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materials used, additional thousands of men and women 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.  And, in addition, the work of the other housing agencies will be introduced, showing the scope of government housing as a whole.

The object of the film, however, is not to show the Greenbelt town 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, 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 en-