The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
PINCHOT CALLS
ON u. 5. TO
FEED HUNGRY
Government Must Act This
Winter, Governor Says
in Detroit Talk.
USES BITTER SARCASM
its Time to Help Out
{. Americans PennSY-
Vania Chief Declares.
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DETROIT, Aug Ex-Governor
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania to-
DAY named the federal government
as the only agency capable of feed
ing the nations hungry this win
ter and demanded that it supply
the necessary relief.
Governor Pinchot spoke at a
luncheon of Detroit's unemploy-
nent committee, attended by Mayor
Frank Murphy and the men and
women he named TO dispense nearly
s20,o00,000 in the last year in mu-
T1icipal funds to Detroit's thousands
of iobless.
Private and municipal charities
can not cope with the problem this
winter" Pinchot said.
The fact is, that the only power
strong enough and able to act in
time to meet the new problem of
the coming winter, is the govern
ment of the United States" Pin
chot said. This is a national emer-
gency. 1t is a national calamity as
well. The nation must help to
meet it.
Insists U. 5. Must Act
The government of this country
exists for the protection and pres
ervation of its people Let it carry
out the purpose of its existence.
Pinchot said he was aware
deficit existed in the federal treas
ury, but added that the credit of
the government was good. and that
securities of the nation always
we're in demand Funds, he said,
could be raised by the government
in week.
IF we can declare a moratorium
to help Germany, if we can recon-
mend loan of O. billion, two hun
dred million dollars for Germany,
what is there wrong in federal
loan to feed the needy in American"
he asked.
"A man can be in hearty SYM
pathy with Mr. Hoovers morato-
rum, his loan for Germany, and
his plan generally to pull Germany
out Of her troubles, and at the same
time more interested in seeing the
government of the United States,
the only power able to do it, take
hold and pull our own people out
of their troubles.
Care for Our Own"
THE saving of Germany largely
is question of protesting interna-
tional loans. Very we'll. Let them
be protected But why not little
care for our own people who no
longer can get loans, even from a
pawnbrker. because they have
nothing left to phdge.
The government has appropriated
In the past, Pinchot said, funds to
help those in need in foreign coun-
tries, and if those have been aided,
the needy of ouT own land can not
be denied fairly"
Warming that empty stomachs of
the depression were a breeding
ground and a harvest time for revo-
lutioniStS and other trouble makers
was sounded by the Governor Cit
ing conditions in his own state,
Governor Pinchot said that hungry
children in the mining districts
were being taught to hate the gov
eminent which permits them to go
hungry"
Pregnant signs already are seen,
Pinchot said that men whose fami-
lies lack the bare necessities of liv-
ing are likely to regard it as their
right to take food where they find it.
Cites Issues Fhatly
And who among us can guaran-
tee that he would not be tempted
if his family were starving?" he
asked. With food so cheap that
wheat is burned in the public street
and grain in the field, who can Won
der at the indignation of those who
ask nothing more than the chance
to earn food by the labor of their
hands, and yet can find no job"
THE trj III that / see with the ut
most clearness is this: It is high
time for the people to look next
winter squarely in the face and be-
gin to get ready for it. For
with reserves exhausted, credit gone.
possessions sold, and the margin of
safety generally evaporated for mil
lions of people, we can not escape
the paradoXical fact that if the
coming winter is as bad as the last
one, it vTill be infinitely worse
Private charity must be made to
carry all it can In addition to the
millions already spent, the people of
PENNSYLVANIA are preparing through
their local organizations to raise
every possible cent from private
resources.
1T will be no easy task, for the
owners of great fortunes have not
vet fully come to understand that
the penalty for letting people go
hungry next winter will apply not
only to those who Starve, but also
to those who let them starve
Sees Himself Denounced
THE goddess of these gentlemen
is Pollyanna and their slogan:
Prosperity is just around the COR
ner. But since their twitterings
began We have rounded so many
corners without finding the prom
ised prosperity. that even these
muezzins in their rose tinted min
arets have begun to doubt their own
infallibility"
His address, Pinchot said, I'M
doubtedly would be condemned, de-
nounced or ridiculed as a bid for
the Republican presidential nom
lnation.
1T is nothing of the sort" he
declared. This nation has come to
pretty pass If man can not say
what needs to be said In the public
interest without being charged with
political Intention