The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30

There are cases In some of the coal
mining sections Of this country where
families have been starving week in
and week out over a long period OF
time and where the community OF
the state failed to do their share
These are not disasters in the same
sense OF with the same result that
grasshoppers and floods are respon-
sible. The point l want to make is
this: You have a very great oppor-
tunity, not merely to keep people
from starving. You have a further
opportunity of intoxicating the un-
derstanding that we have to build
from the bottom up-not merely to
supply food from the top down.
There will be a tendency this year
in obtaining the wherewithal for To-
cal relief for people to say, Eve can't
do it." / believe they can do it, big
ger this year and more generously,
more successfully this year than they
could last Taking it by and large,
the country is in a much more hope
full frame of mind People have more
money to spend and more time in
which to do it. 1t isn't only the fact
that a great many people have al
ready been put back to work, the fact
that people of property have been
getting from rents; there are
fewer defaults on bonds and MOI
tgages.
Absolved From Forty Hour Week
l believe today that you can 60
forth, in the spirit of the N. R. A.,
and work under it. You, of course,
are going to work a great deal more
than forty hours a week. / want to
tell you that you are hereby absolved
from the N. R. At you want to
work, seventy hours a week, go to it.
The executive branches of the United
States government, and some of the
oth1r branches OF the government
also are exempt.
| think you must go into this cam
paign with the right to expect greater
success this year than last. Tell ev-
erybody that we are a little bit like
the old railroad train that has to
travel up a long grade. The first
thing to do is to get that train start
ed, and the more we can accelerate
the pace of that train, the more GER
tain it is that it is going to get over
the top We have got the train start
ed and it is running, let US say. TWEEN
ty miles an hour. We must get that
train to go forty miles an hour, and
then there is an assurance that it will
| go over the top.
Community Chest Work
All of this community chest work,
all of the uniting in the cause of
meeting human needs, is based on
that old word cooperation " During
the war when I was on the other side
the Prime Minister of England, Llyod
George, was lunching with me at the
American Embassy one day and our
Ambassador said something about
u cooperation in winning the war
Lloyd George turned to me ventive
you have imagination - will you
please send word back home that the
British government will offer a prize
of L10,000 to any American who will
discover some other word to take the
place of 'cooperation'?' No n has
ever won the prize.
The point l wish to make is that
there are a great many people in this
country who are going to say: ooh, ]
have given. | am helping through such
and such ar organization, through
such and such an individual; leave
me out" There is no such thing as
being left out. They can't be left out
They have got to join you. Because
unfortunately, we know the frailty Of
a certain type Of human nature thai
says something like that as an excuse
for not doing his Or her part.
Individual Responsibility
The government cannot get along
without you. The Federal, state anc
local government can't The whole
period we are going through will
come back in the end to indivdua
citizens to individual responsibility
to private organization, through tht
years to come. We are going to have
unemployed throughout the United
States, and we know it. | hope
though, the time is going to com
when government will not have tx
give relief I hope the time is going
to come 0 o when everybody whc
normally wants a permanent Job i:
going to get it. And SO | like to thinl
of government relief Of all kinds as
emergency relief
Your work has a twofoId urpos
You are meeting the emergency anc