Evening star., 1932-06-07
Jones HOPES PAY
CUT WILL Be BRIEF
Tells Forum Audience Con-
qress Is Doing Its Best
to Economic.

Governmental expenditures cannot be
reduced to any great extent without re-
pudiating obligations made in the days
of prosperity or taking action that
would cause more harm or loss than 1t
would do good" Senator wesley L.
Jones. chairman Of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee told taxpayers last
hight in an address in the National
Radio Forum arranged by The WASH
tngton Star and broadcast over the
oast-to-coast network of the National
Brcadcasting Co.
Explaining some of the problems IN
volved in the reduction Of governmental
expenses, Senator Jones declared the
cut in wages will be made ''aS easy and
for as short time as possible"
Il earnestly hope 1t will not be ex-
tended" he added. II need not say that
We have to do many things we do not
like to do"
Congress Is making an earnest effort
to economic, the APPROPRIATIONS cnair,
man declared. "I have never known a
mere determined or more honest at
tempt to reduce appropriations than has
been put forth during the first session
of the Seventy second Congress. We
know the conditions throughout the
country. We appreciate the dimcultieS
our people face. We want to help all
we can"
I'VE want our Government run as
economically as possible especially now,
and we are going to so run 1t.
Text Of Address.
Senator Jones address follows:
"Our people today are interested as
never before in their Government and
its operations. They look to it for help
and relief, and its legal limitations are
forgotten in the emergency OF sltla-
tion such as confronts our country now.
Nearly 40 years ago We went through
times like these. Conditions were worse
Strikes and riots brought bloodShed ana
death to our land, while hunger and
starvation stalked through the coun-
tryside. The lesson learned then served
us well. Only sporadic spells OF short
duration have halted our progress as
time has gone on
The World War began. We were
not involved in it. Our industry, how
ever, was stimulated in every line. We
for war supplies, but for the worlds
food supplies. Then we entered the
war. Not only were We called upon for
men. for more war supplies, but agri-
culture had to be intensified and to
broaden its efforts to supply the food
needed by the armies at the front.
Prices were curtailed by law. Naturally
at home people of every class and Occu-
patton prospered The war ended. In
dustral activities continued to expand,
develop and grow. Agriculture stop
ped-demand for its products ceased.
As other industries continued to ex-
pand it kept on shrinking -propor-
tionately as i shrank industry seemed
to prosper Speculation of every kind
ana character was rampant. Stocks
and bonds scared. People became rich
overnight The making Of money be-
came a frenzy One class Of our people
was delirious with gain, another class
was in the depths Of poverty and de-
spair This could not go on. The one
must fall or the other rise. Industry
slowed down. With its fall it has
brought agriculture lower, and both
must arrive at common level. We
ourselves must arrive at a common
plane of living. I hope we have reached
it now and that hand in hand We will
start upward on the road of prosperity.
Have Learned Lessons.
I'VE have learned many lessons that
we will remember for years to come.
One of them is to live within our in
come as individuals and as nation,
and one essential of that lesson is that,
while income may decrease, debts and
obligations do not grow less-they re-
main steady and even more difficult to