Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
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contribute to the pressing need Of well
fare services.
THE giving of life's necessities by the
Government, In ratio to contributions
made by States and local communities,
should lead to the giving Of generous
contributions to community chests and
welfare organizations throughout the
country.
More Must Be Done.
1.-THE principle which I have on many
occasions explained Is that the first
obligation Is on the localities; If 1t ID
absolutely clear that the locality has
done its utmost but that more must be
done, then the State must do its ut
most. Only then can the Federal Gov
eminent add its contribution to those
of the locality and the State"
Mr.. Hopkins. the recently appointed
Federal administrator Of relief, in .
communication to the Governors Of the
forty-eight States on May 81, 1898
added to the Presidents message this
Interpretation Of the Federal relief act
"That local and State funds should be
used for disqualification, the care Of de-
pendent children in institutions OF
boarding homes, institutional care Of all
kinds, pensions and the welfare activi-
ties normally carried on by the State
and local subdisivion."
highly individualized thought and &C.
ton We are proud of this reputation
We have always been equally proud OF
the fact that when danger threatened
our country we had the ability to unite
to q man in her defense. The new
partnership which has been so recently
formed for the welfare Of our citizens In
distress is evidence of this united front
in an emergency-an attitude which as
history shows, has always succeeded In
overcoming obstacles which threatened
us In the past and will, am sure, meet
with equal success in the present crisis
have referred to the partnership OF
Federal Government, State, municipal
ity and private citizen as unique-it Is
all Of that. In our land of plenty re-
lief has never assumed large proper
tons. A few years ago, before 1929
let us say. private social agencies anC
local public welfare departments found
1t relatively easy to see that food and
needed assistance were given to those
Ia ulStlCoo out 1I1 4ooO q S1Ad&16C WIN
place Relief needs started to multiply
and then the trouble began to brew
For each dollar spent in 1929 for re.
lief two we're needed in 1880, four ir
1891 and eight in 1892 This ratio Of
increase cannot continue, but the first
three months of the present year indi-
cate that the actual increase in dollar.
over 1882 will be greater than the in
crease Of 1882 over 1881. This means
that from 1900 to l 800 per cent of the
funds spent in 1929 will be necessary to
feed the hungry during the present year
12,5oo,ooo Jobless.
When Mr.. Roosevelt took office the
number Of wage earners without jobs wa.
estimated at 12.500000. Balancing thu.
figure IN our ledger with our assets
the thousands fortunate enough to have
Jobs In the years from 1929 to 1932-we
find this second group composed Of the
men on the job suffering from wage cuts
ranging from 20 to 70 per cent, with
SOS per cent the average cut for all
pay rolls for January, 1898. Our citi-
zens who lived by dividends were SINH
lArly unfortunate. They too have been
shorn. but in the main have had farther
to 60 before reaching actual need.
As one might expect from a study of
relief purposes have been cut, also
Community chest campaigns in 400
cities report that contributions to pri-
vate charities which had more than
Continued on Fourth Paee.)