The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-01-22

<IZEXA down there sho
49, was hungry or
they wouldent have come in and
asked for food for if there ever
was proud people its them. They
don't believe in accepting charity.
Well the government woke up
and voted SIS 100000 for food right
away. At first the government said
they would try and provide money
to get the farmers some seed for
their next crops, but that they
wouldent give them money like the
dole" that's the thing they do in
England when you can't get work
they give you certain weekly al
lowance, and it's called the "Dole.'
Course everybody over there says
it hasent worked out and that it
was mistake to start it. But I
guess the ones that have been re-
ceiving it and buying their bread,
don't think that it is such a terrible
blunder, so that's the way it is, it
sorter depends on which side of the
fence you are on.
If you live under a government
and it don't provide some means Of
you getting work when you really
want it and will do it, why then
there is something wrong. You
cant just let the people starve, so
if you don't give EN- work, and you
don't give EN- food or money to
but it, why what are they to do?
What is the matter with our coun-
try anyhow? With all our brains in
high positions, and all our boosted
organizations, thousands of our
folks are starving, or on the verge
of 1t. Millions of bushels of wheat
are in granaries at the lowest price
in twenty years. Why cant there
be some means of at least giving
everybody all the bread they want
ed anyhow?
Here they are starving in Ar
kansaw and in our adjoining state
of Oklahoma they are feeding their
wheat to the stock to try and get
rid of it.
Oil, there was never such an
overproduction of oil in the World,
and yet gasoline was never much
higher. But there you have a bus
mess that's in the hands Of a few
men, and they see that the price
is kept up. Its not regulated by
supply and demand its regulated
by manipulation.
But the main thing is we just
amt doing something right, we are
on the wrong track somewhere, we
shouldn't be giving people money,
and them not do anything for it,
no matter what you had to hand
out for necessities, the receiver
should give some kind of work in
return. Cause he has to eat just
the same when he is laying off as
when he is working. So every city
or every state should give work of
some kind, at livable wage so
that no one would be in actual
want. OF course it would cost the
taxpayers more money, but if you
are making it, and all your fellow
men are not why you shouldn't
mind paying a good slice Of it for
the less fortunate.
If your income taxes go to help
out the less fortunate, there could
be no legitimate kick against it in
the world. This is becoming the
richest, and the poorest country in
the world. Why?, on account of an
unequal distribution of the money.
How can you equalize it, by put
ting higher surtax on large in
comes, and that money goes to pro-
vide some public work, at livable
wage. I don't mean a wage that is
maintained in other lines. I mean
wage is provided for the unem-
ployed. That is if you could in no
way find a job, you could go. to
some state or national, or city or
country public work that would
give you say four hours a day work,
instead Of the usual eight. You
wouldent be accepting charity. But
you would be doing honest work
for it, until you could get employ