Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

lend him money in order that he may
not starve to death before his crop is
made" The st. Louis Post-Dispatch
contends that famine, like war, is an
emergency" and in the face Of an emer-
gency of that kind the ordinary rules
and traditions Of governmental policy
lose their force" The Admission Star
holds that sit Is the duty Of the Ameri-
can Government in the interest Of the
public welfare, no less than as a mat
ter of justice to citizens, to see that the
bare necessities of life are provided"
The Chattanooga News charges that
Congressman who are willing to see
their fellow countrymen suffer rather
than break presidents are a shabby
excuse for lawmakers" The Memphis
Commercial Appeal states, I'VE have
charity but We realize that either is
much to be preferred to starvation"
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"The Red Cross appeal puts the re-
sponsibility where it belongs" says the
Indianapolis Star, with the conclusion:
THE tendency to dip into the Federal
Treasury Is q dangerous one to encour-
age. The business OF the Government
is to govern, and the closer it sticks to
that province the better" The Hart
ford Courant finds In the experience of
Europe that invariably doles have
made bad matters worse" The Spring
field (Mass.) Republican feels that
through Government action the
a Red Cross organization" The Newark
Evening News is convinced that 1.-The
volunteer and conscript systems cannot
exist side by side in charity any more
than they can in military service" The
Wilmington Delmarvia Star AYERS that
the dole is to be feared"
With the Red Cross call and the
Presidents warm Endorsement" states
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, "a great
men, With their off1cial salaries and
perquisites all are in receipt of very
comfortable incomes. They can pay out
of their own pockets aims they planned
to pay out of the taxes. Congress ought
to be good for a round sum in Red
Cross contributions, and it will be in
teresting TO note the total. AS for the
rest OF us. We have a special obligation
to see that the quotas are filled. IN
queStionabiy this is the way, and the
only way, in which to meet this pitiful
problem. Because the Red Cross can
minister to these unfortunateS as Con-
greSS never could, ana because no con-
gressional precedent is being set TO
plague in the future, we should be all
the reader and prompter and more
generous and unsrudging in meeting the
call"
Appealing to its own communities for
generous response to the call of the Red
Cross, the Little Rock Arkansas Demo-
crat says: THE greater part of the
money is needed to aid the Social We'll
fare Bureau and similar agencies In
caring for the needy in Little Rock and
North Little Rock, while the remainder
WILL of course, be spent in the rural dis
tricts. The money asked for in the
Senate proposal would be used as food
loans to farmers, who would be allowed
to give mortgages On their crops as
Money raised by the Red
Cross is to be distributed as relief with
out any consideration of repayment
that is, 1t is outright charity. That ex-
PLANTATION, we hope, makes it plain that,
regardless of what appropriations Con-
gress may make, Pulaski County needs
and must have as quickly as possible
money to care for the thousands Of
residents and transients who have ap-
/ "aled for help. Knowing that fact,
the good people of the county should,
and We believe will, give freely and