in cities,