Evening star., 1937-10-19
PRESIDENT WARNS
OF CUTS IN RELIEF
Greater Local and Private
Aid UrgedETo Leave
Tonight for D. c.
By the Associats Press.

HYDE PARK, N. T.. October 10
for cuts in Federal relief expenditures
and greater local and private aid to
the needy, ended another week at the
temporary White House today and
prepared TO leave last night for WASH
ington.
The President and Norman H.
Davis planned to confer late today
on Americas participation in the
Brussels nine-power treaty conference
to end the Sino-Japanese conflict.
Davis, chief American delegate to
the parley to be held in the Belgian
capital October 80, was en- route here
for a final talk before sailing.
He had only one official caller
William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Ger
many, who Is on his way back to
Berlin after vacation.
After a round of conferences in
Washington preparatory to convening
Of the 'farm-labor special session Of
Congress, the President probably will
return here over the week end and
remain until he votes, November 2,
in the local elections.
Tomorrow afternoon he has a speak
ing engagement at the dedication Of
the new Federal Reserve Board
Building.
Addressing the Nation by radio last
night in opening the annual Com
munity Mobilization for Human Needs,
the President said Federal relief out
lays must be curtailed If the budget
is to be balanced without higher taxa
ton.
The Federal Government, with the
return Of prosperity" he asserted,
must, more and more narrow the
circle OF its relief activities and re-
duce the amount of Federal revenue
to be expended in the ameliorat ton of
human want and distress in the va
rious communities of our land.
Il say this because We all agree
that unless Federal taxes are to be
greatly increased the expenditures
have to be brought within the existing
tax receipts.
The text OF the Presidents address
follows:
Chairman Taft, Community Chest
Workers, friends of human needs:
Each year, as We emerge further from
the insecurity and want of the de-
preston, we have better right to look
back with satisfaction at the ground
which We have covered. But even
while we can take satisfaction in this
glance backward, we have a serious,
inescapable obligation to look forward
at the same time and to do it with
honesty and vision.
Danger Of Neglect.
There is danger that we may be
blinded by the welcome light OF re-
turning prosperity to the very real
need that still exists for 4 consider
able part Of our population.
We must not forget that there are
people who are still hungry, their
children undernourished; that rags
are the clothing Of many Of our coun-
trymen, and miserable shacks or
crowded city tenements their only
home.
These are the things that make 1t
imperative for Us to 60 forward with
out hesitation in our efforts to bring
security, opportunity and = decent
standard of living to all our people,
50 that our prosperity may be more
true prosperity for the whole Nation.
In this great effort to better the
condition Of those who do not now
share the freedom from actual want
which most of us enjoy, it Is impor-
taint that all agencies, both public
and private, receive the Nations sup
port.
Private Agencies Needed.
It must not be thought that the re-
sponsibility which the public assumed
through its government, local or ma