This article, which is taken from Steven Butler's From Water
Supply to Urban Oasis: A History of White Rock Lake Park
(Richardson, Texas: Poor Scholar Publications, 2004), has also
been published in D. Stanley Eitzen and George H. Sage's
Solutions to Social Problems, From the Top Down: The Role of
Government (Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2007). FDR AND THE
"I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in
simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and
confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion,
flood control, and similar projects. I call your attention to
the fact that this type of work is of definite practical value,
not only through the prevention of great financial loss, but
also as a means of creating future national wealth." - President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 Message to Congress While the City
of Dallas can be credited with the initial development of White
Rock Lake Park, the federal government also left its mark. From
1935 to 1942, several permanent pa