The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-15
PEOPLE OF AMERICA
ASKED TO ASSIST IN
Big RELIEF EFFORT
Hoover Urges Generous Support
For Private Agencies Led
BY Baker

Washington, Sept. Is. - (AP) -
Appealing to the American people to
support generously private relief
agencies, President Hoover Thursday
outlined to welfare and business
leaders four salient points in caring
for the nations needy.
They were, first, "to see that no
man, woman or child shall go hungry
or unsheltered through the approach.
ing winter"
Second, "to see our great benevol-
ent agencies for character building
for disqualification, for care of chill
dren and all their vast number of
agencies of voluntary solicitude for
the less fortunate are maintained in
full strength"
Third, Ito maintain the bedrock
principle of our liberties by the full
T mobilization of individual and local
resource and responsibilities"
Fourth, "that we maintain the
spiritual impulses in our people for
generous giving and generous serv-
ice-in the spirit that each is his
brothers keeper"
The president spoke at the white
house to several hundred noted fig
, ureS in American social service and
industrial life. They were meeting in
a one-day welfare and relief mobiliza
ton conference to rally support be-
hind local community projects for
extending aid to the unfortunate.
Twenty-Five social service organiza
tions have been enlisted.
Sees Great Need
This Is. trust" Hoover told them
the last winter Of this great calam-
ity. Yet despite dawning hope up
OH the horizon, individual need in
the meantime may be greater thar
before"
He asserted. however, that although,
greater difficulty may be encountered
this year in obtaining private sub
scriptions, he was confident that you
will succeed"
"Our people," he said "are the most
generous of all peoples"
Praising the previous generous re.
Spouse to local relief societies, the
president outlined federal relief prof.
ects-the 100000, coo fund.- mammoth
building programs, Red Cross distri.
button OF government wheat and cot.
ton and efforts to spread employment
with these back logs behind your
efforts and those of local authorities,
Hoover asserted, 1--WE must make sure
that no American will this winter e
hungry or cold.
These programs of the government
are based upon the continuation O.
your services. They presuppose AIDE
quate neighborhood support to YOU
efforts. which still comprise larg.
part of our reliance. They presup
pose that the thousands of agencie.
which in normal times carry the loac
of distress shall function this wintc,
to their utmost capacity. Let no mar
believe, because we have summoned
the power of government to thes'
ends, that it can replace your efforts.
Baker Makes Reply
Newton D. Baker. secretary of wal
under President Wilson. is chairman
Of the conference. Replying to Mr.
Hoover, Baker said that federal anc
state relief provisions are helping
but mot enough
ITO all these public recognitions,
he said, there must be added devo.
ton of every private resource both t1
extend the funds purely for relief
and to preserve and intensity the
curative ministrations of welfare ano
character building agencies which
are more critically needed now than
at any other time"
THE work we have in mind" he
added, "is not only mere interim
provision to tide over this winters
crisis from the material point OF
view, but also in its larger aspects
it is to continue the work of charac-
ter building and to conserve ano
strengthen the fortitude and courage
and self-reliance of our people so thai
there will be no deep injury done tt
our national life by this tragic emery.
ency."
Baker mentioned, among other
things, the need of preserving the
"wholeSomenesS and self-reliance" OF
the unemployed who become charges
for the first time and the need OF
caring for and guiding young men and
women who leave their homes in
search of work.
After hearing Hoover's address, the
delegates went to the Mayflower fol
a luncheon and to hear Atlee Pom
creme, chairman of the reconstruction
corporation, outline the corporation
policies in making loans from the
$500, 100000 relief fund, and Walter
S. Clifford, president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
speak on cooperation between states