Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

debts, OF rent, Of loans. Of mortgages
Of those whom fate and not their own
shortcominRs have handicapped. You
have helped tactfully with food, with
coal, with clothing those ct yOw friends
who were facing q more strenuous PEE
Rod than you were yourselves, a. wen
as those strangers q mile away whom
formerly you knew not even Of. You
have made 1t possible that children
might continue in school, sufficiently
fed and clothed; that the girl in COM
mercial high school may finish her
course In stenography and bookkeeping,
so that she may find q paying position
and help solve her own family's prob
lens next year; that the boy may con-
tinue in medical school in the career
for which he has such passion, in
stead of having to take q permanent
place in his uncle's store, for which he
has no aptitude.
"There is one factor about this whole
episode of national emergency relief
that stirs me deeply. At all times there
are widely scattered cases of emergency
distress in all parts of our country. Our
cities and towns, on the whole, are pre-
pared to assist those individuals or fam
lilies.
Show Splendid Spirit.
"But country conditions have been
more difficult to manage; county and
townships have frequently not been as
successful in arranging for this as have
towns, and the problem, of course, is
much more difficult. My heart turns
to these families. How can we reach
them in their need?
1.-THE President, I know, is most APP
preciative of the achievement of the
organization with which you are all
cooperating, the womans division of
the Presidents Emergency Committee
for Employment. He said, as the COM
ing clouds of depression threatened, that
a very large proportion of the work and
of the spirit that would make the storm
pass without consummate destruction
would be due to the way in which the
women met it. And he said that he
knew they would meet this with the
same spirit that they met their respon-
sibility in the time Of war. Is it not
quite as important to save our country
and our fellow countrymen and women
when war clouds do not hang upon the
horizon as when they do?
The President will want to express
his appreciation for your cooperation
with him, and with all the refabilitating
agencies, in his own way and time
but I do know that he Is most appre-
ciative.
Delivers Messages Of Thanks.
"And so 1t is with great JOY, oh, Lois
Kuhn and Peggy Starr Of the Girl
Scouts, that give to you the messages
Of thanks from many and various per-
sons and groups, and through you to all
the Girl Scouts, and through the Girl
Scouts to all the other organizations of
women and of girls who have been
helping so valiantly during the months
and who are going to continue help
ing valiantly as long as the need lasts
ever faithful to what, we trust, Is a con-
stantly diminishing demand.
And through all these organizations,
the appreciation goes out in the last
analysis, to their individual members,
and not even forgetting those many in
diyiduals who have given, or who have
worked, so literally, according to their
ability, even though they did not happen
to be members Of any established or
ganization of aid.
Prom the President. for work you
have shared as members of the wom-
ems division Of the Presidents Emer-
gency Committee for Employment, from
the officials of that committee, from
those who have aided, even from those
yet to be aided. I am delivering to you
messages Of heartfelt gratitude"
Damming of Lake Tsana, Ethiopia, for
irrigation purposes is being planned.